The replacement of fossil resources with renewable biomass in a bioeconomy is seen as a major contribution to climate change mitigation. This...

The latest Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) by the European Union (EU) provides an updated framework for the use of renewable energy in the...

Mitigation of CO2 emissions is a global public good that imposes different regional economic costs. We assess the distributional effects of...

Water sustainability is central to modern political and academic debates. Despite increasing efforts to promote regional and global integrated...

The goal of this technical paper is to present in a transparent way a detailed description of the DART-BIO model – the bioeconomy and land use...

The replacement of fossil resources with renewable biomass in a bioeconomy is seen as a major contribution to climate change mitigation. This...

When modeling medium and long-term challenges we need a reference path of economic development (the so-called baseline). Because sectoral...

The year 2015 is important for sustainable development: the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have expired and have been replaced by the...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 109: The tendering system in accordance with the German EEG 2017 distinguishes between civil energy companies and...

Potential trade-offs between providing sufficient food for a growing human population in the future and sustaining ecosystems and their...

The ambitious climate policy objectives of the COP21 agreement require the design and the implementation of effective and efficient policy...

In a recent report published in Science (“The global tree restoration potential”, 5 July 2019, p. 76) Bastin et al. claim that forest...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 40: Maize cultivation has been increasing considerably over the last years in Germany. This trend is mainly caused by...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 113: Germany has to induce and develop action in climate policy soon in order to and reach future emission goals,...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 37: The European biofuel policy has been widely criticized because of the danger that biofuels may not really save...

With rising demand for biomass, cropland expansion and intensification represent the main strategies to boost agricultural production, but are...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 27: Especially in developing countries, megacities are faced with increasing capacity constraints in their water and...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 64: In their Kiel Policy Brief the IfW experts Ruth Delzeit, Gernot Klepper and Mareike Lange show that an increasing...