The changing face of the automotive industry – employment prospects in 2030
Electric mobility and digitization are having a profound impact on both qualitative and quantitative employment requirements [...]
Year: 2020
Calling for pan-European commitment for rapid and sustained reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infections
Across Europe, the COVID-19 pandemic is causing excess deaths, placing a burden on societies and health [...]
Fires also threaten Brazil’s second largest ecosystem
It is not only in the Amazon that forests are burning: According to a study carried [...]
New energy conversion layer for biosolar cells
Photosynthetic proteins can convert light energy into other forms of energy. Researchers want to make this [...]
Dynamics in the root zone
More regions in Europe are at risk of nitrate leaching than previously thought Nutrient contamination of [...]
Europe’s rivers fragmented by one million barriers
A study published in the scientific journal “Nature” with the participation of IGB shows: Europe has [...]
Current policy frameworks hinder expansion of renewable energies worldwide and undermine climate targets
While governments around the world spend billions of dollars to rebuild economies in times of the [...]
Standing up for a Sustainable World
New book co-edited by Johan Rockström explores modes of resistance against systemic natural destruction The world’s [...]
BloombergNEF’s annual battery price survey finds prices fell 13% from 2019
Battery Pack Prices Cited Below $100/kWh for the First Time in 2020, While Market Average Sits [...]
Supporting Renewable Electricity: EU Member States Should Coordinate Reform Efforts
The European Union recently adopted more ambitious climate goals for 2030 – their implementation is now [...]
EU Drinking Water Directive: Clean water for the whole EU
The first successful European citizens’ initiative “Right2Water” for EU-wide access to clean drinking water becomes European [...]
All new trucks sold must be fossil free by 2040
… agree truck makers and climate researchers In an unprecedented science-backed statement, Europe’s truck manufacturers have [...]
Cost of Planting, Protecting Trees to Fight Climate Change Could Jump
Planting trees and preventing deforestation are considered key climate change mitigation strategies, but a new analysis [...]
Pandemic brings record fall in global CO2 emissions
The Global Carbon Project, of which LMU geographer Julia Pongratz is a leading member, reports an [...]
IHS Markit: 2020 is the “pivot point” for noncarbon energy
For the past 30 years, noncarbon energy’s share of global primary energy demand compared to fossil [...]
Study shows: Solar facades and solar roofs are now profitable
The additional costs for a solar building envelope compared to conventional construction methods amount to 30 [...]