Projects of Dr. Florian Kern

• BEWEGT: The energy transition society Accompanying research for the energy transition and society funding priority in the energy research program

  

  The accompanying research and coordination project for the energy transition and society area of the energy research program, BEWEGT for short, pursues two strategic goals: Firstly, the projects are to be brought into an [...] More

• Multi-level governance of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) with use of biomass in cascades (BioCas)

  Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a top priority in achieving internationally agreed climate targets. However, modeling shows that reaching greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045 will also require additional approaches that [...] More

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  Adjusting sustainability policy in the context of multiple crises

  To achieve sustainability goals, production and consumption patterns must be fundamentally transformed. This goal is firmly anchored in politics and science, for example in the European Green Deal or the German Sustainability [...] More

• Contentious politics and democratic renewal in sustainability transitions (Trans4Demo)

  

  Pluralist liberal democracy is under pressure in many countries. Right-wing populists are achieving electoral success with slogans that are anti-European and directed against migration and sustainability. But supporters of an [...] More

• Policy Mix 4 Mobility Policy mixes for urban mobility transitions: Diffusing sustainable mobility options whilst reducing car dependency

  

  One of the greatest challenges facing cities is car dependency, which is linked to socio-economic inequalities, health issues, greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollution. Much work has gone into finding technological [...] More

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  Sustainable urban mobility in Europe and North America NUMEN

  The NUMEN project aims to collaborate with North American partners to develop research approaches focused on strategies for sustainable urban mobility that reduce car dependency in cities and promote sustainable [...] More

• Nature Credits State of the art, analysis of approaches and development of recommendations

  Nature credits are tradeable certificates in the form of a quantitatively measurable and verifiable unit that documents a positive contribution to biodiversity. They aim to preserve biological diversity and counteract [...] More

• Alliances for Environmental Protection II Transdisciplinary Collaboration between Environmental/Social Organizations and Academia on Issues of a Socially Just Resource Transition

  

  The resource crisis is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century, significantly driving both species extinction and the climate crisis. Over 90 percent of biodiversity loss and water scarcity, along with [...] More

• Bits & Bäume – advancing the alliance Enhancing the engagement at the nexus of digitalization and climate protection

  

  The civil society movement "Bits & Bäume" (B&B) works at the nexus of digitalization, sustainability, human rights and democracy. Ten NGOs and scientific organizations from the sustainability and/or digitalization scene, [...] More

• Just and effective governance for accelerating wind energy (JustWind4All)

  

  JustWind4All aims to support the acceleration of on- and offshore wind energy through just and effective governance. To this end, JustWind4All develops knowledge, practical guidelines, instruments, strategies, and trainings [...] More

• Shaping the socio-ecological transformation together in a just way Alliances of social, welfare, environmental associations and trade unions

  From both a social and an ecological perspective, the current economic and lifestyle practices in industrialized countries have serious negative impacts. They exploit the environment and pollute the climate and at the same [...] More

• Climate change and global finance at the crossroads Policy challenges, politico-economic dynamics, and sustainable transformation

  Humanity is facing a millennium challenge: the transformation of state, industry, and society towards zero CO2 emissions. This goal can only be achieved if the necessary financial resources are made available. The financial [...] More

• PaDiSo Participation in digitalized energy systems: Investigating social innovation processes

  

  The longstanding centralized fossil fuel energy system is increasingly losing importance. It is being replaced by an energy system characterized by decarbonization, decentralization, and digitalization. Where large-scale, [...] More

• Carbon Dioxide Removal: Recommendations for biodiversity-friendly implementation in Germany

  According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it will be necessary to actively remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere to effectively limit global warming to a maximum of 1,5 degrees. To this end, [...] More

• Hydrogen as a panacea? Importance and construction of directional certainty for key decisions on alternative transformation paths – INSIGHTS for policy making

  The German government as well as a range of industry stakeholders are putting a major emphasis on the importance of green hydrogen as a pathway to decarbonization, as exemplified by the National Hydrogen Strategy of 2020. The [...] More

• SustAIn – Sustainability Index for Artificial Intelligence

  The expectations for applications with artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision making are high in many societal end economic spheres. Whether it is speech or face recognition, recommendation systems, autonomous [...] More

• Effects of digitalisation on society and the protection of biological diversity

  The preservation of our natural resources and biological diversity is one of the generational tasks of the coming decades. Considering increasing social tensions, socio-technical change processes, social pluralization and [...] More

• Peer Innovation – Sustainable household sector innovations in collaborative networks New data sources and methods for collecting the contributions of online communities to innovation and sustainability

  

  In the PeerInnovation project, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research and the Technical University of Berlin investigated how people work together on innovative solutions to sustainability problems in their spare time [...] More

• Analysis of the EU policy mixes supporting transformation of European production-consumption systems

  The EU and other regions of the world face tremendous social, economic and environmental challenges. Current production and consumption systems are highly unsustainable, but are deeply embedded in current ways of life, [...] More

• New societal alliances for just transition pathways in Germany

  The climate and biodiversity crises continue to come to a dramatic head, while the political responses to these challenges remain inadequate, even after the ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court. Climate targets have [...] More

• ENGAGE – Participation for a Sustainable Common Good

  

  The project ENGAGE  explores the conditions under which civic participation contributes to a sustainable common good. The term refers to both - public common good of present and future generations and thus the protection of [...] More

• Bits & Bäume – Conference 2022 The conference for digitalisation and sustainability

  

  Bits & Bäume is the largest German civil society alliance at the nexus of sustainability and digitalisation. It tackles issues such as the raw material and electricity needs of digital devices, data sufficiency, cooperative [...] More

• ReCap – Capping Macro Rebounds Reconsidering the Role of Energy and Resource Productivity for Economic Growth, and Developing Policy Options for Capping Macro-Level Rebound Effects

  

  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 [...] More

• Social-ecological economy within planetary boundaries

  WWF's goal is to develop an attractive and convincing narrative that a more social and ecological economy is urgently needed due to the serious global environmental problems such as the loss of biodiversity, ocean [...] More

• The governance of deep transitions: The role of International Organisations

  The subproject ‘The governance of deep transitions: The role of international organisations’ is part of a larger research project based at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex (SPRU) in the UK and is [...] More