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Refereed essays Web of Science
The future of coal remains contested in many countries, hindering necessary energy transitions. Collaborative governance approaches, such as stakeholder commissions, have been proposed as potential solution to resolve such societal conflicts. In Germany, a stakeholder commission process managed to overcome the existing stalemate situation, leading to the adoption of a coal phase-out by 2038. Celebrated ...
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Energy Research & Social Science
103 (2023), 103203, 16 S.
| Christian Hauenstein, Isabell Braunger, Alexandra Krumm, Pao-Yu Oei
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Die Atomenergie bleibt gesellschaftlich umkämpft. Zum einen wird sie wieder als Zukunftstechnologie gehandelt, mit der vermeintlich klimafreundlich und ressourcenschonend Strom erzeugt werden kann. Zum anderen ist die Endlagerung von Atomabfällen noch nicht geregelt. Das Konzept der ,,atompolitischen Wende“ bringt â analog zur Energiewende â dieses Ringen auf den Punkt. Die ...
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Gaia
31 (2023), 1, S. 86-90
| Fabian Präger, Achim Brunnengräber, Christian von Hirschhausen
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are a central tool for the quantitative analysis of climate change mitigation strategies. However, due to their global, cross-sectoral and centennial scope, IAMs cannot explicitly represent the temporal and spatial details required to properly analyze the key role of variable renewable energy (VRE) in decarbonizing the power sector and enabling emission reductions ...
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Geoscientific Model Development
16 (2023), 17, S. 4977–5033
| Chen Chris Gong, Falko Ueckerdt, Robert Pietzcker, Adrian Odenweller, Wolf-Peter Schill, Martin Kittel, Gunnar Luderer
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Refereed essays Web of Science
To limit the effects of climate change, we must significantly curtail the trading and use of coal as an energy source. Although the rise of renewable energy sources has already led to a reduction in the demand for and use of coal, new export-oriented coal mine projects are still being approved, and they often receive strong political support. However, whether these projects are economically viable ...
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One Earth
6 (2023), 8, S. 990-1004
| Christian Hauenstein, Franziska Holz, Lennart Rathje, Thomas Mitterecker
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DIW Weekly Report 32/33 / 2023
According to the latest review report of the Council of Experts on Climate Change, the German building sector failed to meet its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in 2022. This is in part because investments in energy-efficient building refurbishment—supported by all kinds of policy measures— has neither been low nor shown a consistently positive trend over the past ten years. Furthermore, ...
2023| Martin Gornig, Katrin Klarhöfer
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We fit CES and VES production functions to data from a numerical bottom-up optimization model of electricity supply with clean and dirty inputs. This approach allows for studying high shares of clean energy not observable today and for isolating mechanisms that impact the elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty energy. Central results show that (i) dirty inputs are not essential for production. ...
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Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
10 (2023), 3, S. 819-863
| Fabian Stöckl, Alexander Zerrahn
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study offers insights into the institutional arrangements established to coordinate policies aiming at the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. Drawing on the literature on policy design, we highlight institutional arrangements as elements of policy design spaces and contend that they fall into four categories that either stress the political or problem orientation of this activity: ...
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Policy Sciences
56 (2023), 1, S. 49–68
| Heiner von Lüpke, Lucas Leopold, Jale Tosun
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DIW Weekly Report 40/41/42 / 2023
Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy sources is one cornerstone of the energy transition. In certain sectors, green hydrogen will play an important role in the future, as is envisioned in the revised National Hydrogen Strategy recently presented by the German Federal Government. This Weekly Report discusses important changes in this strategy compared to the first National Hydrogen Strategy ...
2023| Martin Kittel, Dana Kirchem, Wolf-Peter Schill, Claudia Kemfert
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DIW Weekly Report 34/35 / 2023
Reducing carbon emissions is essential to meeting climate targets. What is unclear, however, is which measures are required to do so and what impact they would have on economic growth. In this Weekly Report, a macroeconomic model is used to observe four scenarios in comparison to a baseline scenario without emissions reduction. It is analyzed which effects different measures, such as technological ...
2023| Timm Bönke, Geraldine Dany-Knedlik, Werner Roeger
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Joule
7 (2023), 8, S. 1663–1678
| Luke Haywood, Marion Leroutier, Robert Pietzcker