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    oder die Höchstpreise abzusenken. Dabei gilt das erste schon sein Längerem und das zweite wurde gerade mit dem Solarpaket eins beschlossen. Dieses umfangreiche Solarpaket, das die Ampel-Koalition beschloss, soll vor allem dem Ausbau der Photovoltaik einen Schub geben. Ist das in der Branche schon angekommen? Das Solarpaket ist sehr gut und wird den Ausbau der Photovoltaik und auch der Windkraft...

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

    agree on a controversial reform. The transport minister's threatened driving bans are now off the table. BERLIN taz | Less commitment to climate protection: The factions of the traffic light coalition in the Bundestag have come together to reform the climate protection law and a solar package. The faction leaders announced this on Monday afternoon. So far this looks...

  3. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    not for communication. According to its own information, FragDenStaat will now expand its platform and, if possible, continue to sue. At the same time, the transparency project demands that the traffic light coalition introduce the promised transparency law and thus allow pseudonymous inquiries. * Nuclear waste | Nuclear lobby | SMR mini nuclear power plants criticized as “fantasies” by the nuclear lobby The...

  4. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    Consumers should receive a bonus on electricity feed-in for a limited time when purchasing a European system. That would protect production in this country. This is how the Greens and SPD see it in the traffic light coalition. With Solar Package 1 including a resilience bonus, they want to accelerate the expansion of photovoltaics in Germany. The FDP is resisting Solar Package 1. The market will...

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

    due, among other things, to falling investments in buildings and equipment such as machinery... * France | Great Britain | NATO soon nuclear deterrent with EU seal of approval? Politicians from the traffic light coalition are engaging in an absurd debate about nuclear weapons. Trump, who was not even a candidate for the presidential election, and the worn-out French President Macron are at loggerheads...

  6. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    the AfD argues. The traffic light defends development aid that it never started. Joana Cotar started with the bike paths in Peru. On December 1, 2023, she accused the traffic light coalition in the Bundestag of setting the wrong priorities in their budget. Cotar was formerly a member of the AfD parliamentary group, but now sits in parliament as a non-attached member. [...] Also...

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

    put the cancellation of the 5,5 billion euro subsidy for network fees in a larger context and somehow make it plausible. With the elimination of the billion-dollar subsidy, the traffic light coalition can close a third of the 17 billion deficit that is looming for the 2024 federal budget. Since the beginning of the year, the network costs have fallen entirely on electricity customers. Accordingly...

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

    just to prepare for the future. Friedrich Merz in particular gets his fat off at the event. Karlsruhe – For months, the Greens seemed to be the favorite whipping boy in the traffic light coalition. Former left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht even called it “the most dangerous party” in the Bundestag. CDU leader Friedrich Merz chose the Eco Party as the Union's “main opponent” in the summer because...

  9. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    Opportunity for transformation? Michael Müller: I have never been as disappointed with environmental and nature conservation policy as I am today. How puffed out the Greens' cheeks were when the traffic light coalition started, but only a very thin breeze emerged. It started with the dismantling of the Environment Ministry, which was downgraded to a marginal ministry by the Greens. His...

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

    In the future, stakeholders will have to provide more information about their financing, possible backers and their goals. A “legislative footprint” is still missing. With the votes of the traffic light coalition, the Bundestag passed a first amendment to the lobby register law on Friday night. The aim of the initiative is to increase transparency about stakeholders and their...

  11. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    has. “Now it has to be about Germany as a location again and not about social climate,” said FDP Bundestag member Frank Schäffler on Monday about the agreement in the traffic light coalition on basic child welfare... * Offshore | Baltic Sea | North Sea | Sea areas Competition for sea areas Double blow with wind power at sea Everyone wants to go to or across the sea: LNG industry,...

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

    Yesterday, Tuesday, the Expert Council for Climate Issues, which is supposed to regularly assess the federal government's climate protection policy, presented a statement on the current climate protection program of the traffic light coalition. As expected, the verdict is once again devastating, even if one tries to maintain a positive tone. [...] For the transport and buildings sectors, the climate protection law...

  13. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    not even everywhere. How could it come to this? If the so-called heating law is actually passed through the Bundestag this week before the summer break, some in the traffic light coalition will probably wipe the sweat from their brows. After the cabinet decision in April, the opposition and, crazy enough, parts of the government were so heated that...

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

    Around 253 GW are expected to be added, in India 145 GW and in Germany 88 GW... June 14th Heat transition | Gas lobby | Heating law Kemfert: Heating law is a success for the gas lobby The traffic light coalition has agreed on a new draft for a heating law. It provides for longer transition periods and may also allow gas heating under certain circumstances. Climate economist Kemfert practices violent...

  15. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    recently published a thorough analysis of the AfD's rising popularity on Twitter. According to Hillje, it is wrong to reduce the party's poll high to a single factor such as the traffic light coalition, the Union or the wokeness discourse. Such simplified interpretations, he argues, ultimately play into the hands of the AfD. In reality, the support for the AfD...

  16. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    In addition, the responsibility of the individual sectors remains intact when it comes to climate protection. “Transportation must also achieve its climate protection goals, just like all other sectors.” The leaders of the traffic light coalition had agreed to reform the climate protection law. May 4th Participation | Wind farm | Arnsberg Up to 35 systems, 270 meters high: Mega wind farm is being built on Möhnesee It will be the largest...

  17. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    inconsistent. The reactors were not necessary for electricity supply in Germany anyway. The dangerous extension of the running time via a stretch operation, which was also advocated by the Greens in the traffic light coalition, served primarily as an emergency reserve for France's energy supply. The power gap there became larger and larger because the cracks in the French reactors also became larger....

  18. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    The government has also initiated proceedings. Other governments have until the beginning of March to join the lawsuit. So far, only Luxembourg has promised this step. The traffic light coalition in Berlin is also dissatisfied with the Commission's so-called delegated act, but could not agree to go to court... * India | Solar expansion |...

  19. Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war

    Climate Change published. The Berlin climate research institute MCC (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change) took part... *** February 8th Wind energy | Traffic Light Coalition | Lawsuits accelerate New law for more wind power: Are the traffic lights slowing down the energy transition? The traffic light actually wants to build more wind turbines. But residents often complain about this. Minister of Justice...

  20. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    has significantly increased the maximum values ​​for tenders for onshore wind energy. She hopes for more participation in the lottery process. The expansion of renewable energies should pick up speed under the traffic light coalition. The Federal Network Agency readjusted an important wheel on Tuesday and set the maximum values ​​for the 2023 tenders for onshore wind energy at 5,88...

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