Heinrich Böll Stiftung Podcasts

100% renewable energy in Europe is viable now Technology now available makes a 100% renewable energy system viable, according to the ‘Energy Atlas’ 2018. The new report – a unique and comprehensive summary of facts and graphics on renewable energy in Europe, with country-by-country data – exposes the dramatic advance of renewable energy and the fut…

Governments and business are ruthlessly asserting their interests in an unprecedented global run on resources. Meanwhile citizens' basic rights are denied and civil society's scope for action massively curtailed. These are no longer isolated incidents in authoritarian countries, we are witnessing a broad and systematic suppression of local particip…

Is digitalization a blessing or a curse for our environment? The rise of new digital technologies has led to a significant increase in the demand for metals and raw materials, with serious repercussions for our ecology and the living conditions of rural populations. The geographer Michael Reckordt from the German NGO PowerShift talks about these im…

In this podcast we look at political protest movements in Africa. And we examine the question: how does the international public treat these movements. Do African protest movements need our attention? In the past year alone there have been massive protests in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and many other cou…