Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity
Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial [...]
Month: August 2022
Low-Cost, Low-Risk All-Renewable Energy Plans for 145 Countries
Recent climate policy discussions on how to rapidly reduce carbon have taken on an all-of-the-above attitude [...]
When climate change pulls the plug: If groundwater tables drop, streams and rivers seep away and pollute drinking wa
Increasing drought, less precipitation, rising water demand in agriculture – climate change is causing problems for [...]
Where is the traffic turnaround?
Now, at the end of August, the summer of the 9-Euro-Ticket is coming to an end. [...]
Digital damage: Is your online life polluting the planet?
Shorter emails, camera-off Zoom calls and deleting old photos could reduce our digital carbon footprints – [...]
Green hydrogen from offshore wind power
In the H2Mare flagship project, four Hereon institutes are researching the production of green hydrogen and [...]
Landslides increasingly threaten the world’s urban poor cities
Landslides will affect more and more settlements in poor regions of the world in the future, [...]
Global Coalition of 80 foundations calls for a G20 power target of 70% by 2030
Largest International Climate Platform of foundations and philanthropic organisationspresents new report on renewable energy potential of [...]
A historical perspective on glacial retreat
Researchers at ETH Zurich and WSL have for the first time reconstructed the extent of Switzerland’s [...]
Fuel price increase plus green vehicles incentives – the best climate policy for road transport
An MCC-led study identifies the success stories to date, taking an innovative approach to policy evaluation. [...]
Water scarcity: Commission advises on safe water reuse in agriculture
Water reuse can limit abstractions from surface waters and groundwater and promote a more efficient management [...]
New study: Compromises in shared land use enable ambitious offshore expansion
Wind energy at sea is a crucial element in achieving climate neutrality by 2045. The federal [...]
The German ghost discussion
At least we have to talk about extending the operating lives of the three German nuclear [...]
Floating ‘artificial leaves’ ride the wave of clean fuel production
Researchers have developed floating ‘artificial leaves’ that generate clean fuels from sunlight and water, and could [...]
Building blocks of the future for photovoltaics
Research team led by Göttingen University observes formation of “dark” moiré interlayer excitons for the first [...]
Synhelion produces solar syngas on an industrial scale for the first time
Synhelion has become the first company in the world to succeed in producing syngas on an [...]