Projects of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.01.2019 – 30.09.2022

    Evaluating Policy Instruments for the Transformation to a Low Carbon Economy: Causal Evidence from Administrative Micro Data

    Mitigating the effects of climate change represents one of the major global societal challenges. In the framework of the COP21 held in Paris in 2015, the international community agreed to limit global temperature…

  2. Project // 01.12.2018 – 30.11.2022

    Incentives, Fairness and Compliance in International Environmental Agreements

    During the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2015 (COP21) and its resulting Paris Agreement, 195 countries agreed to set out a global action plan to limit global…

  3. Project // 01.12.2018 – 31.08.2022

    Evaluating Germany’s Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Practice

    Building on the Socio-Ecologic Panel (SÖP) established in the BMBF-funded project Eval-MAP (www.rwi-essen.de/eval-map), the objectives of the proposed project Eval-MAP II are twofold. First, we will undertake…

  4. Project // 01.11.2018 – 28.02.2022

    The Relevance of Non-State Actors for Individual Climate Protection Activities and Climate Policy: A Theoretical, Experimental, and Empirical Analysis (NostaClimate)

    The project "The relevance of non-state actors for individual climate protection activities and climate policy: A theoretical, experimental, and empirical analysis (NostaClimate)", financed by the Federal Ministry…

  5. Project // 01.11.2018 – 30.04.2022

    Climate Impact Chains in a Globalized World: A Challenge for Germany

    The project CLIC is pursuing three overarching goals: advancing methods for economic assessments of transboundary climate impacts on economic activities, applying these methods for analyzing such effects on the…

  6. Project // 01.09.2018 – 30.11.2021

    Analysis and Application of Innovative Instruments for Climate Change Adaptation Policy and Communication

    PIVO – Private Precautionary MeasuresPrivate precautionary measures constitute a significant part of different strategies aimed at reducing risks resulting from climate change. They complement technical-planning…

  7. Project // 01.09.2018 – 31.03.2020

    Development of a Quality Element

    The German Incentive Regulation Ordinance (ARegV) provides for the use of quality elements in the regulation of energy supply networks. The application of quality elements is intended to ensure the long-term,…

  8. Project // 01.09.2018 – 31.05.2022

    The Economics of Climate Policy Compliance: Monitoring, Reporting, Verification & Enforcement

    With the agreement on setting up a transparency mechanism (TM), the 2015 Paris Accord took an important step towards strengthening compliance in international climate policy through monitoring,…

  9. Project // 01.08.2018 – 31.03.2019

    SEEK: Carbon Neutral Courier Services by Voluntary Carbon Offsets – a Field Experimental Analysis

    CEP services (Courier, express and parcel services) are currently showing a strong growth trend. In Germany, for example, more than 2.9 billion CEP shipments were sent in 2015. This figure is expected to increase…