Category Archives: Energy and Climate
Final Report “The economic benefits of environmental policy” online!
This report describes the areas in which environmental policies deliver Europe’s current economic priorities, often more successfully than other forms of economic policy intervention. It provides evidence of the role of environmental policy both in providing a short term economic stimulus and in building a sustainable, efficient and resilient economy in the long [...]
2010 – The international year of Biodiversity
The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity and invited the world to take action in 2010 to safeguard the variety of life on earth. Thus, we provide a collection of information worth knowing about biodiversity. Other than that we introduce some SERI projects and publications which deal with biodiversity and [...]
The economic benefits of environmental policy – Final Report
Rayment, M., Pirgmaier, E., De Ceuster, G., Hinterberger, F., Kuik, O., Leveson Gower, H., Polzin, C. & A. Varma (2009)
Executive summary:
The European Union aspires to become the most dynamic and competitive economy in the world. The Lisbon Strategy, launched by EU leaders in 2000 and subsequently revised and simplified in 2005, emphasises the need to [...]
What’s the footprint of the EU on the Arctic?
The Arctic is often referred to as the bellwether of global climate change. Many species are already critically endangered. Moreover, people and animals of the Arctic are exposed to particularly high doses of globally emitted toxic pollutants due to special air and sea currents. And now the melt down of the Arctic ice masses facilitates [...]
New project: Eco-Innovation Observatory
SERI is core partner in the “Eco-Innovation Observatory”, a major, 3-year project funded by DG Environment of the EU Commission.
The Eco-Innovation Observatory will support the implementation of various EU activities, such as the Europe INNOVA Eco-Innovation platform and the Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP). Among other [...]
SERI calculated carbon rucksacks of the Austrian foreign trade
Within the GRAM CO2 project, funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund, a data base of CO2 emissions embodied in the Austrian foreign trade (imports and exports), so called carbon rucksacks, was created. The project was completed recently.
Climate change is a global problem that needs global action. National policy measures addressing the reduction of [...]
New publication: Climate change as a threat to biodiversity
Ines Omann, Andrea Stocker and Jill Jäger published an article in the Special Section: The DPSIR framework for Biodiversity Assessment of the Ecological Economics Journal. The new publication “Climate change as a threat to biodiversity: An application of the DPSIR approach” is a result [...]
Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter zum Thema Energiepolitik mit SERI-Beitrag
Die aktuellste Ausgabe der „Wirtschaftspolitischen Blätter“ widmet sich verschiedenen Aspekten der Energiepolitik. Die SERI-Wissenschaftlerinnen Andrea Stocker und Lisa Bohunovsky beschreiben in ihrem Beitrag die volkswirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen eines Ausbaus von Erneuerbaren Energien. Sie weisen darauf hin, dass alleine der Umstieg auf erneuerbare Energiequellen nicht genügt, um die energie- und klimapolitischen [...]
SERI untersucht die Auswirkungen energiepolitischer Maßnahmen auf KonsumentInnen
This entry is available in German here.
Main European conference on Sustainable Consumption and Production in the Netherlands in October 2010 – call for papers
The ERSCP-EMSU conference 2010 will be held between 25 and 29 October 2010 in Delft, Netherland.
This year the conference focuses on „knowledge collaboration & learning for sustainable innovation“. The conference addresses issues like:
How to bring about sustainable consumption and system innovations & transitions to sustainability?
How can higher education facilitate sustainable innovation practices?
How can we improve [...]
