TY - JOUR A1 - Creutzig, Felix A1 - Acemoglu, Daron A1 - Bai, Xuemei A1 - Edwards, Paul N. A1 - Hintz, Marie Josefine A1 - Kaack, Lynn A1 - Kilkis, Siir A1 - Kunkel, Stefanie A1 - Luers, Amy A1 - Milojevic-Dupont, Nikola A1 - Rejeski, Dave A1 - Renn, Jürgen A1 - Rolnick, David A1 - Rosol, Christoph A1 - Russ, Daniela A1 - Turnbull, Thomas A1 - Verdolini, Elena A1 - Wagner, Felix A1 - Wilson, Charlie A1 - Zekar, Aicha A1 - Zumwald, Marius T1 - Digitalization and the Anthropocene JF - Annual Review of Environment and Resources N2 - Great claims have been made about the benefits of dematerialization in a digital service economy. However, digitalization has historically increased environmental impacts at local and planetary scales, affecting labor markets, resource use, governance, and power relationships. Here we study the past, present, and future of digitalization through the lens of three interdependent elements of the Anthropocene: (a) planetary boundaries and stability, (b) equity within and between countries, and (c) human agency and governance, mediated via (i) increasing resource efficiency, (ii) accelerating consumption and scale effects, (iii) expanding political and economic control, and (iv) deteriorating social cohesion. While direct environmental impacts matter, the indirect and systemic effects of digitalization are more profoundly reshaping the relationship between humans, technosphere and planet. We develop three scenarios: planetary instability, green but inhumane, and deliberate for the good. We conclude with identifying leverage points that shift human–digital–Earth interactions toward sustainability. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-120920-100056 VL - 47 SP - 479 EP - 509 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Milojevic-Dupont, Nikola A1 - Wagner, Felix A1 - Nachtigall, Florian A1 - Hu, Jiawei A1 - Brüser, Geza Boi A1 - Zumwald, Marius A1 - Biljecki, Filip A1 - Heeren, Niko A1 - Kaack, Lynn A1 - Pichler, Peter-Paul A1 - Creutzig, Felix T1 - EUBUCCO v0.1: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200+ million individual buildings JF - Scientific Data N2 - Building stock management is becoming a global societal and political issue, inter alia because of growing sustainability concerns. Comprehensive and openly accessible building stock data can enable impactful research exploring the most effective policy options. In Europe, efforts from citizen and governments generated numerous relevant datasets but these are fragmented and heterogeneous, thus hindering their usability. Here, we present EUBUCCO v0.1, a database of individual building footprints for ~202 million buildings across the 27 European Union countries and Switzerland. Three main attributes – building height, construction year and type – are included for respectively 73%, 24% and 46% of the buildings. We identify, collect and harmonize 50 open government datasets and OpenStreetMap, and perform extensive validation analyses to assess the quality, consistency and completeness of the data in every country. EUBUCCO v0.1 provides the basis for high-resolution urban sustainability studies across scales – continental, comparative or local studies – using a centralized source and is relevant for a variety of use cases, e.g., for energy system analysis or natural hazard risk assessments. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02040-2 VL - 10 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Flachsland, Christian A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar A1 - Creutzig, Felix T1 - Closing the Emission Price Gap JF - Global Environmental Change N2 - Even without internationally concerted action on climate change mitigation, there are important incentives for countries to put a price on their domestic emissions, including public finance considerations, internalizing the climate impacts of their own emissions, and co-benefits, such as clean air or energy security. Whereas these arguments have been mostly discussed in separate strands of literature, this article carries out a synthesis that exemplifies how policies to put a price on emissions can be conceptualized in a multi-objective framework. Despite considerable uncertainty, empirical evidence suggests that different countries may face quite different incentives for emission pricing. For instance, avoided climate damages and co-benefits of reduced air pollution appear to be the main motivation for emission pricing in China, while for the US generating public revenue dominates and for the EU all three motivations are of intermediate importance. We finally argue that such unilateral incentives could form the basis for incremental progress in international climate negotiations toward a realistic climate treaty based on national interest and differentiated emission pricing and describe how such an agreement could be put into practice. KW - Unilateral incentives KW - Co-benefits KW - Hybrid climate agreement Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.01.003 VL - 31 SP - 132 EP - 143 PB - Elsevier B.V. CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Flachsland, Christian A1 - Brunner, Steffen A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar A1 - Creutzig, Felix T1 - Climate Policies for road transport revisited (II): Closing the policy gap with cap-and-trade JF - Energy Policy Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2011.01.053 SN - 1873-6777 VL - 39 IS - 4 SP - 2100 EP - 2110 PB - Elsevier CY - Mexico ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Creutzig, Felix A1 - Jochem, Patrick A1 - Edelenbosch, Oreane Y. A1 - Minx, Jan C. T1 - Transport: A roadblock to climate change mitigation? JF - Science (Policy Forum) Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac8033 SN - 0036-8075 VL - 350 IS - 6263 SP - 912 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Creutzig, Felix A1 - Popp, Alexander A1 - Plevin, Richard A1 - Minx, Jan C. T1 - Reconciling top-down and bottom-up modelling on future bioenergy deployment JF - Nature Climate Change Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1416 N1 - Free online Access / Freier online Zugriff: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/edenh/publications-1/nclimate_Reconcilingtopdownandbottomupmodellingonfuturebioenergydeployment.pdf VL - 2 IS - 4 SP - 320 EP - 327 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Creutzig, Felix A1 - McGlynn, Emily A1 - Minx, Jan C. T1 - Climate policies for road transport revisited (I): Evaluation of the current framework. JF - Energy Policy Y1 - 2011 VL - 39 IS - 5 SP - 2396 EP - 2406 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baiocchi, Giovanni A1 - Creutzig, Felix A1 - Minx, Jan C. T1 - A spatial typology of human settlements and their CO2 emissions in England JF - Global Environmental Change Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.06.001 N1 - Available as e-publication in your Hertie Library. Als elektronische Ausgabe in der Hertie Bibliothek verfügbar. VL - 34 SP - 13 EP - 21 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Creutzig, Felix A1 - Flachsland, Christian A1 - McGlynn, Emily T1 - CITIES: Car industry, road transport and an international emission trading scheme - policy options. A report commissioned by BMW Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lehmann, Paul A1 - Creutzig, Felix A1 - Ehlers, Melf-Hinrich A1 - Friedrichsen, Nele A1 - Heuson, Clemens A1 - Hirth, Lion A1 - Pietzcker, Robert T1 - Carbon lock-out: Advancing renewable energy policy in Europe JF - Energies N2 - As part of its climate strategy, the EU aims at increasing the share of electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E) in overall electricity generation. Attaining this target poses a considerable challenge as the electricity sector is “locked” into a carbon-intensive system, which hampers the adoption of RES-E technologies. Electricity generation, transmission and distribution grids as well as storage and demand response are subject to important path dependences, which put existing, non-renewable energy sources at an advantage. This paper examines how an EU framework for RES-E support policies should be designed to facilitate a carbon lock-out. For this purpose, we specify the major technological, economic and institutional barriers to RES-E. For each of the barriers, a policy review is carried out which assesses the performance of existing policy instruments and identifies needs for reform. The review reveals several shortcomings: while policies targeting generation are widely in place, measures to address barriers associated with electricity grids, storage and demand are still in their infancy and have to be extended. Moreover, the implementation of policies has been fragmented across EU Member States. In this respect, national policies should be embedded into an integrated EU-wide planning of the RES-E system with overarching energy scenarios and partially harmonized policy rules. KW - carbon lock-in KW - demand management KW - electricity KW - energy policy KW - feed-in tariff KW - electricity generation KW - grids KW - renewable energy sources KW - storage Y1 - 2012 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22972 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/en5020323 SN - 1996-1073 VL - 5 IS - 2 SP - 323 EP - 354 ER -