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Research Group Sustainability and Climate PolicyProf. Dr. Felix Ekardt, LL.M, M.A |
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Research Group Sustainability and Climate PolicyProf. Dr. Felix Ekardt, LL.M, M.A |
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Felix Ekardt will hold six speeches on climate protection and constitutional theory in China, amongst others at the world congress of legal and social philosophers.
Since September, Felix Ekardt's new book `Cool Down: 50 Irrtümer über unsere Klima-Zukunft' is available in bookstores. Summary Cool Down
At the end of August, Felix Ekardt and Michael Kerbler discussed the financial crisis and climate change. The discussion was boradcast by the Austrian Radio Ö 1.
Recently, climate policy strongly bets on an expanded use of biomass for gaining electricity, heat, and fuel. The energetic use of biomass exhibits a range of ecologic and social advantages, but also disadvantages. The German and European law on bioenergy does not always resolve them sufficiently. Also structurally, lists of sustainability criteria can assume this role to a limited extent only. They do not reflect the necessary complexity, do not avoid shifting effects, and cannot describe some central aspects (e. g. the world sustenance problem). Moreover, there exists a serious problem of enforcement. Much more effective regarding the use of bioenergy itself as well as in the field of energy policy as a whole would be a more drastic efficiency policy. This would reduce the overall consumption and would thus render the ecological and social advantages and disadvantages more transparent, provided that renewable energies shouldered – on a long term scale – 100 % of the energy supply in a carbon free economy.
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