Die energieverbrauchsbedingten CO2-Emissionen in Deutschland sind im Jahre 2005 gegenüber dem Vorjahr um 2,3 % auf rund 786 Mill. t gesunken; temperaturbereinigt waren es mit 792 Mill. t CO2 rund 2 % weniger. Einen so hohen Rückgang hat es seit Mitte der 90er Jahre nicht gegeben. Dies ist in erster Linie auf den vor allem auch energiepreisbedingten Rückgang des Primärenergieverbrauchs und auf die Verschiebung ...
It is European Commission policy to charge modes of transport according to the marginal social cost of their use of the infrastructure, including environmental costs. However, progress in implementing this process has been slow, partly because of the difficulty of measuring and valuing these costs. This need has led to a great deal of research in this area in recent years. The paper presents the results ...
This paper develops a static computational game theoretic model. Illustrative results for the liberalising European electricity market are given to demonstrate the type of economic and environmental results that can be generated with the model. The model is empirically calibrated to eight Northwestern European countries, namely Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, and ...
The differing paradigms of ecological and neoclassical environmental economics have been described in various articles and books and are also embedded in different institutional settings. However, we cannot take for granted that the paradigm debates described in the literature are actually mirrored in exactly the same way in the perceptions and opinions of researchers looking at sustainability from ...
Due to the size and structure of its economy, Germany is one of the largest carbon emitters in the European Union. However, Germany is facing a major renewal and restructuring process in electricity generation. Within the next two decades, up to 50% of current electricity generation capacity may retire because of end-of-plant lifetime and the nuclear phase-out pact of 1998. Substantial opportunities, ...