Der globale Klimawandel ist eine der größten Herausforderungen unserer Zeit. Die Verlangsamung des Klimawandels sowie die Anpassung an seine unausweichlichen Folgen werden über viele kommende Jahrzehnte hinweg enorme Investitionen in neue Technik und Infrastrukturen erfordern. Auf politischer Ebene bedarf eine effektive Klimapolitik des kollektiven Handelns souveräner Staaten und einer fairen...
Marcel Fratzscher, President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), comments on the election for the 20th German Bundestag as follows:
Die Wahl zum 20. Deutschen Bundestag kommentiert Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), wie folgt:
To decarbonize the economy, many governments have set targets for the use of renewable energy sources. These are often formulated as relative shares of electricity demand or supply. Implementing respective constraints in energy models is a surprisingly delicate issue. They may cause a modeling artifact of excessive electricity storage use. We introduce this phenomenon as 'unintended storage cycling', ...
Model-based scenario analyses of future energy systems often come to deviating results and conclusions when different models are used. This may be caused by heterogeneous input data and by inherent differences in model formulations. The representation of technologies for the conversion, storage, use, and transport of energy is usually stylized in comprehensive system models in order to limit the size ...
This paper assesses the impact of decarbonization on the energy system and related employment in South Africa. The cost-minimizing, global energy system model (GENeSYS-MOD) is utilized to project two energy mix scenarios and their associated employment implications at provincial level. While the business as usual (BAU) scenario shows a continuous use of coal capacity in the South African power sector ...
Gemeinsamer Workshop von DIW Berlin, TU Berlin und dem Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Link für die Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung. Für die Podiumsdiskussion von 12 Uhr bis 13 Uhr gibt einen alternativen Link.
We combine theory and evidence on incubator and accelerator programmes and their effects on urban economic development. These structured co-working programmes have grown rapidly. However, a rich descriptive literature reveals little about their impact on participants or surrounding urban areas. We situate programmes in a conceptual framework of co-location tools, theorise objectives and benefits and ...
