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

    Hilfen für Kohlekraftwerke beschlossen, die bei Umweltschützern und Grünen auf Widerstand stießen. * Vereinigte Staaten | China | Handelskrieg US-Finanzministerin Yellen warnt China vor Überinvestitionen in grüne Technologien China und die USA finden nicht zueinander. Beijing will weiterhin massiv in grüne Technologien investieren. Droht ein neuer Handelskrieg? Die amtierende US-Finanzministerin...

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

    the company participates in facilities and infrastructure in various countries without managing or operating them. [...]The UAE's share of total foreign direct investment in the UK was 2021 percent in 0,4. According to the government in London, the UAE remains a relatively small investor in the country. However, the region is increasingly seen as an important...

  3. Newsletter

    German gas supply: municipal utilities under pressure, gas networks have to be dismantled. Dismantling of gas networks is necessary, costs are rising for consumers. Transformation requires adaptations and investments in sustainable energy sources. After the end of locally produced city gas, German natural gas supply was entirely dependent on flexible pipeline supplies, initially from the Netherlands and later from...

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

    estimated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to the study published in the journal Nature. The total damage amounts to 9,3 billion US dollars... * Renewables | Investments | Irena “Nuclear power is a joke”: Head of the Renewable Energy Agency speaks plain language at the climate conference At this year’s Energy Transition Dialogue in Berlin, the Secretary General of the...

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

    The agency estimates network expansion at around 320 billion euros. The investment costs for the newly planned expansion measures on land are estimated at 76 billion euros. The estimated investments for the planned offshore wind lines amount to a further 2045 billion euros by 160. All costs are written off over decades and are reflected in the electricity bill...

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

    usually banks: They lend money to companies so that they can finance the operation and expansion of LNG infrastructure. This means the insurers receive returns. The company does not want to answer how the investments fit in with the Allianz's sustainability goals... * February 22, 1977 (INES 4) Akw Jaslovské Bohunice, SVK A mechanical failure in the...

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

    Luisa Neubauer from Fridays for Future Germany in front of the press in Berlin on Thursday. [...] The concrete demand for politicians: an end to austerity and instead large-scale investments in climate protection and for social cohesion. As a first step, Fridays for Future is calling for a special fund of 100 billion euros - for the expansion of local transport and...

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

    Regions where skilled workers are urgently needed cannot cope with such disruptions. The Green politician is therefore calling for a reform of the controversial debt brake. Because you need investments in technologies like batteries. "It is fatal if we stick to the debt brake, which is actually a brake on investment, and we stand in our own way." The...

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

    Newsletter III 2024 January 14th to 20st *** 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...

  10. 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 government is talking about energy security, but there is no uranium to operate the plants in Great Britain,” notes Wilson in an interview with the taz. In addition, there is still a lack of private investment in the project... * After attacks on ships, Houthis were attacked in Yemen USA and Great Britain attack Houthi positions The USA and Great Britain have...

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

    Citizen-oriented energy transition in all sectors can be such a story. There are already enough good examples. For this we need a lot of private capital, but also targeted and powerful investments by the state in our country's public and social infrastructure - schools, railways, bridges, social housing. Otherwise no company or private individual will receive money...

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

    ... Rosatom - Federal Agency for Atomic Energy of Russia The agency had already declared in February 2006 that it wanted to build a total of 2030 new nuclear reactors by 40. This would require investments equivalent to around $60 billion. The aim is to increase the share of nuclear power from the current 17 to 18 percent to around 25 percent in 2030. Kiriyenko said, from...

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

    Investor does not want to assume any further costs. A new setback for the European nuclear industry: The Chinese nuclear company China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) has stopped further investments in the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in Great Britain. The reason is that the project, in which the Chinese are junior partners of the French...

  14. 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”

    in agriculture. But one of the major mistakes of the governments under Chancellor Merkel is that they have implemented exactly the opposite policy... * Fossil investments fall after the climate conference Historically: Over 1.600 institutions with 41 trillion dollars are pulling money from coal, gas, oil Fossil divestment functions. While states are working on the energy transition...

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

    ... * Energy sources | WNISR | Electricity mix report on nuclear energy: Nuclear power is on the decline worldwide The share of nuclear energy in the global electricity mix fell to 9,2 percent last year. Meanwhile, investments are flowing into other energy sources. FREIBURG taz | Global nuclear power generation increased by 2022 percent to 4 billion kilowatt hours (terawatt hours, TWh) in 2.546...

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

    studies have shown. The IAEA does not say which ones exactly in its communication. It's about "building a low-carbon bridge to the future." This also requires investments in small modular reactors, with which nuclear power plants can be built more easily and operated more flexibly. IAEA Director General Raphael Grossi called for a fair environment that...

  17. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    as much as Namibia's gross domestic product. The amount of electricity produced would be equivalent to around ten large conventional power plants. Since the Namibian state is involved in the investments with 24 percent and takes out loans from European banks, there is a risk of a debt trap if something goes wrong. As is well known, the supposedly green hydrogen has catastrophically high conversion losses and is...

  18. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    | Climate impacts | Debt brake According to the Constitutional Court ruling, traffic lights in a climate emergency. Better not to spend anything than to spend correctly? No, the 60 billion hole in energy transition investments can definitely be filled. Nobody has yet fully recovered from “Black Wednesday for the climate”. The traffic light federal government is faced with a shambles of its financial policy. The...

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

    introduced in 1961. Krugman is wrong on both counts. First, it uses a misleading measure of Pentagon spending that obscures rather than reveals our historical investment in the department. He notes that Pentagon spending represents a smaller share of the national economy than it did in Eisenhower's time. That is...

  20. 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

    should put an end to such situations, says the Pope. [...] “The biggest problem is the arms industry,” said Pope Francis during the interview. "I was told by a person who knows about investments and whom I met at a meeting that today the most profitable investments are in weapons factories," the 86-year-old added... * Israel | Palestinians |...

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