31 running Projects // 364 Projects in total

• Value Added by Renewable Energies in the German Federal State of Baden-Württemberg

  The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector commissioned the IÖW to calculate the value added and employment effects of renewable energies in the federal state of [...] More

• Energy Efficiency and Employment

  Political targets aiming at mitigating climate change and increasing energy productivity will only be reached if companies significantly increase their energy efficiency. This can be based on efficient production processes or [...] More

• Interlinking of climate scenarios with other scenarios from the ecological and social area

  The integration of climate scenarios with other models for social and environmental development is a precondition for a reliable estimate of the future development of coupled human-environment systems under conditions of [...] More

• Policies to Encourage Sustainable Consumption

  The objective of the project is to provide policy guidance on how to change consumption patterns to make them more sustainable by using various approaches, including those based on behavioural research. To accomplish this, a [...] More

• Analysis of existing measures and development of innovative strategies to an improved application of synergies among environmental and social policy

  The project intends to analyse measures and strategies for an improved application of synergies among environmental and social policy and to develop innovative strategies for their application. Herewith, the preconditions for [...] More

• Evaluation of the NKI project "Eco-label of climate relevant products (climate angel)"

  Objective of the project is the evaluation of the elaboration of 10 additional product group requirements of the German eco-label "Blue Angle", which should strengthen the cluster "Protects the climate". In this context, [...] More

• Evaluation Utopia City Guide

  The task of the IÖW is the evaluation of a project of the Utopia AG called “Utopia City Guide”, where national yellow pages are developed, that are internet based and refer to green products and services only. The project is [...] More

• Decentralised micro biogas plants ("micro-biogas") Development of transferable concepts of sustainable biogene residue and waste materials usage for micro-biogas production in villages and rural areas.

  The project "micro-biogas" aims to develop transferable concepts of sustainable usage of biogene residue and waste materials for micro-biogas production in villages and rural areas. Technical concepts and feasibility studies [...] More

• Effects of self-consumption and grid parity of photovoltaic systems

  Many actors in the photovoltaic (PV) industry often proclaim the forthcoming “grid parity” as an important moment in the market development of PV. However, the exact meaning of this terminus and its potential effects on [...] More

• New Target Groups for the Blue Angel Eco-Labelling Scheme

  The Blue Angel faces a further changing environment: competition with other labels increases and the label's visibility on retailers' shelves declines. Against this background, the expertise aims to develop proposals for the [...] More

• Value added and employment creation of renewable energies in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2010 and 2030

  The IÖW develops in conjunction with the Center for Technology and Society (CTS), TU Berlin, and Rostock Energie-Umwelt-Beratung e.V./Institut (EUB) as part of a scientific study, a mission statement for "Mecklenburg-Western [...] More

• Value added and employment effects of wind energy in Baden-Wuerttemberg in the years 2010 and 2020

  Greenpeace commissioned the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW, Berlin) to determine value added and employment effects of wind energy (onshore) in Baden-Wuerttemberg for the years 2010 und 2020. Additionally, the [...] More

• Bioeconomy – Comment on the statement of the BioEconomy Council

  The BioEconomy Council has presented a study which deals with the perspectives and the action approaches to promote bio-economy. The basic orientation of bio-economy is that a fundamental change from the use of non-renewable [...] More

• SPICOSA (Science and Policy Integration for Coastal System Assessment)

  The overall objective of SPICOSA is to develop a self-evolving, holistic research approach for integrated assessment of Coastal Systems so that the best available scientific knowledge can be mobilized to support deliberative [...] More

• Stakeholder Dialogues: Adaptation to Climate Change

  Six stakeholder dialogues are conducted that aim at discussing challenges resulting from climate change and possible adaptation strategies. The dialogues are organised on different topics such as coastal areas (May 2009), [...] More