In a study, IKEM identified legal barriers to the revitalization of peatlands and their commercial use.
Experts from Greifswald Moor Centrum (GMC) have dealt with the challenges associated with growing and harvesting paludiculture for some time. However, the legal, social and political conditions received little attention so far. Incentives for the use and exploitation of this concept are missing completely. Political ambitions to promote paludiculture are also weak and the legal framework has not yet been adopted to this innovation. These aspects are the subject of GMC’s project German Peatland Conservation Dialogue that made use of IKEM’s expertise in energy law.
In a study, IKEM identified the main obstacles for the dissemination of paludicultures and developed recommendations for legal adjustments. The objective was also to design incentive schemes to increase the use of paludicultures for both material exploitation and the energy recovery from cultivated and harvested plants. One particular requirement for the commercial use is its eligibility for funding under the applicable Renewable Energies Act (EEG), the Biomass Ordinance (Biomasseverordnung), the Renewable Energies Heat Act (EEWärmeG), the Energy-Savings Act (EnEV), the Combined Heat and Power Act (KWKG) and other legal requirements.
The IKEM study was incorporated into the further work of the German Peatland Conservation Dialogue and also became part of the online portal Moorwissen.de. In addition to numerous other publicly accessible information on paludic culture, the results of IKEM’s work were published there as position papers.
Pre-study “Rewetting of drained moors and introduction of paludiculture to implement sustainable land management in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania”
Principal: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Duration: 01/2016–01/2016
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