In Berlin and throughout Germany, a growing number of enterprises associate themselves with the “social economy”. What they have in common is that they aim to use their economic activities to help solve social and/or [...]
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Economy and society are facing fundamental structural change that is largely driven by the digitalization of production and consumption. Concepts such as the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) or (in Germany) ‘Industry 4.0’ are [...]
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For more than 30 years, economic science has dealt with the emergence of rebound effects in the context of resource efficiency improvements both theoretically and empirically. Based on this research and diverse growth [...]
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The ‘Designetz’ showcase spans North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland. It aims to supply solar and wind energy to urban and industrial consumers. For this purpose numerous demonstration projects are [...]
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The environmental awareness study has been gathering information on environmental awareness of the population in Germany in a representative poll every two years since 1996. Citizens are asked about their assessment of the [...]
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Several studies expect that renewable energy shares of more than 60 % in the German electricity sector will result in significant excess power production throughout longer periods within a year. Due to infrastructure [...]
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Climate change affects Bremen in many ways. To meet these challenges, the city state created an adaptation strategy. The project “BREsilient” aims at developing Bremen into a climate resilient city of the future. It builds on [...]
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The focus of PROSEU is the research into, as well as the design of, incentive structures for mainstreaming prosumerism in the European Union, thereby encouraging and safeguarding citizen participation, inclusiveness and [...]
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The Paris Agreement, which is binding under international law, has created a new basis for climate policy in all countries and municipalities. In order to contribute to achieving the goal of limiting anthropogenic global [...]
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Planning, construction and operation of renewable energy plants generate added value and employment. How much of this remains in the region depends heavily on the structure of the project as well as country and region [...]
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Environmental actors increasingly realize the need of cooperative thinking and acting. Links to other policy areas are too close; possible impacts of the necessary transformation too strong. It is essential to convince [...]
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Rivers and floodplains play an important role for people - from flood protection and water management to recreation and nature conservation. In order to demonstrate the wide range of ecosystem services, the project 'River [...]
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The Growth Independence Strategy Dialogue builds on the results and experience of the UBA project "Approaches to Resource Conservation in the Context of Postal Growth Concepts". This project analysed, among other things, the [...]
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The Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and the Agency for Renewable Energies (AEE) developed, on behalf of and in cooperation with the Rhineland-Palatinate Energy Agency, an update of the previously jointly [...]
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For the energy transition it becomes more and more important to storage power decentralized. This way, local produced renewable energy can be consumed flexible while reliving the power grid. An important component are battery [...]
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