The project aims to analyze the employment effects of sustainable mobility in Germany until 2035. The focus is on quantifying employment effects in disaggregated form, i.e. with regional resolution, by industry sector and assigned to different modes of transport and related industries such as the IT sector.
Globalization, digitization and the need for more environmental and climate protection are developing the power to change our forms of consumption, accelerate technology change and fundamentally restructure established value chains. The aim is to examine the transformative effects of the interplay of these three forces taking the current situation in the automotive sector as a starting point.
Complying with our planet's ecological boundaries and pursuing global and national sustainability goals require deep transformation of existing supply and production structures. This project uses case studies and a broad industry screening to find out which economic sectors are under particular pressure to change and how to design policies for successful ecological structural change.
It is very important to have reliable and up-to-date information concerning the economic importance of environmental protection and innovation activities in order to design environmental policy measures in an innovation-friendly way and ease their implementation. Indicators on employment effects, production, foreign trade, environmental research and patents are regularly compiled within the project family “Environmental protection as an economic factor“.
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