A general challenge in working with funding programs and projects remains that many actors fail to put a clear barrier or potential analysis at the beginning of their work. Well-founded barrier and potential analyzes can ensure that as many factors as possible, which for example mislead the target group into climate-damaging behavior in a particular area, are taken into account in the projects, and that interventions are optimally aligned.
A special focus of Arepo is therefore the analysis of barriers and potentials for the realization of climate protection measures and the promotion of renewable energies and energy efficiency.
For the analysis of barriers, we have developed an analytical framework based on a meta-analysis of market transformation processes in the field of energy efficiency, which has found a great deal of resonance among experts: the so-called Theory of No Change. It allows actors to identify barriers to rational action or behavior and market transformation processes. This analysis provides a sound basis for the creation of integrated programs, policies and projects that lead to effective climate protection. The concept can also be transferred to other topics.
In the strategic development of the National Climate Initiative (NKI) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, we were entrusted with the analyzes of barriers and the NKI-target groups. In the preparation of project briefs for the NKI, creating a typology of the projects according to the types of barriers they addressed, was also part of the assignment. As part of a meta-evaluation of climate protection evaluations, we identified the different types of barriers of informational, technical-structural or economic nature.
Current Analyses
For a comprehensive publication of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation on the alternatives for structural change in Lusatia, Arepo provided an analysis of the …
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Together with IZES, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Nagoya University – Graduate School of Environmental Studies and the National Institute for …
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The National Climate Initiative (NKI) was launched in 2008 and aims to support and promote various climate protection measures in Germany. The NKI …
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Latest Publications
Our analysis is divided into two parts. Part one, the meta-analysis, summarises the relevant literature (including various practical examples) and embeds it into the debate. …
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Together with IZES, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Nagoya University – Graduate School of Environmental Studies and the National Institute for Environmental Studies …
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The study gives an overview of the framework conditions for a transition towards a socially inclusive renewable energy based electricity sector in Viet Nam. While …
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