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

    Solar parks that continue to undercut each other when it comes to electricity prices. This could lure energy-rich industries away from Europe. For e-fuels and green hydrogen, however, it is good news. Economy from above is a cooperation with LiveEO. The first large solar power plants are currently being built in the world's great deserts and will sell electricity for just one cent per kilowatt hour. Latest...

  2. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    that do not clog the ship's pipe system, they are killed by chlorine. Pumped back into the sea, the water not only carries away the dead biomass, but also the biocide... * Agriculture | Photovoltaic system | Blackrock speculation in Bönitz 2.500 hectares in southern Brandenburg: Deutsche Wohnen is increasing speculation about agricultural land in the east. East German agricultural land has long been the subject...

  3. Newsletter VIII 2023 - February 19th to 25th - News+ Mönch von Lützerath: Sympathetic figures of the climate movement

    Of those who agreed, not all of them are prepared to draw further conclusions in order to implement the demands of the resolution. Even NATO member Turkey has expanded economic relations with Russia since the beginning of the war... * Power outages Ukraine | Environmental damage | Climate damage Toxic gases, forest fires, oil slicks An initial assessment of the environmental and...

  4. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    The deadline set for submitting bills to Parliament was a predetermined deadline and could not be changed." This means that the NRA simply accepted the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's timetable, thereby ignoring a wider debate on the security issue. This practically eliminates the separation between funding and regulation...

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

    If they are operational towards the end of 2023, they would have a total capacity of around 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas. This corresponds to around a third of the amount that was imported in 2021 according to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection... * Photovoltaics | Bavaria's power grid | Bureaucracy Too much photovoltaics: Bavarian power grid at the limit The regional power grid in Bavaria is...

  6. Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk

    of the people, it ensures the security of the state. And the state protects first and foremost the profits of corporations like RWE instead of the rights of every person... * Renewables | Agriculture | Agri-photovoltaics Agri-photovoltaics: Expansion is being slowed down Harvest and electricity from the fields: Agri-photovoltaics can simultaneously produce food and solar power on agricultural land...

  7. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    [...] climate compensation is not a system with errors, the system itself is the error. To stop global warming, we must reduce emissions from our energy system and all sectors of the economy to zero, while stopping the destruction of forests and other ecosystems. Forest protection is not an alternative to the conversion and dismantling of climate-damaging industries, but must...

  8. Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all

    and in return has received natural gas since October. The German Economic Institute (IW) said on Saturday that German exports had covered the electricity needs of almost three million French households. However, only 5,2 TWh flowed back from France, significantly less than in previous years. The situation in France makes it clear: nuclear power plants are no guarantee...

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

    should. The most brutal war of aggression in Europe since the Second World War is bringing unimaginable suffering. And there is no end in sight. Millions of people are homeless or on the run. The economy is in free fall. The infrastructure is being destroyed every day. Civilian casualties continue to rise by thousands. At least 100.000 soldiers have died on each side so far and more...

  10. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    Renewable traffic light improves renewable energy funding A treat for citizens' energy Wind power projects have become too expensive for civil societies in recent years. The Federal Ministry of Economics wants to change that with a funding program that has now been launched. The traffic light is also trying to improve its relationship with the green energy scene with other political sweets. The end of 2022 was severely clouded...

  11. Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all

    currently almost daily with reports of human rights violations in the Gulf state of Qatar or Iran. In contrast, silence is spreading in the Assange case... * Climate protection | greenhouse gas | Agriculture Cattle farming for climate protection? Beware of greenwashing! Various climate and environmental arguments are used today to defend cattle farming. What they all have in common is that they...

  12. Newsletter L 2022 - December 15th to 19th - News+ Criminalization of activists of the last generation

    Jörg-Andreas Krüger. “But instead of braking decisively, she just eases off the accelerator a little.” NABU criticized, among other things, the lack of measurable targets that could halt the loss of biodiversity through agriculture, fishing and trade... * Eco System | Economy | Nature Monetizing ecosystem services Counting on nature Companies consider the value of...

  13. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    that humanity as such is not allowed to vote democratically - what is decided democratically in rich industrialized countries does not stay in the rich industrialized countries when it comes to economic and energy policy. Others even feel the consequences first. And here too, lobbyists actually have more influence than ordinary voters - while those who have been there the longest...

  14. Newsletter XLVIII 2022 - December 01st to 07th - News+ The New York Times and the new climate deniers

    generate electricity with solar energy. According to Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD), the planned project would make a significant contribution to achieving this goal. The independent Senator for Economic Affairs Stephan Schwarz spoke of the “beginning of a revolution when it comes to the expansion of renewable energies”... * Solar systems | Agriculture | Agri Photovoltaics Are solar systems on...

  15. Newsletter XLVII 2022 - November 24th to 30th - News+ More garbage to Grafenrheinfeld: The Schweinfurt action alliance against nuclear power is concerned

    result. BSW Solar warns of a wave of lawsuits. In order to ensure investment security for operators of solar systems and to prevent a wave of lawsuits, the Federal Solar Industry Association (BSW Solar) is calling on the federal government to stop skimming off fictitious windfall profits from photovoltaic systems. He supports this claim with a legal opinion from Anna von...

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

    Electricity price brake | excess profit | Profit skimming Bill for the electricity price brake Additional profits are to be skimmed off retroactively from September onwards. The Ministry of Economic Affairs has presented a 150-page draft bill on the controversial electricity price brake. The paper available to Klimareporter° caps electricity prices for households and industry from January, financed by random profits from...

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

    him, uphold and defend the Basic Law and the laws of the federal government, fulfill my duties conscientiously and exercise justice towards everyone. So help me God.” An economics minister who has driven an entire future industry into ruin and out of the country. Transport ministers who have been particularly diligent in lobbying for the car industry, but...

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

    are none at all, that China, India and so on are to blame for the misery, that you simply can't win elections with climate protection (and you shouldn't overtax the population) or that economic and energy crises require other priorities... ** 06 November Offshore | Wind power | Expansion of offshore wind target year 2035 Wind farms with 50 gigawatts in the German sea as early as the middle of next...

  19. Newsletter XLIII 2022 - October 28th to 31st - News+ Climate protection: It's not enough

    to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de ** October 31st Green Minister | Nuclear power plant testing | Continued operation Critical voices ignored?: Green ministers are said to have influenced the nuclear power plant inspection. Economics Minister Habeck and Environment Minister Lemke opposed the continued operation of the last three nuclear power plants early on. There were also arguments for it. [...] research by “Welt am Sonntag” and...

  20. Newsletter XLII 2022 - October 23rd to 27th - News+ The fairy tale with primary energy consumption

    The goal for 2030 of reducing emissions by at least 55 percent compared to 1990 levels will be missed by a huge margin. Not to mention the goal of becoming climate-neutral by 2050. Germany, for example, had already missed its self-defined target for reducing final energy consumption by 2020. There are complaints about the EU-wide growing consumption of stone and...