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

    The means to achieve this is to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, which are responsible for climate change. Important measures for this are the expansion of renewable energies, increasing energy efficiency and energy savings, pricing greenhouse gas emissions through emissions trading or taxation, reducing environmentally harmful subsidies, the core elements of the energy transition...

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

    must. Now it's time to catch up on a lot. Because other countries like France are further ahead. There has been a so-called “repair index” there since 2021, which, like the color scheme for energy efficiency, shows how easy a device is to repair. In Austria, the state promotes repairs: Anyone who has broken electrical and electronic devices repaired receives half of the...

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

    | European Parliament | Building renovation Building directive for climate protection EU waives the obligation to renovate “Grandma’s little house is safe”: The EU has agreed on binding requirements for energy efficiency, including for private residential properties. The forced renovation feared by millions of homeowners is now off the table. In order for the European Union to become climate neutral by 2050, buildings with...

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

    The president of the conference, al-Jaber, said in Dubai that 120 countries had signed so far. The signatories include Germany and the other EU states. The goal is also to double energy efficiency. This means that less energy will be required to produce goods or services. A group of around 20 countries called for the expansion of nuclear power. The goal is...

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

    was developed in the early 1980s by the Swiss economist Hans Christoph Binswanger and combines two approaches: taxing the scarce commodity energy with the aim of increasing energy efficiency and broadening the basis for financing social security. Eco-taxes as an economic policy instrument are - regardless of the specific implementation - an instrument in the...

  6. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    German seawater desalination (DME). Germany is also involved in the start-up financing of a plant. "It is important for development aid to insist on high quality and energy efficiency," says Mertes... * August 19, 2008 (INES 1) Santa Maria de Garoña, ESP Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry is becoming available Wikipedia removed!...

  7. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    So-called green hydrogen can be produced, but the countries even lack the important raw material water. In addition, there is a lack of and very expensive infrastructure and poor energy efficiency. Is it a new boom or is it a new bubble that is currently inflating around the hydrogen strategy? [...] The overall question is whether the so-called hydrogen strategy...

  8. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    to the Europeans themselves. Several member states want to buy Russian uranium, Russian fuel elements and Russian nuclear power technology for their nuclear power plants even during the war... * Heat pump | Energy efficiency | Heat pump fact paper (pdf) New heat pumps at a glance – what might you consider getting a heat pump instead of oil or gas heating in your house? The good news:...

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

    of 1,5 billion euros, the MPs blocked it for the time being, essentially putting RWE's planned giant terminal off the Baltic Sea island of Rügen on hold... * Funding program | Energy efficiency | Energy-efficient renovation How the state promotes house renovation Renovating or modernizing a property to make it more energy-efficient should be worth it again. There have been new funding programs since March...

  10. Newsletter XXXV 2022 - September 01st to 08th - News+ No nuclear power plant runtime extensions!

    not to mention the climate impact. Germany only got into this unfortunate situation because the expansion of renewable energies, networks, storage and, above all, energy efficiency have been criminally neglected in recent years and decades. Neglected energy transition in the south Germany could already have an electricity system that is 80 percent...

  11. Newsletter XX 2022 - May 13th to 19th - News+ A flood of open letters and the day of freedom of the press

    - BUND against offshore wild growth and small hydropower * Farmer | Energy price | Promotion | Efficiency Energy prices and saving energy This is why farmers should use higher funding for energy efficiency. The federal government has significantly increased its energy efficiency funding program for a one-off period. Farmers should therefore not hesitate now, but rather seize the opportunity. ** May 14 Russia | Natural gas |...

  12. Newsletter LVIII - December 20th to 26.12.2021th, 20 - News+ December XNUMXth - Blackout-proof with green electricity: Is Germany armed against dark doldrums?

    Energy sources must remain in the ground. The main elements of the transition are the expansion of renewable energies, combined with the development of energy storage, increasing energy efficiency and implementing energy saving measures. Renewable energies include bioenergy, geothermal energy, hydropower, marine energy, solar energy (solar thermal energy, photovoltaics) and wind energy....

  13. THTR Circular No. 136 July 2011

    Spokesperson for the GREENS group. "The professorships and associated staff should be reallocated as quickly as possible to research on renewable energies, grid and storage technologies and energy efficiency." “I do not question the freedom of research,” said the MP. "But I don't see why we should publicly finance things that society doesn't want...

  14. THTR Newsletter No. 105 March 06

    More than two hundred participants from business and politics took part. In this context, the German research centers continued their well-known work. "Cooperation in technology", "energy efficiency" and "joint efforts to promote the sustainable use of resources" is what the text of the "Qingdao Initiative" states as the goal of the event. Since the production of nuclear...

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