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Publications // 18.09.2024
Climate change increasingly affects businesses in many ways. This paper analyses the link between the way and extent a firm faces economic consequences of climate change on the one hand, and the firm's [...] distinguishes four mechanisms how climate change may affect firms: new government regulation, changes in demand, higher production cost, and disruption from extreme weather events. Based on data from the [...] firm's innovation activities on the other. We investigate whether climate change affectedness leads to more innovations that reduce negative environmental impacts (‘eco-innovations’), and whether
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Press Releases // 12.09.2024Vehicles for urban air mobility (UAM), such as eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and landing), also called air taxis, are often touted as having great potential. They are expected to be more efficient [...] electric cars. UAM could be useful primarily for emergency missions and connecting remote areas. - “Urban air mobility is often marketed as sustainable, fast, and affordable. However, our studies show that the [...] transition in the transport sector,” explains Dr. Anna Straubinger from ZEW’s “Environmental and Climate Economics” Unit.
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Publications // 27.05.2024
empirically examines the support of different groups of climate-related (passenger) transport policy measures targeting vehicle use, public transport, air travel, and bicycle use. Our descriptive analysis reveals [...] probit models points to the strong relevance of economic self-interest for the support of vehicle-, air travel-, and bicycle-related policy measures, i.e. citizens who are negatively affected by a certain
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News // 24.05.2024discussed various topics of energy, climate and environmental economics. This year, the conference focused on climate policies decreasing private and firm emissions, air pollution, energy conservation and [...] of decarbonization. - Professor Sebastian Rausch, head of ZEW’s Research Unit “Environmental and Climate Economics”, opened the conference. With Lucija Muehlenbachs from the University of Calgary, Rob Williams [...] First Nations land. The second keynote, by Rob Williams, described the labour market effects of climate policy. His research shows that aggregate labour market effects are relatively small, but distributional
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Publications // 29.06.2023
With increasingly extreme weather, high energy prices, the shift towards renewable energy, and the ongoing debates over a new heating law, climate, energy, and the environment have gained significant [...] with its focus on “Environmental and Climate Economics”, provides insight into current research questions, such as how to tackle climate change in a manner that is fair to future generations [...] current heatwave but also because they directly impact our lives. The challenge lies in devising climate and energy policies that are ecologically effective, economically efficient, socially balanced, and
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News // 05.06.2023discussed various topics of energy, climate and environmental economics. This year, the conference focused on air pollution, emissions trading, energy conservation and climate policy. - Professor Sebastian Rausch [...] and equilibrium effects of climate policies in the broader economy. In addition, the speakers presented on the contribution of the credibility revolution to the design of climate change policy and the scope [...] Rausch, head of ZEW’s Research Unit “Environmental and Climate Economics”, opened the conference. With Professor Wolfram Schlenker from Columbia University, Professor Shuang Zhang from Imperial College
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Publications // 24.05.2023
Frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as floods or heat waves, increase as a result of climate change. Therefore, it is important to investigate which factors might influence adaptation [...] experience and depend on available household income. These findings show that individuals’ climate adaptation behavior may be affected by the observed behavior of social peers. Therefore, neighborhood
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Press Releases // 09.05.2023this interplay can result in climate-related risks that endanger both property and human life. This is important for the development of appropriate measures to adapt to climate change,” Professor Sebastian [...] land use and construction projects in areas that are at a higher risk of forest fires and extreme weather events. - “With his innovative and methodologically sophisticated work, Augusto Ospital sheds light [...] Sebastian Rausch , head of ZEW’s “Environmental and Climate Economics” Unit, explains the decision of the scientific committee to select him as the award winner.
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News // 09.02.2023environmental protection, sustainability, appeal to tourists and whether drones can be deployed in bad weather conditions. - The researchers developed a concept to deliver parcels by drones that fly along fixed [...] as possible,” says Dr. Anna Straubinger, researcher at the ZEW Research Unit “Environmental and Climate Economics”. Drone delivery is primarily intended to supplement the ferry service off-season and in
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News // 21.12.2022After the devastating extreme weather events of the past few years, many people are looking to take structural measures to protect themselves against the effects of climate change, be it flooding or extreme [...] are a range of measures that people can take in order to protect themselves against the effects of climate change – such as flooding or extreme heat. They can install a backwater valve in their basement for [...] coatings, watertight outer coatings and watertight floorings (flooding), as well as purchase of fans, air conditioning, heat protective film and installation of green roofs (heat).