News (in reverse chronological order) from the RECAP15-Project:

• New RECAP15 DIscussion Paper: Ulrike WIll (2020): The Specification of Rules of Differentiation in the NDCs
  to the Paris Agreement 
• Publication: Meran, Georg, Schwarze, Reimund (2018). 'A Theory of Optimal Green Defaults'. In: Sustainability 10. doi: 10.3390/su10082902
• Es schwebt ein Damoklesschwert über den Klimaverhandlungen in Katowice - Interview with Reimund Schwarze on the start of the UN climate conference in Katowice, 3.12.2018
• "Airline industry declares kerosene as „clean fuel“ at ICAO‘s 214 meeting" (in German), Reimund Schwarze and Gregor Jaschke at klimareporter.de, 11.7.2018
• Farmers are barely insured against drought. Few farmers in Saxony-Anhalt are insured against crop loss
  due to heat and drought. Reimund Schwarze doubts whether emergency aid based on the expected or true loss of income is the
  best solution. Index-based insurance would be a superior, forward-looking approach. (MDR), 6.7.2018
• RECAP15 is present at the conference Konferenz "Collaborative Research in Horizon 2020. Promoting German-Polish Cooperation in EU Research Funding" at Viadrina (24-25 May 2018). You can find our poster here.
• New RECAP15-Discussion Papers, i.a. Meyer/Schwarze: The economics and management of flood risk in Germany und Bolle: Simultaneous and Sequential Voting under General Decision Rules, 17.5.2018
• Reimund Schwarze for klimareporter.de: Bonner Frühjahrskonferenz: Die Schwächen des Paris-Abkommens werden offenbar. 10.5.2018
• Hecht/Peters: Border Adjustments Supplemneting Nationally Determined Carbon Pricing. Environmental and Resource Economics, 27.4.2018
• CORSIA: Augenwischerei (Kurz kommentiert) - Reimund Schwarze, Wirtschaftsdienst, 15.7.2017
• Flugemissionen mit grünen Projekten wettmachen - Reimund Schwarze, Wissensplattform "Erde und Umwelt", 26.4.2017
• Klimaschutz nicht nach Plan - Reimund Schwarze, Ökonomenstimme, 22.11.2016
• "Es war ein Trump-Klimagipfel -  Reimund Schwarze, Bild der Wissenschaft, 21.11.2016
• Resultate der Klimakonferenz 2016 in Marrakesh - Reimund Schwarze, Radio Corax und andere freie Radios, 21.11.2016
• 1,5-Grad-Ziel rückt in weite FerneKlimakonferenz in Marrakesch: Das haben die Verhandlungen wirklich gebracht - Focus, Reimund Schwarze, 19.11.2016
• Weltklimagipfel: "Wir gehen in eine ungewisse Zukunft", Reimund Schwarze, helmholtz.de / REKLIM / UFZ, 21.11.2016
• Neues Arbeitspapier: Mauer: Linking von Emissionshandelssystemen: Die EU als Vorreiter für einen globalen CO2-Markt?
• "Langsam wächst die Zuversicht wieder" - Reimund Schwarze, Märkische Oderzeitung, 18.11.2016 
• Das sind die Ergebnisse von Marrakesch - Reimund Schwarze, GEO, 17.11.2016
• Im Schatten von Trump: Auch bei „Musterschüler“ Deutschland läuft nichts nach Plan, Reimund Schwarze, Focus, 15.11.2016
• Gestern Paris, morgen Marrakesch, übermorgen Klimaschutz? - Reimund Schwarze bei detektor.fm, 3.11.2016 
• New Working Papers: Sushchenko/Schwarze: Carbon taxation and market financial instruments for mobilizing climate finance (#23) Vetter/Schmid/Schwarze: Spatio-temporal statistical assessment of anthropogenic CO2 emissions from satellite data (#24)
• Paris und Sendai: Warum das internationale Klimaabkommen von Paris und das internationale Abkommen zur Katastrophenvorsorge von Sendai/Japan verknüpft werden sollten - Reimund Schwarze auf klimaretter.info
• Drei gute Gründe für eine Versicherungspflicht gegen Naturgefahren - Reimund Schwarze bei focus.de
• Publication: Spiller, Jörg, Aneta Ufert, Patrick Vetter, and Ulrike Will (2016). ‘Norms in an asymmetric Public Good experiment’. In: Economics Letters 142, pp. 35–44. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.01.014.
• Daniel Becker & Ulrike Will: "Die Durchsetzbarkeit produktbezogener Border Adjustments" in: Felix Ekardt, Herwig Unnerstall, Beatrice Garske (Hg.): Globalisierung, Freihandel und Umweltschutz in Zeiten von TTIP. Ökonomische, rechtliche und politische Perspektiven. http://www.metropolis-verlag.de/1197/book.do
• Spiegel Online: Die Welt einigt sich auf historischen Klimavertrag
• Interview mit Reimund Schwarze auf spektrum.de - "Das Ergebnis muss die neue Weltordnung widerspiegeln"
• Alexander Mäder im Heureka-Blog der Stuttgarter Zeitung über das 1,5 Grad Ziel: Die Angst vor der Flut.
• Halbzeitanalyse zu COP21 von Reimund Schwarze auf klimaretter.info: Vertragsentwurf: Damit könnte man leben
• Reimund Schwarze: "Wir bekommen durch diese Verpflichtungen mehr Klimaschutz" - Interview mit der Märkischen Oderzeitung
• "In Paris höre ich nicht nur Verzichtsbotschaften" - MDR-Interview mit Reimund Schwarze zur Eröffnung von COP21
• "Mission possible? Ein Klimaschutzabkommen, dem alle zustimmen." Reimund Schwarze auf Focus Online.
• Klimakonferenzen: Was bisher geschah. Deutschlandradio Wissen, Hörsaal. Mit Reimund Schwarze.
• "Deutschlands Rolle beim Klimagipfel" - Video-Interview mit Reimund Schwarze auf der Wissensplattform "Erde und Umwelt" (Earth System Knowledge Platform - ESKP)
• Neues Deutschland, 21.11.2015: Der verstoßene Klimaschutzpionier
• Discussion paper 22 released: 'Pareto improvements induced by climate funding in a strategic adaptation-mitigation framework'
• Germany's role at the climate summit - Interview with Prof. Reimund Schwarze. Videos at eskp.de: http://www.eskp.de/deutschlands-rolle-beim-klimagipfel/
• Klima-Wissenstour nach Paris (1) – Klarheit in den Konferenz-Marathon. Webinar (in German) of the torial academy with Prof. Reimund Schwarze. See a recording of the first in a series of five online-seminars at http://torial.academy/events/klima-wissenstour-nach-paris-1-klarheit-in-den-konferenz-marathon/
• Let's go to the climate summit: Prof. Reimund Schwarze  starts a series of five Webinars, in  cooperation with wirklimaretter. More at http://torial.academy/klima-wissenstour-nach-paris/
• Spiegel Online: Uno-Klimakonferenz: Weltgemeinschaft einigt sich auf Entwurf für Klimavertrag
• RECAP15 at Ökonomenstimme.de: "Gegenseitigkeit und Vertrauen als Erfolgsfaktoren der internationalen Klimapolitik"
• Interview with Reimund Schwarze at cleanenergywire.org: 'EU must speak with one voice'
• Diskussionspapier 21 released: 'Nudging as a new 'soft' tool in environmental policy. An analysis based on insights from cognitive and social psychology'
• Newsarticle in the MOZ: "Ich möchte keine Tränen sehen"
• Discussion Paper No. 20 released: The Extrajurisdictional Effects of Environmental Measures in the WTO Law Balancing Process
• RECAP15 Conference: “Step-By-Step – How to Progress in International Climate Policy” on the 19th&20th February 2015
• Policy Brief No. 3 released: Reciprocity and Trust as Success Factors in International Climate Policy
• Policy Brief No. 2 released: EU Emission Trading System without competitive disadvantages
• Policy Brief No. 1 released: A three-tier system of climate funding to reduce the strategic cost of adaptation
• Presentation Daniel Becker at the Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar: Ökonomische und rechtliche Fragen von Grenzausgleichsmechanismen
• Discussion Paper No. 20 released: The Extrajurisdictional Effects of Environmental Measures in the WTO Law Balancing Process
• December 2014: Reimund Schwarze on focus.de: Stark gestartet, schwach geendet - Trotz Minimalkonsens: Was nach der Klima-Konferenz Hoffnung macht
• December 2014: Reimund Schwarze on Scilogs: Draufgeschaut: Die Woche in Lima
• December 2014: Spiegel.online: Uno-Klimatagung in Lima: Die heimliche Veränderung der Welt
• Novemeber 2014: Discussionpaper No. 16 released: W. Buchholz, A. Haupt, W. Peters - Equity as a Prerequisite for Stability of Cooperation on Global Public Good Provision
• October 2014: There is something in the air - An assessment of the state of international climate negotiations after the UN Summit in New York by Reimund Schwarze - Link: UFZ-Newsletter
• September 2014: Discussion Paper No.15: W. Buchholz, W. Peters, A. Ufert: Spielräume für uni- und multilateralen Klimaschutz
• September 2014: Reimund Schwarze is following the negotiations at the climate summit of the UN in New York. Reports can be found on klimaretter.info and scilogs/Umweltforschung
• September 2014: Is the transatlantic Free Trade Agreement becoming a environmental problem for europe? Follow the discussion with Reimund Schwarze on Focus-online
• September 2014: Reimund Schwarze: Interview can be found in the "Leipziger Volkszeitung" - Topic: UN Climate summit in New York.
• August 2014: Reimund Schwarze: Discussion of the results from the RECAP15-research at the University of Virgina Law School and at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
• July 2014: Discussion paper No. 14: F. Bolle: Binary Threshold Public Goods
• June 2014: Discussion paper No. 13: F. Bolle: Revenue Equivalence of the Volunteer’s Dilemma and the Stag Hunt Game and Inferiority of Intermediate Thresholds
• June 2014: Reimund Schwarze welcomes the the founding of the UN-General Environmental Assemble (UNEA) and marks the difference to the UN-Environmental Programme (UNEP) - Link here
• June 2014: Clemens Heuson and Reimund Schwarze have been selected for the Resources for the Future (RFF) Visiting Fellows Program for two months from August 1 to September 30, 2014. Their research at RFF is on the economics of climate change adaptation and disaster risk management.
• June 2014: Reimund Schwarze gives a personal judgement on the fifth assessment report of the IPCC: What's new? Answer here.  Further comments on the IPCC-AR5 on Focus-Online: comment 1, comment 2
• June 2014: How Poland could become a driver of European climate policy rather than a foot dragger. - More here
• June 2014: New Publication: Kreibich, H; van den Bergh, JCJM; Bouwer, LM; Bubeck, P; Ciavola, P; Green, C; Hallegatte, S; Logar, I; Meyer, V; Schwarze, R; Thieken, AH: Costing natural hazards
• May 2014: Joint doctoral research workshop together with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig. You can find the agenda here.
• April 2014:  Prof. Dr. Reimund Schwarze is now  'expert reviewer' for the Synthesis Report of the fifth asseesmment report of the IPCC. You can find the Report of Working Group III for the AR5 (Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change) here.
• April 2014: Discussion Paper released: G. Michalek, R. Schwarze: Carbon Leakage: Pollution, Trade or Politics?
• December 2013: Daniel Becker spoke about  "Climate Change and Carbon Leakage - The problem and a proposal" at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University 
• December 2013: Reimund Schwarze reports on klimaretter.info: Das politische Risiko des Ban Ki Moon
• November 2013: Dr. Reimund Schwarzeis observing COP19 negotiations in Warsaw for the German Connittee of Catastrophe Prevention (DKKV) and reports on Scilogs
• November 2013: Heike Auerswald from the TU Dresden gives a presentation on the 6th of November: "Strategic Climate Policy and Risk-Taking"
• October 2013: Discussion Paper released: Clemens Heuson, Wolfgang Peters, Reimund Schwarze, Anna-Katharina Topp: Investment and Adaptation as Commitment Devices in Climate Politics
• October 2013: Interview with Reimund Schwarze: Ohne Zweifel, ohne Alternative
• September 2013: Seminar of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies: "Climate Leadership and Trade Agreements: From Competitive Disadvantage to Mutual Benefits of Transatlantic Technology and Innovation Exchange"
• September 2013: Discussion Paper released: Daniel Becker, Magdalena Brzeskot, Wolfgang Peters, Ulrike Will: Grenzausgleichsinstrumente bei unilateralen Klimaschutzmaßnahmen
• August 2013: Discussion Paper released: Patrick Gneuss, Wolfgang Schmid, Reimund Schwarze: Efficient Approximation of the Spatial Covariance Function for Large Datasets - Analysis of Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations
• July 2013: RECAP15-Workshop - "Wie weiter in der Klimapolitik / Perspectives in Climate Politics?" in Regensburg, 25th - 27th of Juli 2013   >>> further information

• July 2013: Discussion Paper released: Jörg Spiller & Friedel Bolle: Inter-Generational Thoughtfulness in a Dynamic Public Good Experiment
• June 2013: Status evaluation of the research focus "Ökonomie des Klimawandels/ Economics of Climate Change" of the German Ministry of Education and Research, 18th and 19th Juni 2013   >>> Agenda and Results

• May 2013: Clemens Heuson, Wolfgang Peters and Reimund Schwarze on the "Research Topic of the Month" of the regional Climate Change Network REKLIM : Sozioökonomie und Management regionaler Klimaschutz- und Anpassungsstrategien
• May 2013: Professor Reimund Schwarze has been appointed as an expert in economics to the german delegation of the Global Platform for disaster risk reduction (UN/ISDR)   >>> Link to the Global Platform for disaster risk reduction >>> Link to UN/ISDR Germany

• February 2013: Prof. Dr. Reimund Schwarze becomes expert reviewer for Vulnerabilities, Risks and Adaptation in the Fifth Assesment Report of the IPCC
• February 2013: Prof. Dr. Reimund Schwarze becomes expert reviewer for the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of LULUCF (Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry) under Kyoto-2
• February 2013: Young academics Workshop of the Board for Economics in climate and Ressources (AURÖ) (Europa Universität Viadrina,18th/19th February 2013)
• Januar 2013: Presentation Kateryna Holzer (World Trade Institute, University Bern): "The use of border carbon adjustments from the WTO law perspective"(Wednesday, the 30th of January 2013 at 4:15 pm, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Gräfin-Dönhoff Gebäude, Raum GD 303)
• January 2013: Do climate negotiations fail due to the prisoners dilemma ? Statement of Reimund Schwarze on scilogs.de
• December 2012: Prof. Dr. Reimund Schwarze on Geo.de: "Politischer Abgesang auf das 2-Grad-Ziel"

• November 2012: COP 18 / Doha: Statement Prof. Dr. Reimund Schwarze on the climate meeting in Qatar on SciLogs
• July 2012: Discussionpaper No. 7 published
• July 2012: Article on the second RECAP15 Project meeting in the magazine of the Europa-Universität Viadrina: RECAP15-Forschungsgruppe an der Viadrina befasst sich mit globalem Klimawandel und Klimaschutz
• May 2012: Bad signs for Qatar - Statement Reimund Schwarze on klimaretter.info
• Januar 2012: Project announcement RECAP15 (PDF)
• Dezember 2011: Blog Climate Change: blog.ufz.de/klimawandel 
• November 2011: Interview Reimund Schwarze - Climate Meeting in Durban: Märkische Oderzeitung, 16.11.'11