Publications

This report provides in-depth insights into the factors influencing emissions trading in the European carbon market and potential economic impacts on the market structure, based on three analyses: (i) a legal analysis of the various changes in EU financial market regulation, and their potential impact on actors in the European carbon market; (ii) an empirical analysis of actors in the EU-ETS, a

Based on a methodological approach developed by Branger und Quirion (2015), the authors analyse the drivers governing the development of CO2 emissions from cement production from 2005 to 2018 for the EU28 as a whole and selected EU countries using the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition method.

Effective policies to mitigate climate change need to be accompanied by a socially just transition.

This study examines the role of nature-based solutions (NbS) for global climate protection and in international climate policy. It provides a critical assessment of global mitigation potentials of NbS in forests, croplands, grasslands, terrestrial and coastal wetlands, and settlements and provides recommendations for international climate policy such as under UNFCCC.

Diese Fallstudie untersuchte den durch den Systemwechsel von der Plan- zur Marktwirtschaft ausgelösten Strukturwandel in der Lausitz im Zeitraum 1990-2015.

This case study examined the structural change in Lusatia caused by the system change from a centrally planned economy to a market economy in the period 1990-2015.

This case study examined the structural change in the Ruhr area caused by the low international competitiveness of German hard coal mining over the period from the late 1950s to 2015.

Diese Fallstudie untersuchte den durch die geringe Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Steinkohlebergbaus ausgelösten Strukturwandel im Ruhrgebiet vom Ende der 1950er Jahre bis 2015.

Der Bericht erläutert die Ergebnisse von Untersuchungen zur Stoffauslaugung durch Regen in zwei Berliner Neubaugebieten. Biozide aus Fassaden, Wurzelschutzmittel aus Dachbahnen, sowie Zink aus Dach und Fassade gelangten in Konzentrationen in den Regenkanal, die über Zielwerten für Gewässer liegen. Auch Transformationsprodukte der Biozide traten auf.

The final report describes the execution and outcomes of a series of three thematic conferences which aimed to pave the way for an international exchange on challenges of advanced materials for chemical safety and sustainability.

The European Non-Financial Reporting Directive requires certain large undertakings to disclose sustainability-related information. The Directive is currently being revised and renamed to Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). One of the main innovations of the European Commission’s proposal for the CSRD is the development of uniform European Sustainability Reporting Standards.

In der Pilotstudie Kleingewässermonitoring wurden in ganz Deutschland Bäche in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft zu landwirtschaftlich genutzten Flächen untersucht. Die Ergebnisse machen deutlich, dass Rückstände von Pflanzenschutzmitteln (PSM) regelmäßig bei Regen in bedenklichen Mengen in die angrenzenden Gewässer gespült werden: