31 running Projects // 364 Projects in total

• Feasibility Study "Carbon neutral Berlin 2050"

  The new government of the German capital Berlin wants to be a pioneer on climate change among the major cities around the globe. The elaboration of the feasibility study "Carbon neutral Berlin 2050" on behalf of the Senate [...] More

• Municipal Value Added through Energy-Saving Building Refurbishment

  

  The Energiewende in Germany needs to be accompanied by energy efficiency measures. One of the most relevant topics in this regard is the energy-efficient retrofitting of residential and office buildings. Here, large savings [...] More

• Climate Change and Daily Routine Acts: Potentials, Strategies and Instruments for a Low Carbon Lifestyle in a Zero-Emission-City Project part "Climate change and daily routine acts: impact potentials of climate change-adressing instruments"

  The project will analyse the impacts respectively the impact potentials of different climate-change related instruments differentiated according to social groups as distinguished within the project; herewith, efficiency and [...] More

• Sustainable Consumption through Social Innovation – Concepts and Practices

  The project “Sustainable Consumption through Social Innovation – Concepts and Practices” aims to explore potentials of social innovations for environmental policies for sustainable consumption. The focal point of the project [...] More

• Value Added by Renewable Energies - Calculation of the Effects on State and Federal Level

  Value added by renewable energies (RE) is an important argument for political decision-makers on different spatial scales. In the study “Local value added by renewable energy technologies”, the Institute for Ecological [...] More

• Development potential and marketing concept of the German Ecolabel Blue Angel

  The Blue Angel forms an important part of product-related environmental protection in Germany. It is the oldest environmental label in the world, and, in Germany, regarded as the central point of reference for sustainable [...] More

• Public sector and infrastructure financing of German seaports and waterways - Optimization instead of double sponsorship

  In German seaports parallel infrastructures with huge investment and maintenance costs are being funded despite increasing financial constraints. So, at the moment, on the one hand port infrastructures are being increasingly [...] More

• Value-Added and Employment Effects by the Expansion of Renewable Energies

  In the last few years, the IÖW has published a series of studies on the quantification of value added and employment by renewable energies. On behalf of Greenpeace Deutschland, the IÖW has updated value added and employment [...] More

• FAIR FUELS? A socio-ecological multi-level Analysis of the Possibilities of and Limits to the international Use of Biofuels Thematic Research Group

  The project “FAIR FUELS?” addresses the question of the extent to which biofuels can be produced and used in a socio-ecologically compatible manner. Since biofuels are produced regionally but the products and raw materials [...] More

• The Potential of Advanced Technological, Decentralised and Personalised Production against the Background of a Low Carbon Economy

  Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the project aims to identify the most relevant manufacturing and consumption patterns of the future. Therefore technological and organizational concepts will be [...] More

• Utilization of the current debates on social welfare for the environmental justice and conclusions for the political and societal transformation. Concepts of social welfare and environmental justice

  Subject of the project are the proposals on the transformation of society in the perspective of sustainable, future-oriented development that are currently discussed in wide areas of the interested public as well as in [...] More

• Improving strategic environmental policy consultancy in the context of the general principle of sustainable development - study and professional dialogue about approaches and utilization perspectives of environmental and sustainability research.

  In the field of sustainability research it can be observed that the successful transfer of generated knowledge into the various fields of social and political activity remains limited. Causes are, among others, that the [...] More

• BaltClim - Supporting national adaptation strategies to climate change in the Baltic States

  Although climate change in the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is already regarded as an important national issue, addressing the adaptation requirements for climate change such as sea levels rising, changes in [...] More

• CORPUS Enhancing the Connectivity Between Research and Policy-making in Sustainable Consumption

  "CORPUS - Enhancing the Connectivity Between Research and Policymaking in Sustainable Consumption” aims to develop novel approaches to knowledge brokering (KB) between policy-making and research. It will foster evidence-based [...] More

• Sustainable Publishing - New environmental standards for the publishing industry

  About 950 million books are produced each year in Germany. Books, magazines and newspapers today are manufactured in industrial processes causing large quantities of emissions, effluents and waste. At the same time the [...] More