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

    Authorities sent tankers onto the streets and highways to pump out the water. Water entered some houses. [...] There was also heavy rain in Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Heavy rains in the Sultanate of Oman killed 19 people, including ten schoolchildren. * Climate goals | CO2 emissions | Transport Minister Expert Council for Climate Issues Transport missed...

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

    are from Brazil and the United Arab Emirates this year... The largest oil and gas companies in the world in 2024 in the table Place Name Country Market value in 2024 1. Saudi Aramco Saudi Arabia 2.043 billion US dollars 2. Exxon Mobil USA 391,2 .3 billion US dollars 268,23. Chevron USA 4 billion US dollars 198,77. Shell plc UK 5 billion US dollars 177,71. PetroChina China 6 billion US dollars XNUMX. TotalEnergies...

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

    which calls for an immediate ceasefire coupled with the release of the hostages," Blinken told the Saudi Arabian media Al-Hadath. Blinken's comments came during a stay in Saudi Arabia for talks about the war between Israel and the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Blinken's comments took place during a stay in Saudi Arabia for discussions about the war...

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

    Bikini Atoll, USA We are always looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nuclear-welt@reaktorpleite.de February 10 Israel | Saudi Arabia | Egypt | Expulsion | Gaza Saudi Arabia warns Israel about Rafah offensive, Biden sends CIA chief to Egypt So far, Saudi Arabia has hardly commented publicly on the Gaza war - now the...

  5. 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”

    would be daring, says Japan expert Tobias Harris from the German Marshall Fund. “But it would resonate with the public.” And that's exactly what Kishida needs now. * Saudi Arabia's nuclear program is destabilizing the Middle East Does Biden want to start a nuclear arms race with Saudi Arabia in the Middle East? Washington appears willing to support Riyadh in its nuclear ambitions against...

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

    Energy sources on the collar or not? This is what the countries are wrestling with at the World Climate Conference in Dubai, which ends on Tuesday. Headwinds come primarily from oil-producing countries such as Saudi Arabia. How strong the resistance is can now be seen in a letter to the OPEC states. The Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Haitham Al-Ghais, warns in the...

  7. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    where you want to go with this agreement. It was therefore clear that the states could not agree on concrete measures. Rather? At least the fronts have become clear: There are countries like Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran and India that see the waste problem as an issue for waste management. Others, including the EU, want to address the entire life cycle of plastic products, including...

  8. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    to stop. The two largest CO₂ bombs in the world are in the USA: in the Permian Basin and in the Marcellus Shale. High on the toxic climate list is also a project in Ghawar in Saudi Arabia, probably the largest conventionally used oil field in the world. Projects with enormous potential for releasing CO₂ also affect a development area in Vaca Muerta, Patagonia,...

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

    For many, this may sound far-fetched. Irina Engelhardt sees it differently: "In the past, I have only worked abroad. Our big research projects were in Saudi Arabia, Syria and Israel. All of these countries would already be dying of thirst; they wouldn't be able to grow a tomato if they didn't have these technologies would use." * Energy transition | Heat pump |...

  10. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    clear victory for the largest Ecuadorian nature reserve, in which the Huaorani Indians and thousands of animals and plants, some of which are threatened with extinction, live... * China | CNNC | Hualong One | Saudi Arabia competition for US offer China wants to build a nuclear power plant in Saudi Arabia In order to expand its influence in the Middle East, China is applying to build a nuclear power plant in Saudi Arabia. At the...

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

    by the Peruvian Gustavo Medra-Cuadra for the next conference in Kenya. The task is likely to be delicate, because a small group of states, led by China, India and Saudi Arabia, want everything possible for their own economic interests - just not for fewer plastics to be produced from petroleum in the future. On the other hand, there is the so-called High Ambition Coalition, which...

  12. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    (USA, Russia, Great Britain, China, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, France, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Thailand, South Korea and Japan; Uranium ammunition has been used to combat armored vehicles since the mid-1970s), so far only one country, the USA, has...

  13. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    was Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development from 2009 to 2013. The group set up branches in South Africa, Malaysia, India, Brazil, Mexico, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan. While Niebel acted discreetly, the journalist Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) became the best-known arms and war lobbyist. She is in...

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

    (USA, Russia, Great Britain, China, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, France, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Thailand, South Korea and Japan; Uranium ammunition has been used to combat armored vehicles since the mid-1970s), so far only one country, the USA, has...

  15. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    Situation that is being exacerbated by climate change. [...] There are currently over 20.000 desalination plants in operation in more than 170 countries worldwide - the ten largest are in Saudi Arabia, the United States, Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). [...] desalinating seawater is a good opportunity to use existing resources, also because the costs...

  16. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    The world's first large solar power plants are currently being built and will sell electricity for just one cent per kilowatt hour. Latest satellite images from LiveEO show how advanced their construction is in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi. And how the next revolution is already on the horizon in the Atacama Desert in Chile – through solar modules installed super-quickly. The technology should...

  17. Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war

    For political or pragmatic reasons, you can think it's a good thing that Nord Stream was forced to shut down because of Putin and so on, especially as an American - although you shouldn't actually give oil money to the sheikhs in Saudi Arabia. But it is a completely different question whether Hersh's story is true. Otherwise you end up with Palmström saying that what can't be can't be...

  18. Newsletter XLVI 2022 - November 16th to 23rd - News+ Now only the wisdom of the Peace of Westphalia can help

    "Instead, according to Lesch, the egoism of those who earned a lot of money from fossil resources was shown after the UN climate summit in Egypt. Lesch took Saudi Arabia in particular, but also other oil-producing countries, to task here : "You can look at how the profits of the big oil companies have increased fivefold, i.e. increased by 500 percent -...

  19. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    from energy policy to the Green party conference this year: the party and its members now seem ready to make almost any compromise. This concerns the arms deliveries to Saudi Arabia, the position on nuclear power, but also the fundamental peace policy positioning. How do you explain that? Antje Vollmer: The Greens have given up their historical place, which they...

  20. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    will... * Energy crisis | Climate crisis Germany diligently promotes fossil energy abroad Germany is financing more fossil energy projects abroad with public funds than Saudi Arabia or Russia, NGOs warn. In comparison, public funds and guarantees for renewable energies still lagged behind. Despite signing the Glasgow Public Finance Statement...

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