Baden-Württemberg's Environment and Energy Minister Franz Untersteller has concluded the state's support programme for PV storage systems and described it as a success.
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Germany's decision in favour of emissions trading for transport and buildings would be a special path - all other EU states with CO2 pricing in addition to European certificate trading rely on tax solution Berlin (12 July 2019). More and more states in Europe and around the world are introducing CO2 prices. Germany, however, would be taking a special path if it were to introduce an additional [...]
Stuttgart. The Baden-Württemberg Association of Cities is in favour of a carbon price. At the recent board meeting, the committee unanimously spoke out in favour and called on the state government to develop a concept together with the municipalities.
On 4 July 2019, the Bonn City Council declared a climate emergency for Bonn. In doing so, Bonn joins other municipalities in affirming that climate protection must have the highest priority in municipal action. At the same time, the declaration of the climate emergency sends a strong signal to national and international legislation.
Call to Action Climate Alliance calls on politicians to protect the climate with Climate Action Call just before EU elections Stakeholders from across Europe launched a call for climate action today. "Hundreds of cities across Europe and the world are declaring a climate emergency. They are pushing for an end to fossil fuels and the [...]
"Düsseldorfer Erklärung zum Städtebaurecht" (Düsseldorf Declaration on Urban Planning Law) 50 city planning councillors, department heads and heads of planning offices from over 40 German cities, including Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Cologne, Bochum, Freiburg, Stuttgart and Frankfurt am Main, have signed the "Düsseldorfer Erklärung zum Städtebaurecht" (Düsseldorf Declaration on Urban Planning Law). They are calling for a fundamental amendment of the Building Use Ordinance (BauNVO) and the administrative regulation TA-Lärm, so that in future beautiful and [...]
Available until 08.04.2024. ARD-alpha A district without cars, in a big German city? In Cologne-Nippes about 1300 people live in a car-free quarter. The residents of the French Quarter in Tübingen have been gathering experience in a neighbourhood without cars for about 20 years. Does the concept work?
In the 40th year of its existence, the ADFC has launched a nationwide action and awareness campaign under the motto #MMorePlaceForBicycles. The aim is to create a spirit of optimism in politics and society for more and better cycling. Concrete demands are: Wide and good cycle lanes, safe crossings and many more bicycle parking spaces everywhere in Germany. Numerous [...]
Retail with sales plus of 22.3 % The boom in the bicycle trade, which has been continuing for years, also continued in 2018. As further reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the occasion of World Health Day on 7 April, the retail trade in bicycles, parts and accessories recorded an increase in turnover of 11.9 % in real terms in 2018 compared [...]
On 21 March 2019, the members of the Berlin state parliament unanimously voted in favour of promoting urban timber construction. Following Baden-Württemberg, the state of Berlin has now also decided to focus on wooden buildings in the future with the motion "Sustainability in construction: Berlin builds with wood". Within the framework of the Berlin Energy [...]
Augsburg, 22.02.19: Together with partner company EXYTRON, Stadtwerke Augsburg (swa) has installed and commissioned the world's first decentralised power-to-gas plant in an existing residential complex. This enables a challenge of the energy transition to be mastered: surplus, regeneratively generated electricity is converted into synthetic natural gas and can thus be stored on site. Combustion then takes place in a commercially available combined heat and power plant and condensing boilers. In this way, over 180 residents in 70 apartments in the residential complex of the Augsburg housing group, which has existed since 1974, are supplied with climate-friendly electricity and heat.
Bonn/Berlin (26 Jan. 2019). With the decision of the Coal Commission, the course has been set for the phase-out of coal by 2035, or 2038 at the latest. Environmental and development organisations welcome this course setting, but regret that this phase-out path is not yet ambitious enough to achieve the Paris climate targets. According to the compromise, 2023 will be the first [...]
In 2018, Deutsche Bahn fed 57 percent green electricity into the grid. This is an increase of 13 percent in electricity from renewable energies compared to the previous year.
The nationwide Forest and Wood Competence and Information Centre started its work on 1 January 2019. At the beginning of the year, the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) gave the go-ahead for the Competence and Information Centre for Forests and Wood (KIWUH) under the umbrella of the Agency for Renewable Resources (Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V.). (FNR). "With the [...]
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High costs due to failure to protect the environment - Federal Environment Agency presents updated cost rates Too many greenhouse gases, air pollutants and other environmental burdens damage our health, destroy ecosystems and cause animals and plants to die out. In addition, they lead to economic losses due to, for example, production downtimes, crop losses or damage to buildings and infrastructure.
Yesterday, the Agency for Renewable Energies awarded the Rhine-Hunsrück district as Energy Municipality of the Decade / Environment and Energy Minister Ulrike Höfken congratulates warmly on this award. Yesterday, the Agency for Renewable Energies awarded the Rhine-Hunsrück district in Kassel as "Energy Municipality of the Decade". "Climate change is clearly noticeable in Rhineland-Palatinate, as currently [...]
A recent study by the Energy Watch Group and the Finnish University LUT shows how the energy transition can be realized with 100% renewable energies in Europe. According to the study, greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced to zero before 2050 and there would be significant financial advantages compared to the conventional fossil-nuclear system. Pdf-Download: http://energywatchgroup.org/...2018/12/Key-findings_100-renewable-Transition-across-energy-sectors-Europe.pdf
5th Symposium on Citizen Energy & Energy Cooperatives in NRW Recklinghausen. Energy in the hands of citizens: This was the topic of the symposium on citizen energy & energy cooperatives in North Rhine-Westphalia on Thursday, December 6, in Recklinghausen. Around 80 players in the field of citizen energy met there to exchange experiences and transfer knowledge. The 5th symposium is a cooperation of the cooperative association - [...]
Germanwatch welcomes MEPs' call for higher EU climate target 2030 and greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 at the latest Bonn (25 October 2018). The European Parliament is stepping up the pace on climate protection. MEPs today gave a mandate to the EU negotiating delegation for the UN climate summit in Katowice in December, calling for the EU to raise its target [...]
BauInfoConsult surveyed 6,000 architects On the insulation market, so-called "natural" insulation materials such as wood wool, hemp, cork, granulates and co. are still niche products. However, they are on the rise throughout Europe, at least from the point of view of architects: According to a survey of 1,600 European planners, the use of natural insulation materials is likely to increase in seven of [...]
The current share of green electricity should not hide the fact that this federal government is blocking the energy transition at every turn. Take wind energy, for example: the government keeps delaying the additional tenders. As a result, a massive slump is imminent in the next two years. This means job losses in a key industry of the future and stagnating development [...]
New ideas can be submitted from summer 2019 The Federal Environment Ministry is today launching a new funding call for "Climate protection through cycling". In future, the National Climate Initiative (NKI) will fund model projects that, among other things, support cities and municipalities, but also associations and companies, in developing attractive cycling offers and [...]
Berlin, 22 October 2018: Vattenfall Energy Solutions, Gewobag and the energy storage start-up Lumenion are jointly piloting a new type of sector-coupled steel storage system at Bottroper Weg in Berlin-Tegel, which absorbs regional generation peaks from wind and solar energy in a grid-serving manner and later provides the renewable energy as heat and electricity in line with demand.
The district of Paderborn has achieved a climate goal that can only be dreamed of nationwide. It is more than 100 percent in the supply of green electricity. This year, for the first time, as much electricity will be generated renewably with the help of wind, sun, biomass and water as is also consumed. Since [...]
Commenting on the agreement between the EU Commission, the Council and the Parliament on the further expansion of renewable energies in Europe, Julia Verlinden, spokesperson for energy policy for Alliance 90/The Greens in the German Bundestag, said: "The German government has not been successful in putting the brakes on citizen energy. Europe is now ensuring that the hurdles and fees [...]
Difu study gives recommendations for more effective use of funding in NRW Lack of staff and high administrative demands are two of the reasons that prevent cities, districts and municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) from drawing down available urban development funding on time. This is a key finding of a study conducted by the German Institute for [...]
Online tool provides information on funding programmes Düsseldorf. With Förder.Navi, an online tool from EnergyAgency.NRW, it is now even quicker to find one's way through the funding jungle. The tool (www.energieagentur.nrw/foerder-navi) helps private individuals, companies and local authorities to find funding opportunities, for example when it comes to energy-efficient refurbishment.
Deutsche Umwelthilfe calls for immediate proposal for tax incentives for energy-efficient building refurbishment - Building sector makes decisive contribution to achieving climate protection targets - Increase refurbishment rate to 2 percent per year In the draft budget presented by Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on 2 May 2018, the tax incentive [...]
Berlin: On 4 May 2018, BUND presented a shutdown plan for nuclear power plants (NPPs) and coal-fired power plants. This analysis shows that the decommissioning of the most climate-damaging coal-fired power plants by 2020 and a significant acceleration of the nuclear phase-out in Germany are possible without jeopardising security of supply. "The shutdown plan is a call to the political [...]
Since 1 May 2018, the amendments to the Hamburg Building Code (HBauO) have come into force. The resolution on this was passed in June 2017. In the future, wood can be used for construction projects with a height of up to 22 metres - i.e. approximately 6 to 7 storeys. Also in the area of [...]
Resilient Cities Congress of the Cities Network ICLEI in Bonn The Paris Climate Agreement involves all levels of government in addressing climate change. At the local level, these are cities and municipalities. The ICLEI network of cities, which includes 22 German cities, will meet in Bonn from 26 to 28 April for the [...]
Renewable energy growth varies widely from country to country / Greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union rose slightly last year / Agora Energiewende and Sandbag present report on EU energy transition Brussels, 30 January 2018. In 2017, wind, solar and biomass in the European Union generated [...]
