| Description: | There are three raw material policy programmes at national level in Germany: the federal government’s
Raw Materials Strategy (RMS), the German Resource Efficiency Programme (ProgRess I und II)
and the “Strategy Paper on Extractive Resources in German Development Cooperation” (EZRoh). These
are formulated and coordinated by different federal ministries, namely the Federal Ministry of
Economics and Technology (BMWi), the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation,
Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
(BMZ). The programmes are anchored in partially very different policy discourses about raw
materials including economic, environmental and development policy, in particular. As to be expected
given the variety and heterogeneity of the respective stakeholders, raw material policy is pursuing
a wide range of overarching objectives that are, however, accentuated very differently by the
strategies mentioned and implemented by the corresponding policy instruments. In view of this
broad range of targets, it is essential to identify harmonious objectives and consider potential conflicts
when developing raw material policy strategies and selecting suitable policy instruments. The
objective of the analyses in the RohPolRess project is to identify points at which the coherence of raw
materials policy can be improved. Possible intersections between the different raw materials policy
programmes are identified at the level of targets, policy instruments and actors, and practical recommendations
are made based on theoretical considerations and processed empirical data. Specific
points to improve the coherence of German raw materials policy resulted from 12 short analyses of
selected topics made within the project.
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