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

    What can the international community do to advance decarbonization and combat climate change? How can highly indebted countries regain fiscal space to invest in poverty reduction, social services and global public goods? What does the international community need to move towards the goals for sustainable...

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

    Einerseits frage man nur noch, was erlaubt, nicht, was richtig sei; andererseits suche man "den Gesetzen des Staates zu entgehen", die einem nicht passen, und halte "jedes Entwischen für Gewinn". Ach, was heißt "am Ende"? Wir sind schon da. * Ungleichheit | Einkommen | Vermögenssteuer Milliardäre zahlen in der Schweiz mehr: Deutschland verschont Superreiche Die Mittelschicht zahlt in Deutschland...

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

    Apples are more marketable," explains Greta Ott from the LTZ. However, the researchers have not yet been able to detect any differences when it comes to diseases or pest infestation. A few more years are needed to obtain more reliable information. The research has only been going on for about a year. Win- Win: Energy through photovoltaics and increasing fruit yields Hansjörg Vollmer can also make changes...

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

    out of. [...] Russia's prospects are bleak because Putin has no economic exit strategy. For the economy it doesn't matter whether he wins or loses. Even if Russia were to win the Ukraine war, which we hope won't happen, Putin would need a lot of soldiers to permanently occupy the neighboring country. At the same time, Russia would have to continue to arm itself because NATO is now also in its...

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    (around 25.000 euros at the time). The court agrees with Büyüknohutçu and he doesn't have to pay anything. About two months later, on May 9, 2017, the couple was found shot to death. “I'm not running to win. I want to show what political corruption can lead to. It was corruption that killed my parents,” says Büyüknohutçu. Public money would be invested in luxury company cars for...

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

    folgt dem anderen. Die Zukunft gehört den Erneuerbaren. Die Sonne schickt uns 15.000 Mal mehr Energie wie zur Zeit alle acht Milliarden Menschen verbrauchen. Das Solarzeitalter beginnt – die Sonne gewinnt. Atomkraft ade! In den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten wird gerade die größte Solaranlage der Welt gebaut... * Klimaschutz | Aufrüstung | Militarisierung Zwischen Kriegslogik und Klimaschutz:...

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

    the coalition backed the line of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who has clearly rejected a delivery several times... * RWE | Renewable | Fossils | Nuclear power | Profits in the billions Profit from the energy crisis Why RWE is making profits in the billions The energy company RWE's profits last year were almost a billion euros higher than expected - also because...

  8. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    In recent years, the discourse on anti-Semitism that prevails in Germany has become so detached from its subject, the real anti-Semitism that exists, that one could get the impression that more than the alleged fight against real anti-Semitism, it is about the perpetuation of intrinsic value, which his ideological distortion has achieved. Was it the German...

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

    Security Conference meets. There they are talking about further help for Ukraine so that Putin cannot destroy it. [...] If Trump wins the presidential election against Joe Biden and then - as announced - fails to defend defaulting NATO partners against a possible attack by Russia, the world will completely fall apart. This isn't scaremongering, this is a...

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

    in Finland is one of the deepest at 1.400 meters underground and was until recently one of the oldest operating underground mines in Europe. It is primarily known for the extraction of copper and zinc. Underground ore mining ended in August 2022. Now the mine will be used as a huge battery for electricity from renewable energies. The Scottish...

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

    GWh generated per year. Gansu (China). The Aksa Huidong New Energy Solar Park recently went into operation in the Chinese province of Gansu. Thanks to a combination of several technologies to generate energy, the largest solar park of its kind can provide electricity around the clock. According to the China Global Television Network (CGTN), the system consists of 11.960 heliostats, i.e. large,...

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

    Communists are categorized as “collectivists”. For him, these are all those who attribute important functions to the state. With such an attitude you can win elections against an unpopular government, as Milei demonstrated impressively. But winning majorities in Congress like this would be very difficult. And with only 38 MPs for his Libertad Avanza (Freedom advances...

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

    30 percent more wind power Paris – France produced more wind power and fed it into the grid in 2023 than ever before. In addition to the expansion of onshore wind energy, offshore wind energy is also gaining momentum. The public perception of France's energy policy is still mainly linked to discussions about nuclear energy...

  14. 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

    is not for you and will not save your future. It is a party that is only interested in exploiting polarizations in the population for its own purposes and gaining more supporters. One thing should have been clear since the farmers' protests began: the AfD wants to deceive you. In December 2023, she voted in the Bundestag, together with the traffic light parties, for an abolition...

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

    Agriculture | Subsidies | Peasants' Revolt | Peasant uprising of the farmers: Are the protests fundamentally justified? Agricultural diesel subsidies are gradually being phased out. Large companies continue to make profits. Things are different for small farms. Coercion, breach of the peace, damage to property, interference with road traffic - the list of offenses in the context of the farmers' protests is getting longer and longer....

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

    freely, that is, without pressure, without any kind of “structural” threats. Because the need for loud reflection is not primarily about winning others over to one's own views, educating them or even carrying out propaganda for social changes. This point of view is itself an element of the identitarian label ideology that appears in every word, wherever...

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

    with the management of seagrass meadows, for example. Relying too much on "natural solutions" is dangerous. One advantage of technological variants such as direct air capture - i.e. the extraction of CO2 from the ambient air using technical-chemical processes - is their large and long-term absorption potential. The carbon that is then stored in geological reservoirs...

  18. 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”

    (a16z) and Lux ​​Capital among today's rising stars in the defense sector, including Anduril, Hadrian and Rebellion Defense. VCs not only achieve high investment returns, but also gain increasing influence on US foreign policy... December 14th South Africa | Coal phase-out | KfW with 500 million euros: Germany supports Africa with renewable energy and...

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

    published independent “World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2023” shows. Renewable energies are far behind nuclear power in terms of expansion... * Climate change | Oil companies | Record profits Naomi Oreskes: "They won't go down without a fight" The oil companies foresaw climate change five decades ago. Science historian Naomi Oreskes has researched what...

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

    Investors find the companies difficult, according to the study. The investment costs are often largely covered by government funding and subsidies, while the subsequent profits are not used for new investments in renewable energies, but are distributed to shareholders. A good argument for keeping the energy supply in public hands from the outset...

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