Dr. Aissa Rechlin

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Dr. Aissa Rechlin

Dr. rer. nat. (Geosciences)

Co-Coordinator Resource Conservation & Circular Economy
Senior Fellow

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Dr Aissa Rechlin is a Senior Fellow with a background in geosciences working on resource conservation at Ecologic Institute. Her work focuses on resource use and efficiency in the circular economy, environmental governance and transformation processes. She works in English, German and Spanish.

Dr Aissa Rechlin leads the project "Resource Efficiency and Natural Resources in an International Context", which supports the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUV) and the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) by evaluating studies of international organisations in the field of resource conservation. Dr Rechlin is also responsible for Ecologic Institute's contribution to several UBA-funded projects. This includes the scientific support of the development of a strategy for a circular economy in Germany (Nationale Kreislaufwirtschaftsstrategie NKWS). In this project, Ecologic Institute primarily examines the social compatibility of measures of the circular economy, and identifies and analyses indicators. The TransIS project "Sustainable Development of Infrastructures in Regions of Structural Change" focuses on the Rhenish, Central German and Lusatian coalfields and examines the contributions that infrastructure design based on sustainability criteria and innovative networking of regional infrastructures can make to socio-ecological structural change and the resulting impulses for sustainable regional development. Dr Aissa Rechlin is also contributing to the Horizon Europe TransPharm project "Transforming into a sustainable European pharmaceutical sector". Here she is working with a team that aims to develop a holistic framework for integrated sustainability assessment.

Prior to joining Ecologic Institute, Dr Rechlin gained experience as a project and team leader at Projekt-Consult GmbH (2015-2022). The company specialises in consulting projects on responsible mining and sourcing of minerals worldwide. She has also worked as a technology transfer consultant at the Technische Universität Berlin (2013-2014) and Universität Hamburg (2015) and as a researcher at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam (2007-2012).

Dr. Aissa Rechlin holds a PhD in Geosciences from the Freie Universität Berlin and a Diploma (equal to master's degree) in Geology-Paleontology from Universität Hamburg.

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Recent content by Dr. Aissa Rechlin

Event:Digital Event
 
The online expert dialogue "Circular diversity: creative solutions to promote the re-use of second-hand goods" took place on 10 October 2023, organized by Ecologic Institute for the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Mobility, Transportation, Climate Action and the Environment (SenMVKU). The aim of this event was to present the variety of existing creative approaches to promote the re-use of second-hand goods.

Circular Diversity: Creative solutions to promote the re-use of second-hand goods – Re-use Berlin


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Event:Discussion
 
Ecologic Institute hosts Rwandan Delegation
Ecologic Institute recently hosted a delegation of Rwandan stakeholders consisting of government officials, scientists, and members of civil society. The event, organized by the Development, Climate, and Events teams and supported by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), aimed to expand Ecologic Institute's international networks and increase the reach of their research results.

International Networks and Collaboration on Climate Research


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Project
 
In this research and dialogue project on behalf of the Climate Neutrality Foundation, Ecologic Institute analyzes the complex landscape of Germany's bilateral and plurilateral partnerships in the fields of energy, climate and raw materials, with a focus on partnerships with countries of the Global South.

Germany's Partnerships for Energy, Climate, Resources and Development

How to make their work more transformative towards climate neutrality

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Event:Conference
 
The German Environment Agency (UBA) is pleased to announce the 6th European Resources Forum – "Transformative approaches for sustainable resource use and a circular economy."

European Resources Forum 2022online


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Publication:Conference Paper
 
first page of the Background paper for the European Resource Forum 2022 "Sustainable Resource Use and Circular Economy – the Social Dimension"
There is a clear need for sustainable resource use to confront the multiple environmental crises while allowing societies to thrive. Governments around the world seek to establish systematic policies towards the implementation of sustainable resource use and a circular economy. In the session "Sustainable Resource Use and Circular Economy – the Social Dimension" we take a closer look at how these developments affect the social aspects of sustainability. What implications can changing resource use patterns in Europe have for well-being, development, prosperity and health, especially in the global South? How can an inter- and intragenerational just resource use be achieved and what are the stumbling blocks? In December 2022, the 6th European Resources Forum – "Transformative approaches for sustainable resource use and a circular economy" took place. Dr. Aissa Rechlin of Ecologic Institute supported the German Environment Agency in content-related issues surrounding the Forum, including the preparation of this background paper.

Sustainable Resource Use and Circular Economy – the Social Dimension

Background paper for the European Resource Forum 2022

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Publication:Case Study
 
Cover of the publication "Europäische Ressourcensouveränität. Seltene Erden und das Potenzial der Kreislaufwirtschaft: Eine Fallstudie"
In light of current experiences in energy markets, Western democracies, and the EU in particular, are exploring new supply chains and strategies to reduce their raw material dependence on China. The findings presented here by the authors of this study provide an overview of the main options that the EU can currently use to counter the pressures of growing dependencies. This study discusses some positive examples of feasible circular approaches that aim to achieve savings in the use of rare earths.

Europäische Ressourcensouveränität

Seltene Erden und das Potenzial der Kreislaufwirtschaft: Eine Fallstudie

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Project
 
Re-use Logo
In the context of the political goal of strengthening the reuse of used goods, the project aims at supporting and executing re-use measures in Berlin in order to foster structures and actors in Berlin that bring the used goods market out of its niche. To do so, the project draws on the practical experience of initial pilot tests in 2018, networking activities since 2019 and the opening of the Re-Use Superstore in 2020.

Re-use Berlin Measures 2022-2023

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Project
 
The project investigates the potential for greenhouse gas savings through resource efficiency and circular economy measures. Ecologic Institute supports the formulation of resource conservation measures as input for the modelling of GHG saving potentials (WP1 led by GWS). Furthermore, Ecologic Institute is responsible for the scientific support of the European Resource Forum in 2022 and 2024 including the development of background papers.

Scientific Accompanying Research on Current Discourses on Resource Conservation

National, European and International Level

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To strengthen climate protection in Germany, the amendment of the Climate Protection Act in 2021 further tightened the greenhouse gas emission targets for 2030 and set the goal of climate neutrality for the year 2045. An important step in the energy sector is the phase-out of lignite mining and coal-based electricity generation. The decision to phase out lignite mining in Germany by 2038 at the latest does not only affect energy and climate policy. In the coming years, the lignite mining areas will face a fundamental structural change, which is to be flanked with extensive funding and steered in the sense of sustainable spatial development.

Sustainable Development of Infrastructures in Regions of Structural Change (TransIS)

Socio-ecological transformation of German lignite mining regions

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