Christian Schneider

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• Biodiversity

  Consolidating Systemic Monitoring and Modelling of the Bioeconomy

  01/01/2022

  SYMOBIO lays the scientific basics for systemic monitoring and modelling of the German bioeconomy with respect to sustainability aspects, also on an international level. The development of the monitoring system goes in line with the goals of the Agenda 2030 and is framed by a bioeconomy syste

• Biodiversity

  Development of a Sustainable Food Act (NLG) as an analogy to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) of the energy industry

  09/01/2021

  The "Blueprint for Agriculture" project is developing an instrument that transfers the basic principles of the EEG to the production of agricultural products. The basic idea is to pay a fixed "feed-in tariff" for sustainably produced food, similar to the Renewable Energy Sources Act, and to d

• Food systems

  Impact of the implementation of the Planetary Health Diet on the agricultural sector

  07/29/2021

  The project considers the impact of a dietary change to the Planetary Health Diet recommendations on domestic agriculture and quantifies it in terms of land development and greenhouse gas development. In addition to dietary change, environmental goals such as peatland rewetting and the ex

• International

  Ambitious GHG mitigation in the agricultural sector: Analysis of sustainable mitigation potential in selected countries

  08/05/2020

  In this research project, Oeko-Institut supported UBA in leading IG AFOLU during the German Council Presidency in 2020, with project staff taking on administrative-logistical tasks around the UNFCCC processes on land use aspects, preparing information and producing background analyses that co

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  CCQI scores for IFM projects point to substantial integrity risks

  Blog 03/25/2024

  The Carbon Credit Quality Initiative (CCQI) has released new scores for the integrity risks of carbon credits from improved forest management (IFM) projects. We find that unrealistic baselines and underestimated leakage are likely to lead to significant overestimation of emission reductions or removals under all assessed methodologies. The likelihood of additionality depends strongly on the forest management practices that are implemented. The sustainable development benefits are more limited compared to most other project types.

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  Alternative reactor concepts do not solve the repository problem

  Press releases 03/21/2024

  A new scientific study commissioned by the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) indicates that the market launch of alternative reactor concepts (also known as "Generation IV") is currently not on the horizon. "Despite some intensive advertising by manufacturers, we currently see no development that would make the construction of alternative reactor types on a large scale likely in the coming years. On the contrary: "From a safety perspective, we should expect the potential advantages of these reactor concepts to be outweighed by the disadvantages and the questions that remain unresolved," says BASE President Christian Kühn, and emphasises that "The concepts solve neither the need to find a repository for radioactive waste nor the pressing issues of climate protection."