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Coal, Climate Change and COVID-19 (CoCCCo)

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • start year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Dr and Dr and Prof Dr Jan Steckel, Michael Jakob, Ottmar Edenhofer

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Economic impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

Economic recovery policies after COVID-19 could either foster low carbon investments or lead to massive lock-ins by investments into carbon-intensive coal, which are often believed to stimulate economic growth. The project will investigate the current investment dynamics in key coal investing countries and aims to better understand how governments could be supported to use stimulus packages to accelerate the transition to low-carbon economy based on clean energy technologies instead of fossil fuels.