BEACON Catalysing European Local Climate Action Conference
On May 21, 2019, in Heidelberg, Germany, a conference was held on “Catalyzing Climate Action at European and Local...
Toolkits – Access to justice in environmental matters
There are numerous legal possibilities to protect the environment! To ensure that legal professionals, environmental organisations...
Civil Society and Climate Policy: UfU at the Global NDC Conference in Berlin
Until 2020 all parties that ratified the Paris Agreement must revise their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and...
New Project on water Management in Ukraine
The project aims to support local authorities in implementing water legislation through capacity building. The exchange...
Examination of Legal Regulation of Plastics in Germany
To what extend are the use, production and recycling of plastics legally regulated in Germany? UfU investigated this question for a world-wide study...
International Symposium: Access to Environmental Information
The Independent Institute for Environmental Issues had the pleasure to invite highly ranked scholars from different jurisdictions...
Strengthen civil society for the implementation of climate policy
Shortly before the beginning of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 24) in the Polish city of Katowice, some colleagues from UfU’s...
UfU at COP24 – Workshop „Community Energy for ambitious NDCs“
At this year’s Climate Conference (COP24) in Katowice, UfU will be present with its project partners BUND and Friends of the Earth...
Experts from Vietnam learned the on-site analysis of heavy metals in soils
From November 5th to 8th 2018, UfU organized a course about the use of mobile X-ray fluorescence analysis for the fast detection...
Final Workshop for Energy Crop Project in Hanoi
On October 11, the final workshop for the project “Cultivation of Energy Crops on former Mining sites in Vietnam (CPEP)”...