Projects of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 20.04. – 31.10.2011

    Impacts of Bio-Energy Usage on Agricultural Commodity Prices

    The following aspects were studied within this project:- Overview over the subsidies of bioenergy sources in Germany and – schematically – in other countries- Analysis of the land use for bioenergy sources…

  2. Project // 01.04.2011 – 30.09.2012

    SEEK-Project 2011: Diffusion of Climate-Friendly Technologies - The Role of Intellectual Property Rights, Human Capital and Environmental Policy

    This project contributed in three respects to the empirical literature on the diffusion of climate friendly and energy efficient technologies. First, the project extended the current analysis of technology…

  3. Project // 01.03.2011 – 31.10.2013

    The economics of climate change – integrated economic assessment of instruments of adaptation to climate change

    The project aimed at developing and assessing policy instruments for the adaptation to climate change with an integrated economic approach. In particular, existing structures of financing and incentivizing…

  4. Project // 01.02.2011 – 30.06.2012

    Development of a Partial Equilibrium Model for Mineral Resources

    Recently, natural resources have once again gained increasing public interest. Relevant issues are the security of supply and raw material prices, but also environmental damages caused for instance by mining.…

  5. Project // 01.02.2011 – 30.11.2016

    EIS: Strategic research alliance for Energy Innovation Systems and their dynamics - Denmark in global competition

    Background:Changing the energy systems to climate friendly and sustainable systems is one of the largest challenges facing society today. The characteristics of the innovation systems with respect to new and…

  6. Project // 01.01. – 30.09.2011

    Climate Proofing" of key EU Policies - short term actions

    In this project, the most significant threats and challenges posed by climate change to the EU were assessed, in order to identify appropriate measures that could be taken or adjusted to address these threats…

  7. Project // 01.01. – 31.12.2011

    Carbon Management at German Companies

    More than 800 German companies are currently regulated under the EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU-ETS). Companies face the challenge of optimizing individual behavior and internal decisions with respect to the…

  8. Project // 20.12.2010 – 15.01.2012

    Broadening the scope of the analysis of the possible risk of carbon leakage induced by the Decarbonization Roadmap 2050

    This study is part of a Framework Service Contract with the EU Commission, Directorate-General (DG) Enterprise and Industry. The objective of the study was to analyze the Decarbonization Roadmap 2050 published…

  9. Project // 14.12.2010 – 30.09.2011

    H2-Incentives – scenarios for the introduction of hydrogen to transport

    The project developed scenarios for the introduction of hydrogen technology to individual transport. Both conventional and further new propulsion technologies were taken into account as well. The scenarios were…