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This project, funded by the European Climate Foundation (ECF), supports the research and policy community working on the EU's post-2030 governance architecture by providing targeted analysis, engagement, and practical tools to strengthen EU and national climate governance.

Post-2030 EU Climate Framework and Governance Architecture

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A consortium led is developing the European Fair Transition Observatory (EFTO) for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. The aim is to establish a European knowledge and monitoring platform that brings together data, policies, analyses, and practical examples on the just transition

European Fair Transition Observatory (EFTO)

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This project supports the next phase of ETS training and capacity building with the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP). It is commissioned by the European Commission’s DG CLIMA and builds on long-standing cooperation with ICAP to support jurisdictions in developing and emerging economies that are exploring, designing, or strengthening emissions trading systems.

ETS Training and Capacity Building Activities under the Auspices of ICAP

Supporting emissions trading capacity building and technical exchange worldwide

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Ecologic Institute is developing a practical guide on alternative financing options for municipal climate projects. The guide provides a structured overview of suitable financing approaches – ranging from fees and participatory models to funds and cooperative arrangements – and assesses their applicability under the specific conditions in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Alternative Financing Options for Implementing Climate Protection and Climate Change Adaptation Projects

Guidance for Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate

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The Ecologic Institute has launched CDRSynTra2, a synthesis and transfer project on Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). CDRSynTra2 conducts the scientific synthesis of the CDRterra projects, in cooperation with CDRmare, to enable an integrated assessment with a focus on land-based CDR methods. The project will develop low-risk CDR pathways for the EU, evaluate the mitigation efficiency of CDR portfolios, and update and apply the joint CDRterra Assessment Framework (AF) established during CDRterra's first phase.

Removal of CO2 from the Atmosphere (CDRSynTra2)

Synthesis and Transfer

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Technopolis and the Ecologic Institute are developing policy instruments to support the market uptake of CO₂ removal technologies in Germany. Both nature-based and technological CDR approaches are taken into account. The research project focuses in particular on instruments and policy mixes that can be applied after a pilot phase to enable the large-scale deployment of CDR.

Instruments and Governance for Negative Emissions in Germany

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The workshop aims to support the member states of the Alpine Convention in jointly developing a draft that describes the synergies between their national restoration plans. In addition, ideas for concrete cross-border projects will be collected that can be incorporated into the plans. This will create a basis for strengthening cooperation and nature conservation measures throughout the Alpine region.

Synergies for Nature Restoration in the Alpine Region

Organisation, implementation and follow-up of an international online workshop

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Those who contribute least to climate change are often the most severely affected by its impacts. Organisations like Bread for the World aim to amplify their voices and promote climate justice for vulnerable communities. Ecologic Institute conducted an independent evaluation of Bread for the World’s Climate Policy Unit to strengthen its long-term impact and strategic focus.

Evaluation of the Climate Policy Unit for Bread for the World

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How can nature conservation measures be designed to increase the resilience of ecosystems to climate change? This is the focus of a research project funded by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and led by the Ecologic Institute. The project aims to develop a scientifically sound and practical concept for assessing and promoting the climate resilience of ecosystems in Germany. The results are intended to provide strategic impetus for a climate-resilient approach to nature conservation.

Climate Resilience of Ecosystems

Concepts, assessments and recommendations for action

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This project supports Carbon Market Watch to address the specific challenges of integrating temporary sequestration credits into EU agri-food climate policy. In assessing the policy options currently under discussion – emissions trading systems, mandatory climate standards, and public procurement – and examines the implications of CRCF use within these frameworks. The project also provides recommendations on how temporary carbon sequestration can be supported in a way that is environmentally credible, practically feasible, and aligned with broader EU climate objectives.

Evaluating the Role of Temporary Carbon Sequestration Units in EU Agri-Food Climate Policy

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Ecologic Institute, in partnership with Ramboll and I4CE, continues its collaboration with the European Environment Agency in supporting the understanding of costs of climate impacts and climate adaptation. The overall aim of this study is to extract, complement and compile quantitative information on the economic costs and socio-economic impacts of climate adaptation versus costs of inaction in EU27 Member States. The work builds on previous work conducted by the consortium for the EEA which serves as the methodological foundation for this project.

Knowledge Development and Application Concerning Costs of Adaptation Compared to Costs of Inaction

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The central question of the FairNature project is how nature-based solutions can be delivered at wide geographical scales in a just manner. The project aims to co-develop a framework that supports NbS practitioners at multiple governance levels in achieving just scaling that fosters transformative change, biodiversity protection, and societal well-being.

Developing NbS Scaling Approaches to Achieve Just Transformative Change (Fair Nature)

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The Guidance on Climate Resilient Landscapes project, financed by DG CLIMA, will develop actionable guidance to strengthen climate resilience in Europe's rural landscapes. With floods, droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires becoming more frequent and severe, landscapes need to be managed in ways that help them absorb, recover from, and mitigate such events, supporting both ecological and human resilience.

Guidance on Climate Resilient Landscapes

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This project supports the German Environment Agency (UBA) in developing strategic options for the structural evolution of the EU ETS post-2030. Its results will feed into the European Commission's 2026 review of the ETS and inform Germany's position in upcoming negotiations on ETS reform.

Further Development of Emissions Trading after 2030

An Economic Perspective

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The research project analyses the need for integrated strategies in order to ensure sustainable development and preserve the basis of life. The project focuses on analysing the challenges and interactions between the three crisis areas and the question of how measures can be designed to create synergies between climate protection, biodiversity conservation and the reduction of environmental pollution. More crises are being added, e.g. land degradation and food security.

Challenges for International Climate Protection in the Face of the Global Triple Crisis

Climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution

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The aim of this project is to prepare a report that will serve as the basis for the evaluation report on the Federal Action Plan on Nature-based Solution for Climate and Biodiversity (ANK) to be submitted by the Federal Government in 2025. In March 2023, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) published the Federal Action Plan on Nature-based Solution for Climate and Biodiversity (ANK) with the aim of significantly improving ecosystems in Germany. It specifically counteracts the dual crisis of global heating and biodiversity loss.

Report to Support the Evaluation of Natural Climate Protection Action Programme (ANK) in 2025

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This project supported the European Environment Agency (EEA) in reviewing the EU's evolving competitiveness agenda through the lens of long-term sustainability transitions. The project explored how the EU’s competitiveness discourse engages with broader sustainability concerns, particularly in relation to industry transformation, circular economy and bioeconomy. It considers potential trade-offs between competitiveness and non-climate environmental goals such as biodiversity, ecosystems, and resource use. Based on this assessment, the project identified options for how sustainability could be anchored more firmly in, and aligned with, the EU competitiveness agenda.

Assessing the EU's Competitiveness Agenda Through a Sustainability Lens

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Tackling methane emissions is critical for the EU to meet its climate targets for 2030. The EU Methane Emission Regulation (EU-MER) is a key tool to achieve these reductions. However, countries like Romania and Czechia face significant implementation challenges. This project seeks to accelerate methane reductions in Romania and Czechia by enhancing the implementation of the EU-MER.

Implementing the EU Methane Emission Regulation in Czechia and in Romania

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Ecologic Institute is working together with Biota and the Michael Succow Foundation to identify concrete and practical conflicts of interest in the restoration of peatlands. In addition, Ecologic Institute supports the identification of needs and deficits, the evaluation and development of legally compliant solutions and guidelines for dealing with these conflicting objectives as well as the development of practical guidance manuals.

Mitigate Conflicts of Interest Between Nature Conservation and Climate Protection in Peatland Protection

Development of Guidelines

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This project will support the European Commission's DG CLIMA to develop policies related to the financing of permanent carbon removal technologies, with an emphasis on mechanisms that can accelerate their upscaling. These include tools like public procurement, public-private partnerships, and EU funding instruments.

Strategy for the Financing of Permanent Carbon Removals

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Within the DDP project, Ecologic Institute contributed a detailed analysis of the EU’s climate governance architecture and its role in connecting short-term policy cycles with the long-term goal of climate neutrality. The project team examined how instruments such as the European Green Deal, the European Climate Law, and the Governance Regulation enable coordination between Member States and support a shared trajectory toward 2050 targets.

Aligning the EU's Short-term Climate Actions with Long-term Goals

Case study for the Deep Decarbonization Pathways (DDP)

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The project objective was to analyse several datasets to gather insights on the progress of concepts of just resilience/equity within adaptation planning/policies at both national and sub-national levels in EEA countries. These insights are included in the Just Resilience report, published in 2025 by the EEA and in a separate draft briefing on just resilience at the national/sub-national level.

Data Analysis on Just Resilience

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