Memberships & Networks

Our staff participate in numerous bodies. This provides an interface where the Institute can disseminate the knowledge it gathers by performing scientific studies and conducting practical projects in the field. Networks involving research partners and organizations in the field provide further forums for a continuous exchange of knowledge. Here is a list of bodies, networks and organizations in which our staff are members or with which we cooperate:

Memberships

• Aircraft nose commission
• Board of trustees of the consumer protection agency (Stiftung Warentest)
• Compliance mechanism committee (emissions trading working party) in the Environment Directorate-General of the European Commission
• „Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I of the Convention” at „United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”
• Consumer and Food Policy Committee of the Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
• DECHEMA (German Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology) working group on “The evaluation of biomass processes”
• DIN standardization committee for the principles of environmental protection – greenhouse gas emissions – at the Deutsche Institut for Normung e.V. (DIN)
• Energy Commission for Munich, the Bavarian capital city
• “European chemicals policy” working party of the commission of the state government of Lower Saxony
• EU Experts on flexible mechanisms under the EU Working Party for International Environment (WPIE)
• Euratom Scientific and Technical Committee
• Expert group in connection with the Swiss procedure for selecting the location for a radioactive waste repository
• German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)
• German-French Commission on the safety of nuclear installations
• German Reactor Safety Commission (RSK)
• IEA Bioenergy Task 40 "Sustainable Bioenergy Trade"
• Radiation Protection Commission of the German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
• StEP-Initiative (=Solving the E-Waste Problem). Multi-Stakeholder Initiative from UN Organisations, Research Institutes and Industry
• UNEP-SETAC Task Force „Integration of Social Aspects into LCA“
• Working Party VI of the inter-ministry working group “CO₂ Reduction” at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety

Networks

• Association for Ecological Economic Research
• Climate Action Network
• Environmental Law Network International (ELNI)
• European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
• European Green Electricity Network (EUGENE)
• International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, Industrial Transformation Programs
• Network of the German NGO Forum on Environment and Development (LAND)
• Environmental research network (Ökoforum)
• Network of young politologists
• Science and Technology for Sustainable Development Network
• Society for Environmental Law
• Society for Scientific and Technical Research (GWTF)
• Sustainable Transformation
• Technology Assessment Network (NTA)
• The German section of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE)
• Working parties “Environmental Policy & Global Change” and “Policy and Technology” of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW)
• Young Human Dimensions Researchers Network (YHDR)