Cross-Cutting Subjects

The complex questions facing our society often require integrated approaches. To meet this challenge, researchers from the Wuppertal Institute's different research groups have joined forces in the following cross-cutting subjects:

Competitive disadvantages arising from the inefficient use of resources endanger the development of businesses and jobs. Increasing resource efficiency is also more and more frequently becoming a key issue in national and international politics. Against this background, the German Environment Ministry and the Federal Environment Agency tasked 31 project partners, under the direction of the Wuppertal Institute, with the research project "Material Efficiency and Resource Conservation" (MaRess).  more

Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND), Church Development Service (Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst - EED) and "Bread for the World" are planning to launch a communication campaign in the year 2008 to stimulate the social discussion on a globally sustainable development. To ensure a thorough preparation for such an initiative, the Wuppertal Institute was commissioned to outline a book project which should be as summarising and as orientating as the study "Greening the North" about ten years ago. more