14.08.2020 Climate ATTO’s tall tower in the Amazon rainforest turns five The 325-metre-high tower was inaugurated on 15 August 2015 and is at the core of the BMBF-funded Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) research infrastructure. Here, research is conducted into the effect of the Amazon rainforest on the global climate. continue
07.04.2020 Submission period for sustainability research award 2020 open now Join a prestigious network of renowned scientists, gain unique access to Germany’s sustainability research elite and promote your innovative ideas. continue
31.01.2020 Energy Foundation Laid for Green Energy and less Waste in Ghana More than 12,000 tonnes of municipal waste are produced in Ghana everyday. This waste is almost never put to use and is left to rot unchecked. The results are health hazards, greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental pollution. A unique hybrid ... continue
04.12.2019 Energy Workshop to Map Potential of Green Hydrogen in Africa Africa has the capability to produce green hydrogen. A new project to map the potential of this environmentally friendly technology aims to determine locations in Africa where green hydrogen could play a key role both in energy supply for local areas and ... continue
25.10.2019 Energy Protecting the Climate with Biomethane in Togo and Ghana What sort of potential does biogas have in the African countries of Togo and Ghana? Researchers for the German Biomass Research Center (DBFZ) have been trying to answer that question. They have now presented their results in a feasibility study. continue
17.10.2019 Energy Workshop for Renewable Energy Sources in Gambia A workshop on climate change and renewable energy was held in early August by the Gambian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology in collaboration with the University of the Gambia. continue
14.10.2019 10 YEARS GREEN TALENTS COMPETITION: Awardees of 2019 on tour through Germany Promising young researchers from around the world are visiting the Federal Republic of Germany in October to present and discuss their projects in the field of sustainable development with German elite researchers during a two-week expedition to ... continue
21.08.2019 Energy Waste into Energy in Ghana In the Ghanaian capital of Accra, waste sits on the streets or piles up in unregulated rubbish dumps. This not only presents a serious risk to public health, but also leads to significant greenhouse gas emissions due to the uncontrolled decomposition and ... continue
31.07.2019 Society Nature-based tourism in the tropics: How can wastewater management be improved? BMBF funds social-ecological research and a new working group at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in cooperation with the Social Sciences department at the University of Bremen with close to two million euros. Joint Press Release ... continue
25.06.2019 Biodiversity Last chance for the Northern White Rhinoceros Today the research project BioRescue for the rescue of the Northern White Rhino, which is threatened with extinction, is officially launched. State-of-the-art reproduction and stem cell technology shall ensure the survival of this key species. The ... continue
08.04.2019 Submission period for sustainability research award open now Become a Green Talent, promote your research in Germany and benefit from an exclusive network of excellent green researchers. The goal of sustainable development is to find a balance between the need for socio-economic development and the need to preserve ... continue
03.04.2019 Energy Building Bridges Under the tag line “Building bridges – a tour of Germany’s leading research centres”, German and African researchers exchanged ideas about renewable energy in late March. Within the scope of this topic, the German Federal Ministry ... continue
03.04.2019 MARE:N: Coastal, Marine and Polar Research for Sustainability Young ice melts before it leave its 'nursery' The dramatic loss of ice in the Arctic is influencing sea-ice transport across the Arctic Ocean. As experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research report in a new study, today only 20 percent of the sea ice that ... continue
27.03.2019 MARE:N: Coastal, Marine and Polar Research for Sustainability Mangroves and their significance for climate protection Many studies suggest that mangroves are gigantic carbon reservoirs and an important factor for climate protection. But so far there has been no precise calculation of how much carbon a mangrove forest stores in a given period of time. Such figures, ... continue
