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Monitoring matters – transparency makes land sector climate action effective

Blog 04/23/2025

Land management has important implications for climate change, making it essential to monitor it transparently. Increased transparency helps to improve decisions, accountability, and responsibility of all actors.
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It’s all about CO2 – or not quite?

Blog 08/15/2024

It’s not good for the climate when a cow belches. Nor is it good when an old air-conditioning unit is tipped on a waste dump. For CO2 is not the only gas harming the climate. There are many more gases that Tim Brown, Tradewater CEO, deals with.
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“The Global South can benefit from carbon markets”

Blog 07/23/2024

She ended up working on carbon markets more “by accident” than by design, as she herself says. After completing her Master’s, Kristin Qui was looking for a role in international diplomacy, preferably one which also covered sustainable development.
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“I kinda wanted to land the plane”

Blog 07/05/2024

Donna Lee had a clear plan for her retirement. After many years in the US Department of State, frequent travel, living and working out of a suitcase, a fulfilling but exhausting career, she wanted to “land the plane”, as she herself says. To improve the quality of the voluntary carbon market Donna Lee and partner Duncan van Bergen set up Calyx Global.
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Transcript of the podcast: “Protecting the climate with emissions trading?”

Blog 11/10/2022

"Wenden, bitte!" [All change, please!] The podcast on science and sustainable transitions. Guest in episode 14 is the scientist Verena Graichen from the Oeko-Institut.
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International climate policy under the war on Ukraine

Blog 10/12/2022

In this blog, we discuss some of the impacts which are related to climate policies.
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Is the EU heating sector “fit for 55”?

Blog 07/14/2021

[Translate to English:] Without putting the heating sector on track, the EU cannot reach net zero. The Green Deal provides the opportunity to set the course towards making heating fit for 55. Dr. Sibylle Braungardt explains why and how this can succeed.
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How to design an EU emissions trading system for maritime transport?

Blog 07/12/2021

The new study by the Oeko-Institut and Transport&Environment commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety shows how an extension of the EU emissions trading system to maritime transport in the "Fit for 55" package could be designed. How such a regulation would relate to potential measures by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is explained by researcher Nora Wissner.
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What the new US climate target means compared to the EU’s target

Blog 04/23/2021

What do these targets mean in terms of actual emission reductions? And do they represent comparable efforts?
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The carbon footprint of our digital lifestyles

Blog 04/24/2020

Oeko-Institut is reputed for knowing the answers to many relevant environmental questions concerning the future. Senior researcher Jens Gröger is currently working on the topic of "sustainable digitization" and has done the maths.
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Changes in course needed for UN scheme to address aviation emissions

Blog 04/07/2020

Commentary on the UN agreement CORSIA
Enjoy your meal - in an environmentally friendly way!

Blog 01/09/2020

As in other years, the Critical Agricultural Report is published during Berlin’s so-called International Green Week. In accordance to this, Dr. Dietlinde Quack of the Oeko-Institut explains what can be done in Germany to ensure a more environmentally and animal-friendly diet.
The Madrid climate talks failed to deliver. What now?

Blog 12/17/2019

Tangible results are hard to find. Countries failed to agree on a clear roadmap for enhancing the ambition of climate targets in 2020 and delayed several important decisions, in particular rules for international carbon market mechanisms. In this blog, the Oeko-Institut team provides a viewpoint from inside the negotiations.
Double counting in international emissions trading

Blog 10/11/2019

At the next climate conference in Chile in December 2019, one issue will be particularly contentious: the rules for international trade in emission reductions. A central question will be whether and how “double counting” – two countries using the same emission reduction to achieve their climate targets – can be prevented. Lambert Schneider, Research Coordinator for International Climate Policy at Oeko-Institut, has summarised the international discussion on double counting with nine other authors in the Science journal.
"eMobility is the right way to go"

08/16/2018

Are electric vehicles the answer to transport-related environmental problems, and is the controversy surrounding them justified? This is the kind of question that Lukas Minnich is often asked about e-mobility. He and his team have compiled a Fact Check to provide some answers.
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CO2 emission standards for cars and vans: the status quo and the Commission’s proposal

06/07/2018

The update of the CO2 emission standards for cars and vans for the post 2020 period is currently being negotiated. In this blog post, Peter Kasten gives an overview of the valid regulation up to 2020 and the Commission’s proposal.

Monitoring matters – transparency makes land sector climate action effective

It’s all about CO2 – or not quite?

“The Global South can benefit from carbon markets”

“I kinda wanted to land the plane”

Transcript of the podcast: “Protecting the climate with emissions trading?”

International climate policy under the war on Ukraine

Is the EU heating sector “fit for 55”?

How to design an EU emissions trading system for maritime transport?

What the new US climate target means compared to the EU’s target

The carbon footprint of our digital lifestyles

Changes in course needed for UN scheme to address aviation emissions

Enjoy your meal - in an environmentally friendly way!

The Madrid climate talks failed to deliver. What now?

Double counting in international emissions trading

"eMobility is the right way to go"

CO2 emission standards for cars and vans: the status quo and the Commission’s proposal