Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) might be a central technology to reach the decarbonisation goals of the European energy system. However, CCS deployment faces multiple economic, technological, and infrastructure challenges. Related literature tends to only focus on certain aspects of the CCS...

The (supposed) regressivity of (primarily price-based) climate protection policy instruments often hampers an evidence-based discussion at the political level and is used as an argument against the implementation of corresponding measures. To assess the distributional implications of...

Der Begriff Stadtrendite hat in den letzten Jahren zunehmend Einzug in die Diskussion um die Privatisierung von kommunalen Wohnungsunternehmen gehalten. Privatisierungsgegner fürchten den Verlust der positiven Wohlfahrtseffekte, die durch die Leistungen dieser Wohnungsunternehmen für eine...

Die Wohnungswirtschaft steht vor großen Herausforderungen, die insbesondere durch den stattfindenden sozio-demografischen Wandel sowie durch Anforderungen im Rahmen des Klimaschutzes verursacht werden. Um die Zukunftsfähigkeit der Wohnungswirtschaft und ihrer Wohnungsbestände sicherzustellen...

Steel is of extraordinary importance for the European economy as well as society, but is responsible for enormous energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, steel flows are an obvious subject for the European climate protection. The quantification of steel stocks and flows is...

Industry is a critical sector for the achievement of European climate goals, in particular specific energy-intensive products/processes (e.g. steel, cement, ethylene, ammonia). A reduction target of over 90% for industry requires a wide variety of reduction options. While the EU Low-Carbon...

The energy demand and supply projections of the Swiss government funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy and carried out by a consortium of institutes and consulting companies are based on two types of energy models: macroeconomic general equilibrium models and bottom-up models for each...