8:08 min., 12.07.2010, image video
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/muenchen-riem
In this interview, Hermann Kaufmann focuses on wood as a material and talks about the role the material and architecture play in his life.
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Stakeholders, Building materials / Construction, DE-News, Wood construction, NaWaRohs, Resource efficiency, Ecology
Another piece of good news for Bonn: The Federal Government will set up one of four regional "Sustainability Strategies Network Offices" in the federal city. This was announced by Chancellor Merkel and the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) on Tuesday, 31 May, at the RNE annual conference in Berlin.
From September, the new "Networking Centre for Sustainability Strategies West" (RENN West) will bring together stakeholders from civil society, local authorities and business. RENN West will be responsible for the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. The aim is to better anchor innovative future concepts for sustainable business and living. These could include, for example, low-emission mobility, more conscious consumption or better coexistence between different generations in a neighbourhood.
RENN West will be organised by the NRW State Agenda 21 Working Group (LAG 21). Its concept won out over five other applicants in a competition. Funding for the regional network centres comes from the Federal Chancellery, which coordinates the national sustainability strategy.
NRW Environment Minister Remmel, who coordinates NRW's sustainability strategy, congratulated the new network office: "I am pleased that this will further strengthen Bonn in its role as Germany's No. 1 sustainability centre. The cooperation with the international and national sustainability institutions already based in Bonn will certainly be very fruitful for RENN West."
NRW Minister Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense, who is responsible for One World policy in the state government, also welcomed the establishment of RENN West in Bonn: "In Bonn, very concrete work is being done on the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, such as combating climate change. The establishment of the new network office therefore fits perfectly into the international environment."
Bonn's Lord Mayor Ashok Sridharan was pleased about the good news: "The establishment of the regional network office of the German Council for Sustainable Development in Bonn fits perfectly with the profile of our city. The networking of municipalities, business and civil society to promote sustainable development is also an important concern for us as a city."
Sustainability Centre Bonn
As a German city of the United Nations, Bonn is currently home to 18 UN agencies. The largest UN institution in Bonn is the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The most recent addition in spring 2016 was the United Nations Staff College (UNSSC) branch dealing with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). And only recently, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the UN cleared the way for the establishment of the UN SDG Action Campaign office by signing a corresponding memorandum of understanding.
Under the heading "UN in Bonn - Shaping Sustainability", the Bonn UN agencies support the targeted efforts of governments for a sustainable future in the areas of climate change, land degradation, biodiversity and ecosystem services, species conservation, global volunteerism, health, human security, disaster risk reduction, tourism as well as education.
In addition to federal authorities and development cooperation institutions, Bonn is also home to scientific institutions, companies and around 150 international and internationally active non-governmental organisations. They all make the international location Bonn a place from which sustainability is shaped.
Source: Press release City of Bonn, 31.05.2016
Keywords:
Bonn, News Blog NRW, SDG 2030, Environmental policy
17:10 min, talk by Andrew Waugh in March 2020.
Keywords:
Movies, Movies 11 to 45 Min, Wood construction, Climate protection, News Blog Great Britain, Resource efficiency, Transition Town, Life cycle assessment
The number of CarSharing customers in Germany rose to 2.46 million over the course of last year. Above-average percentage growth was recorded by station-based CarSharing services. Station-based CarSharing also remains the backbone of the expansion in terms of area and is now available at 740 locations in Germany.
At the beginning of 2019, 2.46 million customers in Germany are registered with a car-sharing service, 350,000 more than in the previous year. Station-based car sharing providers are experiencing above-average growth with an increase of 21.5 percent. In free-floating CarSharing, customer growth is slowing somewhat and amounts to 14.9 percent. Overall, CarSharing in Germany continues to be on a clear growth path.
Gunnar Nehrke, Managing Director of Bundesverband CarSharing e.V., comments:
"The positive development in the German CarSharing market over the past years shows: More and more people want to deal responsibly with the resource car and practically shape the traffic turnaround."
The association is particularly pleased with the strong growth in the area of station-based CarSharing services, as several scientific studies had shown in 2018 that this variant has a particularly high traffic-relieving effect. Association Managing Director Nehrke explains:
"In station-based CarSharing, 70 to 80 percent of customers no longer own a car. Cities and municipalities should specifically promote this variant by setting up CarSharing stations in public areas.
In connection with CarSharing funding, the association criticises the Federal Ministry of Transport: "Even one and a half years after the Carsharing Act (CsgG) came into force, cities and municipalities cannot practically apply this law in all points because the Ministry does not present the ordinances that are the basis for it.
Christian Hochfeld, Director of Agora Verkehrswende, explains the current development of CarSharing:
"It is important that CarSharing becomes visible and available in public spaces. However, CarSharing should not be seen as an individual measure, but as an integral part of a municipal mobility strategy. After all, the right traffic policy framework conditions - such as comprehensive parking space management and the expansion of environmental zones - can further strengthen the positive effects of CarSharing services."
20,200 CarSharing vehicles will be available in Germany at the beginning of 2019, 2,250 more than in the previous year. Station-based providers account for more than half of the supply with 11,200 vehicles, while 9,000 vehicles will be used in free-floating CarSharing.
In the "free-floating" market segment, 890 vehicles belong to combined station-based/free-floating offerings. This new form of offering is used by some formerly purely station-based providers in order to be able to offer the advantages of both CarSharing variants from a single source. New combined systems were launched in 2018 in Leipzig and Karlsruhe, for example.
Station-based CarSharing is currently available at 740 locations in Germany. This is 63 locations more than in the previous year. Pure free-floating services are currently available in seven metropolitan areas and a few surrounding communities of these major cities.
The number of electric vehicles in the German CarSharing fleet remained almost unchanged in 2018. However, there are shifts in the number of electric vehicles in the individual fleet segments: The number of electric vehicles in the free-floating fleets of car manufacturers remained largely unchanged at 1,025 vehicles. The medium-sized CarSharing providers in the station-based sector were able to increase the number of electric vehicles from 321 to 498.
On the other hand, the operators of pure e-car sharing projects recorded declines. Here, the number of vehicles fell from 431 to 304. This is mainly due to the fact that the period of public funding or the leasing contracts for a high number of vehicles expired in 2018. As the vehicles had not reached the threshold for economic viability, they were removed from the fleet. Gunnar Nehrke explains:
"The electric share in CarSharing is 50 times higher than in the national car fleet. This shows: The providers want to switch to emission-free drives. But the framework conditions are not yet right: the vehicles are still too expensive. And there is still no funding concept for the installation of charging infrastructure at car sharing stations."
Keywords:
CarSharing, DE-News, Mobility, Resource efficiency, eMobility
