The idea is simple: Synthetic fuels would be produced using electricity. These so called e-fuels could operate in existing combustion engines without major problems. They could be distributed via the existing gas station network. Clean fuel without climate-damaging emissions that all modern cars today can use – wouldn’t that be an ideal solution? Unfortunately not.…
The people of Tamil Nadu in the south of India are feeling the harsh effects of climate change. Increased droughts and floods and the rise in agricultural pests are having a serious impact on the food supply. The Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative will therefore support a new project with a very holistic and broad approach: This…
“Bosco Children“ runs a center in Addis Abeba and gives street children shelter and guidance. There are an estimated 17,000 children that live unaccompanied in the Ethiopian capital. With the help of the ‘Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative’ and ‘Jugend Eine Welt’ the organization was able to carry out a project that contributes to a “green recovery”…
Arnold Schwarzenegger war Mr. Universum, Schauspieler und Gouverneur von Kalifornien. Seine neue Rolle: Klimaaktivist mit Esel und Elektro-SUV. Ein Hausbesuch in Los Angeles. SPIEGEL: Als Sie vor 53 Jahren Österreich verließen, um eine Karriere in Amerika zu beginnen, wollten Sie von Ihrem Heimatland überhaupt nichts mehr wissen. Kommen Sie jetzt, da Sie älter geworden sind,…
The new US president Joe Biden moved fast on climate change policies as soon as he took office: first he initiated the United States’ re-entry into the Paris Climate Agreement, then he signed a climate-related executive order suspending new oil and gas leases on public lands, directed federal agencies to purchase electric cars by the…
An aid project in Ethiopia by “Jugend Eine Welt” is making a sustainable impact: At the Bosco Children Center near the capital Addis Ababa, former street children are given a new perspective. They are not only given emotional support and social care, but – depending on their age – receive regular school lessons or vocational…
It is time to end the president’s “stupid, crazy and evil” ploy to cling to power, says the former governor of California THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was my first love. I fell for this country long before I was lucky enough to live here. From the moment I was exposed to my first images…
The Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative has started a very special project in cooperation with the Jane Goodall Institute – Austria: Together we will support the reforestation of Mutuba trees in Uganda for three years. The fact that this project is not only about planting trees, but that the focus is equally on people, animals and the…
Our 2020 Special Report – the third in this series already – features a broad variety of international showcase projects and sustainable business models that contribute to intact forests in very different ways. The showcases range from conservation and reforestation initiatives, to forestry and construction projects, to the fashion and tourism sectors, to capacity building…
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is disruptive for the global economy and devastating for many people and their livelihoods, but we cannot take our attention away from the climate crisis. Rather we must recognize and analyze the parallels and connections of these two global crises. A green recovery must be the answers of these two crises. This…
