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New episode: Sustainablity through digitalisation?
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Data centres, digital lifestyle, artificial intelligence: podcast on climate action and digitalisation

Due to the massive increase in data transmission relating to the use of digital devices and services, energy consumption at data centres has surged in…

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Data centres, digital lifestyle, artificial intelligence: podcast on climate action and digitalisation
Electromobility does not need metals from the deep sea
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Energy transition feasible without deep-sea mining

A successful energy and mobility transition does not depend on raw materials from deep-sea mining. This is the conclusion drawn in a new study by the…

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Energy transition feasible without deep-sea mining
Most certificates have a low quality
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Expansion of Carbon Credit Scoring Tool Reveals Opportunities to Improve Quality of Carbon Market

The Carbon Credit Quality Initiative (CCQI) launched an expanded version of its interactive scoring tool to assess the quality of several newly added…

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Expansion of Carbon Credit Scoring Tool Reveals Opportunities to Improve Quality of Carbon Market
Climate protection through organic farming
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Certified CO2 storage in soils? A critical review

At the end of 2022, the EU Commission developed a proposal for a framework to certify activities that remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in…

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Certified CO2 storage in soils? A critical review
Nuclear energy use is nearing an end
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Goodbye, nuclear power – unsustainable, uneconomical and high-risk

In Germany, nuclear energy use is nearing an end. There are many good reasons for this, not least the major risks associated with this technology,…

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Goodbye, nuclear power – unsustainable, uneconomical and high-risk
Can the forests still be saved?
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Forests: Cash from conservation, not timber

Until now, Germany’s two million forest owners have relied on sales of timber to generate an income. However, this may be about to change: the…

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Forests: Cash from conservation, not timber
Setting the course in the EU now
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Emissions trading: a key component of climate action

At the United Nations negotiations on ambitious global climate action, due to commence in the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh on Sunday, 6 November…

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Emissions trading: a key component of climate action
Practical steps for climate-friendly heating
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Initiating the heat pump boom: the fine detail

The much-needed push for heat pumps is already gathering pace: in March 2022, the German government decided that from 1 January 2024, every newly…

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Initiating the heat pump boom: the fine detail