Öko-Institut

• Energy & Climate
• Infrastructure & Enterprises
• Nuclear Engineering & Facility Safety
• Products & Material Flows
• Environmental Law & Governance

The Öko-Institut eV is a non-profit, private environmental research institute headquartered in Freiburg im Breisgau.

It is 1977 emerged from the anti - nuclear movement and now comprises some 130 staff at its offices in Freiburg, Darmstadt and Berlin. The Institute is organized as an association and has approximately 2,800 members, including nearly 30 municipalities. It finances its work primarily through third-party funding for projects. In addition, membership fees and donations. The turnover in 2008 was about 9.8 million euros.

Fields of activity

The Institute provides scientific opinions and advises politicians, environmental organizations, institutions and companies. Every year, about 100 national and international projects will be developed. Topics are:

• Chemicals Management and Technology Assessment
• Energy and Climate
• Pollution control and radiation protection
• Agriculture and Biodiversity
• Sustainable Consumption
• Sustainable mobility
• Sustainable Resource Management
• Sustainable companies
• Nuclear Engineering and Facility Safety
• Law, Policy and Governance

The Institute is a founding member of the association energy vision, which awards the label ok power for green energy products. In addition, it has launched the consumer information campaign EcoTopTen to life, presenting on an Internet portal specific product recommendations for sustainable consumption. Furthermore, the Öko-Institut Member of Ecological Research Network ( Ecornet ), a network for sustainability research.

Since summer 2006, the Öko-Institut offers its own free e-paper with the name of eco @ work. You can read it on the homepage, it - download it as a PDF and / or as an email Subscribe - whole or in parts.

Head of Institute

Board of Directors

The Board consists of twelve persons.

Management

The Management consists of Michael Sailer as a speaker and Rainer Grießhammer and Kerstin Mölter.

Board of Trustees

From the conveyor and honorary members of the Association, the Executive Board selects a board of trustees. The Board of Trustees meets once a year and is working with the Board and the management to the long-term objectives of the Institute. The trustees include Erhard Eppler, Heinrich von Lersner, Regine Kollek and Udo E. Simonis.

Criticism

The SPD - energy expert Hermann Scheer threw the Oeko -Institut 2004 Cooperation with the power companies in their fight against the Renewable Energy Sources Act ( EEG). The institute rejected this criticism as unfounded and stressed the importance of the EEG in the promotion of renewable energies. Beginning of 2008, issued by the Öko-Institut in Germany RECS certificates were again criticized as a " misnomer ". The Institute has rejected this criticism and emphasizes the importance of eco- labels, such as the ok-power label at the same time. The RECS system has now been transferred to the European Energy Certificate System ( EECS ), which also includes the jobs created under European law, in particular Directive 2009/28/EC, and after the German EEG guarantees of origin for electricity from renewable sources.