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Hydrogen fact sheet – Argentina
Argentina offers some of the largest potentials for low costs hydrogen based on renewable electricity in the world. This is due to high average wind speeds and in addition high solar irradiation throughout large areas of the country.…
Shaping business sector transformations
The climate crisis requires a transformation towards a climate-neutral economy. This implies considerable pressure for business sectors with a high carbon footprint. The key challenge here is to shape the structural change in a way that…
Setting up a European Sustainability Framework for the Extractive Industries
Capacity-Building survey results - Briefing document March 2022
SUMEX is a 36-month project funded by the EC that started on 01.11.2020. The project supports the set-up of a European sustainability framework to improve the permitting procedure along the extractive value chain (prospecting,…
Good Practices in GHG Inventories for the Waste Sector
This study supports the preparation of greenhouse gas inventories in the waste sector through good practice examples which can be adopted in other countries. It complements the existing reporting guidance under the UNFCCC with real life…
Towards a joint implementation of the 2030 Agenda / SDGs and the Paris Agreement
Conceptual and analytic paper
To date, processes to implement the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and international climate change mitigation and adaptation obligations are largely disconnected in most countries. This creates administrative overlaps,…
Towards a joint implementation of the 2030 Agenda / SDGs, the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework
Discussion paper
The UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, three international and ‘transformative’ agendas adopted in 2015, have some overlap and…
Policy brief: integrating biodiversity into sustainable production and consumption activities
The way forward for policy makers
Biodiversity loss and the degradation of ecosystem services are among the greatest systemic risks for the global economy and the health of people and the planet. Policy makers must assume the leading role in tackling this issue. They are…
The Missing Limb: Including Impacts of Biomass Extraction on Forest Carbon Stocks in Greenhouse Gas Balances of Wood Use
The global carbon neutrality challenge places a spotlight on forests as carbon sinks. However, greenhouse gas (GHG) balances of wood for material and energy use often reveal GHG emission savings in comparison with a non-wood reference.…
Towards a Green Economy
Successfully shaping structual change
This publication presents key messages and recommendations for successfully shaping structural change towards a Green Economy. The publication results from the REFOPLAN-project „Ökologischer Strukturwandel“ (Ecological structural change,…
Ready to go? Technology Readiness and Life-cycle Emissions of Electric Road Systems
A discussion paper from the CollERS2 project
The present discussion paper is the result of an international collaboration on ERS research, the CollERS2 project. It summarizes key results of the first workshop with Swedish and German participants held in November 2021. This paper…
Current Situation and Ongoing Projects on Carbon Capture and Storage and Carbon Capture and Utilization in Germany and Japan
Contribution to the research project Scientific orientation of the German-Japanese cooperation on selected climate protection technologies within the framework of the German-Japanese climate protection declaration and the German-Japanese…
Analysis of the European Commission proposal for revising the EU LULUCF Regulation
Commissioned by Agora Energiewende
This paper addresses national and EU policymakers, experts and NGO-representatives looking for an interpretation of the European Commission’s (EC) proposal for a revised LULUCF Regulation and other suggestions for revisions currently…
Architectural change in accelerating transitions
Insights from the German energy transition
As transitions accelerate, they often increase in depth and scope. Transition dynamics may go beyond changes in core technologies to include architectural change at the system level. In this paper, we study actor preferences for system…
Decomposition analysis of CO₂ emissions in the European cement sector
Identifying drivers of emission trends between 2005 and 2018
Based on a methodological approach developed by Branger und Quirion (2015), the authors analyse the drivers governing the development of CO2 emissions from cement production from 2005 to 2018 for the EU28 as a whole and selected EU…
Nature-based solutions and global climate protection
Assessment of their global mitigation potential and recommendations for international climate policy
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) build synergies between biodiversity conservation and societal challenges such as climate change. This paper derives a working definition of NbS based on an evaluation of existing definitions, in particular…
Primeval, natural and commercial forests in the context of biodiversity and climate protection - Part 2:
The narrative of the climate neutrality of wood as a resource
In the debate on climate protection and the promotion of renewable energies, the increased material and thermal use of wood as a supposedly climate-neutral building material and energy source is often promoted as necessary and sensible.…
Primeval, natural and commercial forests in the context biodiversity and climate protection - Part 1:
Functions for biodiversity and as carbon sinks and reservoirs
There are heated arguments about the use of forests in the debate about wood production, contributing to climate protection, and the obligation to protect the biodiversity of forest ecosystems. Climate protection arguments are also used…
Germany’s Agricultural Land Footprint and the Impact of Import Pattern Allocation
Footprints are powerful indicators for evaluating the impacts of a country’s bioeconomy on environmental goods, both domestic and abroad. We apply a hybrid approach combining a multi-regional input-output model and land use modelling to…
ETC/CME Report 10/2021
Matching of power plants by fuel
The aim of this paper is to develop a dataset identifying power plants in Europe and their main fuel type from power plants that are reported under activity code 20 together with other combustion installations. Since ETS data is one of…
ETC/CME Report 9/2021
Trends and projections in the EU ETS in 2021. The EU Emissions Trading System in numbers.
This report provides an analysis of past, present and future emissions trends under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), based on the latest data and information available from the European Commission and Member States. It also…