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The analysis of different global energy scenarios in part I of the report confirms that the exploitation of energy efficiency potentials and the use of renewable energies play a key role in reaching global CO2 reduction targets. An assessment on the basis of a broad literature research in part II shows that the technical potentials of renewable energy technologies are a multiple of today's global final energy consumption. The analysis of cost estimates for renewable electricity generation technologies and even long term cost projections across the key studies in part III demonstrates that assumptions are in reasonable agreement. In part IV it is shown that by implementing technical potentials for energy efficiency improvements in demand and supply sectors by 2050 can be limited to 48% of primary energy supply in IEA's "Energy Technology Perspectives" baseline scenario. It was found that a large potential for cost-effective measures exists, equivalent to around 55-60% of energy savings of all included efficiency measures (part V). The results of the analysis on behavioural changes in part VI show that behavioural dimensions are not sufficiently included in energy scenarios. Accordingly major research challenges are revealed.
Development of alternative energy and climate scenarios for the Czech Republic : final report
(2009)
Energy+ pumps : technology procurement for very energy efficient circulation pumps ; final report
(2009)
Cleverer Kiez : Vorstudie
(2009)
Energy efficiency watch : final report on the evaluation of national energy efficiency action plans
(2009)
Pit stop Poznan : an analysis of negotiations on the Bali action plan at the stopover to Copenhagen
(2009)
This paper analyzes the international climate negotiations that took place at the 14th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP) and the 4th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) held in Poznan, December 1–12, 2008. It works out the main issues at stake in the negotiations, contrasts divergences in interests amongst negotiating Parties, and summarizes the main results achieved in Poznan. Furthermore, it contextualizes the Poznan negotiations within the broader political and economic context, which has shaped climate policy making throughout 2008. The paper ends with an outlook on the tasks ahead in 2009, until the next COP/CMP in December 2009 in Copenhagen.
This paper presents the strategy for a large EU-funded Integrated Project: EXIOPOL ("A New Environmental Accounting Framework Using Externality Data and Input-Output Tools for Policy Analysis"), with special attention for its part in environmentally extended (EE) input-output (IO) analysis. The project has three principal objectives: (a) to synthesize and further develop estimates of the external costs of key environmental impacts for Europe; (b) to develop an EE IO framework for the EU-27 in aglobal context, including as many of these estimates as possible, to allow for the estimation of environmental impacts (expressed as LCA themes, material requirement indicators, ecological footprints or external costs) of the activities of different economic sectors, final consumption activities and resource consumption; (c) to apply the results of the work to external costs and EE I-O for illustrative policy questions.
This paper presents the results of a collaborative project on public acceptance of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Germany, commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi). The project "Socio-economic Research on Acceptance of CCS" (April 2006 to March 2008) analyzed various aspects of public acceptance of CCS mainly in the national context of Germany. It was the first project to handle this subject matter. Public acceptance is one of the crucial factors for the implementation of CCS in the future.
Wie kann bei der Endlichkeit der Energieressourcen gewährleistet werden, dass nicht den sozial Schwächsten zuerst der Strom abgeschaltet wird? Wie lässt sich zugleich Gerechtigkeit fördern, ohne dabei die ökologischen Grenzen zu überschreiten? Und was, so die Leitfrage des Buches, bedeutet Gerechtigkeit im Umweltkontext konkret? Julia Schultz diskutiert in ihrem Buch Gerechtigkeitsfragen und analysiert ausgehend von der "Environmental-Justice-Bewegung" in den USA Erfahrungen in Deutschland. Das Buch bietet eine ethische Checkliste, die sich aus Gerechtigkeitsperspektive beim Umweltschutz in Deutschland und auch darüber hinaus verwenden lässt. Beispielhaft werden für die Bereiche Gesundheit, Haushaltsenergie und Tierrechte konkrete Instrumente und Maßnahmen zusammengestellt und kommentiert.
Eine kleine Geschichte der schubweisen Aufhebung der Verdrängung des menschgemachten Klimawandels
(2009)
The paper aims to shed light on the methodological challenges of GHG monitoring at local level and to give an overview on current practices. Questions addressed are as follows: How do the methodologies which underlie different GHG inventory tools differ? What are the critical variables explaining differences between inventories? Can different GHG inventory tools be compatible - and/or interoperable - and under which conditions? The first section discusses methodological challenges related to the formation of local GHG inventories. Rather than giving a comprehensive overview on methodological problems, this section mainly highlights some of the central methodological challenges posed by local GHG inventories. This overview identifies critical variables and clarifies concepts that are necessary for the understanding of the subsequent analysis. In section two, some of the most advanced GHG inventory tools are analysed and the most important differences between these tools are highlighted. The paper concludes that the methodologies are not consistent. Local GHG inventories can thus hardly be compared. The paper gives research and policy recommendations towards greater comparability and sketches the requirements of an international protocol on urban GHG inventories.
This compendium "Resource Productivity in 7 Steps" is intended to give practical advice to designers, engineers, distributors, banks, lawmakers and others how to increase the resource productivity of goods and services (dematerialisation).
The eco-innovative (re-)design of products begins with the definition/description of the benefit or service, which a product provides to its user. The use of MIPS (Material Input Per unit Service) helps to develop solutions that can provide this benefit with the least possible quantity of natural resources, from. It measures the material and energy input of a product throughout its life-cycle, "from cradle to cradle" (production of raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, use, disposal). Thus, material and energy consumption can be minimised while satisfying the demand and decoupling of the economic activities from resource use.
The brochure describes in seven steps how to gain more resource productivity. It provides several worksheets for the innovation process and material intensity factors for the calculation of the material footprint. A translation into traditional chinese is also available.
Was sind die Alternativen zur vorherrschenden Wachstumsideologie und wie lassen sich die Rechte der Menschen und der Umwelt wahren? Wie lässt sich der globale Casino-Kapitalismus zähmen? Was müssen wir an unserer Lebens- und Wirtschaftsweise ändern, um eine Klimakatastrophe noch abzuwenden und den Ressourcenraubbau zu beenden? Unter dem Motto "Game Over. Neustart!" wurde beim vierten Kongress "McPlanet.com" vom 24. bis 26. April 2009 in Berlin mit internationalen Referent(inn)en über die Brennpunkte der aktuellen Krisen und Ideen und Strategien zu ihrer Lösung diskutiert - auf Panels, Foren und in über 100 Workshops.
CO2-Abscheidung und -Lagerung bei Kohlekraftwerken : kein Beitrag zur Lösung des Klimaproblems
(2009)
Kohlekraftwerken nachgeschaltetes Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) dominiert die Debatte um CCS - zu Unrecht. Die Förderung dieser Anwendung torpediert den Übergang zu einem klimaneutralen Energiesystem: Sie schafft Anreize, weiter in die Kohleverstromung zu investieren und sie bedingt Wettbewerbsvorteile gegenüber Strom aus erneuerbaren Quellen. Dabei verursacht die Technologie aufgrund des Energieaufwands zur CO2-Abscheidung hohe Treibhausgasemissionen: Somit kann sie kein Element zur Lösung des Klimaproblems sein. Selbst ob und wie stark sie zur Emissionsminderung beiträgt, ist strittig - und hängt von der Wahl der Systemgrenzen ab.