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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...
part of the Soviet Union). Ultimately, according to the operator Energoatom, the incident at the power plant was only a minor disruption. The Russian Atomic Energy Agency said there were no increased radioactive emissions and any danger could be ruled out... November 3rd Russia | Nuclear tests | CTBT warning to Washington Moscow wants to continue refraining from nuclear tests...
diplomatic efforts will shift to the United Nations. Then we will know much more about how the states of the Global South stand on this issue. October 10th Emissions | Military | Armament Military emissions: Armament is driving the climate crisis For the first time, a study shows what the NATO states' 2 percent target means ecologically. This doesn't fit the...
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...
With enormous effort it will be possible to keep warming below the 2 degree limit. “We are currently on the way to a 3-degree world by the end of the century.”... * Greenhouse gas emissions | Transport transition | Transport policy EU in car fever: 15.000 km of rails gone, but 30.000 km of new motorways The road network continues to proliferate, railway tracks are disappearing, and have been for 30 years....
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
needed to avoid a gas shortage in the winter of 2023/24," says co-author Claudia Kemfert from DIW. The gas project is also counterproductive in terms of climate policy because it causes additional emissions and hinders sustainable regional economic development on Rügen... * Reform of the UN | Security Council The UN must be reformed UN Secretary General Guterres, the Ukrainian...
for net-zero traffic, for 100 percent green electricity, for a clean industry and for natural agriculture. The German share in the necessary global halving of emissions must be large and growing... * Health | chemical | BPA health risk: 83 percent of Germans are exposed to the chemical BPA too often Bisphenol A is found in countless everyday products,...
If climate damage is not adequately priced in, business in climate-damaging sectors is worthwhile. Tayler: "And as long as these errors in the market are not corrected by governments, emissions will continue to rise." It will only be possible to judge in December whether the global inventory actually represents a turning point. Only then will we know whether a bad climate report...
All problems associated with environmentally and health-damaging uranium mining, including the dangers of radioactive radiation, are exported elsewhere as a precautionary measure... * CO2 emissions | Cement | 3D printing Geopolymer instead of cement: New recipe for CO₂-free mortar for 3D printing A new mortar for 3D printing of buildings causes almost no greenhouse gases during production....
1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events
like the one after the Chernobyl disaster. A significant increase in leukemia cases was found in the area around both locations; It is considered possible that radioactive emissions from both plants contributed. At Sellafield, significant concentrations of radionuclides have been discovered in food, sediments in flora and fauna. Noted...
1960 to 1969 - INES, NAMS and other events
an estimated 29.300 TBq of tritium released into the atmosphere; about 75% of it was accidentally released as gaseous tritium in 1965 and 1970. Routine emissions contributed just over 3.700 TBq of gaseous tritium and about 2.800 TBq of tritiated water vapor to the total dose... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) The...
2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events
part of the Soviet Union). Ultimately, according to the operator Energoatom, the incident at the power plant was only a minor disruption. The Russian Atomic Energy Agency announced that there were no increased radioactive emissions and that any danger could be ruled out... August 9, 2004 (INES 1 Class?) Mihama Nuclear Power Plant, JPN A steam explosion in Unit 3 of the Mihama Nuclear Power Plant killed 5...
Critics agreed that it was clumsy to say the least. Merz unnecessarily sparked a new debate about the CDU's dealings with the AfD... * Earth Overload Day | Resources | CO2 emissions Earth Overload Day 2023 On August 2nd, the world had already used up its ecological resources for the entire year. The earth has been overexploited for more than 50 years now. CO2 emissions make up the largest...
Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine
Newsletter XXVIII 2023 July 9th to 15th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 News+ Background knowledge Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a non-exhaustive list of known incidents and releases of radioactivity... Excerpt for this month: July 5, 2000 (INES ? Class?) Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant, DEU July 8, 2008 (INES 1...
from which methane dissolved in water bubbles up to the surface - with a concentration up to 600.000 times higher than in the atmosphere, as measurements on Spitsbergen show. These methane emissions could cause glacier retreat to further fuel climate change – a classic vicious circle. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and is produced, among other things, during the anaerobic breakdown of organic...
In a current statement, the Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) calls on the federal government to curb the high consumption of land and resources as well as the climate-damaging emissions in the construction and transport sectors. In the paper “Sustainable paths in urban development, construction and transport policy” (PDF), the council proposes a number of concrete measures for...
Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South
the burning of crude oil, natural gas and coal. This brings the disaster country Canada itself into focus as the culprit. Not only because Canada is one of the heaviest emitters in the world, with around 15 tons of annual per capita CO2 emissions, but also because of its high production of natural gas and crude oil, including for LNG export plans to Germany. This makes Canada...
Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda
has actually already fallen by a third since Lula's term in office. However, it has not been proven whether there is a direct connection to the government's actions... * Switzerland | CO2 emissions | CCS CCS in the cement industry Swiss carbon dioxide is being shipped to Iceland It sounds like a megalomaniacal plan: Swiss scientists want to reduce CO2 emissions from...
is only made of sheet metal – it offers no protection against fire. Everything could collapse and a highly radioactive dust cloud could contaminate the entire region... * Atmosphere | Man made | CO₂ emissions | Temperature rise Fingerprinting techniques Human influence on atmospheric temperature changes documented Temperature changes in the middle to upper stratosphere have been...
some shaking of the head and irritation in view of their government work: an important law to reduce climate emissions in the building sector, which had already been approved by the coalition committee and accepted by the cabinet, was suddenly stopped. A law that FDP leader Lindner praised as “open to technology” in April. Supposedly there are still crucial issues that need to be clarified...
