The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects a boom in photovoltaics over the next five years. Worldwide, installed solar power capacity is expected to grow by 720 gigawatts (GW).
www.solarserver.de/...iea-erwartet-massives-wachstum-der-photovoltaik/
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.
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Movies, Movies < 4 Min, Media, Mobility, SDG 2030, Environmental policy
By a large majority, the city council has instructed the administration to increase the use of wooden building materials in new municipal buildings such as schools and day-care centres. Complete wooden buildings are to be erected wherever possible.
The joint motion initiated by the Greens, the CDU, the Greens, the FDP and the Gut group (https://ratsinformation.stadt-koeln.de/getfile.asp?id=725502&type=do&) was unanimously approved by the Council on 9/7/2019.
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Stakeholders, Building materials / Construction, DE-News, Wood construction, Climate protection, Communities, Cologne, Sustainable management, News Blog NRW, Quarters, Settlements, Environmental policy, Ecology
Across Germany, the federal government only awarded four plots of land at a lower price so that social housing could be built. Yet it is authorised and actually required to do so.
The fact that the federal government is not taking its responsibility for providing housing across the country very lightly, or at least is not using all its resources in the fight against the housing shortage, is shown by a small question from the Greens on the business of the federal government's central sales organisation for public land, or Bima for short. Bima has made just four building plots available nationwide at favourable prices for social housing construction - although it has been legally authorised and actually required to do so for almost two years.
„Dramatic for all those who depend on affordable housing"This is what Christian Kühn, a member of the Green Party in the Bundestag, calls it, because 60,000 social housing units are no longer subsidised every year and thus no longer for households with low incomes are available. "In view of the many very tight housing markets, Bima should actually set a good example and resolutely oppose any kind of price gouging," says Kühn.
Read the full article from 11 April 2017 here:
www.tagesspiegel.de/...wohnen-in-berlin-der-bund-tut-nicht-genug-gegen-wohnungsnot...
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DE-News, Affordable housing, Housing, Housing policy
30.06.2020 - 16 players in the German financial sector, with assets of more than €5.5 trillion and over 46 million customer connections in Germany, have signed a voluntary commitment to align their loan and investment portfolios in line with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. Through the agreed measurement, publication and target setting to reduce the emissions associated with the loan and investment portfolios, the financial sector intends to make a contribution to climate protection and support the sustainable and future-oriented further development of the economy. This brings the German financial centre one step closer to the goal set by the German government at the beginning of 2019 of making Germany one of the leading locations for sustainable finance.
This initiative, which originated in the banking sector of the financial sector, aims to play an active role in shaping one of the most important societal tasks for future sustainability, namely the successful societal transformation to limit climate change. The signatories align their respective products and services as well as their commitments and initiatives accordingly in order to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees and to aim for the 1.5 degree target by financing the transformation towards a low-emission and climate-resilient economy and society. At the same time, active support for the transformation will strengthen the competitiveness and resilience of the companies financed and reduce sustainability and default risks for the banks.
Specifically, this means that by the end of 2022, each signatory will develop and implement mutually acceptable methodologies to measure the climate impact of its credit and investment portfolios and then manage them in line with national and international climate targets. The agreement applies only to those investment portfolios that are not the subject of fund or mandate business. The fund and mandate business will be taken into account gradually without any fixed timeframe.
The signatories want to support each other in collecting the necessary emissions data and developing methods for measurement and approaches for managing the banking business in line with the targets. In order to meet the shared responsibility and that of each actor, each signatory commits to report annually (e.g. within its existing reporting formats) on individual progress towards implementation.
The impetus for this voluntary commitment came from a group of financial institutions initiated by Triodos Bank and at the same time via a WWF bank working group. Since March, these two groups of banks have merged the previously parallel discussions into the present voluntary commitment. This is open to all financial actors for adoption and signature.
The wide range of initial signatories in terms of company size (from large banks to small specialist banks) and affiliation to different areas of the financial sector (e.g. state banks, commercial banks, sustainability banks, foreign banks and pension funds), shows that this challenge is widely accepted and that implementation by financial players is possible regardless of size or specific asset classes.
In the international context, the Climate Agreement (June 2019), the Collective Commitment to Climate Action (UN Climate Summit in September 2019) and, in the context of the 25th Climate Conference (December 2019), a voluntary commitment by the Spanish financial sector have already been signed. All of these agreements have comparable structures and target levels on which the German voluntary commitment now made builds. Comparability with the other international agreements enables international financial institutions in particular to develop uniform processes and standards and ensures that the greatest possible impact can be achieved efficiently and without redundancies.
The current overview of the signatories as well as the complete voluntary commitment can be found at:
www.klima-selbstverpflichtung-finanzsektor.de
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Procurement, DE-News, Climate protection, Sustainable management, Transition Town, Environmental policy
