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Old Neustadt in Bremen becomes a model bicycle district

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Federal Environment Ministry provides 2.4 million euros from the Climate Protection Fund

The Senator for the Environment, Building and Transport and the Bremen University of Applied Sciences jointly applied for funding in a competitive procedure in the "Federal Competition for Climate Protection in Cycling" of the National Climate Protection Initiative (NKI) for a "Bicycle Model Quarter Alte Neustadt Bremen - from bicycle street to bicycle zone". Now, after many rounds of negotiations, the funding decisions for the implementation of the bicycle model quarter have been received by the Senator for the Environment, Building and Transport (1,576,361 euros) and the Bremen University of Applied Sciences (834,835 euros).

Link:
www.adfc-bremen.de/news/news-details/datum/2017/03/07/alte-neustadt-in-bremen-wird-fahrrad-modellquartier.html


Keywords: Bike-/Velo-City, News Blog Bremen, Quarters, Settlements

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Mayor's Dialogue "Sustainable City" on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda
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Mayor's Dialogue "Sustainable City" on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda

On 15 March, the Mayors' Dialogue "Sustainable City" developed impulses for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in German municipalities. The mayors focused on the contributions of municipalities to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11 "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable".

The mayors of Augsburg, Bonn, Bottrop, Darmstadt, Delitzsch, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg, Friedrichshafen, Hanover, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Constance, Leipzig, Lörrach, Ludwigsburg, Lüneburg, Munich, Münster, Norderstedt, Nuremberg, Osnabrück, Ravensburg, Rheine, Tübingen and Wernigerode have signed the statement so far.

Resolution of the Lord Mayor's Sustainable City Dialogue of 15 March 2017:
https://www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20170330_Positionspapier_OB-Dialog-1.pdf

Link
https://www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/projekte/dialog-nachhaltige-stadt/



Keywords:
DE-News, Communities, SDG 2030, City, Environmental policy

KfW 40 and KfW 40 Plus are worthwhile!
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KfW 40 and KfW 40 Plus are worthwhile!

Since April 2016, there have been interesting changes at KfW Bank for sustainable construction: Houses in the "KfW 40" or "KfW 55" efficiency house standard will in future receive an interest subsidy of €100,000 instead of €50,000, and the subsidy will double as a result. In addition, the KfW 70 house will be completely removed from the funding pots of the L-Bank and KfW-Bank because it meets the statutory ENEV standard.
A PlusEnergy house, which corresponds to a "KfW 40 Plus", has a huge financial advantage in the future compared to an EnEV house. For a single-family house with one residential unit, it can be up to 100,000 € savings in 20 years. With houses with more housing units accordingly more. It is therefore worth talking to the financing bank and comparing KfW40 with the normal EnEV (KfW70).

Especially the construction of houses in the KfW 40 and KfW 40 Plus efficiency house standard is currently worthwhile as never before. For example, the L-Bank for KfW 40 gives a loan amount of € 100,000 at 0.75% interest and a repayment subsidy of € 16,000.

Further there is e.g. from the L-Bank the interest-reduced credit ".Living with a future" and from the KfW Bank the low-interest loan "Home ownership financing“. For an efficient heat pump, there is a further € 4,000 grant from BAFA when building a PlusEnergy house.
The new funding conditions at a glance:

  • Low-interest loans from L-Bank and KfW-Bank (L-Bank: €100,000 for 0.75% and redemption subsidy €11,000 per residential unit, KfW Efficiency House 40 Plus 16.000 €)
  • Living with a future of the L-Bank (approx. 32,000 € for 1.1%)
  • KfW home ownership financing (€50,000 for 0.9% for 5 years or 1.4% for 10 years)
  • BAFA heat pump subsidy for effective heat pumps with € 4,000

Bottom line, you get about:

  • For one residential unit: € 182,000 subsidised and
    at KfW Efficiency House 40 => 15.000 € subsidies,
    at KfW Efficiency House 40 Plus => 20.000 € subsidies
  • For two residential units: 282,000 € interest subsidised and
    at KfW Efficiency House 40 => 26.000 € subsidies,
    at KfW Efficiency House 40 Plus => 36.000 € subsidies

You can find examples of houses and housing estates in PlusEnergy construction under:
http://sdg21.eu/tag/plusenergiehaus or on www.plusenergie.siedlungen.eu

 



Keywords:
Funding, Climate protection, PlusEnergy house/settlement

Thuringia: First federal state with sustainability advisory council in parliament
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Thuringia: First federal state with sustainability advisory council in parliament

Already in December, the state parliament, with the votes of the red-red-green coalition, had a decision The state has adopted a resolution on how it intends to implement the 2030 Agenda for Global Sustainable Development and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the ground.

For the first time ever in a federal state, the state parliament in Erfurt is thus also setting up a "Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development". Some federal states have their own sustainability councils or scientific advisory bodies, and many have also formulated their own sustainability strategy. However, there is no advisory council at parliamentary level anywhere.

Read the full article from the 26.01.2017: www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/...



Keywords:
Stakeholders, News Blog Thuringia, Environmental policy

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Switzerland increases subsidies for small PV systems from April 2021

The Ministry of Energy plans to increase the performance contribution for solar power plants up to 30 kilowatts in the coming year. This is intended to enable significantly more private roofs to be used for solar power generation in the future.

The increase in subsidies for 2021 from an additional 46 million Swiss francs to then 422 million is intended to counteract the impending collapse in the addition of new PV systems caused by the Corona crisis.

Further information:
www.pv-magazine.de/2020/04/28/schweiz-will-erstmals-foerderung-fuer-kleinere-photovoltaik-anlagen-ab-april-2021-erhoehen



Keywords:
Renewable, Funding, Climate protection, News Blog Europe (without DE), News Blog Switzerland, PV, PlusEnergy house/settlement

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