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2020
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http://hdl.handle.net/2128/25747 in citations.
THE ENERGY(CARBON)-WATERVIRTUAL-NEXUS IN GERMANY & THE THEORY OF PUBLIC GOODS
THE ENERGY(CARBON)-WATERVIRTUAL-NEXUS IN GERMANY & THE THEORY OF PUBLIC GOODS
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...
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Personal Name(s): | Schlör, Holger (Corresponding author) |
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Venghaus, Sandra | |
Contributing Institute: |
Systemforschung und Technologische Entwicklung; IEK-STE |
Imprint: |
2020
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Conference: | 2020 MIT A+B Applied Energy Symposium Going Virtual, August 13-14, 2020, Boston virtual (USA), 2020-08-13 - 2020-08-14 |
Document Type: |
Conference Presentation |
Research Program: |
Assessment of Energy Systems – Addressing Issues of Energy Efficiency and Energy Security |
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Publikationsportal JuSER |
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. |