Projects of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.06.2007 – 31.07.2009

    The Significance of Germany as a Site for Power Plant Construction against the Background of an Increasing Internationalization of Innovation Processes

    The project  took examples of technologies from the power plant sector to illustrate the interactions between the innovation activities in progress in various countries, giving special consideration to their…

  2. Project // 01.04.2007 – 31.07.2008

    Real Options in Renewables: Investment Strategies and Policy Instruments

    The project analyses different policy instruments to support investments into renewable energies. In particular, uncertainty of demand and of technological progress is taken explicitly into account. A real option…

  3. Project // 15.03. – 30.07.2007

    Economic Evaluation of Selected Climate Mitigation Measures on the Federal State Level

    The project focuses on the question as to how selected regional measures for climate mitigation (i.e. induced by the federal state of Baden-Württemberg) affect macroeconomic indicators, such as gross domestic…

  4. Project // 01.02.2007 – 31.08.2011

    A new Environmental Accounting Framework Using Externality Data and Input -Output Tools (EU)

    Environmental extended IO tables and externality estimates are extremely useful for the use in and further development of socio-economic tools for sustainability impact assessment, esp. macroeconomic models like…

  5. Project // 01.02.2007 – 31.01.2008

    Measuring Eco-Innovation

    The project offered a conceptual clarification of eco-innovation (developing atypology) based on an understanding of innovation dynamics, and identify and discuss the main methodological challenges in developing…

  6. Project // 01.01. – 31.12.2007

    Increasing Energy Efficiency in major industrialized and emerging markets

    The project work is related to the activities of the Federal Environmental Ministry (BMU) especially in the context of the German G8 presidency in the subject area of increasing energy efficiency in important…

  7. Project // 01.01.2007 – 30.06.2009

    PLUREL - Peri-urban Land Use Relationships: Strategies and Sustainability Assessment Tools for urban-rural Linkages

    The integrated Project PLUREL will develop new strategies and innovative planning and forecasting tools that are essential for developing sustainable rural-urban land use relationships. These strategies and tools,…

  8. Project // 01.01. – 31.05.2007

    European Competitiveness Report 2007

    Representing one research project within the European Competitiveness Report 2007, this research project assessed the competitiveness effects of trading emissions and fostering technologies to meet the EU emission…

  9. Project // 01.12.2006 – 30.09.2007

    SRI and Performance

    Content of the study: 1) Analysis of the financial performance of equity portfolios based on Bank Sarasins assessment of the companies sustainability performance.2) The analysis will be based on the comparison of…