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In Ukraine and Bavaria:
April 18, 2021 - Wild boars in forests still partially radioactive
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April 18, 2021 - Würgassen nuclear waste interim storage facility: Discussion about distance to houses and possible radiation
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Southeast Asia
April 17, 2021 - Vietnam is experiencing a solar boom
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April 17, 2021 - Sustainable nuclear power? The supporters get their first victory
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Controversial joint venture
April 16, 2021 - German-Russian nuclear factory in Emsland
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Nice, so the result of the report is known in advance!
April 16, 2021 - Fukushima nuclear plant: UN nuclear regulator wants to assess tritium water disposal
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You can fool some people sometimes...
April 16, 2021 - Fukushima: Cute tritium man is not well received by those affected
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April 16, 2021 - Solar energy world record: Solar cell achieves unprecedented efficiency
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April 16, 2021 - CO2 pricing: High price makes carbon dioxide withdrawals unnecessary
Carbon dioxide should be properly - and that means - priced high as soon as possible. Then there is no need for compensation mechanisms that pull the gas out of the atmosphere.
Numerous current climate protection models are based on the fact that climate-damaging carbon dioxide can be removed from the atmosphere again. For example, by growing fast-growing plants and then burning them for energy, with the CO2 released being captured and stored underground. "Bioenergy with CO2 separation and storage" or BECCS for short is the name of this concept. CO2 can also be removed from the atmosphere through reforestation. You can also filter the carbon dioxide directly from the air...
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reaktorpleite.de
Map of the nuclear world:
CO2 emissions should be reduced, but this does not require nuclear power ...
The German version of this world map:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1fCmKdqlqSCNPo3We1TWZexPjgNDQOaLD
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The search in the reaktorpleite.de with the search term
| CO2 price | ||
brought the following results, among others:
Jan 21.0, 2020 - Electricity and oil prices: We allow ourselves to be subsidized by the environment
Ralf Volke / rnd.de
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Wikipedia
CO2 price
A carbon price, also known as a carbon price, is a price that has to be paid for emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). The carbon price serves to internalize external costs of carbon dioxide release, in particular the consequences of global warming. The price of CO2 has to be paid for every tonne of CO2 that is to be emitted. It can be implemented as a CO2 tax or as a CO2 emissions trading system. An argument in favor of a CO2 tax is that the level of the burden can be better controlled by the political bodies. The advantage of CO2 emissions trading is that the quantity-based CO2 reduction targets can be precisely adhered to. Hybrid solutions are also possible, such as emissions trading with minimum or maximum prices.
The pricing of carbon dioxide is seen by many experts as an important tool to achieve the two-degree target, as a voluntary agreement like the one made at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015. In order to achieve the Paris targets, CO2020 prices of between 2 and 40 US dollars will be necessary by 80 at the latest, and these will have to rise to 2030 to 50 US dollars by 100. In a cost estimate published in November 2018, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) assumes damage of around 2016 euros per tonne of carbon dioxide based on Germany's greenhouse gas emissions in 180. This is countered by the market-oriented solutions of certificate trading, on which the actors themselves determine the price by buying / selling and investing in better technologies to reduce emissions. At the beginning and the end of 2019 the price was between around 19 and 25 euros, in July at a level of over 28 euros per tonne of CO2 ...
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CO2 and nuclear power
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The aim here is not to attempt to clarify to what extent CO2 contributes to global warming / climate change. It should be documented whether and - if so - how addressing CO2 emissions will make nuclear power acceptable again in Germany.
Introduction: 2015 climate protection agreement
On December 12, 2015, 195 countries signed the so-called climate protection agreement at the climate conference in Paris. It aims to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius and, if possible, below 1,5 degrees Celsius. The agreement came into force on November 4, 2016.
Position of the nuclear lobby
The argument that nuclear power is "low in carbon" has an important place in the major nuclear lobby organizations.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), nuclear energy has the potential to help reduce greenhouse gases; this has resulted in a significant avoidance of CO2 emissions in the past few decades. In doing so, the IAEA invokes the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was founded in 1988 - two years after the Chernobyl disaster - and which takes similar positions in its status reports.
The World Nuclear Association (WNA) regards nuclear power as a "low carbon" form of energy and criticizes that it is not mentioned as an important part of the fight against climate change. The WNA also reproduced a position paper from "Nuclear for Climate" from November 2018, a statement by 160 nuclear organizations around the world calling for nuclear energy to be part of the climate debate. Here, too, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is invoked ...
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Further to: Newspaper article 2021
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