promotes the programme "Eco-towns - Living a greener future".
" communities.gov.uk/...livinggreenerfuture (pdf)
Keywords: Funding, News Blog Europe (without DE), News Blog Great Britain, Environmental policy
promotes the programme "Eco-towns - Living a greener future".
" communities.gov.uk/...livinggreenerfuture (pdf)
ifeu Institute Heidelberg on behalf of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
In recent years, many cities around the world have committed themselves to significantly reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by improving their heat supply, thereby making an important contribution to climate protection. Despite the energy transition, Germany is lagging behind in this endeavour because the energy transition primarily concerns the electricity supply. However, a "heat transition" is also necessary because it can be an important building block in the restructuring of our energy system if surplus electricity from renewable sources is converted into heat or stored. Local authorities with their heating networks and new neighbourhoods would be key players here.
The guide to the heating transition in municipalities was compiled by ifeu on behalf of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. It is aimed at anyone who wants to tackle the heat transition in their city or municipality and offers a compass for making the right decisions on climate-neutral heat supply.
pdf download:
www.boell.de/...waermewende-in-kommunen_leitfaden.pdf
Further information on the ifeu website:
www.ifeu.de/index.php?bereich=ene&seite=waermewende
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Stock, DE-News, Renewable, Climate protection, Communities, New books and studies, Quarters, Ecology
Event by IBA Hamburg / Arch +
Min. 14
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Movies, Movies 11 to 45 Min, Wood construction, IBA, News Blog Berlin, Quarters
Even before the UN Summit on Sustainable Development, it is clear that the implementation of the 2030 Agenda is making slow progress. The global community now needs action instead of words to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
The international report on the status of SDG implementation shows that there are major gaps in implementation worldwide. The number of hungry people is increasing again worldwide. Social inequality continues to rise. The climate crisis and species extinction are advancing.
It is particularly dramatic that Germany is not a pioneer. In sustainability policy, the German government permanently acts according to the motto "too little, too late". Germany has a double responsibility: firstly, as an industrialised country, to demonstrate that it is taking the implementation of the Agenda seriously as a pioneer. And secondly, to contribute more than it has so far to financing the 2030 Agenda at the international level.
There is no coherent national legislation aligned with the SDGs. Still not all departments have prepared SDG action plans or provided additional funding. The climate cabinet's proposals are far from sufficient to achieve the climate sustainability goal and the Paris Climate Agreement. Biodiversity is declining, nitrate pollution for groundwater is not decreasing, environmentally harmful subsidies amounting to over 40 billion euros annually are not being eliminated.
We demand binding targets for SDG implementation for all ministries and ambitious measures where there are particularly large deficits in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, the German government must develop more ambitious indicators to meet the requirements of the SDGs. There is also a need for a sustainability TÜV for new laws.
At the international level, sustainability summits need to be organised in a more goal-oriented and inclusive way. It is incomprehensible that the private sector is invited to the SDG Business Summit at the United Nations, while there is no comparable forum for civil society. This is a fatal sign at a time when civil society actors worldwide are increasingly suffering from restrictions. This approach runs counter to the "Leave no one behind" guiding principle of the 2030 Agenda.
Source: Press release of 24.9.2019 by Buendnis 90/The Greens in the Bundestag Uwe Kekeritz, Spokesperson for Development Policy, and Bettina Hoffmann, Spokesperson for Environmental Policy
Keywords:
Greening / climate adaptation, Soil & land consumption, DE-News, Renewable, Climate protection, Sustainable management, News Blog Europe (without DE), SDG 2030, Social / Culture, Transition Town, UN (United Nations), Environmental policy, Economics
Rob Hopkins has been developing a method for preparing our societies for the coming upheavals for almost fifteen years.
5 min., available from 6.12.2019 to 8.12.2021
www.arte.tv/...die-klimakatastrophe-ueberwinden/
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Stock, Citizen Energy, Renewable, Movies, Movies 4 to 10 Min, Climate protection, Communities, Media, Sustainable management, News Blog Europe (without DE), News Blog Great Britain, Participation, Permaculture, Quarters, Resource efficiency, Build it yourself, Social / Culture, Sufficiency, Transition Town, Environmental policy, Ecology