Germany and Japan - cooperation on electric mobility
Ursula Heinen-Esser, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Environment Ministry, opened the 3rd German-Japanese Environmental Dialogue Forum in Berlin on September 7. The focus of the meeting is on electric mobility. [
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Call for trend reversal in international nature conservation
On September 3 Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen participated in an international meeting on biodiversity in Geneva (Switzerland). [
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Climate-friendly development is the future
On August 31, Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen held talks in Berlin with his colleagues Jean-Luis Borloo, the French Ecology and Energy Minister, and Chris Huhne, the UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, to discuss international climate policy for the coming months.
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Scenarios provide decision-making basis for energy concept
Federal Government commissioned a study to model nine scenarios that would outline the ways forward for the energy sector of the future. The study provides a basis for Germany’s energy concept which is to be adopted by the cabinet on 28 September 2010. [
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GRS to conduct preliminary safety analysis for Gorleben
The Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) has commissioned the Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (Association for Plant and Reactor Safety, GRS) to carry out a preliminary safety analysis for Gorleben and summarise all available information on the salt dome and the results of
exploration activities to date. [
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Petersberg Climate Dialogue
2 to 4 May 2010,
Königswinter
International Year of Biodiversity
Press review
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Germany Extends Nuclear Plants' Life
(New York Times, September 6, 2010)

