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Overview
Basic materials, such as aluminium, cement and steel, are central to our economies, but their production accounts for around 16 percent of European and 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. It is therefore difficult to envisage how Europe can reach the commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement without significant emission reductions from the materials sector.
While some...
Current Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
Energy consumption for household heating is capturing increasing attention. In the short-term, gas – and thus heat–saving has become a core policy objective in the current energy crisis. Only if households save sufficient gas will it be possible to avoid curtailment of industrial energy gas demand. Gas savings will also reduce scarcity on the markets, and thus is an important element to mitigate...
Current Project| Climate Policy, German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The Future Power Market Platform brings together consists of experts and decision-makers from both public and private sector across Europe who are prioritizing market design and regulatory mechanism development in their working agendas.
It was initiated in 2013 and funded in the period from April 2013 till April 2016 by the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety...
Current Project| Climate Policy
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The rapid loss of biodiversity and ongoing climate change are also the result of intensive agriculture. At the same time, they jeopardize agriculture and food security. The Leibniz Lab "Systemic Sustainability" brings together relevant knowledge in science and society on this fundamental challenge in order to promote the development and implementation of systemic solutions.
The current socio...
Current Project| Climate Policy
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The overarching aim of Mistra NEPSIS is to develop societal pathways for the transformative change of the supply chains of buildings, transportation infrastructure and transportation – from input and raw materials, over primary and secondary activities, to final products and services – to fulfil the national target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.
Current Project| Climate Policy
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The rise of populism continues to shake numerous Western democracies, often leading to exclusionary or authoritarian tendencies (Mudde, 2004). This is evident in events such as the US Capitol storming in January 2021 and the attempted coup in Germany in December 2022. The destabilizing threat to democratic institutions across the EU and the US underscores the importance of understanding populism’s...
Current Project| Climate Policy, Public Economics, German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre, the German Institute for Economic Research, and Justus-Liebig-University Gießen jointly conduct research on scenario analysis as a tool on the path to climate neutrality. The three-year project SATISFY will produce insights into how investors, firms, and regulators can use scenario analysis in the climate transformation of business models in carbon...
Current Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
The project deals with scientific questions on industrial transformation towards a climate-neutral and resilient economy, covering the entire breadth of this topic. Questions on industrial transformation in Germany and beyond are formulated with a view to the EU's energy and climate policy instruments. The approach applies scientific methods throughout.
The background to the project is the very...
Current Project| Climate Policy
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This project reviewed the adjustments of the feed-in tariffs for new solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in Germany. As PV system prices declined rapidly since 2009, the German government implemented automatic mechanisms to adjust the remuneration level for new installations in response to deployment volumes. The project developed an analytic model to simulate weekly installations of PV systems...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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The objective of this research is to provide objective, evidence-based analysis and explanation of the past and current effectiveness of the EU ETS for Energy Intensive Industries (EII). In doing so, we identify potential areas of improvement for the EU ETS and complementing policy instruments. The insights gained enable us to evaluate possible options to improve efficacy of policy to foster...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Traditional climate policy targets primarily production-side measures. This project complements this focus by analyzing both conventional and innovative demand-side policies. The project makes an effort to quantify the mitigation potential of these measures under various scenarios, assess the political feasibility as well as their impacts from a macroeconomic perspective. It derives...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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The project reviewed the impact of EU ETS on investment decisions based on two large-scale surveys among stakeholder, quantitative analysis of EUETS, assessments of legal and accounting practices, quantitative analysis of the EU ETS framework and several stakeholder workshops. The project shows that to drive low-carbon investment, policy frameworks must capture companies' attention, provide...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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In the project Coal Transitions leading research institutes in six major coal-using countries evaluate current policies and develop economicallyfeasible and socially just pathways to transition from thermal coal before 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement. Next to the Climate Policy department and the department of Energy, Transportation and Environment of the DIW Berlin (Germany), these are...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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The project is conducted under the banner of the 2013 Dahrendorf Symposium, Working Group 2 "Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change".In the uncertain post-Kyoto climate policy arrangement, the role of the EU as a driving force of climate change mitigation efforts seems to be gaining importance. But the common EU climate and energy policy, even though defined on a European level, is driven...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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The energy cost burden is communicated as a major competitiveness concern especially by energy intensive industries. This project provides a transparent, up-to-date index of sector-specific industrial unit energy costs. We update official statistical data using information on energy use and fuel prices and provide a fuel-specific breakdown of overall unit energy costs for each manufacturing sector.
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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DIW Berlin's Climate Policy department has played an active role in coordinating the dialogue process between academic partners under the "Economics of Climate Change" program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and stakeholders from the business, civil society and governance communities. This dialogue process included a transfer of knowledge and scientific results...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
Distributional Effects of Energy Transition
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Completed Project| Climate Policy
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The project aims to provide technical assistance to the Republic of Korea for the implementation of the Korean Emissions Trading System (KETS). The KETS will be a valuable tool to help Korea cost-effectively meet its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets, which is especially important since Korea has become the OECD's fastest-growing GHG emitter. DIW’s main role in the project so far was...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Within the debate on the EU’s post-2020 climate and energy policy framework, ten leading research institutions are working together to provide innovative, scientifically robust policy analysis and recommendations for the medium-term European energy and climate policy until 2030.
Reports published so far include:
EU2030 Framework Energy Security Paper
EU2030 Framework Principles Paper
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Completed Project| Climate Policy
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The EUREEM project assesses how the refinement and implementation of the EU Renewable Energy Directive can aid the energy transition in Germany. Refinement and implementation needs to take account of complex decision process and the need to account of multiple interests at the European level. Hence, a constructive proposal for the refinement of the directive needs to consider a longer-term...
Completed Project| Climate Policy