Four different tickets to get from A to B? Registered with five services for car sharing, e-scooters or rental bikes? That's annoying. The Greens want to simplify mobility and link up rail, public transport, cycling and the car. In the city and in the country. This is possible with the green MobilPass.
This good concept has been around for a while. Finally, a party is including it in its election manifesto.
Denmark's capital has reached a milestone on its way to becoming a bicycle city. There are now more bikes on the streets than cars. Will other cities follow suit?
Read the full article from 30.11.2016 on
www.theguardian.com
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Bike-/Velo-City, News Blog Denmark, News Blog Europe (without DE)
"Solar energy is a fundamental pillar of the energy transition. In order to further support this and to achieve our goal - a complete power supply from renewable energies by 2030 - we are further expanding our successful solar offensive: In addition to expanding the solar storage programme, which is in high demand, we are currently developing a solar register for Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition, we will also promote solar carports, balcony plug-in modules, wall boxes or agro-PV projects in the future," announced Environment and Energy Minister Ulrike Höfken during the event under the motto "Solar Offensive Rhineland-Palatinate: Investments for Climate and Economy" as part of the series "Wednesdays at the MUEEF" in Mainz today. Together with guests from the solar industry, nature conservation and citizen energy, she discussed the opportunities of solar energy for the state, for example through the economic factor of the Solar Offensive or cooperative PV projects.
Rhineland-Palatinate is investing an additional 14 million euros alone in climate-friendly solar energy from the Corona-related second supplementary budget. Because energy from the sun not only protects the climate, but also stimulates the economy and generates added value and jobs in Rhineland-Palatinate, Höfken continued.
Solar storage programme: more than 3,250 applications submitted
Solar storage enables solar energy to be used even when it is cloudy or dark. "In order to cover more of their own needs from renewable energy sources, we support private households, schools, municipal properties, charitable institutions and companies in investing in a solar storage system in addition to a PV system. With success: more than 3,250 applications have already been received by the Energy Agency. And with the additional funds we can support many more projects", explained the Minister. The trades in particular benefit enormously from these investments: 1,000 new PV roof systems with solar storage bring around 19 million euros of investment to Rhineland-Palatinate, Höfken concluded.
Background:
By 2030, the electricity supply in the state is to be generated entirely from renewable energies. Every second kilowatt hour of electricity generated in Rhineland-Palatinate already consists of energy from wind, sun, biomass or water.
The solar offensive will contribute to further expanding the share of solar energy in the state. At the federal level, Rhineland-Palatinate is also campaigning within the offensive for the removal of obstacles and better legal requirements. For example, the Ministry of the Environment has lobbied in the Bundesrat for the abolition of the cap on installed PV capacity of 52 gigawatts without replacement.
In addition, the Solar Offensive includes the guideline on electric mobility in the state administration, an open space ordinance for the installation of PV systems on low-yield and species-poor grassland, as well as comprehensive advice and information from many partners.
More information on the solar storage program is available online at: www.energieagentur.rlp.de/service-info/foerderinformationen/solar-speicher-programm
Source: PM of the MUEEF RLP from 30.09.2020
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News Blog RLP, Environmental policy
12/2009: TU Darmstadt holt zum 2. mal SolarDecathlon-Preis www.solardecathlon.tu-darmstadt.de
11/2009: neues Buch über Grüne Häuser von Manfred Hegger und Isabell Schäfer erschienen
10/2009: Nicht nur für Gutmenschen. Beitrag von Yvonne von Hunnius, St. Gallen www.nachhaltigkeit.org/…
9/2009: Ausstellung „Bauen mit nachwachsenden Rohstoffen“ auf Deutschlandtour www.bau-natour.de
8/2009: NABU-Projekt StadtKlimaWandel
Der NABU-Bundesverband führt seit April 2009 ein von BMU und UBA gefördertes Projekt mit dem Titel StadtKlimaWandel durch. Auf der Homepage www.stadtklimawandel.de werden Initiativen und Maßnahmen zur Verbesserung des StadtKlimas vorgestellt sowie Hintergründe dazu erläutert.
www.stadtklimawandel.de
7/2009: Neues Buch zur Geschichte des ökologischen Bauens erschienen: Peter Steiger (2009): Chancen und Widerstände auf dem Weg zum nachhaltigen Planen und Bauen
6/2009: ENERGYMAP der DGS – aktuelle Zahlen zur Energiewende
Die Energiewende ist im vollen Gange, die EnergyMap der DGS zeigt, wie nahe wir dem Ziel von 100% Erneuerbaren Energien bereits gekommen sind.
www.energymap.info
5/2009: Holzzuwachs veranschaulichen: die Holzuwachsuhr zeigt an wie viel Kubikmeter Holz in Deutschland oder eines seiner Bundesländer je Sekunde nachwächst und je nach Einstellung, wieviele Holzhäuser daraus gebaut werden können
www.infoholz.de => Holz-Uhr
4/2009: Nachhaltig Bauen: seit April ist die neue sachsenweite Informationskampagne „Mach mit. Bau nachhaltig“ gestartet. Das auf drei Jahre angelegte Programm richtet sich an alle Bauherren, Hauseigentümer und Wohnungsunternehmen
www.bau-nachhaltig.de
3/2009: „Bauen ohne Dämmung“. Kurzfilm über die Einfachheit der Kybernetikhäuser von Professor Günther Pfeifer und Professor Christoph Kuhn
» architekturclips.de
2/2009: neue Bilder und ein Kurzfilm über den Bauablauf des derzeit weltweit höchsten Holzhauses, dem 9-geschossige Wohnturm Murray Grove timber tower in London mit 8 Geschossen in Holzbauweise gibts unter:
» waughthistleton.com
1/2009: Der größte Stadtteil in achtgeschossiger Holzbauweise mit 2.000 WE entsteht derzeit im schedischen Växjö
» zu den Fotogalerien
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DE-News
Germany can still achieve its climate targets by 2030. This is shown in a new analysis by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). This would require, among other things, more rail transport, a reform of the motor vehicle tax and the restriction of fossil heating. In addition, all emissions would have to be priced and charged to the polluter. In the so-called Climate Protection Instruments Scenario 2030 (KIS-2030), the UBA has examined how additional emissions can be saved in the building, mobility, energy and industry sectors. "The model calculation clearly shows that we have a lot of catching up to do in some sectors," says UBA President Dirk Messner. "We now urgently need a constructive dialogue about where emissions can be reduced, otherwise we will miss the legal savings targets. We also need to talk honestly about how to cushion the financial burden on lower-income groups and distribute it more fairly. Currently, low-income households are often asked to pay disproportionately. Understandably, this does not exactly increase acceptance for more climate protection.
The German Climate Protection Act (KSG) provides for a 65 per cent reduction in climate-damaging emissions by 2030 compared to 1990. By 2040, emissions are to be reduced by 88 percent and net greenhouse gas neutrality is to be achieved in 2045. To this end, the KSG sets annual reduction targets by 2030 for the individual sectors. The latest projection report of theUBAfrom 2021 has shown that with the currently planned climate protection instruments, both the climate targets in 2030 and the annual savings targets will be missed.
UBA's cross-sectoral CIS-2030 now shows which concrete instruments the individual sectors can use to achieve their annual savings targets by 2030 after all. With price instruments, support programmes and new and stricter legal regulations, the course can be set at an early stage to achieve the legally prescribed savings.
In the transport and building sectors, for example, significantly greater efforts will be needed in the future to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years. The climate protection instruments used in the model calculation in these sectors only fulfil the minimum requirements. In the case of transport and buildings, the prescribed targets will probably not be met, even with a mix of very ambitious instruments and measures. In order to achieve the interim targets on the path to 2030, additional instruments that are effective in the short term would therefore be necessary.
At the same time, the HIS-2030 shows concrete options for action with which the sectoral climate targets can still be achieved: The measures described in theScenarioThe predominantly economic instruments modelled in the transport sector should be flanked by a comprehensive expansion of rail transport and a strengthening of the environmental network of primarily buses and trains.
The KIS-2030 is based on instruments similar to those currently under political discussion - such as mandatory municipal heating planning or the minimum efficiency standards for buildings currently under discussion at EU level. The KIS-2030 also assumes a ban on new monovalent oil (from 2023) and gas boilers (from 2025), which goes beyond the current government drafts for the Building Energy Act.
Based on the scenario, it is recommended for the industrial sector to use subsidies for CO2-and -free technologies. Support programmes should be designed in such a way that they do not lead to negative environmental effects due to incorrectly set framework conditions or incentives.
Source: UBA-PM of 3.7.2023
Keywords:
CO2-neutral, DE-News, Renewable, Climate emergency, Climate protection, New books and studies, SDG 2030, Solar thermal, Environmental policy
