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Commercial vehicle manufacturers aim for broad-scale rollout of e-trucks

Press releases 09/16/2024

Road freight transport is the second-largest producer of CO2 emissions in the mobility sector after passenger cars. A fossil fuel phase-out for commercial vehicles is therefore essential. A new report by the Oeko-Institut documents current views among commercial vehicle manufacturers and charging infrastructure experts on the shift in propulsion technology and the required energy supply infrastructure. From their perspective, battery electric trucks are emerging as the dominant technology in road freight transport.
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The environmental impacts of AI need to become more visible

Press releases 08/08/2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been on everyone's lips since the first version of ChatGPT was released at the end of 2022. Intelligence software applications have already been in use for many years to, for example, compile favourite playlists, weed out spam emails, find the best route to take, translate texts and get product recommendations based on previous internet purchases. But what about the carbon footprint of AI? Jens Gröger, Senior Researcher in the Products & Material Flows Division, explains the environmental advantages and disadvantages of AI in Oeko-Institut's latest podcast.
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Contributions of marine ecosystems to CO2 storage and biodiversity

Press releases 07/15/2024

Seagrass meadows, mangrove forests and salt marshes can absorb and store up to 216 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere worldwide every year. Over centuries to millennia, they form an enormous carbon store of up to 22,000 million tonnes of carbon in marine sediments. At the same time, they make an important contribution to the preservation of biodiversity in the oceans and on the coasts, help to protect against storm surges and coastal defences and thereby contribute to the nutrition and safety of millions of people. This is shown in a research report by Oeko-Institut and the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research and commissioned by the German Environment Agency. The report examines the importance of coastal ecosystems for global climate protection.
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Germany can do more to combat energy poverty

Press releases 06/20/2024

Between 2.7 and 6.5 million households in Germany are affected by energy poverty – they cannot keep their homes adequately warm, for instance, or spend an excessively high proportion of their income on electricity and heating. At the same time, the data available in Germany lacks the quality needed to measure energy poverty and transport poverty suitably. Yet this would be the basis for taking measures tailored closely to reducing these specific forms of poverty.

Wie wohnt Deutschland

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Über die Hälfte der rund 23 Millionen Mieterhaushalte in Deutschland gehört zum untersten Einkommensdrittel.

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Was bedeutet sozial gerechter Klimaschutz?

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Was bedeutet sozial gerechter Klimaschutz? Die Unterstützung zur Umstellung auf klimafreundliche Alternativen ist der wichtigste Hebel, um nachhaltig sozial verträglichen Klimaschutz zu gestalten.

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The twelve largest chemical parks in German industry

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The twelve largest German chemical parks generated 23 million tonnes of CO2 (mt CO2) in 2022, which corresponds to three percent of German greenhouse gas emissions.

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