Publications

Ongoing

• The Climate Rent Curse: New Challenges for Burden Sharing. With Ulrike Kornek, Kai Lessmann and Ottmar Edenhofer. Working paper.
• Drivers for a renaissance of coal. With Ottmar Edenhofer and Michael Jakob. Working Paper available soon.
• On the importance of the manufacturing sector for economic development and growth. With Alexander Radebach and Hauke Schult. Working Paper available soon.
• Determinants of access to infrastructure services. With Narasimha Rao and Michael Jakob. Working paper available soon.

Peer Reviewed

• Edenhofer, O., M. Jakob, F. Creutzig, C. Flachsland, S. Fuss, M. Kowarsch, K. Lessmann, L. Mattauch, J. Siegmeier, JC Steckel (forthcoming): Closing the Emissions Price Gap. Global Environmental Change.
  
• L. Wenz, S.N. Willner, A. Radebach, R. Bierkandt, J.C. Steckel, A. Levermann (in press): Regional and sectoral disaggregation of multi-regional input-output tables - a flexible algorithm. Economic Systems Research
• Jakob, M., J. Steckel, C. Flachsland and L. Baumstark (2015):Climate Finance - Curse or Blessing? Climate and Development. 7(1), pp. 1 - 15. View Manuscript. 
• Zimmer, A., M. Jakob, J. Steckel (2015): What motivates Vietnam to strive for a low-carbon economy? - An explorative case study on the drivers of climate policy in a developing country. Energy for Sustainable Development, 24, pp. 19 -32.  Working paper version. 
• Jakob, M., Jan Christoph Steckel, Stephan Klasen, Jann Lay, Nicole Grunewald, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Sebastian Renner, Ottmar Edenhofer (2014): Feasible mitigation options in developing countries. Nature Climate Change, 5 (11): pp. 961 - 968
• Edenhofer, O., M. Jakob, J. Steckel (2014): Does Environmental Sustainability Contradict Prosperity? Global Policy, 5 (s1): pp. 15 - 20
• Jakob, M., Steckel, J. C., & Edenhofer, O. (2014). Consumption-Versus Production-Based Emission Policies. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 6(1), pp 297 - 318.
• Jakob, M. and J. Steckel (2014): How climate change mitigation could harm development in poor countries. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 5(2) View Manuscript.
• Steckel, J, RJ Brecha, M. Jakob, J. Strefler, G. Luderer (2013): Development without energy? Assessing future scenarios of energy consumption in developing countries. Ecological Economics, 90, pp. 53 - 67. View Manuscript.
• Hübler, M. and J. Steckel (2012): Economic Growth, Decarbonization, and International Transfers. Climate and Development, 4 (2), pp. 88 - 103.
• Jakob, M., Luderer, G., Steckel, J., Tavoni, M., Monjon, S. (2012): Time to act now? Assessing the costs of delaying climate measures and benefits of early action. Climatic Change, 114 (1), pp. 79 - 99
• Luderer, G., Bosetti, V., Jakob, M., Leimbach, M., Steckel, J., Waisman, H. Edenhofer, O. (2012): The economics of decarbonizing the energy system: Results and insights from the RECIPE model intercomparison. Climatic Change, 114 (1), pp. 9 - 37
• Tavoni, M., De Cian, E., Luderer, G., Steckel, J., Waisman, H. (2012): The value of technology and of its evolution towards a low carbon economy. Climatic Change, 114 (1), pp. 39 - 57
• Steckel, J., M. Jakob, R. Marschinski and G. Luderer (2011): From carbonization to decarbonization? - Past trends and future scenarios for China's CO₂ emissions. Energy policy, 39 (6), pp. 3443-3455
• Steckel, J., M. Kalkuhl and R. Marschinski (2010): Should carbon-exporting countries strive for consumption-based accounting in a global cap-and-trade regime? Climatic Change Letters, 100 (3), pp. 779 - 786

Book Chapters

• Edenhofer, O., B. Knopf, G. Luderer, J. Steckel, T. Bruckner (2010): More heat than light? On the economics of decarbonization. In: Rübbleke, D. (Ed.). Sustainable Energy. London, Routledge Publishers
• Flachsland, C., G. Luderer, J. Steckel, B. Knopf, O. Edenhofer (2011): International Emissions Trading and the Global Deal. In: Fan Gang, Nicholas Stern, Ottmar Edenhofer, Xu Shanda, Klas Eklund, Frank Ackerman, Lailai Li and Karl Hallding (eds.): The Economics of Climate Change in China. Towards a Low Carbon Economy. Earthscan: 231-260.

Other publications

• Edenhofer, O. M. Jakob and J. Steckel (2013): Wohlstand und ökologische Nachhaltigkeit - ein Widerspruch? ifo Schnelldienst, 66 (15), pp. 22 - 26
• Edenhofer, O. and J. Steckel (2012): Die Renaissance der Kohle und Chancen globaler Klimapolitik. Mining + Geo (3), pp. 336-348. Available here (in German)
• Luderer, G., V. Bosetti, J. Steckel, H. Waisman, N. Bauer, E. Decian, M. Leimbach, O. Sassi, M. Tavoni (2009). The economics of decarbonization. Results from the RECIPE model intercomparison. RECIPE working paper. Available online at: http://www.pik-potsdam.de/recipe
• Jakob, M., V. Bosetti, H. Waisman, E. Decian, J. Steckel, M. Leimbach, L. Baumstark (2009). The RECIPE reference scenarios. RECIPE working paper. Available online at: http://www.pik-potsdam.de/recipe
• Edenhofer, O., C. Carraro, J.-C. Hourcade, K. Neuhoff, G. Luderer, C. Flachsland, M. Jakob, A. Popp, J. Steckel, J. Strohschein, N. Bauer, S. Brunner, M. Leimbach, H. Lotze-Campen, V. Bosetti, E. de Cian, M. Tavoni, O. Sassi, H. Waisman, R. Crassous-Doerfler, S. Monjon, S. Dröge, H. van Essen, P. del Río, A. Türk (2009): RECIPE - The Economics of Decarbonization. Synthesis Report.
• Ottmar Edenhofer, Brigitte Knopf, Jan Steckel, Gunnar Luderer
  The Honest Broker - Stuck Half Way Through
  Background paper and comment on Pielke et al. in Nature, 2008

• Flachsland, Christian, Edenhofer, Ottmar, Jakob, Michael, Steckel, Jan (2008). Developing the International Carbon Market. Linking Options for the EU ETS. Report to the Policy Planning Staff in the Federal Foreign Office.

Jan contributed to chapter 9 (Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development) of the IPCC's Special Report on Renewable Energies and Climate Mitigation (SRREN) and to Annex II (Metrics and Methodology) of the IPCC's 5th Assessment Report (Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change) and is Lead Author of the SRREN's Technical Summary


Theses

• Steckel, Jan (2012): Developing Countries in the Context of Climate Change Mitigation and Energy System Transformation. PhD thesis at the Technical University of Berlin. pdf
• Steckel, Jan (2008). Towards a Global Carbon Market. The CDM's current state and future prospects. Diplomarbeit (Master Thesis equivalent) at the University of Flensburg. pdf

Review Activities

• Environmental Science and Technology 
• Climate Policy
• Environmental Research Letters
• GAIA
• IPCC SRREN and AR5
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