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Co-Transforming Regional Energy Landscapes

December 2025

Presentation by Dr. Melanie Mbah and Ryan Kelly, BEHAVE 2025, 11.12.2025, Paris.

The relevance of social impacts and fairness perceptions for acceptability of climate-policy instruments - and implications for research and policy-making in tough times

December 2025

Presentation by Dirk Arne Heyen, RIFS Conference 2025 “Tough Conversations in Tough Times”, Berlin, 4th Dec 2025

Correlation or Causation? Challenges in Assessing the Effect of Carbon Credit Use on Corporate Climate Action

November 2025

In this study, we assess the challenges and prospects of investigating whether and how the use of carbon credits affects corporate internal emission reductions. To this end, we review the existing literature related to the use of carbon credits and corporate emission reductions, conduct qualitative

Empowering rural Spain: Lessons from Guzman renovable’s energy transition

November 2025

Energy communities are increasingly gaining importance in Spain’s shift toward sustainable energy systems. The European Union (EU) directives 2018/2011 and 2019/ 944 (Directive, 2019) introduced the concept of Renewable Energy Communities (REC) and Citizen Energy Communities (CEC). Spain has adopt

Scope, scale and strategy: Insights from the evaluation of company specific decarbonization plans

November 2025

This paper presents the first scientific analysis of Germany’s Module 5 funding program, which supports companies in developing strategic decarbonization plans for individual or multiple sites in Germany. Introduced in 2021 as part of the federal funding scheme “Energy and Resource Efficiency in

Data reported by companies on the production, import, export and destruction of fluorinated greenhouse gases in the European Union, 2007-2024

ETC CM report 2025/05: Fluorinated greenhouse gases 2025

November 2025

This annual report of the European Environment Agency (EEA) provides a summary of the information reported on the production, import, export and destruction of fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) in the European Union since 2007 as required by the EU F-gases Regulation 2024/574 (FGR) and previous

2025

Guidance for stakeholders on applying COP29 Article 6 decisions

November 2025

This document provides targeted insights into how the decisions of the 29th Conference of the Parties apply in practice, helping stakeholders understand their responsibilities when participating in Article 6 activities. It includes process diagrams, clarifies stakeholder roles, and highlights key co

Assessment of risks, opportunities, and alternatives for promoting carbon farming

Temporary Carbon Units from Carbon Farming and EU Agri-food Climate Policy

November 2025

This report explores approaches for promoting carbon farming which includes practices that result in the temporary storage of carbon in natural ecosystems or the reduction of soil emissions. While such measures are key to mitigating climate change and deliver important other environmental benefits i

Assessment of the proposal by the European Council

The EU’s 2040 climate target

November 2025

On 5 November Member States agreed their position on the 2040 climate target in the Environ-ment Council. This policy brief analyses this outcome and builds upon our Policy Brief The pro-posed 2040 climate target for the EU (Oeko-Institut 2025) which assessed the proposal by the European Commission

Trends and projections in Europe 2025

EEA report 08/2025

November 2025

This report explores the historical trends, most recent progress and projected future developments in climate change mitigation through reduced greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy gains and improved energy efficiency. It builds upon data reported by all 27 European Union (EU) Member States, f

Study: The COP30 Climate Change Conference

November 2025

This study provides an overview of the status of international climate negotiations ahead of the Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025. This full study covers the framework of COP negotiations and main expected issues, while adding a discussion of the climate polic

Factsheet: The COP30 Climate Change Conference

November 2025

From 10 to 21 November 2025, the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) will take place in Belém, Brazil. The COP is the main international conference that addresses the global response to climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Representatives from

Final summary report

Support to the Preparation of Social Climate Plans

October 2025

The European Commission supports the preparation of national Social Climate Plans (SCPs) in nine Member States, namely Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia. In addition, Greece is receiving similar technical support under a separate project of broader

An analysis of the new sector in the EU ETS 1

The extension of the EU ETS 1 to maritime transport: market and policy mix analysis

October 2025

The aim of this report is to analyse the (economic) impacts of the extension of the EU ETS 1 to maritime transport on the sector and the interlinkages with other policies considering the overall climate impacts.

Factsheet

Potential of blue carbon for global climate mitigation

October 2025

Coastal ecosystems function as natural carbon sinks, thereby playing a vital role in the global carbon cycle. Blue Carbon ecosystems have been found to be effective carbon storage mechanisms, whilst also providing a habitat for biodiversity and enhancing coastal resilience. This factsheet provide

Policy Brief

Does the CRCF methodology for permanent removals align with the PACM?

October 2025

This policy brief assesses the extent to which the methodology proposed by the European Com-mission under the Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming Regulation (CRCF) for Direct Air Cap-ture with Carbon Storage (DACCS), Biogenic Emissions Capture with Carbon storage (BioCCS) and Biochar Carbon Removal (B

From policy to action

Follow-up | Overview of Renewable Energy Spatial Planning and Designation of Acceleration Areas in Selected EU Member States

October 2025

This study presents an updated overview of the efforts made by 10 selected European Member States (MSs) to implement the amended Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) concerning mapping for renewables. Specifically, it examines Art. 15b, which mandates MSs to conduct a coordinated spatial mapping for

Working Paper 6/2025

Considerations on the further development of the EU car label

September 2025

With the goal to minimize the energy demand from electric cars and vans, this paper analyses how the car label could be redesigned to raise consumer awareness on BEV efficiency and, thereby, potentially increase the demand for vehicles with a lower energy consumption. Several possible base metrics f

Inputs to the draft ART TREES 3.0 standard

September 2025

This document includes all comments that Oeko-Institut provided to the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) in a public consultation on the draft Version 3.0 of its “The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES)”.

Joint Project TRAVARIS: Transfer of long-lived radionuclides from the vadose zone to the rhizosphere and their uptake by plants, taking microbiological processes into account

Long-Term Impact on Humans from a Repository for Radioactive Waste: Experimentally Verified Radioecological Biosphere Model

September 2025

Presentation by Dr Veronika Ustohalova & Dr Anna Kopp, safeND 2025, 17–19 September 2025, Berlin.

Third interdisciplinary research symposium on the safety of nuclear disposal practices, Berlin, Germany, 17–19 Sep 2025, safeND2025 71

Regional development in the context of major infrastructure projects: implementation, regional application and conditions for success

September 2025

This contribution focuses on conceptual considerations regarding the delineation of a region, the identification of its endogenous potentials and possible methods and institutions for regional development. Regions are ‘historically evolved units, culturally and economically intertwined geographica

Regional development in the context of major infrastructure projects: implementation, regional application and conditions for success

September 2025

Presentation by Franziska Sperfeld and Ryan Kelly, safeND-Conference 2025, Berlin 19.09.2025

Identifying drivers of emissions trends in the EU ETS Annex to the final report of project no. FKZ 3719 42 505 0

Annex B: Decomposition of CO2 emissions from iron and steelmaking in the EU

September 2025

Analysis of selected sectors and countries

Effectiveness of EU Emissions Trading: What drives emission developments?

September 2025

European emissions trading (EU ETS) is a central component of German and European climate policy. This final report summarises the results of a research project that investigated the causes of emissions trends in the most relevant sectors in terms of emissions (combustion, iron and steel industry, c