Daniela Eckert

Recent projects

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• Batteries

  Securing Germany's Sovereignty - Resilient Supply Chains for the Transformation to Climate Neutrality 2045

  10/10/2022

  Securing the necessary raw materials and strategic goods is elementary to achieving Germany's target of climate neutrality by 2045. The study pursues two goals. Firstly, it shows where relevant dependencies exist today and until 2045 in the supply of raw materials, components and strategic goods t

• Circular Economy

  Comparative economic and ecological assessment of the resource input when using recycled plastics in packaging materials

  02/28/2022

  The objectives of the study are a comparative ecological assessment and a comparative economic analysis of plastic-based product packaging that can be manufactured with petroleum-based plastic on the one hand and with a proportion of recycled plastic on the other.

• Energy transition and climate policy

  NKI: CULTURE4CLIMATE - Initiative for the implementation of the global climate and sustainability goals in the field of culture

  11/01/2021

  The Culture4Climate project is a nationwide climate and sustainability initiative for the entire cultural sector. In the past year, artists, associations and cultural institutions have been addressing the pressing issues of climate change and sustainability in the arts, in exhibitions and museums,

• Circular Economy

  Study to provide recommendations to Member States at risk of non-compliance with recycling targets in 2025 and the landfill target in 2035 – Early Warning Reports

  09/01/2021

  An inherent tool of compliance-promotion is the provision of Early Warning Reports . Since 2018, this tool is equally anchored in the Waste Framework Directive (Article 11b) , the Packaging and Packing Waste Directive (Article 6b) and the

• Waste management

  Support in the field of chemical indicators and statistics on specific waste streams - Lot 2: Support on Statistics on Specific Waste Streams Invitation to tender: (ESTAT/E/2019/005)

  10/31/2019

  The project covers the following aspects/tasks: a) Management of waste statistics from various reporting obligations from the collection to publication: 1. Directive 2008/98/EC on waste (Waste Framework Directive - WFD), 2. Directive 94/62/EC on packaging waste, as amended by Directive 2004/12/

• Power grids

  Life cycle assessment of high and extra high-voltage lines in Germany

  07/18/2018

  The goal of the project is to obtain knowledge about the power grid infrastructure in Germany in order to ensure an environmentally sound grid expansion and to build up a sound knowledge base about the energy and material balance as well as other environmental impacts. The following are described

Recent publications

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  Resilient supply chains for the transformation to climate neutrality by 2045

  Securing Germany’s Sovereignty - Condensed version

  September 2023

  The transformation to climate neutrality requires a rapid and decisive investment and modernisation program in Germany and the EU. A resilient supply of the necessary raw materials and strategic goods is an elementary prerequisite for this. In this context, new geopolitical challenges must be taken

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  Resilient supply chains for the transformation to climate neutrality by 2045

  September 2023

  The transformation to climate neutrality requires a rapid and decisive investment and modernisation program in Germany and the EU. A resilient supply of the necessary raw materials and strategic goods is an elementary prerequisite for this. In this context, new geopolitical challenges must be taken

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  Resiliente Lieferketten für die Transformation zur Klimaneutralität 2045

  Securing Germany’s Sovereignty - Long version

  September 2023

  The transformation to climate neutrality requires a rapid and decisive investment and modernisation program in Germany and the EU. A resilient supply of the necessary raw materials and strategic goods is an elementary prerequisite for this. In this context, new geopolitical challenges must be taken

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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."