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DIW aktuell ; 5 / 2017
Am 11 . Dezember 2017 jährt sich die Verabschiedung des Kyoto-Protokolls zum 20. Mal. Grund genug, zurückzublicken auf die Implementierung dieses ersten bedeutenden Klimaschutzabkommens und zu fragen, welche Erfahrungen gemacht und Lehren daraus gezogen wurden. Die wichtigste davon: Die internationale Formulierung von Emissionsminderungszielen reicht für eine effektive Klimapolitik nicht aus. Deswegen ...
2017| Karsten Neuhoff, Heiner von Lüpke, Carlotta Piantieri
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DIW focus 9 / 2023
The energy and climate crisis enhance the need for energy savings. In the building sector, these savings can be achieved primarily through thermal retrofitting. So far, progress in this area has been slow. To date, less than one percent of the residential building stock in Germany is retrofitted each year. The existing support programs alone offer too little reliability for the necessary investments ...
2023| Sophie Behr, Merve Küçük, Karsten Neuhoff
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DIW focus 4 / 2020
Already after the financial crisis in 2008/2009 there was a debate on whether elements aiming at sustainable development can be part of the stimulus packages and support the recovery of the economy. Despite the instinct of policy makers to prioritise battle-tested policies during a crisis, significant levels and different types of climate-friendly components were integrated in the 2009 stimulus packages ...
2020| Mats Kröger, Sun Xi, Olga Chiappinelli, Marius Clemens, Nils May, Karsten Neuhoff, Jörn Richstein
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Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 1 / 2010
Das Ziel der Bundesregierung ist es laut Koalitionsvertrag, "die Erderwärmung auf maximal zwei Grad Celsius zu begrenzen und Deutschlands Vorreiterrolle beim Klimaschutz beizubehalten". Zum Erreichen dieses Ziels sollen die deutschen Treibhausgasemissionen bis zum Jahr 2020 um 40 Prozent gegenüber 1990 reduziert werden. Der Artikel erörtert die ökonomische Rechtfertigung für solch eine unilaterale ...
2010| Karsten Neuhoff
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Diskussionspapiere 2035 / 2023
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 low and stable generation costs of renewable electricity. Here we suggest a Renewable Pool (“RE-Pool”) under ...
2023| Karsten Neuhoff, Fernanda Ballesteros, Mats Kröger, Jörn C. Richstein
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Diskussionspapiere 2013 / 2022
Designing auctions that favor low resource quality installations allows countries to geographically diversify their renewable energy production, while lowering payments to low-cost producers. In this paper, we develop a stylized model showing that a discriminatory auction design favoring low-wind-yield locations leads to a tradeoff between production costs and producer rent and that the scheme can ...
2022| Mats Kröger, Karsten Neuhoff, Jörn C. Richstein
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Diskussionspapiere 2010 / 2022
Natural gas prices in Germany saw a strong increase at the end of 2021, subsequently worsening with the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, raising concerns about the distributional consequences. Our study shows that low-income households are affected the most by the natural gas price increase. Low-income households pay at the median 11.70 percent of their equivalent income on gas bills, ...
2022| Mats Kröger, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff, Franziska Schütze
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Diskussionspapiere 1948 / 2021
To reach climate neutrality, carbon emissions from the production of basic materials need to be significantly reduced. For governments’ support measures to be consistent with their World Trade Organization obligations, they need to be compatible with the WTO’s Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM). This paper analyzes the ASCM consistency of three selected support schemes, namely: ...
2021| Roland Ismer, Harro van Asselt, Jennifer Haverkamp, Michael Mehling, Karsten Neuhoff, Alice Pirlot
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Diskussionspapiere 1935 / 2021
For the European Union to realise its ambition of carbon neutrality, emissions from basic material production need to be reduced through low-carbon production processes, material efficiency and substitution, as well as enhanced recycling. Different reform options for the EU ETS are discussed that ensure a consistent carbon price incentive for all these mitigation options, while avoiding the risk of ...
2021| Jan Stede, Stefan Pauliuk, Gilang Hardadi, Karsten Neuhoff
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Diskussionspapiere 1921 / 2020
This paper explores which climate-friendly projects could be part of the COVID-19 recovery while jump-starting the transition of the European basic materials industry. Findings from a literature review on technology options in advanced development stages for climate-friendly production and enhanced sorting and recycling of steel, cement, aluminium and plastics are combined with insights from interviews ...
2020| Olga Chiappinelli, Timo Gerres, Karsten Neuhoff, Frederik Lettow, Heleen de Coninck, Balázs Felsmann, Eugénie Joltreau, Gauri Khandekar, Pedro Linares, Jörn Richstein, Aleksander Śniegocki, Jan Stede, Tomas Wyns, Cornelis Zandt, Lars Zetterberg