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

    Mengen an Treibhausgasen ausstoßen. Dem aktuellen Weltklimabericht zufolge liegt dieses CO2-Budget für eine 67-prozentige Chance des Zwei-Grad-Klimaziels bei 1.150 Gigatonnen CO2, für das 1,5-Grad-Ziel bei 400 Gigatonnen. Das bedeutet aber auch, dass die Menschheit einen Großteil aller fossilen Brennstoffe wie Erdöl, Kohle oder Erdgas nicht mehr abbauen und nutzen darf. Wo muss der Ölhahn zu...

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

    und ist deswegen auch PFAS-belastet. Er hat seit Jahren finanzielle Nachteile dadurch und klagt deswegen... * Klimaschutz | 1,5 Grad | Solarenergie | Subventionen Klimawandel global: Ist das 1,5-Grad-Ziel noch erreichbar? 2023: 1,5 Grad im Vergleich zur vorindustriellen Zeit durchbrochen. Greifen internationale Klimaschutzabkommen überhaupt noch? Ein Kommentar. Im Jahr 2023 lag die globale...

  3. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    Blue Carbon: Kohlenstoff im Paradies Seegraswiesen vor den Bahamas speichern beträchtliche Mengen CO2, findet eine neue Studie heraus. Ohne die Entfernung von CO2 aus der Atmosphäre ist das 1,5-Grad-Ziel nicht mehr zu schaffen. Sowohl natürliche als auch technische Ansätze haben dabei Vor- und Nachteile. Hinter dem verheißungsvollen Namen Blue Carbon – blauer Kohlenstoff – verbergen sich...

  4. 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”

    in two years in Brazil - President Lula is already working towards a conference success - will be decided? It is possible. It will not be fast enough to keep global warming below the 1,5 degree target. Therefore, the conclusion from Dubai remains: climate conferences still do not deliver what is necessary. Without these conferences, however, it wouldn't be any better...

  5. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    Limiting global warming to less than two degrees Celsius, if possible to just 1,5 degrees, was eight years ago. Not enough has happened since then; The climate researcher Mojib Latif, for example, now considers the 1,5 degree target to be unattainable, as he explains in the SZ interview. But now it needs to be concrete: Can the states agree to phase out coal, oil and gas - of all things...

  6. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    Speech in Dubai on Saturday. Olaf Scholz also said that it is still possible to reduce climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions this decade to such an extent that the 2015 degree target agreed in Paris in 1,5 is met. "But science tells us very clearly: We have to hurry up to achieve this - despite all the geopolitical tensions," he said, referring to the wars in the Gaza Strip and the...

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

    in new oil and gas fields Global emissions are actually supposed to fall significantly, but hundreds of companies are still planning to develop new oil sources. Climate activists are alarmed. The 1,5 degree target is in danger of finally failing. International oil and gas multinationals are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the development of new deposits - despite record global temperatures and...

  8. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    The nuclear powers USA and China, among others, have not yet ratified the CTBT... * CO2 | Banks are fueling the climate crisis with loans for large-scale fossil fuel projects How 422 carbon bombs are killing the 1,5 degree target Banks are financing fossil mega-projects with trillion-dollar loans. At the same time, the CO₂ budget that remains to limit global warming is dwindling surprisingly quickly. A small...

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

    to lower. Otherwise, the fulfillment of climate goals will be at risk. The climate target set – a 65 percent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030 compared to 1990 – is not ambitious enough to achieve the 1,5 degree target. The emissions budget is continually shrinking. With the weakening of the law, the ambition gap threatens to widen just as much as the implementation gap. Especially in building and...

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

    please send a message to: nuclear-welt@reaktorpleite.de July 29th 1,5 degrees | Climate impact research | Stefan Rahmstorf Interview of the week “There is a lack of will” – climate researcher Rahmstorf believes that the 1,5 degree target is hardly politically achievable. Climate researcher Stefan Rahmstorf believes that exceeding the 1,5 degree mark for global warming can hardly be stopped. This is political in view of the...

  11. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    from the Gobi Desert and other dry areas to the densely populated provinces in the east... * Climate crisis | 1,5 degrees | Coal phase-out Lignite phase-out in the eastern regions 1,5 degree target requires coal phase-out before 2030 A new study by the Fossil Exit research group sets a new mark in the coal phase-out. After that, lignite production and...

  12. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    the managers to no longer insure projects for the development of fossil energy sources “from now on”. The same applies to investments in companies in these sectors that are not committed to the 1,5 degree target. The insurance industry's commitments, which so far mainly relate to coal production and power generation, have not been sufficient to reach the limit of a global...

  13. Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk

    to negotiate. It really couldn't be any more fucked up: act like an edgy climate boy at the front and get elected with climate rescue on the flags, and then with the SPD and FDP, bury the 1,5 degree target with bucket wheel excavator monsters in Garzweiler II and get your backbone from corporations to bend. The only good thing about Lützerath was that the whole world could watch...

  14. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    Need. However, recent study results show that coal under Lützerath is not necessary to secure the energy supply and actually endangers the 1,5 degree target. Nevertheless, protest camps in Lützerath are being evacuated these days. The police and RWE create facts on site. And not only do they put the safety of the activists at risk, but...

  15. Newsletter XLVI 2022 - November 16th to 23rd - News+ Now only the wisdom of the Peace of Westphalia can help

    Actual situation: 636 lobbyists from oil, gas and coal companies were accredited in Sharm al-Sheikh... * Climate protection | Climate summit | Energy companies Harald Lesch after the climate conference: "1,5 degree target has been achieved" Far too little has happened to protect the climate, physicist and moderator Harald Lesch criticizes the recent UN climate summit at the BR Sunday regulars' table. Selfishness shows itself...

  16. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    tagesschau.de: At the World Climate Conference in 2015, the goal was announced to limit global warming to 1,5 degrees compared to pre-industrial times. In your opinion, can we still achieve this 1,5 degree target? Stefan Rahmstorf: That essentially depends on politics. The last report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which appeared in April, showed again: There is...

  17. Newsletter XXIX 2022 - July 17th to 24th - News+ Government in the climate crisis

    allowed to heat more... * Climate change | Climate crisis | Climate catastrophe Climate researcher fears three degrees of global warming Drought, forest fires, floods: the world is well on the way to missing the 1,5 degree target, warns climate researcher Mojib Latif - and sees politicians as having a duty. Before the meeting of the so-called Petersberg Climate Dialogue, researcher Mojib Latif sees bleak...

  18. Newsletter LIV - November 26th to 30.11.2021th, 26 - News+ November 30th - Solar world record: HZB tandem cell achieves almost XNUMX percent efficiency

    in Sellafield... December 07, 1975 - (INES 3) Greifswald - An electrician in the Greifswald nuclear power plant triggered a short circuit on the primary side of the block transformer of block 1... ** WWF study on the 1,5 degree Target: November 30, 2021 - Climate policy, but fair * Resistance | Non-violent radicalization of the climate movement: November 30, 2021 - Destroying what destroys * November 29, 2021 - South Australian...

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