Heinrich Böll Foundation
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- https://www.boell.de/en, Heinrich Böll Foundation
- Green policy think tank
The Heinrich Böll Foundation is a think tank for policy reform, and an international network which is closely affiliated to the German Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). The fight against environmental degradation is one of its primary objectives. It operates the website energytransition.org, which aims to explain what the Energiewende is, how it works, and what challenges lay ahead, to an international audience.
Meat Atlas
Published annually every January.
- English (2014): link
- German (2018): link
- Linkback: Meat Industry
Energy Atlas
https://www.boell.de/en/energy-atlas-figures-and-facts-about-renewables-europe
Ocean Atlas
Overfishing, the loss of biodiversity, and an immense pollution – the seas are under stress. The Ocean Atlas 2017 delivers in more than 40 infographics and articles all the relevant data, facts and contexts.
Agrifood Atlas
- Facts and Figures about the corporations that control what we eat.
- The list of the world’s largest 500 companies by turnover contains a huge number of firms engaged in agriculture and food. And the trend continues towards a further concentration of power. Agrifood corporations are driving industrialization along the entire global value chain, from farm to plate. Their purchasing and sales policies promote a form of agriculture that revolves around productivity. The fight for market share is achieved at the expense of the weakest links in the chain: farmers, and workers.
- Jointly published by Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and Friends of the Earth Europe.
- https://www.boell.de/en/2017/10/26/agrifood-atlas-facts-and-figures-about-corporations-control-what-we-eat
- Linkback Agribusiness
Articles
- Mar.07.2018: Auctions didn’t make wind power cheaper, study finds. Wind power prices have plummeted in recent years since Germany switched to auctions. Now, a study has found what readers of this blog already knew: the prices only look low because they are reported as though future electricity were already being generated today. The study thus further documents the real reason for the shift from feed-in tariffs to auctions: it wasn’t about price; the goal was to give policymakers a way to control, and hence limit, the amount built annually. Auctions do that well, so they may be here to stay. Linkback: Energy Industry#Wind_Power Craig Morris, EnergyTransition.org.