Photo: A screenshot from the video "The EU's 2030 goals for climate and energy".
“Good business for everybody” is the message of a twee animated cartoon promoting the EU’s 2030 goals for climate and energy. European politicians...
November 18, 2014 6:59 pm / 1 comment
Yesterday the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) got the most votes for the European Parlament in Germany, but they suffered some losses like their sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU). The Social Democratic Party (SPD) improved their...
May 28, 2014 10:50 pm / 2 comments
This week the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the third and final section of its massive new climate report Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change (WGIII). Without the least delay newspapers boasted that the...
April 22, 2014 9:34 am / 1 comment
In a recent talk, Hans-Werner Sinn, professor of economics at Munich University and head of the ifo-Institute of economic research in Munich, hit the nail on the head when he said: “Anybody who believes that a highly developed industrial country...
January 27, 2014 6:34 pm / 1 comment
Germany wants to make it big. By the year 2050, German government aims to have achieved an 80 percent target for electricity supply from renewable energy sources. As stated by German Government, the resulting new energy system also has to be...
November 13, 2013 12:03 am / no comments
At a first glance, science-driven policy consulting sounds good. Scientists discover problems and propose solutions, we implement them accordingly. Is it really that easy? No, it isn’t.
Scientists are not data collecting and modeling robots,...
August 26, 2013 7:28 am / 16 comments
Who owns broccoli?
Intellectual Property Rights in a liberal context
Imagine somebody owns broccoli; not just broccoli but the essence of broccoli – its genetic code. Anybody who wanted to breed new varieties, or plant and sell...
June 9, 2013 10:28 pm / no comments