Wind and solar benchmarks for a 1.5°C world
This report presents a detailed methodology for determining the amount of wind and solar capacity that is required for a country to align with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C temperature goal. While the focus
Germany
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France, Germany close to deal on auto emissions
France and Germany are close to resolving their dispute over EU auto emissions targets that could see a softening of the proposed regulations, a German newspaper report said yesterday. "The talks are making progress," business daily Handelsblatt cited a source close to the talks as saying. "A deal should be possible by the end of April." The European Union wants to impose a carbon emissions limit of 120 grammes per kilometre on all new EU cars by 2012, but Handelsblatt said that this may be pushed back to 2015 and that fines on emissions over this limit may be lowered.
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New threat from covert GMOs
The battles lines in the power struggle over seeds are shifting in Europe. Authorities are dropping plans to push US-led "first generation' genetically modified organisms (GMOs), so that European companies can develop "covert' GMOs and new "double-locked' seeds instead. In 2008, the Sarkozy regime will use the French presidency of the European Union to promote its own corporate-led agenda on these issues. It is becoming more important than ever that farmers assert their collective rights over seeds. Guy Kastler of the Peasant Seed Network in France explains. April 2008
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The missing piece in climate policy: renewable heating and cooling in Germany and the U.S.
This report focuses specifically on the topic of renewable energy for heating and cooling for two reasons. First, the heating and cooling sector contributes largely to energy consumption, and therefore the emission of greenhouse gases. Globally, heating and cooling accounts for an estimated 40-50% of final energy demand.
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Application of UV in wastewater treatment
Ultraviolet light kills bacteria in wastewater without the use of chemicals. This reliable and environment friendly method was used in the project Clean Isar in Germany.
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Garbage in, garbage out
The embarrassing rubbish mountain in Naples subsides
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Photovoltaic firm ties up with German co.
Solar Semiconductor, a solar photovoltaic (PV) modules and services, on Thursday entered into a strategic partnership with IBC Solar of Germany, a distributor of system integrators of solar PV product
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The hot air of hypocrisy
Demand agreement on a divorce settlement before you marry, and the world may believe many things of you: that you are prudent, or cynical, or just a bit mean. What it will not believe is that you are a swooning romantic, moved only by the high ideals of love. You can boast you are an idealist, in other words, or you can make a pre-nuptial agreement: you cannot plausibly do both.
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Climate protection
On the tortuous road to saving the planet from climate change, one traffic rule stands out. Drivers who speed risk paying a price.
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Guns are too large
The bruising treatment of youngsters in many parts of the world, and the use of child soldiers in war-torn parts of Africa emerged as a recurring theme at the 10-day Berlin International Film
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Not everyone happy in Germany's Solar Valley
Visitors to Thalheim in eastern Germany enter a grey landscape of abandoned industrial buildings, the remnants of the communist-era chemicals industry.