Podcasts - PowerShift

Expensive contaminated sites: Investment protection in Germany, Honduras and worldwide

From Emma Jacoby / 10.12.2024 Comments Disabled

Das Geld ist knapp, und zwar an allen Ecken und Enden. Diesen Eindruck hat man bekommen, wenn man die Haushaltdebatten der mittlerweile gescheiterten Ampel-Koalition für 2025 verfolgt hat. Und […]

Climate Change and Reparations: Will COP29 bring more global justice?

From Emma Jacoby / 27.11.2024 Comments Disabled

Climate protection, and then also fair? Shortly after the election of US President Trump, who wants to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement with his country, such demands seem difficult to implement. [...]

Raw materials turnaround now: Highlights and Voices from the Alternative Raw Materials Summit

From Emma Jacoby / 19.11.2024 Comments Disabled

German and European raw materials policy urgently needs new strategies and paradigms in order to be fit for the future and to do justice globally. How exactly this should work, people from international civil society, politics, trade unions [...]

How German metal consumption is weighing on Southeast Asia – local perspectives

From Emma Jacoby / 25.09.2024 Comments Disabled

Nickel, which is used in German e-cars or buildings, has often come from Russia in the past and could increasingly come from Indonesia or the Philippines in the future. Other [...]

Blue hydrogen: Fossil and climate friendly?

From Emma Jacoby / 23.08.2024 Comments Disabled

Hydrogen is an important energy storage and raw material, for example for climate-neutral steel production. There is a whole color theory of green, blue, pink and gray hydrogen. While green hydrogen is climate neutral [...]

Trade barriers against China's solar industry? Impact on climate action, human rights and international justice

From Emma Jacoby / 25.06.2024 Comments Disabled

The trade dispute between the US and China over the dominance of green technologies (e-cars, batteries, wind and solar systems) is also spilling over to Europe. The U.S. has imposed tariffs on Chinese [...]

What does Europe bring us? The EU election in the PowerShift check

From Emma Jacoby / 30.05.2024 Comments Disabled

From 6 to 9 June, the people of Europe will elect the European Parliament. The EU also has a major influence on the PowerShift sectors - raw materials, trade, investment, climate and energy policy. In [...]

Metal trade: the blind spot in the supply chain

From Emma Jacoby / 22.05.2024 Comments Disabled

When we think of (metallic) raw materials, we often think of the mines where they are mined, the mining companies and working conditions of the miners. Or to the companies and products, [...]

Consuming fewer metals – how Germany’s raw materials transition succeeds

From Emma Jacoby / 08.04.2024 Comments Disabled

A world without metallic raw materials? Not imaginable. They meet us in our everyday lives in the form of coffee machines, bicycles, cutlery, smartphones and are installed in our apartments as pipes, pipes [...]

CETA balance sheet: How the agreement drives climate-damaging trade

From Emma Jacoby / 03.03.2024 Comments Disabled

Climate crisis and trade policy, how does this fit together? The trade agreement between Canada and the European Union – CETA – has been partially implemented since 2017, with the remaining parts [...]