Everyday Ecology, Energy, Consumption
Project:
Joint Emissions Trading as a Social-Ecological Transformation (JET-SET)
Project head:
Ralf Schüle, Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH, Abt. Klimapolitik
in ISOE:
Dr. Immanuel Stieß
Dr. Irmgard
Schultz
Cooperation
Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH, Abt. Klimapolitik; Zentrum für UmweltResearch, Universität Kassel (USF); Zentrum für europäische WirtschaftsResearch GmbH (ZEW); Institut für Energie- und UmweltResearch, Heidelberg, gGmbH (ifeu)
Duration:
05/2003-08/2007
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
funding
programme Social-Ecological
Research
Roehr et al. (2004) present a general conceptual framework for a social-ecological gender analysis of EETS ...english abstract
Schultz / Stiess (2007) resume the results of the gender analysis carried out in theJET-SET project. english abstract
Joint Emissions Trading as a Social-Ecological Transformation (JET-SET)
Since the adoption of the Kyoto-Protocol in the year 1997, both the design and the implementation of so called flexible mechanisms – and herein especially emissions trading – have played an important role in (inter-)national climate policy. The development of Emissions Trading Systems (ETS) adds a new market-based instrument to EU environmental policy, which has traditionally been more oriented towards command-and-control instruments. The design of this instrument at the national level entails new chances as well as risks. There is still a large information gap concerning the ecological, economic, institutional and social implications of ETS. Thus, the introduction of the Emissions Trading System in the European Union opens up a challenging field of research for various disciplines, carring out an integrated social-ecological assessment of the impacts of the new instrument.
The basic hypothesis of JET-SET is that the introduction of an European ETS causes a far-reaching process of transformation concerning the institutional setting of climate policy instruments and the market behaviour of enterprises as well as public discourse and land use patterns. The objectives of the project were firstly to critically accompany the introduction of an ETS at European and German level, secondly to comprehensively assess expected economical, ecological and social effects of different designs of ETS, thirdly, to provide recommendations for the future design of an European ETS.
ISOE's participation in the project involved work on a supplementary module, "Gender Impacts of Climate Protection and ETS". The main objective of the module was to mainstream a gender perspective into the project's overall research activities and to identify potential impact areas of ETS on gender relations.
The gender analysis was carried out according to a gender impact assessment (GIA) methodology. Drawing on an analytical matrix of criteria and a survey of existing studies on climate policy and gender, potential gender issues of ETS were identified. Results from this investigation were presented during a workshop to all members of the research team, commonly appraised and translated into research questions for the various JET-SET modules. The results of these investigations were summed up and appraised during a second workshop in spring 2005.
The findings are published in two discussion papers:
Roehr et al. (2004) present a general conceptual framework for a social-ecological gender analysis of EETS. It also includes the results of an investigation into the gender relations in international climate negotiations and an analysis of the role of gender differences in the perception and evaluation of climate change and policy instruments.
Schultz / Stiess (2007) resume the results of the gender analysis carried out in theJET-SET project. One focus is on the participation of women in EETS' negotiation and implementation, both on the European and the national German level, as well as to its public perception and acceptance. Another focus is on potential gender impacts of market based climate policies to private household consumption, outlining a research agenda for further study of climate policies and gender.
Publications
Röhr, Ulrike/ Schultz, Irmgard/ Seltmann, Gudrun/ Stieß, Immanuel (2004): Klimapolitik und Gender. Eine
Sondierung möglicher Gender Impacts des europäischen
Emissionshandelssystems. ISOE-Diskussionspapiere, Nr. 21. Frankfurt am
Main, 66 Seiten, EUR 6.- (english
abstract, paper in German)