1. Newsletter

    sagte Cezanne der taz. „Die Verlagerung in die USA auch noch mit einer Hermesbürgschaft abzusichern und dem Unternehmen damit die sicherlich teurere Privatversicherung zu ersparen, ist unverantwortlich.“ [...] In der Antwort aus dem Bundeswirtschaftsministerium auf Cezannes Frage heißt es: „Die Bundesregierung hat mit Blick auf das Unternehmen Meyer Burger die Übernahme einer...

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

    lassen muss? Der Verbrenner hat keine Zukunft, doch es fehlt an Aufklärung dazu. Sonst würde sich die Nachfrage schon jetzt stärker ändern. Die Autoindustrie macht dafür vor allem die Politik verantwortlich: zu wenige Ladesäulen, gekappte Förderung, verspätete Batterieentwicklung. Aber ist sie nicht auch selbst mit schuld? Es gibt diverse Lobbygruppen, die dem Verbrenner weiter anhängen. Die...

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

    Gebäude oder Landwirtschaft. Werden diese verfehlt, muss das zuständige Ministerium ein Sofortprogramm vorlegen. Künftig soll stattdessen die ganze Bundesregierung für Klimaschutz im Gesamten verantwortlich sein – und will dabei sektoren- und jahresübergreifend vorgehen. Die jährlichen Grenzwerte, die im Gesetz stehen, sind damit praktisch bedeutungslos. Zudem sind die Mi­nis­te­r*in­nen nicht...

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

    angegeben. Es handelt sich dabei laut DUH um eine Schätzung auf Basis von Satellitendaten. Deutschland gebe bislang an, im Jahr 2022 für 1390 Tonnen Methan-Emissionen aus dem Braunkohletagebau verantwortlich zu sein - das entspreche einem Prozent der EU-weiten Methan-Emissionen aus diesem Bereich. Die Studienautoren gehen davon aus, dass es ihren Berechnungen zufolge knapp 256.000 Tonnen sein...

  5. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    Heimatland mit einer seiner Bananenplantagen verwechselt. Wir machen Daniel Noboa für die Sicherheit und die physische und psychische Unversehrtheit des ehemaligen Vizepräsidenten Jorge Glas verantwortlich. Wir entschuldigen uns bei Mexiko, seinem Volk und seiner Regierung und bringen ihnen unsere ewige Bewunderung entgegen. Hasta la victoria siempre! Rafael Correa Die Beziehungen zwischen...

  6. Newsletter

    alle Rekorde Seit März 2023 sind die Meerestemperaturen weltweit dramatisch gestiegen. Zwei unerwartete Effekte, die sich gegenseitig verstärken, sind wohl für die sprunghafte Erwärmung verantwortlich. Es ist das aktuell größte Rätsel der Klimaforschung. Seit März 2023 sind die Weltmeere so warm wie nie, und das mit enorm großem Abstand. Um mehr als ein halbes Grad übertrafen die...

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

    Newsletter Some of the incidents were never made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

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

    of all CO2 emissions in the industrial sector. How can it be made greener? asks a study commissioned by the WWF. BERLIN taz | The twelve chemical parks in Germany that emit the most CO2 are responsible for 14 percent of total industrial emissions in Germany. At the same time, this “dirty dozen” accounts for around 3 percent of German greenhouse gas emissions. This is what a study shows...

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

    The first one was painted." In the future, however, every new building will be planned with a PV system, and existing buildings will be retrofitted. [...] Bureaucratic hurdles Those responsible have just encountered a new obstacle at the University of Kassel. When it comes to solar, the university is responsible as exemplary and had the first systems installed in 2008. But the new PV system can...

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

    and the CSU should please stop poisoning and thus dividing the population with the constant repetition of their fighting term “ideology”. In my opinion, you are partly responsible for the tumult in Biberach. Your actions should serve the common good, not an end in themselves. They should ensure unity and not fuel the fires of arsonists. The ash...

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

    and was imprisoned in 2021 upon his return to Russia. Many observers now blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for his death in a Russian prison camp. [...] The Putin opponent is asked in the film, which has now won an Oscar: “Alexei, if you are arrested and put in prison or if the unthinkable happens...

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

    Let us, as relatives and descendants, speak out today and call on all fellow citizens to stand up to the New Right in our country and across Europe." Everyone should feel responsible for preserving and defending liberal and constitutional democracy. * Czech Republic | EDF | Westinghouse | KHNP Czech Republic wants to build “up to four” new nuclear reactors The...

  13. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    metal raw materials of the modern world. But their production is anything but environmentally and climate-friendly: the steel industry is responsible for around seven percent of global CO2 emissions, most of which is released when oxidized iron ores are reduced to metallic iron. When it comes to aluminum extraction, the process that takes place after the aluminum has been extracted...

  14. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    (around 2,1 billion euros). Monsanto must pay this sum to a cancer-suffering plaintiff who blamed Roundup, which contains glyphosate, for his cancer, a so-called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The court ruled that the cancer was the result of the plaintiff's use of Roundup for gardening over several years. "The punitive damages award of...

  15. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    thus effectively compensating for emissions and also producing valuable hydrogen. Carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by human activities is largely responsible for global warming. Researchers have therefore long been looking for an elegant and effective way to reduce the CO2 concentration in the air and to permanently store the carbon. Without these efforts...

  16. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    [...] The blockade plans were criticized as disproportionate by Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP), who is largely responsible for the savings plans in the agricultural sector, which have now been partially withdrawn, but has so far been less the focus of discontent than Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens). [...] The Bavarian SPD parliamentary group leader Florian von Brunn accuses the Union parties and the...

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

    the Izabal region in northern Guatemala was granted rights to the land they have inhabited and cultivated since the 19th century. [...] The verdict now states: The state of Guatemala is responsible for violating the rights to recognition of legal personality, personal integrity, access to information, property and the exercise of political rights....

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

    Financial practices and questionable contacts - Greens under suspicion Questionable financial actions and political entanglements: nepotism in a lobby organization? A whistleblower could now put those responsible in distress. The green lobby organization Center Liberale Moderne (ZLM, proper spelling: LibMod) is once again exposed to serious allegations. The journalist Friedrich...

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

    Newsletter LI 2023 December 17th to 23rd *** 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...

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

    Year 2014 machine guns, a large part of which it will not be able to use as planned for years,” says a letter to the federal government, which is available to WirtschaftsWoche. According to the Court of Auditors, those responsible could have “easily bought the machine guns later” and procured other more urgent equipment more quickly... * Hungary | Term extension Hungary...