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

    (CDU) 2019 eingeführten Pflichten zum Klimaschutz. Fatale Verrechnung der Emissionen Diese Vorgaben sehen vor, dass in einzelnen Bereichen wie Verkehr, Gebäude, Energie oder Industrie der CO2-Ausstoß um bestimmte Mengen gesenkt werden muss. Bislang galt: Werden die Ziele nicht erreicht, muss nachgesteuert werden. Damit ist jetzt Schluss. Die Emissionen der verschiedenen Bereiche werden künftig...

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

    Areas will be offset against each other in the future. This softening is a gift to Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP), who is making no move to do anything to reduce CO2 emissions in transport. Reducing emissions would certainly be achievable, for example with a speed limit, cheaper train prices or partial travel restrictions for particularly...

  3. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    in Brazil, each said to have a capacity of around 1.200 MW (1,2 GW), are located in the northeast, southeast and south of Brazil... * Nuclear phase-out | Green electricity | CO2 emissions analysis for green electricity providers Nuclear phase-out made electricity cleaner CO2 emissions have not increased in the year since the last three German nuclear power plants were shut down, but have decreased. This shows a...

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

    Newsletter Some of the incidents were never made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

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

    the willingness of individual states to cooperate internationally as well as national and local action. The most important task areas currently mentioned are reducing CO2 emissions - primarily through taxation and appropriate emissions trading. Adapting cities and agriculture to climate change, moving away from a throwaway society towards a circular economy. Target of...

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

    stand and look at how the industry is developing and how it can be strengthened beyond subsidies in areas such as digitalization and de-bureaucratization... * Plastic | Waiver | CO2 emissions Science calls for a radical departure from conventional plastic production 50 percent less plastic by 2050, from nine to 95 percent Recycling rate: In order to solve the global plastic problem,...

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

    Newsletter LII 2023 December 24th to 31st *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

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

    the land for the two 700 MWe PHWRs to be built in Chutka was acquired and transferred to the NPCIL... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * CO2 emissions | Compensation | Lufthansa compensation after airport blockade Last generation makes Lufthansa "offer" Because protesters had shut down airports, Lufthansa is demanding...

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

    Trend reversal in sight: Global carbon dioxide emissions will continue to increase in 2023, as the annual balance sheet of the Global Carbon Project shows. Accordingly, anthropogenic CO2 emissions will increase by 2022 percent to 1,1 billion tons compared to 36,8 - a new record. China and India are the main drivers of this trend. At the same time, deforestation, fires and...

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

    which would otherwise be caused by the cement content. Along with steel production, cement production is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases among industries - around eight percent of global CO2 emissions are due to it. The reason: When the limestone is burned, calcium carbonate is converted into calcium oxide and this releases CO2. In addition, lime burning requires large amounts of energy, which until now...

  11. 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

    Balance sheet shows. Accordingly, the remaining budget for global CO2 emissions is only 250 gigatons - half as high as in the world climate report from 2021. If global CO2 emissions remain at current levels, this amount will be reached in 2029, as the researchers in “Nature Climate Change” report. Even though it has long been clear that further global warming will affect many regions...

  12. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    total greenhouse gases emitted last year. If these countries continue to equip themselves, the climate effect will also increase. This is already evident from the report. The authors estimate the CO2 emissions caused by the NATO military this year to be 226 million tons. This means: If NATO's armies were a separate country, it would have...

  13. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    and two active pressurized water reactor units... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power accidents by country#United_States June 9 Energy demand | CO2 emissions | Waste Heat Largest Untapped Energy Source "Waste Heat Can Power Entire Cities" Waste heat is the largest untapped energy resource in the world, say companies like Orcan Energy. But even...

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

    Germany is not the only country to ban fossil heating systems. A map gives the impression that Germany is the only country out of many countries to ban fossil heating systems in order to reduce global CO2 emissions. But the map is wrong: Countries such as Sweden, Austria or the US state of New York that are already relying on sustainable alternatives or...

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

    So, to my surprise, Germany will phase out nuclear energy without a heated political debate. Current news + background knowledge *** Background knowledge ** The map of the nuclear world CO2 emissions must go down, you don't need nuclear power for that... * The internal search for CO2 emissions | CO2 removal | The CO2 price produced the following results, among others: January 21, 2023 - The big hoax with...

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

    Anyone who uses little fossil energy actually ends up with more in their account thanks to the transfer. On the other hand, if you use a lot, you pay more. Poorer households would particularly benefit. Their CO2 emissions are usually low because they usually live in small apartments and don't drive a car or only drive a small one. [...] Similar to Switzerland, where there has been a CO2008 tax on fossil fuels since 2...

  17. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    the efforts of the largest emitters are completely inadequate. Incidentally, no country is on course for 1,5 degrees. What would have to happen to at least stay below two degrees? Global CO2 emissions would have to begin to fall significantly immediately, reducing by around 80 percent by 2050 and then to zero by 2100. In addition, sustainable ways would have to be found to remove CO2 from the atmosphere...

  18. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    released. That is 321 million tons more than in the previous year, an increase of almost one percent. Emissions rose particularly in electricity and heat generation. In this sector, CO2 emissions increased by 1,8 percent and reached 14,6 billion tons. The reason for the growth in emissions in the electricity and heat sectors was the switch from gas to coal. The IEA experts actually had...

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

    A new study based on a respected economic equilibrium model believes the opposite is conceivable: a win-win situation for the climate and the economy. The study was carried out with a view to CO2 emissions and gross domestic product and the ambitious EU-wide demand savings and was published on February 06.02.2023th, XNUMX Nature Climate Change. The Berlin climate research institute MCC took part...

  20. Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all

    Climate experts also speak of negative emissions. In recent years, another reason has emerged that makes CDR more and more interesting: global CO2 emissions are still very high. All of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's scenarios that adhere to the 1,5 degree limit call for emissions to be halved by 2030 and "net zero" by 2050, but they also say: quite a while...

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