Wuppertal Institute

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The "Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy" is based in Wuppertal, Germany, and was founded by Professor Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker in 1991. It explores and develops models, strategies and instruments to support sustainable development at local, national and international level. Sustainability research at the Wuppertal Institute focuses on ecology and its relation to economy and society. Special emphasis is put on analysing and supporting technological and social innovations that decouple prosperity and economic growth from the use of natural resources.

The core research fields of the Institute's research groups are:

Future Energy and Mobility Structures
Energy, Transport and Climate Policy
Material Flows and Resource Management
Sustainable Production and Consumption

Shaping a more sustainable society raises a number of challenges that are best solved through integrated research. Scientists from the Wuppertal Institute's research units therefore join forces in cross-cutting projects:

Sustainable Globalisation
Eco-Sufficiency and Quality of Life
Integrated Sustainability Scenarios

Most of the numerous publications and research reports are available at the Institute's homepage.

In 2004 an office in Berlin was started and in the year 2005 the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP) was founded in Wuppertal.

[edit] Further reading

Sachs, Wolfgang, Tilman Santarius, and Patrick Camiller. Fair Future: Resource Conflicts, Security and Global Justice : a Report of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. London: Zed Books, 2007. ISBN 1842777297