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

    über die Änderung des Klimaschutzgesetzes und des Solarpakets, bereits in der Woche darauf soll beides durch den Bundestag und den Bundesrat gepeitscht werden. Der Ampel ist wie etwa beim Heizungsgesetz wieder einmal nicht klar, dass interne Verhandlungen das übliche parlamentarische Prozedere keineswegs ersetzen. Immerhin: Ein großer Wurf sind weite Teile des Solarpakets. Unzählige Privatleute...

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

    über die Änderung des Klimaschutzgesetzes und des Solarpakets, bereits in der Woche darauf soll beides durch den Bundestag und den Bundesrat gepeitscht werden. Der Ampel ist wie etwa beim Heizungsgesetz wieder einmal nicht klar, dass interne Verhandlungen das übliche parlamentarische Prozedere keineswegs ersetzen. Immerhin: Ein großer Wurf sind weite Teile des Solarpakets. Unzählige Privatleute...

  3. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    with its long investment cycles and high investment requirements remains a problem child. Without a turnaround, the climate protection goals for 2030 and 2045 will be unattainable. Heating Act: Low point of the debate The negative surprise of the year for me was the discussion about the Building Energy Act, the so-called Heating Act. Yes, the Federal Ministry of Economics has...

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

    ... * Sustainability | Heat pump | Waste water Dutch city planners throw themselves down the drain in search of heat Sustainability While there is a debate in Germany about Robert Habeck's heating law, the Dutch are getting creative. In their search for heat sources, they have now discovered the sewage system and want to heat millions of households sustainably. I once...

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

    prioritize climate policy. People would rather build walls than wind turbines. Global warming is fueling a form of authoritarian populism, which could also be observed in this country in the debate about the heating law, where the AfD stirred up the mood with aggressive election posters such as “Let’s heat up the traffic lights” or “Stop the heating hammer”. To say that you have to be in the heat of interpreting and...

  6. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    Influenced by personal meetings with politicians, the gas lobby played a role in Germany relying on climate-damaging natural gas from Russia for decades and the installation of natural gas heaters remains possible in the new heating law - as long as they are "h2-ready", i.e. on the processing of hydrogen could be converted. This option is considered unsafe by experts...

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

    The ambition gap threatens to worsen just as much as the implementation gap. The climate targets are clearly being missed, particularly in the building and transport sectors. In the building sector, the Heating Act at least attempts to prevent the gap from widening any further. There is little ambition in the transport sector... * China | Auto industry | E-car Electric cars: overslept the future?...

  8. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    Bayer spokesman Utz Klages tells DW... * Great Britain | Fossil lobby | Gas industry leak: Anti-heat pump campaign in UK financed by gas lobby The media culture war over the heating law and the heat transition continues, not only in Germany, but also in many countries. Recently, a targeted disinformation campaign by the gas lobby from Great Britain...

  9. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    is actually the core of global climate policy in the coming months. The global community has not delivered - and must now urgently consider how to respond... * Heating Act | Heat transition | Climate protection Difficult birth: Heating law passed in the Bundestag SPD and Greens are satisfied. CDU politician speaks of “insanity”. The left doesn't see tenant protection...

  10. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    It is notorious that events that appear suspicious to the ruling minority take place. Anyone who doesn't leave the country on time risks their own skin... * Energy transition | Hydrogen | Heating law | Populism Divisive campaigns, heating with champagne and the bad Mr. Musk Calendar week 29: The debates about the energy transition and climate must be conducted objectively and respectfully, says...

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

    hundred years if cluster bombs were used in the Russian-occupied areas on the territory of Ukraine," Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen wrote on Twitter... Funding rules for heating replacement are additional support for households...

  12. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    Decentralized supply concepts - including battery storage in buildings and electric cars as a buffer - can help to avoid this, shows a new study... * Heating Act The stop to the Heating Act is solely due to the FDP In the farce of a debate When it comes to the heating law, I feel like the little child who is the only one pointing out that...

  13. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    Mouse, or more precisely: rabbit and hedgehog. If the CDU, CSU and Co. attack the Greens, the AfD is always one step further. Latest example: While the CDU/CSU and Free Voters are still working on the heating law, the AfD is already calling for withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement. However, here, using the example of climate change, the AfD's soft flank is also apparent: In fact, it evades...

  14. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    GW join. According to the outlook, around 253 GW is expected to be added in the USA in the next five years, 145 GW in India and 88 GW in Germany... June 14th Heat transition | Gas lobby | Heating law Kemfert: Heating law is a success for the gas lobby The traffic light coalition has agreed on a new draft for a heating law. It provides for longer transition periods and...

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

    with the waste heat of a data center. The operators would like to give off even more heat, but cannot find any other buyers. How can that be when, at the same time, there is a debate about the heat transition and heating laws and many people fear expensive heat pumps? Andreas Sichert: That’s easy to explain. Waste heat is usually produced where there is no direct location or time...

  16. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    so that the pace of expansion of wind and photovoltaic systems must pick up significantly," write the IW researchers... May 29th Heating law | Springer Press | Hate Habeck softens heating law: No reason to be happy Habeck's announcement is the result of a Springer smear campaign -Media. But it sends fatal signals to citizens and businesses. The Green Federal Minister of Economics...

  17. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    Generation crossed a “red line”. Lesch said this in conversation with an activist at a rally on Marienplatz in Munich... * Climate goals | Heating | Spahn Controversy over heating law Longer nuclear power plant operating times instead of heating law: Researchers contradict Jens Spahn Instead of the planned heating law, up to 20 million tons of CO2 could be released annually through the continued operation of...

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