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Explaining the Absence of Climate Change Integration in Low-Carbon Sectoral Policies: An Analysis of Brazil’s Maritime Cabotage Policy

Although maritime cabotage emits comparatively less CO2 per tonne kilometre than other means of transportation, the potential contribution of Brazil’s cabotage policy toward tackling climate change remained largely unexplored throughout its legislative process. Hence, to gather insights into how climate change can be integrated into sectoral policies, we apply Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) ...

SOEP-Core v38.1 – COGDJ

Measurement Instruments for Fast and Frequent Data Collection during the Early Phase of COVID-19 in Germany: Reflections on the Mannheim Corona Study

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a vast increase in the demand for fast, frequent, and multi-faceted data to study the impact of the pandemic on people’s lives. Existing data collection infrastructures had to be adapted quickly during the early phase of the pandemic to meet this data demand. Our research group contributed to this by conducting the Mannheim Corona Study (MCS), a longitudinal ...

Sanctions against Russian Gas Would Not Endanger EU or German Gas Supply

As a result of the Russian attack on Ukraine, natural gas prices skyrocketed in 2022 and Germany in particular felt the impact of its strong dependency on Russia. Prices have since relaxed, the European natural gas industry has overcome the uncertainty due to the energy crisis in 2022, and the industry also survived the slump in Russian natural gas imports without supply interruptions. However, Russia ...

Bridges over Troubled Waters: Climate Clubs, Alliances, and Partnerships as Safeguards for Effective International Cooperation?

Driven by the motivation to raise the ambition level of climate action and to foster the transformation of economies, current climate policy discourse revolves around ways to improve cooperation between industrialized countries and emerging economies. We identify three broad types of initiatives—multilateral-cross sectoral, multilateral, sector specific, and climate and development partnerships—and ...

Versorgung mit Erdgas ist auch ohne Importe aus Russland gesichert

Modellanalyse untersucht, ob EU-Länder Lieferausfall von russischem Erdgas kompensieren könnten – Selbst wenn Gasnachfrage bis 2030 hoch bliebe, wäre Verzicht auf russisches Erdgas möglich – Gasbedarf könnte durch Pipeline-Importe aus anderen Ländern und Flüssigerdgas ohne Ausbau der Infrastruktur gedeckt werden Die Gasversorgung in der EU ist auch langfristig ohne den Import von russischem Gas gewährleistet. ...

Exploring effects of life-like virtual interviewers on respondents’ answers in a smartphone survey

Inexpensive and time-efficient web surveys have increasingly replaced survey interviews, especially conducted in person. Even well-known social surveys, such as the European Social Survey, follow this trend. However, web surveys suffer from low response rates and frequently struggle to assure that the data are of high quality. New advances in communication technology and artificial intelligence...

Questioning Nuclear Scale-up Propositions: Availability and Economic Prospects of Light Water, Small Modular and Advanced Reactor Technologies

This paper addresses the pressing need for rapid decarbonization of energy systems by examining the role of nuclear power in future energy scenarios collected in the IPCC database. Despite their explorative character, energy scenarios can influence decision-makers or might be used to promote certain technology developments. They are increasingly subject to the integration into real-world settings and ...

Deutschland ist nicht das Paradies

Hochqualifizierte aus dem Ausland wollen selten nach Deutschland. Kommen sie doch, gehen viele schnell wieder. Und das, obwohl sie die soziale Sicherheit hier schätzen. Wieso scheitert Deutschland daran, mehr hoch qualifizierte Fachkräfte aus dem Ausland zu gewinnen? In der aufgeladenen Debatte um Zuwanderung behaupten manche, man müsse lediglich die Hürden für hoch qualifizierte Zugewanderte reduzieren ...

Avoid, Shift or Improve Passenger Transport? Impacts on the Energy System