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Energy-Efficient Data Centres

With the increasing use of the internet, telecom-munications services, and it networks internal to organisations, the numbers of servers and their power consumption has risen rapidly over the past ten years. Assuming that the best energy efficiency technologies and solutions available today were to be broadly implemented through massive efforts, i.e. at approx. 90% of all data centres, electric pow-er consumption by servers and the data centre in-frastructure would drop to 6.65 tWh by 2013. [ more]



The International Climate Initiative of the Federal Republic of Germany

The German government’s Climate Initiative, launched in 2008, is a practical example of how to provide financing. Auctioning certified emission reductions to German industry generates new and additional funding that is reinvested in ambitious national and international climate protection projects. [ more]



Nature

Report on the State of nature by the German federal Government for the 16th electoral term

In May 2005 the German federal government first published a report on the state of nature. The cur-rent report, covering the 16th electoral term, follows on from the earlier reports. The current report on the state of nature contains an inventory and analysis of the threats to biodiversity, the federal government’s priorities for nature conservation, and prospects for the future conserva-tion and sustainable use of biodiversity. [ more]



Ecological Industrial Policy

Ecological Industrial Policy - Sustainable Policy for Innovation, Growth and Employment

The ecological industrial policy is the Federal Environment Ministry's answer to the major economic and environmental challenges of our time. [ more]