Potential trade-offs between providing sufficient food for a growing human population in the future and sustaining ecosystems and...

The ambitious climate policy objectives of the COP21 agreement require the design and the implementation of effective and efficient...

When modeling medium and long-term challenges we need a reference path of economic development (the so-called baseline). Because...

The year 2015 is important for sustainable development: the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have expired and have been replaced by...

In a recent report published in Science (“The global tree restoration potential”, 5 July 2019, p. 76) Bastin et al. claim that forest...

With rising demand for biomass, cropland expansion and intensification represent the main strategies to boost agricultural production,...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 40: Maize cultivation has been increasing considerably over the last years in Germany. This trend is mainly...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 113: Germany has to induce and develop action in climate policy soon in order to and reach future emission...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 27: Especially in developing countries, megacities are faced with increasing capacity constraints in their water...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 37: The European biofuel policy has been widely criticized because of the danger that biofuels may not really...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 64: In their Kiel Policy Brief the IfW experts Ruth Delzeit, Gernot Klepper and Mareike Lange show that an...

The contribution of biofuels to save greenhouse gas emissions has been challenged over the last years. A still unresolved question is...

Growing demands for meat and dairy products (MDP), biofuels, and scarcity of agricultural land are drivers of global land use...

Global biomass demand is expected to roughly double between 2005 and 2050. Current studies suggest that agricultural intensification...

Land-use decisions are made at the local level. They are influenced both by local factors and by global drivers and trends. These will...

The production of bioenergy is considered to be a promising energy source for a sustainable energy mix and it is politically promoted...

As part of its climate policy, Germany promotes the production of biogas via its so-called Renewable-Energy-Act (EEG). The resulting...