Das 22. Ökonomenpanel vom ifo Institut und der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung widmet sich dem Thema Kohleausstieg. In der Februar-Umfrage wurden Professoren für Volkswirtschaftslehre an deutschen Universitäten befragt, wie sie die Vorschläge der sogenannten Kohlekommission zum Kohleausstieg...

Das 22. Ökonomenpanel vom ifo Institut und der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung widmet sich dem Thema Kohleausstieg. In der Februar-Umfrage wurden Professoren für Volkswirtschaftslehre an deutschen Universitäten befragt, wie sie die Vorschläge der sogenannten Kohlekommission zum Kohleausstieg...

Recent research shows that efforts to limit climate change should focus on reducing emissions of carbon dioxide over other greenhouse gases or air pollutants. Many countries are paying substantial attention to carbon emissions to improve air quality and public health. The largest source of...

The double-edged sword of coal -- The quest for energy security -- Tensions along the coal value chain -- Environmental politics and policymaking -- Alternatives to coal -- Policy, technology, and the future of coal

This article empirically analyzes supply-side and demand-side factors expected to a.ect innovation in clean coal technologies. Patent data from 93 national and international patent offices is used to construct new firm-level panel data on 3,648 clean coal innovators over the time period 1978 to...

This article empirically analyzes supply-side and demand-side factors expected to affect innovation in clean coal technologies. Patent data from 93 national and international patent offices is used to construct new firm-level panel data on 3,648 clean coal innovators over the time period 1978 to...

There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of this development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our...

The achieved international consensus on the 1.5‐2°C target entails that most of current fossil fuel reserves must remain unburned. Currently, a majority of climate policies aiming at this goal are directed towards the demand side. In the absence of a global carbon regime these polices are...

This paper describes a model, implemented in an Excel spreadsheet, for evaluating a wide range of fiscal and regulatory instruments policymakers might consider for implementing their Paris mitigation pledges. Policies are evaluated against a range of metrics, including impacts on carbon dioxide...

Coal is at the core of the debate about climate change mitigation policies, yet the internationalmarket for it is not well represented in most energy models. This paper presents the COALMODframework which is a model of the international steam coal market that can be readily used toexplore...

2018 ist „Schicht im Schacht“. Dann schließen in Bottrop und Ibbenbüren die letzten deutschen Steinkohlenbergwerke. Damit endet eine Epoche, in der die Kohle die Geschichte Europas maßgeblich bestimmt hat. Diesen Abschied nehmen das Essener Ruhr Museum und das Deutsche Bergbau-Museum...

Kein anderer fossiler Energieträger ist in den letzten Jahren im Verbrauch weltweit stärker gewachsen als Kohle. Der Beitrag dokumentiert die wichtigsten Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre im Hinblick auf Verbrauch, Produktion und Handel von Kohle und gibt einen Ausblick auf den zukünftigen...

Nach Ansicht von Hans-Wilhelm Schiffer, World Energy Council, London, und Thomas Thielemann, RWE Power AG, Köln, sind der verstärkte Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien und die Nutzung von Kohle keine Gegensätze. Kohle sei ein Schlüsselfaktor für die Sicherheit der Energieversorgung und zudem...

We analyze the impacts of future scenarios of electric vehicles (EVs) on the German power system, drawing on different assumptions on the charging mode. We find that the impact on the load duration curve strongly differs between charging modes. In a fully user-driven mode, charging largely...

The prevalent market structures found in many resource markets consist of a high concentration on the supply side and a low demand elasticity. Market results are therefore frequently assumed to be an outcome of strategic interaction between producers. Common models to investigate the market...

Existing studies on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) only focus on costs and carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction that arise at the power plant and geological storage. These studies do not consider additional expenses and emissions at the input and output pathways. Consequently, we use a simulation...

In this paper we investigate the introduction of an export tax on steam coal levied by an individual country (Australia), or a group of major exporting countries. The policy motivation would be twofold: generating tax revenues against the background of improved terms-of-trade, while CO2...

China has realized that for its own sake and from the international community’s perspective, it cannot afford to continue along the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. Accordingly, the country has placed ecological goals at the same level of...

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is a global problem that has to be understood in the context of a globalising world with an increasing amount of goods being traded. This dissertation focuses on the interrelation between international trade and climate policies....