Greening
prosperity
GREENING
PROSPERITY
During the high point of market orthodoxy, economists argued that the most 'efficient' way to combat climate change was to simply let markets determine the price of carbon emissions. Today, there is a growing consensus that prices need to be regulated and that a carbon price on its own might not be enough.
LATEST NEWS
Climate policy and jobs - With Jonas Fluchtmann and Anke Hassel
Climate policy and jobs - With Jonas Fluchtmann and Anke Hassel
KNOWLEDGE BASE
GREENING
PROSPERITY
The Challenge
Global emissions of greenhouse gases are still rising rapidly and the window of opportunity to limit the increase in average global temperatures to less than 2 degrees is vanishingly small.
What Went Wrong
EU carbon prices have been far too low to stimulate investment in low carbon technologies and efforts to establish a global carbon market have largely failed.
New Economy in Progress
Putting a price on carbon will not in itself lead to a zero-carbon economy: it will require large-scale public action and investment to create the necessary markets and infrastructure.
5 WAYS THAT ARE DISCUSSED TO GREEN PROSPERITY
AVERAGE WARMING (°C) PROJECTED BY 2100
2030 targets require tripling of climate protection investments
A study commissioned by Agora Energiewende and Forum New Economy shows that achieving a 65 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 1990 would require climate protection investments to be up to three times higher than currently estimated.
Climate policy and the modern state: A hydrogen package for Germany
Green hydrogen is considered an essential component for the climate transition. A new study by Tom Krebs develops a modern hydrogen strategy for Germany.
Climate Challenge: Will Germany manage the transition?
The main question of the climate session on the VIII. New Paradigm Workshop was, how Germany can manage the transition to climate-neutrality by 2050 - or 2045.
Expert-Seminar - The transformation of the automobile industry in Germany
On 24 February, Forum New Economy organised an online expert seminar on the transformation of the automobile industry where the impact of the transport turnaround on car regions and employment was discussed.
Getting Real About A European Green Deal
By Carlo Jaeger and Sarah Wolf, Global Climate Forum, Potsdam University, presented at the Paris New Paradigm Initiative Workshop.
Shifting Paradigms in Carbon Pricing
By Ottmar Edenhofer, Brigitte Knopf et al., Mercator Research Institute for Climate Change
OTHER MAIN TOPICS
New Paradigm
NEW PARADIGM
After decades of overly naive market belief, we urgently need new answers to the great challenges of our time. More so, we need a whole new paradigm to guide us. We collect everything about the people and the community who are dealing with the question of a new paradigm and who analyze the historical and present impact of paradigms and narratives – whether in new contributions, performances, books and events.
Redefining
the role of
the state
REDEFINING
THE ROLE OF
THE STATE
For decades, there was a consensus that reducing the role of the state and cutting public debt would generate wealth. This contributed to a chronic underinvestment in education and public infrastructure. New research focuses on establishing when and how governments need to intervene to better contribute to long-term prosperity and to stabilize rather than aggravate economic fluctuations.
Remaking
finance
REMAKING
FINANCE
More than a decade after the financial crisis there still seems to be something seriously wrong with the financial system. Financial markets still tend to periodically misprice risk and contribute to boom and bust cycles. A better financial system needs to discourage short-termism and speculative activity, curtail systemic risk and distribute wealth more broadly.
Reducing
inequality
REDUCING
INEQUALITY
The rising gap between rich and poor has become a threat to social cohesion in most rich countries. To reverse this trend it will be crucial to better understand the importance of different drivers of income and wealth inequality.
Innovation Lab
INNOVATION LAB
Do we need a whole new understanding of economic growth? What would be a real alternative? How viable are alternatives to GDP when it comes to measuring prosperity? These and other more fundamental challenges are what this section is about.
Globalization
for all
GLOBALIZATION
FOR ALL
After three decades of poorly managed integration, globalization is threatened by social discontent and the rise of populist forces. A new paradigm will need better ways not only to compensate the groups that have lost, but to distribute the gains more broadly from the start.
Europe
beyond markets
EUROPE
BEYOND MARKETS
The euro was planned during a period in which economic policy making was driven by a deep belief in market liberalism and the near impossibility of systemic financial crises. This belief has been brought into question since the euro crisis, which showed that panics do happen. New thinking needs to focus on developing mechanisms to protect eurozone countries from such panics and to foster economic convergence between members.
Corona Crisis
CORONA CRISIS
The current Corona crisis is probably the worst economic crisis of the post-World War 2 era. Economists are working hard on mitigating the economic effects caused by COVID-19 to prevent a second Great Depression, the break-up of the Eurozone and the end of globalisation. We collect the most important contributions.