Impact of Corona Crisis on European Climate Change Policy

Abstract The actual Corona crisis has a negative impact on the economic situation of the affected economies. This has direct consequences for the EU-wide trading of greenhouse gas emission allowances, which is an important building block of European climate change policy. In contrast, although there...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas M. Treptow
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Springer 2020-05-01
Series:Wirtschaftsdienst
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10273-020-2656-9
id doaj-afad338f2323427ea736a00de7ceccbf
record_format Article
spelling doaj-afad338f2323427ea736a00de7ceccbf2021-05-23T11:23:32ZdeuSpringerWirtschaftsdienst0043-62751613-978X2020-05-01100536436610.1007/s10273-020-2656-9Impact of Corona Crisis on European Climate Change PolicyThomas M. Treptow0BWL, iba - Duales Studium NürnbergAbstract The actual Corona crisis has a negative impact on the economic situation of the affected economies. This has direct consequences for the EU-wide trading of greenhouse gas emission allowances, which is an important building block of European climate change policy. In contrast, although there is an expected short-term decrease in the volume of greenhouse gas emissions due to the emerging economic recession, we should also expect lower prices of emission allowances in the mid to long term, which will make current production technologies more attractive. One important goal of European climate change policy — changing existing manufacturing technologies to less greenhouse gas emitting alternatives — will become even more difficult.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10273-020-2656-9
collection DOAJ
language deu
format Article
sources DOAJ
author Thomas M. Treptow
spellingShingle Thomas M. Treptow
Impact of Corona Crisis on European Climate Change Policy
Wirtschaftsdienst
author_facet Thomas M. Treptow
author_sort Thomas M. Treptow
title Impact of Corona Crisis on European Climate Change Policy
title_short Impact of Corona Crisis on European Climate Change Policy
title_full Impact of Corona Crisis on European Climate Change Policy
title_fullStr Impact of Corona Crisis on European Climate Change Policy
title_full_unstemmed Impact of Corona Crisis on European Climate Change Policy
title_sort impact of corona crisis on european climate change policy
publisher Springer
series Wirtschaftsdienst
issn 0043-6275
1613-978X
publishDate 2020-05-01
description Abstract The actual Corona crisis has a negative impact on the economic situation of the affected economies. This has direct consequences for the EU-wide trading of greenhouse gas emission allowances, which is an important building block of European climate change policy. In contrast, although there is an expected short-term decrease in the volume of greenhouse gas emissions due to the emerging economic recession, we should also expect lower prices of emission allowances in the mid to long term, which will make current production technologies more attractive. One important goal of European climate change policy — changing existing manufacturing technologies to less greenhouse gas emitting alternatives — will become even more difficult.
url https://doi.org/10.1007/s10273-020-2656-9
work_keys_str_mv AT thomasmtreptow impactofcoronacrisisoneuropeanclimatechangepolicy
_version_ 1721429869053607936