German Association of Cities publishes concept for new funding system for municipal climate protection
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The cities propose to strengthen and accelerate local climate protection through a new financial support system. The German Association of Cities today published a concept and a publication on its website. The Chief Executive of the German Association of Cities, Helmut Dedy, told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) for a report on 6 June:
"We think it is good and important that the federal government also wants to promote municipal climate protection more strongly. From the cities' point of view, there have been far too many short-sighted and cumbersome federal funding programmes so far, which at best have caused a flash in the pan. This is no longer appropriate, because we need to act quickly and effectively to achieve climate neutrality. The German Association of Cities has therefore developed a concept for how the federal and state governments can wisely promote municipal climate protection. Municipalities should receive fixed budgets for climate protection for at least 10 years. This creates planning security at the local level, for example to renovate school buildings to make them more energy efficient or to achieve a heat supply without fossil fuels.
Creating sufficient affordable housing - especially in European conurbations - is one of the great challenges of our future and calls for new solutions. In view of demographic change, changing family structures and growing environmental awareness, completely new forms of housing have developed in Europe: shared living for young and old, residents' cooperatives, senior living projects, eco-settlements, integrative living or neighbourhoods in the neighbourhood. Above all, the significance of communal living will change against the background of social traditions and framework conditions such as housing policy and the housing market. This book offers an insight into communal living in eleven European countries - Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Germany - and presents a large number of exemplary housing projects with their structural and social concepts as well as their different forms of sponsorship.
The book (120 pages) was published by Jovis Verlag and can be purchased at the wohnbund office and in bookshops (ISBN 978-3-86859-406-5).
Europe
Living together
Wohnbund e. V. (Ed.)
Softcover
21 x 29,7 cm
120 pages, 149 col., 18 b/w ill., plans and tables
German/English
ISBN 978-3-86859-406-5
12.2015
It is estimated that the care and integration of refugees will cost 20 billion euros in 2016. In the programme Frontal21 from 24.5.2016 (from (minute 25 to 33) figures are given on how some providers of refugee accommodation charge horrendous prices. According to their research, the costs of accommodation per refugee range from 87 to 1,100 euros per month, in the extreme case of Velbert (near Wuppertal) even 1,500 euros per refugee per month.
In the contribution of the Time from 23.05.2016 costs for refugee accommodation are mentioned for various locations in Hamburg. These range from 10 to 38 euros per person per day, which corresponds to around 300 to 1,140 euros per person per month. It is interesting to note that small locations are not necessarily more expensive than large ones.
The topic of the construction costs of refugee accommodation is taken up by the German contribution to the 15th International Architecture Biennale 2016, which can be found on the website www.makingheimat.de can be seen. There are 54 different refugee buildings in the database comparing the net costs. The range of net costs is between 1,000 and 2,300 euros per m² GFA (cost group 300 - 400).
Hamburg, 11. 11. 2020 - By phasing out ten particularly climate-damaging subsidies in the energy, transport and agricultural sectors, Germany can generate up to 46 billion euros in revenue annually.
This is the result of a new study by the "Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft" on behalf of Greenpeace. (Study "Ten climate-damaging subsidies in focus" online at: https://bit.ly/2JVu3tq).
A total of almost 100 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents would be saved annually compared to today if the subsidies under consideration were reformed. This is roughly equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions from passenger car traffic in Germany. The study appears in the run-up to the publication of the tax estimate by Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) announced for Thursday. It shows how the federal government can simultaneously reduce the immense new debt caused by the Corona crisis and make progress on climate protection. "Now the German government can kill two birds with one stone by reducing climate-damaging subsidies: lower CO2 emissions and relieve the budget by billions. In doing so, it eliminates significant disadvantages for climate-friendly industries and can accelerate the shift towards a sustainable, ecologically oriented economy," says Bastian Neuwirth, climate expert at Greenpeace.
A ranking examines the phase-out of ten particularly climate-damaging subsidies in Germany and sorts them according to where the most tax money and CO2 can be saved. The abolition of the tax exemption for kerosene, the withdrawal of tax concessions for electricity generation and the reduction of electricity price exemptions for industry prove to be particularly effective for climate protection and budget restructuring. In arithmetical terms, the German government could save around 73 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents and 18 billion euros of taxpayers' money each year with these measures alone. In the middle of the ranking are the VAT exemption for international flights, the distance allowance, the diesel privilege and the reduced VAT rate on animal products. "Continuing to hand out extra money for climate-damaging economic activity is completely out of step with the times. Each of these climate-damaging subsidies must be overturned as soon as possible," says Neuwirth.
Reduction of subsidies makes German 2030 climate target achievable
The gradual dismantling of the ten subsidies that are particularly harmful to the climate can shorten the Federal Government's delay in achieving its own climate targets: according to the Federal Environment Agency, Germany will emit around 71 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents too much in 2030 with the measures it has adopted so far to achieve the 2030 climate target. A rapid reduction in subsidies can therefore help to remedy this situation. At the international level, Germany and the G7 countries already committed in 2016 to reducing climate-damaging subsidies by 2025.
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When the Capital of Culture comes to an end at the end of 2010, the Ruhr region is planning a new major project with nationwide appeal: in the centre of the former coalfield, a city with a population of 50,000 is to be converted into an eco-city using all the latest technology. www.co2-handel.de/article306_13816.html
1/2010: 28th solar settlement in NRWNorth Rhine-Westphalia's newest solar housing estate with almost 140 flats was inaugurated in Schwerte at the end of August 2009. In this second solar housing estate of the Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Schwerte eG (GWG), CO2 emissions for heating and hot water can be reduced by around 75 %. www.energieagentur.nrw.de/solarsiedlungen
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