Osnabrück, Germany (ots) - Ways to better protect the planet are currently being debated at the World Summit on Nature in Cali, Colombia, and soon at the World Climate Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. Today in Mainz, two people are demonstrating what practical solutions can look like: Peatland researcher Dr Franziska Tanneberger and electrical engineer Thomas Speidel ...
Lübeck/Osnabrück (ots) - The German Federal Environmental Foundation confers this year’s German Environmental Award today (Sunday) in Lübeck, worth a total of 500,000 euros – presented by German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to climate scientist Professor Friederike Otto and wood construction pioneer Dagmar Fritz-Kramer. Despite ongoing devastating ...
Osnabrück (ots) - The German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU – Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt) has chosen two women as the joint recipients of this year’s German Environmental Award – climate scientist Professor Friederike Otto and wood construction entrepreneur Dagmar Fritz-Kramer will share the ...
Osnabrück (ots) - With their considerable ingenuity and entrepreneurial courage, the qualified engineers Friedrich Mewis and Dirk Lehmann have revolutionized the shipping world. With the Becker Mewis Duct (BMD), they have not only saved millions of tons of heavy fuel oil since its market launch in 2008, but have ...
Osnabrück/Darmstadt (ots) - With an appeal to our sense of solidarity as a global community, today (Sunday), at the darmstadtium conference centre in Darmstadt, Germany’s Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for a change of course to conserve biodiversity and stop global warming. At the awards ...
Osnabrück/Darmstadt (ots) - Today (Sunday) in Darmstadt, the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) honoured exceptional efforts in the fight against climate change and to protect biodiversity with one of Europe’s most prestigious and highly endowed environmental awards. German President Frank-Walter ...
Hannover/Osnabrück (ots) - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier recognised the German Federal Environmental Foundation's German Environmental Award as "a particularly important message" for us not to lose sight of "other major challenges facing mankind" in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The award, which ...
Hannover/Osnabrück (ots) - Today (25 October 2020), the German Federal Environmental Foundation's German Environmental Award, which has a remuneration of EUR 500,000, is being presented for the 28th time at the HCC Hannover Congress Centrum. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, German President Frank-Walter ...
Osnabrück (ots) - The DBU German Environmental Prize awards climate economist Prof Dr Edenhofer and the Trappmanns, entrepreneurs in the field of metal packaging - the Honorary Award goes to entomologist Dr Martin Sorg Climate economist Prof Dr Ottmar Edenhofer (59) and the siblings Annika (28) and Hugo Sebastian (37) Trappmann, Managing Directors of the Blechwarenfabrik Limburg, will receive this year's German ...
Mannheim (ots) - Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on the citizens to "make bold decisions today" in environmental and climate protection to trigger "positive interactions for tomorrow". "The future is not simply predestined. It's up to us what we make of it," he said today at the presentation of ...
Mannheim (ots) - The German Environmental Prize was awarded to soil researcher Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner and entrepreneur Reinhard Schneider The German Environmental Foundation (DBU) has awarded the German Environmental Prize for the 27th time. Today in Mannheim, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Head of the Board of Trustees of the DBU and ...
Erfurt (ots) - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier thanked "thousands of people" in Germany for ensuring that "mainstream society has truly become aware" of both the environment and environmental protection. At the award ceremony for the German Environmental Foundation's (DBU) German Environmental Prize that ...
Erfurt (ots) - German Environmental Prize awarded to marine biologist Antje Boetius and a team of wastewater experts from Leipzig The German Environmental Foundation (DBU) has awarded the German Environmental Prize for the 26th time. Today in Erfurt, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Head of the Board of Trustees of the DBU and Parliamentary State ...
Osnabrück (ots) - German president presented Europe's most lucrative environmental prize today in Osnabrück - DBU confers award German President Joachim Gauck today commended the new winners of the German Environmental Award of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) for their courage in taking on conflicts to promote their visions and in overcoming obstacles. ...
Osnabrück (ots) - German president spoke out at the opening of "Environment Week" - leading industrial nations called upon to keep their promises "I am convinced that there is no better breeding ground for our ideas and solutions than our open society with open markets and free and fair competition. It is urgent to establish a reliable political framework so that we ...
Stuttgart (ots) - The German Environmental Award of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) has been presented for the 19th time. The associate, co-founder and board spokesman of memo AG (Greussenheim), Jürgen Schmidt (48), and the managing directors of the company WS Wärmeprozesstechnik (Renningen), Dr Joachim ...
Osnabrück (ots) - Cooler for medicine and vaccines to meet WHO standards - health and environmental protection - DBU promotes with approximately 50.000 EUR Medicine is a "sensitive plant": it dislikes high temperatures. Vaccines are similarly sensitive. Both is difficult on longer transports in developing countries where electricity is ...
Osnabruck, Germany (ots) - Medium-sized company from Darmstadt develops new technology aimed on early detection of leaks - Tests in Russia and China - Financial backing from the DBU Are oil-pipelines ticking eco-bombs? 74 million litres of oil are supposed to having polluted the Ecuadorian Amazon area in the last 30 years - far more than the leakage on the occasion of the Exxon Valdez accident. And the ...
Osnabrueck, Germany (ots) - Europe's best-endowed environmental award, the Deutscher Umweltpreis, worth EUR 500,000, was awarded for the eleventh time today. Federal President Johannes Rau presented it to the Head of the Biomechanics Department at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Professor Dr. Claus Mattheck ...
Osnabrueck, Germany (ots) - Foundation honours international commitment as well as development of innovative technology designed to protect the environment - Germany's President to present the prize The latest winners of the Deutscher Umweltpreis, Germany's environmental achievement award, have now been decided: The recipients of the prize which, at ...
Osnabrueck, Germany (ots) - DBU honours international commitment and development of biological products - Awarding ceremony on 27 October in Magdeburg The new prizewinners of the German Environmental Award have been nominated. Presented by Federal President Johannes Rau the Executive Director of the ...
