Headline: RIFS Blog April 2020

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Im Blog des Forschungsinstituts für Nachhaltigkeit (RIFS) schreiben Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter aus allen Bereichen des Instituts. Die Themen reichen von Forschungsergebnissen über Veranstaltungsberichte bis hin zu Kommentaren über politische Entwicklungen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren äußern auf dem RIFS-Blog ihre persönliche Meinung.

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Arctic
Hydrogen
Social Justice
UN
Covid-19
Fellows
Coal phase-out
UN Climate Negotiations
Air quality
Mobility
Systemic risks
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Potsdam Summer School
Oceans
Narratives
Governance
Globalisation
Energy transition
Economy
Digitalisation
Democracy
Co-Creation
Climate engineering
Climate
Futures

The Europe-wide shutdown is reducing both energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. At first glance, this might seem like good news. But it has also caused CO2 certificates traded under the European Union Emissions Trading System to lose a third of their value since March. Economic activity is expected to be significantly depressed over the coming weeks and months and production capacities underused.