The master thesis "Living without a car - niche concept or future model for sustainable urban development? Planning and implementation of car-free and car-reduced urban development projects in comparison" by Andreas Blechschmidt (2016; 104 pages) is now available online.
Link: publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38429
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
5 min. | Published: 10/28/2017, available until 10/28/2022
In the ARD documentary, the two Sustainable Settlements
Signal box 60 Cologne Nippes and that French Quarter in Tübingen shown.
Link to the ARD-Mediathek:
www.ardmediathek.de/...Verkehrswende-Stadt-ohne-Autos...
Keywords:
Movies, Movies 4 to 10 Min, Mobility
Heating village heating networks with sun and wood is becoming a model for success. In Germany, five such heat supply systems are being launched this year.
While the heating sector is the problem child of the energy transition throughout Germany, numerous villages are showing how the conversion to renewable energies can be mastered in one fell swoop. More and more often, village communities are relying on a combination of sun and wood, with a large solar thermal system taking over the entire heat supply in the summer. While one such network was launched in each of the past two years, the number of German solar bioenergy villages will grow by five to a total of eight by the end of 2018.
Thomas Pauschinger, a member of the management team at the Steinbeis Research Institute Solites in Stuttgart, where he is in charge of the Solnet 4.0 project for the promotion of solar heating networks, sees a clear trend towards solar heating in Germany's villages: "It is obvious that solar thermal energy is becoming a reliable and economical heat generator in more and more energy villages, because such systems are a future-proof investment and enjoy a high level of acceptance among the residents. With current technology, even more is possible than the 20-percent share that is common in Germany's solar villages today, says Pauschinger: "We expect that in the future solar thermal will not only cover the summer demand of such heating networks, but will also achieve higher solar shares through larger storage tanks."
New to the club are:
Solar energy village Liggeringen, district of the town of Radolfzell, Baden-Württemberg
Operator: Stadtwerke Radolfzell GmbH
Commissioning: 2018
House connections: 90 (first construction phase)
Network length: 5 km
Collector area: 1,100 m² (first construction phase)
Collector type: High-temperature flat-plate collectors
Expected annual yield: 470 MWh/a
Solar coverage: 20 %
Solar energy village Randegg, district of the municipality of Gottmadingen, Baden-Württemberg
Operator: Solarcomplex AG
Commissioning of heating network: 2009
Commissioning solar thermal: 2018
House connections:150
Network length: 6.6 km
Collector area: 2,400 m2
Collector type: CPC vacuum tube collectors
Expected annual yield: 1100 MWh/a
Solar coverage: 20 %
Solar energy village Mengsberg, district of the town of Neustadt, Hesse
Operator: Bioenergiegenossenschaft Mengsberg BEGM eG
Commissioning: 2018
House connections: 150
Network length: 9 km
Collector area: 3,000 m2
Collector type: High-temperature flat-plate collectors
Expected annual yield: 900 MWh/a
Solar coverage: 17 %
Solar Energy Village Breklum, Schleswig-HolsteinOperator: BürgerGemeindeWerke Breklum e.G.
Commissioning: 2018
House connections: 42 (first construction phase)
Network length: 3.8 km
Collector area: 652 m2 (first expansion stage)
Collector type: CPC vacuum tube collectors
Expected annual yield: 289 MWh/a (first construction phase)
Solar coverage: 8 %
Solar energy village Ellern, district of the municipality of Rheinböllen, Rhineland-Palatinate
Commissioning: 2018
House connections: 105
Network length: 5.3 km
Collector area: 1,245 m2
Collector type: CPC vacuum tube collectors
Expected annual yield: 555 MWh/a
Solar coverage: 15 %
Further information on the use of large solar thermal systems in villages, neighbourhoods and cities can be found on the website www.solare-waermenetze.de. The Steinbeis Research Institute Solites offers initial consultations for interested municipalities.
The Solnet 4.0 project is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and companies in the solar thermal industry. Project partners are the AGFW - Effizienzverband für Wärme, Kälte, KWK, the Steinbeis Research Institute Solites, Bröer & Witt GbR and the Hamburg Institute.
Keywords:
News Blog Baden-Württemberg, News Blog Hesse, News Blog RLP, News Blog Schleswig-Holstein
Berlin/ Hamburg: According to the newly founded Global Foundation Platform (F20), "the G7 Summit in Italy paved the way for the G20 Summit in Hamburg". "Six of the seven heads of state and government have shown their determination to implement the Paris Climate Agreement - despite the reluctance of the US government. The largest economies now face the task of implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement," said a joint press release.
The F20, a unique alliance of more than 35 foundations from nine countries, was founded on the occasion of the G20 Summit, which will take place in Hamburg on 7 and 8 July. Together, they want to make a contribution to global climate protection and a global energy transition.
"On climate change, the German G20 Presidency can build on the backing of businesses, think tanks, civil society, representatives of all faith communities and progressive countries. It is they who are driving global climate action, investing in sustainable infrastructure and creating the jobs of the future in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and America. The goals of the Paris Agreement are gaining global support and solidifying every day that the shift towards a climate-resilient global economy gains momentum," said Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation.
Michael Northrop, Rockefeller Brothers Fund: "The transition to a climate-resilient global economy offers business opportunities, jobs and economic development, as well as additional benefits such as cleaner air and a healthier environment. But to unlock this potential, the necessary investments must be unleashed now. More and more foundations, pension funds, cities and insurance companies are stepping forward by withdrawing their capital from fossil assets and supporting clean solutions."
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund had already announced in 2014 that it would disinvest the over 800 million US dollar fund, i.e. withdraw the capital from climate-damaging assets, and invest in clean solutions. Since 2014, more than US$5 trillion in assets under management have been withdrawn from coal and other fossil fuels.
Ramiro Fernández, Director Climate Change at the Avina Foundation, Argentina, underlines the important role of civil society in the global energy transition. "Civil society has been and continues to be a driving force for transformative change. The importance of their commitment to the preservation of natural livelihoods and to social justice - whether at the international, national or local level - cannot be overstated. The voices of civil society organisations from around the world must therefore be involved in the G20 process," he said.
The Avina Foundation is a Latin American organisation that implements democracy promotion, environmental protection and sustainable development projects in Argentina. Among the participating foundations are Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Wallace Global Fund (both USA), Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, Tata Trusts (both India), Avina Foundation (Latin America), FARN (Argentina), SEE Foundation, C Team (both China), Instituto Arapyaú (Brazil), European Climate Foundation (Netherlands), Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit, Stiftung Mercator, Stiftung 2° - German Entrepreneurs for Climate Protection, Michael Otto Foundation for Environmental Protection, WWF, Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius and the World Future Council (all Germany). Altogether, these foundations represent a total capital in the tens of billions of US dollars.
On 4 July - three days before the actual G20 summit - the Foundation Platform invites representatives from civil society, business, science and politics to Hamburg City Hall. The aim is to express their support for the global climate protection agenda and to discuss how the potential offered by global climate protection can be raised.
Speakers include British economist Sir Nicholas Stern, sociologist Auma Obama, author and former US government advisor Amory B. Lovins, Chinese entrepreneur Wang Shi and Kurt Bock, Chairman of the Business 20 Group (B20) Energy, Climate and Resource Efficiency and Chairman of the Board of BASF.
Further information:
www.foundations-20.org
Keywords:
Stakeholders, Funding, Climate protection, News Blog Europe (without DE)
