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Overview

Jan Christoph Steckel is affiliated with the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Germany. Their research primarily addresses intersections of economics, energy, and environmental science, with significant focus on the economics and policies related to climate change and sustainability.

Their recent publications span various respected journals and explore diverse aspects of climate, energy, and economic impacts. Notable papers include:

  • Distributional impacts of carbon pricing in developing Asia, 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A Meta-Analysis, 2020, Environmental and Resource Economics
  • The future of coal in a carbon-constrained climate, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Actors, objectives, context: A framework of the political economy of energy and climate policy applied to India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, 2020, Energy Research & Social Science
  • Africa needs context-relevant evidence to shape its clean energy future, 2022, Nature Energy

Steckel frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Michael Jakob, Nils Ohlendorf, Matthias Kalkuhl, Jan C. Minx, and Lorenzo Montrone. These collaborations have contributed to multiple publications addressing climate policy, energy transitions, and economic modeling.

Their work appears regularly in prominent journals, with multiple publications in the following venues:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Energy Policy
  • Environment and Development Economics

The main fields of study for Steckel's research are Economics, Econometrics and Finance; Energy; and Environmental Science. Within these broader fields, their work often focuses on subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Pollution, Global and Planetary Change, and Sociology and Political Science.

Core topics consistently addressed in their research encompass Climate Change Policy and Economics, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Energy and Environment Impacts, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Best Publications

  • The economics of decarbonizing the energy system—results and insights from the RECIPE model intercomparison

    Gunnar Luderer;Valentina Bosetti;Michael Jakob;Marian Leimbach

  • Poverty and distributional effects of carbon pricing in low- and middle-income countries – A global comparative analysis

    Ira Irina Dorband;Michael Jakob;Matthias Kalkuhl;Jan Christoph Steckel;Jan Christoph Steckel

  • Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development

    Jayant Sathaye;Oswaldo Lucon;Atiq Rahman;John Christensen

  • The role of capital costs in decarbonizing the electricity sector

    Lion Hirth;Jan Christoph Steckel;Jan Christoph Steckel

  • Teleconnected food supply shocks

    Christopher Bren d’Amour;Leonie Wenz;Leonie Wenz;Matthias Kalkuhl;Jan Christoph Steckel;Jan Christoph Steckel

  • Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A Meta-Analysis

    Nils Ohlendorf;Michael Jakob;Jan Christoph Minx;Carsten Schröder;Carsten Schröder

  • The future of coal in a carbon-constrained climate

    Michael Jakob;Jan Christoph Steckel;Frank Jotzo;Benjamin K. Sovacool

  • Drivers for the renaissance of coal

    Jan Christoph Steckel;Jan Christoph Steckel;Ottmar Edenhofer;Ottmar Edenhofer;Michael Jakob

  • From climate finance toward sustainable development finance

    Jan Christoph Steckel;Michael Jakob;Christian Flachsland;Ulrike Kornek

  • Development without energy? Assessing future scenarios of energy consumption in developing countries

    Jan Christoph Steckel;Jan Christoph Steckel;Robert J. Brecha;Robert J. Brecha;Michael Jakob;Jessica Strefler

  • From carbonization to decarbonization?—Past trends and future scenarios for China's CO2 emissions

    Jan Christoph Steckel;Michael Jakob;Robert Marschinski;Robert Marschinski;Gunnar Luderer

  • Feasible mitigation actions in developing countries

    Michael Jakob;Jan Christoph Steckel;Jan Christoph Steckel;Stephan Klasen;Jann Lay;Jann Lay

  • Reports of coal’s terminal decline may be exaggerated

    Ottmar Edenhofer;Ottmar Edenhofer;Jan Christoph Steckel;Michael Jakob;Christoph Bertram

  • Closing the emission price gap

    Ottmar Edenhofer;Ottmar Edenhofer;Michael Jakob;Felix Creutzig;Felix Creutzig;Christian Flachsland

  • Consumption- Versus Production-Based Emission Policies

    Michael Jakob;Jan Christoph Steckel;Ottmar Edenhofer;Ottmar Edenhofer

  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of ex-post evaluations on the effectiveness of carbon pricing

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  • Addressing policy credibility problems for low-carbon investment

    Gregory F. Nemet;Michael Jakob;Jan Christoph Steckel;Jan Christoph Steckel;Ottmar Edenhofer;Ottmar Edenhofer

  • Time to act now? Assessing the costs of delaying climate measures and benefits of early action

    Michael Jakob;Gunnar Luderer;Jan Steckel;Massimo Tavoni

  • Actors, objectives, context: A framework of the political economy of energy and climate policy applied to India, Indonesia, and Vietnam

    Michael Jakob;Christian Flachsland;Jan Christoph Steckel;Johannes Urpelainen

  • How climate change mitigation could harm development in poor countries

    Michael Jakob;Jan Christoph Steckel

  • The value of technology and of its evolution towards a low carbon economy

    Massimo Tavoni;Enrica De Cian;Gunnar Luderer;Jan Christoph Steckel

  • Poverty and distributional effects of carbon pricing in low- and middle- income countries

    Ira Irina Dorband;Michael Jakob;Matthias Kalkuhl;Jan Christoph Steckel

Frequent Co-Authors

Ottmar Edenhofer
Ottmar Edenhofer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Gunnar Luderer
Gunnar Luderer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Jan Minx
Jan Minx University of Leeds
Matthias Kalkuhl
Matthias Kalkuhl University of Potsdam
Valentina Bosetti
Valentina Bosetti Bocconi University
Felix Creutzig
Felix Creutzig Technical University of Berlin
Massimo Tavoni
Massimo Tavoni Polytechnic University of Milan
Sabine Fuss
Sabine Fuss International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Elmar Kriegler
Elmar Kriegler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Alexander Popp
Alexander Popp Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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