With a focus on lithium and cobalt for batteries, Dr Doris Schüler summarises the challenges currently facing the producing countries and looks at developments in Europe.
critical with other, less critical resources – also have
Not all the waste fractions from an old computer, fridge or monitor are valuable. We are always reading that e-waste recycling is a financial gold mine and that waste is a resource – but that’s not entirely true.
Ghana, Nigeria and Ethiopia are examples: they have
multi-model experiments Juli 2022 A variety of models have
The update of the CO2 emission standards for cars and vans for the post-2020 period is currently being negotiated. Peter Kasten discusses the switch from a NEDC to a WLTP based regulation scheme and how it could affect the effective real-world emission reduction.
Even though all vehicles have been tested with the
Die Geschäftsführerin des Öko-Instituts kommentiert, warum die derzeitige Neuverhandlung der EU-Agrarsubventionen nicht zum Klimaschutz beitragen wird. Und welche elf Maßnahmen das ändern würden.
In no other sector have so many sustainable solutions
How can appliances be kept in service for as long as possible? When are they worth repairing – and when does it makes sense to buy a new and efficient appliance? The Oeko-Institut provides answers to these questions in a new background paper.
But policy-makers and industry still have much to do
Decentralised flexibility options connected to the distribution grid can be used for congestion management in the transmission grid. Their potential contribution for the transmission grid in Germany is investigated in a scenario analysis for the years 2030, 2040 and 2050.
Yet decentralised flexibility can still have effects
As a key element of its strategy to increase energy efficiency and renewable energies in buildings, Germany has recently revised its building energy act. The revision of the law has received unprecedented media attention and has dominated the energy policy discourse in 2023 in Germany and beyond. Driven by the German tabloid “BILD”, a campaign making use of populist discourses and misinformation has filled the front pages of German newspapers. The high media reception of the so-called “heating hammer” has strongly impacted not only the provisions of the law itself but has also caused considerable damage to future energy efficiency policy developments, leading to a withdrawal of a previously announced tightening of energy efficiency standards as well as the watering down of Germany´s position in the trilogue negotiations on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. Given the relevance of the process and the discourse for current and future policy developments, our paper provides an analysis of the differ
German Buildings Energy Act and discuss how these have
In this blogpost, we argue why the current proposals are inadequate for the aviation sector to contribute its fair share for achieving the Paris Agreement goals.
number of countries, jurisdictions and companies have
Researcher Frederick Adjei shares insights into the work and approach of the collaboration with local stakeholders within the ProBaMet Project.
pull factors” to ULAB recyclers in Nigeria hoping to have
