Publications
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Social, economic and environmental challengesin primary lithium and cobalt sourcing for the rapidly increasing electric mobility sector
STRADE Policy Brief 06/2018
STRADE is an EU-funded research project focusing on the development of dialogue-based, innovative policy recommendations for a European strategy on future raw materials supplies. In a series of policy briefs and reports,the project will...
How to make energy efficiency policies in buildings deliver?
The role of refurbishment companies and skilled craft workers
Presentation by Dr. Sibylle Braungardt and Tanja Kenkmann, IEPPEC 2018, Vienna, 26th June.
Alleviating Energy Poverty in Germany
Best-Practice from across the EU
Presentation by Viktoria Noka, IEPPEC 2018, Vienna, 25th June.
Evaluation of the German National Climate Initiative (NCI)
Impacts and success factors and insights into the continued evaluation of the funding program
Presentation by Carina Zell-Ziegler, IEPPEC 2018, Vienna, 25th June.
Policies and measures to alleviate energy poverty in Germany - learning from good practices in other European countries
Oeko-Institut Working Paper 4/2018
The inability to heat or cool your home. Difficulty keeping the light on and appliances running. Restrictions in energy consumption. Worrying about energy bills. Potential Debt. This is how we can broadly understand energy poverty. It is...
Contribution of Renewable Cooling to the Renewable Energy Target of the EU
This report collects background information on current and future cooling demand in the EU as well as renewable cooling technologies and discusses possible methodological approaches for calculating renewable cooling in the RES-Directive.
...Assessment of the implementation of Directive 2000/53/EU on end-of-life vehicles (the ELV Directive) with emphasis on the end of life vehicles of unknown whereabouts
Under the Framework Contract: Assistance to the Commission on technical, socio-economic and cost benefit assessments related to the implementation and further development of EU waste legislation
Vehicles of ‘unknown whereabouts’ are vehicles that are deregistered but without a Certificate of Destruction (CoD) issued or available to the authorities and also with no information available indicating that the vehicle has been...
Electromobility – Fact check
Frequently asked questions
In view of global climate change and air pollution problems in cities, there is growing pressure for action to be taken to reduce transport emissions and end this sector’s dependency on fossil fuels. Electric vehicles are a...
The concept of “regulatory innovation zones” and the German SINTEG ordinance
Presentation by Dr. Dierk Bauknecht, 3rd National Stakeholders Coordination Group Meeting, Malmö, 22 May 2018
Radioactive waste management - a sociotechnical challenge
Insights of the SOTEC-radio project
Presentation by Anne Akinsara-Minhans (Öko-Institut e.V.), Ana Isidoro Losada (FFU) and Sophie Kuppler (ITAS), STS Conference, 7th May 2018, Graz
Interlinkages between Articles 4, 6 and 13 and timing issues
Workshop on robust accounting under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
Presentation by Anke Herold, Workshop on "Robust accounting under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement", 30.4.2018, Bonn
Destination Paris: Why the EU’s climate policy will derail without energy efficiency
Without bold energy efficiency policies, it will be impossible to reach the goals articulated in the Paris Agreement. This is the main finding of authors from the Regulatory Assistance Project, Öko-Institut, and Stefan Scheuer...
“Let’s make a wish!” - Annual Report of the Oeko-Institut 2017
Ensuring a Sustainable Supply of Raw Materials for Electric Vehicles
A Synthesis Paper on Raw Material Needs for Batteries and Fuel Cells
The mobility transition is urgently needed to slash energy consumption in the transport sector without restricting mobility as a whole. To make the transport sector largely climate neutral by the middle of the century, it is imperative...
Report on the Fact Finding Mission on the Management and Recycling of End-of-life Batteries used in Solar Home Systems in Myanmar
In Myanmar many rural households are not connected to the electricity grid. In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal No. 7 on affordable and clean energy, the Department of Rural Development (DRD) of the Ministry of...
Integrating a carbon floor price in the policy mix for Germany’s coal phase-out
Presentation on the Study conducted on behalf of WWF Germany
Presentation by Dr. Felix Chr. Matthes, Hauke Herman, Charlotte Loreck and Dr. Sylvie Ludig, March 19th 2018, Berlin
ETC/ACM Technical Paper 2017/13
Analysis of drivers of historic and future ESD emission trends
The Effort Sharing Decision (ESD, Decision No 406/2009) establishes national burden sharing targets for EU Member States. It focusses on those categories that are not covered by the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and those that do not...
IMO’s challenges on the route to decarbonising international shipping Key Issues at Stake at the 72nd Session of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 72)
Despite efficiency improvements, CO2 emissions from international shipping are projected to be two to five times higher in 2050 than in 1990. At the Paris climate conference, countries agreed to limit climate change to well below 2°C....
How many nuclear weapons does North Korea have?
Or, what is a nuclear weapon?
Presentation by Dr. Matthias Englert, "Talk at DPG", March 8th 2018, Erlangen
Accounting for baseline targets
OECD CCXG Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change
Presentation by Anke Herold (Research Coordinator International Climate Policy) at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France.