Playing Fair within Climate Protection Policy? - Bringing Together Psychological and Economic Methods

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Ittner ◽  
Cornelia Ohl
Keyword(s):  
Climate Protection ◽  
Protection Policy ◽  
Economic Methods ◽  
Climate Protection Policy

Verteilungskonflikte durch die europäische Klimaschutzpolitik – Verschärft die EU die Hungerproblematik?

2011 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Achim Brunnengräber
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Competition Policy ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Protection Policy ◽  
The North ◽  
Climate Protection Policy ◽  
The One ◽  
Energy And Climate Policy ◽  
The Eu

AbstractIn this essay the European energy and climate protection policy and its effects on developing countries are to be discussed. Are their nutrition problems being detereorated or do additional exports establish opportunities for a sustainable development? I argue that coherence of energy security and climate protection policy, as aimed by the European Commission, cannot be achieved by the measures taken so far. First of all the paper discusses the primacy of competition policy while, in the second place, strategic selectivity of climate instruments will be dealt with. Thridly, the „faith in technology“ will be approached and the fourth issue is dedicated to agrofuels and the commodification of developing countries’ ressources. As a result the EU energy and climate policy is about to aggravate nutrition problems. What is needed is a Transformation to a sustainable economy to realigning the north-south divide on the one and to overcome inconsistencies between ener gy security and climate policy on the other hand.

Climate Protection Policy from the Point of View of Energy Policy

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
D. Boge
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Energy Price ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Protection Policy ◽  
Least Action ◽  
Energy Tax ◽  
The Government ◽  
Climate Protection Policy ◽  
Direct Government

Noticeable success in reducing CO2 emissions can only be reached if the government provides the necessary framework and if a strategy of climate protection is developed with - and not against - the economy. A policy of deliberate energy price increase, geared towards the producers with possibilities of compensation, mixed with a system of direct government incentives and limited legal measures as well as self-obligation, can best achieve reductions in emissions of 25-30%. Even if this target is reached in Germany - as CO2 emissions would only temporarily fall by 1% - the global greenhouse problem would not be changed drastically. A strategy for keeping in check the anthropogenic greenhouse effect has to be designed globally. At the very least, action in the whole EC is required. The suggestion of the EC-commission to introduce an EC CO2/energy tax is to be applauded.

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