Co-organized by the Sustainable Finance Research Platform (SFRP) and Berlin Seminar on Energy and Climate Policy (BSEC) Sustainable Finance is not only a key element of the climate policy agenda. In times of crisis, like the one we are currently experiencing, sustainable finance can also make substantial contributions to making our financial system more resilient, more sustainable and more...
In its Climate Action Programme 2030, the German government presented concrete measures for the country to reach its 2030 climate target: a reduction of greenhouse gas levels by 55 percent below 1990 levels. At the same time, the German government officially declared its aim to take a leading position in Sustainable Finance. Hence, the country intends to underpin the transformation to a low-carbon...
Dieser Text von Karsten Neuhoff erschien am 14.2.2020 als Gastbeitrag in der Frankfurter Rundschau. Link zum Artikel, Europa hat sich große Ziele gesetzt: Mit dem European Green Deal hat sich unser Kontinent vorgenommen, bis zum Jahr 2050 klimaneutral zu werden. Der Weg dorthin ist noch weit. Der Begriff Deal bezieht sich auf Franklin Roosevelts New Deal, mit dem der damalige US-Präsident ...
This workshop focused on the question, how the financial market can accompany and support the transformation towards a climate-neutral and sustainable economy.
In dem Workshop wurden gemeinsam Lösungsansätzen diskutiert, wie Sustainable Finance die Transformation hin zu einer klimaneutralen und nachhaltigen Wirtschaft begleiten und unterstützen kann.
Most policy instruments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have focused on producers, and on the energy efficiency of buildings, vehicles and other products. Behavioural changes related to climate change also impact ‘in-use’ emissions, and potentially, emissions both ‘upstream’ (including from imported goods) and ‘downstream’ (eg disposal). Consumption-oriented policies may provide avenues to ...
Several countries and regions have introduced mandatory minimum distances of wind turbines to nearby residential areas, in order to increase public acceptance of wind power. Germany’s largest federal state Bavaria introduced such separation distances of ten times the height of new wind turbines in 2014. Here, we provide a novel monthly district-level dataset of construction permits for wind turbines ...
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