The present study examines the consequences of the planned coal phase-out in Germany according to various phase-out pathways that differ in the ordering of power plant closures. Soft-linking an energy system model with an input-output model and a regional macroeconomic model simulates the...

Nationale und internationale Entwicklungen der Energie- und Klimapolitik haben die Rahmenbedingungen des Kohleausstiegs tiefgreifend verändert und erfordern somit auch eine entsprechende Anpassung der Regionalplanung in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Um ein auf Deutschland heruntergerechnetes...

The European Green Deal (EGD), a package of measures "to put Europe on a pathway to a sustainable future, while leaving no one behind", can combine climate neutrality with a sustainable economic recovery of Europe coming out of the Corona pandemic crisis. However, this requires a tightening of...

The European Green Deal, initiated by the EU Commission, is a package of measures aimed at decarbonization and sustainable economic development with the goal of making the European Union climate neutral by 2050. To achieve this goal, the emission reductions target must be increased from 40...

Der von der EU-Kommission angestoßene European Green Deal, ein Maßnahmenpaket zur Dekarbonisierung und nachhaltigen Wirtschaftsentwicklung, sieht Klimaneutralität in der EU bis zum Jahr 2050 vor. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, muss das Emissionsreduktionsziel bis 2030 (im Vergleich zu 1990) von...

This paper recalls the development of the German lignite regions Rhineland and Lusatia since 1945 to allow for a better understanding of their situation in 2019. We analyze their economic resilience, defined as adaptive capacity, using Holling’s adaptive cycle model. We find that the Rhineland...

Poland is the largest hard coal and second largest lignite producer in the EU, generating around 80 percent of its electricity from coal. Resistance to a reduction in coal production and consumption comes from various actors, namely, coal corporations, unions, parts of civil society and the...

Political decisions and trends regarding coal use for electricity generation developed differently in the UK and Germany, despite being subject to relatively similar climate protection targets and general political and economic conditions. The UK agreed on a coal phase-out by 2024. In Germany, a...

German hard coal production ended in 2018, following the termination of subsidies. This paper looks at 60 years of continuous decline of an industry that employed more than 600,000 people, through a case study comparing Germany’s two largest hard coal mining areas (Ruhr area and Saarland)....