Tag: environmental engineering
These technologies help against water scarcity
Insight Innovation Around 2.2 billion people worldwide do not have regular access to safe drinking water. New technologies can help alleviate the problem. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy) Dusseldorf When scientists talk…
How CO2 becomes a valuable raw material
CO2 So carbon dioxide will continue to be emitted for a long time. One solution: converting CO2 into resources. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy, Imago, Getty Images, Reuters [M]) Gent Francis Steenbrugghe…
How CO2 becomes a valuable raw material
CO2 So carbon dioxide will continue to be emitted for a long time. One solution: converting CO2 into resources. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy, Imago, Getty Images, Reuters [M]) Gent Francis Steenbrugghe…
What Germany can learn from Switzerland when using recycled concrete
new strong The construction project in Zug is the largest project to date in which CO2-enriched concrete is used. The start-up Neustark helped develop the process. Zurich Concrete is part…
CO2 start-up Climeworks collects 590 million euros
climateworks A system by the Swiss start-up in Iceland. Dusseldorf The climate start-up Climeworks is raising more than half a billion euros in its new round of financing – the…
CO2 start-up Climeworks collects 590 million euros
climateworks A system by the Swiss start-up in Iceland. Dusseldorf The climate start-up Climeworks is raising more than half a billion euros in its new round of financing – the…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change relies on these key measures
Boxberg coal-fired power plant in Germany The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change demands the use of less fossil fuels. (Photo: imago images/photothek) Berlin More drastically than ever before, the Intergovernmental…
The CO2 has to get out of the air – but how?
Forest in Bavaria Trees naturally absorb CO2 from the air. But afforestation also has its limits. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Even the most ambitious savings program for greenhouse gas emissions could…
How the construction industry could go green
Dusseldorf The construction industry is booming. Worldwide. House after house is not only being built in metropolises. Infrastructure projects, residential buildings, commercial real estate – the more people live in…
How Norway can help German industry with climate protection
Berlin Per Brevik was not enthusiastic about the project from the start, on which he has now been working for a decade and a half: “In 2005 I thought it…
How the EU Commission wants to get rid of CO2
Brussels Politicians know very well: The climate cannot be protected by reducing CO2 alone, but humanity must purposefully remove the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. For example, the EU is…
Rising energy costs require a variable CO2 price
Oil pumps on an oil field near Ponca City The energy costs have risen significantly recently. (Photo: dpa) Germany’s consumers are groaning at rising prices for petrol, diesel, oil and…
Alliance: No climate neutrality without CO2 storage
CO2 storage in a cement plant in Wuhu China is also developing the technology further in order to make industrial processes less harmful to the climate. So far, there has…