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New book publication: "Building Sustainability Assessment and Benchmarking" Edited by UN-HABITAT

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(2017)

Over the last 30 years, numerous tools have been developed to assess the ecological or sustainable aspects of buildings. This book discusses the role these tools can play in the implementation of the UN's 'New Urban Agenda'.

The 67-page book provides an up-to-date overview of the world's most important building assessment tools. It is available as a free download:
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/93577/factsheet/es


Keywords: New books and studies, News Blog Europe (without DE), Tools, Certification & Labels, Life cycle assessment

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RENN.west campaign "Goals need action" launched

On Saturday, 14 September, the RENN.west campaign "Goals need action" was launched in Dortmund. It informs about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and mobilizes people for their implementation. Prominent supporters are the BVB, the multiple boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko and the top model Elena Carrière.

What has to happen when BVB, multiple boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko and German top model Elena Carrière support a campaign together? Then it's crunch time! Translated: a time when really important things have to be done. Not tomorrow or next week, but now! Not by anyone, but by us - by you, by me, and worldwide!

"Goals need action" is the name of the campaign of the Regional Network Units for Sustainability Strategies (RENN.west), which calls for support for the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. By 2030, for example, poverty and hunger in the world must be significantly reduced. Equality must become an everyday reality and inequalities must be eliminated, the extinction of animals and plants and climate change must be stopped. The 17 SDGs call for big goals that can only be achieved through action!

The campaign launch took place on Saturday, 14 September at the cooperation partner BVB in Dortmund's SIGNAL IDUNA PARK at the Bundesliga match Borussia Dortmund vs. Bayer Leverkusen. Also present: Prof. Dr. Günther Bachmann, Secretary General of the German Council for Sustainable Development. In the following weeks, the campaign will be on display at various football stadiums in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, as well as at selected railway stations, on buses and trains. In addition, extensive, playful information material on the Sustainable Development Goals will be presented at various events. For this purpose, the regeneratively powered RENN.mobil from the StreetScooter company, exclusive electric mobility partner of the campaign, will be on the road until the end of December.

More information:
https://ziele-brauchen-taten.de/

About RENN.west: RENN.west is a network of sustainability actors in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. It was founded in 2016 with the new edition of the German Sustainability Strategy together with three other networks (RENN.nord, RENN.süd, RENN.mitte). The aim of RENN is to further develop the political framework for sustainable development in Germany.
www.renn-netzwerk.de/west/



Keywords:
Blogs & Portals, DE-News, News Blog Hesse, News Blog NRW, News Blog RLP, News Blog Saarland, SDG 2030, Environmental policy

Germany's first Efficiency House Plus housing estate opened
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Germany's first Efficiency House Plus housing estate opened

3:38 min, Published 02.06.2017

After a construction period of just under one and a half years, Germany's first Efficiency House Plus development was opened in Hügelshart near Augsburg on 14 July. The nine single-family houses and four semi-detached houses produce more energy than their residents consume on average for everyday life. The estate was built by asset bauen wohnen gmbh in cooperation with BayWa AG in accordance with the criteria of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Building for Efficiency House Plus houses.

To the project website:
www.effizienzhausplussiedlung.de

A film about the first apartments of the Energy-Plus-Settlement
2 min, Published on: 4.7.2017 on BR Television
(no longer online 11/20/2020)



Keywords:
Movies, Movies < 4 Min, News Blog Bavaria, PV, PlusEnergy house/settlement, Settlements

BBSR study: CO2-neutral in cities and neighbourhoods
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BBSR study: CO2-neutral in cities and neighbourhoods

International agreements and implementation programmes to limit climate change will take account of the importance of cities in the CO2-reduction, as solutions that are primarily aimed at the national level dominate. Nevertheless, in some countries, national climate protection targets and declarations of intent (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions - INDCs) are already being consistently broken down to regions and cities.

Publication download of the study (PDF, 4MB, file is barrier-free⁄barrier-free)



Keywords:
Climate protection, News Blog Europe (without DE), Quarters, Settlements

"Climate neutrality in urban neighbourhoods" in the issue "Ökologisches Wirtschaften 3/2019"
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"Climate neutrality in urban neighbourhoods" in the issue "Ökologisches Wirtschaften 3/2019".

Research has identified neighbourhoods as an important level of action for climate protection. For this reason, the BMBF, BMU and Federal Ministries of Construction and Transport have funded several research projects on sustainable neighbourhoods, which are now being processed. The consensus of the research projects presented and the funding bodies is that "it is important to economically research neighbourhood concepts for a climate-friendly heat and power supply as well as an environmentally friendly mobility offer" and "to sensibly link the individual elements in the sense of a functioning sector coupling.

The focus articles of the issue "Ökologisches Wirtschaften 3/2019" show on the one hand the potentials of the neighbourhood approach for the implementation of climate protection measures, but also present best practice examples and discuss the feasibility in practice.

The selection criterion for the projects presented was, as is to be expected with the newsletter of the IOER - Institute for Ecological Economy, that members are involved in them. Overall, the contributions provide a good overview of the neighbourhood research projects currently underway in Germany.

Urban solutions for the climate crisis

Published 9/4/2019

Table of Contents

Editorial
Urban development in times of climate change
by Christopher Garthe
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Introduction to the main topic
Climate neutrality in urban quarters
by Elisa Dunkelberg, Swantje Gährs, Jan Knoefel, Julika Weiß
www.oekom.de/_files_media/zeitschriften/artikel/OEW_2019_03_14.pdf

Working together for broad implementation
Actors and their role in the energy transition in the neighbourhood
by Elisa Dunkelberg, Jan Knoefel, Julika Weiß

Case study Hamburg
Measures and instruments of urban heat planning
by Lubow Hesse

Traffic planning at district level
Mobility in climate-neutral urban districts - electric, multimodal and networked
by Uta Bauer, Thomas Stein, Victoria Langer

Technical concepts for climate neutrality
Heating, cooling and electricity in the quarter
by Volker Stockinger

QUARREE100 - An urban quarter undergoing an energy transformation
Researching, learning and implementing together
by Martin Eckhard, Torben Stührmann, Benedikt Meyer

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To the issue "Ökologisches Wirtschaften 3/2019 - Klimaneutralität in Stadtquartieren" at oekom-Verlag:
www.oekom.de/...klimaneutralitaet-in-stadtquartieren...



Keywords:
DE-News, Energy storage, Renewable, Research, Climate protection, Mobility, New books and studies, Quarters, Settlements

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