RIFS Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit | am GFZ

Day 2 on #TurquoisX Summit, Lanzarote, organized by Florian Lennert, #KlausTöpferSustainability #Fellow at RIFS. Focus of this day is bringing together venture capital, sustainable ocean use and renewable energy. Learnings with Rainer Quitzow, Eberhard Sauter, Dr. Mar Fernández-Méndez, Janek Andre, Janade Du Plessis, Adam de Sola Pool, Javier Garabal, Javier Roo, Michael Henriksen, Sebastián Feimblatt, Evandro Lopes, Peter Fippinger, Ben Boteler, A. Erdem KAZAKLI, Laia d'Armengol, Frank Wernecke are that for blue-green economy partnerships between Africa and Europe are important, because the coastlines are near. Africa needs urgent change, because its sea levels are rising fast; this need transforms the continent into a living lab for innovative solutions. What we learn from failure is, that there is no one-fits-all-solutions, but customized solutions are needed. R. Andreas Kraemer 孔 安德 Torsten Thiele Christian Thiel Juan Luis Quincoces Soler Jose Joaquin Hernandez Brito Oswaldo Betancort García Telmo Morato Billy Thalheimer Sergio David Díaz Martínez Jaime Collar Guerra Adelina de la Jara Valido Oliver Risse Paul Holthus @Marc Stuart Nacho Rodriguez Helmut Scholze Dr. Rainer Stetter Matthias Tang

#Ocean Science and #sustainable development in practice in #Macaronesia are focus at #TurquoisX Summit: Accelearting Blue-Green Innovation, on Lanzarote. José Joaquin Hernández Brito, CEO at Plocan, showed innovative sustainable ocean projects and applications being developed in Macaronesia. Juan Luis Qincoces Soler explained, how important it is to bring together divers innovative ideas. With the Marina Innova Hub on Lanzarote, a location for collaboration is set up. Rainer Quitzow, research group leader at RIFS, emphazised the need of bringing together science, society, and politicians. “We know so much better, what is happening on the moon than what is going on in the deep sea”, said Telmo Morato, Principal Marine Scientist at University of the Azores. “To protect the ocean, knowledge is as important as the translation of scientific knowledge in policy recommandations”, underlined R. Andreas Kraemer 孔 安德, founder of Ecologic Institute, special adviser at Oceano Azul Foundation and former Fellow at RIFS. “My experience with mobility transition showed me, that human behaviour is often neglected in transformation models, but is a key for transformation”, pointed out Florian Lennert, #KlausTöpferSustainability #Fellow at RIFS, organisator of #TurquoisX Summit and founder of Turquois X. Rainer Quitzow Florian Lennert Achim Maas Matthias Tang Ben Boteler

Technologieoffenheit taugt nicht im Fall von #CCS Auch wenn es im Wahlkampf nur wenig thematisiert wurde – die kommende Regierung wird klimapolitische Weichen stellen. Das Wahlprogramm der CDU/CSU propagiert „#Technologieoffenheit", was in erster Linie bedeutet, notwendige politische Entscheidungen zu vertagen und Emissionsreduktionen zu verzögern. Tobias Haas und Stefan Schäfer über das Beispiel Carbon Capture and Storage. https://lnkd.in/eb9sw4PG

Der Leitfaden "Unfallsprache - Sprachunfall" vom Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, dem Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Wien & des RIFS Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit | am GFZ richtet sich insbesondere an Polizei und Medien. Er soll aber auch dazu beitragen, die Verantwortung aller für die #Verkehrssicherheit sprachlich sichtbar zu machen. 👉 Zum Artikel mit Links zum Leitfaden: https://lnkd.in/dQV5nZ6g

👉 The Turquois X Summit: Accelerating Blue-Green Innovation begins soon 26.03.2025 - 28.03.2025 MiHub, Av. Olof Palme, 35500 Arrecife Las Palmas, Lanzarote, Spain 📲 Learn more about Turquois X Summit developed and coordinated from RIFS Research Institute for Sustainability | at GFZ #Fellow Florian Lennert with the support from Christina Camier and Achim Maas: https://lnkd.in/ecQ6GrAY

2780 Menschen sind im vergangenen Jahr im Straßenverkehr in Deutschland "ums Leben gekommen" – so hat es das Statistische Bundesamt Ende Februar 2025 mitgeteilt. RIFS Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit | am GFZ-Wissenschaftler Dirk von Schneidemesser ergänzt: „Was nicht erwähnt wird, ist genauso wichtig wie das, was gesagt wird. Nur etwa fünf Prozent der Unfallberichte nennen eine Statistik – und ohne diesen Kontext wirken Kollisionen wie Einzelfälle. Doch bei über 2.500 Toten und insgesamt mehr als 280.000 Verletzten pro Jahr ist klar: Das ist kein Zufall, sondern ein systemisches Problem. Lösungen gibt es längst – sie müssen nur Priorität bekommen." 👉 Im Artikel auf unserer Website finden Sie alle Links zum Leitfaden "Unfallsprache - Sprachunfall": https://lnkd.in/dQV5nZ6g Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern Universität Wien Institut für Sprachwissenschaft

Conference 👉 Call for Proposals - Industrial decarbonization and hydrogen: The politics and economics of sustainable structural transformation 28 and 29 October, 2025, RIFS Research Institute for Sustainability | at GFZ in Potsdam (Berlin metropolitan area). The industrial sector accounts for a quarter of global direct #CO2 emissions. Hard-to-abate heavy #industries, such as steel, chemical, cement and aluminium, account for the bulk of these emissions. #Decarbonizing them is essential to cope with global warming, but also challenging due to the need to coordinate upstream and downstream investments, and the different pathways offered by alternative technologies. Low-emission hydrogen plays an essential role as energy carrier or feedstock, and it requires new investments in various related technologies and infrastructures. The shift to low-emission hydrogen may therefore trigger profound changes in industrial structures, trade relations, geography of production and global value chains. A significant share of green and blue #hydrogen supply is expected to come from emerging economies, providing them with new industrial development opportunities. Different industrial decarbonization and hydrogen development pathways are possible, and indeed reflected in national hydrogen strategies, with different emphasis on #renewables or natural gas, production of different derivatives, and different combinations of exports and local use for domestic industry decarbonization. #Researchers willing to contribute to this conference are invited to submit abstracts - watch out for more here: https://lnkd.in/dfz-HSbz #share

Resource Speculation Imaginaries: From the Arctic to Ukraine Oil and gas geologists are key knowledge holders, producers and actors in the heavily contested story of oil and gas resources in the Arctic regions. Despite this, these individuals receive surprisingly little attention. The recent #research of Dr. Marianne Pascale Bartels from the RIFS Research Institute for Sustainability | at GFZ has sought to better understand this understudied group and their knowledge production processes by questioning and probing them, using both her past training and professional experience as a geologist in the #oil and #gas exploration industry and my more recent incarnation as a political geologist and geographer. This allowed for an approach and viewpoint spanning natural science, social science, and the humanities. The hope was that, in trying to ask questions in a novel way, the results could perhaps reveal new facets of a contested area like Arctic oil and gas and deepen the understanding of resource estimation, speculation, and the perceptions of some of the key geologists involved. These insights showed that Arctic oil and gas geologists are experiencing this as a time of rapid and unsettling change and that lines between Arctic ‘fossil fuel’ geologists and Arctic ‘clean energy’ geologists are blurred in a changing energy landscape. #Geologists working on #Arctic oil and gas are often simultaneously working on hydrogen storage, #CCS, hydropower and various forms of Power-to-X, with their knowledge of the subsurface spanning a gamut of energy resources with ease. More importantly, taken together, these results evidenced and highlighted the key role geologists play (and will continue to play) in the developing story of energy resources and use throughout this century and why they are a profoundly important group to study. This places the people with a deep understanding of the world under our feet in a vital and authoritative position as energy systems evolve and the focus on certain resources becomes more intense. Of course, resource estimation, speculation and geological imaginaries (imaginaries can be understood here simply as perceptions) are not new or limited to the Arctic (or geologists). But thinking about them brings up important ‘recent’ examples – such as #Greenland or #Afghanistan – and the political interest in their potential resources. ... Read the full #Blogpost here: https://lnkd.in/dbKsYGwU

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