Judith Allwang

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  Background report provides data and facts for Germany’s National Biomass Strategy

  News 04/01/2025

  How much wood will be available in the future for building, heating or for the production of wood products? How much agricultural land will be used to grow food and animal feed? How much livestock is justifiable in the context of climate targets in the future? What role do waste materials and residue matter play as suppliers of energy and raw materials? These and other questions are answered in a recent background report prepared by the six research institutes Oeko-Institut, DBFZ (German Biomass Research Centre), UFZ (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research), IFEU (Institute for Energy and Environmental Research), and the Thuenen Institutes for Market Analysis and Forestry. The report summarises key data, results and considerations relating to the potential of biomass and its uses.

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  Climate-neutral transition of Germany’s heating sector with a plan: reducing emissions, increasing energy efficiency

  News 03/26/2025

  Although emissions in the building sector have fallen in recent years according to the German Environment Agency, the annual emissions for the building sector stipulated in the country’s Climate Action Act have been regularly exceeded. There are technological options for solving this problem. There is a lack of consensus as to how quickly and with what preferred instruments the climate-neutral transition of the heating sector should advance in future. In a new report, Ariadne researchers, including researchers from Oeko-Institut, give their recommendations to the German government: a rapid switch to renewable and more efficient heating systems and the systematic refurbishment of buildings.