A meta-analysis of different studies has shown that significant climate protection potentials exist in the fields of intelligent buildings, traffic optimization, production systems, and dematerialization, which can be made accessible by using IT-Solutions.
Within this context, the expert workshop "IT for Climate Protection" was held on 24 October 2014 in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear...Read more
Climate protection activities and adaptation measures face several barriers that need to be broken down to achieve local climate protection goals. In this regard, regular meetings have been held to serve as an exchange platform for current developments in local climate protection and individual strategic projects.
The 7th meeting took place on 6 November 2014 in the Ministry of Environment, Energy...Read more
Under the auspices of the POCACITO project and the ELEEP program, Ecologic Institute and the Atlantic Council convened a workshop on post-carbon cities and the reimagining of urban spaces in Washington, DC. A group of experts working on different aspects of urban design and sustainability gathered to discuss current urban trends in the US and the EU (as well as...Read more
Supported by the National Climate Protection Initiative (NKI) of the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Protection, and Reactor Safety (BMU), the fourth workshop for the scientific monitoring of the municipalities within the project "Master Plan 100% Climate Protection" took place on 2 and 3 September 2013 in Göttingen.
The 19 master plan municipalities have set particularly ambitious climate protection goals for...Read more
Funded by the National Climate Initiative (NKI in German) of the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU), the second working meeting of the scientific support for the municipalities in the project "Master Plan for 100% Climate Change Mitigation" was held on 7 and 8 February 2013 in Hanover.
The 19 "Master Plan Municipalities" commit to particularly ambitious climate protection targets, such as the...Read more
In this workshop, the goals for fish conservation in Germany, evaluations of downstream fish migration at hydropower facilities, as well as evaluations of fish passes for upstream and downstream migration were discussed. Of particular interest were the questions which water management, nature conservation, or fisheries goals are established for fish protection, which measures show promise to help meet these goals,...Read more
As part of the EFFACE project on the impacts of environmental crime, the Ecologic Institute organized on 21 January 2014 a public workshop on "Instruments, actors and institutions in the fight against environmental crime." The workshop served to better understand which approaches exist on combating environmental crime at the national, EU and international level and which have worked. The workshop...Read more
The workshop brought together experts to discuss the opportunities and challenges of an expansion of cross-border electricity grids at sea for offshore wind energy in Germany. It was the first of four workshops to be organized by Ecologic Institute in this subject area.
The workshop is embedded in a European project led by E3G to develop an integrated North Seas Grid.
...Read more
For the fifth installment of the series "From the blue sky over the Ruhr to the Energiewende" on 4 December 2013 the experts Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht and Dr. Thomas Jahn were invited to discuss the relationship between environmental policy research and civil society.
Prof. Rucht, a former researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)...Read more
