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Abandoning Nuclear Power Creating Problems for Germany

Abandoning Nuclear Power Creating Problems for Germany | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
A weaker German economy, which is showing up in the latest government economic statistics, appears partially due to its newly embraced energy strategy but also due to a weakening global economy. The shift in the nuclear power strategy caused significant financial damage to the country's power companies and the cost of this policy shift is now impacting energy costs for Germany's manufacturing sector, the key source of the country's export strength. Germany is the world's fifth-largest economy measured on purchasing power parity and is the globe's second-largest exporting economy, only recently having been passed by China. The economy's export strengths are in machinery, vehicles, chemicals and household equipment.

The nuclear power plant phase out decision has created severe financial hardships for Germany's power companies.
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ecosystem services

ecosystem services | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

A bit of perspective on natural systems, ecosystem services, and symbiotic relationships on a wider "community" type scale.  See Ecovision sustainable learning center. 


Via Anne Caspari, landscape architecture &sustainability
Anne Caspari's curator insight, February 17, 7:52 PM

nice trans-lation. 

Bonnie Bracey Sutton's curator insight, April 16, 3:14 PM

great illustrations

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Ignoring natural capital could see countries' credit ratings downgraded

Ignoring natural capital could see countries' credit ratings downgraded | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

"A report by the UN Environment Programme's Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) says loss of soils, forests, and fisheries, as well as rising resource costs, are likely to become increasingly important to a nation's economic health – and may therefore affect its ability to repay or refinance sovereign debt."

 

This excellent report makes the link between the world's financial debt crisis and the global ecological debt crisis. The debate on austerity gets a completely different dimension if you look at this double challenge.


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