Integrated systems analysis
(2007)
Die Schul-CO2-Bilanz
(2024)
Designguide background
(2013)
CCS und Biomasse
(2015)
Was ist synthetisches Gas?
(2019)
Technical summary
(2012)
Zukunftslabore, Küchen und Stadträume : wenn sich Kunst und (Nachhaltigkeits-)Wissenschaft begegnen
(2021)
Transformative Forschung hat einen klaren normativen Transformationsanspruch, jedoch ist dieser oftmals weder einfach umzusetzen noch zu evaluieren. Denn auch in der Forschung muss die Komplexität der Transformation berücksichtigt werden. In der Nachwuchsgruppe UrbanUp wurden im Reallabor Wuppertal gemeinsam mit der Praxis Interventionen durchgeführt, die hier exemplarisch beschrieben werden und in denen Wissen über die Verstetigung von Nachhaltigkeitsnischen generiert werden sollte. Dabei wurden verschiedene Frei- und Lernräume geschaffen, die den Transformationsanspruch der Nachwuchsgruppe bilden.
Actor and network analysis
(2017)
Der Club of Wuppertal
(2005)
Die Entwicklungspartnerschaft kompakt : Nachhaltigkeit durch Kooperation und Netzwerkbildung fördern
(2005)
This chapter is an excerpt from a study commissioned by the European Parliament, which examines EU subsidies for agriculture, fisheries, transport, energy and regional development. Based on proven methodologies for the identification and assessment of environmentally harmful subsidies, the study assesses the sustainability level of the sectoral policies and makes recommendations for a reform that would contribute to the alignment of the EU budget towards a more sustainable growth. The following sections provide the main findings of one of the largest fields of expenditure within the EU budget, the structural and cohesion policy.
Reforming the EU VAT system to support the transition to a low-carbon and resource efficient economy
(2015)
This chapter discusses the question of ecologically differentiated value added taxes (VAT) as a tool to overcome tax-related cognitive barriers by connecting to an existing tax system. This is elaborated along several aspects: (a) The role indirect of consumption taxes for the economy, (b) the legal issues of the VAT system, (c) the EU harmonization efforts in this context, (d) the distributional implications of value added taxes. Following this, the chapter develops a proposal for a VAT reform (e). To this end, it looks at potential and existing differentiations between sectors, products and services, and product and service groups and turns to those consumption areas that are widely identified as particularly resource and carbon intensive and sets out how a harmonization of the overall system and an ecological differentiation in single consumption areas could be brought together. Potential impacts and effects are briefly discussed (f) and some conclusions are drawn (g). The subject addressed in the chapter is relevant from a policy perspective but mainly descriptive: It does not use innovative qualitative and quantitative tools.
Against the background of the question which role tax based instruments have to play in policy mixes to counteract the unbroken growth trend of global resource use, this chapter initially describes how the insights from a country comparative study on national resource policy frameworks could be linked to instruments for the internalisation of external environmental costs on a European scale. On the basis of a project specific but substantiated resource use vision and potential governance principles for three transition processes to reach the goals, the tax concepts are subsequently connected to simulation scenarios in order to illustrate the resource impacts that could be achieved by those policy reforms. Conclusively, barriers to such fundamental changes of framework conditions are briefly reflected upon and some conclusions are drawn.