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Ministry of Economics presents economic strategy paper: The geopolitical situation, the expensive but necessary transformation to a CO2-neutral industry and, in addition, neglected infrastructure, lack of digitisation and a lot of bureaucracy – all this puts enormous pressure on industry. In an economic strategy paper that has not been agreed with the coalition partners, Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck is now calling for relief for industry to the tune of 50 billion euros over the next four years, accelerated expansion of the electricity grids and hydrogen infrastructure, railways, bridges and roads to be modernised, faster approval procedures and a reduction in bureaucracy, the storage of CO2 in underground reservoirs, a concessionary industrial electricity price to help keep energy-intensive industries in Germany. In addition, there are financial benefits for people who want to work longer, and large corporations and small and medium-sized businesses are to be given equal consideration. Criticism comes from top economist Marcel Fratzscher: „The Federal Minister of Economics‘ new industrial strategy contains many good ideas and important initiatives. However, it is too strongly guided by the interests of the powerful industrial lobby and will be to the detriment of the entire economy and Germany’s competitiveness. The good and targeted demands are countered by some counterproductive proposals that will ultimately not prevent deindustrialisation in Germany, but rather accelerate it.“ rnd.de , focus.de , strategy paper
Report warns of dangerous tipping points: Six possible tipping points could become a catastrophe for humanity, the UN University warns in its risk report. At present, too little thought is being given to the future. The consequences for the economy and society could be drastic if certain risks are not counteracted quickly and consistently. The researchers see six risk tipping points that humanity is already „dangerously close“ to: escalating species extinction, groundwater depletion, glacier melt, space debris, unbearable heat and the loss of insurability. According to the UN University report, all six problems are interwoven – not only in terms of causes. They must therefore also be considered together. Example space debris: Due to the increasing waste in orbit, entire satellite systems could fail in the future. zdf.de , original report
By four percent
global deforestation increased last year. Environmentalists see the global goals for the protection of forests in danger. A report by environmental organisations refers, among other things, to the decision of the climate summit in Glasgow 2021: more than a hundred countries had committed themselves to stopping deforestation – in which forests are destroyed in order to use the land for other purposes – by 2030. However, the world was far from this goal in 2022, they said. Agriculture, road construction, fires and commercial logging were the main drivers of destruction. tagesschau.de
Despite war in Ukraine – Wagenknecht wants to break with climate policy and import Russian gas: The „Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance“ rejects emissions trading, the phasing out of internal combustion engines and Germany’s complete switch to renewables. Climate targets are not mentioned in the founding document. Instead, the planned party focuses on new technologies and wants to import Russian gas again. Martin Kaiser, Executive Director of Greenpeace Germany, said: „Sahra Wagenknecht and her planned party cannot be expected to provide any major climate policy impetus. Her criticism that social justice should be centrally considered in climate protection and that large corporations should be made more responsible instead of treating climate protection primarily as an individual responsibility of individuals is justified.“ But her concrete statements were not convincing. Populist attacks to raise their own profile against central climate protection measures such as the Building Energy Act would be just as problematic „as the demand to ease economic sanctions against Russia in order to import cheap fossil gas more easily.“ fr.de
IEA outlook: Energy is becoming greener worldwide: The International Energy Agency predicts a green energy transition by 2030. Solar will boom and Russia will lose out. In its annual outlook for the world’s energy markets, the IEA in Paris predicts a drastic change by 2030. The peak in demand for fossil fuels such as gas, oil and coal will be passed in the next six years, the agency writes in its report. In 2030, the share of fossil fuels will decline from 80 per cent today to 73 per cent – with a downward trend. And this is despite the fact that the energy hunger of the growing human race will continue to increase. Renewable energy from the sun, wind and hydropower will grow more strongly than previously assumed and, for example, reach a global market share of 50 percent in electricity generation. Today it is just under 30 percent. dw.com , iea.org
Turbo for wind power: The European Union wants to expand wind energy, and the Commission is presenting an action plan. However, there are hardly any concrete measures in it. This is the result of an action plan presented by the EU Commission in Brussels last week. However, the plan hardly contains any concrete measures that can be implemented quickly. Instead, it relies on recommendations and appeals to the 27 EU states – but they are struggling. To reverse the trend, the Brussels authority proposes several immediate measures. These include faster approval procedures, which should also be digitalised. The Commission wants to support the states in this. For example, there is to be financial aid for the training of authorities. There is also talk of updated recommendations and guidelines – but nothing more concrete. taz.de
WHO to declare health emergency over climate crisis: Experts have called on the WHO to recognise the climate crisis as a health emergency. Among other things, because climate change favours the spread of diseases. However, the WHO does not see the criteria for this fulfilled. Scientists have called on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to classify the climate crisis as a global health emergency. More than 200 scientific journals simultaneously published a call to do so before the next World Health Assembly in spring 2024. These include renowned journals such as „The Lancet“ and „The British Medical Journal“. tagesschau.de , jmg.bmj.com (call)
BOOK TIP OF THE WEEK:
FREIHEIT ODER ZWANG
Who is better at sustainability – open societies or autocracies?
„The book shows how liberalism and sustainability go together. Definitely a must read!“
Hermann Otto Solms, former Vice President of the German Bundestag
Politically, our world is at a crossroads: one half of humanity currently lives in democracies, the other in autocracies or failed states. This „battle of the systems“ will also determine how we deal with the ecological crises. Between a failed climate chancellor, climate deniers and China’s ambitious environmental protection promises, not a few are asking themselves: Who can actually do sustainability better? Do we ultimately need a kind of „eco-dictatorship“ in order to be able to act? Stefan Brunnhuber knows all about the conflict between the desire for freedom, democratic processes and the necessity of an ecological turnaround. He contrasts our democracy with autocracies and draws a far-sighted conclusion on how we can live together and survive in this world. oekom.de
Weedkiller glyphosate: Bayer sentenced to 175-million-dollar fine. manager-magazin.de
International climate policy: German chief negotiator warns of climate summit collapse. deutschlandfunk.de
Fridays for Future: Fridays For Future (FFF) has shared anti-Semitic and anti-Israel conspiracy theories in an appeal. The German section distances itself. welt.de
Extreme drought in the Amazon: A record drought is causing gigantic rivers to dry up. Brazil’s President Lula and civil society are alarmed. zdf.de
Wind energy: Siemens Energy is reportedly negotiating with the federal government for state guarantees worth billions. finanzen.net
Brussels sticks to its guns: No special treatment for hydropower. euractiv.de
Tesla factory in Brandenburg: Brandenburg demands Tesla change plans because of environment. n-tv.de
The weather is getting more extreme: What the jet stream has to do with it. ingenieur.de
The Federal Chancellor’s man for business: Jörg Kukies. nzz.ch
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PODCAST OF THE WEEK:
Mission social balance: Where is the climate money?
It doesn’t happen too often that the government factions of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP agree on something. There is actually consensus on the „climate money“: it should come, sometime in 2024. Or later? Or at all? „This is a form of casualness that I find irritating,“ says SPIEGEL editor Jonas Schaible about the way the traffic light parties are dealing with the project, which they had already promised in the coalition agreement.The climate money is supposed to relieve precisely those people who cause less CO₂ through their private consumption, because they drive less car or heat more economically, for example. These are mostly people from lower income groups. In this way, the climate money should also enable social compensation at a time when everyday life is becoming more expensive due to inflation.
COMMENT OF THE WEEK:
Time for climate populism
by Bernhard Pötter
on the Sara Wagenknecht alliance… Question: Why is it always the brakemen, obstructionists and weaklings in climate policy who are allowed to throw populist slogans around? Up to now, common sense, scientific accuracy and honest consideration of conflicting interests have often been at a loss when confronted with someone who argues from the gut and against the head.
Couldn’t the world saviours also offer simple solutions to complex questions and not give a damn whether they stand up to a fact check when they „pick up the people“?
Just for example, in the next debate on climate protection, one could shout to these „people out in the country“: Those who oppose serious climate protection want to take away your holidays! Ask all the people who have spent their holidays in recent years in front of burning forests in Greece; who are banned from using the pools in Spain because of drought; who have their gelato melt away in a minute in Italy. Do you all want to lie on a rocky beach in northern Norway?
Who cares about the details when you can really take a populist dump? Learning to foul fairly, and as self-defence and world defence – why not? I’ll look for the phone number of Coach Dieter. Thank you for this idea, Sahra! And all these eco-populists would perhaps also forget the old etiquette rule of not making stupid jokes with names. Because: what is the socialist term for car slave? Exactly. taz.de
MOBILITY:
Reactivation of old lines – Deutsche Bahn is slow to return to the countryside: The rail network has shrunk by twelve percent since 1995. However, almost twice as many goods trains travel on the reduced network, and passenger train traffic has increased by 30 per cent. „This is a major reason why we currently have so many problems in rail transport,“ said Dirk Flege, Managing Director of the Pro-Rail Alliance . Together with the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV), he called for the rapid reactivation of as many of the closed lines as possible. tagesspiegel.de
Climate targets in transport: Germany needs 4000 „megachargers“ for electric trucks, but doesn’t even have one. focus.de
Car sharing – crisis or boom? Car sharing has not fulfilled expectations, a study says. The industry counters with current figures. Experts call for more support from politicians and transport companies. According to the German Car-Sharing Association, car sharing exists in 1,082 cities and municipalities in Germany. In many large cities, people can choose between different providers. Nationwide, almost 4.5 million authorised drivers are registered for car sharing. The 249 providers operate a total of 33,930 vehicles. Experts call for more support from politicians and transport companies. Car sharing vehicles are an alternative to private car ownership, which has been „massively advertised and state-subsidised for decades“ in Germany, says Gunnar Nehrke of the Bundesverband Carsharing (BCS). „The fact that the alternative product car sharing is only slowly gaining acceptance against this concentrated market power has never surprised either the BCS or the car sharing providers. klimareporter.de
This is how badly the German car industry is doing: Mercedes-Benz made significantly less profit in the third quarter due to delivery problems and tougher competition. The adjusted operating profit fell by eight percent to 4.9 billion euros from July to September compared to the same period last year. Things are not looking good at Volkswagen either at the moment. Higher costs and production stoppages due to flood damage at an important supplier are causing problems for the group. Above all, the volume business with the core brand Volkswagen is affected. For decades, the German car industry and Germany as an automotive location have been the world’s benchmark. But the structural change towards electromobility is acting as a gamechanger. The consequences could be serious. sueddeutsche.de , n-tv.de
Electric cars: Low accident figures, high repair costs: Drivers of electric cars cause fewer accidents than those of cars with internal combustion engines. But repairing electric cars is still more expensive at the moment. heise.de
Smart City: „Error in the funding system“? „Model projects“, „lighthouses“, „real labs“: the terms used in connection with smart city funding for pilot projects by municipalities often sound like innovation and excellence. But as right as it is to promote pioneers, there is often a lack not only of rolling out the experience gained at the top on a broad scale, but also of permanently operating innovative applications after they have been developed. This is the finding of Michael Pfefferle, who is responsible for smart city and mobility at the digital association Bitkom. As far as the topic of smart cities is concerned, he says, there is a need for „a new type of financing in municipalities“. Too often, the federal government and the federal states as funding providers focus on innovation, but too seldom on long-term operation, dissemination across the board and pragmatic application on a broad scale. stadtvonmorgen.de
HYDROGEN:
PCI funding list under the sign of hydrogen: There are hardly any natural gas projects left in the draft of the sixth EU list for „Projects of Common Interest“. Instead, hydrogen infrastructure projects in particular are to be given the chance to receive billions in funding. Many of them are pipelines to bring H2 to Germany. A draft list of 149 energy infrastructure projects became public yesterday, Wednesday. The final list will be decided at the end of November, a spokesperson of the EU Commission confirmed upon request. The result will then be published. PCI status is coveted. Licensing authorities and courts have to give priority to projects with this seal, and the project developers receive money from a funding budget worth billions. Between 2014 and 2020, the EU contributed 4.7 billion euros. background.tagesspiegel.de
How Germany is becoming the leading supplier of electrolysers: German manufacturers are among the top addresses in the production of electrolysers. But international competition is tough. Acatech outlines how German industry can maintain its strong position. However, it is by no means certain that the strong position of German manufacturers will endure in the future, because the market for electrolysers is developing at a highly dynamic pace and is encountering manufacturers whose production technology will soon be obsolete. The volume of the electrolyser market will increase about sevenfold by the end of the decade. In order to participate in this boom, the production of electrolysers must be automated as quickly as possible. Today, however, Germany is still dominated by the manufacture of electrolysers. springerprofessional.de
Largest underground hydrogen storage facility in Brandenburg opened: One of the largest hydrogen storage projects in Brandenburg to date was launched on Monday in Rüdersdorf (Märkisch-Oderland). The hydrogen is stored in a test cavern the size of a house in an underground salt dome. There is no storage facility of „this size“ in the Mark region so far, explained a spokeswoman for the Potsdam Ministry of Economics. A total of six tonnes of hydrogen are to be delivered by tankers over the next eight days. After the cavern has been filled, test operations are to begin, according to the energy service provider and operator EWE. This will primarily test the interplay between the injection and withdrawal of hydrogen. According to EWE, this amount of hydrogen could fill up about 1,000 cars. rbb.de
Hydrogen-powered container ships: ABB, an engineering and technology company, is working with Dutch shipping company Samskip and India’s Cochin Shipyard to develop the first container ships to use a hydrogen fuel cell power distribution system. Erik Hofmeester, head of ship management at Samskip, described these projects as a „milestone for the maritime industry“. Two such ships are currently under construction and are expected to be able to travel about 800 miles (just under 1,300 kilometres). efahrer.chip.de
Hydrogen: No more expensive than gas for end customers in the long term. zeit.de
LAST WEEK IN THE BUNDESTAG:
Support for NGOs: According to the draft federal budget for 2024 – as of 16 October 2023 – some 530 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) based or active in Germany are to receive financial support in the coming year, both directly and indirectly through companies majority-owned by the federal government. This was announced by the federal government in its answer (20/8838) to a minor question (20/8598) of the AfD parliamentary group. The funds for the supported projects are provided by the following authorities: Federal Chancellery, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), Bundestag, Federal Press Office (BPA), Federal Foreign Ministry (AA), Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ), Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS), Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVG), Federal Ministry of Health (BMG), Federal Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection (BMUV), Federal Ministry of Building (BMWSB), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). No information was available from the Federal Ministries of Economics and Climate (BMWK), Finance (BMF), Family Affairs (BMFSFJ), Transport (BMDV), and the Federal Ministry for Cooperation (BMZ).
„Goa Roadmap“ coincides with tourism strategy: At this year’s G20 tourism format, the G20 member states agreed on a „Goa Roadmap for Tourism as a vehicle for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals“. „The priorities of the ‚Goa Roadmap‘ largely coincide with the German priorities of the National Tourism Strategy,“ writes the German government in its answer (20/8752) to a minor question (20/8498). The „Goa Roadmap“ contains recommendations and best practice examples in the five action fields of green tourism, digitalisation, employment/training, strengthening of small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups and destination management, and is intended to contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The outcome of the G20 tourism ministerial meeting was, on the other hand, an outcome document and a summary of the Presidency, in which the ministers highlighted common principles of tourism policy in the five priority areas mentioned. The German delegation to the G20 Tourism Ministers‘ Meeting on 21 June 2023 in Goa, India, included Dieter Janecek (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), Federal Government Coordinator for Maritime Affairs and Tourism, and two staff members of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, the Federal Government announced.
Flower strips will continue to be promoted: The planting of flowering strips to strengthen the habitat of insects and biodiversity will remain eligible for funding until 2026. This is stated in the federal government’s answer (20/8758) to a minor question (20/8503) by the AfD parliamentary group. Although the federal government had made cuts of 293 million euros in the budget of Section 10 for Food and Agriculture at the expense of the Joint Task for the Improvement of Agricultural Structure and Coastal Protection (GAK), projects for the „promotion of ecological and animal welfare parameters“ would continue to receive funds. The amount of the annual subsidy for flower strips would be 800 euros per hectare of arable land, for annual flower strips and for perennial flower strips 767 euros per hectare of arable land, and for the use of seed mixtures produced in accordance with the requirements of the Ordinance on Conservation Mixtures 848 euros per hectare of arable land.
LITERALLY:
Of course I am afraid of having to spend longer in prison. But this fear does not influence me because I am convinced that our civil resistance and protests are necessary for climate protection. My commitment feels right. That’s why I don’t get into doubt. The first climate tipping points are already being triggered. We are the last generation that can still have a significant influence on how bad the climate crisis gets. The situation is dramatic. Actually, the global temperature increase should not exceed the 1.5 degree limit compared to values at the beginning of industrialisation. Now we are moving towards a rise of three degrees.
Lea Bonasera, 26, is one of the three founding members of Last Generation. She is also a member of the essential six-member strategy committee at the top of the organisation’s hierarchy. …a global warming of three degrees means that 40 to 60 percent of people worldwide would suffer from life-threatening heat. And we could grow ten to 20 per cent less grain worldwide. How would we then feed so many people? The German government’s goal of making Germany climate-neutral only by 2045 does not go far enough, because we would reach 1.5 degrees before 2030. That’s why we protested and sat on the streets. … Her family sees my commitment with mixed feelings. She said that when she got into a long hunger dispute with colleagues before the last federal election, it was difficult for my family, after all, she had put her life in danger. It would have been clear to her parents that they could not stop her. Especially her grandmother, who had once emigrated from East Germany to the West with only a coat, and her grandfather, who came from Italy and to whom she owed her surname, understood her. They themselves had changed their lives a lot and are nature-loving people. For the last few months, she has lived on a farm with her boyfriend, who works in agriculture. There, like her grandparents, she learned to grow her own food.
AFRICA:
German colonial period in Tanzania: „These brutal crimes are deliberately concealed“. Until 1918, the German Reich occupied what is now Tanzania as the colony of German East Africa – with brutal tyranny. Today, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is travelling to Tanzania. He visits a historically conceivably delicate place: Songea, the centre of the Maji Maji uprising against German colonial rule, as the first high-ranking politician from Germany. Thousands of local people rose up against the oppressors from the German Empire between 1905 and 1907. Their uprising was brutally put down by the colonial rulers, up to 300,000 people died as a result, the exact number is still unknown. Steinmeier’s trip is therefore also a trip into a dark chapter of Germany’s past that hardly plays a role in public perception. What words should the Federal President find? What do the bereaved families of the victims expect? How deep are the wounds on the ground? spiegel.de
Kenya’s World Bank debt exceeds $9.9 billion: The size of Kenya’s debt to the World Bank exceeded Ksh1.5 trillion ($9.99 billion) in June, reflecting increased disbursements and the depreciation of the shilling. New data released by the Central Bank of Kenya shows Kenya’s outstanding loan to the multilateral lender stood at Ksh1.57 trillion ($10.45 billion) at the end of the last fiscal year, up from Ksh1.46 trillion ($9.72 billion) at the end of May. The Ksh 110.9 billion ($738.35 million) increase in a single month means that almost 60 per cent of the total debt owed to multilateral lenders belongs to the World Bank. The sharp increase in external debt was due to new disbursements in the last month of the fiscal year and was also accelerated by a sustained depreciation of the local currency, which has fallen by 17% since January. theeastafrican.co.ke
Researchers claim to have found the cause of mass elephant deaths: An actually harmless bacterium has probably led to the death of numerous elephants in the African savannah. The pathogen became a problem because drought and lack of food had weakened the animals. Experts estimate that about 350,000 African elephants still live in the savannah in freedom – and every year the population shrinks by eight percent. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) therefore classifies the animals as endangered. The news that came out of Botswana in the spring and summer of 2020 was all the more dramatic: 350 elephants had died in a mass mortality. Some of the animals had collapsed and died while running. spiegel.de
Fast fashion littering Ghana: Millions of used garments from Europe, North America, Asia: much of what the global North no longer wants ends up in Ghana every year. Meanwhile, the country can no longer cope with the garment waste. More rubbish washes up every day, says Vis Tagoe, chairman of the fishermen’s cooperative. „When we can cast our nets at sea, we are happy,“ he says. „But when we haul them in, there is rubbish inside.“ An initiative is trying to turn the old clothes into resources – into boards, for example, that can be used for sound insulation when building houses. And yet, it’s quite a lot of effort for a product made of waste that once came along as cheap fashion, as „fast fashion“ – quickly bought, quickly thrown away. dw.com
Niger: France has completed the withdrawal of its soldiers from a base in northern Niger. It is part of the planned withdrawal of French troops from the West African country following the July military coup. Junta spokesman Amadou Abdramane said yesterday that nearly 200 soldiers, 28 trucks and two dozen armoured vehicles had left the Ouallam military base. It had been handed over to Niger. tagesschau.de
Chancellor’s third trip to Africa: Chancellor Scholz on economic mission to Nigeria and Ghana. n-tv.de
MORE KNOWLEDGE:
Why we are so ill-prepared for future crises: Scientific knowledge is available to prepare for ecological and health crises. What is lacking is societal readiness. In order to better prepare for future crises, there is currently a rethink among climate researchers, says Kevin Schwarzwald, a doctoral student in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University in New York. „We are at a very interesting point in climate research right now,“ Schwarzwald says. „Phenomena like climate anxiety are also relevant to many climate researchers.“ This is another reason why more and more researchers are looking at how they can make their research useful for society. derstandard.at
Energy consumption Artificial intelligence: Artificial intelligence (AI) applications are also supposed to help with climate protection in the future, but researchers warn that the energy consumption of AI data centres is rising sharply. „AI tools consume a lot of electricity, and the trend is rising,“ said Ralf Herbrich, managing director of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam and head of the Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability department. Data scientist Alex de Vries from Amsterdam compares the energy consumption from using a search engine that uses AI with that of entire countries. Scientists and internet companies worked on improving the ecological footprint. According to Herbrich, the research aims to ensure that calculations can succeed with fewer parameters and thus less energy input, while at the same time only minimally reducing the accuracy of the predictions. taz.de
When recycling of all things pollutes the environment: According to the World Conservation Union, 3.2 million tonnes of microplastics are released into the environment every year – and a significant proportion comes from recycling plants, according to environmental scientist Deonie Allen of Strathclyde University in Scotland. She systematically studied the emissions from a recycling plant. There, huge mills chop the waste into small pieces – microplastics, if you will. 13 per cent of the mass of plastic waste goes directly into the factory’s wastewater as microplastic. If it is not filtered, the factory washes it into the nearest river, where the researcher was also able to detect masses of it. If the wastewater is filtered, however, the amount of escaped microplastics dropped to six per cent of the total amount of waste processed. Still a lot, according to Allen. Each recycling plant processes tens of thousands of tonnes a year. sueddeutsche.de
Coral bleaching: Reaches surprisingly deep. scinexx.de
Battery recycling: Two companies want to recycle battery scrap almost completely. fr.de
Tiny houses: How sustainable is living in tiny spaces? n-tv.de
CALENDAR:
Municipal Climate Conference
Start: 16 November 2023
End: 17 November 2023
Climate change speaks a clear language: municipalities are increasingly affected by weather extremes. Should climate communication also become clearer? What are the tasks of municipalities in this context? In order to achieve far-reaching CO2 and energy-saving effects, communication strategies play an important role in addition to technical and planning measures. Their goal is to anchor climate protection issues in society and motivate people to act in a climate-friendly way. How can different target groups be reached? And how can the step from knowledge to action be successfully taken? These and other questions will be examined and discussed from different perspectives – science, politics and municipal practice.
The Municipal Climate Conference is organised once a year by the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) with funding from the National Climate Initiative of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection. The two-day event is an annual event for actors in municipal climate protection. In order to enable as many interested parties as possible to participate, the first day of the conference will be broadcast online via livestream. A fixed item on the programme is the award ceremony for the „Climate Active Municipality“ competition. The best trainee projects of this year’s „Municipal Climate Scouts“ will also be presented and awarded prizes at the conference.
28th World Climate Conference 2023 (COP 28)
Start: 30 Nov 2023
End: 12 Dec 2023
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
THE LAST:
Isar 2 nuclear power plant: restart no longer possible
The topic of recommissioning is definitely off the table for Isar 2. Dismantling is in full swing, and there is a lack of skilled workers needed for operation. A good six months after the shutdown of the Isar 2 nuclear power plant near Landshut, it is clear that the plant cannot be restarted. Guido Knott, managing director of the operator PreussenElektra, said last week- „Preparations for dismantling are in full swing and the colleagues required for operation are simply no longer available to us. The topic of recommissioning is definitely off the table for us,“ said Knott. He thus rejected speculation about a restart of the plant. Only one day after Isar 2 was taken off the grid, Minister-President Markus Söder (CSU) had said that he wanted to continue operating the plant under state responsibility and demanded that the Federal Government amend the Atomic Energy Act. heise.de
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