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Kann das Virus-Risiko durch Wildtierhandel reguliert werden?
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Along with my co-authors on a recent paper, we wrote a blog for the Austrian newspaper die Presse, describing the results of our work. The post is in German and I don’t have an English version translated, but the original can be viewed at the newspaper’s website
Higher EU climate targets: What does this mean for Austria?
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I published a blog post in the Austrian newspaper die Presse giving an overview of the (then) current debate in the EU Parliament and Commission regarding changing the 2030 emission reduction targets. As part of a project for an Austrian government ministry, we created a tool which would determine a carbon emission budget for the EU depending on input assumptions, and then allocate that budget to EU countries depending on different equity considerations.
2020 Iowa Democratic Caucuses results: A quick and (in)elegant way to get some data
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The Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) has made caucus data freely available on their website, but there’s no easy way to download the results to analyze, and the website doesn’t lend itself to easy scraping. Here I go through a quick-and-dirty approach to getting the results you can see on the site into a format more easily usable by e.g. R or python
Iowa caucuses - who really lost to who?
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I happened to be watching a press conference from the Iowa Democratic Party when they released their first caucus results and was interested in seeing what - if anything - could be gleaned from the decision to list more extensive data. While most of the main results have been discussed in more depth elsewhere, I was curious if I could get an indication of how delegates shifted from the first to second rounds. What follows is a first quick attempt to see if any patterns can be found in the data, with hopefully a more extensive analysis to follow when full results are released and I have some time to do some modelling.
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Space available!
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In case I want to post info / blogs / content outside the realm of my work and academia, I’m keeping this spot open to do so, but for now, here’s a picture of my dog. 
publications
Making concentrated solar power competitive with coal: The costs of a European feed-in tariff
Published in Energy Policy, 2010
Recommended citation: Williges, K., Lilliestam, J., and Patt, A., 2010. Making concentrated solar power competitive with coal: The costs of a European feed-in tariff. Energy Policy 28 (6) 3089-3097.
Solar power investment in North Africa: Reducing perceived risks
Published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2011
Recommended citation: Komendantova, N., Patt, A., and Williges, K., 2011. Solar power investment in North Africa: Reducing perceived risks. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 15(9) pp. 4829-4835.
Costs of reducing water use of concentrating solar power to sustainable levels: Scenarios for North Africa
Published in Energy Policy, 2011
Recommended citation: Damerau, K., Williges, K., and Patt, A., Gauche, P., 2011. Costs of reducing water use of concentrating solar power to sustainable levels: Scenarios for North Africa. Energy Policy 39 (7) 4391-4398.
Revisiting the “disaster and development” debate – Toward a broader understanding of macroeconomic risk and resilience
Published in Climate Risk Management, 2014
Recommended citation: Mochizuki, J., Mechler, R., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Keating, A., and Williges, K., 2014. Revisiting the “disaster and development” debate – Toward a broader understanding of macroeconomic risk and resilience. Climate Risk Management, 3, pp. 39-54
Managing unnatural disaster risk from climate extremes
Published in Nature Climate Change, 2014
Recommended citation: Mechler, R., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Aerts, J. C.J. H., Bouwer, L. M., Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Surminski, S., and Williges, K., 2014. Managing unnatural disaster risk from climate extremes. Nature Climate Change, 4(4), pp. 235-237.
Funding public adaptation to climate-related disasters. Estimates for a global fund
Published in Global Environmental Change, 2014
Recommended citation: Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Mechler, R., Pflug, G., and Williges, K., 2014. Funding public adaptation to climate-related disasters. Estimates for a global fund. Global Environmental Change, 25(1), pp. 87-96.
Operationalizing iterative risk management under limited information: Fiscal and economic risks due to natural disasters in Cambodia
Published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2015
Recommended citation: Mochizuki, J., Vitoontus, S., Wickramarachichi, B., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Williges, K., Mechler, R., Sovann, R. 2015. Operationalizing iterative risk management under limited information: Fiscal and economic risks due to natural disasters in Cambodia. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 6(4), pp. 321-334.
Risk-sensitizing future investment needed to achieve the sustainable development goals
Published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017
Recommended citation: Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Desai, B., Williges, K., Maskrey, A., Mechler, R., and Mochizuki, J. 2017. Risk-sensitizing future investment needed to achieve the sustainable development goals. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 24, pp. 482-484. '
Towards an assessment of adaptive capacity of the European agricultural sector to droughts
Published in Climate Services, 2017
We assess a new method for assessing adaptive capacity (AC) at a sectoral level and operationalize AC measurement based on an sustainable livelihoods approach to assess the ability of the European agricultural sector to adapt to extreme droughts.
Recommended citation: Williges, K, Mechler, R., Bowyer, P., and Balkovic, J., 2017. Assessing adaptive capacity and vulnerability of the European agricultural sector to droughts under 2° C of global warming. Climate Services, 7, pp. 47-63.
The economy-wide effects of large-scale renewable electricity expansion in Europe
Published in Renewable Energy, 2019
We quantify the macroeconomic effects of a large-scale expansion of wind and photovoltaics (PV) in Europe, employing a global multi-regional multi-sectoral computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, with special emphasis on electricity market integration costs.
Recommended citation: Bachner, G., Steininger, K.W., Williges, K., and Tuerk, A. 2019. The economy-wide effects of large-scale renewable electricity expansion in Europe: the role of integration costs. Renewable Energy, 134, pp. 1369-1380.
The practice of climate change policy evaluations in the European Union and its member states: results from a meta-analysis
Published in Sustainable Earth, 2019
This article presents the main findings from a meta-analysis of how climate change mitigation policy evaluations have been undertaken in the European Union (EU) and six of its Member States: Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece and the United Kingdom. It aims to provide insights into how policy evaluations are carried out and how those practices might be improved.
Recommended citation: Fujiwara, N., van Asselt, H., Böβner, S., Voigt, S., Spyridaki, N., Flamos, A., Alberola, E., Williges, K., Türk, A, ten Donkelaar, M. 2019. The practice of climate change policy evaluations in the European Union and its member states: results from a meta-analysis. Sustainable Earth 2 (1), pp. 1-16.
CITES and the Zoonotic Disease Content in International Wildlife Trade
Published in Environmental and Resource Economics, 2020
Using descriptive statistics, this paper shows that in the last decades, the volume and pattern of internationally traded wildlife has changed considerably and, with it, the zoonotic pathogens that are traded. In an econometric analysis, we give evidence that an international environmental trade agreement could be used to limit the spread of zoonotic pathogens and disease. More specifically, combining zoonotic disease data with wildlife trade data from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife and Fauna (CITES), we show that making trade requirements more stringent leads to a decrease in the number of animals traded and, incidentally, also the number of zoonotic diseases that are traded.
Recommended citation: Borsky, S., Hennighausen, H., Leiter, A., and Williges, K. 2020. CITES and the Zoonotic Disease Content in International Wildlife Trade. Environmental and Resource Economics 76 (4), 1001-1017.
research
CARISMA (Coordination and Assessment of Research and Innovation in Support of Climate Mitigation Actions)
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“The CARISMA project has two overall objectives. First, through effective stakeholder consultation and communication leading to improved coordination and assessment of climate change mitigation options, it aims to benefit research and innovation efficiency as well as international cooperation on research and innovation and technology transfer. Second, it seeks to assess policy and governance questions that shape the prospects of climate change mitigation options, and discuss the results with representatives from the CARISMA target audiences to incorporate what can be learned for the benefit of climate change mitigation.
COACCH (CO-designing the Assessment of Climate CHange costs)
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“COACCH (CO-designing the Assessment of Climate CHange costs) is an innovative research project that gathers leading experts on climate change sciences from 14 European research institutions.
SENTINEL (Sustainable Energy Transitions Laboratory)
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“The transition to a low-carbon energy system will involve a major redesign of the energy system, primarily around renewable sources, in accordance with 2030 and 2050 targets that the European Union has defined.
talks
Moving beyond LCOEs: System and macroeconomic costs of renewables
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Presentation at the EU H2020 Project CARISMA side event at the COP presenting the results of our CGE modeling focused on integration of large-scale renewables into the European electricity system.
Assessing the effect of unburnable carbon estimates on alternative energy firm stock prices
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Presentation of a manuscript currently in submission, focused on determining whether (and if so, to what degree) stock returns of alternative energy firms are affected by scientific studies which discuss leaving fossil fuels in the ground (in other words, creating a stranded asset).