The following 2 minute video (Nov. 2015) reports on the visions for the urban future of the Morgenstadt program and the focal points of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft's work:
According to information from SPIEGEL ONLINE, Deutsche Bank does not want to put any more money into mines and power plants. Existing loans in projects are to be gradually reduced.
Read the news from 1 February 2017 on: SPIEGEL ONLINE - Economy
Keywords:
DE-News, Climate protection, Sustainable management
The city of Eschweiler (North Rhine-Westphalia) has been awarded the climate protection prize "Klimaaktive Kommune 2019″ by the Federal Environment Ministry in category 1: "Resource and energy efficiency in the municipality". The city of Eschweiler is committed to more resource and climate protection with its Factor X construction areas.
Film about the Faktor X housing estate in Eschweiler:
(6:25 min.) published on Nov 5, 2019
The prize is awarded by the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) as part of the National Climate Initiative (NKI), which is implemented by the German Institute of Urban Affairs gGmbh (DIFU).
More information about the climate protection award "Climate Active Community 2019″ is available on the website of the National Climate Protection Initiative of the Federal Government :
www.klimaschutz.de/stadt-eschweiler
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/neue-hoefe-duerwiss
All Factor X settlements:
http://sdg21.eu/thema/faktor-x-siedlung
Keywords:
Awards, Building materials / Construction, DE-News, Faktor X / ResScore, Movies, Movies 4 to 10 Min, Wood construction, Climate protection, Communities, Media, NaWaRohs, Sustainable management, News Blog NRW, Recycling, Resource efficiency, Settlements, Sufficiency, Tools, Contests & Prizes, Housing, Certification & Labels, Life cycle assessment, Ecology
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).
Keywords:
Bike-/Velo-City, News Blog Bremen, Quarters, Settlements
Since 2002, the forest area in Germany has increased by about 50,000 hectares.
On the occasion of the International Forest Day on 21 March 2019, the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Julia Klöckner, went to see the situation on site.
"The storm damage in winter, in summer, then the prolonged drought, plus the bark beetle infestation - last year was a disaster year for our forests, the damage is worrying. In 2018, more than 30 million cubic metres of damaged wood accrued. This is the fourth most severe damage event in German forestry in the past 30 years," the Minister said. "The continuing, serious bark beetle infestation will also lead to the death of more forest areas, and the exact extent of the damage caused will in some cases only be foreseeable in a few years' time.
Protecting the forest as much as possible is important. Because our forest fulfils a number of crucial tasks. It is a protector of the climate, a supplier of wood, a preserver of biodiversity and a place of recreation for citizens. For this reason, the BMEL will continue to work with the Länder to ensure that sufficient aid is available for clearing and reforesting damaged areas.
Source: BMEL press release no. 65 of 21.03.19
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Stakeholders, Building materials / Construction, Greening / climate adaptation, Soil & land consumption, DE-News, Wood construction, Environmental policy, Ecology
