Am 23. Oktober 2001 hat die Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften einen Richtlinienentwurf für einen Handel mit Treibhausgasemissionen vorgelegt. Nach den amerikanischen Erfahrungen mit Emissionshandelssystemen ist dies in Europa der erste groß angelegte Versuch, dieses umweltpolitische...

On 23 October 2001 the European Commission adopted a proposal for a directive for trade in greenhouse gas emissions. Following the US experience of emissions trading systems, this marks the first large-scale attempt to deploy this instrument of environmental policy in Europe. The proposal places...

With greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions decreasing by more than 18% in the 1990s, Germany appears to be among the few industrialised countries which are on track to meet the targets they committed themselves to under the Kyoto Protocol. This achievement may appear less remarkable if one takes into...

This discussion paper reviews the literature on experiences with innovation under the existing emissions trading schemes in the USA. The basic result from this review is that the innovation effects triggered by emissions trading have been limited because a) targets were not constraining in the...

Biodiversity is a highly complex and abstract ecological concept. Even though it is not one physical entity, it influences human well-being in multiple ways, mostly indirectly. While considerable research effort has been spent on the economic valuation of biodiversity, it remains to be a...

Das übergreifende Ziel der vorliegenden Studie besteht darin, die Kosten der Anpassung an den Klimawandel im Rahmen eines Bottom-up-Ansatzes für das Bundesland Sachsen-Anhalt zu entwickeln. Da es sich um eine Vorgehensweise handelt, die in hohem Maße methodisches Neuland betritt, sollen zudem...

In view of the failure of international negotiations on climate protection and the improbability of a trend reversal in the climate changes that have already occurred, the option of climate change adaptation is becoming more and more important in climate change policy. A large number of...