Economy
Issue 5/2019
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... says Ottmar Edenhofer, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Edenhofer believes that the likelihood of Germany introducing a carbon price has increased of late, in light of the success of the Fridays for Future movement and the shifts in the political landscape evidenced in the recent European elections.
Government policy has left German wind companies reeling – but the pressure is just as great for the municipalities they operate in. Aurich, in Lower Saxony, has had to impose a budget freeze.
Human exploitation of the Earth’s ecosystems is leaving them barely able to recover, besides accounting for almost a quarter of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, global warming is severely impairing food production.
Editor-in-Chief Jörg-Rainer Zimmermann on the current debate surrounding carbon emissions, the continuing failure of the European trading scheme to deliver a just price for carbon dioxide, and how the switch to auctions is putting the expansion goals for renewable energies at risk.
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- 2 Dec 19 to 13 Dec 19
COP 25 Climate Change Conference
- 10 Dec 19 to 12 Dec 19
Biogas Convention & Trade Fair
- 20 Jan 20 to 22 Jan 20
Handelsblatt Energy Summit 2020
- 2 Dec 19 to 13 Dec 19
COP 25 Climate Change Conference
- 10 Dec 19 to 12 Dec 19
Biogas Convention & Trade Fair
- 20 Jan 20 to 22 Jan 20
Handelsblatt Energy Summit 2020