Vom Landgasthof in den Alpen bis zum Weltkonzern Nike – immer mehr Unternehmen sind oder wollen CO2-neutral sein. Was aber verbirgt sich hinter diesem Begriff? Welche CO2-Emissionsquellen werden dabei berücksichtigt und welche Klimaschutzprojekte können zur „Neutralisation“ der...

Renewable energy sources are generally considered as an important tool on the way towards sustainable development. However, if developing countries want to actively promote renewable energies, they may need to face the problem that current legislation conflicts with the clean development...

In the context of combating climate change, renewable energies are considered to play an important role. As these energies are currently not fully competitive compared with conventional power generation technologies, (minimum) quotas have been proposed as one means of overcoming this problem....

Current legislation on power production from nuclear energy in Germany defines certain remaining quantities of permitted electricity production for nuclear power plants. These quantities are defined for each nuclear power plant and are measured in TWh. In the discussion about climate protection...

In order to promote CO₂ emission reductions at the local level, the Ministry of Environment of the State of Hamburg, Germany, in 2001 initiated the "Hamburg CO₂ Competition" together with the Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke AG (HEW), the local utility. This proactive step contrasted with...

In 1997, the 3rd conference of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted the Kyoto Protocol as a consequence of increasing evidence of a manmade global warming of the atmosphere. Binding greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for industrialised countries were agreed...