Sustainable energy consumption in residential buildings and individual decisions of consumers (2009)
Bettina Brohmann, Stefanie Heinzle, Klaus Rennings, Joachim Schleich, Rolf Wüstenhagen
Non Nuclear Energy Programme JOULE II/III (1997)
Wolfram Krewitt, Petra Mayerhofer, Rainer Friedrich, Alfred Trukenmüller, Thomas Heck, Alexander Greßmann, ...
Germany Contract JOS3-CT95-0010 Contract JOU2-CT-0264 Final Report prepared by IER
Ziegler, Andreas, Rennings, Klaus
Based on a unique firm level data set of the German manufacturing sector, this paper provides new empirical evidence regarding the determinants of different types of environmental technological...
Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations : An Empirical Analysis
Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria, Rennings, Klaus, Ziegler, Andreas
The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ‘Integrated Product Policy’. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and...
Frondel, Manuel, Horbach, Jens, Rennings, Klaus
While both fundamental types of abatement measures mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of production, cleaner production technologies are frequently more advantageous than end-of-pipe...
External Costs of Road, Rail and Air Transport - a Bottom-Up Approach
Weinreich, Sigurd, Rennings, Klaus, Schlomann, Barbara, Geßner, Christian, Engel, Thomas
This paper aims to describe the calculation of environmental and health externalities caused by air pollutants, accidents and noise from different transport modes (road, rail, air) on the route...
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm, Rennings, Klaus
The study assesses net employment effects of technical progress which can be expected by the ongoing transition from end-of-pipe technologies towards cleaner production. Empirical evidence is...
Rennings, Klaus, Zwick, Thomas
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The...
The Impact of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme on Competitiveness in Europe
Oberndorfer, Ulrich, Rennings, Klaus
This literature review analyses the impacts of the EU ETS on competitiveness focussing on existing simulation studies. We have identified the choice of the reference scenario as the most critical...
Towards a Theory and Policy of Eco-Innovation - Neoclassical and (Co-)Evolutionary Perspectives
Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the past years. Since existing theoretical and methodological frameworks do not address...
The effect of environmental and social performance on the stock performance of european corporations
Andreas Ziegler, Michael Schröder, Klaus Rennings
Sustainability, Environmental and social performance, Stock performance, CAPM, Multifactor model, Q01, Q56, G12,
What Triggers Environmental Management and Innovation? – Empirical Evidence for Germany
Manuel Frondel, Jens Horbach, Klaus Rennings
It is frequently hypothesized that environmental management systems (EMSs) may improve a firm’s environmental performance. Whether or not this hypothesis is true is as important from the...
A regulatory framework for a policy of sustainability: lessons from the neo-liberal school
Rennings, Klaus, Koschel, Henrike, Brockmann, Karl Ludwig, Kuhn, Isabel
Ziegler, Andreas, Rennings, Klaus, Schröder, Michael
Dieses Papier betrachtet den Effekt der Umwelt- und Sozialperformance europäischer Unternehmen auf deren Shareholder Value. Der Shareholder Value wird dabei mit der durchschnittlichen monatlichen...
Lead Markets of Environmental Innovations : A Framework for Innovation and Environmental Economics
Beise, Marian, Rennings, Klaus
Environmental regulations often want to stimulate the generation and adoption of ecoefficient innovations. An important argument in the public debate is also the creation of new markets for...
Rennings, Klaus, Ziegler, Andreas, Ankele, Kathrin, Hoffmann, Esther, Nill, Jan
This paper investigates the effects of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme (EMAS) on environmental innovations and competitiveness in German facilities. It comprises twelve in-depth...
Linking Weak and Strong Sustainability Indicators: The Case of Global Warming
Rennings, Klaus, Hohmeyer, Olav
The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss the weak and strong sustainability approach of assessing climate change and to show reasonable applications, weaknesses, possible improvements and...
A Regulatory Framework for a Policy of Sustainability: Lessons from the Neo-Liberal School
Rennings, Klaus, Koschel, Henrike, Brockmann, Karl Ludwig, Kühn, Isabel
In this paper targets, institutions and policy measures for describing and implementing sustainable development are evaluated in terms of their conformity with the economic framework of a market...
Environmental Policy Tools and Firm-Level Management Practices : Empirical Evidence for Germany.
Frondel, Manuel, Horbach, Jens, Rennings, Klaus, Requate, Till
On the basis of abundant facility and firm-level data for German manufacturing, originating from a recent OECD-survey, this paper empirically investigates the relevance of a variety of incentives for...
What triggers environmental management and innovation? Empirical evidence for Germany
Frondel, Manuel, Horbach, Jens, Rennings, Klaus
It is frequently hypothesized that environmental management systems (EMSs) may improve firms' environmental innovation performance. Whether this hypothesis is true is as critical for environmental...
National Environmental Policy and the Global Success of Next-Generation Automobiles
In this article, we identify the most crucial factors for the potential world market success of different alternative car designs: fuel cell vehicles (FCVs), hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), battery...
A Lead Market Approach Towards the Emergence and Diffusion of Coal-fired Power Plant Technology
Today, more than 70% of the world’s total electricity production is supplied by power plants using conventional fossil fuels. Coal accounts for more than half of the fossil fuel combustion in...
The Effect of Environmental and Social Performance on the Stock Performance of European Corporations
Inkrementelle versus radikale Innovationen am Beispiel der Kraftwerkstechnik
Rennings, Klaus, Markewitz, Peter, Vögele, Stef
In der Diskussion um Innovationen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung werden häufig radikale Innovationen gefordert, damit die Transformation der Gesellschaft hin zu einem als nachhaltig empfundenen...
What's Driving Sustainable Energy Consumption? A Survey of the Empirical Literature
Wüstenhagen, Rolf, Schleich, Joachim, Rennings, Klaus, Heinzle, Stefanie, Brohmann, Bettina
The focus of the paper is on the individual decision of energy consumers, and it's relation to sustainable consumption. Consumer behavior is based on individual decisions, but it depends largely on...
How clean is clean?: incremental versus radical technological change in coal-fired power plants
Rennings, Klaus, Markewitz, Peter, Vögele, Stefan
In the discussion on innovations for sustainable development, radical innovations are frequently called for in order that the transformation of society to a system perceived as sustainable can...
Rennings, Klaus, Rammer, Christian
Energy and resource efficiency innovations (EREIs) are often seen as win-win opportunities for both the economic and the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation...