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    Pioneer in climate protection. According to the company, the earth must “remain a livable and insurable place.” With a clear conscience, people pay the contributions to protect their pension, car, apartment or their own life. This is how Allianz becomes an influential investor - at the end of last year it managed around 737 billion euros for its customers. But with what...

  2. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    Those who work in villages and small towns are more at risk of their professional life affecting their private life. This is also because the journalists themselves, their places of residence or cars are often known, which in turn encourages attacks, according to the ECPMF study. This could lead to a “permanent feeling of threat” among some media professionals. This could...

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

    to obtain. In 2023, Unicef ​​reached 1,3 million children with formal and informal learning. * Lobby | Propaganda | Transport policy | Car industry "Promotion of cars is generally questionable" With the still massive support for combustion engines, Germany is heading economically for the worse, warns Helmut Holzapfel. The traffic researcher about small and large electric cars, the mistakes of VW and Co...

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

    to do. Reducing emissions could certainly be achieved, for example with a speed limit, cheaper train prices or partial driving restrictions for particularly emission-intensive cars. Now there is no pressure on Wissing to develop at least a little imagination and even worry about reducing CO2 emissions in transport... * India | autocracy |...

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    years developed for electric vehicles. In addition, the battery should not show any loss of capacity even after 1.000 charging cycles. CATL, the world's leading producer of batteries for electric cars, has brought its research into battery longevity to series production. The company has introduced a battery for electric vehicles that lasts 15 years and even after 1.000...

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

    Statements about a “bloodbath” in the event of his election defeat caused a stir. He made the remark as he announced at a campaign event how he would make it more difficult for Chinese cars to be sold in the US market. Ban Chinese cars from the market China is building some huge factories in Mexico and eventually wants to sell the cars produced there in the United States, said...

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

    central climate protection projects are spared, this is only half true. [...] Ultimately, CO2 prices can be expected to rise enormously. Anyone who still relies on fossil equipment, be it cars or heating systems, will soon find it expensive. * Methane | Natural gas | Petroleum New study Methane emissions in the USA higher than expected Methane is many times more harmful to the climate than CO2. Now shows a...

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

    City of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the Persian Gulf, submerged. Many roads could no longer be used at times. In lower parts of the city, cars sank up to their roofs in the water. The airport was also flooded, as footage from social networks shows. [...] rain and thunderstorms are rare in this region. But if she...

  9. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    civil use... * Subsidies | Competition | Solar industry | Protectionism China dictates solar expansion Should we save small fish like Meyer Burger? China dominates the construction of electric cars, the market for important raw materials such as lithium and now also the solar industry: The People's Republic produces so many solar modules that the prices for them rose by almost 50 percent last year...

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

    to be transferred back to the CO2 price per capita, said Lindner. "Currently, the income is used to promote heating, building renovations, green steel production, charging stations for electric cars and so on." The FDP leader added: "In short, because one household receives funding for a heat pump, several hundred others cannot receive climate money that year." "One can...

  11. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    the lowest CO2 emissions. It's no wonder that feelings of fear and anger arise here. It cannot be reconciled that emissions from private charter flights or cars traveling at 240 mph are legitimate while others cannot afford the bus ticket. Our solution: a transformation money. It is staggered depending on income, true to the principle: the higher the income,...

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

    be examined: The tax privilege could be capped at a certain level of fuel consumption. Nursing services, which generally travel in small cars, would then continue to benefit from this. [...] Small farms in particular are emerging. There are still 258.700 agricultural businesses in this country, 40.000 fewer farms than in 2010. The trend is towards large farms. Above all...

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

    [...] Two million bottles of “Ecoviel” emit 2986 tons of CO2 over their lifetime, the Institute for Technical Environmental Protection at the TU Berlin calculates for ZDF Frontal – about as much as 2000 cars emit per year. For 2400 euros, 3000 tons of CO2 are greenwashed. But compensation is not a problem, the editorial team believes. A climate certificate including seal is easily available for 2400 euros...

  14. 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”

    can turn off their tap. Our focus must therefore be on bringing storage methods to market maturity in order to make this energy available at all times. With batteries for cars, but especially with the construction of electrolyzers to produce green hydrogen, which are used to operate gas power plants, we are on the right track. No serious...

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

    at the beginning of industrialization or when the United States entered World War II and converted civilian industries into war industries overnight. Instead of cars, enormous quantities of tanks and fighter jets were produced in a short period of time... * Ammonia | Hydrogen | CO2 emissions Ammonia production: Looking for a replacement for the Haber-Bosch process If there were no...

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

    Steel company Nippon is campaigning against a carbon dioxide tax in its own country and against steel production without coal. The Spanish energy company Repsol is lobbying against the ban on cars with combustion engines in the EU from 2035 and for Spain to invest again in new gas projects. Greenwashing in the multinational energy industry A...

  17. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    (WA September 6, 9). In order to slow down climate change, this number would have to be reduced by at least half in the next few years. Almost 2023 cars were also registered in Hamm in the last 12 months (WA November 30.000th, 8), although Hamm ranks at the lower end of purchasing power in municipalities nationwide. There is still enough money for cars. - And this despite the fact that in Hamm there were numerous...

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

    in southwest Germany. He has also been publishing in the fault reporter for a long time. The job is not without danger: Colleagues have experienced death threats being written on their front doors, cars being set on fire, and even their own parents being threatened by right-wing extremists. The scene dominates the game of intimidation... * Fridays for Future | Climate strike | Protest...

  19. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    can be seen in a video that the group shared on the X platform. According to Last Generation, the march began as a slow walking demonstration on the B36 until cars driving behind it stopped and their occupants are said to have harassed the demonstrators. When they sat down on the street, the documented violent attacks followed. »The federal government has...

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

    Private customers would also benefit. Although high electricity prices provide an incentive to save more energy, they also stand in the way of the shift from fossil to renewable sources - for example in cars and heat pumps. Whether these are profitable depends crucially on the price difference between electricity and fossil fuels. But instead of ensuring an appropriately small distance, the...

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