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    einen Marktanteil von 0,9 Prozent. Doch das dürfte sich in den kommenden fünf Jahren sehr schnell ändern. Grund dafür sind zwei neue EU-Richtlinien. Die erste legt konkret fest, wie hoch die CO2-Emissionen schwerer Lkw noch sein dürfen. Die Hersteller müssen diese bis 2030 um 45 Prozent im Vergleich zu 2020 senken, bis 2035 um 65 Prozent und bis 2040 um 90 Prozent. Die Umweltorganisation...

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

    aus der Wissenschaft immer wieder kritisiert wird, dass derartige Formulierungen viel zu unkonkret seien, verzichtet die G7 darauf, konkreter zu werden. Offen bleibt etwa: Welcher Anteil der CO2-Emissionen muss abgeschieden werden, damit der Kohlestrom als "vermindert" gilt? Eine Abscheidung von mehr als 90 Prozent der CO2-Emissionen ist mit heutiger Technik nicht möglich... * Universität |...

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

    a. [...] There was also heavy rain in Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Heavy rains in the Sultanate of Oman killed 19 people, including ten schoolchildren. * Climate goals | CO2 emissions | Transport Minister Expert Council for Climate Issues Transport misses climate target for the third time In Germany, less CO2023 was emitted in 2, but the transport sector has met its climate targets...

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

    the coal. Despite all the prophecies of doom, coal-fired power generation in Germany was a quarter lower in the first year without nuclear power plants than in the previous year. Accordingly, despite the nuclear phase-out, CO2 emissions per kilowatt hour fell in the German electricity mix. Critics had predicted otherwise. The reasons for the balance sheet are varied. In summary, the kilowatt hours lost were completely...

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    Traffic light has turned things around in climate protection. What was particularly surprising about the positive climate projection for 2024 presented by Habeck was that Germany not only achieved its goal of reducing CO2 emissions by 2030 percent by 65, but also met the CO2 budget set out for the period by the Climate Protection Act. As every year, the...

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

    a statement from the Scientific Service of the Bundestag, which was requested by Gökay Akbulut, Bundestag member of the Left, and is available exclusively to the »nd«... * Renewables | CO2 emissions | Chemical industry Climate study on the chemical industry: The dirtiest dozen The chemical industry causes 14 percent of all CO2 emissions in the industrial sector. How can it be made greener?, now asks...

  7. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    due to corruption, among other things. Shortly before the election he was sentenced to an additional three prison terms. The former cricket star is particularly popular among younger Pakistanis... February 9th CO2 emissions | EU states | Commercial vehicles EU states vote for stricter CO₂ rules for trucks and buses The European compromise was on the brink until the end because the federal government...

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

    one of the most important metal raw materials in the modern world. But their production is anything but environmentally and climate-friendly: the steel industry is responsible for around seven percent of global CO2 emissions, most of which is released when oxidized iron ores are reduced to metallic iron. When extracting aluminum, the main cause of concern after the extraction of the...

  9. 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

    Statistics show that low incomes have little scope for saving because they already consume very little. They cause the lowest CO2 emissions compared to high-income households. 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,...

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

    on the Attic democracy in ancient Greece, which also did not last. "If you don't want that, you should get involved in our democracy."... * Climate policy | traffic light | CO2 emissions Climate policy of the traffic light coalition: At random Political lead casting: How the traffic light plunged climate policy into chaos and lost people's trust. The tractors, they do the...

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

    So the floor. They seem to want to privatize everything except the air we breathe. It was an attempt to deepen the 1980 constitution of the dictator Pinochet... * CO2 emissions | CCS | 1,5 degrees negative emissions Blue Carbon: Carbon in paradise Seagrass beds off the Bahamas store significant amounts of CO2, a new study finds. Without removing CO2 from...

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

    – was that the Gulf states would come closer together again instead of becoming further divided. But when you have people in your own delegation who are so partisan, it undermines a lot... * CO2 emissions | CCS | 1,5 degrees | COP28 Fossil energies at the climate conference: Underground idea The future of fossil fuels is being debated at the climate conference in Dubai. The...

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

    not, but frustrating. 20 years ago we already knew what to do. A soft landing at the 1,5 degree target could have been achieved by gradually slowing down CO2 emissions. What we need to do now is emergency braking. It's no longer a matter of slowing down elegantly, but of actually coming to a stop in front of the red light. This really requires...

  14. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    reported. But there is hardly any movement in climate protection: The UN Climate Secretariat reports that the National Self-Commitments (NDC) submitted so far are just enough to reduce CO2 emissions by five percent by 2030 compared to 2019 - in the best case scenario. Continued stagnation: The Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 not only decided to limit global warming to a maximum...

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

    in order to then curb the undesirable consequences again with its climate policy. Here Lindner could get serious with his postulate that the state must spend its money cleverly... November 17th CO2 emissions | Certificates | Climate protection projects | Greenwashing fraud with CO2 certificates? Why so many forest projects are fraudulent If you save a forest from the chainsaw, you can...

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

    The project ran into a storm and tried to put it on ice completely. However, a motion to reject the law did not receive a majority in parliament in the summer... * Energy company RWE | CO2 emissions | Climate catastrophe Farmer from Peru sues German energy company RWE Strong glacier melt threatens the farm and home of a farmer in the Andes. He is suing the coal company RWE because...

  17. 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

    Shrinking industrial production: energy consumption at record lows High prices are causing shrinking industrial production and falling demand. The lower consumption reduces Co2 emissions. BERLIN taz | Due to reduced industrial production, energy consumption in Germany will fall to a record low this year. This comes from Thursday's...

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

    is quantified for the first time for the 31 states of the NATO military alliance. In 2021, NATO countries produced almost 200 million tons of CO2 emissions through their armies and their infrastructure alone. That is more than a quarter of the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted by Germany as a whole last year. If these countries continue to arm themselves, the...

  19. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    198 Palestinians killed. The Israeli military says the navy killed scores of Palestinian fighters who tried to cross the sea into Israel... * Climate goals | CO2 emissions | Building sector We will solve the housing crisis holistically - and sustainably, please. The ecological standards and the costs down - is the concept against the housing shortage ready? Unfortunately that's too short...

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

    A judgment is currently expected at the Higher Regional Court in Hamm. This is about the lawsuit brought by a Peruvian mountain farmer against the energy company RWE. The accusation: Because of its enormous CO2 emissions, RWE is complicit in the melting of glaciers in the Andes, which is threatening his place of residence. * Electromobility | Funding | anti-social Federal government starts funding program for solar power for electric cars The...

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