Dieses Wuppertal Paper richtet sich an die interessierte Öffentlichkeit sowie an Produzenten und Dienstleister, die zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel beitragen können. Es gibt zunächst einen Überblick zur Problematik des Klimawandels und über die voraussichtlichen Schäden bzw. die Kosten...

Agro-biodiversity can provide natural insurance to risk-averse farmers by reducing the variance of crop yield, and to society at large by reducing the uncertainty in the provision of public-good ecosystem services such as e.g. CO2 storage. We analyze the choice of agro-biodiversity by...

Using modern methods for analyzing multi-level data, we find that, by and large, citizens of OECD countries are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality is higher. We also document that parents care...

This paper describes the main features of a model developed for fore-casting economic developments, energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions in the EU area and Finland as well as for simulating the economic impacts of EU climate policy. Climate policy analysis necessitates a model of the whole...