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

    speisen, die Baukosten steigerten sich von ursprünglich angesetzten 3 Milliarden auf 12 Milliarden Euro... * Rumänien | Abholzung | Raubbau Recherche in Rumänien Lässt Ikea in Urwäldern holzen? Greenpeace prangert den schwedischen Möbelkonzern wegen der Nutzung von wertvollen Bäumen aus den Karpaten an. Filialen in einem Dutzend europäischer Länder könnten betroffen sein, auch in Deutschland....

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    To invest in “safe, affordable and climate-friendly energy for everyone” based on 100 percent renewable energies. In addition to the IPPNW, the signatories include Greenpeace, the Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND), the WWF and the Don't Nuke the Climate Alliance (DNTC). The NGOs' statement is directed against the nuclear lobby and the IAEA, which...

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

    Reform of the United Nations as a goal. How the UN Pact for the Future contributes to a peaceful world. Over 300 international civil society organizations, including Amnesty International, Greenpeace, IPPNW and ICAN, are working hard to prepare for the United Nations Future Summit in September 2024. [...] starting point for the future summit is the charter...

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

    freed. For 3,5 hours, this circulation only worked in normal operation, both reserve air lines were not operational due to a defect or maintenance work... Greenpeace determined under the supervision of a sworn technical expert... 400 are used every day over a four and a half kilometer long pipe Cubic meters of radioactive wastewater discharged into...

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

    top agrar estimated the EU subsidies for the BUND in 2022 at more than 1,45 million euros. But how can “land grabbing” be prevented, at least on a large scale? Van Aken from Greenpeace has a suggestion - the simple solution: cut subsidies to large companies at 300.000 euros per year. An option that the CAP allows. The problem: “The federal government has renounced it.” The result:...

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

    Future threatens to explode Germany and France are developing a new fighter aircraft, the Future Combat Air System (FCAS). The costs are estimated at 100 billion euros. But a Greenpeace study shows: They could grow to up to 2 trillion euros. Heads are spinning again in Berlin. The traffic light continues to try to hold together its difficult-to-reach budget agreement. That...

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

    Wissing, whose area of ​​responsibility, the transport sector, is at the bottom when it comes to climate protection - Wissing, of all people, is being released from responsibility, summarizes the environmental protection organization Greenpeace. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) speaks of a “frontal attack on climate protection”. And the Agora Verkehrswende think tank speaks of a missed opportunity for climate protection in transport...

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

    X (formerly Twitter). More nuclear power is good for climate neutrality and ensures affordable energy. One of the two Belgian nuclear power plants is located not far from the border with Germany... * Greenpeace | Ocean | Deep sea mining Greenpeace activists on occupation: “Deep sea mining destroys oceans” Two activists want to stop a ship from searching the Pacific floor for raw materials....

  9. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    For 3,5 hours, this circulation only worked in normal operation; both reserve air lines were not operational due to a defect or maintenance work. (Source: ASN) Greenpeace, under the supervision of a sworn technical expert, determined that 400 cubic meters of radioactive wastewater per day were released into the Strait of Alderney via a four and a half kilometer long pipe...

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

    from bakeries to aluminum smelters, all manufacturing companies as well as agriculture and forestry. [...] The relief from the environmental organization Greenpeace has met with little enthusiasm. The 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...

  11. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    reported. Universities in Samara, 300 kilometers northeast, were closed. City businesses advised their employees to stay at home. The environmental organization Greenpeace in Russia feared a leak. The incident brought back memories of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986 in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). Ultimately it was...

  12. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    with nuclear warheads sank at a depth of 5000m. If there are 16 SS-N-6 missiles, each carrying two nuclear warheads and two nuclear torpedoes, then there are 34 nuclear warheads (Greenpeace 1993). Three years later there was talk of 50 (Radnet, 1996) and 44 nuclear warheads (San Francisco Examiner, 1996) with a total of 90 kg of plutonium-239. Also sank, according to one...

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

    Transport policy in almost all EU countries as the climate crisis worsens. A new study by the Wuppertal Institute and the T3 Transportation Think Tank, commissioned by Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe, shows that since 1995, an average of 66 percent more has been invested in the expansion and renovation of motorways than in rail transport in Europe is: 1,5 trillion...

  14. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    An IPSOS survey conducted in six EU countries found that only 14 percent of citizens supported extending the use of glyphosate. * France | Fossils | LNG terminal "Gas kills": Greenpeace against corporations that abuse Ukraine shock Protest action against new LNG terminal in Le Havre. Gas entrepreneurs are shamelessly exploiting the Ukraine war, environmentalists say. Like a fossil...

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

    that only use fuels synthesized with (a lot of) electricity to be exempt from vehicle tax. In terms of energy, it's pure madness because of the low efficiency of the conversion processes. Greenpeace: 16 billion for climate-damaging industry But that would only be a further increase in the continued reward of climate destruction that comes with the demonization and mistreatment of...

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

    State aid slows down climate protection: Where is the energy transition? High subsidies flow into the fossil fuel industry. A climate-friendly reform could save ten billion euros, shows a new Greenpeace study. BERLIN taz | Germany invests almost six times as much tax money in climate-damaging subsidies for industry as in climate-friendly conversion. This is shown by a new study by...

  17. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    for electric cars. If it were to reduce electricity taxes and raise CO₂ prices, the federal government could in return save on many funding programs. * fossil | Subsidies | Industrial electricity price Greenpeace criticizes "gifts worth billions" to the fossil energy industry In the fight against climate change, Greenpeace is convinced that the federal government is standing in its own way. The biggest hurdle is...

  18. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    in the Saudi Arabian Eastern Province near the border with Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, according to the informants... * August 25, 2008 (INES 3) IRE Fleurus, BEL http://www.greenpeace.de/themen/energiewende /nuclear power/belgium-radiation-accident-more-severe-than-thought Wikipedia Fleurus Radiochemical Industrial Plant - 2008 After the completion of a production process, three smaller...

  19. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    reflected - and that in Berlin's Winsviertel, where 40 percent of people voted for Alliance Green. Unfortunately, it is a myth that single-use plastic is disposed of properly or even recycled. Greenpeace showed in a study that German plastic waste ends up in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, for example. And this plastic doesn't end up in landfills. Arrived in various ways...

  20. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    In mid-July, several Mexican non-governmental organizations (NGOs) pointed out the oil leak and complained about the authorities' "complete lack of transparency." [...] Several NGOs, including Greenpeace, had already reported on July 18th of a 400 square kilometer oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. The organizations had located him near an oil platform where there was...

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