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Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Wuppertal Institute explores and develops models, strategies and instruments to support sustainable development at local, national and international level. Sustainability research at the Wuppertal Institute focuses on ecology and its relation to economy and society. Special emphasis is put on analysing and supporting technological and social innovations that decouple prosperity and economic growth from the use of natural resources.
Activities
- Research
Coordinated projects
- Analysis of existing approaches to the measurement of sustainable consumption in Germany, including the basic outline of a development concept
- Collaborative project: Extended certification of disposable and reusable packaging as an incentive and control instrument for the creation of innovations for the reduction of plastic packaging along the food chain - subproject B
- Collaborative project: Open Circular-Collaboration-Platform for Sustainable Food Packaging from Plastics - subproject G
- Credited payment for electricity - study on the broad use of prepaid meters
- NutriAIDE - Building smart food environments for improved nutrition - subproject 3
- Sustainability Strategy NRW - in-depth analyses on implementation based on a scientific perspective
Involved in research projects
- EU-UltraLowDust: Next generation small-scale biomass combustion technologies with ultra-low emissions
- Potential study on combined heat and power generation in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Strategies to use Biofuel Value Chain Potential in Sub-Saharan Africa to respond to Global Change - Enhancing low-productivity Farming in Tanzania and linking to SMEs (CLIMATE CHANGE)
Contact
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
Döppersberg 19
42103 Wuppertal
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)202 2492-0
Fax: +49 (0)202 2492-108
Email: info(@)wupperinst.org
