1. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    Electromobility presented. Expansion around the globe increased significantly in 2023 and reached a new record level. Although there are currently disruptive factors, the agency expects the sector to continue to grow strongly, with core markets in China, the USA and Europe. In its new edition of the annual Global EV Outlook, the IEA assumes that more than one in five people worldwide will...

  2. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    * Climate goals | CO2 emissions | Transport Minister Expert Council for Climate Issues Transport misses climate target for the third time In Germany, less CO2023 was emitted in 2, but the transport sector clearly missed its climate targets. This will not have any direct political consequences because the federal government has adapted the Climate Protection Act accordingly. By 2030, emissions should...

  3. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    [...] Urgewald and Fossil Free Berlin compared the most recently published Kenfo portfolio with current company databases on the fossil fuel industry. By far the largest share of the 771 million euros invested in this sector is made up of around 723 million investments in 98 oil and gas companies. These include Total Energies, Shell and BP. With 50 million euros, Kenfo...

  4. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    becomes. Especially in Europe and Germany. We are undergoing a structural change in which there cannot only be winners. We will lose jobs in industry and gain jobs in other sectors. [...] Should Meyer Burger get state aid? No. Nobody has ever been able to explain to me why we need solar cell production in Germany. Because we have solar panels...

  5. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    a total of 10 percent of EU requirements will be exported via the southern H2 corridor. The country could thus improve its own economic prospects, create new jobs and gradually move its energy sector away from fossil gas. * Fascism | Socialism | totalitarianism | Wokeness The “leftward shift” of the totalitarian center The left is on the rise? Socialism...

  6. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    to increase dimensions. It is therefore encouraging that we in Germany already consume more than half of our electricity from renewable sources. The other two important consumption sectors, heat and mobility, are unfortunately lagging behind. The building sector in particular, with its long investment cycles and high investment requirements, remains a problem child. Without a...

  7. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    be increased by 2050 to 2,5 times from the current 3 GW to 370 to 916 GW by 1.160. [...] Despite the growing interest and the increasing number of start-ups and initiatives, the sector has developed more slowly than expected in recent decades. The Russian Akademik Lomonosov, the first operational SMR system of the Russian Federation, which was commissioned in 2019 and stationed in Chukotka...

  8. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    Efforts include prominent venture capital firms such as billionaire Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Lux ​​Capital, and today's rising stars in the defense sector include Anduril, Hadrian and Rebellion Defense. VCs not only achieve high investment returns, but also gain increasing influence on US foreign policy... December 14th...

  9. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    The day after his election victory, the future Argentine president announced the privatization of state-owned companies and public broadcasting. “Everything that can be in the hands of the private sector will be in the hands of the private sector,” the ultra-liberal politician said on the radio. Among other things, Milei wants to take over the state energy company YPF, public television and radio...

  10. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    that will effectively not help any child out of poverty, a federal budget that wanted to save money, especially on young people. The result was a citizen's allowance that was too complicated and too low. The sector targets in the Climate Protection Act should be abolished. Deportation laws are being tightened.” Of course, compromises would have to be made in a coalition, it goes on to say. But one is shocked that the...

  11. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    Loads such as power-to-heat systems or electrolyzers could then produce hydrogen or heat with these regeneratively generated amounts of electricity. In this way, other sectors could also benefit from the principle of “benefiting instead of restricting”... * Asylum | Migration | Immigration Arguing about migrants doesn't solve a single problem While politics devolves into populist...

  12. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    The federal government's interim target of 9.000 MW for the whole of 2023 has already been exceeded after eight months. In order to achieve the expansion target of 80 percent share of renewable energies in the electricity sector by 2030, the federal government wants to increase solar output to 215 GW (215.000 MW). For 2023, the International Economic Forum for Renewable Energies (IWR) expects...

  13. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    Rising world market prices for raw materials contribute, among other things, to famines in West Africa and the Sahel zone... * Greenpeace ranking shows savings and climate protection potential for the energy, transport and agriculture sectors. Reducing climate-damaging subsidies can relieve the federal budget by 46 billion euros annually and massive amounts of CO2 -Save emissions. This shows a new...

  14. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    escape unnoticed into the surroundings via a chimney. When the problem was noticed, on the instructions of the Belgian supervisory authority, production was stopped in the entire plant and a circular sector of 5 kilometers to the northeast was banned from consuming agricultural products for a few days... Institut_national_des_radioéléments There was a release of...

  15. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    According to the Federal Network Agency, 2022 percent less gas will be consumed in Germany in 17,6 than in the previous year. [...] The panel does not provide any possible explanations for the declining approval of heating transition measures in the building sector. All that can be said is that many households are poorly informed. On the other hand, the federal government's campaigns seem to have little effect here...

  16. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    more than ten years. The groundbreaking ceremony with Minister Habeck took place today. But the electricity highway from north to south is already leaving deep traces. [...] In order to achieve climate neutrality in the electricity sector, many kilometers of additional electricity networks would have to be built over the next two decades. Wind power is often generated primarily in northern Germany, the large consumption centers...

  17. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    Germanwatch: “It is gratifying that after many years of standstill, the hot topic of building stock is finally being addressed. But the law in this form will not succeed in putting the building sector on track to achieve the climate goals for 2030, 2040 and 2045. The start-up for the heat transition is too long: major emissions reductions will only be achieved at the end of the current decade. The...

  18. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    The Prime Minister and the Brazilian President will take part in the "Summit for a New Global Financial Compact" in the French capital, together with international organizations, representatives of civil society and the private sector. According to Macron, it is about “rethinking international solidarity.” The “credibility of the rich countries” must be restored...

  19. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    of uranium and plutonium suddenly - and will take centuries, if not millions, of years to break down again... * Climate Protection Act | fossil lobby | Emissions | Sectors A fiasco: Criticism of the traffic light draft for the new climate law Energy and climate – compact: The federal government is planning to weaken the climate protection law. The FDP and lobbies have prevailed again...

  20. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    From the perspective of the fossil and nuclear economy, it has already achieved too much in the transition to the expansion of renewable energies. The climate-damaging energy companies from the oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear sectors have become too accustomed to the downturn in the expansion of renewable energies that took place under Chancellor Merkel and thus saw their business models protected. Those in criticism...

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