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Investor-state Dispute Settlement in TTIP
How Crisis-resistant and Competitive are Europe's Eco-Industries?
Rational Cost-Benefit Analysis, Level of Information and Conclusion of the Survey
During this speech Max Grünig, Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute, presented further results of the summer 2013 survey of all German-operators with their acquisition strategies in the second and third trading period. The presentation slides are available for download.
His key messages included:
- The fee settlement by the intermediaries occurred mainly
- fixed costs per executed trade contract
- with a fee per emission allowance
- as a relative mark up to the purchase price
- The fee per emission allowance was used most in the second trading Read more
Results of the Survey - Market Access, Costs and Trading Strategies
In this presentation Max Grünig, Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute, presented and analyzed the main results of the summer 2013 survey of all German-operators with their acquisition strategies in the second and third trading period. He also gave an overview of the plant operators who participated in the survey. The presentation slides are available for download.
Max Grünig's presentation contained the following key results:
- The internal offsetting and the use of intermediaries were by far the most widely used acquisition channels for operators in the second trading period Read more
Investor-state Dispute Settlement under TTIP - a Risk for Environmental Regulation?
Investor-state Dispute Resolution under TTIP
Rule on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) offer investors the possibility to sue their host states for alleged breaches of an investment agreement. Are such rules in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement necessary? What risks are there for environmental regulation? Will states have to pay compensation for environmental protection measures? The Ecologic Institute analyzed the potential influence of ISDS rules in TTIP on environmental regulation. The resulting study is available online.Read more
Lessons from the Energiewende for the US Context
Competitiveness of Europe's Eco-Industries
How competitive are Eco-Industries in Europe - and how well have they fared during the economic crisis? This is the central question of a short study that the Ecologic Institute produced for the Greens in the European Parliament. The key finding is that Eco-Industries have been a source of growth, particularly at times when other parts of the economy contracted. The study is available for download.
Output growth of Eco-Industries
The empirical analysis consisted of two components: first, an analysis of output growth in the segment of "low-carbon environmental goods andRead more