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Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker on the work of GES

3. February 2023

“At the power plants, capturing and recycling CO2 has great potential, although the question is who is going to pay for it. Comparable to the successful Montreal Protocol to prevent a hole in the ozone layer, this should primarily be done by the industrialised countries. For the existing fleet, synthetic fuels in particular offer good […]

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Review of the COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh

2. December 2022

The climate conference ended with the promise of the industrialised countries to pay for damages and losses resulting from warming in particularly vulnerable developing countries. But the financing is not yet clear and the dimensions are clearly too low. Regarding the reduction of greenhouse gases, there was no progress compared to the previous COP in […]

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GES-Industry Partner Meeting

2. December 2022

The Net Zero metastudy was also a topic at the GES supporter meeting with eleven companies on November 7th. Franz Josef Radermacher, member of the GES Board of Directors, concludes: “For us, carbon capture is a key element – it is absolutely needed alongside hydrogen and other building blocks in the future energy system.” Other […]

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Green molecule projects on the verge of a breakthrough?

2. December 2022

Supporters of Dii Desert Energy met in Cairo at the beginning of November. The predecessor organisation Desertec is better known. In the meantime, today’s Dii Desert Energy has established itself as a competence centre and contact broker for renewable energy projects in the MENA region. The number of partners has practically doubled compared to the […]

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Franz Josef Radermacher: Appointment to international UNIDO Council

1. July 2022

GES Vice-Chair, Prof. Dr Franz Josef Radermacher, is now a member of the new Council of Engineers on the Energy Transition (CEET) of the United Nations Development Organization (UNIDO). The CEET is a highly qualified, global body of energy experts. Radermacher supports the United Nations in developing technical ways to achieve a climate-neutral energy system […]

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GES member meeting

3. December 2021

It took place on 22 November with more than 40 virtual attendees. The Board reported on the ongoing activities of the association, such as the work in the Global Energy Perspectives project funded by the Ministry of Development. The discussion focused on the exchange about the approaches to solutions pursued by GES and the openness […]

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GES: Project funding confirmed

15. July 2021
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On our own account: project funding confirmed

24. June 2021

The project, for which Global Energy Solutions e.V. was founded, can start on 01.07.2021. The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has approved funding for the research project “Global Energy Perspectives – Development of a Reference Model to Address Global Energy and Climate Challenges”. The project aims to show that there is a […]

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Honour for Prof. Walter Leitner, member of the GES Board of Trustees

26. May 2021

Prof. Leitner is nominated for the European Inventor Award of the European Patent Office for the development of a new technique for the use of CO2. He is head of “Technical Chemistry and Petrochemistry” at RWTH Aachen University and director at the Max Planck Institute […]

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Radermacher: Germany’s climate nationalism will not help the world

4. May 2021

Germany focuses too much on national goals and measures in the fight against climate change. However, these are hardly relevant in the global context. This is the opinion of Franz Josef Rademacher, board member of Global Energy Solutions. German and European climate policy hardly takes note of influential global developments, such as population trends. By […]

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