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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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Research Project
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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While the UNFCCC Lima outcome and the UNSG’s Climate Summit, among other developments, reconfirmed that pricing carbon remains a key emissions reduction tool, the focus of international negotiations has shifted from global carbon pricing mechanisms towards support for countries in their implementation of national transformation strategies, often including forms of pricing. But if...
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
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The core aim of DIA-CORE is to ensure a continuous assessment of the existing policy mechanisms and to establish a fruitful stakeholder dialogue on future policy needs for renewable electricity (RES-E), heating & cooling (RES-H), and transport (RES-T). The project consortium assesses the role that policies play in the support of renewable energies. Looking at individual EU member states, risk...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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This project provides scientific and organizational support to the BMU with regard to partnership development based on cooperation with the Secretary and selected member states of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM).
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
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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Research Project
The project brings together a research consortium to undertake a model comparison study of the proposed EU ETS Market Stability Reserve. Combining the insights emerging from several models the aim is to provide robust quantitative evidence and enhance the understanding of different options to implement a Market Stability Reserve. Such an analysis can provide policy makers and market participants...
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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Research Project
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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Research Project
Energy prices have varied hugely between countries and over time, yet the share of national income spent on energy has remained surprisingly constant. The foundational theories of economic growth account for only about half the growth observed in practice. Despite escalating warnings for more than two decades about the planetary risks of rising greenhouse gas emissions, most governments have...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Europe is not alone in taking action to price carbon and promote low-carbon energy and risks undermining its future competitiveness by slipping back as a group of other countries emerge to drive the development of low-carbon technologies. The study finds that Europe’s competitors, including China, India and the United States, have been steadily investing in low-carbon technologies and energy...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
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 rise of renewable sources of electricity (RES-E) is transforming power systems globally. This trend is likely to continue with large increases in investment and deployment of RES-E capacity over the coming decades. Several countries now have penetration levels of variable RES-E generation (wind and solar) in excess of 15% of their overall power-generation mix; and many jurisdictions (e.g.,...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Previous to the 2014 revision of the Renewable Energy Act (Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz, EEG) this study added to the discussion around cost reliefs for many industrial enterprises. These reliefs were criticized for increasing electricity costs for non-privileged consumers, without any assessment whether privileged firms were actually exposed to international competition. The study develops...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
Transmission can link individual renewable energy sources into a valuable energy portfolio. We explore whether and what regulatory developments are required to unlock the renewable energy portfolio of North Africa - for local use and for international exchange. The project therefore has to address three main questions.First, what regulatory and institutional frameworks have been effective to...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
The project assisted Member State (MS) governments in preparing for the implementation of the RES Directive and to shape a European policy for RES in the medium to long term. The past and present success of renewable energy policies was evaluated and recommendations derived on how to improve future RES support schemes.DIW Berlin is responsible for consistency with other EU policies and system and...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
Distributional Effects of Energy Transition
Wochenbericht
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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The main objective of Germany’s energy policy is an 80% reduction in primary energy consumption by the year 2050. To facilitate this objective, the overall target has been broken down in additional targets, such as a 20% increase in energy efficiency in buildings by 2020. We conducted five studies to address these questions regarding energy efficiency in buildings:
What is the cost-benefit...
Completed Project| Climate Policy