User:Uwe.fritsche
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Uwe R. Fritsche is a physicist and research director at IINAS (International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy [1]). From 1991 to 2010, he was head of the Energy & Climate Division at Oeko-Institut's Darmstadt Office. Oeko-Institut is a non-profit, non-governmental environmental research institution with a staff of more than 100 in the offices in Freiburg, Darmstadt, and Berlin [2].
He lead Oeko-Institut’s renewbility project (aiming at sustainable mobility and its links to renewable energies) which runs until the end of 2009, funded by the German Ministry for Environment (BMU) [3].
He works on national, European, and global sustainability standards and criteria for bioenergy, participating also in research projects on sustainable biogas utilization, regional biomass use, and social acceptance of bioenergy (EU project Create Acceptance [4]). Access to work on sustainable bioenergy is given on a respective website [5].
In that context he leads a joint project with IFEU for the German Ministry for Environment (BMU) and the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) on "Development of strategies for optimized used of biogenic industrial raw materials: sustainability standards and indicators for the certification of biomass for international trade" which runs until end of 2009.
He and his team also work with EEA and UNEP on GHG emissions from biomass, and land-use change/biodiversity issues. In parallel, he heads the FAO “BIAS” project (Bioenergy Impact Analysis) which is carried out jointly with IFEU Heidelberg.
Since May 2006, he acts as National Team Leader for the IEA Bioenergy Task 40 [6].
Before, he was project manager of the Sustainable Bioenergy project in Germany (2002-2004), and headed its follow-up until 2007, and Task leader in the European Environment Agency’s Sustainable Biomass project (2005-2006). In 2005 and 2006, he contributed to the Worldwatch Institute/GTZ Global Biofuels Study.
Since 1990, he gained experience as team leader in international projects, including work with the EU, GEF, GTZ, IAEA, IEA, OECD, US-DOE, and the World Bank.
Key issues of his expertise are material-flow and life-cycle analysis of energy systems (especially biomass), international energy and climate policy, and energy/transport modeling.
contact: uf@iinas.org
