Johanna Jacobs

Recent projects

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• Biodiversity

  Together for environmentally sound consumption - information, communication and international cooperation

  06/16/2020

  From a sustainability perspective, the achievement of a change of direction towards more sustainable production and consumption patterns presents an urgent problem which has to be addressed under high time pressure. This is especially true for the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity. Th

• Waste management

  Environmentally sound disposal and recycling of e-waste: Expert pool policy advice

  03/01/2020

  Germany has started a bilateral cooperation with Ghana in 2016 to improve the conditions towards a sustainable e-waste management. The effort involves a technical cooperation project implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The technical cooperation project en

• End devices

  Utopia Product 2020. Particularly environmentally friendly products at Saturn: Current EcoTopTen product recommendations

  01/01/2020

  In 2012, Öko-Institut, Utopia and Saturn entered into a cooperation aimed at promoting the proportion of resource-saving appliances in households through targeted consumer information. The cooperation was continued in the following years and will be continued in 2020. The most energy-efficient wa

• Food systems

  Organic farming in the context of transformation impulses towards a sustainable regional food system

  10/01/2019

  The aim of the ÖkoTransRES research network was to develop action strategies for the promotion of organic farming at regional level in exchange with social actors, to evaluate them systematically according to a broad set of sustainability criteria, to provide an ethical foundation in a participat

• End devices

  Utopia Product 2019. Especially environmentally friendly products at Saturn: Current EcoTopTen product recommendations

  01/01/2019

  In 2012, Öko-Institut, Utopia and Saturn entered into a cooperation aimed at promoting the proportion of resource-saving appliances in households through targeted consumer information. The cooperation was continued in the following years and especially in 2019. The most energy-efficient washing m

• Procurement

  Updating of six product guidelines for sustainable procurement

  11/01/2018

  In the past, Oeko-Institut, together with the Landesanstalt für Umwelt Baden-Württemberg (LUBW), has produced guidelines and product guides for environmentally friendly and socially responsible purchasing in municipalities for various products and services. These were revised after agreement bet

Recent publications

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  Findings from the pilot incentive system for waste cables from March 2018 to August 2019

  Incentive Based Collection of E-Waste in Ghana

  April 2020

  In countries like Ghana, approaches to improve e-waste management depend on the involvement of the informal sector. In this context the Öko-Institut has developed and tested an incentive-based approach. It aims to encourage informal collectors and recyclers to abandon highly polluting practices suc

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  Presentation on the World Resources Forum, 23-24.10.2019

  Incentive based collection of e-waste – Results from pilot implementation in Ghana

  October 2019

  Improvement strategies for e-waste management in countries like Ghana require the buy-in of the informal sector. In that context, an incentive-based approach was developed and tested. It aims at motivating informal collectors and recyclers to refrain from polluting practices such as the open burning

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  CCQI scores for IFM projects point to substantial integrity risks

  Blog 03/25/2024

  The Carbon Credit Quality Initiative (CCQI) has released new scores for the integrity risks of carbon credits from improved forest management (IFM) projects. We find that unrealistic baselines and underestimated leakage are likely to lead to significant overestimation of emission reductions or removals under all assessed methodologies. The likelihood of additionality depends strongly on the forest management practices that are implemented. The sustainable development benefits are more limited compared to most other project types.

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  Alternative reactor concepts do not solve the repository problem

  Press releases 03/21/2024

  A new scientific study commissioned by the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) indicates that the market launch of alternative reactor concepts (also known as "Generation IV") is currently not on the horizon. "Despite some intensive advertising by manufacturers, we currently see no development that would make the construction of alternative reactor types on a large scale likely in the coming years. On the contrary: "From a safety perspective, we should expect the potential advantages of these reactor concepts to be outweighed by the disadvantages and the questions that remain unresolved," says BASE President Christian Kühn, and emphasises that "The concepts solve neither the need to find a repository for radioactive waste nor the pressing issues of climate protection."