9:09 min posted on 2019 Sep 16
The text version of Scientists for Future's "Call to Policy" is available here:
www.scientists4future.org
1:07 min, from 08/13/2020
All info at:
www.duh.de/goldenergeier/goldener-geier-2020
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Awards, DE-News, Movies, Movies < 4 Min, Climate protection, Mobility, Negative price, News Blog Baden-Württemberg, Environmental policy
Bonn/Berlin (26 Jan. 2019). The Coal Commission's decision sets the course for the coal phase-out by 2035, or 2038 at the latest. The environmental and development organisations welcome these decisions, but regret that this phase-out path is not yet ambitious enough to achieve the Paris climate goals.
In 2023, according to the compromise, the phase-out can be improved for the first time so that it fits in with the climate goals of Paris. Only then would the social contract be fulfilled that we owe to those already massively affected by the climate crisis and to future generations. Around 10,000 students pressed for this yesterday in front of the negotiation building. Thousands supported them in many cities nationwide.
Cornerstones of the compromise: - The phase-out of coal should be completed by 2038 at the latest and preferably by 2035. In 2032, it will be examined whether the phase-out is already possible in 2035 in terms of energy economics. The environmental associations state in a special vote that they assume 2035 in view of the climate policy and energy economic situation.
- By 2022, a total of 12.5 GW of coal are to be decommissioned or placed in reserve. This includes 3 GW of lignite in the west in addition to the closures already decided. This will save the Hambach Forest and probably also the villages in NRW.
- In 2023, the targets can be revised for the first time so that they fit in with the Paris climate goals.
- The large Jänschwalde power plant will be shut down by 2025. The name is not mentioned, but the announced reduction of 10 million tonnes of CO2 refers to this site.
- From 2025, a steady reduction path begins until 2030, leading to a maximum of 9 GW of lignite and 8 GW of hard coal. This steady path is specified in a special vote by the environmental associations.
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DE-News, Renewable, Climate protection, News Blog Brandenburg, News Blog NRW, Environmental policy
In Jerry Yudelson's latest book, "Reinventing Green Building: Why Certification Systems Aren't Working and What We Can Do About It," published in June 2016, the American pioneer of sustainable building writes that certification systems are not advancing the needed sustainable development in the building sector quickly and substantially enough.
This has been shown by the experience of certification systems for sustainable building such as the DGNB, BREEAM and above all LEED seals of approval in recent decades. On the one hand, they are becoming increasingly widespread and their standards and methods are being perfected - on the other hand, they are becoming more and more expensive and complex.
Jerry Yudelson was described by WIRED magazine as the American "Godfather of Green". He is regarded as one of the pioneers of the green building movement in the USA at the end of the 1990s and played a key role in founding the first local chapter of the US Green Building Council in Seattle. The long-time LEED Fellow has trained around 4,000 professionals from the construction industry on the LEED system during his active time. Between 2014 and 2015, he was President of the Green Building Initiative (GBI), a non-profit organisation that provides the Green Globes green building rating system and programme in America. (Source: greenimmo.de)
Yudelsons says the maths is simple: there are 5.5 million buildings in the US, of which about 35,000 are LEED certified today. That's less than 0.7% of the building stock and that's after 15 years of a lot of hard work. It is relatively simple and very clear that we will never achieve the CO2 reduction targets this way. In addition, we have no documentation and no studies, NOTHING! The big challenge ahead of us is the existing buildings and the property market. He goes on to say in his book that it is a misconception that certifications can save the planet.
Yudelson also offers a solution in the book. A data-driven strategy that utilises the latest cloud-based technologies to reduce certification costs by 90% or more. This could achieve a market uptake to 50% of all buildings by 2025.
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Source: www.greenimmo.de/zukunftsthemen/reinventing-green-building/
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DE-News, New books and studies, News Blog Europe (without DE), Certification & Labels, Life cycle assessment
On the occasion of the meeting of the EU Ministers for Urban Development and Territorial Cohesion on the "New Leipzig Charter", Daniela Wagner, Spokesperson for Urban Development of the Alliance 90/The Greens in the German Bundestag, explains:
We welcome the "New Leipzig Charter". Without the transformational power of cities and the ideas and energy of their inhabitants, we will not be able to meet the challenges of the climate crisis. Nevertheless, the Charter contains considerable gaps. The guiding principle of the resilient city is missing. The development of robust and resilient cities is important in order to better assess risks and to be able to recognise and prevent dangers in good time. Nor is the model of the healthy city mentioned - despite the heat waves caused by the climate crisis, a never-ending stream of air pollutants from fossil combustion engines and the current challenge of a global pandemic.
In addition, there is a huge gap between the claims of the "New Leipzig Charter" and the actions of the Federal Government, which after all helped to develop the Charter. It would be nice if the content of the Charter were reflected to some extent in the policies of the Federal Government. For example, it is hard to understand why the paper talks about reducing land consumption, but the Federal Government does the exact opposite and reintroduces the land-grabbing paragraph 13b in the Building Code, which is highly questionable in terms of environmental and housing policy, or pushes through the construction of age-old plans from the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan.
If the federal government is serious about affordable and well-designed housing being fundamental to urban development policy, then it should finally provide more affordable housing, double federal funding for social housing construction and introduce the New Housing Community Benefit. The energy turnaround in existing buildings should finally be advanced. With the "Fair Heat" action plan, we have presented a package of measures that financially incentivises investments in energy modernisation of housing with energy savings and the switch to renewable heat and significantly lowers the hurdles for the investments.
The statement in the Charter that urban transport and mobility systems should be efficient, climate-neutral and multimodal is also correct. Unfortunately, there is a considerable lack of implementation of the transport turnaround. What the federal government has done so far in terms of strengthening bus and rail pales in comparison to the billions in subsidies for the automotive industry. At the same time, the federal government is putting the brakes on the expansion of electromobility and has parked the topic of charging stations on the hard shoulder.
Source: PM of BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN in the German Bundestag from 30.11.2020
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Soil & land consumption, DE-News, Mix of uses, Resource efficiency, SDG 2030, City, Environmental policy, Housing policy
