bifa Umweltinstitut GmbH
Based on extensive experience regarding technical, ecological and economic issues, we work on special tasks and analyze complex value chains. We support companies with our expertise and provide independent decision-making guidelines for associations and political actors at the municipal, state or federal level.
Our expertise: process engineering and material flows, biological process engineering and analytics, energy systems and energy technology, social sciences and environmental psychology, ecological balancing and systems analysis.
Our topics: Climate protection and climate impacts, sustainable electricity and heat supply, municipal waste and circular economy, pollutants, hygiene, risk management, sustainable production and services.
The overriding goal of the Institute’s work is to help to ensure that the planetary boundaries are respected. The Wuppertal Institute has put this goal into concrete terms with a guiding vision of a climate-neutral and resource light society. Since it was founded in 1991, the Wuppertal Institute has been an integral part of the national and international research landscape and a key player in shaping the debate on issues relating to climate, energy and resources. The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is the sole shareholder in the non-profi t limited company (gGmbH), which comes under the responsibility of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
