Das Projekt "Heat Roadmap Europe - A low-carbon heating and cooling strategy for Europe (HRE4)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung durchgeführt. Heat Roadmap Europe 4 (HRE4) will create more certainty in relation to the long-term changes that are necessary to decarbonise the European heating and cooling sector. Through this HRE4 will enable new policies and prepare the ground for new investments. The combination of local demand and resource mapping and integrated energy system analysis shows both the local nature of heating and cooling, but also the impact that heating and cooling has on our national energy systems. This allows us to develop and assess scenarios that are inherently local, and on a national and European scale. HRE studies the heating and cooling sector in Europe, and quantifies the effects of increased energy efficiency on both the demand and supply side in terms of energy consumption, environmental impact, and costs. By looking at the 14 largest consumers of heating and cooling in Europe, we will develop country-specific Roadmaps, but will also be able to discuss the future of 90% of European heating and cooling demands. So far, Heat Roadmap Europe studies have concluded that energy efficiency in the heating sector, which primarily includes heat savings in buildings, district heating in urban areas, and heat pumps and solar thermal in rural areas, will result in a cheaper, more local, and far more renewable heating and cooling sector in the future. Heat Roadmap Europe 4 is mapping and modeling the heating and energy systems of the 14 largest users of heat in the EU, to develop new policies at local, national, and EU level to ensure the uptake of efficient, sustainable and affordable heating and cooling solutions. Fraunhofer ISI will contribute with applying its bottom-up model FORECAST (www.forecast-model.eu) for a detailed profiling of today's heating and cooling demand in Europe as well as for simulating its future evolution. A particular focus will lie on the potentials and costs for heat savings in both buildings and industry.
Das Projekt "Tackling Leakage in a world of unequal carbon prices" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von International Network To Advance Climate Talks, c,o Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) durchgeführt. For the future changes of the EU emission trading scheme (ETS) the competitiveness and carbon leakage effects are amongst the most controversial issues in the debate an stricter caps and auctioning of emission rights. While carbon leakage is of major concern to climate policy makers, industry and industrial policy makers pronounce competitive disadvantages from carbon pricing for energy-intensive industry with trade exposure. Leakage effects are becoming increasingly relevant for the next unilateral climate policy steps in the EU and in a number of countries (Australia, New Zealand, regions and provinces within the United States and Canada). Producers who cannot pass through carbon costs may adjust by reconsidering investment and production locations. If carbon pricing through stricter policies at home gives room for more emissions abroad, this clearly needs to be addressed by the governments that have or will be committed to mitigation in their territory. Moreover, in a world of unequal carbon prices, industries with carbonintensive production need certainty about the policies that address leakage, and remedies should be considered at an early planning stage. Any of such measures, including free allocation, sectorspecific agreements an emission standards, and border cost adjustments, need to be coordinated with trade partner countries and in the general negotiation process an a global climate regime under the UNFCCC. The focus of the Climate Strategies Project an 'Tackling Leakage in A World of Unequal Carbon Prices' is to come up with 1. Framing the debate an leakage from the EU emission trading scheme after 2013. 2. Giving special attention to border cost adjustments and their role for major EU trade partners. 3. Providing insights by comparing border cost adjustments to free allocation and sectoral agreement, and their effectiveness in contributing to reduction of price differentials between different countries committed to GHG mitigation. 4. Delivering legal, institutional and quantitative analysis of border taxes. 5. Connecting the debate an border measures against leakage to the international negotiations an a new global climate regime after 2012. Further information available under www.climatestrategies.org.
Das Projekt "Strategic Dialogue on Sustainable Raw Materials for Europe (STRADE)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Öko-Institut. Institut für angewandte Ökologie e.V. durchgeführt.
Das Projekt "Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Technische Thermodynamik, Abteilung Systemanalyse und Technikbewertung durchgeführt. The project SWERA will provide solar and wind resource data and geographic information assessment tools to public and private sector executives who are involved in energy market development. It will demonstrate the use of these instruments in investment and policy decision making and build local capacities for their continuous use. The project will enable private investors and public policy makers to assess the technical, economic and environmental potential for large-scale investments in technologies that enable the exploitation of two increasingly important sources of renewable energy. During this pilot project, tools for analysis and use of resource information will be developed, a global archive and review mechanism will be initiated, regional/national solar and wind resource maps generated and national assessment demonstrations performed. The overall goal is to promote the integration of wind and solar alternatives in national and regional energy planning and sector restructuring as well as related policy making. The project will enable informed decision making and enhance the ability of participating governments to attract increased investor interest in renewable energy. Thirteen countries will be directly involved in the pilot stage of the project. Global and regional maps will be available to all developing countries. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) will provide high resolution solar maps of the Direct Normal Irradiation. This is particularly important for concentrating solar power collectors. DLR will work with SUNY and INPE/LABSOLAR to integrate their high-resolution horizontal total radiation model. DLR and TERI will jointly execute the South Asian mapping using INSAT and METEOSAT-5 data. DLR will provide advice to national executing agencies and stakeholders on their activities and assist in the comparison of measurements and different mapping models.
Das Projekt "Adaptation and disaster risk management planning in Africa" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Climate Analytics gGmbH durchgeführt. This World Bank funded project supports five African countries in developing and implementing plans and investments for managing climate and disaster risks. Climate Analytics supports the World Bank project IDA17 Multi-Sectoral Investment Plans for Climate and Disaster Risk Management in Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, and Senegal in scaling up support in five African countries - Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, and Senegal - in developing and implementing country-led, multi-sectoral plans and investments for managing climate and disaster risk. Our team works with disaster risk management specialists at the World Bank, local consultants in each of the countries, as well as coordinating closely with government ministries and offices involved in the planning and implementation of climate change adaptation and disaster risk management measures. Outputs of the project include a technical analytical work on the impact of climate change and disasters on socioeconomic development and poverty, as well as, the support in designing investment plans and the identification of possible sources of climate financing. These outputs aim to provide information to the World Bank and partner countries in line with mid- to long-term development planning, and to add scientific support in the prioritisation and targeting of investments, plans, and programs for every region and major sector in the country.
Das Projekt "IMPACT is a cross-cutting, multi-faceted project that aims to strengthen the connections between the scientific assessments of climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to help enable access to finance and help Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) implement concrete projects" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Climate Analytics gGmbH durchgeführt. Climate change poses an existential threat to many Small Island States and Least Developed Countries and undermines sustainable development prospects for most. These climate-vulnerable countries often lack capacity to develop and implement science-based strategies for climate adaptation and mitigation, access climate finance and fully represent their interests at the international level. Following the adoption and ratification of the Paris Agreement, major focus in the coming four years will be on the implementation of mitigation and low-carbon development strategies and adaptation. This will require science-based tools and strategies for SIDS and LDCs to effectively access climate finance. IMPACT is a cross-cutting, multi-faceted project that aims to strengthen the connections between the scientific assessments of climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to help enable access to finance and help implement concrete projects. At the same time, SIDS and LDCs have a vital interest in being able to fully engage in negotiating an ambitious and 1.5°C limit-compatible implementation of the Paris Agreement in the period to 2020. IMPACT also aims to enhance SIDS and LDC negotiators' participation in the international climate negotiations, building on the expertise, networks and trust established through the highly successful SURVIVE and High Level Support Mechanism (HLSM) projects.. The project aims to build sustainable capacity in partner regions in these dimensions: - Analysis of transformational pathways, including emission ambition requirements in line with the 1.5°C goal in the Paris Agreement, to inform implementation, climate finance investments, and adaptation needs - regional analysis of impacts, vulnerability, adaptation, and costs to develop tools for science-based policy-making - Improve access to climate finance using the tools developed and shape a 1.5°C compatible climate finance architecture - Support national implementation of science-based climate strategies - Support international implementation of the Paris Agreement and supporting rule-sets, facilitative dialogue in 2018 and call for more ambitious NDCs by 2020. The tools and methods of this project will be co-developed with the partner organisations, to follow regional requirements, ensure ownership and the establishment of long-term application capacities. Integration into the larger framework will ensure comparability as well as transferability of results between regions. Successful development and piloting of the tools and framework will encourage further roll-out in the regions. Regional dissemination will be facilitated through regular regional training workshops throughout the project duration. Long-term sustainable access to financial resources is supported through building capacities of national and regional entities to successfully prepare and submit funding proposals that fully meet climate finance criteria. (abridged text)
Das Projekt "Renewables in Transport 2050: Empowering a sustainable Mobility Future with zero Emission Fuels from Renewable Electricity: Kraftstoffstudie II" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Forschungsvereinigung Verbrennungskraftmaschinen e.V. durchgeführt. European and German greenhouse gas reduction targets of 80-95% by 2050 will require substantial contributions from the transport sector. The high ambition level of legislation motivated the FVV to comission a study in order to develop, model and assess scenarios assuming 100% renewable energy in transport by 2050. The analyses cover their feasibility as well as their impact on current developments and future use of combustion engines in transport. Three fuel and powertrain scenarios - one centred on synthetic fuels, another one on electric mobility and a third one including a balanced mix of approaches - were defined and then modelled with two distinct transportation demand scenarios ( high , low ) for Germany and the EU-28. The key conclusions that can be drawn from this study to achieve a robust sustainable development in mobility even at high transportation demands are: Transport has to become more electric with regard to the fuel (electricity, PtX) and the embedding of combustion engines in propulsion systems (ICE hybrid, PHEV, REEV). Recent deployment rates of renewable power plants need to be sustained in Germany and deployment rate stepped-up in the EU28 throughout the next decades. Energy policy scenarios necessarily need to account for increasing renewable electricity demands from the transportation sector as well as synergies from flexible PtX production for the integration of (fluctuating) renewable power sources. The massive investments needed for an energy transition in the transportation sector will require a risk adequate investment security, i.e. international energy policies must set robust long-term and intermediate targets to provide the necessary legal certainty to all actors in the fuel/vehicle value chain.
Das Projekt "Advanced policies and market support measures for mobilizing solar district heating investments in European target regions and countries (SDHp2m)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Steinbeis Innovation gGmbH, Solites - Forschungsinstitut für solare und zukunftsfähige thermische Energiesysteme durchgeführt. SDHp2m stands for Solar District Heating (SDH) and actions from Policy to Market. The project addresses market uptake challenges for a wider use of district heating and cooling systems (DHC) with high shares of RES, specifically the action focuses on the use of large-scale solar thermal plants combined with other RES in DHC systems. The key approach of the project is to develop, improve and implement in 9 participating EU regions advanced policies and support measures for SDH. In 3 focus regions Thuringia (DE), Styria (AT) and Rhone-Alpes (FR) the regulating regional authorities are participating as project partners to ensure a strong implementation capacity within the project. In 6 follower regions from BG, DE, IT, PL, SE the regulating authorities are engaged through letters of commitment. The project activities aim at a direct mobilization of investments in SDH and hence a significant market rollout. The project work program in the participating regions follows a process including 1) strategy and action planning based on a survey, best practices and stakeholder consultation 2) an implementation phase starting at an early project stage and 3) efficient dissemination of the project results at national and international level. Adressed market uptake challenges are: Improved RES DHC policy, better access to plant financing and business models, sustained public acceptance and bridging the gap between policy and market through market support and capacity building. Denmark and Sweden reached already today a high share of RES in DHC and shall be used as a role model for this project. The direct expected outcome and impact of SDHp2m is estimated to an installed or planned new RES DHC capacity and new SDH capacity directly triggered by the project until project end corresponding to a total investment of 350 Mio. € and leading to 1 420 GWh RES heat and cold production per year. A multiple effect is expected in the period after the project and in further EU regions.
Das Projekt "Teilprojekt PIK" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung e.V. durchgeführt. Teilprojekt Modellierung (PIK): Hauptverantwortung für Module 2 (Modellierung des Elektrizitätssektors) und 3 (Makroökonomische Modellierung). Theorieentwicklung zum langfristigen Entscheidungsverhalten von Unternehmen und zum induzierten technologischen Wandel im Rahmen der Verhaltensökonomik und der Energieökonomik; empirische Analyse des langfristigen Investitionsverhaltens von Unternehmen im Elekrizitätssektor in der EU, den USA und China; Modellierung des Elekrizitätsmarktes in 3 Regionen im Hinblick auf die Dynamik langfristiger Investitionsentscheidungen auf technologischen Fortschritt; Weiterentwicklung eines Integrated Assessment Modells zur Simulation von Klimaschutzkosten und zur Generierung von Politikoptionen zur Überführung in politische Steuerungskonzepte. Modul 1: Langfristige Entscheidungsverhalten von Unternehmen; Modul 2: Modellierung des Elektrizitätssektors in 3 Regionen; Modul 3: Makroökonomische Modellierung; Modul 4: Stakeholder-Dialoge und Politikoptionen. Methoden: Qualitative Fallstudien, Integrierte Modellbildung auf mehreren Skalen. Projekt-Flyer, Internetpräsentation, zwei internationale Experten und Stakeholder-Workshops, Arbeitspapiere, Publikationen in inter-/nationalen Fachzeitschriften, Vorträge, Konferenzteilnahmen, Stakeholder-Prozess, Endbericht.
Das Projekt "Überwindung von Hemmnissen bei der Finanzierung von inklusivem grünem Wachstum" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik gGmbH durchgeführt. Investitionen für Wachstum und Entwicklung müssen in Zukunft möglichst grün und nachhaltig sein, um einen noch stärkeren Temperaturanstieg zu vermeiden und die Anpassung an die neuen klimatischen Bedingungen zu ermöglichen. Aus diesem Grund werden in den nächsten Jahren vor allem enorme Investitionen in grüne Infrastruktur in Industrie-, Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländern benötigt. Allerdings werden die Staatshaushalte - und somit auch die offiziellen Entwicklungshilfegelder und andere offizielle Finanzmittel (ODA und OOF) - diese Summen nicht aufbringen können. Private und institutionelle Investoren (wie Pensionskassen, Versicherungen und Staatsfonds) hätten das nötige Kapital um eine grüne Transformation zu finanzieren, da sie mehrere Trillionen US-Dollar verwalten und im Gegensatz zu Geschäftsbanken durchaus an langfristigen Investitionen interessiert sind. Nur leider ist das Engagement dieser Investoren für nachhaltige Investitionen insbesondere in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern verschwindend gering. Die Gründe dafür sind einfach nachzuvollziehen: Aufgrund der noch immer hohen Subventionen für fossile Brennstoffe gelten grüne Investitionen als unnötig und unrentabel. Hinzu kommt, dass diese Investorengruppen die Investitionsrisiken von nachhaltigen Kapitalanlagen als zu hoch empfinden. Eine mögliche Lösung für dieses Dilemma besteht darin, Fehlanreize zu mildern und positive Anreize durch den gezielten Einsatz öffentlicher Mittel zu geben, z.B. durch Strukturierte Fonds oder Garantien. Öffentliche Geber und Entwicklungsfinanzierungsinstitutionen können so private und institutionelle Investoren motivieren, in grüne Kapitalanlagen zu investieren. Nur leider ist das konkrete Wissen über Möglichkeiten privates und/oder institutionelles Kapital für nachhaltige Investitionen zu mobilisieren bisher recht begrenzt. Dieses Forschungsprojekt untersucht deshalb verschiedene Möglichkeiten die Hemmnisse für die Finanzierung von inklusivem grünem Wachstum zu überwinden. Ein Schwerpunkt der Forschung liegt dabei auf der Begleitung der G20 Dialogue Platform for Inclusive Green Investments durch Hintergrundanalysen zu der Fragestellung, was Regierungen tun können, um effektiv die Mobilisierung von Kapital für grüne Investitionen in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern zu unterstützen.
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