2.15 min., published: 2015
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/fuggerei-in-augsburg
Keywords: Movies, Movies < 4 Min, News Blog Bavaria, Affordable housing, Settlements, Housing
2.15 min., published: 2015
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/fuggerei-in-augsburg
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is launching a solar offensive with a 5-million-euro funding programme for private and municipal solar storage systems.
Today, 9 October 2019, Energy Minister Ulrike Höfken and the Rhineland-Palatinate Energy Agency officially launched the Solar Offensive, which is to take effect at various levels. The Minister presented the solar storage programme as a central component of the offensive. "With the programme, we support private households and municipalities in installing new photovoltaic systems combined with battery storage. In this way, we want to promote the self-supply of municipalities with their properties such as climate schools and private individuals with self-generated PV electricity and its storage," said Höfken.
The funding can be applied for at the Rhineland-Palatinate Energy Agency at: www.energieagentur.rlp.de/solarspeicher
Keywords:
DE-News, Energy storage, Renewable, Funding, Climate protection, News Blog RLP, PV, PlusEnergy house/settlement, Electricity storage, Ecology
Since January, Berlin has had what it claims to be the toughest administrative regulations for procurement and the environment in the country. Thomas Schwilling from the responsible department has accompanied the development and knows about its effect - and the hurdles. An interview:
www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/aktuelles/was-berlin-in-sachen-nachhaltiger-beschaffung-unternimmt/
Keywords:
Procurement, DE-News, Communities, Sustainable management, News Blog Berlin, Transition Town, Environmental policy
Keywords:
Procurement, CO2-neutral, DE-News, Renewable, Climate emergency, Climate protection, Communities, New books and studies, Transition Town
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
Keywords:
Stakeholders, Building materials / Construction, Greening / climate adaptation, Soil & land consumption, DE-News, Wood construction, Environmental policy, Ecology