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Brazil: Amazon deforestation drops 34% in first six months under Lula (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] nexusband@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Germany is not building new coal plants, ffs. Stop this bullshit and inform yourself before that.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Just checked: Apparently the last one got finished 2020, an 1GW block in Datteln.

The newest list I could find is from the BUND, 2016, the Datteln one is the only one that got built. If there were more projects the BUND would definitely have kept updating that list, they're tree-huggers, of course they would.

And frankly speaking a certain number of new plants were sensible even with the end of the technology already being a decided thing: Old ones are way less efficient than new ones so it's better to have the last ones to shut down be highly efficient ones, producing more energy for the CO2 they emit.

[-] nexusband@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly - and Datteln 4 was started in 2007. It was even projected to have the first commercial Carbon Capture System...selling it to Canada though, seemed the wiser idea to some. The canadians sold the license to use the technology to Australia and made a fortune.

[-] DreamerOfImprobableDreams@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My bad, I mixed it up with them increasing coal consumption / expanding existing coal mines. The overall point stands though that even as stupid as shutting down all the nuclear plants was, Germany's still on a good path long-term when it comes to fighting climate change-- and the rest of Europe is making impressive progress, too.

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