Julia Schütz

Recent projects

• Waste management

  EUROSTAT: Support on statistics on specific waste streams (Call for tenders ESTAT/2023/OP/0026)

  05/02/2024

  The project covers the following aspects/tasks: a) Management of waste statistics from various reporting obligations from data collection to publication: 1. Directive 2008/98/EC on waste (Waste Framework Directive - WFD), 2. Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles (ELV), 3. Directive 2012/19/E

• Climate policy in transport

  Balancing of greenhouse gases for new construction and expansion projects of rail infrastructure

  01/01/2024

  The project aims at developing robust methodologies for greenhouse gas balancing (GHG balancing) of rail infrastructure projects in order to adequately consider the increasing political focus on life cycle-based assessments and legal requirements, particularly in the context of climate protection

• Batteries

  Technical support to implement the new Batteries Regulation between 2023 and 2025

  10/30/2023

  Under the first task, the consortium shall research and write a report which assesses “common chargers” for rechargeable batteries. The study report of Task 1 shall support the Commission to submit a review report to the European Parliament and the Council by 1 January 2025. The broad objective of

• Building materials

  Preparation of a study for the comparative ecological and economic evaluation of the resource input: use of dry construction elements (AZ 2023/319)

  09/01/2023

  The objective of the study is to determine and compare the resource requirements for three drywall elements. On this basis, SMEs will be provided with a guideline that enables a structured overview of the ecological and economic advantages of the drywall alternatives. The following research questio

• Sports and culture

  Further development Carbon footprint of the DOSB (Deutsche Olympische Sportbund), reference year 2022

  05/01/2023

  The German Olympic Sports Confederation (Deutscher Olympischer Sportbung DOSB) adopted a sustainability strategy in fall 2019. One of the sustainability goals is to promote climate protection and, as part of this, to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the DOSB office. As an initial implementati

• Resource and product policy

  Olympic Committee of Europe Approaching Carbon Neutrality (OCEAN)

  01/01/2023

  The Olympic Committees of Europe Approaching Carbon Neutrality (OCEAN) project is designed to empower National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to acquire relevant knowledge to measure their carbon footprint and develop tailored carbon reduction strategies to reduce their carbon emissions and strengthen g

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  The EU Carbon Certification Removal Framework and its methodologies must be improved to deliver on their goals

  Blog 12/12/2024

  In October 2024, the European Commission presented draft methodologies for the European Union’s Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF). These methodologies set out requirements for the certification of carbon removals and soil emission reductions from various mitigation activities.

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  The ICVCM approval of three REDD methodologies presents risks to the integrity of the initiative

  Blog 12/10/2024

  In November 2024, the Governing Board of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) approved three methodologies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). The methodologies are now eligible for issuing “high integrity” carbon credits under the Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) label of the ICVCM. We are concerned with this decision. While the methodologies have been improved compared to previous versions, in our assessment they do not meet the requirements of the ICVCM Assessment Framework. Here we explain why.