Min. 8:16; Video from 7.1.2020; Ed.: MWSP Mannheim
According to the head of the EIB (European Investment Bank), Werner Hoyer, it is realistic to invest one trillion euros for climate protection within 10 years. In an interview with Der Spiegel, Hoyer said: "If we want to achieve our climate protection goals, we're no longer talking about billions, but trillions of euros" and "We can handle that." EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had named the climate protection target when she took office. Hoyer assumes that 1 trillion euro EU climate protection measures will trigger investments totalling 4 trillion euro.
Hoyer wants to mobilise additional money on the capital markets. "If we want to finance climate projects worth an average of 100 billion euros per year and the leverage that our investments trigger is around three, then the EIB would have to raise 30 to 35 billion euros per year," the bank boss told Der Spiegel. Already today, 28 per cent of the EIB's loans flow into projects that serve climate protection: "I want it to become 50 per cent in the future".
The EU target of investing 100 billion per year in climate protection was announced by the new head of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the 25th Climate Conference COP25 in Madrid. The EU is to become climate neutral by 2050. The EU's first climate protection law will be presented in March 2020.
Links
www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute-journal/europas-green-deal-100.html
https://ec.europa.eu/germany/news/20191202-un-klimakonferenz_de
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/klimaschutz-der-billionen-hammer-1.4692867
www.deutschlandfunk.de/praesident-der-europaeischen-investitionsbank-hoyer-politik.868.de.html?dram:article_id=463802
www.spiegel.de/plus/eib-chef-werner-hoyer-der-liberale-der-billionen-fuer-gruene-projekte-beschafft-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000165813288
Keywords:
100% EEs, Greening / climate adaptation, CO2-neutral, Renewable, Climate protection, News Blog Europe (without DE), SDG 2030, Transition Town, Environmental policy, Ecology
Frankfurt/Main (dpa) - The Frankfurt "Rent Decision Alliance submitted around 25,000 signatures to the electoral office on Tuesday. The participants want to achieve a referendum on the preservation and expansion of subsidized housing, as spokespersons for the alliance said before the handover.
The administration must now check whether the necessary quorum - the required number of signatures - has been reached and whether a citizens' petition is admissible. According to its own information, 42 organisations belong to the alliance, including the district association of the Left Party, the Asta of the Goethe University, Attac and several housing and urban policy initiatives.
They have three demands: The city-owned housing company ABG should only create subsidized housing; all tenants entitled to social housing should pay a maximum of 6.50 euros per square meter; prices per square meter of a maximum of 6.50 euros should apply in two-thirds of all ABG apartments that become vacant.
Link:
https://mietentscheid-frankfurt.de
Keywords:
Stakeholders, Communities, News Blog Hesse, Quarters, SDG 2030, Environmental policy, Housing policy
The internationally renowned electrosmog expert Dr. Klaus Trost explains which electromagnetic radiation is emitted by PV systems, the magnitude of this radiation and what to look out for when installing the system components.
Klaus Trost: "I am not aware of any special findings or studies on health risks due to electrosmog from photovoltaic systems. I also do not expect any particular risks, since at night, when the sensitivity to electromagnetic field immissions is greatest, the sun is not shining, consequently no current flows in the PV modules and no magnetic fields are generated. Electric fields are only generated at night if the inverter does not galvanically isolate the modules from the power grid. However, as already mentioned, electric fields are well shielded by the roof structure and do not penetrate into the house."
Read the whole article by Dr. Klaus Trost from Wissenschaftsladen Bonn e.V.
Keywords:
Building Biology, DE-News, Electrosmog, PV, PlusEnergy house/settlement, Ecology
The 88th Conference of Environment Ministers has just passed a resolution in Bad Saarow on the "Promotion of Building with Wood", which was introduced by Rhineland-Palatinate. The document calls on the federal government to improve the framework conditions for timber construction.
According to the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of the Environment, the positive climate protection properties of renewable raw materials are to be taken into account in building energy law, among other things.
This would be more than desirable, because the draft bill for the Building Energy Act (GEG) recently presented by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) missed the opportunity to finally take the entire life cycle of buildings into account in the amendment.
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Keywords:
DE-News, Wood construction, Climate protection, NaWaRohs, News Blog RLP, Resource efficiency, Environmental policy, Life cycle assessment
