Yvonne Stipp

Recent projects

• 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

• Circular Economy

  Mapping of the anthropogenic stock V - Strategy development for a national urban mining process

  10/21/2022

  The KartAL V project is preparing the urban mining strategy for political design in close coordination with the Federal Environment Agency. The aim of the research project is to produce a strategy document. This includes the essential contents and objectives of an urban mining strategy. This docume

• Building materials

  Sustainable Management in Extractive Industrie (SUMEX)

  11/01/2020

  SUMEX (Sustainable Management in Extractive Industries) addresses the definition of sustainability in connection with EU extractive industry from exploration to closure/post-closure of exploration sites. In peer-learning workshops the five focus areas - land use planning, - socio-economic and envir

• Circular Economy

  Sustainable solutions for reducing plastic packaging in Asia

  08/01/2020

  The overall aim of Öko-Institut's activities in Asia is to contribute to the promotion of sustainable consumption and production patterns (SCPs) in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. This will be achieved by identifying, developing and implementing measures in the field of plastic packaging reductio

• Power grids

  Life cycle assessment of high and extra high-voltage lines in Germany

  07/18/2018

  The goal of the project is to obtain knowledge about the power grid infrastructure in Germany in order to ensure an environmentally sound grid expansion and to build up a sound knowledge base about the energy and material balance as well as other environmental impacts. The following are described a

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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.