Das Projekt "Bedeutung von Erdgas als neuer Treibstoff im Kontext einer nachhaltigen Energieversorgung" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie gGmbH durchgeführt. Alternative Kraftstoffe können in Verbindung mit Effizienzsteigerungen und Veränderungen im Mobilitätsverhalten einen wichtigen Beitrag zu einer zukunftsfähigen Entwicklung im Verkehr leisten. Ihre Rolle kann allerdings nicht alleine aus Sicht des Verkehrs bewertet werden. Aufgrund der Wechselwirkungen im gesamten Energiesystem müssen auch Fragen der Verfügbarkeit von Primärenergieträgern und Verlagerungseffekte berücksichtigt werden, die z. B. auftreten, wenn erneuerbare Energien statt im stationären Bereich in mobilen Anwendungen eingesetzt werden. Derartige ganzheitliche Betrachtungen auf der Basis von Energiesystemanalysen sind Gegenstand der Studie, die aus klimapolitischer und energiewirtschaftlicher Sicht analysiert, welche Rolle Erdgas, Biokraftstoffe und Wasserstoff für eine zukünftige Kraftstoffversorgung spielen können. Die Ergebnisse unterstreichen, dass die von den Klimawissenschaften langfristig als notwendig angesehenen Klimaschutzziele nur durch eine deutliche Reduktion des durchschnittlichen Energieverbrauchs der Fahrzeuge erreicht werden können. Alternative Kraftstoffe können die notwendigen Effizienzmaßnahmen zwar flankieren und den Handlungsspielraum erweitern, massive Effizienzsteigerungen aber nicht ersetzen. Die Ergebnisse wurden am 18. September 2003 vom Präsidenten des Wuppertal Instituts, Prof. Dr. Peter Hennicke, auf der IAA 2003 in Frankfurt/Main vorgestellt und an Bundesumweltminister Trittin übergeben.
Das Projekt "Compatibility of Agricultural Management Practices and Types of Farming in the EU to enhance Climate Change Mitigation and Soil Health (CATCH-C)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek durchgeführt. The Catch-C project assesses the farm-compatibility of Best Management Practices (BMPs) that aim to promote productivity, climate change mitigation, and soil quality. These are the three overall goals of sustainable soil management. Catch-C will first (WP2) set up a typology of the main farm types and agro-ecological zones across Europe. This frame, coupled to a pan-European database of socio-economic and biophysical data, will be used for spatially organising the information collected on current management; and for up-scaling the impacts expected from changes in management. Biophysical impacts of management practices will be assessed (WP3) primarily from a large set of current field experiments, executed by the participants. BMPs will be formulated, along with their trade-offs and synergies between productivity, climate change mitigation, and soil quality. Farmers, however, often do not adopt BMPs. Identifying the barriers against adoption, and formulating ways to remove these, are core activities of the project (WP4). Catch-C will survey farmer views on BMPs in all participant countries, assess costs and benefits of implementation, identify technical and ecological bottlenecks preventing adoption, develop a decision support tool, and prioritize innovation requirements to address bottlenecks. Policy measures can promote adoption in various ways, such as voluntary measures, regulation, and economic incentives. In interaction with policy makers, Catch-C will develop (WP5) guidelines for policies that will support the adoption of BMPs; and that are consistent with regional agro-ecological and farming contexts. Dissemination (WP6) includes scientific publication; discussing project results with farmers and policy makers; making information about BMPs and their adoption available to a wider audience; and stimulating awareness about the pros and cons of BMPs for different farm types and environments in participant countries.
Das Projekt "Brokering environmentally sustainable sanitation for europe (BESSE)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universiteit Maastricht durchgeführt. Objective: This collaborative research project will last 36 months and involve 10 partners. Its general aim is to contribute to the EU Renewed Sustainable Development Strategy through the enhancement of the links between policy and research on sustainable development in the field of sanitation (a crucial area with regard to environmental sustainability and quality of life in general). The project has two specific aims. - Generating new knowledge on the factors hindering the dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge that can be immediately applied in support to sustainable development, and of identifying knowledge brokerage methods enabling to overcome these hindering factors and to maximise the exploitation of relevant knowledge. - Starting up a learning process on knowledge brokerage in general as a tool for the socialisation of Scientific and Technological Research. The project components, to be implemented in the partner countries, are: - Research. Activities will carried out for mapping the knowledge and technological options for environmentally sustainable sanitation (ESS), and the actors that possess this knowledge. This, together with a consultation of experts aimed at listing the obstacles to knowledge brokerage dissemination, will provide the basis for experimentations. - Experimentation. Knowledge brokerage experiments on ESS will be carried out in the Netherlands, Italy and Bulgaria via 3 pilot projects. - Learning. The results achieved will serve to start up a process aimed at drafting policy guidelines (including a position paper) on knowledge brokerage on ESS. - Dissemination. Dissemination and awareness-raising initiatives will be carried out on the project issues and results. 9 WPs are foreseen. WP1 and 2 for the first part of the research; WP3-6 will be devoted to the design and implementation of 3 pilot projects, WP7 will be devoted to learning process; WP8 will deal with dissemination and WP9 with project management.