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State of Play and Roadmap Concept: Mobility Sector
RE-SOURCING Deliverable 4.2
Meeting the Paris Agreement’s goals requires transformation in the mobility sector. Battery electric vehicle technology today offers a promising technology to achieve the necessary changes and transform the sector. Yet this…
Persistent degradation products of halogenated refrigerants and blowing agents in the environment: type, environmental concentrations, and fate with particular regard to new halogenated substitutes with low global warming potential
Final report
Climate-impacting refrigerants and blowing agents are often replaced by halogenated substances which, despite their low global warming potential, are not unproblematic for the environment. The study examines quantities used and emissions…
Measuring a Just Transition in the EU in the context of the 8th Environment Action Programme
An assessment of existing indicators and gaps at the socio-environmental nexus, with suggestions for the way forward
This paper discusses how to measure whether and to what degree EU environmental policy is socially just by using easily interpretable indicators. Its main task is to assess existing (or officially discussed) European-level indicators at…
Key Messages on Electric Roads
Executive Summary from the CollERS Project
Electric road systems (ERS) enable electric power transfer to moving vehicles by means of overhead lines, rails or wireless technology. ERS constitutes a new type of technological system (“permanent pick-up”) that is a paradigm shift…
How to design and evaluate a Regulatory Experiment?
A Guide for Public Administrations
These guidelines have been developed in the context of the two-year research project entitled “Regulatory experiments for the reflexive and adaptive governance of innovation”, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and…
PROSA – Product Sustainability Assessment
PROSAplus Guideline
This brochure was produced as part of the joint research project “SDG Assessment – Further development of a sustainability assessment method based on the sustainability goals of the United Nations (Agenda 2030)”. The project on which…
Structural Supply Side Management in the EU ETS
Reviewing the market stability reserve
Presentation by Verena Graichen, Virtual MSR Workshop, Berlin, 23 March 2021
Assessment of options to improve particular aspects of the EU regulatory framework on batteries
Final report
The general aim of this final report for the project “Assessment of options to improve particular aspects of the EU Regulatory Framework on Batteries” is to support the European Commission in the preparation of their Impact Assessment…
Exploratory Analysis of an EU Sink and Restoration Target
Commissioned by Greenpeace Germany
In a public consultation in early 2021, the EC looked for stakeholder input on the revision of the LULUCF Regulation. This paper presents a short exploratory analysis that discusses important elements for a separate EU land net sink and…
Connecting Countries by Electric Roads
Methodology for Feasibility Analysis of a Transnational ERS Corridor
The present study aims at discussing relevant aspects for a potential roll-out of Electric Road Systems (ERS) on transnational corridors, as well as generally for ERS introduction in Europe.
Feasibility criteria have thus been developed…
Bottom-Up Strategies for Shared Mobility and Practices in Urban Housing to Improve Sustainable Planning
Recent years have seen the development of numerous innovations in social, constructional, and transportation planning for different forms of communal housing. They illustrate how more sustainable practices in transport and land use can…
Study to identify and assess the feasibility of measures to enhance the impact of Directive 2006/66/EC
Final report
This is the final report for the project “Study to identify and assess the feasibility of measures to enhance the impact of Directive 2006/66/EC”, hereafter referred to as the “feasibility study”. The purpose of the work is to support…
Model-based evaluation of decentralised electricity markets at different phases of the German energy transition
Presentation by David Ritter, MES 2021; Bangladesh / Online, March 4th 2021
Spillovers between policy-transfer and transitions research
Although research on sustainability transitions has addressed transnational linkages, little attention has yet been paid to the international diffusion and transfer of public policies. Transitions studies and research on policy transfer…
Just transition
Contribution to a broad & more systematic understanding of a dazzling concept
Presentation by Dirk Arne Heyen, Just Transition working group of CAN Europe, 26. February 2021
Emerging waste streams – Challenges and opportunities
Service under Framework contract EEA/HSR/20/001-3 for the provision of expert assistance to support the European Environment Agency’s activities on circular economy and industrial transformation
This report presents a series of policy options that could be implemented in the future to move towards the proper management and increased circularity of emerging waste streams arising from the renewable energy technologies discussed in…
Strengthening synergies between climate effort sharing & energy savings obligations
An input to the "Fit for 55" package
The new 55% climate target will bring major revisions of the EU’s energy and climate laws. This study looks at the interactions and synergies between three of the key policy instruments: Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR), EU Emission…
Designing Governance Structures and Transactional Documentation for Mitigation Outcome Transactions under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
Summary Report
This report aims to assist host countries of climate mitigation projects in creating the governance frameworks needed to make decisions on the engagement in international carbon market transactions under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.…
ETC/CME Report 8/2020
Trends and projections under the Effort Sharing Legislation. Overview on developments and drivers
This report provides an analysis of the progress of the European Union, its Member States as well as Iceland, Norway and United Kingdom in reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the Effort Sharing legislation between 2005 and 2030. The…
Advancing REACH - REACH and substitution
Final report
Enhancing substitution of substances of concern with less hazardous alternatives will remain a key challenge for chemicals management in the coming years and is a central aim of REACH. This study analyses the support of substitution,…