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  • Weekly Report 5 / 2010

    Energy and Climate Policy: USA Continues to Trail behind, Despite Positive Change

    In the course of current climate negotiations, the world is watching the United States in particular. Together with China, the U.S. is by far the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Real progress in protecting the global climate requires substantial action on America's part. The U.S. has the potential to significantly reduce emissions. Per capita energy consumption in the U.S. is still about twice ...

    2010| Wolf-Peter Schill, Jochen Diekmann, Claudia Kemfert
  • Diskussionspapiere 976 / 2010

    Structuring International Financial Support for Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries

    In the Copenhagen Accord of December 2009, developed countries agreed to provide start-up finance for adaptation in developing countries and expressed the ambition to scale this up to $100 billion per year by 2020. The financial mechanisms to deliver this support have to be tailored to country and sector specific needs so as to enable domestic policy processes and self sustaining business models, and ...

    2010| Karsten Neuhoff, Sam Fankhauser, Emmanuel Guerin, Jean Charles Hourcade, Helen Jackson, Ranjita Rajan, John Ward
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    The Impact of Socio-economics and Climate Change on Tropical Cyclone Losses in the USA

    Tropical cyclones that make landfall on the coast of the USA are causing increasing economic losses. It is assumed that the increase in losses is largely due to socio-economic developments, i.e. growing wealth and greater settlement of exposed areas. However, it is also thought that the rise in losses is caused by increasing frequency of severe cyclones resulting from climate change, whether due to ...

    In: Regional Environmental Change 10 (2010), 1, S. 13-26 | Silvio Schmidt, Claudia Kemfert, Peter Höppe
  • Weitere externe Aufsätze

    Energy Demand Forecasts and Climate Policy Agenda: A Sustainable Energy Mix Needs to Be Clean, Clever and Competitive

    In: Roland Conrady, Martin Buck (Eds.) , Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2010
    Berlin [u.a.] : Springer
    S. 47-54
    | Claudia Kemfert
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Climate Change and Modelling of Extreme Temperatures in Switzerland

    This study models maximum temperatures in Switzerland monitored in twelve locations using the generalised extreme value (GEV) distribution. The parameters of the GEV distribution are determined within a Bayesian framework. We find that the parameters of the underlying distribution underwent a substantial change in the beginning of the 1980s. This change is characterised by an increase both in the level ...

    In: Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 24 (2010), 2, S. 311-326 | Boriss Siliverstovs, Rainald Ötsch, Claudia Kemfert, Carlo C. Jaeger, Armin Haas, Hans Kremers
  • Diskussionspapiere 994 / 2010

    Innovation in Concentrating Solar Power Technologies: A Study Drawing on Patent Data

    Better understanding the innovative process of renewable energy technologies is important for tackling climate change. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity in solar technologies in general, ignoring the major differences between solar photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies. This study relies on patent data to ...

    2010| Frauke G. Braun, Liz Hooper, Robert Wand, Petra Zloczysti
  • Diskussionspapiere 993 / 2010

    Innovative Activity in Wind and Solar Technology: Empirical Evidence on Knowledge Spillovers Using Patent Data

    This paper studies technological change in renewable energies, providing empirical evidence on the determinants of innovative activity with a special emphasis on the role of knowledge spillovers. We investigate two major renewable energy technologies - wind and solar - across a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1978 to 2004. Spillovers may occur at the national level, either within the same ...

    2010| Frauke G. Braun, Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke, Petra Zloczysti
  • Weekly Report 32 / 2009

    Methane: A Neglected Greenhouse Gas

    Methane is a greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide. This is entirely unwarranted. Being 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat in the atmosphere, methane accounts for about one-sixth of all anthropogenic (i.e. human-induced) greenhouse gas emissions. Methane is also overlooked when it comes to taking concrete measures for climate protection, despite ...

    2009| Claudia Kemfert, Wolf-Peter Schill
  • Diskussionspapiere 951 / 2009

    Refunding ETS-Proceeds to Spur the Diffusion of Renewable Energies: An Analysis Based on the Dynamic Oligopolistic Electricity Market Model EMELIE

    We use a quantitative electricity market model to analyze the welfare effects of refunding a share of the emission trading proceeds to support renewable energy technologies that are subject to experience effects. We compare effects of supporting renewable energies under both perfect and oligopolistic competition with competitive fringe firms and emission trading regimes that achieve 70 and 80 percent ...

    2009| Thure Traber, Claudia Kemfert
  • Externe Monographien

    Innovation for Sustainable Electricity Systems: Exploring the Dynamics of Energy Transitions

    Heidelberg [u.a.]: Physica-Verl., 2009, 245 S.
    (Sustainability and Innovation)
    | Barbara Praetorius, Dierk Bauknecht, Martin Cames, Corinna Fischer, Martin Pehnt, Katja Schumacher, Jan-Peter Voß
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