While striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the City of Rotterdam in the Netherlands focuses its narrative on making buildings, industry and transport cleaner and more efficient, which are concrete and tangible issues that the public can easily rally behind.
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A new "Export Initiative for Environmental Technologies" of the Federal Ministry for the Environment is to support the foreign business of the German environmental industry and thus promote the development of environmental infrastructure. Interested companies and organisations can apply until the end of April. In total, the BMUB five million euros available this year.
Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks: "Germany is the world export champion in environmental protection. We want to maintain this position. In the meantime, other countries have also recognised that environmental protection goods are a key market of the future. With the export initiative, we want to support our companies in developing their Know-How continue to successfully market internationally while driving sustainable development."
Applications are open to institutions from Germany that are working on the development of environmental infrastructure abroad. Funding is available, for example, for projects in the field of circular economy, sustainable water management, sustainable, efficient construction, mobility or sustainable and nature-friendly regional infrastructure development. The initiative will also specifically provide funding for urbanisation partnerships and international "Smart City-projects" will be used. The initiative is also intended to help accelerate the application of global environmental standards abroad.
Source: BMUB PM of 3.2.2017
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Funding, Environmental policy
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is providing funding of 150,000 euros for a local heating network in Gimbweiler, which is to be supplied in future by means of a solar thermal open-space system and a woodchip system.
"The planned local heating network will supply a total of more than 80 buildings in the village with renewable energy," says Thomas Griese, State Secretary at the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Food and Forestry (MUEEF): "This includes a sports hall and a multi-generation house. I am excited about this project, because we need the commitment of the municipalities for a successful heat and energy turnaround!"
Griese handed over the funding notification to Mayor Martin Samson for a sub-project of the local heating network: the connection lines and the house transfer stations. In addition, the Gimbweiler receives funds from the federal government from the national climate protection initiative.
In the "Nahwärmeverbund Gimbweiler", the regenerative heat is generated by two woodchip boilers and a solar thermal open-space system. The solar thermal supported heat generation in connection with two buffer storage tanks saves fuel resources in a special way and avoids CO2 emissions. A multi-generation house, a sports hall and more than 80 residential buildings are supplied with heat from renewable energies.
18.12.2018 | Source: MUEEF
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DE-News, Energy storage, Renewable, News Blog RLP, Solar thermal, Environmental policy, Ecology
A big thank you to Mr Pohlmeyer for the current photos of the small "Cube settlement".
To the Photo gallery 9/2016
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Wood construction, News Blog Baden-Württemberg, Settlements, Residential, sdg21 news
Is German climate policy on the right path? A national CO2-budget for Germany allows for a transparent comparison with international targets. In a paper published today, the Environmental Council updates its calculations for a German CO2-The paper also provides answers to frequently asked questions about the carbon budget and shows that rapid emission reductions are crucial - last year, climate targets were again missed in transport and buildings. The paper also answers frequently asked questions about the CO2-Budget.
"Germany must become independent of all fossil fuels, not just those from Russia," says Prof. Wolfgang Lucht. "The remaining CO2-The energy budget is melting rapidly. This is above all a consequence of the recently delayed energy transition in Germany. The German government should now adopt measures for the industrial and private sectors with even more vigour that will put us on a path that is demonstrably in line with the Paris climate targets." The SRU therefore recommends that the Federal Government introduce a German CO2-The budget should be clearly named and justified in order to create transparency.
For a fair and appropriate German contribution to the international climate goals, a maximum CO2-budget of 6.1 Gt CO2to limit global warming to 1.75 degrees (with 67 % probability). For the 1.5 degree target (50 % probability), Germany would have to reduce its emissions to a maximum of 3.1 Gt CO2 limit. By "maximum", the SRU means a budget that can just be considered compatible with the Paris Agreement. If emissions were to be reduced linearly to zero from now on, Germany would have to reduce CO2-neutral.
"Germany must now take off on climate protection," says Prof. Claudia Kemfert. "If we miss the targets and overrun the budget, we will not be able to make up for it later.
In its landmark decision of March 2021, the Federal Constitutional Court used the budget calculated by the SRU to examine whether the Climate Protection Act meets the constitutional requirements.
Download the publication "How much CO2 is the maximum amount that Germany is still allowed to emit? Questions and answers on CO2-Budget“.
In May 2020, the Council had already Calculations and recommendations to a CO2-Budget published.
For further information, please contact Dr. Julia Hertin, Tel: +49 30 263696-118,
Email: julia.hertin@umweltrat.de
The German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) has been advising the German government on environmental policy issues for 50 years. The Council's composition of seven professors from different disciplines ensures a scientifically independent and comprehensive assessment, both from a scientific-technical and a social science perspective.
The Council currently consists of the following members:
Prof. Dr Claudia Hornberg (Chair), Bielefeld University
Prof. Dr Claudia Kemfert (Deputy Chair), Leuphana University Lüneburg and German Institute for Economic Research Berlin
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christina Dornack, Dresden University of Technology
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Köck, University of Leipzig and Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Lucht, Humboldt University Berlin and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Prof. Dr Josef Settele, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Prof. Dr Annette Elisabeth Töller, Open University in Hagen
German Advisory Council on the Environment, Berlin
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