Energy transition in Baden-Württemberg – Impacts on value added and employment
Three years after the decisions for the energy transition estimates on goal-achievment of energy policy and their effects on value added and employment are available at the national level. The…
Sustainable Economic Development
The aim of this project is to develop a manual for practitioners to guide them in conducting ex-ante impact assessment studies. The manual describes the procedural and analytical steps necessary…
Macro economic and distributional effects of the German Energiewende
The aim of the energy transition is to transform the energy system into a climate-friendly system and at the same time to phase out nuclear energy while guaranteeing a more secure, economic and…
Employment Impacts of energy efficiency measure implementation in Israel (MED-ENEC)
Increasing energy efficiency leads to additional demand for construction, renovation and modernization work. These are positive economic incentives, if the services are provided and produced…
Renewable energy and energy efficiency in Tunisia – employment, qualification and economic effects - Update
Tunisia as the most successful country in implementing the ideas of the Arab Spring has to face a number of challenges. On the one hand considerable unemployment, especially among youth and…
Socially compatible design of climate mitigation and energy transition in low-income households
Distributional effects of climate mitigation and energy transition policies have to be analysed precisely to prevent negative impacts on low income groups and increase public acceptance. It is…
Black swans (risks) in the energy transition
The energy transition is a long-term transformation of the German energy system. With the time horizon the probability of rare and unforeseen, but powerful incidents increases. In the project the…
Sectoral economic modelling for integration into regional Earth system modelling – CSC Sectoral Modelling
Advising decision-makers on climate change requires information at the regional and local level due to the different ways in which regions in Germany are affected. The aim of the project was to…
Impact Assessment of the climate protection plan in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The federal state North-Rhine-Westphalia, the most populated in Germany, is currently developing a climate protection plan. Wuppertal Institute has developed the physical framework in a…
Competitiveness and energy costs of industry in international comparison
The aim of the project for the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy is to assess the impacts of electricity price exemptions for electricity intensive industries such as chemicals, iron…