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RADOST Handbook: Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in the Baltic Sea Region
This new handbook was developed under the project RADOST (Regional Adaptation Strategies in the German Baltic Sea Coast). It provides a concise overview of adaptation policies being planned and implemented at the national, regional and European level, including the status of National Adaptation Strategies for all Baltic Sea EU Member States. Read more ...
Ecologic Institute Receives Robert Bosch Stiftung Grant to Continue ELEEP Network
Ecologic Institute, Berlin and its partners, Ecologic Institute, Washington DC and the Atlantic Council of the United States, were awarded a grant by the Robert Bosch Stiftung for their recently launched Emerging Leaders in Environmental and Energy Policy Network (ELEEP). Read more ...
Gendercide: The Missing Women?
Considerably larger male than female populations in some countries in Asia as well as in Europe have led to concerns in the European Parliament about the discrimination of young girls leading to sex selective practices such as neglect, sex selective abortions or even infanticide. Thus, this study by the Overseas Development Institute, UK (project lead) and Ecologic Institute provides the European Parliament with an overview of the causes, current trends, consequences and policy challenges of sex selective practices focusing particularly on China and India. It provides some recommendations for the European Parliament as to how to address this challenge. Read more ...
Integrating Resource Efficiency, Greening of Industrial Production and Green Industries – Scoping of and Recommendations for Effective Indicators
The study by Ecologic Institute develops an organising framework to summarise scientific findings concerning a diversity of indicators and assesses their potential applicability to measuring sustainable industries and sustainable industrial development. Altogether, it is suggested to apply a set of indicators in order to balance existing methodological challenges and to combine explanatory power. Read more ...
Dr. Tim Wawer
Diplom-Volkswirt
Fellow
Dr. Tim Wawer is a Fellow at Ecologic Institute. He works on the market and system integration of renewable energy technologies and the necessary reorganization of the electrical system. Dr. Tim Wawer has profound knowledge of possible market designs and the potential flexibility of power systems with high shares of renewable energies. He works in German, English, and Spanish.
Prior to joining Ecologic Institute, Dr. Tim Wawer worked at the German Energy Agency (dena). There he worked on mechanisms for developing the energy services market. He also did research on the importance of electricity and heat storage systems as well as expanding the use of combined heat and power in electricity systems with high shares of renewable energy. In the past, Dr. Tim Wawer worked for GDF SUEZ Energie Deutschland AG analyzing energy policy. He was in charge of grid connection rules and the design of international electricity trade. Beside his work at Ecologic Institute, he is also a lecturer in the energy economics master's program of Haus der Technik e.V. in Essen (Germany), the external institute of the RWTH Aachen University.
Dr. Tim Wawer is an economist, having studied at the University of Münster (WWU, Germany) and the Universidad de La Habana (Cuba) with a focus on environmental & resource economics and international economic relations. He wrote his thesis on the integration of renewable energy technologies into the liberalized German electricity sector [pdf, 1.3 MB, German] while he was employed as a research fellow at WWU.
Nele Schmidt
MA (Environmental Management), Diplom-Politologin
Translation Assistant
Nele Schmidt works as a Translation Assistant for Ecologic Institute in Washington DC. Her main task is the translation of current texts from all areas of environmental policy. Her interests lie in energy and climate change topics as well as biodiversity protection. She works in English and German.
In addition to her work for Ecologic Institute, Nele Schmidt is a member of the organizational team of the SUSTAIN IT! initiative that is putting together the inaugural university days focusing on sustainability and climate protection at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin, Germany). She also contributes to the pupil's university for sustainability + climate protection, an official project of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, at the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) at the FU Berlin.
During her environmental management studies, Nele Schmidt worked for the Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut e.V.) in the research division Energy and Climate. There she was involved in projects regarding carbon leakage and the European Emission Trading System (EU ETS).
Nele Schmidt studied political science at the Universities of Hamburg (Germany) and Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and completed the Master of Environmental Management at the FU Berlin. In her master's thesis, she examined the interactions between the climate change and biodiversity conventions. The work focused mainly on the contractual and administrative interrelations of the two conventions as well as the relevance of the REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) mechanism for biodiversity.
Ecologic Newsletter No 113 – May 2012
- The Role of BRICS in the Developing World - Study for the European Parliament
- Rio+20: Sustainable Development Goals - The Environmental Pillar - Publication
- The Earth Summit "Rio+20:" Implications for Chile and its Development - Presentations
- Economic Growth and Sustainability? Framing a New Model for Development - Presentation
- RADOST Stakeholder Analysis (Part II) - Publication
- Arctic Summer College 2012 - Event
- Mainstreaming Ecosystem Services through Reformed European Agricultural Policies - Publication
- Evidence-Based Policy-Making - Ph.D. Workshop (2012)
- Impact Assessment of Adaptation Options - Methodology for Selecting Options - Presentation
- Water Expertise Showcased at the Green Week 2012 - News
Ph.D. Workshop on Evidence-Based Policy-Making (2012)
March and April 2012, Zurich - Holger Gerdes
Mainstreaming Ecosystem Services through Reformed European Agricultural Policies
In this article published in Conservation Letters, members of the interdisciplinary Research Group on Ecosystem Services examine the possibilities and perspectives for a reorientation of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The authors find that the current reform proposals do not take into account the knowledge generated by ecosystem research. They argue that the CAP should be reformed such that it serves as an instrument to safeguard ecosystem services from agricultural land. Read more ...
Urban-rural energy investments: possibilities for EU and national policy measures
Rural energy infrastructure often lags behind that in urban areas. As studies show, the energy mix in rural communities tends to rely more heavily on coal and oil and is often less energy efficient than in cities and towns. This project prepares an inventory of rural and urban-rural energy projects and based thereon develops recommendations for new and additional policy measures at EU and Member States levels to promote effective and efficient energy investments in rural areas. Read more ...
Rio+20: Sustainable Development Goals - The Environmental Pillar
Ecologic Institute and Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) prepared a paper that gives an overview of selected sustainable development commitments, their shortcomings, and possible remedies, as discussed and agreed by relevant political fora. The paper and the summary of an expert workshop are available for download. Read more ...
Water Expertise Showcased at the Green Week 2012
With the slogan, "Every Drop Counts," the upcoming 12th edition of the Green Week represents the biggest annual conference on European environmental policy and will take place from the 22 to the 25 May in Brussels. With the focus this year being on water, Ecologic Institute will disseminate information, best practices, and lessons learned from a number of high-profile projects carried out on behalf of the DG Environment and DG Research & Innovation of the European Commission, the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and other sponsors. Read more ...
Building Coastal Resilience to Climate Change and Coastal Hazards - Michael Beck
On 24 April 2012, Ecologic Institute had the distinct honor of hosting Dr. Michael Beck at a dinner dialogue to discuss his work on building coastal resilience to climate change and coastal hazards. Dr. Beck is the Lead Marine Scientist at The Nature Conservancy as well as an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is currently a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation and is spending his fellowship time in Bonn, Germany. The event took place at Café Lina in Berlin and included actors from the Berlin policy scene. The discussion was moderated by R. Andreas Kraemer, Director of Ecologic Institute. Read more ...
The Role of BRICS in the Developing World
With this study, researchers from Südwind Institute (project lead) and Ecologic Institute inform the European Parliament about how the five emerging economies known collectively as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are emerging as development assistance donors and potential partners in the developing world. The authors discuss how South-South cooperation is becoming more significant and what challenges it poses to the EU's ODA agenda. Finally, the study provides a series of recommendations for European policy makers. Read more ...
Arctic Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling: Environmental and Social Impacts
10 February 2012, Kirkenes - Elizabeth Tedsen
Economic Growth and Sustainability? Framing a New Model for Development
3 - 4 April 2012, São Paulo - Michael Mehling, LLM
The Earth Summit "Rio+20:" Implications for Chile and its Development
18 April 2012, Santiago de Chile - Michael Mehling, LLM
Stefan Kratz
MS (Management), Diplom-Politologe, BA (Environmental Sciences)
Senior Policy Advisor
Stefan Kratz is a Senior Policy Advisor with Ecologic Institute, based out of the San Mateo office in California (USA). His areas of focus and experience include clean energy, cross-border investment in renewable energy and clean technology, environmental and biodiversity protection, and these topics in relation to China, the USA, and Europe. Stefan Kratz is a native speaker of English, fluent in Mandarin Chinese and German, and proficient in Italian and French.
Stefan Kratz first joined Ecologic Institute in 1995 as a Research Assistant for four years while completing his master's degree in Berlin (Germany). During that time, the focus of his research covered eco-labeling of genetically modified organisms as well as cross-boundary conflicts over water resources.
Stefan Kratz most recently worked for the German solar company Q-Cells SE, first as Managing Director of their China office from 2007 to 2010, then as Vice President Corporate Development and Head of Commercial System Sales in North America from 2011 to 2012. He lived and worked in China for ten years from 2000 to 2010 on issues relating to poverty alleviation, health care, biodiversity protection, fair trade, and solar and clean energy.
From August 2010 to July 2011, he attended Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA) as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow during a sabbatical year. Stefan Kratz holds a Master of Science in Management from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, a Diplom in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin, and a Bachelor of Arts with a dual major in Environmental Sciences and Policy and Comparative Area Studies from Duke University.
Impact Assessment of Adaptation Options - Methodology for Selecting Options
2 April 2012, Berlin - Jenny Tröltzsch
Environmental and Health-related Indicators in the Benchmarking of Water Suppliers
On behalf of the German Federal Environment Agency and in co-operation with the Rödl & Partner GbR and the Hochschule Ruhr West, Ecologic Institute analyzes environmental and health-related services of the German water management and how these services are recorded in Benchmarking indicators. Moreover, the necessary framework to assure these services in the long-term are discussed, as well as proposals to further develop current Benchmarking approaches. Read more ...
