Investments in renewable energy play a key role in achieving global climate goals. Favourable policies have attracted a lot of private capital to solar and wind technologies from a wide range of investors in the last decade. In the meantime, the costs of these technologies have declined...

Abstract: Die Autoren analysieren vor dem Hintergrund der Ziele der Energiewende die Defizite der momentanen Förderung erneuerbarer Energien und das Potenzial für ihre Integration in den Strommarkt. Darauf aufbauend analysieren die Autoren als Reformoptionen (a) eine Anpassung des bisherigen...

Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in South-East Asia: Drought Conditions and Crop Damage Assessment -- Management of Natural Forests for Carbon Emission Reductions through Improved Logging Practices and Wood Bioenergy Use -- Vehicle Technology Impact Assessment Model for Indonesia...

There are no technofixes. Neither 'clean' energy nor 'green' capitalism will preserve our lands, rivers, oceans, health, and lives. Neither governments nor corporations nor 'the market' can bring us out of the netherworld they themselves have created. Mother Earth calls to the grass-roots for...