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

    Environmental and climate risks must be factored in. Politically, this works, for example, through a rising CO2 price, which banks and insurers would then have to take into account as a risk factor in credit and interest rate decisions. If we were to consistently pursue this form of “true” accounting, the result would be a real change in direction. We are currently already seeing the...

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

    Anti-Money Laundering Authority proposed. The Amla is intended to combat money laundering and terrorist financing in the EU. It is intended to directly supervise credit and financial institutions that operate across borders and are considered high risk, including providers of crypto asset services. It should also coordinate and support the national supervisory authorities. [...] money laundering too...

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

    for example and gender-sensitive village development in Bangladesh. What Huber doesn't mention: The projects he mentions are only being continued by the traffic light. The commitments for grants and loans for cycle paths and buses in Peru, for example, date from 2020. They were given by Schulze's predecessor: Gerd Müller - like Huber from the CSU.... * Bundeswehr | NATO | Military exercise war games in...

  4. 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

    to give the money back to the banks - and the Green Federal Economics Minister agreed after his FDP cabinet colleague had assured him that the institutes wanted to use the gift as a basis for loans for the climate-friendly conversion of industry, residential buildings and transport. Nothing happened for a long time, but since this week a draft bill for a law has been circulating in Berlin...

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

    An NGO analysis shows that there are more fossil lobbyists than representatives of the countries most vulnerable to global warming. The EU has also accredited employees of large corporations as part of its delegation. According to data analysis by activists, at least 2456 lobbyists for coal, oil and gas are officially accredited at the World Climate Conference in Dubai - four times more than at the meeting...

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

    The fund is therefore now missing funds, most of which had already been planned. In addition, the court has also tightened booking rules and requires a clearer allocation of loans to a financial year. Apart from the disputed transfer, the KTF is already fed primarily from income from European and national emissions trading. * CDU |...

  7. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    Namibia. 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 associated with exorbitant transport costs...

  8. 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

    because it has not been ratified by a sufficient number of countries. The nuclear powers USA and China, among others, have not yet ratified the CTBT... * CO2 | Banks are fueling the climate crisis with loans for large-scale fossil fuel projects How 422 carbon bombs are killing the 1,5 degree target Banks are financing fossil mega-projects with trillion-dollar loans. At the same time, the CO₂ budget that remains to...

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

    This time, however, the cause is humans. Since our species existed, hundreds of species have already become extinct. A million more are currently on the verge of... * Pakistan | Weapons | Ukraine | Loan bombs for emergency loans: How the US got Pakistan to supply weapons to Ukraine What does the fall of Imran Kahn and IMF loans have to do with the Ukraine war? The Intercept reveals a...

  10. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    The Russian company Atomstroiexport was awarded the contract in 2006. Further construction was discussed again and again; RWE was interested at times, but soon dropped out. Russia had offered a $2 billion loan as a bridge, but the Bulgarian government insisted on finding a Western European investor first. Two reactors were planned...

  11. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    As part of the "Black Sea Transmission Network", hundreds of kilometers of power lines were newly built or upgraded, largely co-financed by the German development bank KfW, tenders are still being issued by Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau... * SIPRI | Rearmament SIPRI report Nuclear powers are pushing forward rearmament According to the peace research institute SIPRI, the nuclear powers are strengthening their nuclear arsenals. After...

  12. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    some restructuring together with RWE. Among other things, the renewable energy sector was transferred to RWE in 2018. [...] A double-digit billion amount from the state coffers flowed for loans, capital increases and share purchases. The Federal Republic of Germany ultimately became the sole owner in two steps. After all, the aid came with restrictions on manager salaries and...

  13. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    also how a company deals with leaks. One of the companies that offers such certifications is Project Canary... * Fossile | Liquefied gas | LNG terminal liquefied natural gas in focus German lenders are fueling the LNG boom German banks have co-financed growing gas exports from the USA with billions of euros since the beginning of 2022, a new report from environmental organizations shows. The fossil...

  14. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    [...] If the investment amount is up to 150.000 euros per residential unit, the KfW Bank will grant a loan. It charges significantly lower interest on this than would be the case with standard market financing loans. “Calculated over a ten-year term, this currently represents a saving of 30.000 to 40.000 euros,” explains Halboth. Cheap KfW interest rates only for energetic...

  15. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    Germany calls on Germany to take decisive action at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt. Between 2019 and 2021, Germany granted an average of 2,8 billion US dollars annually in public guarantees and loans for fossil energies abroad - this is shown by a report from Oil Change International (OCI) and Friends of the Earth US together with the Germans, among others Environmental organizations Urgewald, Germanwatch...

  16. Newsletter XXII 2022 - May 27th to 31st - News+ The nuclear lobby is stepping on the gas again

    Gonzalez is said to have spied for Russia. Presumably, according to Ralf Streck in an interview, Poland is acting on Ukraine's instructions. The Spanish government and the EU Parliament are silent. *Ukraine | credit | Corruption | Ukraine's debt is practically considered a default by Moody's. The country's credit rating has been further downgraded, and the rating agency's outlook for the country's...

  17. THTR Newsletter No. 137 December 2011

    a US research organization funded by the US energy suppliers and certainly has its own interests. EPRI calculated what the government wanted to hear in view of the problems in obtaining loans for nuclear power plants: Apparently the construction of the planned nuclear power plants would only cost 70 to 80 percent of the price calculated two years ago...

  18. Important newspaper articles about Atom ... * etc. from the year 2011

    Japan Fukushima: Radioactivity emerged earlier and was stronger than expected *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** September 22, 2011 - Hermes guarantee for Angra 3 - Germany holds on to the loan * 15. September 2011 - Karlsruhe Atomic Research Institute - The scary neighbor * September 06th, 2011 - "Only people who are unhappy and don't laugh enough are affected by radioactivity...

  19. 28.03.2011/XNUMX/XNUMX - Tepco is the end of the market economy

    Acting would not be responsible. Klaus Töpfer This means: Energy can no longer be left to a fictitious “energy market”. But how then do raw materials, food, water, currencies, credit, transport, medicines, chemical products and telecommunications? In most economic sectors there are incalculable risks for the community, the consequences of which cannot be felt economically...

  20. Fort St. Vrain, the original HTR didn't work either

    of the PBMR, Peach Bottom-1 and Fort St. Vrain. But there can be no question of that. On February 16, 2010, US President Obama announced that after a long time he would again provide government loans for nuclear power plants and that he would step up his involvement in nuclear research. The USA has been a member of the "Generation IV International Forum" (GIF) for many years and is one of the...

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