Publications
Forest Plantations in Brazil
In the public discussion, the role of sustainable forestry in climate protection is hardly noticed. It is often described as a forest destroyer, especially when forest plantations are mentioned. Forest plantations are forests established for commercial timber production. They consist of fast-growing tree species that…
Climate neutrality for the global fleet of cars and trucks: it won’t work without e-fuels
Climate neutrality for 1.3 billion cars and trucks: it won’t work without e-fuels Introduction Around 2050, there will be about ten billion people on earth, two billion more than today. For this reason alone, the demand for energy will continue to rise. Global Energy Solutions…
Results / Positioning GES Status August 2022
Status August 2022 1 Climate-friendly electricity A prosperity-compatible energy and climate strategy for the world looking ahead to 2050 and 10 billion people requires – also proportionally – a multiple of today’s amount of climate-friendly electricity. This will be generated in various ways: old and new…
Strategy Statement: Dii Desert Energy – Global Energy Solutions
The primary goal of the world should be to reduce its ecological footprint and especially its CO2-emissions worldwide in order to enable a growing world population to live in prosperity and to preserve livelihoods. Ultimately, the aim is to achieve all Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda…
How we can still stop climate change
Climate protection is extremely complex. Global CO2 emissions continue to grow. The Paris Agreement contains ambitious targets but no matching commitments and measures. The negative dynamics concerning climate result from the understandable economic aspirations of many poorer countries who want to catch-up with the rich,…
Methanol – Central building block of a sustainable energy future
STARTING POINT Germany focuses too much on national goals in the fight against climate change (climate nationalism). However, these are of little relevance in the global context. This focus leads to unfavorable strategies, for example in the areas of green electricity, green hydrogen and synthetic…
“Double green” methanol / “Double-green” synthetic fuels
Abstract Methanol is an “anchor substance” for a climate neutral world. Methanol and its derivatives (synthetic climate-neutral fuels) open up the possibility, among other things, to make the entire traffic, including the dominant number of existing vehicles with combustion engines, climate-neutral. The same applies to…
Climate Change and Climate Protection – Methanol helps!
Success factors for climate protection Climate targets can only be achieved successfully if global, economic and social power relations are taken into account. Politically: States such as Russia and Iran could not agree to total decarbonization because their economies are heavily dependent on the export…
Overcoming the international energy and climate crisis – Methanol economy and soil improvement can close the carbon cycle
Abstract The global energy and climate crisis can be solved in a way that is compatible with growth and promoting prosperity. The now almost panic-stricken public debates about the end of the world, a planned economy for the climate, the electrification of the entire mobility…
The Marshall Plan with Africa – An approach to the implementation of the Agenda 2030 ?!
Summary The text discusses the Agenda 2030, the so-called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations and their chances of implementation. The text does not agree on praising the SDGs, but rather sees them in some sense as a step backwards compared to the…
