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Research & Consultancy
- Transdisciplinary sustainability research
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Issues
- Chemicals and technology assessment
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Energy and climate protection
- International forest conservation – for the environment and climate
- Sustainable agriculture – more ecologically sound food production
- The energy transition – socially just … and the polluter pays
- Germany’s exit from coal: managing a sustainable transition
- Effort Sharing – shared burdens, common endeavours
- Climate protection in the EU: rules for agriculture and forestry
- Flexibility in the power system
- The heat transition: Progressing climate action in the building sector
- Expanding the renewable energy portfolio: Fit for purpose, cost-effective, eco-friendly
- Participation: Fair and transparent planning of major projects
- Biomass – towards sustainable use of finite resources
- Green electricity
- How do climate protection measures take effect?
- EU emissions trading: Fewer allowances, more climate action
- Climate policy
- Sustainable Energy Supply
- International cooperation
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Consumption and enterprises
- Plastic waste: For greater responsibility in dealing with plastics
- Sustainable public procurement – How does the public sector buy?
- Obsolescence – tackling the throwaway society
- Sustainable finance – redirecting global financial flows
- Guidance for consumers – how do labels help?
- Aquaculture – Sustainably farmed fish
- Sustainability in sport: Fair play for the environment
- Product development with life cycle assessments
- Sustainable corporate governance: taking responsibility for society and the environment
- Sustainable nutrition, or: Who eats strawberries in winter?
- Sustainable consumption: from Germany to the world?
- Smart consumption
- Come on Labels
- Energy-efficient lighting: LED lights – economical and flexible
- Green IT and communication technologies – Potential to boost environmental performance
- “Save 1000 kilowatt hours!”
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Mobility and transport
- Electricity-based fuels: the future of PtX
- Climate action in freight transport: Is the future electric?
- Scenarios for carbon-neutral transport: Which actions achieve the goal?
- Electromobility: Electric cars, plug-in hybrids and batteries
- Public transport
- A different way of being mobile: With car-sharing?
- Transport infrastructure: beyond rail and road
- Can the transport sector contribute to climate protection?
- More climate protection in the shipping sector
- Climate protection in air transport
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Nuclear installations and high-risk technologies
- Nuclear facilities around the world: the old, the new and the crisis-affected
- Fukushima: ten years on
- Extended interim storage – the technical, organisational and social dimensions
- Final storage – it’s all rock and rules
- Decommissioning and dismantling nuclear power plants
- Asse II: A transparent radioactive waste repository
- Asse II: A transparent radioactive waste repository
- “We are learning from the case of the Asse repository how it shouldn’t be done”
- What now for the Asse II repository?
- Radioactive waste and radiation protection
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Resources and recycling
- Germany, Europe, worldwide: a circular economy for more sustainable resource use
- Construction aggregates, metals and biotic materials: recycling and recovery
- In Germany, Europe, worldwide: Producing and processing primary raw materials
- Metals, construction minerals and biomass as primary raw materials
- Research focus: Resources
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Environmental policy and environmental law
- Environmental law: Transnational enforcement of rules to protect the environment
- Conserving and protecting biological diversity
- Environmental policy and social transformation
- Climate and energy law: Legal expertise to support ambitious climate policy
- An Environmental Code – Unifying German environmental law
- Governance: Environmental policy under scrutiny
- Noise abatement – rules and measures to reduce noise
- Projects
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- Junior development programme
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