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    die Klimakrise enorm an. Gerade für die Kohleindustrie ist der Vermögensverwalter nach Recherchen von CORRECTIV immer noch ein wichtiger Geldgeber. Die Allianz verdient mit den klimaschädlichen Investitionen gutes Geld. Im vergangenen Jahr nahm der Versicherer mit PIMCO und einem zweiten ausgelagerten Vermögensverwalter insgesamt 3,1 Milliarden Euro ein. [...] Zumindest momentan scheint die...

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

    decided on aid for coal-fired power plants, which met with resistance from environmentalists and the Greens. * United States | China | Trade war US Treasury Secretary Yellen warns China against overinvesting in green technologies China and the USA are not getting along. Beijing wants to continue investing heavily in green technologies. Is there a threat of a new trade war? The incumbent...

  3. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    the company participates in facilities and infrastructure in various countries without managing or operating them. [...]The UAE's share of total foreign direct investment in the UK was 2021 percent in 0,4. According to the government in London, the UAE remains a relatively small investor in the country. However, the region is increasingly seen as an important...

  4. Newsletter

    German gas supply: municipal utilities under pressure, gas networks have to be dismantled. Dismantling of gas networks is necessary, costs are rising for consumers. Transformation requires adaptations and investments in sustainable energy sources. After the end of locally produced city gas, German natural gas supply was entirely dependent on flexible pipeline supplies, initially from the Netherlands and later from...

  5. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    estimated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to the study published in the journal Nature. The total damage amounts to 9,3 billion US dollars... * Renewables | Investments | Irena “Nuclear power is a joke”: Head of the Renewable Energy Agency speaks plain language at the climate conference At this year’s Energy Transition Dialogue in Berlin, the Secretary General of the...

  6. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    supplying East Germany with gasoline and other refined products plays a central role. But parts of western Poland are also supplied, as is Berlin-Brandenburg Airport. * Investment | Power grid | Network expansion Network agency plans five mega routes 4800 kilometers of new lines, estimated additional costs of 76 billion euros: The Federal Network Agency has presented its new plan to expand...

  7. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    usually banks: They lend money to companies so that they can finance the operation and expansion of LNG infrastructure. This means the insurers receive returns. The company does not want to answer how the investments fit in with the Allianz's sustainability goals... * February 22, 1977 (INES 4) Akw Jaslovské Bohunice, SVK A mechanical failure in the...

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

    Luisa Neubauer from Fridays for Future Germany in front of the press in Berlin on Thursday. [...] The concrete demand for politicians: an end to austerity and instead large-scale investments in climate protection and for social cohesion. As a first step, Fridays for Future is calling for a special fund of 100 billion euros - for the expansion of local transport and...

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

    Regions where skilled workers are urgently needed cannot cope with such disruptions. The Green politician is therefore calling for a reform of the controversial debt brake. Because you need investments in technologies like batteries. "It is fatal if we stick to the debt brake, which is actually a brake on investment, and we stand in our own way." The...

  10. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    to maintain the operation of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. The payments will be made under the Civil Nuclear Credit (CNC) program, a $6 billion strategic investment under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law designed to help maintain the operation of the U.S.'s existing reactor fleet. The Pacific Gas power plant...

  11. 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

    “The government is talking about energy security, but there is no uranium to operate the plants in Great Britain,” notes Wilson in an interview with the taz. In addition, there is still a lack of private investment in the project... * After attacks on ships, Houthis were attacked in Yemen USA and Great Britain attack Houthi positions The USA and Great Britain have...

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

    Top of page News+ ** Energy transition | populism | Electricity production costs Surprise of 2023 The necessary change needs more support The high willingness of many people to invest in renewable heat supply after the energy crisis has been sacrificed by some parties at the altar of their own profile. The transformation must become a success story for...

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

    is also expected to survive the competition and win in some important market niches. The NNWI estimates that developing 150-160 GWe of SMR capacity by 2050 will require an investment of approximately US$800-900 billion globally, based on 2023 prices... Translated with https://www.DeepL .com/Translator (free version) * Japan | TEPCO |...

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

    Investor does not want to assume any further costs. A new setback for the European nuclear industry: The Chinese nuclear company China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) has stopped further investments in the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in Great Britain. The reason is that the project, in which the Chinese are junior partners of the French...

  15. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    in agriculture. But one of the major mistakes of the governments under Chancellor Merkel is that they have implemented exactly the opposite policy... * Fossil investments fall after the climate conference Historically: Over 1.600 institutions with 41 trillion dollars are pulling money from coal, gas, oil Fossil divestment functions. While states are working on the energy transition...

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

    ... * Energy sources | WNISR | Electricity mix report on nuclear energy: Nuclear power is on the decline worldwide The share of nuclear energy in the global electricity mix fell to 9,2 percent last year. Meanwhile, investments are flowing into other energy sources. FREIBURG taz | Global nuclear power generation increased by 2022 percent to 4 billion kilowatt hours (terawatt hours, TWh) in 2.546...

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

    studies have shown. The IAEA does not say which ones exactly in its communication. It's about "building a low-carbon bridge to the future." This also requires investments in small modular reactors, with which nuclear power plants can be built more easily and operated more flexibly. IAEA Director General Raphael Grossi called for a fair environment that...

  18. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    Power connection. First of all, power lines would have to be built. The planned 500 wind turbines and an additional 40 square kilometers of solar systems comprise an investment volume of around 9,4 billion dollars, i.e. the same amount as Namibia's gross domestic product. The amount of electricity produced would be equivalent to around ten large conventional power plants. Since the Namibian state is 24...

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

    | Climate impacts | Debt brake According to the Constitutional Court ruling, traffic lights in a climate emergency. Better not to spend anything than to spend correctly? No, the 60 billion hole in energy transition investments can definitely be filled. Nobody has yet fully recovered from “Black Wednesday for the climate”. The traffic light federal government is faced with a shambles of its financial policy. The...

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

    introduced in 1961. Krugman is wrong on both counts. First, it uses a misleading measure of Pentagon spending that obscures rather than reveals our historical investment in the department. He notes that Pentagon spending represents a smaller share of the national economy than it did in Eisenhower's time. That is...

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