News & Press
News &Press Releases
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22.04.2026
Biomass-Based Energy System for Multi-Family Buildings Successfully Tested
Completion of the Horizon Europe project Micro-Bio-CHP
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22.04.2026
First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels: Briefing Published
The Wuppertal Institute has produced a briefing for the European Parliament on the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels
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15.04.2026
How Data Infrastructures Are Becoming a Key Resource for a Functioning Circular Economy
Circular Economy Information Ecosystem: prerequisite for success and driver of innovation for the digital circular economy
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13.04.2026
Wuppertal Institute Publishes its AI Policy
How artificial intelligence is becoming part of the workplace
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01.04.2026
Improving Education-Driven Solutions for Youth in Climate Action
Workshop: strengthening young people for climate protection and energy transition
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30.03.2026
Design Science Research: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice in Innovation
Guide published: strengthening creativity and innovation research
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24.03.2026
Regenerative Economics and Planetary Boundaries: Research and Impact Agenda
In Brief advocates for an economic model that not only reduces environmental damage but actively contributes to the Earth systems' recovery
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20.03.2026
Top 10 Publications of 2025
The ten best peer-reviewed publications of the Wuppertal Institute of the past year
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10.03.2026
From Theory to Implementation
Policy Paper on the global carbon market capacity building landscape and host country perspectives published
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12.02.2026
Lessons from the First Applications of the Article 6.4 SD Tool
From Decisions to Practice: authors from the Wuppertal Institute summarise early findings in Sustainable Development Initiative's report
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06.02.2026
Baseload Power Plants are Not Essential for Future Power Systems
Cost-effective solutions for a climate-neutral European power system: article published in Cell Reports Physical Science
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03.02.2026
Wuppertal Institute Strengthens Research into Transformation of Energy and Industry Systems
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Clemens Rohde has been made Division Director at the Wuppertal Institute and appointed to a professorship at the University of Wuppertal
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26.01.2026
PREVENT Waste Alliance: Henning Wilts Re-Elected to the Steering Committee
Newly elected committee sets the course for the coming years
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15.01.2026
Pressure to Grow vs. Sustainability
Study shows why German municipalities are consuming more and more land despite ambitious targets
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13.01.2026
What the COP30 Outcomes Imply for the International Carbon Market
Carbon Mechanisms Review: special issue "Beyond the Gavel" on COP30 published
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18.12.2025
Our Shared Confidence in Shaping the Future
The Wuppertal Institute sends its season's greetings and best wishes for a new year filled with hope
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28.11.2025
COP30 Failed to Meet Expectations
Despite increasing need for action, the international community fails to find adequate solutions – Wuppertal Institute presents analysis report on the World Climate Conference in Belém
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21.11.2025
Following the Path of Second-Hand Clothing
Burcu Gözet and Maike Demandt from the Wuppertal Institute visited Ghana as part of the C4CF II project
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18.11.2025
Carbon Market and Article 6: Ready and Raring to Go?
Carbon Mechanisms Review "Ready for take-off?" published
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17.11.2025
Wuppertal Institute and Earth4All seal Partnership
Official Memorandum of Understanding enhances joint research, policy advice and communication
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11.11.2025
Strategic Development of the Institute's Work
Exchange of the International Advisory Board on future processes
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03.11.2025
New Standards for Sustainability Impacts in the Carbon Market
Comparative study shows that SD tool tops benchmark list
Statement
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03.11.2025
Weakening the EU Emissions Trading System Means Handing the Future Race to China
A statement of Dr. Lukas Hermwille, Co-Head of Transformative Industrial Policy Research Unit
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31.10.2025
A Global Network of Digital Product Information
Blueprint creates the basis for a global system to link product and sustainability data
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31.10.2025
COP30 must show that Climate Progress is Bigger than any Single Leader
Wuppertal Institute formulates expectations for this year's UN Climate Change Conference in Belém
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23.10.2025
On the Way to Net-Zero: How German companies manage their residual emissions
New policy paper analyses strategies, challenges, and policy need related to the use of carbon dioxide removals
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15.10.2025
Environmental Justice and Sufficiency in the Anthropocene
Wolfgang Sachs explores inequality, fairness and living well within planetary limits in the Handbook of the Anthropocene
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13.10.2025
A Question of Integrity
Carbon Mechanisms Review: analyses and reports on implementing high quality carbon market activities
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10.09.2025
Germany Lagging Well Behind in the Purchase of Refurbished Smartphones
Survey on refurbished mobile phones reveals great potential, but scope for better usage
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25.08.2025