Climate Policy Department Events

The Global Stocktake report emphasizes that the core benefits of the transition towards climate neutrality are key to enhancing public and political support for more ambitious action. This motivated several country studies to explore how transition indicators could be defined to enhance understanding, agreement, and implementation of climate action. In this report, transition indicators are ...

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In the recently published communication on the EU 2040 Climate Target, the European Commission outlines the final "stepping stone" on the way to EU climate neutrality by 2050. It not only entails reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by 90% until the year 2040 but also outlines transformative developments in key sectors. In our next Berlin Seminar, we will discuss the proposed European strategy ...

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The European Union’s Circular Economy Action Plan (2020) introduced initiatives to establish a coherent product policy framework focusing on the entire life cycle of products. This Action Plan targets regulations on product design to promote circular economy processes and reduce of waste creation. Together with the subsequent Sustainable Product Regulation and further revisions of regulations on ...

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Objective With the strong emphasis on the energy only market reflected in the winter package - we want to revisit hedging and futures markets as the key element for a functioning energy-only market. In particular, we are interested to explore how they will likely evolve in a 2030 perspective with increasing shares of wind and solar power and complementing flexibility options in the system (such ...

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Das Land Berlin hat sich verpflichtet, die Ziele des Pariser Klimaschutzabkommens einzuhalten und Klimaneutralität bis 2045 zu erreichen. Neben dem Land haben sich auch die wichtigsten Energieversorger in der Stadt, Vattenfall und Gasag, Klimaziele gesteckt. Das bedeutet, dass die Berliner Wärmeversorgung in den nächsten knapp 15 Jahren von Erdgas auf erneuerbare Quellen umgestellt werden muss.  ...

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Aktuell wird die Europäische Gebäuderichtline novelliert. Es scheint dabei wahrscheinlich, dass die EU-Kommission die Staaten mit der Einführung von energetischen Mindesteffizienzstandards (Minimum Energy Performance Standards, MEPS) für Nichtwohngebäude beauftragen wird. Dieses Instrument sieht vor, dass zu einem definierten Zeitpunkt (z.B. bis 2030) ein bestimmter Anteil der Bestandsgebäude, die ...

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For the success of the energy transition, sufficient attractiveness in capital markets and availability of financing for both transmission and distribution grid expansion are crucial. However, in a nodal pricing regime, network operator revenues potentially fluctuating with congestion conditions add complexity to the revenue streams and thus to financing. In addition, the financial effects on ...

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In the lead up to COP28, particularly with the global stock take underway, it becomes important to consider additional indicators and targets toward the achievement of an inclusive transition to climate neutrality. We would like to discuss, if this could deliver a set of benefits: First, many climate targets only monitor broad sectoral level emission reductions. They focus on the political ...

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As an essential element of forward-looking reporting, company transition plans can play an important role in achieving net zero goals. Existing net zero pledges and plans by companies stongly differ in composition and depth and often lack forward-looking pathways to achieve the goal, which makes it hard for stakeholders from the financial sector to systematically assess and consider them in their ...

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Die EU-Richtlinie über die Gesamtenergieeffizienz von Gebäuden (EPBD) etabliert eine neue gesellschaftliche Norm und ein großes politisches Ziel: Bis 2033 sollten alle Wohngebäude einen Mindeststandard an Energieeffizienz erreichen. So sollen Energiekosten und Schocks für Haushalte begrenzt werden und der Energiebedarf reduziert werden, um eine klimaneutrale Energieversorgung für alle zu ...

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The influential Indian Parliamentarian Mr. Jayant Sinha envisages a global climate alliance building on the concept of the European Union and its Green Deal – a community attractive to its members because it addresses the diverse needs and ensures that joint action benefits all. To ensure the inclusive nature and broaden the political ownership of such an initiative, Mr. Sinha launched a report on ...

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The cost of recycling raw materials remains high despite the technological advancements in the field. End-of-life waste recycling is less cost-effective compared to landfill or incineration and its economic feasibility shows large variation according to material type rending secondary recycled materials uncompetitive to primary materials. Eliminating these barriers in the way of circularity and ...

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Until the Russian war in Ukraine and its strong effects on the re-organisation of energy flows in Europe, it seemed a consensus that fossil assets will become stranded within the coming decades due to ever more stringent climate policy. Therefore, investments in such assets should be avoided as early as possible. With the newly awakened focus on energy security, the insurance aspect of redundant ...

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Worldwide decarbonization is not on track. While the magnitude of the challenge is beyond doubt, as well as the fact that inaction now drastically increases the costs of decarbonisation in the future, decision-makers around the world are shying away from determined action. While this is partly due to political opportunism, it also reflects a lack of clarity on the potential roadmaps towards deep ...

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This webinar  brought together experts, industry representatives, and policymakers to discuss how the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) can play its part in the Fit for 55 (F55) package and unlock climate-friendly investments at EU scale. In particular, it offered a space to discuss an alternative design option for the CBAM, often referred to as the excise option (option 6 in the ...

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On Thursday 4 November, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) will hold an EU side event together with the World Resources Institute, Perspectives Climate Group, Frankfurt School and Climate Action Network on climate financing at the COP26. Leading European researchers will present their latest insights into aligning international financial flows with the goals of the Paris ...

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The financial sector has an important role in the transition towards a net-zero economy. Moderated by Prof. Dr. Karen Pittel (ifo Institute) this panel will discuss policy options for the financial sector. Karsten Löffler (Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany) will hold a keynote on the recommendations of the German Sustainable Finance Committee. Four panelists will then add ...

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We explore the role of social mobility as driver of economic development. First, we draw the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a novel weighting procedure that considers the aggregate participation of cohorts to the economy in every year, we estimate the effect of changes in mobility on economic ...

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Home visiting programmes are increasingly being implemented across the globe to help vulnerable families with young children, however longer-term experimental evidence on their health impacts on both parents and children is scarce. In this paper we study the medium-term health impacts of a randomized control trial to evaluate the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), one of the oldest home visitation ...

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This event, organized as part of  the CFM-TRACTION  project, is designed as a stakeholder dialogue to accelerate progress towards an effective policy framework to support net-zero industrial innovation. At the event we aim to: ·    Exchange knowledge on policy instrument design, synergies in the policy mixes, the structure of an effective policy packages and its ...

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