Socio-economic climate impact assessment Iraq
Iraq is among the world's most climate-vulnerable countries and is still insufficiently prepared to meet this challenge. GWS is developing a macroeconometric model for Iraq to quantify the…
Strengthening of Analytical Capacities and Policy Formulation for a Green Transformation in Indonesia
In collaboration with CORE Indonesia and commissioned by GIZ, GWS is implementing a project aimed at strengthening Indonesia’s institutional foundations for a green economic transformation. The…
Digitization and Natural Resources - Analysis of the Resource Intensity of the Digital Transformation in Germany
Digital technologies are an integral part of modern life: In industrial manufacturing, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) unlock previously unexploited efficiency potentials (often…
Scientific support to current discussions on sustainable resource use – national, European and international level
The focus of this research project is on analysing the potential greenhouse gas (GHG) savings of resource efficiency (RE) and circular economy (CE) measures, and on identifying measures with a…
Sport as an economic factor in the city of Duisburg – stocktaking and prospects
As part of an expert report for the city of Duisburg, a comprehensive inventory of all players in Duisburg's sports sector (active sportspeople, sports clubs, sports associations, sports…
Provision of consultancy services to create a climate vulnerability and risk assessment of the Maltese economy
Due to its geographical location in the Mediterranean as well as its geophysical characteristics as a small islands region, Malta is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In addition to…
Integrated Assessment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Transformation Pathways towards a Resource-Efficient and Greenhouse-Gas-Neutral Germany (FKZ 3721 31 101 0, ReFoPlan)
The “SDG pathways” project develops and applies a modeling approach for integrated sustainability assessments of ambitious resource- and climate policy transformation pathways for Germany. Applied…
Digitalisation and natural resources
The aim of this research project is to improve knowledge about the resource intensity of digital transformation in Germany. With the help of suitable data models, the use of natural resources (raw…
Clean Sky 2
On behalf of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), GWS analysed the multi-national World Input Output Database (WIOD, Release 2016). The study focused on the economic significance of aviation sectors…
Resource efficiency and natural resources in an international context
Global primary raw material extractions have been growing continuously for decades. Sustainability research therefore stresses the need for more appropriate considerations of planetary boundaries…