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EnSu presentations at the ECEEE
At the Summer Study of the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (eceee), which took place in France in June 2024, EnSu members Carina Zell-Ziegler, Johannes Thema and Alexander Kling gave a total of 4 presentations. The positive feedback in the discussions...
Expert discussion of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development
Carina Zell-Ziegler, PhD student at EnSu, was invited as an expert to the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development on Wednesday, 10 April 2024. The public expert discussion was entitled "Sufficiency as a central strategy of German sustainability...
Recording of the German-language online seminar “Basic course on sufficiency”
As part of the basic course series "Energiewende 2.0", organised by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, two separate online webinars offered an introduction to the topic of sufficiency for socially and politically engaged individuals and other interested parties. Frauke...
Manifesto for sufficiency: towards mainstreaming sufficiency in EU policies
Update: The manifesto has now been signed by 97 organisations (as of September 2024). You can access the manifesto for sufficiency via this link: https://energysufficiency.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/sufficiency_manifesto.pdf The négaWatt association and 74 European...
Putting sufficiency into practice: The Hafen-Ost real-world laboratory in Flensburg, Germany
Link: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/oekom/gaia/2024/00000033/a00101s1/art00005;jsessionid=2cpimhp8gxs73.x-ic-live-02# The city of Flensburg is currently planning the construction of a new neighbourhood on a large redevelopment site. The aim is to create a...
Discussion between the ÖNK and members of the Bundestag on the political feasibility of sufficiency
Link: https://www.kirchen-fuer-klimagerechtigkeit.de/artikel/suffizienz-zu-einem-megatrend-machen Picture: Kirchen für Klimagerechtigkeit In a discussion between the Economic Network for Climate Justice (with Carina Zell-Ziegler, among others) and members of the...
11 national citizens’ councils call for more sufficiency and regulation
The EnSu junior research group has published a study on the recommendations of citizens' councils. The starting point for this was the question of the actual willingness for sufficiency policy. Sufficiency policy measures are often categorised as precarious with...
Successful sufficiency workshop during the first conference of the “Forschungsnetzwerke Energie” in Berlin
At the first conference of the "Forschungsnetzwerke Energie", members of all nine networks as well as experts from the fields of "Energy Transition and Society" and "Resource Efficiency" exchanged views for the first time from 13 to 14 June in Berlin. In the process...
CLEVER scenario launch event, Brussels 5.06.23
On 5 June 2023 from 3 pm, Dr Benjamin Best, Senior Researcher in the Research Department Structural Change and Innovations at the Wuppertal Institute, presented the main results of the CLEVER scenario together with five other experts. Under the name CLEVER, négaWatt,...
Why energy demand reductions are also needed in the medium and long run
Carina Zell-Ziegler and Benjamin Best published an article on energy sufficiency in the current issue of “Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte”. The authors show the role of demand reduction for climate targets and why energy sufficiency is an indispensable part of...
Review on sufficiency and transformation
The scientific evidence is increasing that sufficiency is inevitable for achieving many sustainability goals. However, there exist many different understandings of sufficiency in the sufficiency discourse. Questions that are under debate are for example: What does...
Policy paper: Sufficiency as a guiding principle for energy security and climate protection
In the course of the current energy crisis caused by the Russian war in Ukraine and of the continuously intensifying climate crisis, a group of scientists and NGO staff coordinated by Corinna Fischer have published a policy paper on #energysufficiency. << go to...
#betd22 Side Event: Policy Database on Energy Sufficiency
Invitation | 01.04.2022, 11:30 bis 12:30 / Image by june66 from Pixabay Although sufficiency and its political implementation has recently gained increased consideration, it is still underrepresented in energy and climate scenarios. This webinar entails: a...