https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/17632 2026-04-29T14:00:00Z 2026-04-29T14:00:00Z Bär, Holger Jacob, Klaus Werland, Stefan https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/18593 2020-01-31T16:29:22Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Approaching Rio + 20 Bär, Holger; Jacob, Klaus; Werland, Stefan This report presents findings from an online survey and a number of expert interviews on the perspectives of European civil society on Sustainable Development and the Green Economy in the run-up to the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. The survey was sent out to civil society organisations in six selected European countries to gain a better understanding of their views on specific aspects of the Green Economy concept. In addition to this, the data analysis allows the authors to compare respondents’ answers across different groups of civil society as well as between countries. The survey questions range from the definitional aspects of what the Green Economy is and what its elements are to the conflict dimensions identified in the first part of the study as well as the risks and opportunities seen in the Green Economy. Finally, it includes the questions what role governments should take and what policy and financing instruments should be used more widely in the transition to the Green Economy.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Bosello, Francesco Eboli, Fabio Pierfederici, Roberta https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/19207 2020-01-31T16:45:04Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assessing the economic impacts of climate change Bosello, Francesco; Eboli, Fabio; Pierfederici, Roberta The present research describes a climate change integrated impact assessment exercise, whose economic evaluation is based on a CGE approach and modeling effort. Input to the CGE model comes from a wide although still partial set of up-to-date bottom-up impact studies. Estimates indicate that a temperature increase of 1.92°C compared to pre-industrial levels in 2050 could lead to global GDP losses of approximately 0.5% compared to a hypothetical scenario where no climate change is assumed to occur. Northern Europe is expected to benefit from the evaluated temperature increase (+0.18%), while Southern and Eastern Europe are expected to suffer from the climate change scenario under analysis (-0.15% and -0.21% respectively). Most vulnerable countries are the less developed regions, such as South Asia, South-East Asia, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. In these regions the most exposed sector is agriculture, and the impact on crop productivity is by far the most important source of damages. It is worth noting that the general equilibrium estimates tend to be lower, in absolute terms, than the bottom-up, partial equilibrium estimates. The difference is to be attributed to the effect of market-driven adaptation. This partly reduces the direct impacts of temperature increases, leading to lower damage estimates. Nonetheless these remain positive and substantive in some regions. Accordingly, market-driven adaptation cannot be the solution to the climate change problem.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Pothen, Frank https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/19138 2020-01-31T16:29:23Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dynamic Market Power in an Exhaustible Resource Industry Pothen, Frank

2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Bär, Holger Jacob, Klaus Werland, Stefan https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/18852 2020-01-31T16:29:23Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Green economy discourses in the Run-Up to Rio 2012 Bär, Holger; Jacob, Klaus; Werland, Stefan The study analyses central contributions to the debate on the concept of a Green Economy in the run-up to the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. It does so by identifying the pillars on which the various understandings of a green economy are based as well as analysing policy concepts published and statements made. It concludes that currently there are three distinguishable discourses on the green economy and that the political challenge for the Rio+20 conference will lie in building bridges between these different understanding to build a consensus. A central role for the EESC is seen in supporting the EU’s role as a role model and helping to build the bridges and adapt the concept in other countries.

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