Projects
The Oeko-Institut’s researchers work on more than 350 national and international projects a year, focusing on Chemicals Management and Technology Assessment, Energy and Climate, Emission and Ambient Pollution Control, Radiation Protection, Agriculture and Biodiversity, Sustainable Consumption, Mobility, Resource Management and Industry, Nuclear Engineering and Facility Safety, and Law, Policy and Governance.
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How to end energy poverty? Scrutiny of current EU and Member States instruments
Policymaking to alleviate energy poverty needs to find a balance between short-term remedies and the resolution of long-term drivers of energy poverty. EU policy might need to work towards a) finding a definition of energy poverty; b)…
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To publication "How to end energy poverty? Scrutiny of current EU and Member States instruments"
Focal point global supply chains: sustainability challenges and mitigation strategies
Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) Implementation Ghana and Egypt
The World Resources Forum Association (WRFA) and Ecoinvent Association (ecoinvent) launched a programme “Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI)”, with the aim to support the sustainable integration and participation of small and medium…
Drawing up a best practice guide and an event concept relating to "Strategies to successfully introduce organic food in the catering of municipalities (`More organic food in municipalities`)"
The project "More organic food in municipalities" particularly aims at strengthening the demand for organic food by the public sector. It should help to assure that organic food and in particular regionally produced organic food in the…
Investigation of operational experience from nuclear reactors - screening of reportable events
The systematic evaluation of operational experience provides a basis for maintaining and developing the safety of nuclear reactors. Reportable events in German commercial reactors and research reactors as well as events in foreign…
Enhanced flexibilities for the EU`s 2030 Effort Sharing Decision and the treatment of the AFOLU sector
Review of the Eco-innovation Action Plan (EcoAP)
The increasing number of environmental challenges and resource constraints worldwide have led to growing demand for environmental technologies, products and services and have facilitated the emergence of green industries. Europe`s…
Methods and tools of the eco design of plastics packagings
Update of the Advisory opinion on the EU-Stresstest results of the nuclear power plant Fessenheim
In October 2012 the Oeko-Institute analyzed the results of the EU-Stresstest for the nuclear power plant Fessenheim in France with respect to missing or insufficiently addressed safety aspects. In addition, further safety relevant…
Trafo 3.0 - Model for designing socio-ecological transformation processes in practice: development and testing in three application areas
From the viewpoint of sustainability, there is an urgent need and time pressure to achieve a change of direction towards more sustainable production and consumption patterns. Although there are many individual initiatives, there is a…
Strengthening ecological design as a quality criterion in enterprises
Enabling consumer action towards top energy-efficient products (TOPTEN ACT) - Study within the framework programme Horizon 2020 of the European Commission
TOPTEN ACT aims at transforming the European market of energy-using products towards higher energy efficiency by addressing non-technical market barriers. It builds on the concept that it is ultimately consumer action (ACTion = the…
General preliminary examination of the environmental impact of the interim storage projects L567 and L566 of the WAK GmbH
Several nuclear facilities at the WAK GmbH site are dismanteled and waste management is also carried out for external customers. The WAK GmbH has applied for the construction and operation of two new buildings for temporary storage of…
Assistance to the Commission on technological, socio-economic and cost-benefit assessment related to exemptions from the substance restrictions in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS Directive) - Pack 8
n the context of this project three requests for exemption are to be evaluated according to the RoHS 2 criteria for justification of exemptions. After an initial completeness check of requests, available information for each request is…
Utopia Product 2015. Environmentally sound products availabe at Saturn stores: Current EcoTopTen product recommendations
Making available the up-to-date EcoTopTen market overviews for the following seven product groups: televisions, refrigerators and freezers, espresso machines, washing machines, dishwashers, dryers and vacuum cleaners
Product Guide for Sustainable Public Procurement in the Framework of the Municipal Sustainability Initiative of Baden-Württemberg
Evaluation of the 2nd Aircraft Noise Protection Regulation (2. FlugLSV)
The study focuses on the regulation as well as on the effectiveness and compliance of the 2. FlugLSV. Beginning with a review of the existing requirements, in further steps the application of the regulation in practice will be assessed…
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To publication "Evaluation der 2. Fluglärmschutzverordnung (2015) "
Climate Initiative (CI): the EcoTopTen product award – focus on Energy Saving (SEK)
The overall objective of the project is to make an active contribution to the national climate protection targets in Germany. The overall objectives of the project are to increase the market share of energy-efficient, energy-saving…
Capacity building support to Member States for the preparation of the 2015 greenhouse gas inventories
Contributions to the experience evaluation of aging management within periodic safety reviews in interim storage facilities for spent fuel and heat generating wastes
In 2014 the advisory commission ESK established a guideline in Nuclear Law requiring periodic safety reviews in interim storage facilities for spent fuel and heat generating wastes. In a previous project Oeko-Institute and GRS…