Publications

The monetization of environmental effects allows for their aggregation and comparison and thereby facilitates the integration of these effects into political, managerial and financial decision making. Potential use cases include strategic decision making, benefit-cost-analyses, regulatory impact assessments, policy development, risk assessments, reporting and public relations.

The HBM4EU network brought together over 100 partner institutions from EU member states as well as Norway, Iceland, Israel, and Switzerland. The 17 work packages strengthened the interface between science and policy, for example by prioritizing substances and translating research findings into policy processes.

Europe’s chemicals economy is vital to the economy and society. Throughout their life cycle, chemicals contribute to environmental pollution, biodiversity loss and health risks.

The report provides a comprehensive overview of the potential benefits of energy disclosure for electricity, gas, hydrogen, and heating and cooling. Energy disclosure regulations vary among individual EU member states. The report highlights the need for harmonization at the European level. A methodology for evaluating existing or proposed disclosure systems is presented and applied.

Many small and medium-sized non-road mobile machines (NRMM) can be electrified by 2050 from a technical standpoint. For large machines with high power requirements, however, limitations remain. The study therefore recommends a combination of electrification, targeted regulatory incentives, and the use of renewable fuels for applications that are difficult to electrify.

Life cycle analyses (LCA) were conducted for 56 production pathways for hydrogen (green, blue, turquoise), ammonia, methane, methanol, dimethyl ether (DME) and Fischer-Tropsch products, supplemented by 12 target scenarios for optimized future technologies.

On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the Working Group on Renewable Energy Statistics (AGEE-Stat) takes stock of the use of renewable energies and annually prepares an official estimate of the development of renewable energies for the previous year.

As part of the project, an assessment of strategies to reduce land consumption was conducted for selected countries. Among other things, the study examined which national targets and instruments exist in other countries, what progress has been made in implementing them, and whether there are obstacles to effective land-conservation policies.

The project used high-resolution spatial and temporal simulations of the ERGOM-MOM 3D ecosystem model to review existing nutrient reduction targets for the Western Baltic Sea. Scenario simulations were used to assess the effects of reduction measures on improving water quality.

The report proposes an integrated, tiered assessment strategy for aquatic and terrestrial bioaccumulation, combining in silico, in vitro, and invertebrate approaches to minimise vertebrate testing while maintaining the current level of environmental protection.

This publication presents a scenario-based modelling assessment of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS 1) and the FuelEU Maritime Regulation (FEUM), evaluating their individual and combined impacts on the decarbonisation of the European maritime transport sector.

The Marine Strategy Framework Directive requires a regular assessment of the eutrophication status of the North Sea and Baltic Sea. The basis for the assessment for Germany is the reference condition based on historical nutrient inputs around 1880.