Press releases

Sustainability strategy for EURO 2024 shows that environmentally friendly sports events are possible

Opportunities and risks of genome editing: Oeko-Institut calls for informed assessment

Start of the ANTICSS project: Anti-Circumvention of Standards for better market Surveillance

German companies jeopardise the environment and human rights

Quotas for electro-mobility and rules on battery recycling: is China a step ahead of the EU?

Electric road freight: German-Swedish research collaboration has started

Electromobility – Fact check

Sustainable textile production in Bangladesh – what duty of care is called for?

Germany 2049: Transition to a sustainable use of raw materials. An agenda for action

“40 years – Let’s make a wish!” The Oeko-Institut launches its anniversary celebrations

Nuclear facilities in crisis areas: an underrated threat

Innovative and efficient – ProCold is awarding the most energy efficient professional and commercial refrigeration equipment in five categories

Strategies to accelerate Germany’s coal phase-out

Germany 2049: Transition to a sustainable use of raw materials. Goals and actions

Electric mobility: Opportunities for climate protection in Europe

Oeko-Institut designs a roadmap for a sustainable use of raw materials

75 raw materials, 11 sustainability criteria, 4 areas of need and 2 scenarios – the transition to a sustainable use of raw materials makes a detailed analysis necessary. For a future raw materials policy that is sustainable, Oeko-Institut has defined material-specific targets and instruments for different groups of raw materials for the first time.

Increased bioenergy demand to put pressure on forests

A new study shows that increased demand for biomass for energy in Europe, through intensified use of existing forests, could lead to loss of biodiversity and high competition for wood between sectors, and proposes policies to help preserve biodiversity while also limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

The deadly business of lead recycling – now on the agenda of the United Nations

When the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) meets in Nairobi on Monday, its agenda will include one of the new and major health and environmental hazards facing many African countries today: the recovery of lead from waste batteries.

Civil society demands action, not words, on nanotechnology

NGOs, consumer groups and research organisations have expressed disappointment with the European Commission's continuing failure to propose adequate measures for the collection and publication of information about nanomaterials on the EU market after a Commission meeting with stakeholders in Brussels on Monday.

EU land and forests can help EU be more ambitious on climate, new study shows

As the ratification process for the Paris Agreement begins, a new study shows how the EU’s new policy on land and forests is essential to curb climate change given the Commission’s reluctance to increase climate targets.

Declaration: Precautionary Approach Critical on Waste Containing Nanomaterials

In today’s Declaration on Waste Containing Nanomaterials, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), ECOS, and the Oeko-Institut emphasize the importance of adopting and implementing preventive measures to protect people and the environment from possible hazards of manufactured nanomaterials (MNMs) in waste streams.

Europe: Renewable energy is growing, coal-fired electricity production remaining constant

The use of renewable energies in Europe is continuing to expand: in 2015 EU member states were able to fulfil approx. a third of their electricity consumption using renewable energies such as wind, hydro and solar power.

Fridge recycling: Joint processing yields environmental benefits

When end-of-life refrigeration appliances are treated, some of the waste appliances being sent for recycling contain chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), while others are CFC-free.

A Sustainable Raw-Materials Strategy for Europe

The “Strategic Dialogue on Sustainable Raw Materials for Europe” (STRADE), a 3-year research project (through 2018) to develop scientifically validated recommendations for a long-term European strategy on raw materials, successfully held its project kickoff in Darmstadt, Germany in January 2016.

Olympia 2024: First comprehensive Sustainability Concept for Hamburg

Today, the Hamburg 2024 Bid Company and the city of Hamburg introduce you to the sustainability concept for the application to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Transition to sustainable raw materials management needed in Germany

In order to produce, further process and use raw materials responsibly in the future, comprehensive and material-specific sustainability targets are needed. These targets must take into account environmental and social challenges in equal measure.

For a better protection of human health and the environment: The Lead Recycling Africa Project

International study: efficient waste management for more climate protection

In India and Egypt as well as in the USA waste management can contribute significantly more to climate protection than at present. The climate protection potentials of waste management in these three countries – as well as other OECD und EU member states – are far from exhausted.

Civil society gives impetus for sustainable change

New research shows risk of including land use and forests in EU’S emissions target

Reality check: obsolescence

Research for more climate protection in buildings

Sustainability handbook for companies

Launch of “Germany 2049: Transition to a sustainable use of raw materials” project

Improving the recycling of rare earths in electric motors

Free-floating car-sharing: positive assessment for electric vehicles

Resources and waste: Data and statistics in the EU

Hannover Fair: Optimizing the recycling of power electronics in electric vehicles

Lead-acid batteries from Ghana successfully recycled

Ageing nuclear reactors are endangering safety in Europe

3D printers: hype or hope?

Fast progress being made across Europe on research geared to nearly zero energy building

Recycling comes first – Energy transformation without refuse incineration

Rethinking sufficiency: changing our lifestyles and the world of work

CSR – How much voluntary commitment is enough?

BDI and Oeko-Institut present suggestions for the management of conflict minerals

Companies strengthen Blue Angel as international eco-label

Making public procurement more sustainable

Germany does not need any foreign nuclear power

REACH – better informed about nanomaterials?

Rare earth refining in Malaysia without coherent waste management concept

“Save 1,000 Euros of electricity” campaign

What do sustainable mobility concepts look like?

Frequent replacement of notebooks harms the climate and the environment

Setting a trend for the re-use of smartphones

The best of two worlds: Project launched on sustainable recycling of scrap metal in Africa

‘Entranze’: Support for EU policy makers for nearly-Zero Energy Buildings

Space cooling has to be renewable

Market participation of renewable energies should not be for its own sake – EU-wide overview

E-waste in Africa: Risks, challenges and solutions

Company electric vehicles: GHG mitigation potentials

Growing acceptance of electric vehicles in commercial vehicle fleets

Electric vehicles only contribute to climate protection with additional renewable electricity production

Technologies of the future and resources – rare earths a sticking point?

Notebooks, electric cars and their relation to the Congo – Status and perspectives of cobalt mining

FIFA Women’s World Cup 2011 publishes environmental audit

A new standard for determining CO2 emissions in freight transport

The Bioenergy and Water Nexus

A small step for light bulbs, a big step for climate protection

Energy efficiency and promotion: How policy can foster sustainable housing

Making a meal of it: Sustainable consumption is more than just eating less meat

Sustainability indicators for bioenergy recognised internationally

Rare earths – A turning point for efficiency and recycling

EcoTransIT World – Calculating emissions for freight transport by air and sea worldwide

E-waste – moving beyond good and evil

Climate Protection with Bioenergy? Yes, but…

Green Transformation towards a Sustainable Industrial Policy for Europe

PCF Pilot Project Germany presents three new corporate partners from the wholesale, retail and chemicals sectors