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8. Policy, Financing and Implementation

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Mitchell, C, Sawin, J, Pokharel, G.R, Kammen, D.M, Wang, Z, Fifita, S, Jaccard, M, Langniss, O, Lucas, H, Nadai, A, Trujillo Blanco, R, Usher, E, Verbruggen, A, Wüstenhagen, R, Yamaguchi, K, centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement (CIRED), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-AgroParisTech-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Edenhofer, O. and Pichs-Madruga, R and Sokona, Y and Seyboth, K and Matschoss, P and Kadner, S and Zwickel, T and Eickemeier, P and Hansen, G and Schlömer, and S and Von Stechow

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[SDE]Environmental Sciences, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
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international; International audience; no abstract

Published
2011

14. Germany's decision to phase out coal by 2038 lags behind citizens' timing preferences.

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Rinscheid A and Wüstenhagen R

Abstract

Coal-fired power generation is the single most important source of carbon dioxide emissions in many countries, including Germany. A government commission recently proposed to phase out coal by 2038, which implies that the country will miss its 2020 climate target. Based on a representative sample of German voters assessing 31,744 hypothetical policy scenarios in a choice experiment, we show that voters prefer an earlier phase-out by 2025. They would uphold their support for greater climate ambition up to an additional cost to society of €8.50 billion. Voters in Rhineland and Lusatia, the country's main coal regions, support an earlier phase-out, too, although to a lesser extent. By demonstrating that political decision-makers are more reluctant to overcoming energy path dependence than voters, our analysis calls for further research explaining the influence of particular stakeholders in slowing energy transitions., Competing Interests: Competing interests The authors declare no financial and non-financial competing interests.

Published
2019
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