Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie gGmbH

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The Wuppertal Institute primarily follows the policies and funding programs related to climate, environment, and energy, as these are often linked to sustainable topics. In particular, our research focuses on the following key areas: energy transition, climate-friendly primary industry, mobility, limiting climate change, prosperity, consumption and lifestyles, digital transformation, changing cities and urbanity, and circular economy. Activities that arise in this context include, among other things, analyses, consultations, hearings, and roadmaps. - Project CINTRAN: Decarbonization will lead to deep structural change with socio-economic, political and demographic implications in carbon-intensive regions. CINTRAN investigates the dynamics of structural change to understand what determines the pace of transformation and the capacity of regions to adapt. It combines quantitative and qualitative methods in a highly transdisciplinary framework focusing on four highly fossil-fuel dependent regions in Greece, Poland, Estonia and Germany. - Project NDC ASPECTS: The NDC ASPECTS project will provide inputs to the GST and support the potential revision of existing NDCs as well as development of new NDCs for the post-2030 period. The project will particularly focus on four sectoral systems: energy-intensive industries, transport & mobility (land-based transport and international aviation & shipping), buildings, and agriculture, forestry & land-use. For each of those sectors we will undertake „Sectoral Conversation“ to co-create evidence-based narratives with sectoral experts and stakeholders. These narratives can then be translated into global pathways informing the Global Stocktake as well as national pathways for strategically selected countries for each of the four sectors. - Project RurEnergy: The Chinese government aims to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. Rural houses account for one third of China's total building stock and for more than 20 per cent of final energy consumption, where heating and cooking consume most energy in rural houses. Energy consumption in rural areas has received little attention. Most rural houses are built by local construction workers and are not energy efficient. Dispersed coal and unprocessed biomass are the major sources for conventional heating and cooking. Such a combination makes rural energy consumption particularly carbon- intensive, causing adverse impacts on people’s health and well- being. Sustainable energy consumption in rural China is vital for decarbonisation and sustainable development. Building envelope energy retrofitting and sustainable heating and cooking technologies are available on the market and have already been piloted in rural China. Scaling up these pilots has encountered various barriers, ranging from lack of awareness among rural households, high costs and limited access. EU-CHINA-BRIDGE EU-CHINA BRIDGE will support the transition to a climate-neutral and resilient society in both Europe and China by jointly advancing knowledge on technology innovations and roadmaps for decarbonising energy intensive industries, co-creating innovative modelling by combining cutting-edge bottom-up and integrated assessment modelling to quantify net-zero sustainable pathways, and developing the most updated and comprehensive emissions data. The Wuppertal Institute participates in various calls for proposals of the EU research program (e.g. HORIZON Europe). For a complete overview of the projects of the Wuppertal Institute, please visit: https://wupperinst.org/en/research/project-overview The Wuppertal Institute is not a lobby organization, but an independent, non-profit implementation-oriented research institute. Communication: The Wuppertal Institute is committed to communicate our scientific research results as transparently as possible to policy makers as well as to the general public. Our full list of publications is accessible at our website: https://epub.wupperinst.org/home

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