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 [...]
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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), [...]
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Based on a short questionaire and the last heat cost billing CO2online compiles heating surveys for landlords and lodgers. Due to the heat cost billing and the reply of the questionaire, the heating survey includes [...]
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The big four German energy suppliers - E.ON, RWE, Vattenfall and EnBW - are also committed to developing renewable energies. This impression is at least supported by television commercials, billboards and other marketing [...]
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Domestic space heating and hot water account for over a quarter of final energy requirements in Germany. An energy-efficiency refurbishment of buildings could reduce this energy consumption and the related CO2 emissions by up [...]
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Communities are important drivers in the development of renewable energies. They can benefit at the same time because, as a rule, previously imported energy feedstocks or final energy will be replaced by local energy sources, [...]
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The city of Berlin is developing an integrated energy concept for 2020. In cooperation with the Berlin Energy Agency the IOEW will identify realizable technical potentials for renewable energy sources up until 2020 and [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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This research project aims to explore the particular features of global-local governance that are nowadays so distinctive in the field of climate change. These features include the complex relationships between global, [...]
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The research and developement projekt PVACCEPT (funded by EU) is investigating the thesis about about the role of non-technical and non-economical factors that influence the diffusion of photovoltaics, especially the role of [...]
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