Projects of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

Laufende Projekte

  1. Project // 01.01.2025 – 31.12.2028

    Enhanced understanding of Trade Impacts on Climate, Industries, and the Environment

    Despite the wide recognition of the complex interactions between trade (policy) and climate (policy), the state-of-the-art capabilities in macroeconomic models face substantial limitations, such as lack of…

  2. Project // 01.09.2023 – 31.08.2026

    Ariadne2: Evidence-based assessment for the design of the German energy system transformation - Sub-project: Economic assessment and design of EU climate policy

    Against the background of an unprecedented acceleration and scaling of the transformation to climate neutrality, the sub-project focuses on the economic evaluation and design of reliable and adaptable economic…

  3. Project // 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2025

    Horizon Europe: Welfare Systems and Labour Market Policies for Economic and Social Resilience in Europe

    Four megatrends — technological transformations, globalization, climate change, and demographic changes — are reshaping labor markets, redefining opportunities and risks, and posing new challenges for welfare…

  4. Project // 01.08.2022 – 31.07.2025

    Green financial intermediation – from demand to impact

    Achieving the Paris agreement goals to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels and contributing to the UN Sustainability Goals will require massive public and …

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.06.2022 – 31.12.2023

    Energy consulting by peers as a key to energy efficiency improvements in low-income households

    Increasing energy prices are a particular burden on low-income households and jeopardize their social participation. At the same time - despite substantial financial incentives through federal energy conservation…

  2. Project // 01.09.2021 – 31.08.2023

    Improving energy efficiency in low-income households: Empirical evidence and field experiments

    Low-income households face multiple challenges in the transformation towards a zero-carbon economy in Germany. This social group is both proportionally more burdened by price-based instruments and exhibits a lower…

  3. Project // 01.06.2020 – 31.05.2023

    Evidence-based assessment for the design of the German energy system transformation - Sub-project Ex-ante analyses EU ETS expansion and distribution effects of CO2 pricing

    The German government's climate protection concept 2030 includes the goal of an European, comprehensive certificate trading system for greenhouse gas emissions for all sectors. In addition, the European…

  4. Project // 01.03. – 30.09.2020

    Estimating Technological Gains and Losses from International Environmental Agreements: the Case of Stock Pollutants

    Global environmental problems, like climate change or the depletion of the ozone layer, are due to stock pollutants (e.g. CO2). As solving them requires multilateral action, international environmental agreements…

  5. Project // 01.03. – 31.12.2020

    SEEK Project 2020: Carbon Neutral Courier Services by Voluntary Carbon Offsets – a Survey among the Polish Population

    CEP services (courier, express and parcel services) currently show a strong growth trend both in Germany and in other European countries such as Poland. As the demand for CEP services increases, so does the…