According to a recent survey of Germany's 700 largest cities and municipalities, only 6 percent of municipalities feel overwhelmed by the current refugee numbers.
The balcony modules with which EWE has equipped an entire apartment building in Delmenhorst have been in operation for a year. The yield balance shows that tenants use almost 80 per cent of the solar electricity themselves and can cover up to 20 per cent of their electricity consumption with it.
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www.pv-magazine.de/2017/07/12/mieter-nutzen-rund-80-prozent-ihres-balkonstroms-selbst
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UmweltBank has acquired the former GfK site on Nuremberg's Nordwestring. The company is planning an ecologically and socially sustainable urban quarter with housing, a daycare center, commercial space and public green areas. The new headquarters of the green bank will also be part of the quarter. The previous owner, a joint venture of Pegasus Capital Partners and Art-Invest Real Estate, had already developed an urban development concept in recent years and coordinated it with the City of Nuremberg. UmweltBank would like to further develop this concept in line with its own requirements in close cooperation with the city.
Having already acquired part of the site at the corner of Nordwestring and Bielefelder Straße last year for the construction of its new headquarters, UmweltBank has now purchased the entire former GfK site in a second step. "We deliberately chose this location for our headquarters because it has excellent public transport links and, with the site already developed, we are avoiding further land consumption," explains UmweltBank Board Member Goran Bašić. "It is a real stroke of luck that we now get the opportunity to also design the area around our building as a green piece of Nuremberg."
Dr. Matthias Hubert, Managing Partner of Pegasus Capital Partners adds: "The Nuremberg metropolitan region is and remains one of the strongest economic areas in the entire Federal Republic. Through the urban development concept developed together with Art-Invest Real Estate at the former GfK site, we have created excellent foundations for the development of a modern ecological urban quarter."
Liveable living and working environments for the north of Nuremberg
The planning for the new quarter is still in its infancy: UmweltBank is currently reviewing and evaluating the status of the plans to date for opportunities for further development. The aim is to build a sustainable and liveable urban quarter in accordance with high ecological and social standards. Plans include social and affordable housing as well as housing for students, a daycare centre, commercial space and public play and green areas.
"We are looking forward to the future development of the quarter and are excited to see how UmweltBank will shape the district in the long term with its corporate philosophy and focus on innovation and sustainability," said Tobias Wilhelm, branch manager of Art-Invest Real Estate in Munich.
A Europe-wide architectural competition is currently underway for the new UmweltBank building. The results will be published at the beginning of October. Ecological aspects in particular play an important role in the awarding of prizes, such as the use of renewable raw materials and renewable energies as well as the recyclability of the building materials used. The best designs and the winning model will be on display in the UmweltBank foyer on Laufertorgraben from mid-October.
About Art-Invest Real Estate
Art-Invest Real Estate is a long-term oriented investor, asset manager and project developer of real estate in good locations with value creation potential. The focus is on metropolitan regions in Germany, Austria and Great Britain. Art-Invest Real Estate pursues a "Manage to Core" investment strategy with institutional investors, selected joint venture partners as well as with its own capital. The range of investments spans the entire return and risk spectrum in the office, city centre retail, hotel, residential and data centre sectors. In total, Art-Invest Real Estate currently manages real estate assets of around €6 billion.
About Pegasus Capital Partners GmbH
Pegasus Capital Partners is a real estate investment specialist based in Erlangen. In addition to providing equity or equity-replacing funds (mezzanine capital), Pegasus supports projects in new construction and portfolio development. To date, Pegasus has more than 40 project investments with a total volume of around two billion euros. The focus is on project and portfolio developments in the German metropolitan regions, economically prosperous B-regions, southern Germany and the Austrian capital Vienna.
About UmweltBank AG
UmweltBank is an independent private bank owned by around 12,000 shareholders. For more than 20 years, it has combined finance with ecological and social responsibility. It has committed itself to environmental protection not only with its name, but also in its articles of association. At no other bank can investors put their money to work in such a consistently environmentally friendly way. Germany's greenest bank has already financed over 23,500 environmental projects with low-interest development loans.
At UmweltBank, relieving the burden on nature and financial success are equally important goals. This is why it regularly publishes its results in an integrated sustainability and annual report. The company measures its success not only in terms of key economic figures, but also in terms of the CO2 emissions saved by financing innovative environmental projects.
Source: PM of UmweltBank Nuremberg from 22.9.2020
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Hamburg, 11. 11. 2020 - By phasing out ten particularly climate-damaging subsidies in the energy, transport and agricultural sectors, Germany can generate up to 46 billion euros in revenue annually.
This is the result of a new study by the "Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft" on behalf of Greenpeace. (Study "Ten climate-damaging subsidies in focus" online at: https://bit.ly/2JVu3tq).
A total of almost 100 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents would be saved annually compared to today if the subsidies under consideration were reformed. This is roughly equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions from passenger car traffic in Germany. The study appears in the run-up to the publication of the tax estimate by Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) announced for Thursday. It shows how the federal government can simultaneously reduce the immense new debt caused by the Corona crisis and make progress on climate protection. "Now the German government can kill two birds with one stone by reducing climate-damaging subsidies: lower CO2 emissions and relieve the budget by billions. In doing so, it eliminates significant disadvantages for climate-friendly industries and can accelerate the shift towards a sustainable, ecologically oriented economy," says Bastian Neuwirth, climate expert at Greenpeace.
A ranking examines the phase-out of ten particularly climate-damaging subsidies in Germany and sorts them according to where the most tax money and CO2 can be saved. The abolition of the tax exemption for kerosene, the withdrawal of tax concessions for electricity generation and the reduction of electricity price exemptions for industry prove to be particularly effective for climate protection and budget restructuring. In arithmetical terms, the German government could save around 73 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents and 18 billion euros of taxpayers' money each year with these measures alone. In the middle of the ranking are the VAT exemption for international flights, the distance allowance, the diesel privilege and the reduced VAT rate on animal products. "Continuing to hand out extra money for climate-damaging economic activity is completely out of step with the times. Each of these climate-damaging subsidies must be overturned as soon as possible," says Neuwirth.
The gradual dismantling of the ten subsidies that are particularly harmful to the climate can shorten the Federal Government's delay in achieving its own climate targets: according to the Federal Environment Agency, Germany will emit around 71 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents too much in 2030 with the measures it has adopted so far to achieve the 2030 climate target. A rapid reduction in subsidies can therefore help to remedy this situation. At the international level, Germany and the G7 countries already committed in 2016 to reducing climate-damaging subsidies by 2025.
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The following 2 minute video (Nov. 2015) reports on the visions for the urban future of the Morgenstadt program and the focal points of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft's work:
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