Last week the first climate lawsuit in Germany was negotiated in Berlin. Although the complaint was rejected, the three farmers concerned and their lawyer speak of a partial success.
Two weeks before the trial Claus Blohm leaves his harvest. A coach parks in his yard, next to it boxes full of apples with brown spots. Young people in Greenpeace rain jackets line up around the fruit trees, which did not bear a single apple this year after last year's hot summer. Blohm wants to show the young people that climate change is not taking place somewhere in the world and not just in computer simulations - but here, More...
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Stormy days on the red colossus
They are getting bigger and bigger and travel around the globe with fewer and fewer personnel and cheaper goods: container ships have become a symbol of globalization. A trip from America to Europe [Antwerp] - and a conversation with a former Swiss captain
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I've recently been to Chile and visited the so called Hotel Winebox (winebox.valparaiso-hotels.com). This is a hotel made of recycled materials. Shipping containers have been used to build the shape, rooms etc. of the More...
"Our emissions are globally small, but high per capita"
The high level of agricultural production in New Zealand means we produce a lot of methane and nitrous oxide which have a greater warming effect compared with carbon dioxide. Based on the latest available inventory data for 2016, New Zealand’s gross emissions ranked 24th among the Annex I countries, but our emissions per person were the seventh highest at 16.9 tonnes CO2-e per capita.
snapshot-nzs-greenhouse-gas-inventory-1990-2017.pdf (1,023.88 kb)
Source: umverkehr.ch (2019, originally Greenpeace or else, not active anymore)
Swiss study highlights environmental impact of palm oil plantations (swissinfo.ch)