Publications

Compared to the last study of 2016, the study on environmental awareness in Germany 2018 shows that the importance of environmental protection and climate action gained in significance in the eyes of the population. The expectations towards relevant actors seem to have increased as well.

The political debate on raising EU’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target for 2030 from at least 40 percent up to 55 percent or even higher is in full swing. While the European Commission has proposed to reduce emissions by at least 55 percent below 1990 levels, the European Parliament went a step further and adopted a target of 60 percent emissions reductions.

Die Covid-19-Pandemie in der ersten Hälfte des Jahres 2020 hat das Alltagshandeln und Alltagsdenken der Menschen in Deutschland massiv beeinflusst.

The planetary boundaries concept was formulated in 2009 by a research group led by J. Rockström and revised by W. Steffen et al. in 2015. The most important challenges for the further processing of the concept include the translation, operationalization, utilization, downscaling and application of the concept.

The position paper reflects, which guiding principles for future environmental and sustainability policy might be necessary in addition to the existing ones in order to achieve firstly effective crisis management of current and possibly future pandemics and secondly the kick-off into socio-ecological transformations needed to reduce long-term environmental risks.

Zentrales Ergebnis dieses Forschungsberichts  sind konkrete politische Empfehlungen für die Bundesregierung in zehn Handlungsfeldern, die ein breites Spektrum von Handlungsmöglichkeiten zur Weiterentwicklung einer nachhaltigen Bioökonomie aufzeigen. Diese Ergebnisse geben wichtige politische Impulse, die Bioökonomiepolitiken der Bundesregierung (und ggf.

Unter bestimmten Umständen kann es zu einem Wechsel der Zuständigkeit für die Anerkennung zwischen dem Bund und den Ländern kommen.

This position paper is the result of the work of the EPA Network’s group on Green Stimulus and reflects the inputs of all participants of the group. It emphasizes the urgent need to use the EU’s Covid-19 recovery efforts to also address the climate and biodiversity crises.

The position paper discusses the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the global economy and geopolitics, for the countries of the Global South and for international environmental and sustainability policy. On this basis, the paper proposes approaches for a substantive reorientation of international environmental and sustainability policy.

The paper analyses 130 studies on green recovery programmes. It finds broad consensus on the need to use the Covid-19 recovery efforts to also address the climate and biodiversity crises. Consensus also exist on the benefits of green recovery programmes, the eligibility criteria to be applied and suitable areas of support.

Das Papier analysiert 130 Studien zu grünen Konjunkturprogrammen. Es besteht Konsens, dass die Covid-19-Maßnahmen auch die Klima- und Biodiversitätskrise bekämpfen sollten und sich grüne Fördermaßnahmen sehr gut zur Konjunkturbelebung eignen. Einigkeit besteht zudem über die anzulegenden Eignungskriterien und besonders geeignete Förderbereiche.

Ziele des Vorhabens war es, umweltrelevante Entwicklungen der Digitalisierung zu identifizieren und die Chancen der Digitalisierung für den Klima- und Umweltschutz zu untersuchen.