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

    of what effective climate protection would require in view of the increasingly serious disasters: the end of all emissions by 2030, combined with the expansion of strong carbon sinks. Climate disasters have reached new levels of horror this summer, but there is no adequate tightening of climate policy in response... September 24th PFAS |...

  2. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    not only in Latin America, but probably also in the world. The vast majority of Ecuador's oil is found beneath the Amazon rainforest, whose role as a key carbon sink has been severely weakened in recent years by deforestation and relentless corporate exploitation. With the vote, around 726 million barrels of oil (around 116 billion liters) remain in...

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

    Rural agriculture (AbL), FIAN and other organizations in front of the Ministry of Economics in Berlin against the planned EU-Mercosur agreement... * CO2 storage | trees | Mushrooms | Carbon sink Root fungi as CO2 swallowers Mycorrhizal fungi absorb over a third of the carbon emitted worldwide Underground CO2 storage: The mycorrhizal fungi associated with plant roots are...

  4. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    by 2050.... In September 2020, the Commission presented plans for a 55% reduction target. Also out of concern that the Commission's planned offsetting of carbon sinks would weaken the climate targets, the European Parliament voted on October 7, 2020 to tighten the interim target to 60% reduction. On June 24, 2021, Parliament passed (with abstention...

  5. Newsletter XXIX 2022 - July 17th to 24th - News+ Government in the climate crisis

    “At an internal event in June, the wording was exaggerated, and we apologize for that.” There was no influence. * Cement | CO2 | Carbon concrete as a carbon sink: Empa researcher receives advanced grant for research on CO2-negative cement The cement industry emits large amounts of climate-damaging carbon dioxide - but alternative binders on the...

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