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(1/3) Just Renewables - Online workshop series on the global equitable expansion of renewable energies

From Leonel / 18.04.2024 Comments Disabled

Without the expansion of renewables, there will be no phase-out of fossil fuels. But renewable does not automatically mean climate-friendly. From environmental damage caused by the extraction of the necessary raw materials to land use conflicts for [...]

Regenerate instead of exhaust: Why we need to bring energy and raw materials transitions together

From Leonel / 08.04.2024 Comments Disabled

In the summer semester 2024, the Green Office organizes the Studium Generale at the University of Marburg together with Dr. Lukas Wagner. We look at the current state of society, science and [...]

Panel discussion: Energy partnerships on an equal footing? Dangers and Opportunities of Foreign Energy Policy

From Leonel / 30.03.2024 Comments Disabled

The energy crisis in Germany was recently declared over by Federal Minister Robert Habeck. In recent years, the traffic light government has campaigned for numerous ‘energy partnerships’ with other countries and [...]

Press release: New study shows: Reduction of raw materials in Germany is necessary and possible

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Press release: New study shows: Reduction of raw materials in Germany is necessary and possible

From Adrian Bornmann / 28.03.2024 Comments Disabled

Berlin, 28.03.2024: Germany's industry consumes too many metallic raw materials at almost 80 million tonnes in 2022. To protect the climate and to protect environmental degradation and human rights violations – which are always [...]

Webinar: Practically implementing the raw material transition, saving on primary raw materials

From Leonel / 27.03.2024 Comments Disabled

In the coalition agreement, the German government promised in 2021 to reduce primary raw material consumption. However, this has not yet been achieved in the area of metallic raw materials. Countries such as Germany have to reduce their primary raw material consumption.

Crash Course Commodity Transition June 2024 in Hamburg

From Leonel / 27.03.2024 Comments Disabled

‘The journey of copper: From the mine to the port to resource-efficient mobility" for political activists and multipliers from parties, trade unions, media, social movements and environmental and development organisations...

Press release: Guinea: Certification of bauxite mine despite human rights violations and environmental destruction

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Press release: Guinea: Certification of bauxite mine despite human rights violations and environmental destruction

From Adrian Bornmann / 12.03.2024 Comments Disabled

Berlin, 12.03.2024: The non-governmental organizations FIAN and PowerShift criticize the preliminary certification of the bauxite mine of the Compagnie des Bauxites des Guinée (CBG) by the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI). Certification based on...

Press release: Does the EU perpetuate old injustices in South Africa?

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Press release: Does the EU perpetuate old injustices in South Africa?

From Adrian Bornmann / 05.02.2024 Comments Disabled

Berlin, 05.02.2024: On Monday, the Mining Indaba, the most important mining conference on the African continent, begins in South Africa. The Parliamentary State Secretary Dr. Franziska Brantner (BMWK) will also visit [...]

Solar power – the key to a just future

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Solar power – the key to a just future

From Leonel / 26.01.2024 Comments Disabled

PowerShift is committed to ensuring that the expansion of solar power not only contributes to combating the climate crisis, but is also designed in a socially just and environmentally sustainable way. In the focus [...]

Press release on the agreement on the Critical Raw Materials Act

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Press release on the agreement on the Critical Raw Materials Act

From Adrian Bornmann / 14.11.2023 Comments Disabled

Berlin, 14.11.2023: Yesterday evening, the European Parliament, member states and the European Commission agreed on the Critical Raw Materials Act, just eight months after the European Commission presented its draft. The last technical questions are [...]