Publication Series on Economic and Social Issues

The cover of a report with various screws and mechanical parts in the background. The title "Global Circular Economy" is at the top, followed by the report's title and author's name.

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.

By Anja Troelenberg and Franziska Tschinderle

Published: November 2024

Germany is dependent on labour migration from the Western Balkans. However, the emigration of young, educated people in particular is slowing down both economic and democratic progress in the region.

Published: May 2022

The long-term challenges have lost none of their significance – be it climate breakdown, species extinction, the increase in inequality, or demographic change. The challenge is to craft a strategic approach that can set the course for long-term success.

Published: November 2021

The Societal Transfomation Scenario is a global 1.5°C mitigation scenario that challenges the notion of continued global economic growth and its compatibility with ambitious climate targets such as the 1.5°C limit. This summary brings together all the key points.

Cover A Societal Transformation Scenario for Staying Below 1.5°C

Published: December 2020

The „Societal Transfomation Scenario“ is a global 1.5°C mitigation scenario, which challenges the notion of perpetual global economic growth and its compatibility with ambitious climate goals like the 1.5°C limit. It shows how through a reduction of production and consumption in the Global North, we can stay below 1.5°C without resorting to high-risk technologies like CCS, geoengineering and nuclear, while also avoiding temperature overshoot.

Published: April 2015

Why are all those means and measures for satisfying needs - which despite emancipation are provided for free by many more women than men in the so-called private sphere - customarily defined as pre- or non-economic? An Essay about the unjust consequences of this omission.

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Publication Series on Economic and Social Issues

Global Circular Economy
Reflections for a Just Transition

Germany Calling
How Emigration is Changing the Western Balkans

Making the Great Turnaround work
Economic policy for a green and just transition

A Societal Transformation Scenario for Staying Below 1.5°C
Summary

A Societal Transformation Scenario for Staying Below 1.5°C
A study by Kai Kuhnhenn, Luis Costa, Eva Mahnke, Linda Schneider, Steffen Lange

The Care-Centered Economy
Rediscovering what has been taken for granted

Publication Series on Economic and Social Issues

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