Insights in Research on Carbon Capture and Storage - Presentation download

Our last lecture received good resonance. It was great to see so many of you in the audience, and we had really interesting discussions afterwards. I hope we can continue some of them here. In the meanwhile finally the presentation is available for download.

We highly appreciate any comments!

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“Insights in Research on Carbon Capture and Storage”

After the slight difficulties we had with the last
lecture, we are more than happy to end this semester's lecture series with a very interesting topic presented by an external expert: Dr. Markus Bauer from the University of Bayreuth. He will talk about the upcoming CCS technology that you certainly heard about in the media or during your studies. CCS means Carbon capture and storage, i.e. sequestration of CO2 and its underground storage. This technology could offer a means to allow the continued use of the world's hydrocarbon resources while still taking care of climate change. However, many doubts concerning the efficiency, applicability and safety of this technology exist. Learn more about a much discussed technology of tomorrow.

As this is the last lecture for this semester we really hope that you can afford a break in your exam preparations to spend an inspiring evening with us. We look forward to nice discussions and relaxed conversation afterwards with a beer with you. We also will try to provide small snacks make you feel comfortable at our closure lecture.

“Insights in Research on Carbon Capture and Storage”

Tuesday, 08/02/2011, 19:00h at TMS

Hope to see you there!

Climate change policy: additions

The news in the run-up to Copenhagen are not encouraging. However: how could we give up here? And indeed, the spirit of commitment and engagement at this university slowly grows:

After the last lectures the initiative was taken to found a students group in order to improve energy efficiency at the university. They will hold their first official meeting at Thursday, 26th Nov Nov, at 18:00h, room is still to be announced. Please contact Holger Fischer for further information! I think this sort of initiatives is really what we need, so let's give them all support we can share!

The demonstration at Friday was quite a success; there were at least 500 people. Most of them were youths, the ones who start engaging now and might soon be in positions to take responsibility, so its promising if they know already now what to stand for!

Still, to be informed is important. I try my best here to sum up information for you, hoping that some of you can make use of it. Comments would be highly appreciated! :-)

• A really good, very short summery about the state of affairs in pre-Copenhagen negotiations can be found here.
• An elaborate investigation on the perception of climate change in the US can be found here.
• For those of you who have a little bit of time to read: check out the document " Contours of Climate Justice - Ideas for shaping new climate and energy politics"

Copenhagen COP 15... let's keep going!

Breakthrough or failure?

A short note on the state of affairs in climate change policy

You can download a handout prepared for the climate change policy lecture here. It summarizes the most important issues and compiles an elaborate list of links for further reading. There is also a short overview on events accompanying the negotiations in Copenhagen provided.

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Announcement: Copenhagen climate change conference: prepare for action!

>> 10/11/09 At TMS, starting at 19:00h

Giving an example: presentation of the “Don’t melt our future” demonstration, taking place at Nov. 20th in Stuttgart

What is the state of affairs in the moment?

What’s going on in December accompanying the negotiations? How can we participate?

By Sascha Groß, member of NAJU, organizer of the demonstration, student at Hohenheim

See also www.dontmeltourfuture.de

Climate change policy: let's continue...

I want to thank all of you for your vivid and inspiring participation in the last green bug lectures. Two thumbs up for all of you who already signed in the "seal the deal" campaign!

Unfortunately I do not have the time to present an elaborate summary of the last lecture here. As provisional measure I make the PowerPoint presentation availible, so that you might have a look at the links again or maybe feel reminded at interesting topics you want to investigate further. I hope to provide more interesting material here in future. Of course all contributions are highly welcomed and appreciated. Get informed, get organized, get engaged! ;-)

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Climate change policy: Get infromed (links)!

There is an international umbrella organisation of NGOs concerned about climate change, the climate action network (CAN). They provide a lot of material on their homepage (under „policy and information“). Look for their "ECO" newsletter, short but very well written crtical comments on ongoing negotiations.

Elaborate list of important links to climate change.

Official site of the UFCCC, which is a vast source of information. There is also a webcast of important meetings of the ongoing climate change talks in Bonn.

The german NGO german watch is very active in fighting for climate justice, but they also provide a lot of material.

A very good and critical report on carbon trade can be found here („this publication takes a broad look at several dimensions of carbon trading. It analyses the problems arising from the emerging global carbon market pertaining to the environment, social justice and human rights, and investigates climate mitigation alternatives. It provides a short history of carbon trading and discusses a number of ‘lessons unlearned’. Nine case studies from different parts of the world provide examples of the outcomes.“)

Discussion paper of „Bred for the world“ (a german NGO) on financing climate adaption.