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and is thus driving the climate crisis enormously. According to research by CORRECTIV, the asset manager is still an important financier, especially for the coal industry. Allianz earns good money from climate-damaging investments. Last year, the insurer took in a total of 3,1 billion euros with PIMCO and a second outsourced asset manager. [...] At least for now...
Despite climate vows, banks support the coal industry with hundreds of billions of euros. Leading financial institutions from around the world vow to become climate neutral. That doesn't stop them from providing massive amounts of money to the climate-damaging coal industry. Deutsche Bank also belongs to this group. Although a number of countries have promised to phase out climate-damaging coal-fired power generation...
Many hundreds of thousands of people live along the river, the effects could be devastating... * Subsidies | Transport transition | CO2 price Ariadne analysis State prevents CO₂ price from having an impact Climate-damaging subsidies in transport completely undermine CO2 pricing, shows a study for the Federal Ministry of Research. There is a reward of up to 690 euros for...
What is fermenting here, in a district of the municipality of Nuthe-Urstromtal south of Berlin, is the manure from 450 bulls and old straw from the stable. Manure and manure release methane, which is particularly harmful to the climate, but also carbon dioxide. Without the biogas plant, the gases would escape into the atmosphere and have their effect there. This is how they become...
Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty
Methane emissions Berlin · The greenhouse gas methane has around 80 times as much effect on global warming as CO2. Using satellite images, environmental experts discover how much of the climate-damaging gas is escaping into the atmosphere. According to a study, emissions of climate-damaging methane from open-cast brown coal mining in Germany are significantly higher than expected. As shown in the study by...
Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany
This accounted for less than 1,5 percent, even though the population with the worst energy supply lives there. At the same time, there were subsidies of 1,3 trillion US dollars worldwide for climate-damaging fossil energies... * Hydrogen | Energy storage | Electrolysis EWI paper Buffer underground for hydrogen Green hydrogen is becoming increasingly important - and with it the creation...
Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD
News in climate policy? Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) has announced that Germany is “on track” to meet the climate targets for 2030. By the end of the decade, climate-damaging emissions must fall by 1990 percent compared to 65, as required by the German Climate Protection Act. The Federal Environment Agency has now drawn up its annual climate balance. By 2030, estimated...
Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good
Manufacturers from China dominate 90 percent of the market in this country. First of all, that's not a bad thing, because the expansion of green energy depends on the fact that it is cheaper than the climate-damaging alternatives... * Egypt | Gaza | Security Why Egypt cannot and does not want to open the flood gates to Gaza Possible Israeli Rafah invasion is straining relations with Cairo and the...
When scattered, significant amounts of CO₂ can be removed from the atmosphere. Farmers should also benefit from the idea. The Earth has a natural waste disposal system for carbon dioxide. Rocks, such as the sides of mountains, play an important role in removing the climate-damaging greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. Because with every rain shower their rock is washed out a little. The...
largely unrecognized, are cheering on the climate crisis - despite their promises of sustainability. New documents prove: Allianz and subsidiaries of Hannover Re, Talanx and Munich Re insure climate-damaging LNG terminals in the USA. The Cameron LNG Terminal, Louisiana, is located in the middle of a swampy area. Small lakes border the industrial area on all sides. Liquid natural gas is produced here...
The federal government made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP only agreed to approve the new rules at the last moment. The so-called fleet limits regulate how much climate-damaging CO₂ vehicles in the EU will be allowed to emit in the future. According to the agreement, CO₂ emissions from coaches and trucks should be reduced by 2040 percent by 2019 compared to 90. The one now between the...
I like it and bring pleasure - is in conflict with what is rationally good, but perhaps doesn't give me the positive reinforcement." Climate-friendly behavior is often more uncomfortable. However, our climate-damaging behavior is not only determined by psychological or individual factors, but also by systemic ones Standards, Reese notes: “When there are roads everywhere, you drive...
In the right-wing extremist context, "remigration" means that a large number of people of foreign origin should leave the country - possibly under duress... * Consequence | Climate-damaging subsidies Consequences of the farmers' protests: Sweet poison subsidies The farmers must open up to more environmental protection. Otherwise they will lose much more subsidies than those for...
Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support
with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Fossile | Natural gas | Lobby Fossil Politics: The Natural Gas Connection Since reunification, Germany has doubled the import of climate-damaging natural gas. A look at the machinations of the lobbies. BERLIN taz | Tim Kehler is the managing director of Zukunft Gas – and therefore the top lobbyist for the German natural gas industry. In the club...
made easy The ZDF Frontal editorial team shows how easy it is to greenwash the most climate-damaging product using CO2 certificates. CO2 credits are intended to compensate for climate-damaging emissions that the manufacturer can no longer limit, even with the greatest effort. At least that's how the legislature sees it. But are they used that way? And compensate...
Leag is planning a conversion to renewable energies. The phase-out of electricity generation from brown coal is legally agreed in 2038. Because of its high carbon dioxide emissions, lignite is more harmful to the climate than other energy sources. *Japan | Defense industry | Weapons exports Rockets for Ukraine Japan is increasingly turning its back on the pacifism of the post-war period: The...
rises to all-time high The demand for coal is higher than ever this year - this is mainly due to Asian countries. In Europe, consumption fell by 23 percent. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), climate-damaging consumption of coal has reached a new high worldwide this year. Total consumption fell by 1,4 percent to 8,5 billion tons...
Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy
separated from each other in a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... December 7th Climate-damaging subsidies in the transport sector The money is on the street The traffic light coalition actually wanted to reduce climate-damaging subsidies. There is a lot of potential, particularly in the transport sector. But the...
Oil producer in the world and at the same time the largest oil consumer. And the gigantic empire of China, which releases almost a third of all greenhouse gases worldwide, wants to rely on climate-damaging coal for decades and not be climate-neutral until 2060 at the earliest... * Nuclear weapons | Deterrence | Nuclear Weapons Peace Movement: What if nuclear deterrence fails? With growing...
Newsletter XLVII 2023 November 19th to 25th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...
