Technological, ecological, economic and strategic aspects of the national climate change initiative (NKI)

Measures for climate protection and efficiency increase do not only directly lead to reduced impacts on the environment and less energy imports but also have various direct and indirect economic…

Laufzeit: 2009–2011

Entwicklung und Bereitstellung des Anwendermodells PANTA RHEI zur Abschätzung der Wirkungen umweltpolitischer Maßnahmen und Instrumente

The aim of the project was to further develop an existing econometric modeling tool to carry out scenario analyses. For this purpose, the macro-econometric model PANTA RHEI has been updated and…

Laufzeit: 2009–2011

Consumers and measures to reduce energy consumption

The results of the project KONSENS shows the energy and CO2 reduction potential that can be reached by consumer-oriented policy measures, but also looks at their effectiveness and social…

Laufzeit: 2009–2011

The climate balance of the foreign trade of Austria

Development of a databank of the CO2-emissions that are included in the Austrian im- and exports (so-called “CO2-rucksacks”). By using the GWS model GRAM (Global Resource Accounting Model) as a…

Laufzeit: 2008–2009

Short and long term labour market effects of an increase of renewable energy

The impacts on employment of an increased use of renewable energy have been assessed in the short and long run. Special focus was set on gross employment in the sectors production of plants for…

Laufzeit: 2008–2011

Indicator-based evaluation of interlinkages between different sustainable development objectives

The INDI-LINK project further improves EU Sustainable Development Indicators, assesses the interlinkages between the different priorities of the renewed EU Sustainable Development Strategy and…

Laufzeit: 2006–2009

A new Environmental Accounting Framework Using Externality Date and Input-Output Tools for Policy Analysis

This study on behalf of the Commission of the European Union (EC) tries to set up a detailed environmentally extended (EE) Input-Output (I-O) framework, with links to other socio-economic models,…

Laufzeit: 2006

Resource Productivity, Environmental Tax Reform and sustainable growth in Europe (PETRE)

Environmental tax reform (ETR) is a shift in the target of taxation from ‘goods’ such as labour (e.g. income taxes, social security contributions) or capital (e.g. corporation taxes) to ‘bads’…

Laufzeit: 2006–2009

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