Publications
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Improving the accounting of renewable electricity in transport within the new EU Renewable Energy Directive
Policy paper for Transport & Environment
This policy paper assesses whether the proposed accounting rules for electricity consumed in the transport sector in the draft new EU Renewable Energy Directive are consistent and whether they create appropriate incentives for the...
An analysis of recent Member State proposals on rules for accounting of managed forest land and the impact on emissions
We use historic data reported by MS on managed forest land to UNFCCC until June 2016 and EUROSTAT1 and combine them with projections of LULUCF emissions and removals presented by European Commission (EC 2016a, 2016b). For consistency...
An analysis of recent Member State proposals on rules for accounting of managed forest land and the impact on emissions
We use historic data reported by MS on managed forest land to UNFCCC until June 2016 and EUROSTAT1 and combine them with projections of LULUCF emissions and removals presented by European Commission (EC 2016a, 2016b). For consistency...
Improving governance for responsible business
Stakeholder lab on recommendations for policy, civil society and the private sector
Prresentation for the GLOBAL VALUE Consortium by Franziska Wolff , 7. 6.2017, Brussels
ETC/ACM Technical Paper 2017/2
Estimate of historical emissions for stationary installations to reflect the current scope of the EU ETS (2013-2020)
The Emission Trading System (ETS) was launched in 2005. The two first trading periods were 2005–2007 and 2008–2012. In 2013, the EU ETS entered its third trading period, covering approximately 12 000 stationary installations. The scope...
EEA Report No 4/2017
Application of the European Union Emissions Trading Directive in 2015
Analysis of national responses under Article 21 of the EU ETS Directive.
The report was prepared on behalf of the European Environment Agency, as partner of the European Topic Centre on Air Pollution and Climate change Mitigation.
...Potential for restoring carbon stocks in temperate managed forests – need for independent data
Presentation by Hannes Böttcher et al., Protecting and Restoring the Global Forest Carbon Stock | Side event at UN Climate Change Conference (SB46), Bonn, 17.5.2017
Nuclear safety in crisis regions
To what extent are nuclear facilities at risk in crisis areas? Which factors are of relevance in this context? Are policy-makers, the media and society around the world aware of the threat – and do they dismiss it too easily? These are...
Pointing the way for society - Annual Report of the Oeko-Institut 2016
Siting Activities and Stakeholders’ Interaction in Germany
Presentation by Beate Kallenbach-Herbert, The 50th Session of the RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE (RWMC), Paris, 30 March 2017
Nuclear Power and Nuclear Safety Post Fukushima
Presentation by Dr. Christoph Pistner and Matthias Englert, DPG – AKE – AGA: Nuclear Energy and Security, Münster, 29.03.2017
Environmental Integrity under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
This discussion paper explores key issues and options to achieve environmental integrity under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. It proposes that environmental integrity in context of Article 6 means that using international transfers...
Study on Technical Assistance in Realisation of the 2016 Report on Renewable Energy, in preparation of the Renewable Energy Package for the Period 2020 -2030 in the European Union ("RES-Study")
ENER/C1/2014 -688
The objective of this study is to provide technical assistance in the preparation of the 2016 Report on Renewable Energy, in preparation of the Renewable Energy Package for the period 2020-2030 in the European Union. Key findings are:
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Minerals and metals from non-EU countries – Europe’s role and responsibility for positive change in industry supply chains
STRADE Policy Brief 01/2017
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...
European Energy Industry Investments
This study was prepared at the request of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). The paper provides an overall assessment of European investments in the electricity sector. It ...
EU raw material import flows – acknowledging non-EU environmental and social footprints
STRADE Policy Brief 02/2017
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...
Governance of exnovation: phasing out non-sustainable structures
Oeko-Institut Working Paper 2/2017
Politics and research have been primarily concerned with the quite appealing side of trans-formations: the new. But innovations and their promotion are often insufficient for replacing established non-sustainable structures that are...
Developments in society and implications for emerging pollutants in the aquatic environment
Oeko-Institut Working Paper 1/2017
Pollutant emissions in river basins change continuously. Management strategies should address such developments. Many scenarios are published which describe future changes in the environment and in society. Examples concern climate...
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity and Soils: Status and Future Options
The global loss of fertile soils is widely recognized as one of the most pressing environmental and social problems of the next decades. Against this backdrop, political action is urgently needed to promote the sustainable use and...
EEA Technical Report No 33/2016: Fluorinated greenhouse gases 2015
Data reported by companies on the production, import and export of fluorinated greenhouse gases in the European Union.
The report was prepared on behalf of the European Environment Agency, as partner of the European Topic Centre on Air...