Sören Altstaedt Will the energy supply of the future be organized through centralized large-scale energy production or through decentralized community energy? How we imagine the future of our energy systems is of pivotal ...
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Jens Beckert Anthropogenic climate change is one of the central challenges of our time. The underlying facts have been known for thirty years or more, but societies are too slow ...
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Angelo Giorgio Cuconato More and more highly CO2-emitting European firms are being sued to request compensation for losses and damages associated with climate change. Yet, the socio-economic threats and opportunities associated with such court cases are unknown. ...
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Hanna Doose Land-use is ever more recognized as playing an important role in climate change mitigation. Some landowners choose to donate their land to public or private conservation efforts ...
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Leonie Fernholz Energy is not only the backbone of developed economies, but also one of the key solutions for the global North to tackle the climate crisis ...
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Philipp Golka The climate crisis significantly affects private wealth. According to current predictions, trillions of dollars’ worth of assets may face significant devaluation from climate damages and societal efforts to prevent the climate crisis ...
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Nina Lopez-Uroz Compared to progress in greening electricity generation, end-user sectors like buildings and transport continue to lag in reducing CO₂ emissions. Housing accounts for 40 percent of the EU’s energy consumption ...
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Francesca Romana Paradiso Europe is pledging to become the first climate-neutral continent, assigning to the private sector the catalytic role of channeling resources in sustainable sectors. But what role do banks play in this intended decarbonization process? ...
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Pálma Polyák The electric vehicle battery sector is identified as a strategic industry by the European Union. Battery gigafactories are rapidly rolled out, showered with subsidies under the EU’s (geo)political industrial policy drive ...
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Stephan Stuckmann The transition of advanced capitalist economies from fossil to low-carbon modes of production necessarily involves energy- and carbon-intensive industries. ...
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Leon Wansleben In recent years, an increasing number of local authorities in Europe and around the world have declared climate emergencies and adopted local “net zero” goals. Meanwhile, calls for investment in local infrastructure for climate change mitigation ...
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Leon Wansleben With the rapid expansion of renewable energy sources, there is great hope that the generation of electricity with wind and solar can form the basis for comprehensive decarbonization. However, ...
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Max Willems Energy systems are fundamental infrastructures of economic growth. At the same time, their decarbonization is the cornerstone of climate change mitigation. Yet they have been largely overlooked in the study of comparative capitalism ...
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Ka Chun (Ray) Yung Amid escalating climate and environmental crises, green finance has emerged as a key mechanism for mobilizing capital toward low-carbon and sustainable transformation. Serving as intermediaries that facilitate financial transactions and exchanges, international financial centers (IFCs) function as central nodes ...
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