Study Global Circular Economy Reflections for a Just Transition By Luisa Denter Published: März 2025 A circular economy can help mitigate the negative effects of our resource consumption and reduce the massive dependence on raw materials from other countries. The study sets out what needs to be considered in order to achieve a just transition towards a circular economy.
Report Climate Security Report By Alice Bergoend Published: February 2025 This report reviews climate security literature, identifies key players, and analyzes case studies. It highlights actors' needs in different contexts and offers recommendations for global, regional, and local engagement, with a focus on the global South.
Policy Paper Climate Justice and Equitable Futures What Is Missing in IPCC AR6 Scenarios and How to Go Beyond By Tejal Kanitkar and T. Jayaraman Published: February 2025 The briefing shows how the scenarios of the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report (AR6) perpetuate existing inequalities into the future. It explores alternative perspectives that prioritize equitable futures, climate justice, and well-being for all in IPCC AR7.
Report From Boom to Burden Perpetual Impacts and Mining By Andrés Ángel and Johanna Sydow Published: December 2024 This report strives to shed light on the various biophysical as well as sociocultural long-term impacts of mining, which can mean massive long-term monetary costs for states and further generations.
Policy Paper Shaping a Future-Fit Common Agricultural Policy Impetus for the EU reform debate By Phillip Brändle Published: November 2024 For more than half a century, the European Union's agricultural policy has focussed primarily on increasing agricultural productivity and the cost-effective production of food. This policy paper provides recommendations for action that are largely possible without amending the EU treaties.
E-Paper Policy Paper: Geogenic Hydrogen – a Contribution to the Energy Transition? By Stefan Cramer Published: November 2024 Geogenic hydrogen could offer an alternative solution for the energy transition, especially in hard-to-decarbonize sectors like steel production and heavy transport. Geologist Stefan Cramer explores the potential and risks of this natural hydrogen and reveals what is currently known.
Policy Paper Accelerating the European Energy Transition Impetus for the EU reform debate By Julian Schwartzkopff Published: October 2024 In order to advance the European energy transition and distribute the costs and benefits more fairly, the EU must find better steering instruments. This policy paper provides recommendations for the necessary acceleration of the European energy transition.
Guidelines Limiting environmental damage, human rights abuses and Indigenous Peoples’ rights violations Civil society guidelines for the implementation of the EU Critical Raw Materials Regulation Published: February 2024 These guidelines address the great concerns with the overall aims of the EU Critical Raw Materials Regulation (CRMR) of driving greater extraction of primary raw materials and increasing harm to nature and people.
Policy Brief Downstream due diligence A must-have for the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive By der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and Germanwatch e.V. Published: March 2023 Together with the Supply Chain Law Initiative, SOMO, Swedwatch and Germanwatch, we show in this short position paper why due diligence in downstream value chains is necessary and how it can be implemented. We also make key recommendations fort he EU supply chain law.
Infobrief Combatting Global Plastic Pollution Feminist Perspectives for a Gender-Just Approach By Birte Rodenberg Published: February 2023 A critical look at the entire plastics cycle is also of crucial importance from a feminist perspective, because the plastic problem cannot simply be reduced to consumer use patterns or to harmful microplastics in cosmetic products. On the contrary, every stage of the plastics cycle reflects different gender-specific experiences and exposures.