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BUND Yearbook Ecological Building and Renovation 2020

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with the focus on species and climate protection, self-sufficiency with wind power and redensification

The project, initiated by the Bund für Umwelt und NaturschutThe BUND Yearbook Ecological Building & Renovation, published by BUND Deutschland (BUND), helps by making owners fit for discussions with the house bank, architect, energy consultant and craftsmen. The guidebook, which will be available from November, shows what can be done and how: Based on numerous house portraits, the annual compendium helps the reader to find out which measures, building materials and technologies are best suited to their own project.


Written in an understandable way and clearly presented, with many examples and suggestions, the 244-page "BUND Yearbook 2020 - Ecological Building and Renovation" offers an all-round service for builders and renovators. The booklet offers six topics: planning, model houses, green around the house, building envelope, building services and interior. Furthermore, state funding opportunities are presented.

The 244 A4-page handbook can be purchased at a price of 8.90 Euros at major kiosks, station bookstores and BUND offices.

Or (plus 2.00 Euro shipping costs) can be ordered from the publisher: Target marketing, Gerberstr. 5f, 70178 Stuttgart, Tel. 0711/96695-0, bestellungen@ziel-marketing.de.

The complete yearbook or individual articles can be ordered via the publisher's website www.ziel-marketing.de also available as pdf (5,99 Euro).

 


Keywords: Building Biology, Building materials / Construction, Greening / climate adaptation, DE-News, Energy storage, Funding, Wood construction, Climate protection, NaWaRohs, New books and studies, PV, PlusEnergy house/settlement, Solar thermal, Electricity storage, Wildlife/animal friendly construction, Thermal insulation, eMobility

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EU Parliament gives boost to UN climate summit in Katowice and puts German government under pressure

Germanwatch welcomes MEPs' call for a higher EU climate target for 2030 and greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 at the latest

Bonn (25 October 2018). The European Parliament is stepping up the pace on climate action. MEPs today gave the EU negotiating delegation for the UN climate summit in Katowice in December a mandate in which they call for the EU to raise its greenhouse gas reduction target from the current 40 per cent (below 1990 levels) to 55 per cent. The parliamentarians are aiming for greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 at the latest, which would mean reducing emissions to almost zero. "We are pleased that the MPs are responding directly to the findings of the latest IPCC report on the 1.5-degree target," says Christoph Bals, Political Director of Germanwatch. "This is a wake-up call for the German government. The Grand Coalition should now finally support the European Parliament, the European Commission and the progressive member states in raising the EU climate targets for 2030 and 2050. The success of the upcoming climate summit in Poland will depend in part on whether the EU comes forward," said Bals.

The European Parliament supports the climate targets that the plaintiffs in the People's Climate Case are also calling for to protect their fundamental rights. The European legislator's response is eagerly awaited these days. Christoph Bals: "We hope that the forthcoming response by the European Parliament and the Council will also be characterised by this new departure in climate policy."

In the People's Climate Case, people affected by climate change are petitioning the EU to raise its climate targets.

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6th University Day "City and Region as a Place of Work
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6th University Day "City and Region as a Place of Work

On 1 and 2 June 2018 in Berlin
Venue: Kalkscheune Berlin, Johannisstraße 2, 10117 Berlin

The demands placed on cities and regions as places of work are changing as a result of ongoing economic structural change. Following industrialisation and tertiarisation, digitalisation is bringing new profound changes to the world of work and thus new challenges for urban development planning and social coexistence. At the 6th National Urban Development Policy University Day, both the changes in the world of work and the challenges for urban development planning will be identified and discussed in presentations and forums. The professional exchange can be further deepened at the evening reception on 1 June 2018.

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Forum A: Mixed, inner-city neighbourhoods
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Participation is free of charge. Preliminary information on the programme and the opportunity to register can be found at here.



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DGB Action Week "Affordability is half the battle".
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DGB Action Week "Affordability is half the battle".

At the district and city association spring meeting of the DGB district of Lower Saxony - Bremen - Saxony-Anhalt in Hustedt, the volunteers together with DGB President Reiner Hoffmann (4th from right) stand behind the campaign banner. Photo: Syrius GmbH/DGB

25.03.2019 - The German Trade Union Confederation is today launching a nationwide week of action on the subject of housing. Under the motto "Affordable is half the rent", more than 200 actions and events will take place throughout Germany. The action week is the nationwide public launch of the DGB dialogue on the future.

The DGB Chairman Reiner Hoffmann declares at the start of the action week:

"We want to talk to local people and find out from them: What problems do they face in finding housing, rents and service charges. An ever greater proportion of income is eaten up by rents and many people can no longer afford a flat near their place of work. Workers' interests do not end at the factory gate. Affordable housing is the new social issue of our time."

Stefan Körzell in an interview with tagesschau24:


DGB Executive Board Member Stefan Körzell said in Berlin on Monday:

"Rising rents are a problem for more and more workers. They are also the result of decades of failed housing policy. The market failure in the housing sector is obvious - now politics must intervene strongly and steadily. At least 400,000 new and affordable homes are needed each year, including 100,000 social housing units. The federal and state governments must jointly provide seven billion euros annually for this purpose. The money the federal government has so far earmarked for social housing construction is not even enough to maintain the existing stock. In addition, politicians should take more decisive action against land speculation, for example by obliging owners to build on their land within the framework of building law."

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With the DGB Future Dialogue, the DGB and its member unions are launching a broad social dialogue. We are asking people, collecting their answers and using them to develop impulses for fairer policies in Germany. The action week from 25 to 29 March is the nationwide public launch of the DGB dialogue on the future. Hundreds of other events will follow throughout Germany in the coming years. The debate on the dialogue on the future is taking place online at www.redenwirueber.de - there you will also find all further information.

 



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