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News Press release: Climate footprint of combustion engines far worse than that of electric cars
From a climate perspective, a battery-powered vehicle is always superior to a combustion engine, even if the latter refuels with synthetic fuels in the future. This is the conclusion of a new...
moreNews New methodology paper: LCAst - Prospective life cycle assessments
Prospective life cycle assessments based on the ecoinvent database In principle, there is an established tool for the environmental assessment of processes, services and products: the life cycle...
moreNews R-concrete as a building material alternative: funding programme for climate-friendly building construction
ifeu recently completed a research project that developed and tested approaches to optimising ready-mixed concrete as a building material. The project, carried out on behalf of the...
moreNews ifeu-Podcast: Attention, upstream chain! Liquefied natural gas is more harmful to the climate than thought
In future, Germany wants to satisfy its gas hunger by importing natural gas from countries such as Qatar, Indonesia and the USA. In episode 9 of the ifeu podcast, physicist Daniel Münter explains...
moreNews LNG: Germany must insist on clean production
"Germany and the EU should urgently call for clean and low-emission natural gas production in countries such as Algeria, Qatar, Nigeria and the USA," says study director Daniel Münter, explaining...
moreNews SWM-GHG Calculator (2023) is updated
The Solid Waste Management (SWM) Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Calculator, first published in 2009, offers decision-makers in emerging and developing countries guidance on the GHG impacts of waste...
moreNews Too valuable for car and heating
The bioeconomy can be a central building block for the transformation of our largely coal, oil and gas-based economy. However, renewable raw materials and synthetic carbon compounds are scarce...
moreNews 16 tonnes of raw materials per capita: Resources Report for Germany published
The Resources Report, which was co-authored by ifeu and is already being published for the third time by the German Environment Agency, provides facts and figures on the use of raw materials in...
moreNews Industry 2030: More climate protection possible with renewable biofuels
Conditions for the climate-friendly production of butanol is the use of renewable energies. Green electricity from wind power and solar energy is needed to produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide....
moreNews E-kerosene from Emsland: ifeu develops sustainability criteria
On 4 October 2021, Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze opened the world's first e-kerosene plant in Werlte in Emsland. The plant, based on the PtL principle (power-to-liquid), is operated...
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