Renewable energy installations are rapidly gaining market share due to falling technology costs and supportive policies. Meanwhile, the energy price crisis resulting from the Russian-Ukrainian war has shifted the energy policy debate toward the question of how consumers can benefit more from the...

The energy and climate crisis enhance the need for energy savings. In the building sector, these savings can be achieved primarily through thermal retrofitting. So far, progress in this area has been slow. To date, less than one percent of the residential building stock in Germany is retrofitted...

Im Klimaschutzgesetz hat sich Deutschland verpflichtet, schrittweise bis 2045 klimaneutral zu werden. Unternehmen aus Industrie und dem Dienstleistungssektor müssen daher ihre Produktion und Geschäftspraktiken umstellen, Finanz institutionen ihre Bewertungskriterien anpassen. Das bedarf in...

This article examines what may be taken into account, when designing a mechanism of international public finance to support south-north cooperation on domestic climate policies in developing countries. We draw lessons from existing mechanisms of conditional transfers. Experience with...

EU Member States increase deployment of intermittent renewable energy sources to deliver the 20% renewable target formulated in the European Renewables Directive of 2008. To incorporate these intermittent sources, a power market needs to be flexible enough to accommodate short-term forecasts and...

EU Member States are pursuing large scale investment in renewable generation in order to meet a 2020 target to source 20% of total energy sources by renewables. As the location for this new generation differs from the location of existing generation sources, and is often on the extremities of...

Mineralölkonzerne sind verpflichtet, die Treibhausgasemissionen der von ihnen in Verkehr gebrachten Kraftstoffe zu mindern. Dem kamen sie seit dem Jahr 2020 teilweise nach, indem Klimaschutzprojekte in China finanziert wurden, die jetzt unter Betrugsverdacht stehen. Es ist davon auszugehen,...