Resources

La seria de escritos ecología: La pregunta toral que nos hacemos es: ¿cómo se necesita organizar el uso de los recursos naturales de manera que se respeten los límites ecológicos de nuestro planeta y, al mismo tiempo, se fortalezcan los derechos humanos y la democracia? Ese Memorándum define un conjunto de principios e ideas para una política de los recursos en un triángulo de justicia socioeconómica, ambiental y democrática con una perspectiva internacional.

Publication Series on Ecology 38: How could a just and democratic resource politics look like that respects both planetary boundaries and human rights? The Memorandum “Resource Politics for a Fair Future” is the outcome of a two-year international dialogue process of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Germany’s energy transition, or Energiewende, has been a success story. But one lesson to be drawn is that energy policy decisions taken in one EU member state affect other EU member states as well. For these reasons, the Heinrich Böll Foundation initiated a project entitled “The German Energy Transition in the European Context”.

Study „Biofuels: Effects on Global Agricultural Prices and Climate Change“ by Harald Grethe, Andre Deppermann und Sandra Marquardt, Universität Hohenheim.

The concept of ‘green growth’ rests on the idea of an ‘efficiency revolution’ – climate-friendly technologies, sustainable industrial and transport sectors, and an efficient use of resources. But while vast productivity increases do indeed incentivize a more efficient use of energy, they raise demand at the same time. This paper explores the range of possible rebound effects, their quantitative extent and the difficulties encountered by political efforts to contain them.

Nearly two years after the German Government’s raw materials strategy was first published in October 2010, the present paper takes stock of how individual core elements of the raw materials strategy have been put into practice, with a focus on the promotion of foreign trade and on development cooperation.

Global struggles over access to ever-scarcer natural resources are in full swing. Power im-balances, regulatory and democratic shortcomings, unbridled corporate power and blind belief in new technologies need a counterweight.