Sentences with phrase «german government»

The German government's recent chicanery with the IPCC report is just further evidence of this pattern.

Yet that's not the message the German government wants to convey, because it has plenty of vested interests who enjoy subsidies.

With the German government pushing for more cargo bikes, Whole Foods using cargo bikes in Brooklyn and UPS delivering by bike in some areas, it seems that we really are reaching a critical mass where cargo bikes are just a part of the modern, urban landscape.

The proposal for the sanctuary has been submitted by the EU and backed by the German Government.

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A study for the German government shows rates of emissions reductions that would be needed if we are to have a reasonable chance of limiting warming to 2 °C (Figure 1).

Among other positions, Prof. Dr. Nakicenovic is Member of the United Nations Secretary General High - Level Technical Group on Sustainable for Energy for All Initiative; Member of the Advisory Council of the German Government on Global Change (WBGU); Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Committee on Scientific Planning and Review; Co-Chair, Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Carbon Project (GCP); Member of the Board, Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA); Member of the Working Group of the Austrian Panel on Climate Change (AG - APCC); Member of the Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Impact and Response Assessments; Member of the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) Steering Committee; Member of the International Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Programme on Technology, and Member of the Earth League.

Mr Teske was nominated to the panel by the German government, ever more deeply committed to a renewables - heavy policy; when the summary of the report was launched in Berlin two German cabinet ministers spoke approvingly.

Drawn up by the German government's energy agency, it says that wind farms prove a costly form of reducing greenhouse gases.

Fastned granted 4.1 m euros by German government to build out 25 multi-port charging stations across Germany (Cleantechnica)

However, iSuppli believes that the German government will not dare to cut down PV subsidies, especially in the wake of a recent decision to extend the operation of nuclear power plants.

The electric vehicle fast - charging station firm Fastned has been granted a total of $ 4.1 million by the German government, to be used for the development of 25 fast - charging stations in Germany, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica.

Green jobs created by government actions disappear as soon as government support is terminated, a lesson the German government and the green companies it supports are beginning to learn.

Indian Discom (distribution company) Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (Tata Power - DDL) and German government - owned entity GIZ have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work jointly on promoting rooftop solar, energy storage systems, EVs and smart grid initiatives.

In 2009 Joachim Hans Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Climate Impacts Institute and Climate Advisor to the German Government, stated: «We're simply talking about the very life support system of this planet», constituting one of the most critical warnings science has ever issued to our species.

The German government estimates that 1960s homes use four times the energy for heating than a modern, energy - efficient home.

First elected in 2002, the five - term senator and former majority and minority leader became a clean energy advocate after visiting Germany six several times through an exchange program funded by the German government.

The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935.

The new coal plants (per the German government) have been long planned to replace very old and low efficiency units with new coal units which are approaching ~ 50 % efficiency.

Well, the German government has just announced new building codes that will change the landscape when it comes to distributed renewable power: starting 1 January 2009, all new homes built in German will have to meet 14 percent of total energy consumption for heating and domestic hot water with renewable power.

While German political leaders like to continue pretending they are taking real action to combat climate change, the reality is that the German government has been rolling back subsidies for green energies such as wind and sun over the past years.

The German government announced today that it will shut down seven of the country's seventeen nuclear power plants for an indefinite period, a decision taken in response to widespread protests and a German public increasingly fearful of nuclear power after a nuclear emergency in Japan.

Vattenfall's CEO Magnus Hall also recently requested that the new German government provide a clear date to shift away from coal while continuing to provide incentives to maintain and expand CHP.

As one of the first movers in the region, the German government is eager to collaborate with Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Algeria for European investment in electricity infrastructure and renewable energy generation.

Against this backdrop, the German government has requested the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) to shed light on the essential elements of an energy sector transition that would be consistent with limiting the rise in global temperature to well below two degrees Celisius (2 °C), as set out in the Paris Agreement.

Steve McIntyre Re: «it seems odd to me that the German government nominated a Greenpeace activist to SRREN»

For example, was it morally acceptable for the German government to support the export of German nuclear technology when it was closing down its own industry?

That was my thought as well — it would be very interesting to know who suggested to the German government that Teske be chosen.

This is a joke, Herr Edenhofer: The German government nominates from a group presented by official advisors.

Sven Teske was nominated as an author by the German government and selected by the WGIII as Lead author in the IPCC's continuous effort to draw on the full range of expertise, and this includes NGOs and business as well as academia.

However, the German government has offered to build community roads, and critics contend the road's real purpose is to provide a short path to bring minerals out of Africa's interior.

As described in much more detail in Environmentalism Gone Mad, the German Government, for example, decided to increase wind and solar generation for the usual bad reasons.

Lovins» basic framework of transitioning from nuclear to renewables was promoted by David Brower and Friends of the Earth and eventually embraced by Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the German government, Al Gore, and a whole generation of environmentalists.

However, in 2014, national funding was obtained from the German government in order to relaunch the activities with the mission to work out a guideline proposal for discussion within the international expert group of SolarPACES.

In late February, however, the 30 companies that make up the German Dax 30 stock market openly voiced their concerns regarding the German government's current strategy to meet carbon emissions reduction goals.

The study, commissioned by the German government, looked at the scenario where all offset credits from the UN's Clean Development Mechanism...

We also, in Paris we launched something I think will turn out to be very important for us — a C40 finance facility, which is largely funded by the German government at the moment, and is intended to fill that gap where we've got lots of cities with really well technically designed projects, low carbon projects, whether that be cycle routes, or a new low carbon building developments, but where the city just doesn't have the capacity to turn those into really bankable projects — something that a private investor, or indeed a multilateral funding agency, feels comfortable about putting the money into, because it's just not what they're used to doing.

Last year, the German Government's Advisory Council on Global Change released a report titled Climate Change as a Security Risk which identifies six threats to international stability and security from global warming.

As a result, «fuel poverty» has become a big problem for low income families; the government has to subsidize German industry so that it does not move abroad; and German companies now invest much more abroad than in Germany, - The German government is struggling with these problems, the country is going downhill very fast, but Angela Merkel continues to try and cure the country with more aspirins.

This February, the European Commission approved the capacity reserve under state - aid rules, and the German government swiftly put rules in place for the reserve to be auctioned under three two - year contracting periods from 2019 to 2025.

The German government wants to slash its support to the solar energy industry to prevent the market from overheating, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party said Tuesday.

The report (not yet available on the web but discussed in a session on Tuesday) was commissioned by the German government and this portion was led by Niklas Hohne of the consultancy Ecofys in Koln.

I'm delighted to announce today a joint partnership with the German Government to help support those developing countries that are taking ambitious action to close the gap to 2 °C.»

The German government's chief climate advisor is the furthest thing from an objective, dispassionate scientist.

Let's play a little game — it's 2000 (the year in which the German government adopted its Renewable Energy Act and the nuclear phaseout), and you are the CEO of RWE.

Now, the German government seems to have gotten up to speed at the last minute and agreed on a common formulation.

An International Renewable Energy Agency study commissioned by Germany for the German government says investments into renewable energy and energy efficiency could bolster the global economy by US$ 19 trillion by 2050.

With PV system prices plummeting, including a 30 - percent drop in 2009 alone, the German government announced in mid-2010 that in order to control costs and bring support levels in line with market conditions, it would reduce tariff rates further than the annual cuts originally stipulated by law.

Thus, Borkum Riffgrund 1 contributes considerably to the aim of the German government to install a total of 6.5 GW of offshore wind energy until the year 2020.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has caught the German government distorting the latest IPCC's report on the effectiveness of «green» energy subsidies.