determines how environmentally friendly a car is to produce and operate the vocal style institute for climate research factors resource extraction into the life cycle assessment of electric cars after all it's not only lithium mining that's causing environmental degradation. in bion china's border with mongolia large swathes of land have been destroyed for the mining of rare earth metals for electric cars toxic chemicals and radioactive substances pollute the environment and contaminate the water it takes a lot of copper cobalt and other hard to extract raw materials to build electric cars and that he has done this for if we look at the production phase the cumulative material costs for battery powered electric vehicles are about twice as high this is mainly due to the battery the production of which is more material intensive too much we often use. it's twice as damaging to the environment to produce an electric car than a combustion engine car gasoline and diesel powered cars a largely built with steel steel production has a comparatively low environmental impact but the extraction of the many raw m

for me kate consumer research institute they're reporting that the coronavirus pandemic is shots of german consumer confidence as 1000000 significant jobs will fade short time working consumer climate index has pledged to reach those levels since the financial crisis so faced with future consumer the hoarding cash which is likely to hit the retail money from 3 and service incentives and you have no he says they should not prepare a recession. so chelsea delayed from food i suppose that survey results not surprising given the current environment how markets react to. those attacks just opened up here in frankfurt it's down a little over one percent as you said it's not a surprise that we're seeing a huge drop off in consumer confidence even so it was much steeper than economists had expected and the survey only took place between march 4th and march 16th so before the shutdowns really began in germany would suggest more more contraction going forward and i think now that we have seen governments take a lot of action. economic measures are the economic damage that this the shutdowns are causing are sort of coming back into the forefront here in germany of the finance ministry is pred

for his intervention in syria. new research suggests that australian summers are now twice as long as winters — due to climate change. the policy group the australia instituteperatures mean that summers are a—month longer than half a century ago, while winters have contracted by three weeks. a warm winter in 2019 has, for the first time, caused the failure of germany's harvest of ice wine grapes. the drink is produced from grapes that have frozen while still on the vine. none of germany's 13 wine—growing regions reached the required low temperatures to produce the rare wine. the afghan government has started picking over the details of the deal signed by the taliban and the us on saturday. the historic deal will see thousands of american troops leave afghanistan in return for commitments from the taliban. the focus is now on how the deal will be implemented and if promises will be kept. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet has this report. the first win for afghans, a week of relative calm. what was called a reduction in violence before the signing of a deal. what happens now? the agreement initialed on saturday isn't clear on this, at least no

for his intervention in syria. new research suggests that australian summers are now twice as long as winters — due to climate change. the policy group, the australia institutetemperatures mean that summers are a month longer than half a century ago, while winters have contracted by three weeks. a warm winter in 2019 has, for the first time, caused the failure of germany's harvest of ice wine grapes. the drink is a dessert wine produced from grapes that have frozen while still on the vine. none of germany's 13 wine—growing regions reached the required low temperatures to produce the rare wine. let's bring you some breaking news. us media has been reporting that pete buttigieg, the former indiana mayor, is pulling out of the race to become the democratic party's presidential candidate. the 38—year—old became the first openly gay contender when he announced that he was running for the democratic nomination. he narrowly one the iowa caucuses early last month and came in a strong second place in the new hampshire primary but faltered badly and saturday's south carolina vote. that was won by former us vice presidentjoe biden. his resounding victory dramatically r

institute for energy and environmental research row just you know groundbreaking book in 2006 it was called insurmountable risks that said nuclear power cost too much and takes too long to solve the climate crisis and besides that has a long list of its own problems the 1st of which they named was accidents disasters catastrophes this was in 2006 this was 5 years before fukushima was after chernobyl but other insurmountable risks are nuclear weapons proliferation the unsolved radioactive waste problem and then we would add things like the routine release of radioactivity during normal operations at a nuclear power plant an incredible statement by a tokyo electric official just weeks into fukushima daiichi was we can't see why people are getting so worked up we release 10 percent this amount during normal operations that's very telling they release into the air they release into the water will permission from about the wastewater is one of the big ones too because i think i believe there's a debate right now opening up what to do with the waste water i mentioned was you know if it was 100000000 gallons and there's a big push the oil will dump it in the ocean well that's not really going t

research institute which says the following it's reporting that the coronavirus pandemic has shattered german consumer confidence as millions suddenly fear for their jobs or face short time working she had canes consumer climate index has plunged to its lowest level since the financial crisis faced with them certain future consumers are now hoarding cash which is likely to hit the retail manufacturing the services centers have kay says that they should now prepare for a recession. so we're seeing this negative economic data really around the world chelsea it appears as if the germ the german economy at least is most certainly heading for a recession doesn't. almost without a doubt if the question now is really how steep it's going to be this consumer confidence data it wasn't a surprise if drop so much but investors had actually been a little bit surprised by it by how steeply a trop today i think we're really seeing at people being really is stuck in their houses and not being able to buy anything and this for germany as a big problem because consumption people spending money have been really the only thing keeping germany out of recession as the manufacturing sector had already been in and of and of steep w