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[13. Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung an der TU Wien, IEWT 2023, 2023-02-15 - 2023-02-17, Wien, Austria] 13. Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung an der TU Wien, IEWT 2023, Wien, Austria, 15 Feb 2023 - 17 Feb 2023; 1-11 (2023). doi:10.18154/RWTH-2023-01580

Die Bundesregierung hat den Kohleausstieg bis zum Jahr 2038 beschlossen und beschleunigt so die Transformation in den Kohleregionen. Die Ausgangslagen für den Wandel in den Revieren und umliegende Gemeinden der Lausitz und des Rheinlands sind dabei sehr unterschiedlich. In beiden Regionen stehen Politik, Zivilgesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft vor der Aufgabe, Lösungspfade und Transformationskorridore zu finden, die ökologisch verantwortlich, sozial gerecht, wirtschaftlich vielversprechend und demokratisch getragen sind. Das IASS Potsdam veranstaltete im Frühjahr 2020 gemeinsam mit dem Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen einen Workshop, um demokratiepolitische Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede im Strukturwandel der Braunkohleregionen herauszuarbeiten. Die Zwischenergebnisse werden in dieser Studie dargestellt., IASS Brochure

The bioeconomy has emerged as a popular, but ambiguous vision for a sustainable future. Its implementation depends not only on novel products and production processes, but also on balancing diverse interests, values, and interpretations of the concept. The German government&rsquo, s plan to develop a sustainable bioeconomy in response to structural change in the lignite mining regions provides a unique opportunity to investigate what pathways towards the bioeconomy are supported by society. In order to characterize bioeconomy visions prevalent in public perception, we conducted a computer-assisted, mixed-methods discourse analysis of German-language newspaper articles published between 2010 and 2019. Results show that a techno-economic vision is dominant over ecological and social aspects, suggesting only one clear pathway to the German bioeconomy, which is increasingly criticized in the public debate.

In 2019, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed his concerns at the World Economic Forum in Davos about the climate change and its risks. He is convinced that this global challenge can only be solved in a multilateral way [1]. Addressing this threat, in the economic context, the vulnerable climate has been defined as a global public good (non-rivalry in consumption and non-excludability) by Nordhaus, Samuelson and UNDP. This conceptualization is based on the understanding that no country can achieve climate protection alone as stated by Kofi Annan [2]. The outcome of this global public good of climate protection, thus, is likewise universal in the sense that climate protection benefits all countries. The global public good ‘climate protection’ is now threatened by the GHG emissions: the global public bads [3, 4], which have negative effects (externalities) on the climate system of the Earth. This threat very directly affects sustainable development and the Energy(Carbon)-Watervirtual-Nexus (ECW-Nexus).Operationalized in a new model, we analyze exemplarily the incomes and expenditures of German households for energy and water, as well as their contribution to global CO2 emissions. For the analysis, the latest disaggregated consumption and income data from the German Household Expenditure Survey published by the German Federal Statistical Office in 2013 was used. The CO2 emissions of the German households are assessed using the carbon shadow price defined by the High Commission on Carbon Prices of the World Bank chaired by Joseph Stiglitz and Nicolas Stern. For the model, eight household groups of the German household survey were chosen according to social position and income. The model enables a differentiation of the households according to their contribution to the CO2 emissions through their consumption decisions. Based on the research of Notz and Stroeve [5], the model results further enable us to determine the individual contributions of German households to the reduction of the summertime Arctic sea ice (a global public good) using quantifications of CO2 emissions.