The European Green Deal includes the goal of enshrining the long-term objective of climate neutrality by 2050 in legislation and increasing the EU’s climate by 2030. In this context, the Green Deal emphasized that “should differences in levels of ambition worldwide persist, as the EU increases its climate ambition, the Commission will propose a carbon border adjustment mechanism, for...
The project looks at different options of a per-capita rebate of revenues from CO2 pricing in Germany. The German government has decided to introduce a national emissions trading system for the heat and transport sectors in its Climate Action Programme 2030. Such a CO2 pricing implies distributional challenges, since lower-income and middle-income households are more exposed to CO2 prices relative...
Im Projekt werden die Ausgestaltungsoptionen für eine Einführung einer Klimaprämie in Deutschland untersucht. Hintergrund ist die mit dem Klimaschutzprogramm 2030 der Bundesregierung beschlossene Einführung eines nationalen Emissionshandels für die Sektoren Wärme und Verkehr. Eine CO2-Bepreisung in diesen Sektoren bedeutet sozialpolitische Herausforderungen, da die CO...
Policy to reduce the European Union’s (EU) carbon footprint needs to be grounded in an understanding of the structure and drivers of both the domestic and internationally traded components. Here we analyse consumption-based emission accounts (for the main greenhouse gases (GHGs)) for the EU, focusing on understanding sectoral contributions and what changes have been observed over the last two decades, ...