Economic globalization has intensified since the 1980s and created faster channels of international interdependence and an accelerating technology race. In this new asymmetric world economy the EU is facing a dynamic and flexible US system which takes advantage of the global quest for foreign...

If global warming is to stay below 2°C, there are four risks of assets stranding. First, substantial fossil fuel reserves will be stranded at the end of the fossil era. Second, this will be true for exploration capital too. Third, unanticipated changes in present or expected future climate...

Mit vielen Zahlen und Fakten verdeutlicht P. Welfens die globale Klimaschutzpolitik und kritisiert dabei, dass Politiker weltweit angesichts der wissenschaftlichen Belege für den Klimawandel nicht entschlossener handeln. (3) CO2-Steuer, CO2-Abgabe