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Federal Environment Ministry News
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Renewable energies: key to climate protection, economic development and poverty eradication
The German initiative to establish an International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has met with a very positive response worldwide. More than 100 countries have confirmed their participation in the Founding Conference this coming Monday in Bonn. ...
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Breakthrough for the expansion of renewable energies
The establishment of an International Renewable Energy Agency can now begin: at a conference in Madrid 51 states laid the foundations and agreed on the text of the Statute. The breakthrough has thus been achieved for the initiative launched by ...
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Budget of German Federal Environment Ministry has almost doubled since 2005
`Assuming that budget figures reflect policies, this federal budget shows the great importance the German government attaches to environmental and climate policies`, Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said today during the budget debate of ...
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Biomass on the up in Germany
Germany is well on the way to meeting its ambitious targets for the expansion of renewable energies. This is demonstrated by the most recent data on the development of renewable energies in 2007, which have been published today by the German Federal ...