Um emissionsintensive Industriesektoren zu dekarbonisieren und die Erderwärmung auf maximal 1,5 Grad zu begrenzen, müssen Industriestaaten und Schwellenländer kooperieren. Deutschland und die übrigen Staaten der G7 haben sich dazu verpflichtet, die Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländer bei...

Renewable energy installations are rapidly gaining market share due to falling technology costs and supportive policies. Meanwhile, the energy price crisis resulting from the Russian-Ukrainian war has shifted the energy policy debate toward the question of how consumers can benefit more from the...

Driven by the motivation to raise the ambition level of climate action and to foster the transformationof economies, current climate policy discourse revolves around various ways to improve cooperation between industrialized countries and emerging economies. In this context, multilateral,...

We review the state of knowledge concerning international CO emission transfers associated particularly with trade in energy-intensive goods and concerns about carbon leakage arising from climate policies. The historical increase in aggregate emission transfers from developing to developed...

Short-term auctions for access to entry terminals of the British gas-network appear to successfully allocate scarce resources and capture scarcity rent. Now long-term auctions are being introduced to guide future capacity expansion decisions. In our model the fraction of rights issued in the...

Hohe und unsichere Stromkosten werden von der deutschen Wirtschaft als große Herausforderungen angesehen. Über einen Erneuerbare-Energien-Pool (EE-Pool) könnten derartige Preisrisiken mittelfristig abgesichert werden. Im Poolkonzept werden die günstigen Konditionen wettbewerblicher...

German companies view high and uncertain electricity prices a major challenge. A Renewable Energy Pool (RE-Pool), wherein the favorable conditions of competitive tenders for new wind and solar power projects are passed on to electricity consumers, could hedge such price risks. Consumers'...