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This paper compares two flagship policies in the area of energy efficient building refurbishment, the German CO2-Building Rehabilitation Programme and the Green Deal in the UK. Although both policies are essentially loan programmes to finance energy efficiency measures, the nature of the two policies is very different regarding scope, financial architecture, integration with other policies, and carbon reductions. The paper draws out the main differences of the programmes as well as similarities. https://doi.org/10.1260/0958-305X.24.1-2.83
Programme and the British Green Deal 01.02.2013 Energie & Klimaschutz Bücher

In order to achieve national or EU-wide energy efficiency targets, a variety of policies is available. Apart from the traditional set of regulative, financial, fiscal and informative instruments, market-oriented instruments as e.g. energy efficiency obligations (EEOs) become more and more important. The new EU Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) even suggests EEOs as the preferred instrument for promoting energy efficiency in all Member States. Their actual impact, however, depends highly on the national framework. With a multi-criteria, semi-quantitative approach we evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these instruments, taking Germany as an example. The evaluation shows that none of the instruments alone can achieve the prescribed energy efficiency targets, but that a mix of instruments is necessary. The possibility of a budget-independence of the funding in particular supports a supplementary deployment of new market-oriented instruments such as an EEO as part of the future mix of policy instruments in Germany. https://doi.org/10.1260/0958-305X.24.1-2.27
Publikationen Energiewende und Klimapolitik Energie & Klimaschutz Bücher

Key takeaways The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is unprecedented in terms of nuclear safety. It is the first armed conflict in a country with a major nuclear programme: Ukraine derives about 50% of its energy from fission. A plant can be damaged in a number of ways: breaching missiles, a power cut leading to core meltdowns, etc. This can have serious consequences for the environment and the health of the population. This can have serious consequences for the population and the surrounding nature. Moreover, no specific treaty exists to deal with this threat. However, Protocol I and II of the Geneva Convention allow for “norms” of behaviour in wartime that should be respected. One of the most effective ways to minimise the risks would be to create a demilitarised zone around nuclear power plants to protect the population.
12.07.2022 Nukleartechnik & Anlagensicherheit Bücher & Fachartikel

Um die Kreislaufführung von Kunststoffen zu fördern, wurden in dem hier vorgestellten Projekt verschiedene Instrumente geprüft, mit denen die Nachfrage nach Kunststoffrezyklaten erhöht werden kann. Während Abfälle aus der Produktion und der Verarbeitung von Kunststoffen bereits weitestgehend ins Recycling gehen, gibt es beim Recycling von Endverbraucherabfällen noch erhebliche Steigerungspotenziale. Zugleich ist gerade das Recycling von Endverbraucherabfällen, unter anderem aufgrund ihrer Heterogenität, eine deutlich größere Herausforderung, so dass speziell hier Instrumente gebraucht werden, die eine Steigerung fördern. In den Betrachtungsrahmen wurden aus den genannten Gründen nur Rezyklate einbezogen, die aus Endverbraucherabfällen stammen (Post-Consumer Rezyklat, PCR). Eine Möglichkeit der Förderung des Recyclings und der Nachfrage nach Kunststoffrezyklaten stellen Rezyklateinsatzquoten dar. Dafür wurden produktspezifische PCR-Einsatzquoten für Kunststoffe geprüft und für ausgewählte Produkte konkrete Quotenhöhen vorgeschlagen. Mit der polymerspezifischen Substitutionsquote wurde eine weitere Möglichkeit der Quotenvorgabe untersucht und damit verbundene Fragestellungen beleuchtet. Abschließend erfolgte ein Vergleich beider Quotenvorgaben, wobei sich diese nicht gegenseitig ausschließen, sondern auch komplementär eingesetzt werden können.
Publikationen Ressourcen & Mobilität Umweltrecht & Governance Bücher

Putting sustainable consumption into practice is a challenge that requires the effort and coordination of numerous societal domains and actors. The paper deals with the contribution of policy making and policy evaluation. More specifically, it addresses the question of how to evaluate the effectiveness of policy instruments dedicated to rendering household consumption more sustainable. Despite the extensive literature on instrument effectiveness, sustainability assessment, and consumer behaviour, only a few accounts deal with the specific characteristics and impacts of policy instruments for sustainable consumption. Against this backdrop, a framework is suggested for the ex post analysis of effects resulting from such policy instruments. Instrument effects include changes in consumption patterns (“outcomes”), subsequent changes in the state of the environment, society and/or economy (“impacts”), and side effects. Step-by-step guidance is provided through the evaluation process. The approach helps to assess the extent to which sustainable consumption policy instruments have achieved their stated goals, but also encourages a critical reflection of these goals. In addition to evaluating instrument effects, the framework serves to explain these effects. It does so on the basis of theoretically grounded hypotheses that tackle drivers of and barriers to instrument effectiveness, thus exploring this relatively new policy field. Methodologically, a combination of qualitative methods (narrative reconstruction) and quantitative methods (e.g., material flow analysis) is recommended to causally link policies to changes in consumption patterns and impacts on sustainability.
Evaluation of Sustainable Consumption 09.01.2011 Umweltrecht & Governance Bücher

Im Jahr 2021 fielen in Deutschland 5,44 Millionen Tonnen Post-Consumer Kunststoffabfälle an, von denen lediglich 33% recycelt wurden. Über die Hälfte dieser Abfälle wird derzeit verbrannt, was bedeutet, dass wertvolle Ressourcen ungenutzt bleiben. Die geringe Verwendung von Kunststoffrezyklaten in der Produktions- und Verarbeitungsindustrie deutet auf mangelnde (finanzielle) Anreize hin. Um das Kunststoffrecycling bzw. den Rezyklateinsatz zu fördern, werden verschiedene Maßnahmen vorgeschlagen. Dazu zählen produktspezifische Rezyklateinsatzquoten, polymerspezifische Substitutionsquoten und Zertifikatlösungen. Des Weiteren könnten Abgaben auf nicht hochgradig recyclingfähige Verpackungen sowie eine Verbrauchssteuer für Verpackungen den Einsatz unnötiger Verpackungen verteuern und den Einsatz von Rezyklaten fördern. Auch die Rolle des chemischen Recyclings wird in diesem Kontext näher erläutert und differenzierter in die Abfallhierarchie eingeordnet.
Publikationen Produkte & Stoffströme Ressourcen & Mobilität Bücher

The Paris Agreement establishes provisions for using international carbon market mechanisms to achieve climate mitigation contributions. Environmental integrity is a key principle for using such mechanisms under the Agreement. This paper systematically identifies and categorizes issues and options to achieve environmental integrity, including how it could be defined, what influences it, and what approaches could mitigate environmental integrity risks. Here, environmental integrity is assumed to be ensured if the engagement in international transfers of carbon market units leads to the same or lower aggregated global emissions. Four factors are identified that influence environmental integrity: the accounting for international transfers; the quality of units generated, i.e. whether the mechanism ensures that the issuance or transfer of units leads to emission reductions in the transferring country; the ambition and scope of the mitigation target of the transferring country; and incentives or disincentives for future mitigation action, such as possible disincentives for transferring countries to define future mitigation targets less ambitiously or more narrowly in order to sell more units. It is recommended that policy-makers combine several approaches to address the significant risks to environmental integrity.
mechanisms under the Paris Agreement 21.09.2018 Energie & Klimaschutz Bücher

International carbon markets can be an important tool in achieving countries’ mitigation targets under the Paris Agreement, but they are subject to a number of environmental integrity risks. An important risk is that some countries have mitigation targets that correspond to higher levels of emissions than independent projections of their likely emissions. If such ‘hot air’ can be transferred to other countries, it could increase aggregated emissions and create a perverse incentive for countries not to enhance the ambition of future mitigation targets. Limits to international transfers of mitigation outcomes have been proposed to address this risk. This article proposes a typology for such limits, explores key design options, and tests different types of limits in the context of 15 countries. Our analysis indicates that limits to international transfers could, if designed appropriately, prevent most of the hot air contained in current mitigation targets from being transferred, but also involve trade-offs between different policy objectives. Given the risks from international transfer of hot air and the uncertainty over whether other approaches will be effective in ensuring environmental integrity, we recommend that countries take a cautious approach and pursue a portfolio of approaches to ensure environmental integrity, in which case limits could provide for additional safeguards.
under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement 08.11.2018 Energie & Klimaschutz Bücher

International carbon markets can be an important tool in achieving countries’ mitigation targets under the Paris Agreement, but they are subject to a number of environmental integrity risks. An important risk is that some countries have mitigation targets that correspond to higher levels of emissions than independent projections of their likely emissions. If such ‘hot air’ can be transferred to other countries, it could increase aggregated emissions and create a perverse incentive for countries not to enhance the ambition of future mitigation targets. Limits to international transfers of mitigation outcomes have been proposed to address this risk. This article proposes a typology for such limits, explores key design options, and tests different types of limits in the context of 15 countries. Our analysis indicates that limits to international transfers could, if designed appropriately, prevent most of the hot air contained in current mitigation targets from being transferred, but also involve trade-offs between different policy objectives. Given the risks from international transfer of hot air and the uncertainty over whether other approaches will be effective in ensuring environmental integrity, we recommend that countries take a cautious approach and pursue a portfolio of approaches to ensure environmental integrity, in which case limits could provide for additional safeguards.
under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement 08.11.2018 Energie & Klimaschutz Bücher

An increasing number of countries employ net-zero decarbonization targets in their climate policies, which requires decarbonizing socio-technical systems like the energy system by mid-century. While there is a high level of agreement about net-zero targets, there remains great uncertainty as to how to meet them. At the same time, the challenges of building a new system that fulfils systemic targets such as net-zero are insufficiently reflected on in the sustainability transitions literature. With the help of a literature review building on theories of socio-technical transitions, this paper introduces system building dimensions that account for the difficulties of net-zero transitions. We identify four such dimensions: (1) competing potential system configurations with different sustainability implications; (2) a broad range of complementary system elements needed; (3) lock-ins and path dependencies in the system building process; and (4) the politics of system building. We offer the German energy transition
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