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environmental organizations. Can there be clean fracking gas? Or even environmentally friendly natural gas production? “Yes,” says the USA and offers certified gas that is supposedly produced with particularly low emissions. But the certificates are nothing more than greenwashing, criticizes a report published in April by the organizations Earthworks and Oil Change International. Around...
says a new study by the Fossil Exit research group. According to this, lignite production and power generation in the Lusatian region must be significantly reduced before 2030 if Germany wants to meet its emissions budget for the 1,5 degree limit. What happens next with the coal phase-out? The question becomes more exciting every day. [...] 2022, around 49 million tonnes have already been...
There are 56 reactors running there, which in recent years have supplied an average of around two thirds of the electricity consumed, which is also used for heating in many households... * CO2 emissions | CO2 removal | CCS | Cement New plant will process CO2 from cement factory The production of cement produces more CO2 than air traffic and data centers combined. To have to...
Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization
- roughly estimated - generate as much electrical power as in five to seven large nuclear power plants or in around ten modern coal-fired power plants... * Climate protection | fossil | Traffic Building | Emissions trading FDP urges action with CO₂ The FDP wants new emissions trading for transport and buildings to start next year. But the instrument has weaknesses: for...
Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine
each specific CO2 limit values. If they are exceeded, the responsible ministry must remedy the situation with an immediate program. Emissions will continue to be checked annually in the future, also broken down by sector. But that would have no practical consequences for the individual ministry. The departments could also trade between themselves: If the transport sector...
Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard
Three proposals for taxes against the climate crisis. According to the Federal Environment Ministry, the average CO2 footprint per capita in Germany is 10,8 tons. This number suggests that emissions are evenly distributed. It is not so. The richest percent consume almost 35 times as much as the poorest. This information is based on data from the World Inequality Labs, which...
and thus further drives the climate crisis. The building sector accounts for a significant share of the confederation's total energy needs: buildings currently account for around 40 percent of consumption and 36 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU... * Food Lobby | Regulation From Seco to Nestlé: Around 40 francs per meeting The former Seco director is said to...
Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS
can become climate neutral by 2045. They all come to the conclusion that we will also need CCS. The contribution will not be particularly large - it is about five to ten percent of the emissions that we cannot avoid otherwise. And for that we will probably need CCS. [...] tagesschau.de: There is also criticism of the process. For example, that CO2 could escape from the sea again...
Guest. This also applies to Powell. But neither she nor Giulianui were asked critical questions there... *** News+ Background knowledge *** News+ ** Monk von Lützerath | Fossil Lobby | Emissions of greenhouse gases Stoi Polipop..., shut up the mud monk! Mönch von Lützerath: Popular figure in the climate movement The “mud magician” talks about why he comes to the Rhenish lignite mining area...
Natural gas and nuclear power can be sold as green, as the EU stipulated last year in its so-called taxonomy for sustainable finance, despite the many greenhouse gas emissions and the large amount of nuclear waste. Now the EU Commission wants to draw the logical conclusion when it comes to hydrogen: under certain circumstances it should be allowed to call it green even if it is not produced with the help of...
Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war
in the fight against the West, especially since the beginning of the war of aggression against Ukraine. To this end, Moscow is trying to put itself at the forefront of the anti-colonial movement... * Hydrogen | CO2 emission | Climate-neutral industry Decarbonization of the economy From gray to green steel A climate-neutral industry in Germany should be built primarily through green lead markets, advises...
be this approximately as high as ten x-rays within an hour - or the amount of natural radiation to which a person is exposed over a whole year... *** January 27th CO2 emissions | compensation | CO2 certificate license to pollute More and more companies want to compensate for climate-damaging emissions. Such CO2 certificates can ease your conscience, but...
Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all
... * CO2 certificates | Fuel elements | Stretch operation Compensation projects The big scam with CO₂ certificates Many companies buy off their emissions with voluntary CO2 certificates. But the majority of these certificates are worthless, as extensive research reveals. Some of the largest companies in the world are affected. Companies like Netflix, Gucci,...
Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won
System explained... * Traffic light | Climate protection | greenhouse gas | Brown Stone Coal Nobody has the intention to reduce greenhouse gases! Study shows: Germany's emissions are stagnating at a level that is far too high. Traffic light coalition doesn't care about the climate protection law. Guess who the biggest blocker is? As reported, Germany's primary energy consumption continued to decline in 2022....
Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all
that don't have much to do with today's meat and dairy industry. It has been known for years that the production of meat, milk and eggs is associated with immense greenhouse gas emissions. According to relevant reports, cattle farming is particularly harmful to the climate: a kilogram of beef causes on average eight times as many emissions as a kilogram of pork...
and wind power can be generated and energy sources can be obtained from it for less than two euros per liter - provided you invest. The energy transition and especially the decarbonization of the high-emission transport and industrial sectors require enormous amounts of green electricity, hydrogen and synthetic fuels. But where do you get it from? It is foreseeable that Germany will only...
Now the process is to be scaled up. In the Necoc research project, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KI) and industrial partners have developed a process that combines negative emissions with the production of a high-tech raw material. The next step is to optimize the method energetically and scale the system... * Fuel elements Lingen | Rosatom | Framatome But...
that laid the foundation for the escalation that was warned about all along. Nobody will be held accountable for this. But we should learn some lessons from this... ** November 27th Emissions | Greenhouse gas Big Oil produces three times more greenhouse gases than reported Oil and gas producers are not fully reporting emissions, an organization that uses satellite data...
and in many places also be of poorer quality. Experts are therefore calling for a “stress test” to be carried out quickly for water-intensive industries... * Energy transition costs | Greenhouse gas emissions | Climate change How much emissions does the energy transition cause? Delayed switching could drastically increase additional CO2 emissions. The pace is important: how many raw materials, energy...
want to produce electricity... * Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | economic growth | World Population Climate Council ignores the influence of population growth As one of the biggest drivers of greenhouse gas emissions, population growth is barely mentioned in the latest IPPC report. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ICCP) neither addresses a possible reduction in economic growth nor...
