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An Effective Federal Climate Change Act Needs Leading Indicators

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  • Daniela Fietze
  • Mats Kröger
  • Thorsten Müller
  • Karsten Neuhoff

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To reach the climate targets, the course towards a climate-neutral society must be set now. However, the current monitoring instruments in the Climate Change Act do not provide sufficient information to policymakers and society on the effectiveness of policy instruments and programs, as they focus exclusively on greenhouse gas reduction targets, which are subject to uncertainty. Moreover, they only allow developments to be identified with a delay and map transformative measures inadequately. The Climate Change Act should be supplemented with leading indicators to address these deficits. By providing a broader information base, leading indicators could help improve the implementation of energy and climate policy measures.

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  • Daniela Fietze & Mats Kröger & Thorsten Müller & Karsten Neuhoff, 2021. "An Effective Federal Climate Change Act Needs Leading Indicators," DIW Weekly Report, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 11(43), pages 327-335.
    • Handle: RePEc:diw:diwdwr:dwr11-43-1
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    Keywords

    Intermediary Indicators; Climate Policy; Climate Neutrality; Policy Monitoring; Climate Governance;
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    JEL classification:

    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • K32 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
    • O2 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy

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