Federal Press Conference "Scientists for Future" on the protests for more climate protection
Published
46 min - March 12 2019
Statement of scientists on the protests for more climate protection (#Scientists4Future)
with:
- Prof. Dr. Maja Göpel, Secretary General of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)
- Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen, physician, science journalist
- Volker Quaschning, Professor for Regenerative Energy Systems at the HTW in Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Karen Helen Wiltshire, Deputy Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
- Luisa Neubauer, Fridays for Future
- Jakob Blasel, Fridays for Future Naive
In North Rhine-Westphalia, around one in two (50.6 percent) of the 18,334 residential buildings (excluding dormitories) approved in 2019 are to be heated predominantly or exclusively with renewable energies.
Düsseldorf (IT.NRW). In North Rhine-Westphalia, around one in two (50.6 per cent) of the 18 334 residential buildings approved in 2019 (excluding dormitories) will be heated predominantly or exclusively with renewable energies. These 9 283 residential buildings use biomass, biogas/biomethane, wood, solar panels and/or heat pumps as primary heating energy. As reported by Information und Technik Nordrhein-Westfalen as the State Statistical Office on the occasion of this year's Renewable Energy Day (25 April 2020), the share of construction projects using environmentally friendly heating energies was highest statewide in the Olpe district last year: there, builders relied on renewable energies in 82.2 percent of new buildings. Bottrop (81.3 percent) and the district of Kleve (73.8 percent) followed in second and third place. Building owners in Solingen and the district of Mettmann, on the other hand, planned to use conventional heating energy in the majority of cases in 2019: Here, renewable energies were the primary heating source in around one in five and one in four residential building projects respectively (Solingen: 22.7 per cent; Mettmann district: 26.7 per cent). (IT.NRW)
Electric cars are subsidised by the state, e-bikes are not. The bicycle lobby thinks this is unfair, as does the Federal Council - they argue that an opportunity for a transport revolution is being wasted. The government disagrees.
Electric cars with E-plates will be allowed to park free of charge in municipal parking lots in Bonn in the future. This was decided by the Council in its meeting on Thursday, 22 September. It thus followed a draft resolution of the administration for the implementation of the Electromobility Act. In addition, parking spaces are to be set up at charging stations for e-cars and the charging infrastructure is to be further expanded in coordination with the Stadtwerke Bonn.
Read the complete press release here www.bonn.de/rat_verwaltung_buergerdienste/presseportal/pressemitteilungen/31844/index.html?lang=de
WIESBADEN: In 2014, companies in Germany achieved a turnover of 3.7 billion euros with goods and services from the solar industry. Compared to 2011, the last economically strong year, this corresponds to an overall decline in turnover of 74.2% or 10.6 billion euros. The crisis in the solar industry in Germany was already apparent in previous years: turnover totalled 9.5 billion in 2012 and 5.1 billion in 2013. The declining economic importance of the solar industry in Germany is primarily due to negative developments in the photovoltaic industry. Between 2011 and 2014, sales of photovoltaic systems and components fell by 75.5 % from 13.3 to 3.3 billion euros. Turnover also fell sharply in the solar thermal sector - from 1.0 billion euros in 2011 to 0.4 billion euros in 2014. Detailed results can be found in the specialist series "Turnover in environmental protection goods and services, 2014". Further information on the survey can be found in the environmental economics section.
The German Solar Energy Society DGS has commented on the developments in a pointed manner: www.dgs.de/index.php?id=3364&type=0#13585 (5th article in the newsletter of 22 July 2016)
Source: Press release destatis.de
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