Ottmar Edenhofer

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ID6010700
NOMBREOttmar Edenhofer
NOMBRESOttmar
APELLIDOEdenhofer
FIRMAEDENHOFER O
AFILIACIONESMercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change
ORCID0000-0001-6029-5208
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS52
TOTAL DE CITAS173
TOTAL COMO AUTOR51
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1997
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H7

  • On the Governance of Carbon Dioxide Removal - A Public Economics Perspective

    Ottmar Edenhofer, Max Frank et al.ARTICLEFinanzArchiv2024

    Climate policy increasingly requires carbon dioxide removal (CDR). We describe its role, characterize optimal flows for non-permanent removals and describe optimal pricing regimes under different information and liability conditions. Non-permanent removal - though to a certain extent optimal - creates liabilities that warrant careful risk management. Thus, seemingly cheap land-based technologies can become expensive. We discuss possibilities for …

  • Optimal Wealth Taxation When Wealth Is More Than Just Capital

    Max Frank, Max Franks et al.ARTICLEFinanzArchiv2023

    We analyze the welfare implications of taxes on wealth, distinguishing between capital and land.We develop an overlapping generations model with heterogeneous agents and calibrate it to OECD data. We find that land rent taxes induce portfolio effects. Savings are shifted away from fixed land towards reproducible capital, enhancing GDP and reducing wealth inequality. Assuming a low pure rate of time preference, this can also raise social welfare, …

  • A Welfare Economic Approach to Planetary Boundaries

    Open AccessMichael Sureth, Matthias Kalkuhl et al.ARTICLEJahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie…2023

    The crises of both the climate and the biosphere are manifestations of the imbalance between human extractive, and polluting activities and the Earth’s regenerative capacity. Planetary boundaries define limits for biophysical systems and processes that regulate the stability and life support capacity of the Earth system, and thereby also define a safe operating space for humanity on Earth. Budgets associated to planetary boundaries can be underst…

  • A New Decade of Research on the Economics of Climate Change

    Open AccessMartin C Hänsel, Ottmar EdenhoferARTICLEJahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie…2023

    1 These early working papers of Nordhaus are described by Jaeger and Jaeger (2011) as probably the first suggestion of an economist to use 2 C as a critical limit

  • Carbon emissions and economic impacts of an EU embargo on Russian fossil fuels

    Open AccessLi-Jing Liu, Hong-Dian Jiang et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2023

  • Equity and Efficiency Effects of Land Value Taxation

    Gregor Schwerhoff, Marc Fleurbaey et al.BOOKEquity and Efficiency Effects of…2022

  • Le rôle de la science dans la politique climatique des États

    Ottmar EdenhoferARTICLEAllemagne d aujourd hui2022

  • Equity and Efficiency Effects of Land Value Taxation

    Open AccessGerd Schwerhoff, Ottmar Edenhofer et al.ARTICLEIMF Working Paper2022

    It is a well-known result in economics that land value taxation is efficient since it does not distort the supply of the tax base. Considering only efficiency, land value should thus be fully taxed. Using optimal taxation theory with heterogeneous households, we show that it may be optimal not to tax land value fully for distributional reasons. The decisive variable is the covariance of land value held by households and their social welfare weigh…

  • Why Trust Science?

    Jon Krosnick, Marc Lange et al.BOOKWhy Trust Science?2021

  • Economic damages from on-going climate change imply deeper near-term emission cuts

    Open AccessAnselm Schultes, Franziska Piontek et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Pathways toward limiting global warming to well below 2 C, as used by the IPCC in the Fifth Assessment Report, do not consider the climate impacts already occurring below 2 C. Here we show that accounting for such damages significantly increases the near-term ambition of transformation pathways. We use econometric estimates of climate damages on GDP growth and explicitly model the uncertainty in the persistence time of damages. The Integrated Ass…

  • Planet-proofing the global food system

    Open AccessJohan Rockström, Ottmar Edenhofer et al.ARTICLENature Food2020

  • Adjust urban and rural road pricing for fair mobility

    Open AccessFelix Creutzig, Aneeque Javaid et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2020

  • The future of coal in a carbon-constrained climate

    Open AccessMichael Jakob, Jan Christoph Steckel et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2020

    Phasing out coal requires expanding the notion of a ‘just transition’ and a roadmap that specifies the sequence of coal plant retirement, the appropriate policy instruments as well as ways to include key stakeholders in the process

  • Pricing externalities and moral behaviour

    Open AccessAxel Ockenfels, Peter Werner et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Referencias: 5

  • Understanding different perspectives on economic growth and climate policy

    Open AccessMichael Jakob, William F Lamb et al.ARTICLEWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…2020Citada por: 3Referencias: 19

    Should economic growth continue in a world threatened by the prospect of catastrophic climate change? The scientific and public debate has brought forth a broad spectrum of views and narratives on this question, ranging from neoclassical economics to degrowth. We argue that different positions can be attributed to underlying differences in views on (a) factors that determine human well‐being, (b) the feasibility and desirability of economic growt…

  • Why Trust Science

    Open AccessNaomi Oreskes, Jon Krosnick et al.BOOKWhy Trust Science?2019

  • Klimapolitik

    Ottmar Edenhofer, Michael JakobBOOKKlimapolitik2019

    Das Ziel von Klimapolitik besteht darin, die Folgen des Klimawandels zu begrenzen. Kaum ein Politikbereich ist so abhängig von der Wissenschaft. Das hat auch einen Vorteil: Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse kann man nicht mit einem bloßen Machtwort manipulieren. Noch hat die Menschheit wenig Erfahrung mit der gerechten und effizienten Nutzung globaler Gemeinschaftsgüter. Auch daher kommt der Klimapolitik eine besondere Bedeutung zu

  • What is important for achieving 2 °C? UNFCCC and IPCC expert perceptions on obstacles and response options for climate change mitigation

    Open AccessUlrike Kornek, Christian Flachsland et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Global mitigation efforts remain insufficient to limit the global temperature increase to well below 2 °C. While a growing academic literature analyzes this problem, perceptions of which obstacles inhibit goal attainment and which responses might be most effective seem to differ widely. This makes prioritization and agreement on the way forward difficult. To inform prioritization in global climate policy and research agendas, we present quantitat…

  • Interdisziplinärer Synthesebericht zum Kohleausstieg

    Open AccessMichael Pahle, Claudia Zabel et al.ARTICLEGAIA - Ecological Perspectives…2019

    Das Kopernikus-Projekt ENavi hat im Forschungsschwerpunkt Transformation des Stromsystems untersucht, wie der Stromsektor zur Erreichung der Klimaziele beitragen kann. Aktuell gilt es, den Kohleausstieg ökonomisch effizient und ökologisch zu organisieren. Seine Ergebnisse hat das Team der von der Bundesregierung eingesetzten Kommission für Wachstum, Strukturwandel und Beschäftigung (,,Kohlekommission“) präsentiert

  • Policy design for the Anthropocene

    Open AccessThomas Sterner, E B Barbier et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Citada por: 22Referencias: 10

  • Adverse effects of rising interest rates on sustainable energy transitions

    Open AccessTobias S Schmidt, Bjarne Steffen et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Citada por: 5Referencias: 5

  • Financing Public Capital When Rents Are Back

    Linus Mattauch, Jan Siegmeier et al.ARTICLEFinanzArchiv2018

    By taxing rents, governments can avoid a trade-off between productivity-enhancing public investment and efficiency losses from raising funds. However, it is unclear whether the rents present in a growing economy are sufficient to finance the socially optimal investment. We prove that the social optimum can be attained if the income share from a fixed factor, such as land, exceeds the public investment requirement. We thus translate the Henry Geor…

  • Reports of coal’s terminal decline may be exaggerated

    Open AccessOttmar Edenhofer, Jan Christoph Steckel et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    We estimate the cumulative future emissions expected to be released by coal power plants that are currently under construction, announced, or planned. Even though coal consumption has recently declined and plans to build new coal-fired capacities have been shelved, constructing all these planned coal-fired power plants would endanger national and international climate targets. Plans to build new coal-fired power capacity would likely undermine th…

  • Short term policies to keep the door open for Paris climate goals

    Open AccessElmar Kriegler, Christoph Bertram et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Climate policy needs to account for political and social acceptance. Current national climate policy plans proposed under the Paris Agreement lead to higher emissions until 2030 than cost-effective pathways towards the Agreements' long-term temperature goals would imply. Therefore, the current plans would require highly disruptive changes, prohibitive transition speeds, and large long-term deployment of risky mitigation measures for achieving the…

  • Between Scylla and Charybdis

    Open AccessJessica Strefler, Nico Bauer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    There are major concerns about the sustainability of large-scale deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. It is therefore an urgent question to what extent CDR will be needed to implement the long term ambition of the Paris Agreement. Here we show that ambitious near term mitigation significantly decreases CDR requirements to keep the Paris climate targets within reach. Following the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) unti…