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

    Anfang Februar auf. In der Rede, die den Auftakt zur Wahlkampagne seiner Partei Afrikanischer Nationalkongress (ANC) darstellte, klapperte der 71-Jährige alle großen Themen ab: die grüne Transformation, die Millionen von Jobs schaffen soll, den Kampf gegen Stromausfälle, Korruption und Kriminalität. Am 29. Mai, 30 Jahre nach den ersten demokratischen Wahlen in Südafrika, stimmt das Land über ein...

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

    "Alte Wälder sind für die Gesundheit des Planeten unverzichtbar und müssen sofort geschützt werden." Ikea müsse gegen den Raubbau vorgehen, forderte sie... * Subventionen | Arbeitsplätze | Transformation Stellenstreichungen bei ThyssenKrupp: Und die Subventionen? Der Stahlkonzern ThyssenKrupp will viel Personal kürzen, bekommt aber gleichzeitig Staatsgeld – das sollte künftig unterbunden werden....

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

    Germany is no longer dependent on Russian uranium." April 8th Hydrogen | Biogas | Steam reforming Green hydrogen from biogas: First green H2 from Krefeld Hydrogen can advance the transformation if it is produced with renewables. The pioneering company BtX is now using biogas for this . FREIBURG taz |. The company BtX Energy from the Bavarian town is...

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    not only provide a guarantee on the electric car batteries, but also ensure that the batteries still have a remaining capacity of at least 85 percent after this time... * Climate justice | Transformation | Revolution | Reform Review Climate justice means asking the question of power The book "Building blocks for climate justice" describes eight transformation paths to more...

  5. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    Firstly, the Federal Environment Agency's projections are not up to date. The agency has not yet taken the budget crisis into account. This has resulted in the federal climate and transformation fund missing 60 billion euros. When Habeck argues that the government spared key climate protection projects during austerity measures, that is only half true. [...] After all,...

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

    his assessments are actually the result of objective research or are not driven by corporate interests. And of all things with the energy question, which is the central question in the transformation - and Grimm's area of ​​expertise... * February 28, 1954 (6 hydrogen bomb tests) Bikini Atoll, USA Wikipedia List of nuclear weapon tests On February 28.02.1954, XNUMX there was the first of six. ..

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

    Lingen becomes a central hydrogen production site - green light for pipeline between Emsland and Ruhr area [...] The previous power plant site in Lingen is developing into a large hydrogen production site as part of the transformation. A hydrogen pipeline is soon to be built from Lingen in Emsland through western Münsterland, past the hydrogen storage site...

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

    2024 is in the middle of the “decisive decade,” as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emphasizes in its latest assessment report. This means that the climate-friendly transformation must be put on track this decade in order to keep the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement alive. Last year marked an average temperature of 1,48 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial...

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

    related to money laundering is currently 108 days. In many cases, suspicious money may have been passed on long ago... * Emissions trading | Federal Environment Agency | Climate and Transformation Fund New record revenues in emissions trading: over 18 billion euros for climate protection Revenues from European and national emissions trading increase by 40 percent. The income from...

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

    According to reports, around 20,2 billion euros are estimated for the disposal of radioactive waste and the dismantling of the nuclear power plants. Spain will rely on renewable energies in the future. Spain is continuing to drive forward the transformation of the energy industry on the Iberian Peninsula. The Spanish government has now confirmed the phase-out of nuclear energy. From 2027, the operating nuclear power plants...

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

    not only to reduce emissions rapidly, but also to push ahead with the expansion of negative emissions at a record pace. Both are a race against time. A race against climate change. * Agriculture | Transformation | diesel | Farmer catcher “Support climate transformation” Federal Environment Agency welcomes removal of agricultural diesel subsidies - and suggests relief for farmers elsewhere...

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

    team introduced. This year's 549-page data collection is the most detailed relevant document published annually... * Renewables up, greenhouse gases down, transforming the economy instead of greenwashing Good news: a rapid global energy transition is possible Rising emissions, gloomy outlook, COP28- Disaster. But there is also reason for...

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

    or tax privileges are subsidies by another name. Abolishing them would bring savings of around 65 billion euros... * Emissions trading | CO2 price | Climate and transformation fund "The sensible way" Climate economist calls for higher CO2 prices instead of going into debt Since the Federal Constitutional Court's budget ruling, the climate and transformation fund is missing 60 billion euros....

  14. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    (Import ammonia). Ammonia is a more transportable derivative of hydrogen and is used in the chemical industry for the production of artificial fertilizer. It would therefore be unsuitable for an ecological transformation in agriculture. Dimensions In Namibia, with its only 2,3 million inhabitants One of the largest plants in the world for green hydrogen was built and Habeck...

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

    the 2020s, when series of extreme weather events hit the country and its people in the middle of the century? Reduce environmentally harmful subsidies The traffic light must use the fiasco with the climate and transformation fund, in which there is now a billion dollar hole, constructively - namely to redesign its financial policy, especially in the environmental and climate area, but not only there. The...

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

    Measures “undermine incentives to reduce energy consumption and emissions,” said Greenpeace energy expert Bastian Neuwirth: “In doing so, the federal government is slowing down the necessary climate-friendly transformation of the economy and risking climate goals.” * United States | SMR | NuScale | NRTS Idaho First mini-nuclear power plant in the USA was abandoned By the end of the decade...

  17. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    a summit agreement with South Korean President Moon Jae-in to promote peace between the two parts of Korea... October 8th From nuclear waste to wind energy and the necessary transformation of infrastructure Not-in-my-backyard politics How selfish obstructors the republic The SPD chairman is fighting a railway line, the CSU is fighting power lines, the CDU is fighting cycle paths,...

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

    is available for electric car owners who put a solar power system on the roof of their house and put a power storage unit in the basement. KfW grant 442 is the name of the new cornucopia for transport transformation... * Habeck | Energy prices | Electricity tax industry association wants lower electricity tax instead of industrial electricity price Robert Habeck sees good opportunities for an industrial electricity price. From the BDI's perspective...

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

    From concentration camps to green hydrogen The Federal Republic has an energy problem after the loss of Russian gas supplies and the challenges of climate change. Progress in the ecological transformation is slow because the government, business, right-wing parties and parts of the population refuse to tackle the problem consistently and lead to loss of prosperity and restrictions on consumption...

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

    converted into district heating. The newly built power-to-heat system, which works like an oversized immersion heater, is expected to achieve an electrical output of around 20 megawatts... * Transformation | Climate active | ECB The financial world and the climate crisis: ECB is for more climate activism The central bank warns: Delays in the transformation lead to higher risks for...

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