Climate change politics are in the news again. The G7 Summit Declaration emerging from Bavaria earlier this week signaled once more purposeful intent to address climate change. This affirmation of “strong determination” from the world’s leading industrial economies comes six months away from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting scheduled for Paris in December. Many regard the Paris gathering as crucial in addressing what President Barack Obama has called Read more [...]

Updated June 10, 2015 13:16:51 Photo: The most expensive is a painting of King Ludwig II's Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria. (AFP: Auktionshaus Weidler) Watercolour paintings and drawings by Adolf Hitler from about 100 years ago will be auctioned in southern Germany this month.Some of the works, which date from 1904 to 1922, are signed "A. Hitler", Read more [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 9, 2015 — Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, President Obama outdoes himself. Though the president’s comments on Monday, at the G7 summit in Germany about not having a “complete strategy” for dealing with ISIS are already common knowledge, saying so to the world is hardly reassuring. What is so confounding about Obama’s statements is that he does have “complete strategies” when it suits his purposes to have them. Healthcare, political Read more [...]

President Barack Obama has called on Athens to get “serious” about reforms and to show flexibility with its EU-International Monetary Fund creditors to resolve a standoff that endangers Greek euro zone membership. At the G7 annual meeting in Bavaria, leaders warned Russia that further “restrictive measures” beyond current sanctions were being formulated in response to its continued actions in eastern Ukraine. A two-day meeting in Elmau Castle, 100km south of Munich, closed with commitments Read more [...]

Nordex collects assiduously wind farm orders in Germany Hamburg - Nordex SE continued to build on the success of the first quarter 2015 in April and May. In these two months the wind turbine manufacturer signed 17 orders with a total capacity of more than 150 MW in its home market. Nearly all the customers decided in favour of the tried and tested light-wind N117/2400 turbine with is particularly high level of efficiency at inland sites.VR Bank Flensburg-Schleswig eG invested in ten turbines Read more [...]

The Group of 7 (G7) nations met in Bavaria on June 8, and pledged to rid the global economy of fossil fuels by the end of the 21st Century. “We are committed to the fact that during the course of the century we want to see the decarbonalization of the world economy,” German Chancellor and G7 Summit host Angela Merkel told reporters. The joint declaration has no teeth behind it, and amounts to just words on paper, but it is the first time that the industrialized world has officially called Read more [...]

The two attacks happened within a few days of each other on the river Würm. On May 29th a 24-year-old had taken his dogs to the banks of the river when the beaver bit him, reports the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). A few days later on June 3rd a 26-year-old was swimming in the river when the beaver attacked again. “Just as I wanted to avoid him, I suddenly felt an intense pain. Shortly after a beaver emerged in the water next to me, swam along beside me and stared directly into my eyes for Read more [...]

The issues discussed during the summit included the possibility of implementing additional sanctions against Russia, efforts to finalize the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal and reaffirmed support of the global coalition to counter Islamic State radicals.

G7 leaders have agreed to phase out fossil fuel emissions this century, in a move described as "historic" by environmental campaigners. At the meeting in Bavaria, leaders from the US, Germany, France, the UK, Japan, Canada and Italy declared that, in line with scientific findings, "deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions are required with a decarbonisation of the global economy over the course of this century". They said they supported cutting greenhouse gases by between 40 per cent Read more [...]

Image credit: GettyImages.com The world’s most powerful and wealthiest nations — Germany, US, Japan, France, Canada, Italy, and the United Kingdom is bound to meet for the annual G7 summit this June 7-8 in Schloss Elmau, Krun, Germany. German Prime Minister, Angela Merkel, already welcomed President Barrack Obama, who just recently arrived in Bavaria. The US President is set to meet the German PM in a separate meeting before the official G7 gathering. Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, Read more [...]