Fre Sonneveld - Chuttersnap / Unsplash Have your say, help shape the energy transition: What the Ariadne citizens’ conferences show about the energy transition
From rising energy costs for households to the expansion of local renewable energies, the population is increasingly directly affected by the energy and transportation transition, and they want to get involved and have their say. That is why, as ...
Report: Views of Citizens on Four Future Pathways of the Transport Transition – Results of the Ariadne Citizens’ Conference on the Transport Transition
The Ariadne Kopernikus project is shaping a learning process between science, politics, business and civil society in order to provide a broad knowledge base for decisions on the energy transition. Since the beginning of the project, researchers have been ...
Drew Dau / Unsplash Climate policy in check – an assessment framework for the design of policy pathways
Germany is not “on track” to meet its climate targets by 2030 and 2045. To comply with the Climate Protection Act, the framework conditions should be designed in such a way that businesses and society change their actions and investment ...
womue / Adobe Stock More new fossil gas heating systems, only tentative progress: energy transition update
Reduced fossil fuel consumption due to the energy crisis, tentative positive signs in the expansion of renewable energy capacities, electric cars and heat pumps – but not fast enough, according to new figures from the Ariadne Transformation Tracker. Moreover, ...
Brief: Making price signals comparable – subsidies as negative CO2 prices
Calculations in a new Ariadne study show that subsidies in the transport sector sometimes correspond to negative CO2 prices of between -€70 and -€690 per tonne of CO2. Germany’s current tax and levy system in the transport sector is ...
Dossier: Climate-damaging subsidies correspond to negative CO2 prices
The aim of this dossier is to convert the significant level of subsidies in the transport sector into negative CO2 prices; this contributes to the political discourse by categorising the climate policy significance of the subsidies. The implicit negative ...
Adobe Stock / Radmila Merkulova A reward of several hundred euros for a ton of CO2: Climate-damaging subsidies in transport undermine CO2 pricing
Subsidies in the transport sector, such as the diesel or company car privilege, result in negative CO2 prices of between minus 70 and minus 690 euros per ton of CO2 and weaken the effectiveness of CO2 pricing as an ...