Material and Resource Efficiency

Material and Resource Efficiency

Client/Allowance

Umweltbundesamt (UBA)

Period: 01.07.2007 – 31.12.2010

As described in the German Strategy for Sustainable Development, it is a main target of the German government to increase the resource productivity of the economy: until the year 2020 it should double, the perspective in the long run  is to achieve a "Factor 4". The research project has been set up to identify and use options for firms and households to reach this target.The task of ZEW was in this context to identify innovations in the area of resource  and material efficiency, and to suggest instruments for achieving these targets. Additionally, the position of Germany on important markets for efficiency and environmental technology was identified.

Unit
Environmental and Climate Economics

Project members

Klaus Rennings

Klaus Rennings

Project Coordinator
Acting Head

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Client/Allowance
Umweltbundesamt (UBA), Dessau, DE
Cooperation partner
Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Berlin, DE // Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), Petten, NL // Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal, DE // Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, DE // SRH Hochschule Calw, Calw, DE // Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung, Heidelberg, DE // Institut für Ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin, DE // Fachhochschule Pforzheim, Pforzheim, DE

Contact

Acting Head
Klaus Rennings
Phone +49 (0)621 1235-207
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