Economics of Climate Change - News

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May 9th, 2012
A new interview about the necessary change in energy policy with Ottmar Edenhofer appeared in "Der Westen". [Link]

March 12th, 2012
Take part in our new seminar in SS 2012 "The Behavioral Economics of Mobility"

February 10th, 2012
Employment Opportunity: New PhD studentship (PDF, 70,9 KB) with Prof Edenhofer and Dr Marschinski

January 9th, 2012
Professor Ottmar Edenhofer will act as director of the newly established Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). The MCC will commence its operations in 2012 with the goal of advancing research on the opportunities and challenges of sustainable economic growth in a resource and sink bounded world with a particular focus on avoiding dangerous climate change. By conducting topical Assessment Reports in close cooperation with international partner institutions, MCC aims to promote deliberative communication and decision-making at the interface between science, policy and society.

December 8th, 2011
The article "Unvernünftige Zweifler: Die Skeptiker des Klimawandels stützen sich auf viele Argumente. Jedes davon greift zu kurz." by Ottmar Edenhofer and Robert Marschinski appeared in "Die Zeit" on December 8th, 2011. [Link]

September 29th, 2011
In the Winter Semester, Ottmar Edenhofer and Felix Creutzig will lecture on Climate Change, Infrastructure and Urban Economics. [Link].

July 30th, 2011
The article "Biotreibstoffe am Scheideweg" from Felix Creutzig was published on Schattenblick.de [Link].

June 16th, 2011
An article "Rechentricks fürs Klima" based on the study "Growth in emission transfers via international trade from 1990 to 2008" from Edenhofer et al. (2011) was published on taz.de [Link].

June 15th, 2011
The Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) of the Working Group III of the IPCC is available at the IPCC webpage. [Link]
See especially the Technical Summary [Link] with Ottmar Edenhofer as one of the lead authors and Chapter 9 [Link] and 10 [Link] with Felix Creutzig as contributing author.

May 12th, 2011
The IPCC has published the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN). On Monday, the summary for policymakers of the SRREN has been approved by government representatives for IPCC member countries at the 11th Session of Working Group III co-chaired by Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. [Link]

Mission

The department "Economics of Climate Change" is a transdisciplinary academic unit of the Technical University Berlin. Our mission is to develop, foster and communicate critical and policy-relevant knowledge in the economics of climate change and sustainability. To achieve this goal, we investigate spatio-temporal patterns of economic activity, focussing on international trade, consumption-based emission accounting, urban transport and infrastructures. We also deal with economic growth theory and structural change. While our framework is centered in economics, we freely rely on experience from mathematics, physics, engineering and the social sciences.
Our main research questions:

Spatial sustainability sciences:

• Conceptualizing Land-Use-Change, Transport and Human Settlement in the context of multi-level governance
• Impact of urbanization and infrastructure investments on economic growth and vice versa
• Modeling optimal urban transport policies
• Investigation of how drivers of GHG emissions are present in the spatial dimension of economic activity
• Identifying infrastructure lock-ins and lock-outs

• Designing of policy instruments to achieve sustainable development
• Developing formal models to enhance our understanding of complex phenomena such as carbon leakage.
  

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Our research group is partly funded by the
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