Climate-neutral and climate-resilient systems

“One Health” highlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to promote human and animal health, especially in old age. Our expertise centres on enabling evaluation of central processes (e.g. inflammation) that occur in similar ways in humans and animals.

• Physical exercise as the key to eternal youth
• 3D human skin models

By integrating satellite image data, geodata and climate data, we are able to record the effects of climate change in various action areas including forestry, agriculture and biodiversity. Our monitoring systems and products provide input data for AI-based forecasting models to analyse climate risks and initiate adaptation measures.

• SINCA - Carbon accounting in Singapore

We play a major part in the development and comprehensive validation of Copernicus Land Monitoring Services. This work is carried out as part of EU research projects and on behalf of the European Environment Agency and the EU Joint Research Centre.

Our services include detection and risk assessment of damage in forestry and agriculture; remote sensing-based surveying of biomass for bioenergy use and carbon balancing; vegetation analyses for precision farming; and monitoring land use, biodiversity and nature conservation areas. DIG

• SINCA - Carbon accounting in Singapore
• AlpMon: Damage detection for forest management

Our portfolio of services includes the creation of hazard warning maps for mudslides and landslides and a remote sensor-based monitoring system for subsidence and landslides.

We develop detailed statistical models to quantify individual or company-specific risks using high-resolution location and activity data, as well as weather and climate data. Various financial ratios, such as the value at risk (VaR), are used to visualise these risks.

• WEDDA
• Flood risk management in Austria

There are many ecological, social and economic advantages to the kinds of nature-based solutions that we develop: they mitigate climate change and help with adaptation (e.g. reducing the impact of heat islands in cities and containing flooding) and can even enhance citizens’ wellbeing.

• Regreen
• Invest4Nature
• Rooftop Farming

The growing availability of data and advances in AI and data science methods are paving the way for increasingly accurate and more practical climate services. These serve to translate climate change insights into tools that are suitable for everyday use and integration into decision-making processes.

• WEDDA 

Many climate policy options effectively compound social inequality. Our tools deliver precise analysis and targeted levelling up measu res. We can support your region or administrative area with our analysis and concepts or in an advisory capacity when it comes to planning and implementing specific transformative steps and programmes.

• User-centred technology development
• Roadmap to Climate Neutrality
• LOCA 2 Transformation
• Fossil free 4 Industry

Taking changes in process chains, emission processes and greenhouse effects over time into consideration is becoming increasingly important. In response, we are taking dynamic life cycle analysis a step further, supplemented by prospective methods, so that the full effectiveness of technical measures required for the changeover to climate-neutral production can be evaluated in detail.

• LIFE Cycle Assessment Center
• CliN Steel
• LCA für Fahrzeuge

With climate neutrality the overarching goal, we identify the contribution of future key technologies and increased sector coupling for specific transformation paths for the steel manufacturing industry. In each case, the remaining cumulative greenhouse gas budget is analysed to determine whether it is in a position to meet the requirements of the Paris Climate Agreement.

• Roadmap to Climate Neutrality
• CliN Steel

Researching technology and product diffusion with our User Experience Sustainability Assessment (UXSA) allows us to take a systematic look at customer satisfaction and the use of sustainable products and services to identify feedback on actual customer behaviour for companies.

• Green Experience Lab
• User Experience Sustainability Assessment
• Hardware and software solutions for the energy transformation

The structural change that goes hand in hand with the transition to a climate-neutral economy calls for far-reaching changes for both companies and their employees. We analyse these changes, and the specific demand from companies for occupations and skills in particular, on the basis of job advertisements.

• WIBIS - Economic Policy Reporting and Information System