The grune city in the waste of abu dhabi

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The Emirate wants to invest 15 billion in renewable energies, including the construction of a new zero emissions city, which was designed by Norman Foster

If it is to be gigantic and at the same time a little grun, this is the right task for the global architect Norman Foster, whose Buro allegedly grunta space port in the Wuste (Virgin Galactic and the eco-friendly space airport) designs like a huge tent in Moscow (skyscrapers for the New Russian coarse) or a pyramid in Kazakhstan (urban utopia of an olgen prassident). In particular, the builders in the gulf region, which are billions and billions in new construction projects, are always more spectacular, which are becoming more spectacular in order to extract the competition in the attention concomity (oriental tourist and richengetos). Now Foster is designed to design the Emirate Abu Dhabi – by course – Grunte nullemission city

In Dubai you have just decided to take the next time after the last artificial island, with whose construction has already begun. You had started modestly with islands in the form of palm trees, then it was already around the world – and now is no less than the universe. That can hardly be carried out anymore.

Almost at the same time, the planes were announced, with which the Ol Emirate Emirat Abu Dhabi now wants to create a green future with renewable energies, as long as the bubbling olgery is still under. 15 billion US dollars are to pronounce in the next few years in Grune projects, u.a. Should CO2 be stored under the earth in Olfelden, causing the olfactory quantities to be increased and CO2 emissions are to be removed from the atmosphere .

Model for the green town of Masdar. Image: Ameinfo

The next month as part of the Masdar initiative with the construction of a first neighborhood for 15.000 residents of a green city are started, as Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Kronprinz of Abu Dhabi announced on Monday on the World Future Energy Summit. Planned is a zero emission city for 50.000 residents in the middle of the Wisse, where there is no water and the temperatures like to rise to 50 degrees Celsius once. Thus Wilkl to develop and demonstrate new techniques and urban designing initiatives with 2.5 million US dollars and research initiatives with a new Zayed Prize. The new city should, of course, also become the center for such developments and be attractive as a free trade zone.

Norman Foster has designed the green city whose construction was decided in 2006. Responsible for this is the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Adfec). Traditionally, it should be a densely built, car-free and fematic-friendly city with narrow, shady straws and a wall, but which emits neither emissions nor mulling and is fully supplied with renewable energy, especially solar energy,. The cooling should be done by wind energy. The houses are not high than 5 floors, nowhere should be further than 200 meters from the next public means of transport. Drinking water is to be obtained from a solar powered desalination system, the green facilities in the city and the fields in front of the city should be supplied with customs and wastewater.

The city on a flat of six square kilometers is intended to meet the ten principles of the ONE Planet Living initiative launched by the WWF, which, in addition to zero emissions and mull, also the use of local materials and food, continuing traffic, fair trade, preservation and restoration of natural habitats or health and happiness. Even the workers who build up the city should receive a just pay. You can be curious how that everything will happen. Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud, director of the WWF initiative One Planet Living, is always full of praise and said: ‘Today Abu Dhabi went on the journey to become the global capital of the revolution of renewable energies."

For the construction, a solar power plant should first be built outside the city. The aim of the design is that the city whose umbrellers are equipped for the mostly part with solar systems can finish enough energy for self-catering within the walls. A train connects the Grune city with the capital Abu Dhabi, otherwise one moves in the city to Fub or with small, driverless taxis that drive on tracks.

Statements by Pope Benedict XVI. on fighting AIDS have led to debates in Germany. Hamburg Auxiliary Bishop Hans-Jochen Jaschke rejects making condoms taboo, but at the same time warned against overestimating them. Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi refers to the church's fight against HIV and the pope visits an anti-AIDS project and demands free medication. The German AIDS-Hilfe had called the Vatican's categorical rejection of the condom "cynical".

Benedict XVI. had said on Tuesday at the beginning of his trip to Africa that the AIDS epidemic could not be overcome by distributing condoms; condoms only increased the problems. Rather, it is a matter of morally correct behavior and special attention to the sick. SPD federal ministers Ulla Schmidt and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul contradicted the pope without explicitly mentioning him. "Modern development cooperation must give the poorest of the poor access to family planning resources. And that includes, in particular, the use of condoms. Anything else would be irresponsible," they said together in Berlin. Condoms saved lives. Wieczorek-Zeul and Schmidt stressed that condoms play a crucial role in combating the immunodeficiency disease. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, he said, 22 million people are infected with the HIV virus.

Holistic approach In a guest editorial for the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit," Auxiliary Bishop Jaschke writes that "the Church is not in a sinister anti-condom corner from which it wants to intimidate people". Jaschke defended the position of the Catholic church to AIDS: It pursues a holistic beginning of clearing-up, Vorbeugung and assistance for ill ones. Human sexuality includes responsibility for oneself and others. Each individual must therefore be strengthened in his or her morality. At the same time, the bishop did not reject the use of condoms: "Those who have AIDS and are sexually active, those who seek changing partnerships, must protect others and themselves," he writes. If a husband with AIDS communicates with his wife, then "protection is called for". At the same time, the bishop warned against "myths and trivializations". The distribution of condoms alone cannot solve the problem. Men often rejected its use. Ignorance, poor hygiene and inhumane living conditions are a dangerous breeding ground for the spread of AIDS. Jaschke praised the so-called A-B-C method, which is propagated by the state and church in Uganda, among other countries: The letter A stands for abstinence, B for "remain faithful" and C for the use of condoms, in English "condoms". Jaschke also referred to the church's worldwide commitment to combating AIDS. Every second institution in the fight against AIDS worldwide is supported by the churches, every fourth by the Catholic Church. The goal of their work, he said, is also to bring sick people out of their isolation and lethargy, to break the silence in the face of the disease and to care for AIDS patients.

Condoms "no panacea" The head of the German editorial office of Radio Vatican in Rome, Father Eberhard von Gemmingen, defended the head of the church. "Pope Benedict XVI. has not banned the condom as strictly as it is made out to be," he told Deutsche Welle. "The pope just said the condom is not a 'solution'. Hopefully everyone agrees on this," said the Father. The solution lies in overcoming poverty. The UN organization Unaids declared in Geneva that condoms are an important part of AIDS prevention. However, there is no "panacea" against the immunodeficiency disease. In the educational work, it must therefore also be a matter of reducing the number of sexual partners. According to Unaids, more than 7,000 people worldwide contract the disease every day.400 people to Aids.The director of the German Institute for Medical Mission, Gisela Schneider, also emphasized the complexity of the AIDS problem. "Condoms alone cannot banish the danger, but they are an important weapon in the fight against Aids," Schneider told the epd in Tubingen. Successful AIDS prevention must also take into account cultural ies, such as gender roles.

Vatican spokesman: Church maintains line on AIDS ie Pope Benedict XVI. According to Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi, does not want to set new accents on the ie of AIDS during his trip to Africa. With his statement before arriving in Cameroon, the Pope had merely confirmed the position of his predecessor John Paul II. reaffirmed on this ie, Lombardi told reporters in Yaounde on Wednesday. In the fight against HIV, the Catholic Church relies on appropriate sexual education, effective therapies to interrupt the transmission of the virus from infected mothers to their children, and social and pastoral support for those affected. Lombardi objected to 'ideology of reliance on condoms'. The reliance on condoms as a solution to the AIDS problem belies the importance of education and responsible sexual behavior in this context, he. Moreover, a not insignificant part of the infections do not occur sexually, but due to a lack of hygiene. The Church is not indifferent to the sick and suffering, but on the contrary has traditionally shown great commitment to health care. With regard to AIDS, however, she also emphasized personal responsibility and the value of marriage, the Vatican spokesman said. In the morning, Benedict XVI. Outside his official program in the Cameroonian capital welcomed 67 participants in an AIDS project. The young doctors and social workers from various African countries are currently completing a training course in new therapies against AIDS. The event is part of the "Dream" program of the Catholic Community of Sant'Egidio, which works in the medical accompaniment of people infected with HIV. Benedict XVI. considers the initiative exemplary and groundbreaking in the fight against AIDS.

Marlyn was abused by sex tourists some 20 years ago. She found refuge at the Preda Child Protection Center and helped get the perpetrators convicted. Today she herself works at Preda and sees great dangers through cyber sex.

A fate with consequences: In the mid-1990s, Filipino street children Marlyn and Pia fell into the clutches of two sex tourists from Germany and the Netherlands in Manila. They found refuge with Father Shay Cullen at the Preda Child Protection Center. In addition to therapy, the girls were also able to help prosecute and convict the fugitive perpetrators – for the first time also in their home country.

The spectacular case provided the impetus for the WDR crime series "Manila" and also for the launch of the Guardian Angels campaign of the Catholic relief organization missio exactly 20 years ago. Marlyn Capio is now 38 and an important member of Preda's staff.

Catholic News Agency (KNA): Ms. Capio, your fate became known more than 20 years ago as the template for the crime scene "Manila". In it, the commissioners Ballauf and Schenk hunted a man who abused children in the Philippines and Germany. How important was this film?

Marlyn Capio (social worker at Preda Child Protection Center): Very important, because that's how many people in Germany first became aware of the whole problem: that there are children – like I was one at the time – who are imprisoned and repeatedly abused in the Philippines and also in other countries, and that the perpetrators far too often get away scot-free. In the Philippines alone, there were and are hundreds of thousands of such fates. And not only there.
CBA: What role does it play that the perpetrators are prosecuted, brought to justice and punished – for the first time also in their home countries? As was the case with your tormentor.
Capio: This is quite crucial! Because every sentence sends a signal to the perpetrators: We can get you – anywhere in the world – and then you will also be consistently punished for your actions. And it is very important for the victims – I can say this from my own experience – to see that the perpetrators are held accountable and that this also acknowledges the injustice that was done to me. To see that there is still justice.
CBA: A pioneer against sex tourism and child prostitution in the Philippines is Father Shay Cullen. You yourself were in therapy at his Preda Child Protection Center, and for the past eleven years you have been active there as a social worker and therapist. How victims are helped here in concrete terms?
Capio: There are many different therapies they can use to overcome their deep wounds and traumas and then lead a somewhat normal life again. And many of them, like me, have decided to help other children themselves and to free them from this vicious circle of destroyed families, sex tourism, abuse and drugs. In addition, she helps children and young people in prisons and, more recently, has taken the fight against cyber sex to a whole new level.
CBA: Can you help all the victims? Or are there also relapses?
Capio: In the eleven years I've worked at Preda, we've been able to really "cure" 95 percent of the victims, I guess. With the other 5 percent, some ended up back on the streets and in the scene, and our street workers try to get them away from there again. Others we no longer have any contact with and do not know what has become of them.
CBA: You brought up the new problem of cyber sex. Is this less bad because the children are not touched and physically abused?
Capio: One might think. And there are even parents who give up their children for this with exactly this argumentation according to the motto: "Better than if they go to the room with some men."But they underestimate the mental cruelty and the terrible consequences for the children's future lives when they have to role play in front of the camera, take their clothes off and do everything possible to excite the users on the net. How are these children supposed to have a normal relationship with their bodies, with sexuality, love and closeness??
CBA: What is the extent of the problem?
Capio: It's hard to say, but it's definitely increasing enormously. Also because it's less risky for child pornography users than if they came here to abuse children on site. And surely there are quite a few men who do both as well. Or be turned on by cybersex to come here and then physically assault the children.
CBA: What can you do about it?
Capio: We at Preda help these victims as well as the others. We also investigate undercover here and try to convict and prosecute the perpetrators. The question is what police, justice and the state would have to do. And there are many problems. First and foremost corruption. Laws can be so strict and good, but if no one obeys them and if people allow themselves to be bribed and bribed, it becomes difficult.
CBA: How important is missio's Schutzengel campaign to your work?
Capio: From the beginning, Aktion Schutzengel has done a lot to bring the ie of sex tourism and child prostitution into the public eye in the first place. And to show what it means for the victims. But also that you can do something – in every way: help the victims and put the perpetrators behind bars. Of course, donations from Germany are also important for our work to this day.
CBA: Finally, a personal question: How did you actually process the whole thing?? Can you lead a "normal family life" today?
Capio: Good question. I think so. I have a good husband – from Germany, by the way – and a son. My family was totally destroyed at that time after my stepfather was the first one to abuse me and my mother did not believe me for a long time. But after the therapies I started dreaming again, especially of a happy family. Of a family of my own, but also of a reconciliation with my mother and the rest of my family. It wasn't easy, but it worked out. And now it is actually my mother who is taking care of my son while I am here in Germany.

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