CECILIA2050 What Constitutes an Optimal Climate Policy Mix?

Deliverable 1.1.: Defining the concept of optimality, including political and legal framework conditions

Publication: Report
Citation: Görlach, Benjamin. 2013. What constitutes an optimal climate policy mix? Defining the concept of optimality, including political and legal framework conditions. CECILIA2050 WP1 Deliverable 1.1. Berlin: Ecologic Institute.

Görlach, Benjamin. 2013. What constitutes an optimal climate policy mix? Defining the concept of optimality, including political and legal framework conditions. CECILIA2050 WP1 Deliverable 1.1. Berlin: Ecologic Institute.

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Publication:Report

This volume presents strategic lines of instrumentation for the future climate policy instrumentation in the EU, both for the short and the long term, closely related to energy policy and other policy domains like transport and housing.

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Publication:Policy Brief

Cover of the CECilia2050 Policy Brief No 5 "International dimensions of EU climate change policies"

This policy brief summarises the insights conducted under the CECILIA2050 project on the international dimensions of EU climate policy. The aims of the research were to understand the economic and political interactions between EU policies and the rest of the world, assess the effectiveness of these measures and determine the legal and political feasibility of policy responses in regard to diminishing the risk of carbon leakage.

International Dimensions of EU Climate Policy

CECILIA2050 Policy Brief No 5

Year 2015

Publication:Policy Brief

Cover page of the CECILIA2050 Policy Brief No 4 "Pathways for the evolution of existing climate policy mix"

This policy brief describes policy pathways for the evolution of the current EU climate policy mix. It defines combinations of instruments that have a reasonable chance of meeting the desired emissions targets. Policy pathways are defined based on three policy dimensions: 1) Carbon pricing, 2) Technology policies and 3) Behavioural Change promotion. Although each pathway focuses more attention in one type of instruments, all packages have a certain combination of the three policy dimensions to meet the targets. Finally, instruments to adapt EU climate policy to different international conditions are explored.

Pathways for the Evolution of the Existing Climate Policy Mix

CECILIA2050 Policy Brief No 4

Year 2015

Publication:Policy Brief

This policy brief summarises the simulation results of the three models used to track the development of climate policy scenarios in the CECILIA2050 project. In addition, the policy brief also draws insights from a study by Huppes and Huele (2014), which developed a set of building blocks for coherent instrument mixes in respect to European climate governance. Moreover, the policy brief is also based on a comparative analysis of the simulation results of the three models that was conducted by Drummond (2014).

Development of Scenarios to 2030 and 2050

CECILIA2050 Policy Brief No 3

Year 2015

Publication:Report

This report provides a conceptual, a legal and an institutional overview of the European Union as well as three Member States – Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom – to highlight prominent regulatory approaches. The three Member States were chosen for their contrasting characteristics: they represent different legal systems, different approaches to governance, and different historical attitudes towards certain regulatory approaches. Besides arguably differing in their overall approach to climate policy, they have chosen different instruments with which to accomplish EU climate and energy provisions. Lastly, while the United Kingdom and Germany are "old" Member States, Poland is one of the "new" Member States of the EU.

The Role of Law and Institutions in Shaping European Climate Policy

Institutional and legal implications of the current climate policy instrument mix

Year 2013

Publication:Policy Brief

The second CECILIA2050 policy brief summarises the insights produced by the research into the sectoral, economy-wide and cross-cutting impacts, implications and challenges of the current EU climate policy mix. These insights provide valuable lessons for the future development of the EU's climate policy mix, particularly in light of the on-going discussions surrounding the 2030 Framework for Climate and Energy Policies.

Current EU Climate Policy: Impacts, Implications and Challenges

CECILIA2050 Policy Brief No 2

Year 2014

Publication:Article

Paul Ekins, Paul Drummond & Benjamin Görlach (2017) Policy instruments for low-carbon development based on work from the EUFP7 project, CECILIA2050, Climate Policy, 17:sup1, S1-S7, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2016.1272044

Policy Instruments for Low-carbon Development

Based on work from the EUFP7 project, CECILIA2050

Year 2017

Publication:Newsletter

Ecologic Institute (2012-2015): CECILIA2050 Newsletter. Newsletter. Berlin: Ecologic Institute.

CECILIA2050 Newsletter

Year 2012 - 2015

Language: English
Authorship: Benjamin Görlach
Funding: European Commission, Directorate-General Research & Innovation (DG Research & Innovation), International
Published by: Ecologic Institute, Germany
Year: 2013
Dimension: 38 pp.
Project: Combining Policy Instruments to Achieve Europe's 2050 Climate Targets (CECILIA2050)
Project ID: 2715
Table of contents: Click to show full table of contents

1 The Notion of Optimality
2 The Need for a Broad Concept of Optimality
3 Criteria for Assessing the Optimality of Climate Policies
3.1 Effectiveness – is a policy achieving its objectives?
3.2 Cost-effectiveness – are the effects achieved at least cost?
3.3 Feasibility – what is the risk of policy failure?
3.4 Interrelations between the different criteria
4 Towards a Definition of “Optimality”
5 Measuring Optimality
5.1 Measuring the Different Optimality Criteria
5.2 Aggregating Different Criteria to a Joint Concept of Optimality?
6 Optimality - at which Level?
7 Conclusions and the Way Forward
8 References
Keywords: Climate

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CECILIA2050, climate policy, carbon pricing, private transport, greenhouse gas reduction, emissions, taxes, air pollution, climate change

EU, European Union

Further Links

PublicationReportCECILIA2050 Country Report: Germany

Görlach, Benjamin; Homann, Gesa; Wawer, Tim. 2013. Country report: Germany. Contribution to CECILIA2050 Deliverable 1.2: Review of the existing instrument mix at EU level and in selected Member States. Berlin: Ecologic Institute ... Read more

ProjectFP 7Combining Policy Instruments to Achieve Europe's 2050 Climate Targets (CECILIA2050)

A new Ecologic Institute led research project on EU climate policy, called "CECILIA2050" has taken off with an internal kick-off meeting, the website launch and a first public event at the climate summit in Doha, Qatar. The three-year project is to draft recommendations... Read more

Combining Policy Instruments to Achieve Europe's 2050 Climate Targets (CECILIA2050)

Duration: Sep 2012 - Aug 2015
Funding: European Commission, Directorate-General Research & Innovation (DG Research & Innovation), International