While countries increasingly commit to pricing greenhouse gases directly through carbon taxes or emissions trading systems, indirect forms of carbon pricing—such as fuel excise taxes and fuel subsidy reforms—remain important factors affecting the mitigation incentives in an economy. Taken together, how can policy makers think about the overall price signal for carbon emissions and the incentive it ...
Trotz der Entspannung auf den Energiemärkten werden die privaten Haushalte weiterhin durch hohe Preise belastet. Der geplante Anstieg der CO2-Bepreisung bei Verkehr und Wärme wird die Preise weiter erhöhen. Diese Belastungen sind ungleich verteilt und wirken regressiv, da arme Haushalte in Relation zum Nettoeinkommen deutlich stärker belastet werden als reiche Haushalte. Eine Auszahlung des Aufkommens ...
Despite the easing of prices on the energy markets, private households continue to be burdened by elevated prices. The planned increase the planned increase in the carbon price for transport and heating will raise the burden on private households even further. These additional costs are unequally distributed and have a regressive effect, as poor households must spend much more relative to their net ...
This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s largest environmental tax reform. We compare carbon and air pollutant emissions of the German transport sector and synthetic counterfactuals following the 1999 eco-tax reform, and find average re- ductions in external damages of around 80 billion Euros. We further show that the eco-tax induced low-carbon innovation and document much stronger ...
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, many countries plan to massively expand wind power and solar photovoltaic capacities. These variable renewable energy sources require additional flexibility in the power sector. Both geographical balancing enabled by interconnection and electricity storage can provide such flexibility. In a 100% renewable energy scenario of twelve central European countries, we investigate ...
Im Oktober 2023 tritt das Europäische CO2-Grenzausgleichssystem (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, CBAM) in Kraft. Der neue Mechanismus ist Teil einer Reform des Europäischen Emissionshandels (EHS). Derzeit müssen energieintensive Industrien nur einen Teil der EHS-Emissionszertifikate am Markt kaufen, damit sie im globalen Wettbewerb bestehen können. Der Rest wird frei zugeteilt. Der CBAM soll diese ...
This paper examines the drivers of Algeria's energy transformation as well as the cross-cutting issues and challenges in the transformation process. It suggests a framework that accelerates sustainable transformation based on the ideologies of systemic reasoning. Interviews were conducted with 20 energy experts in Algeria, along with a content analysis of policy documents, reports, and previous studies. ...