{"id":8497,"date":"2020-12-03T12:19:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/?page_id=8497"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:57:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:57:07","slug":"category-politics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.monika-griefahn.de\/en\/category-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The tenth international Cradle to Cradle Congress has once again demonstrated that the transformation toward a true circular economy has long been underway. Over the course of two days last week, 1,000 participants, 100 volunteers, and many German and international speakers from business, politics, and civil society exchanged their concepts,…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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In May, shortly before the run-off election for the Romanian presidency, I traveled to Romania and Moldova with a group from the German Society on Foreign Relations (DGAP). It was up-close and personal political education in crucial times. Romania, a country that is already a member of the EU, was…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Invented 100 years ago and as relevant as ever: Fischer-Tropsch synthesis celebrated its 100th birthday at the beginning of May. As the process was developed in M\u00fclheim-Ruhr, my home town, I attended the conference at the beginning of May. It was about how the legendary process can be used today….\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A dead whale on the beach! Are there whales here in the Caspian Sea? No, it is an object created by a group of artists to show how vulnerable our world is. After all, it could be that a whale had been washed ashore. The whale object was produced by…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Insults, sexist remarks and death threats: What women (and men) experience on social media today is nothing new. In the film \u201cPetra Kelly – Act now\u201d, it becomes clear how the activist was already exposed to constant verbal abuse in the 1980s, before the internet existed. This is one of…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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China maintained its position as Germany’s largest trading partner last year, just ahead of the USA. At 253.1 billion euros, imports and exports were slightly higher than trade in goods with the USA (252.3 billion euros). The trip, which was organized by the Economic Forum of the Social Democratic Party…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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One can only be torn. On the one hand, while we are in Georgia with the German Council on Foreign Relations (DAGP), tens of thousands of people have been on the streets for over a month protesting against the law \u201con foreign agents\u201d. It was passed on May 28 against…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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I accepted this volontary position without hesitation: As of this month, I am an ambassador for the German Committee of the UN Decade of the Oceans (2021-2030) for three years. The aim of the ambassadors is to create understanding and publicity for the goals of the Decade and to anchor…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The Fraunhofer Institute in Munich has analyzed that around 85,000 to 88,000 terawatt hours of climate-neutral synthetic fuel could be produced outside Europe. Around three quarters of Africa’s coastline would be suitable for producing solar or wind power. With this information in mind, I excitedly traveled to the African Energy…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The biggest challenge of our times is the challenge of climate change. I am convinced, that with the help of efuels, we can reach the necessary goals \u2013 and with taking over a global view to the problem. Representing many highly developed industrialized countries, Germany faces the major challenge of…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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People who are publicly active have to endure public criticism. And they do. But there are limits that are being crossed more and more frequently, especially in the anonymity of the Internet. The Green Party member of the Bundestag Renate K\u00fcnast, my esteemed colleague for many years, has now won…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Sima Samar received the “Alternative Nobel Prize” in 2012 (with Monika Griefahn and Jakob von Uexk\u00fcll). In 2012 Sima Samar received the Right Livelihood Award (“Alternative Nobel Prize”). We were very impressed by her fight for human rights and especially for women’s rights.\u00a0 Afghanistan is a…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Erhard Eppler has passed away on Saturday at the age of 92. We keep his relatives and friends in our thoughts at this difficult time and wish them the strength to be able to fill the gap he leaves in their everyday lives with beautiful memories. Erhard Eppler was a…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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…not least as an economic factor. That was the conclusion drawn at an event titled “Climate protection as an innovation driver for the economy” organized recently by Svenja Schulze, Germany’s Federal Minister for the Environment. The realization should be reason enough to finally take the foot off the brakes in…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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For two days in early May, a number of people committed to the protection of climate and the environment met in the north-eastern German town of Greifswald to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Michael Succow Foundation. Among them were Michael Otto, a prominent entrepreneur from Hamburg, Alexander Bonde, Secretary…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Most people will by now have seen the frightening images of plastic waste in the oceans. Studies of seabirds have shown that the animals will starve to death in spite of a full stomach \u2013 however, it is filled with indigestible pieces of plastic. And we haven’t even begun getting…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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In Berlin, 8 March \u2013 International Women’s Day \u2013 is now a public holiday. The city’s Chamber of Deputies voted in favor of the plan in January! It isn’t the worst of ideas if you ask me. The event “100 years of women’s suffrage \u2013 our goal is parity”, which…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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When I was recently invited to speak at the event “Change at next stop” in Bonn, organised by the Goethe-Institute, I was full of anticipation. The event had been devised for environmental activists and educators from North African countries and the Middle East to meet each other and learn more…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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It’s a small step towards sustainability, and it has now been implemented by the vast majority of companies obliged to do so: they have based their reporting systems on the requirements laid out by the so-called CSR-RUG. Under this law German capital market-oriented corporations, banks and insurance companies above a…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A lot has changed at TUHH \u2013 most notably its name. The institution is now called the Technical University of Hamburg. The addition “Harburg” has been dropped so that the university is abel to sharpen its image internationally. There has also been a change at the top of the university….\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Olaf Lies freely admitted that he didn’t have the easiest of jobs. Monika Griefahn’s “successor-successor-successor”, as the current environment minister of the German federal state of Lower Saxony smirkingly described himself, said: “You can’t list all of Monika Griefahn’s merits \u2013 you can only mention the highlights.” Lies was speaking…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Dr. Michael Otto. Foto: Otto Group Michael Otto did not want a big party for his 75th birthday. What he did want to do was talk about the issues that are important to him. That\u2019s why the CEO of the Otto Group, Alexander Birken, used the…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Congratualtions by Uwe-Karsten Heye and Monika Griefahn, Willy-Brandt-Haus Berlin. Foto: Florian Gaertner\/photothek.net “Nothing is finished” \u2013 that’s the motto under which Klaus Staeck invited guests to celebrate his 80th birthday at the Willy-Brandt-Haus in Berlin. More precisely it was the Social Democratic Party’s executive, who organised…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Helge Wendenburg, Monika Griefahn and Ditmar Horn (v.l.) One of my long-time companions, Helge Wendenburg, is retiring. Most recently, he was the director of the Department of Water Resource Protection at the German Federal Environment Ministry. His deputies organised a wonderful symposium in his honour in…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Adventurer and human rights activist R\u00fcdiger Nehberg in Buchholz. One of the guests at the 2014 Cradle to Cradle congress in Lueneburg was the German adventurer and human rights activist R\u00fcdiger Nehberg. With his open and humorous temperament he proved that he knows how to inspire…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Monika Griefahn in 2015 at the award ceremony of the German “Computerspielpreis”.Photo (archives): Franziska Krug\/Getty Images for Quinke Networks Just ahead of the recent general elections the German Cultural Council issued a gratifying news release: “The Chancellor and the Secretaries-General of the CDU, SPD, Greens, the…\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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