Michael Jakob
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6316568 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Jakob |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Jakob |
| FIRMA | JAKOB M |
| AFILIACIONES | Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5005-3563 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 147 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Gute Gründe für Klimaoptimismus
Carbon pricing and household welfare
Policymakers frequently voice concerns that carbon pricing could impair economic development in the short run, especially in low-income countries such as Uganda. Using a consumer demand system for energy and food items, we assess how households’ welfare, and demand for food and energy, would respond to a carbon price of USD40/tCO2. We find welfare losses of 0.2–12 per cent of household expenditure on food and fuel, due to the carbon price. Averag…
What if climate targets can only be reached in a shrinking economy?A scoping review of challenges and potential solutions
Green industrial policy can strengthen carbon pricing but not replace it
Carbon pricing has received prominent support as the key policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, in the context of heightened geopolitical tensions and risks of supply chain disruptions, policy makers are increasingly resorting to green industrial policies to support the deployment of clean energy technologies. This Perspective discusses whether this development represents a paradigm shift in the design of climate policies and assesses ar…
Carbon Pricing and Household Welfare
German stakeholder perceptions of an EU carbon border adjustment mechanism
The European Commission has proposed a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) that would apply the carbon price prevailing in the EU emissions trading system to import-related emissions. We conducted a survey to study perceptions of an EU CBAM among German key stakeholders from industry, civil society, and research in July 2021. We find that substantial support for CBAM exists as well as the expectation that the mechanism will eventually be in…
The political economy of coal phase-out
Globalization and climate change
In an integrated global economy, trade policy and climate policy are closely intertwined. This paper adopts an interdisciplinary approach to provide an overview of the key debates in economics, political science, and legal studies related to globalization and climate change. We identify a number of emerging issues that deserve increased attention in future research in this direction. These include international financial flows, migration, telecom…
Why carbon leakage matters and what can be done against it
Finance-based accounting of coal emissions
Most new coal-fired power plants are currently being constructed in Asia. These plants are financed by banks and investors, which in many instances reside elsewhere. This paper examines the international dimension of coal financing from commercial banks and institutional investors based on a newly constructed dataset. We analyse domestic as well as cross-border financial flows and propose a methodology to calculate ‘finance-based emissions’ assoc…
The political economy of coal
Distributional impacts of carbon pricing in developing Asia
Coal, power and coal-powered politics in Indonesia
The future of coal in a carbon-constrained climate
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
Markets for Public Attention at the Interface of Climate Science and Policy Making
This paper examines biased incentives for the production and use of climate change research. On this basis, it proposes ways to restructure the science-policy interface to better deal with these biases. Drawing on insights from information economics, we argue that policy-makers and the media have a tendency to pay more attention to extreme results, e.g. because they confirm their ideological position or make a good story. This “adverse selection”…
What are the social outcomes of climate policies? A systematic map and review of the ex-post literature
It is critical to ensure climate and energy policies are just, equitable and beneficial for communities, both to sustain public support for decarbonisation and address multifaceted societal challenges. Our objective in this article is to examine the diverse social outcomes that have resulted from climate policies, in varying contexts worldwide, over the past few decades. We review 203 ex-post climate policy assessments that analyse social outcome…
Road to glory or highway to hell? Global road access and climate change mitigation
Transportation infrastructure is considered a key factor for economic development and poverty alleviation. The United Nations have explicitly included the provision of transport infrastructure access, e.g. through all-season road access, in their Sustainable Development Goal agenda (SDGs, target 9.1). Yet, little is known about the number of people lacking access to roads worldwide, the costs of closing existing access gaps and the implications o…
Actors, objectives, context
Understanding different perspectives on economic growth and climate policy
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…
Political Economy Determinants of Carbon Pricing
Carbon pricing is widely considered a key policy instrument for achieving substantial climate change mitigation. However, implementation remains patchy and price levels vary significantly across countries and regions. In this article, we analyze the structural social, political, and economic conditions under which carbon prices have been implemented so far. We estimate a Tobit regression model to investigate variations in explicit carbon prices o…
Sharing responsibility for trade-related emissions based on economic benefits
Klimapolitik
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
Reports of coal’s terminal decline may be exaggerated
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
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…
Mobilizing domestic resources for the Agenda 2030 via carbon pricing
Poverty and distributional effects of carbon pricing in low- and middle-income countries – A global comparative analysis
Even though concerns about adverse distributional implications for the poor are one of the most important political challenges for carbon pricing, the existing literature reveals ambiguous results. For this reason, we assess the expected incidence of moderate carbon price increases for different income groups in 87 mostly low- and middle-income countries. Building on a consistent dataset and method, we find that for countries with per capita inco…
Actors, objectives, context
Carbon Pricing Revenues Could Close Infrastructure Access Gaps
Coal, power and coal-powered politics in Indonesia
Political Economy Determinants of Carbon Pricing
Carbon pricing is widely considered a key policy instrument for achieving substantial climate change mitigation. However, implementation remains patchy and price levels vary significantly across countries and regions. In this article, we analyze the structural social, political, and economic conditions under which carbon prices have been implemented so far. We estimate a Tobit regression model to investigate variations in explicit carbon prices o…
Addressing policy credibility problems for low-carbon investment
Can land taxes foster sustainable development? An assessment of fiscal, distributional and implementation issues
Economists argue that land rent taxation is an ideal form of taxation as it causes no deadweight losses. Nevertheless, pure land rent taxation is rarely applied. This paper revisits the case of land taxation for developing countries. We first provide an up-to-date review on land taxation in development countries, including feasibility and implementation challenges. We then simulate land tax reforms for Rwanda, Peru, Nicaragua and Indonesia, based…
Closing the emission price gap
Sharing responsibility for trade-related emissions based on economic benefits
How climate change mitigation could harm development in poor countries
Avoiding dangerous climate changes requires emission reductions in not only industrialized but also developing countries. This opinion piece argues that even if the ‘full incremental costs’ of abatement in developing countries would be covered by industrialized countries, the former's development prospects could be hampered by climate change mitigation due to the following reasons. First, financial inflows have the potential to induce a ‘climate …
The political economy of coal phase-out
From climate finance toward sustainable development finance
Decarbonizing the global energy system requires large‐scale investment flows, with a central role for international climate finance to mobilize private funds. The willingness to provide international finance in accordance with common but differentiated responsibilities was acknowledged by the broad endorsement of the Paris Agreement, and the Green Climate Funds in particular. The international community aims to mobilize at least USD 100 billion p…
Understanding different perspectives on economic growth and climate policy
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…
Access to infrastructure services
Globalization and climate change
In an integrated global economy, trade policy and climate policy are closely intertwined. This paper adopts an interdisciplinary approach to provide an overview of the key debates in economics, political science, and legal studies related to globalization and climate change. We identify a number of emerging issues that deserve increased attention in future research in this direction. These include international financial flows, migration, telecom…
The political economy of coal
Mobilizing domestic resources for the Agenda 2030 via carbon pricing
Decomposing inequality in CO2 emissions
Emission inequality across countries and the contribution of the energy mix and the sectoral composition of a country's energy use are of central importance to the climate debate. We analyze the evolution of inequality in global CO2 per-capita emissions using both historical data on energy-related CO2 emissions and future emission scenarios generated with the integrated assessment model REMIND. Within our sample of 90 countries the results indica…
Towards a Better Understanding of Disparities in Scenarios of Decarbonization
Signaling in international environmental agreements
Development without energy? Assessing future scenarios of energy consumption in developing countries
How climate change mitigation could harm development in poor countries
Avoiding dangerous climate changes requires emission reductions in not only industrialized but also developing countries. This opinion piece argues that even if the ‘full incremental costs’ of abatement in developing countries would be covered by industrialized countries, the former's development prospects could be hampered by climate change mitigation due to the following reasons. First, financial inflows have the potential to induce a ‘climate …
Decomposing inequality in CO2 emissions
Emission inequality across countries and the contribution of the energy mix and the sectoral composition of a country's energy use are of central importance to the climate debate. We analyze the evolution of inequality in global CO2 per-capita emissions using both historical data on energy-related CO2 emissions and future emission scenarios generated with the integrated assessment model REMIND. Within our sample of 90 countries the results indica…
Welfare with or without Growth? Do We Need to Reduce Economic Activity to Protect the Environment and Increase the Quality of Life
Reaction to Two Articles on Green Growth and Degrowth in GAIA (2015): I. Seidl and A. Zahrnt, R. Loske
Closing the emission price gap
Implications of climate change mitigation for sustainable development
Evaluating the trade-offs between the risks related to climate change, climate change mitigation as well as co-benefits requires an integrated scenarios approach to sustainable development. We outline a conceptual multi-objective framework to assess climate policies that takes into account climate impacts, mitigation costs, water and food availability, technological risks of nuclear energy and carbon capture and sequestration as well as co-benefi…
From climate finance toward sustainable development finance
Decarbonizing the global energy system requires large‐scale investment flows, with a central role for international climate finance to mobilize private funds. The willingness to provide international finance in accordance with common but differentiated responsibilities was acknowledged by the broad endorsement of the Paris Agreement, and the Green Climate Funds in particular. The international community aims to mobilize at least USD 100 billion p…
Addressing policy credibility problems for low-carbon investment
Carbon Pricing Revenues Could Close Infrastructure Access Gaps
Klimapolitik
Hitzetote in Pakistan, Überschwemmungen in Russland, Dürren in Kalifornien, schmelzende Gletscher, Ernteverluste und ein Jahrhundertwein im Rheingau 2015: Die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels lassen sich bereits auf allen Kontinenten und in allen Ozeanen beobachten. Die internationale Klimapolitik hat sich im Weltklimarat ein einzigartiges Gremium geschaffen, das für die Agenda der Politik von grundlegender Bedeutung ist. Noch hat die Menschheit wen…
Access to infrastructure services
Reports of coal’s terminal decline may be exaggerated
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
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…
Mobilizing domestic resources for the Agenda 2030 via carbon pricing
Poverty and distributional effects of carbon pricing in low- and middle-income countries – A global comparative analysis
Even though concerns about adverse distributional implications for the poor are one of the most important political challenges for carbon pricing, the existing literature reveals ambiguous results. For this reason, we assess the expected incidence of moderate carbon price increases for different income groups in 87 mostly low- and middle-income countries. Building on a consistent dataset and method, we find that for countries with per capita inco…
Can land taxes foster sustainable development? An assessment of fiscal, distributional and implementation issues
Economists argue that land rent taxation is an ideal form of taxation as it causes no deadweight losses. Nevertheless, pure land rent taxation is rarely applied. This paper revisits the case of land taxation for developing countries. We first provide an up-to-date review on land taxation in development countries, including feasibility and implementation challenges. We then simulate land tax reforms for Rwanda, Peru, Nicaragua and Indonesia, based…
Klimapolitik
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
The future of coal in a carbon-constrained climate
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
Markets for Public Attention at the Interface of Climate Science and Policy Making
This paper examines biased incentives for the production and use of climate change research. On this basis, it proposes ways to restructure the science-policy interface to better deal with these biases. Drawing on insights from information economics, we argue that policy-makers and the media have a tendency to pay more attention to extreme results, e.g. because they confirm their ideological position or make a good story. This “adverse selection”…
What are the social outcomes of climate policies? A systematic map and review of the ex-post literature
It is critical to ensure climate and energy policies are just, equitable and beneficial for communities, both to sustain public support for decarbonisation and address multifaceted societal challenges. Our objective in this article is to examine the diverse social outcomes that have resulted from climate policies, in varying contexts worldwide, over the past few decades. We review 203 ex-post climate policy assessments that analyse social outcome…
Road to glory or highway to hell? Global road access and climate change mitigation
Transportation infrastructure is considered a key factor for economic development and poverty alleviation. The United Nations have explicitly included the provision of transport infrastructure access, e.g. through all-season road access, in their Sustainable Development Goal agenda (SDGs, target 9.1). Yet, little is known about the number of people lacking access to roads worldwide, the costs of closing existing access gaps and the implications o…
Actors, objectives, context
Understanding different perspectives on economic growth and climate policy
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…
Economics (31 obras) · Business (25 obras) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (25 obras) · Natural resource economics (19 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (16 obras) · Climate change (15 obras) · Finance (12 obras) · Engineering (11 obras) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (10 obras)