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IRENA report published: 12 million jobs in the renewable energy sector in 2020

The eighth edition of the report Renewable Energy and Jobs: Annual Review was published yesterday by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). According to the report, the number of renewable energy jobs worldwide reached 12…

Climate action as an employment driver – new study on the employment effects of more ambitious climate action

The study, commissioned by Greenpeace, provides a literature review on the effects of a transition towards a green economy on the labour market. Both current effects on employment generated so far and projections up to 2030 from a variety…

New Policy Briefs published in the CRED project

Using the macroeconomic models developed by GWS for Kazakhstan and Georgia as part of the CRED project, CRED-trained modellers implemented climate change effects and calculated initial adaptation measures. The results have now been…

Our figure of the month 09/2021: Trade flows between EU and MERCOSUR countries

After 20 years of negotiations between the EU and the MERCOSUR countries (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguas and Paraguay), agreement was reached on the trade part of the agreement on June 28, 2019. Ratification is still pending, but if the…

Our figure of the month 08/2021: Organic farming

The German government's climate strategy aims to double the share of organic farming in Germany from 10.3% today (2020) to 20% in 2030. This is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from this sector. Between 0.4 and 1.2 million…

Our figure of the month 07/2021: The Dependency Ratio

The pension system in Germany is financed on a pay-as-you-go basis. In very simplified terms, this means that statutory pensions are paid from the gross wages of employees subject to social insurance contributions plus an employer's…

GWS at the ECCA 2021, the 5th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference on June 7th

Christian Lutz will be panelist in the Webinar on “Climate action exchange – sharing knowledge and experience of what works across the EU” (07.07.2021, 13:30-16:00). He will share and discuss results and experiences from the GIZ-CRED…

Article "Environmental and socioeconomic footprints of the German bioeconomy" published in Nature Sustainability

It contains central results of the SYMOBIO project. We estimate global key environmental footprints (FPs) of the German bioeconomy in a historic analysis from 2000-2015 and in projection until 2030. Findings imply that sufficient…

Monthly turnover in the Germany IT-Industry 2016-2020

Our figure of the month 06/2021: German IT hardware in low demand despite digitisation push – 18% drop in sales in 2020

Only foreign countries benefit with high import figures

When the Corona pandemic severely curtailed public life last spring, millions of people in Germany were forced to work, study or pass the time at home. Demand for notebooks and…

GWS at the first digital IAEE conference

At the first online edition of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) conference, held June 7th to 9th across all time zones, topics focus on energy, the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change. GWS is participating with…

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