Activities

WISIONS provides consulting support to ensure the potential seen in visions of renewable energy and energy efficiency can become mature projects through its Sustainable Energy Project Support:
SEPS

WISIONS also promotes good practice in resource efficiency through its publication of relevant successful projects in its Promotion of Resource Efficiency Projects:
PREP

Background to WISIONS

Sustainable development is possible. Numerous innovative and valuable contributions, from different countries, fields and institutions, have shown that an appropriate reconciliation of economic, ecological and social factors is not unrealistic utopia. We have made a promising start, but the greatest challenge facing us in the 21st century is to learn how to use the world's resources more efficiently, and in an ecologically sound and socially balanced way.

Yes, progress is being made, but a dozen years after the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, many people and developing countries still lack access to resources and clean technologies. At the same time, people continue to live using unsustainable ways of consumption and production.

To meet global challenges like climate change, water scarcity and poverty, it is necessary to foster projects of potential strategic global importance. We can do this by supporting them so they can be implemented locally. Also examples of good practice need to be actively promoted to a wider audience.

The Focus of WISIONS

WISIONS is an initiative of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, organised with the support of the Swiss-based foundation ProEvolution, to foster practical sustainable energy projects.

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Background

The Wuppertal Institute is interdisciplinary in nature and has, since its establishment 13 years ago, been actively involved in promoting the cause of sustainability. Founded in the challenge of learning to obtain ”more for less”, as well as the importance of ”being more” rather than ”having more”, the Institute is working to overcome the ”Cold War” between economy and ecology.

The Wuppertal Institute develops guiding principles and concrete concepts in the areas of energy, transport, material flows and structural change, climate policy and eco-efficient enterprises, as well as creating new and innovative models of wealth. In these areas, the Institute assumes the role of mediator, providing links between politics, economics, science and society.

The Research Group I (Future Energy and Mobility Structures) and the Research Group IV (Sustainable Production and Consumption) manage WISIONS projects in close co-operation with the Swiss-based foundation ProEvolution.

Philosophy

The Wuppertal Institute is an independent organisation acting as a link between science, politics and society. Our guiding principle:

”The Wuppertal Institute researches and develops strategies and tools for sustainable development on a local and global level. At the centre of its work is the Earth's ecosystems and their interaction with the economy and society.
The analysis and introduction of innovations to limit the use of natural resources whilst creating better standards of living are the main focus of its research.“

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