Based on a life-cycle sustainability assessment and the calculation of carbon abatement costs, we quantify the greenhouse-gas emission reductions and costs if green waste in the metropolitan region of Berlin, Germany, is diverted from composting into the production of hydrothermally carbonized...

The aim of this work is to evaluate the impact of domestic and global biofuel policies on Germany's agricultural sector. The central part of our study is divided into four sections. Section 2 presents in detail the issues that make biofuels a debated topic in today's economic policies....

Starting from a low level, in recent years the battery-supported self-consumption of solar electricity (solar prosumage) has grown significantly in Germany. Its growth is primarily due to the opposing trends in household electricity prices and feed-in tariffs in conjunction with government...

Der Jemen ist seit 2014 in einem Bürgerkrieg mit ausländischer militärischer Intervention verwickelt. Im Zuge des Konfliktes wurde die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung von der (zuvor zumindest teilweise vorhandenen) Elektrizitätsversorgung des öffentlichen Netzes abgeschnitten. Alternativlosigkeit...