Currently, rented apartment buildings are still rarely ambitiously renovated in terms of energy efficiency. Landlords perceive such refurbishments as challenging, not least because the economic benefits are low, and the [...] More

Housing companies play a decisive role in achieving the goal of a climate-neutral building stock. Unlike private actors, they always have the entire portfolio in mind when it comes to energy-efficient refurbishment and [...] More

Biochar can remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store carbon in the long-term. In the pyrolysis production process, biomass residues are converted into coal at high temperatures and in the absence of oxygen. Pyrolysis also [...] More

The effects of climate change are already visible in the Stuttgart Region today – primarily through increasing heat stress and frequent heavy rainfall events. In the ISAP I project an online information and advisory system [...] More

More extreme weather events, health risks and economic uncertainties: Germany must prepare for the consequences of climate change. As decided in the 2021 coalition agreement, the German government therefore wants to develop a [...] More

The Elbe-Elster region in the south of the state of Brandenburg is affected by the phase-out of lignite mining and the associated change processes. It is part of the structural change region of Lusatia. Based on the status [...] More

The heating transition in the building sector is picking up speed. However, building owners are not sufficiently aware of this: New and far-reaching requirements of federal funding for efficient buildings and the Building [...] More

A structural strengthening through the energy transition ”can only succeed together with the people for whom the regions are part of their identity and home with tradition and future”. This call by the Coal Commission to [...] More

Heating networks play an important role in climate-neutral heat supply. The project aims to provide scientific support for the implementation of a grid-connected supply approach in the center of Leeste in the Lower Saxon [...] More

What value creation and employment potential do renewable energies offer the regions in Germany? How can municipalities and citizens benefit from the regional economic effects and what opportunities are there to exploit the [...] More