40 running Projects // 357 Projects in total

• Change dynamics in consumption and sustainable innovation paths (DYNAMIKON)

  Taking the example of leisure-time mobility, the research project DYNAMIKON examines what short- and medium-term factors are responsible for changes in consumer behaviour. Consideration is given not only to economic factors, [...] More

• Coordination Action for innovation in Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability (CALCAS) Koordiniertes Projekt

  ife Cycle Assessment (LCA) according to ISO has been the driving power for LCA diffusion, but it has limitations regarding empirical mechanisms, spatial/temporal aspects and economic/social parameters. To increase the [...] More

• EXPEED - Export potential from services for renewable energies service categories, lead market potentials and the development of internationalisation strategies

  Renewable energy sources are a national and international growth market. In particular, countries with so-called lead markets which are quick to develop successful export strategies can hope to achieve long-term employment [...] More

• Opportunities for small and medium-sized service providers in the environmental sector in China

  This project examines the opportunities and risks of exporting environment-related services in the waste water sector to China. In a multi-stage empirical process, which is based on interviews with institutions concerned with [...] More

• Conference „Land Use and Climate Change Mitigation Policies“

  The conference „land use and climate change mitigation policies“ discussed the mitigation potentials of agriculture, biomass for energy generation and peatland renaturation for carbon storage and the trade-offs and synergies [...] More

• Increasing the acceptance and use of mineral secondary raw materials, taking account of the protected interests and application-related requirements of potential macro-economic benefits as well as sectoral economic incentives.

  Well over half the waste generated in Germany is mineral waste. It represents a major potential for resource conservation. Huge quantities of natural, mineral raw materials, such as natural stone, sand, gravel and the [...] More

• Enabling Developing Countries to seize eco-label opportunities

  In 2007, UNEP started a project started which promotes eco-labelling in Brazil, China, India, Kenya and the South East African Region, Mexico and South Africa. The project is funded by the European Commission and the German [...] More

• Futures and Visions: Forest 2100

  Systematic preparation for the world of tomorrow would appear the most logical course of action. Consequently, the project “Forest Futures 2100” wants to illuminate the horizon of expectable, possible and desirable future [...] More

• The Sustainability of DG SANCO policies – New Consumption and Production Patterns

  The main objective of this project was to conduct a process of policy reflection through a professionally facilitated series of three workshops, including a fundamental pre- and after-workshop phase. In doing so the proposed [...] More

• Climate Impacts of Agriculture

  The agriculture in Germany accounts for a significant degree of greenhouse gas emissions. In climate protection strategies (i.e. the energy and climate programme of the federal government), the contribution of the agriculture [...] More

• Assessing the potential of various instruments for sustainable consumption practices and greening of the market (ASCEE)

  Sustainable consumption is a much-discussed topic. To ensure that things move beyond the level of discussion and knowledge of sustainable action also penetrates to the consumers, functional instruments for integrating [...] More

• Dendrom - Future perspectives of wooden biomass (so called "dendromass")

  Currently a rapidly growing demand for biomass (largely due to energetic usage like electric power, heat and bio fuels but also material usage like wood materials and paper) is meeting a falling supply of adequate resources [...] More

• Current energy and climate policy framework conditions (international, EU, Germany)

  The short study constitutes a contribution to the development of an energy and climate protection strategy for Vodafone. In the context of a background paper for the company Vodafone AG, the IÖW described the energy and [...] More

• Relief Effects for the Environment through Nanotechnological Processes and Products

  The project “Relief Effects for the Environment through Nanotechnological Processes and Products”, conducted in cooperation with Bremen University, is aimed at the prospective identification and evaluation of the potential [...] More

• Future markets in forest-wood chain (ZUFO) Verbesserung der Innovations- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit am Beispiel des Holzbaus in der Region Allgäu

  The project ZUFO pursues a modular and multi-dimensional analysis of an exemplary forest-timber-chain in the wood construction sector. Together with businesses and associations, it aims at pointing out practical development [...] More