Colourful, lively, largely car-free - the people of Tübingen also jokingly call the French Quarter the "green hell". The residents, however, appreciate the "ideal world" feeling.
Link: www.zdf.de/...franzoesisches-viertel-in-tuebingen-100.html
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/franzoesisches-viertel-tuebingen
0:43 min, 2020
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/arkadien-asperg
Show building projects by Joachim Eble / EMP: http://sdg21.eu/planungsbueros/emp
Keywords:
Building Biology, DE-News, Movies, Movies < 4 Min, Wood construction, News Blog Baden-Württemberg, Water, Water design
Modern mobility is more than e-car subsidies, which is why Baden-Württemberg has introduced a 50% (max. 4,000 euros) purchase premium for commercial eCargobikes. In an interview with cargobike.jetzt, Minister of Transport Winfried Hermann (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) explains the Bicycle STRATEGY in the southwest:
www.cargobike.jetzt/interview-winfried-hermann
Keywords:
Stakeholders, Bike-/Velo-City, DE-News, Funding, Mobility, News Blog Baden-Württemberg, Environmental policy, Economics
Even before the UN Summit on Sustainable Development, it is clear that the implementation of the 2030 Agenda is making slow progress. The global community now needs action instead of words to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
The international report on the status of SDG implementation shows that there are major gaps in implementation worldwide. The number of hungry people is increasing again worldwide. Social inequality continues to rise. The climate crisis and species extinction are advancing.
It is particularly dramatic that Germany is not a pioneer. In sustainability policy, the German government permanently acts according to the motto "too little, too late". Germany has a double responsibility: firstly, as an industrialised country, to demonstrate that it is taking the implementation of the Agenda seriously as a pioneer. And secondly, to contribute more than it has so far to financing the 2030 Agenda at the international level.
There is no coherent national legislation aligned with the SDGs. Still not all departments have prepared SDG action plans or provided additional funding. The climate cabinet's proposals are far from sufficient to achieve the climate sustainability goal and the Paris Climate Agreement. Biodiversity is declining, nitrate pollution for groundwater is not decreasing, environmentally harmful subsidies amounting to over 40 billion euros annually are not being eliminated.
We demand binding targets for SDG implementation for all ministries and ambitious measures where there are particularly large deficits in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, the German government must develop more ambitious indicators to meet the requirements of the SDGs. There is also a need for a sustainability TÜV for new laws.
At the international level, sustainability summits need to be organised in a more goal-oriented and inclusive way. It is incomprehensible that the private sector is invited to the SDG Business Summit at the United Nations, while there is no comparable forum for civil society. This is a fatal sign at a time when civil society actors worldwide are increasingly suffering from restrictions. This approach runs counter to the "Leave no one behind" guiding principle of the 2030 Agenda.
Source: Press release of 24.9.2019 by Buendnis 90/The Greens in the Bundestag Uwe Kekeritz, Spokesperson for Development Policy, and Bettina Hoffmann, Spokesperson for Environmental Policy
Keywords:
Greening / climate adaptation, Soil & land consumption, DE-News, Renewable, Climate protection, Sustainable management, News Blog Europe (without DE), SDG 2030, Social / Culture, Transition Town, UN (United Nations), Environmental policy, Economics
The project "Energy sufficiency - strategies and instruments for a technical, systemic and cultural transformation to sustainably limit energy demand in the building/housing consumer environment", funded by the BMBF, was successfully completed at the end of 2016. The project investigated how energy-efficient everyday routines, social practices and lifestyle aspects can be harmonised with the requirements of sustainable development and how the structural and political framework conditions must be designed so that energy sufficiency becomes more acceptable and practicable in everyday life. Reduction potentials for household electricity consumption were quantified for the three energy sufficiency approaches of reduction, substitution and adaptation.
The results were presented in the form of sufficiency spectra for selected fields of application. Subsequently, policy approaches to support energy sufficiency in private households were analysed and proposals for an integrated package of policy instruments for energy efficiency and sufficiency were developed. The findings of the project have been incorporated into an internet-based household electricity check, a handbook on sustainable product design for the appliance industry and the development of proposals for national and EU instruments to reduce electricity consumption and promote municipal climate protection.
Project partner:
ifeu Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg gGmbH (ifeu)
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy gGmbH (WI)
Berlin University of the Arts/Design Research Lab (UdK)
Research Centre for Sustainability and Climate Policy (FNK)
Download:
https://energiesuffizienz.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/energiesuffizienz_endbericht.pdf
Keywords:
DE-News, Research, Climate protection, Lifestyle / Consumption, New books and studies, Resource efficiency, Sufficiency, Transition Town, Environmental policy
