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  • Preview2017- Outlook for Germany's Energiewende

    German climate lead in G20 expected as elections to set tone domestically 20 Jan 2017, 00:00 A string of regional elections as well as federal elections will dominate German policy in 2017. In this dossier, the 麻豆无码版 and a number of energy and ...
  • 08 Jul 2015 |

    麻豆无码版 transition shapes foreign policy in Germany and beyond

    The Energiewende and its implications for international security 08 Jul 2015, 00:00 麻豆无码版 supply is inseparable from German foreign policy, as the country relies on imports to feed its energy appetite. The Ukraine crisis has brought the risks of Germany ...
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  • 19 Apr 2021 |

    How wastewater management can reduce greenhouse gas emissions

    19 Apr 2021, 14:00 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Resources & Recycling 麻豆无码版 A new study commissioned by the German Environment Agency (UBA) examines how ...
  • 11 Mar 2020 |

    German chemical makers connect with engineers to find path to climate neutrality

    11 Mar 2020, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang Industry 麻豆无码版 The German chemical industry association VCI has teamed up with the country's engineering association VDI to develop concepts aimed at reaching greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050. The ...
  • 18 May 2020 |

    Critics blast German parliament's approval of toll-free transport for LNG-powered trucks

    18 May 2020, 14:08 Expert ICCT- International Council on Clean Transportation Transport Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza Gas Cars Focus Online / 脰ko-Institut Despite ...
  • 28 Sep 2020 |

    Green party wins several big city mayor posts in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state

    28 Sep 2020, 13:42 The Green party crowned a recent surge in local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous federal state, with wins in mayoral run-offs in several big cities, including Bonn, the seat of the UN鈥檚 climate body, the ...
  • 12 Mar 2020 |

    Bavarian researchers develop new method for brewing climate-friendly beer

    12 Mar 2020, 13:59 S枚ren Amelang Technology Society Die Welt Researchers in Bavaria have invented a new method to slash the carbon emissions of smaller breweries, reports Norbert Lossau in die Welt. An innovative technology developed at the University of ...
  • 15 Mar 2022 |

    Coal company LEAG receives record support credit amid price crisis 鈥 media

    15 Mar 2022, 13:44 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Eastern German lignite company LEAG has accepted a loan of over five billion euros from ...
  • 06 Feb 2020 |

    Siemens cautionary example during economy鈥檚 climate transition 鈥 opinion

    06 Feb 2020, 12:47 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Industry S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The protest against Siemens鈥 involvement in the Adani coal mine project in Australia and the company鈥檚 handling of the situation is a cautionary example ...
  • 06 Mar 2020 |
    Gas

    EU should pressure US over gas production鈥檚 climate impact 鈥 former US energy official

    06 Mar 2020, 17:00 High methane emissions could unseat natural gas as the lowest-carbon fossil fuel, and the 聽EU needs to exert pressure on the US to get a grip on the issue, says Samantha Gross, fellow in the Cross-Brookings Initiative on 麻豆无码版 and ...
  • 11 Jun 2021 |

    Merkel set for U.S. visit to iron out Nord Stream 2 dispute 鈥 media report

    11 Jun 2021, 14:06 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Gas International Handelsblatt / 麻豆无码版 [UPDATE adds date for Merkel visit] German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Washington, D.C. to settle the transatlantic dispute between the U.S ...
  • 02 Mar 2020 |

    Germany's climate package support triggers heating modernisation wave 鈥 survey

    02 Mar 2020, 13:50 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Expert ZVSHK- German Sanitation, Heating and Air Conditioning Association Business & Jobs Heating Rachel Waldholz Heating 麻豆无码版 About one in ...
  • 21 Aug 2020 |

    German restaurant owners demand return of outdoor heaters amid pandemic

    21 Aug 2020, 14:29 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Heating Society ntv German restaurant and bar owners fear customers may avoid indoor dining due to the pandemic as warm weather turns to cold and call for a return of climate-damaging outdoor heaters, ...
  • 08 Jun 2021 |

    Lignite power plant to shut down six years earlier than planned, due to high CO2 price 鈥 operator

    08 Jun 2021, 13:23 Kerstine Appunn Coal TAG24 / 麻豆无码版 A lignite (brown coal) power station in the eastern German town of Chemnitz is going to be shut down by 2023, instead of the last unit running until 2029, the management of plant operator ...
  • 麻豆无码版 price hike is 鈥渁dvertisement鈥 for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition 鈥 govt advisor

    07 Feb 2022, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung High energy prices for gas, oil and electricity should be seen as 鈥渁n advertisement for the energy transition,鈥 economist Monika Schnitzer has said in an聽 ...
  • 02 Mar 2021 |

    City of Berlin to pass law making solar panels mandatory on new buildings

    02 Mar 2021, 13:11 Charlotte Nijhuis Solar Cities Der Tagesspiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 capital Berlin aims to take another step towards climate neutrality with a law to expand the number of solar panels on roofs, Tanja A. Buntrock writes in Der Tagesspiegel. The ...
  • Need measures to reduce carbon footprint by cement industry 鈥 WWF Germany

    12 Apr 2019, 13:20 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs WWF Germany Environmental organisation WWF Germany has published a background paper on the climate ...
  • 03 Mar 2022 |

    Consumers can do more to reduce dependence on Russian gas 鈥 NGO

    03 Mar 2022, 12:42 Edgar Meza Gas Heating 麻豆无码版 German households can help reduce gas consumption by up to 75 percent, according to non-profit consulting company co2online, which campaigns for the reduction of CO2 emissions. By reducing their ...
  • 19 Feb 2020 |

    Five years after Dieselgate, VW USA wants to be the climate-friendly alternative

    19 Feb 2020, 14:23 Rachel Waldholz Cars Handelsblatt Just a few years after being hit with massive fines for its role in the emissions cheating scandal, Volkswagen is hoping to re-brand as the climate-friendly alternative in the American market, Astrid ...
  • German Greens struggle to find firm position on limited nuclear plant runtime extension

    01 Aug 2022, 13:20 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government ARD / Tagesspiegel / Handelsblatt / ZDF The debate about extending the runtime of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three remaining ...
  • 22 Apr 2020 |

    Use of cheap oil for power production in Germany possible, but unlikely 鈥 report

    22 Apr 2020, 15:09 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
  • 11 Feb 2019 |

    Climate change important security policy issue 鈥 Chancellor Merkel

    11 Feb 2019, 14:19 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Security 麻豆无码版 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said climate change was one of the major security policy issues of today, in a video podcast ahead of the Munich ...
  • France, Germany at odds over role of nuclear in EU sustainable taxonomy

    27 Apr 2021, 13:45 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Nuclear phase-out Finance ...
  • 31 Jan 2022 |

    Consumer electricity costs could be curbed with 鈥榗ontracts for difference鈥 鈥 researchers

    31 Jan 2022, 13:31 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 The German government should change the way operators of renewable energy installations are compensated to ensure a fair sharing of the burden of high electricity prices, ...
  • 03 Apr 2019 |

    Eastern German coal states refuse to pay for coal exit measures

    03 Apr 2019, 12:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Climate & CO2 MDR 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 eastern coal mining states have told the government that they do not intend to contribute to the financial liabilities associated with the country鈥檚 coal exit, public broadcaster ...
  • 27 Mar 2019 |

    Germany edges closer to 2020 renewables target

    27 Mar 2019, 12:24 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Federal Environment Agency (UBA) The share of renewables in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 final energy consumption ...
  • 14 Jul 2021 |

    Most Germans remain sceptical about electric cars- survey

    14 Jul 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars 麻豆无码版 While a majority of Germans know that climate protection requires a different kind of mobility, most of them have serious reservations about electromobility and are largely ...
  • Slowing economy causes sizable German energy use decrease in first quarter 2020

    28 May 2020, 17:30 A slowing economy and mild weather lowered Germany's energy demand significantly in the first quarter of 2020. Latest data also confirmed that renewable energy sources accounted for more than half of the electricity fed into ...
  • 22 Mar 2022 |

    Tesla Berlin gigafactory launch hailed as 鈥渕odel鈥 for investment projects in Germany

    22 Mar 2022, 15:21 U.S. e-car company Tesla has inaugurated its first European production hub with the gigafactory near 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 capital Berlin. Opened only two and a half years after Tesla鈥檚 bombshell announcement for the location in the birth country ...
  • 02 Apr 2019 |

    Most German insurers not really interested in sustainability reporting 鈥 study

    02 Apr 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Finance 麻豆无码版 The majority of German insurance companies do not regard sustainability reporting on their business activities as worthwhile enough to produce a very informative document, a ...
  • 15 Feb 2021 |

    Reduction of domestic flights requires rail investment 鈥 German aviation industry

    15 Feb 2021, 13:42 Charlotte Nijhuis 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Transport Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt The German aviation industry is open to reducing the number of domestic flights to lower emissions, according to an industry concept paper ...
  • 19 Mar 2019 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal phase-out goal 鈥渟eems completely unrealistic鈥 鈥 JP Morgan

    19 Mar 2019, 14:11 Kerstine Appunn Coal Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 The growth in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable electricity output triggered by the country鈥檚 energy transition policy is 鈥渜uite an achievement,鈥 the JP Morgan 麻豆无码版 Outlook 2019 authored by ...
  • Climate change to impact Germany largely through foreign trade

    23 May 2019, 12:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 The impact of global climate change in Germany will be felt less ...
  • 24 Jan 2019 |

    Coal commission proposal neglects climate protection 鈥 commentary

    24 Jan 2019, 12:05 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt The leaked final report of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission suggests it will not be ambitious enough when it comes to climate protection, argues J眉rgen Flauger in a ...
  • 25 Jan 2019 |

    German energy minister gets booed by student climate protesters

    25 Jan 2019, 13:51 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 19 Mar 2019 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Schulze reiterates call for carbon price

    19 Mar 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Tagesspiegel German environment minister Svenja Schulze has renewed her call for a price on CO2 emissions, arguing it would be one of the most efficient ways to reduce the transport and ...
  • 07 Mar 2019 |

    Aviation emissions under scrutiny at 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest tourism fair ITB

    07 Mar 2019, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Freight dpa / airliners.de The emissions caused by the growing volume of global air travel are a problem that needs to be addressed more vigorously to minimise the effect of international tourism on ...
  • 19 Mar 2019 |

    Hardware retrofitting of manipulated diesel cars pushes up CO2 emissions 鈥 automobile club

    19 Mar 2019, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars 麻豆无码版 Retrofitting manipulated diesel cars with hardware that reduces their output of harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) can greatly increase a vehicle鈥檚 fuel consumption and, consequently, ...
  • 30 Jun 2021 |

    Higher CO2 prices let electricity costs rise for German industry

    30 Jun 2021, 14:52 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Driven by the rise in European carbon prices, electricity prices in Germany are climbing, shaking the confidence among industrial companies after a year and a half of the pandemic, ...
  • 04 Jun 2019

    German industry association says "vague" climate policy damages economy

    04 Jun 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 The influential industry lobby group BDI has criticised 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government for damaging the economy with unclear and erratic policymaking in areas such as climate, energy and taxation. 鈥淭here has to ...
  • 01 Apr 2022 |

    Discounter Lidl opens Europe's first logistics hub with green hydrogen vehicle fleet

    01 Apr 2022, 12:57 S枚ren Amelang Transport Freight 麻豆无码版 Discount supermarket chain Lidl is switching the entire battery-electric vehicle fleet of a logistics hub to fuel cells powered by green hydrogen, making it the first of its kind in ...
  • 24 Aug 2020 |
    EU

    EU-Africa strategy must focus on energy transition 鈥 German development minister

    24 Aug 2020, 12:45 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices EU WirtschaftsWoche Germany and ...
  • 29 Jan 2021 |
    Gas

    Volatile market complicates Germany's LNG import terminal plans

    29 Jan 2021, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background The German government supports plans for a first domestic LNG import terminal, but the volatile global market is complicating existing endeavours, writes Christian Schaudwet in Tagesspiegel ...
  • 02 Jan 2019 |

    Germany takes up seat in UN Security Council, aims to put climate into focus

    02 Jan 2019, 13:06 Expert Federal Foreign Office Ausw盲rtiges Amt International Security Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Security 麻豆无码版 Germany has assumed a two-year seat as a non-permanent member of the United ...
  • 25 Feb 2019 |

    German Court of Auditors calls on govt to 鈥渟eriously consider鈥 carbon price

    25 Feb 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy Welt Online Kay Scheller, president of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Court of Auditors (Bundesrechnungshof), says the government should 鈥渟eriously consider introducing a CO2 price鈥 to meet the country鈥檚 emissions ...
  • 28 Mar 2022 |

    SPD sustains winning streak by gaining absolute majority in Saarland election

    28 Mar 2022, 12:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Saarbr眉cker Zeitung In the first major election in Germany since the federal election last year, voters in the state of Saarland handed the Social Democrats (SPD) a sweeping victory. Official ...
  • Merkel鈥檚 coalition set to survive despite parties鈥 turmoil 鈥 analyst

    21 Aug 2019, 17:10 Angela Merkel's grand coalition government may survive yet another election debacle in the upcoming East German state votes 鈥 despite ongoing leadership problems, says political scientist Gero Neugebauer. The Social Democratic ...
  • 29 Mar 2021 |

    Germany needs federal mobility law to ensure sustainable transport 鈥 NGO

    29 Mar 2021, 13:47 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility 麻豆无码版 The future German government needs to implement a federal mobility law to ensure the transition to a climate-friendly transport sector, says transport and environmental association ...
  • 01 Dec 2020 |

    First phase-out auction for German hard coal deemed success, modern plants go offline

    01 Dec 2020, 14:48 The first auction for the decommissioning of hard coal plants in Germany has been hailed as a success both by coal plant operators and climate activists, as it ensures that plants with a capacity of almost 5 gigawatts will be off the ...
  • 03 Mar 2022 |

    Efficiency industry calls for massive energy saving initiative to cut import dependence

    03 Mar 2022, 13:52 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for 麻豆无码版 Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency S枚ren Amelang Heating 麻豆无码版 Germany must launch an " ...
  • 04 Jan 2021 |

    German coal exit on its way with first plants off the grid

    04 Jan 2021, 12:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian ...
  • 21 Dec 2018 |

    Small island state rep says Germany needs to advocate for climate in UN Security Council

    21 Dec 2018, 11:58 The German government has said it will use its two-year term as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council to spotlight the security implications of climate change. After the recent shift in climate policy by some permanent ...
  • 11 Feb 2019 |

    Coal exit compromise brings uncertainty for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most modern coal plant

    11 Feb 2019, 14:05 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The German coal commission鈥檚 agreement to gradually phase out coal power has left investors and ...
  • 08 Feb 2019 |

    German mobility commission head says speed limit not best option to curb emissions

    08 Feb 2019, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Cars Zeit Online The head of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 mobility commission, Henning Kagermann, has said that a general speed limit would not be very effective in reducing transport emissions. ...
  • 11 Sep 2020 |

    German Greens hope for early 2021 boost in municipal state elections

    11 Sep 2020, 14:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics WDR The Green Party is hoping to make huge gains in the upcoming municipal elections on 13 September in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany's most populous federal state, Tobias Zacher ...
  • 22 Nov 2019 |

    Coal exit must include cancellation of ETS allowances 鈥 climate economist Edenhofer

    22 Nov 2019, 12:04 Expert Ottmar Edenhofer Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC, Director of MCC, Deputy Director and Chief Economist of PIK Climate & CO2 Energiewende Technology Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...
  • 06 Feb 2019 |

    Merkel backs German coal exit by 2038

    06 Feb 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Climate & CO2 dpa / WirtschaftsWoche 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed ending coal-fired power production in the country by 2038 as聽 proposed by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit ...
  • 14 Dec 2018 |

    German language association names 鈥淗ot Age鈥 Word of the Year in nod to climate change

    14 Dec 2018, 10:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Society 麻豆无码版 The Association for the German Language (GfdS) has made the term 鈥淗ei脽zeit鈥 (hot age) its Word of the Year 2018, saying it neatly conveys a topic that ...
  • 31 Jan 2019 |

    Air pollution in German cities decreases slightly in 2018

    31 Jan 2019, 13:27 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Cars 麻豆无码版 Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in German cities 鈥 mainly ...
  • 31 Jan 2022 |

    German treasury on board with plans to abolish renewables levy early

    31 Jan 2022, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three-party government coalition is pressing ahead with plans to quickly end the support to renewable energy operators directly via consumers鈥 power ...
  • 05 Feb 2019 |

    German Greens' leader in parliament says Macron set bad policy example

    05 Feb 2019, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Handelsblatt The parliamentary group leader of the German Greens, Anton Hofreiter, has criticised French President Emmanuel Macron's policy approach of environmental protection measures ...
  • 18 Nov 2020 |

    Villagers' attempt to save homes from coal mine expansion fails in court

    18 Nov 2020, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Der Spiegel Germany's Constitutional Court has rejected a complaint by villagers fearing resettlement due to the expansion of an open-cast lignite mine in the West of the country,聽 reports ...
  • 06 Dec 2018 |

    Diesel cars still needed to meet climate targets, German carmakers say

    06 Dec 2018, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Cars German Association of the Automotive Industry The German carmaker association VDA says the share of diesel cars has to rise again in Germany in order to meet the country鈥檚 ...
  • Germany will double contribution to Green Climate Fund 鈥 minister

    29 Nov 2018, 16:33 [CORRECTION: The German government announced to contribute an additional 1.5 billion euros to the Green Climate Fund, not 750 million euros.] Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Politics International Clean 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 17 Mar 2022 |

    Germany supports EU proposal to end sales of combustion engine cars from 2035

    17 Mar 2022, 14:00 S枚ren Amelang Cars EU 麻豆无码版 / Politico Germany backs the EU proposal to phase out the sale of combustion engine cars from 2035, dropping its earlier insistence on an exception for cars using synthetic e-fuels made with ...
  • 31 Aug 2020 |

    Coal mine protests in Germany and Poland highlight phase-out challenges

    31 Aug 2020, 13:50 Coal Die Zeit / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung More than one thousand climate protesters, including activists from the Fridays for Future movement, Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion, occupied the site of a planned opencast coal mine in western ...
  • German chamber of commerce calls for CO2 price delay due to corona crisis

    03 Apr 2020, 13:47 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 The introduction of Germany's ...
  • 17 Dec 2020 |

    German parties warn against burden of sustainable finance for smaller businesses

    17 Dec 2020, 14:16 Charlotte Nijhuis Finance 麻豆无码版 Several parties in Germany's parliament have warned against placing excessive burdens on small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) through regulation of financial markets due to tighter ...
  • 27 Jan 2022 |

    Germany considers strategic gas reserve to prevent future supply crisis 鈥 media report

    27 Jan 2022, 12:22 Jessica Bateman 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Gas Cost & Prices Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Reuters 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new government is mulling the introduction of minimum gas storage levels, a strategic gas reserve, and other options ...
  • 25 Sep 2020 |

    German NGOs call for coherent EU sustainable finance approach to support Green Deal

    25 Sep 2020, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 麻豆无码版 The German environmental umbrella organisation DNR is calling for a comprehensive restructuring of financial market regulation to pave the way for an effective implementation of the European ...
  • 14 Mar 2022 |

    German government debates new oil and gas production in North Sea

    14 Mar 2022, 13:56 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 S枚ren Amelang Fossil fuels Gas Tagesspiegel Germany's coalition government ponders the possibility of new drilling for gas and oil in the North Sea as a step ...
  • 09 Jan 2019 |

    Forest fire insurance costs soar at Munich Re

    09 Jan 2019, 12:21 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Finance Reuters Forest fires are becoming increasingly likely because of climate change and are bound to cost insurers more than ever, with the deadly fire that ravaged northern ...
  • 15 Jan 2019 |

    Drought and new car emissions test dampen German GDP growth in 2018 鈥 ministry

    15 Jan 2019, 11:59 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Destatis Federal Statistical ...
  • US keeps wary eye on EU carbon border tax plans

    23 Mar 2020, 08:55 The United States administration, politicians and industry warily watch European Union debates on introducing a carbon border adjustment mechanism, which would put a CO鈧 price on goods imported to the EU to reduce the risk of carbon ...
  • 01 Mar 2021 |

    Number of e-buses in German public transport doubled in 2020, fuel cell falling behind 鈥 report

    01 Mar 2021, 14:08 Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Der Spiegel The number of electric buses in German public transport doubled last year compared to 2019, says a report published by consulting firm PwC, Der Spiegel writes. According to the analysis, the ...
  • G7 call on gas importers not to comply with Russian rouble demands

    28 Mar 2022, 14:25 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels International Security 麻豆无码版 After a meeting with his G7 counterparts, German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said on Monday (28 March) that Putin's demand to only receive payment ...
  • 23 Mar 2020 |

    Sector coupling projects threatened by regulatory strains 鈥 Bundesrat committee

    23 Mar 2020, 14:01 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, 麻豆无码版 and Mobility Institut f眉r Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilit盲t Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Freja Eriksen Renewables Policy 麻豆无码版 Up to 100 projects in the field ...
  • 11 Dec 2018 |

    A CO2 price must not hurt the poor 鈥 environment minister and union head

    11 Dec 2018, 13:51 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Society Tagesspiegel Germany plays a central role at the UN climate summit COP24 because it wants to show that ambitious climate protection offers big opportunities for new and ...
  • 12 Sep 2019 |

    German industry and tenants call for support in turning German houses climate friendly

    12 Sep 2019, 14:03 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Efficiency Die Welt / 麻豆无码版 Four industry associations and the German 麻豆无码版 Agency ...
  • 10 Dec 2018 |

    Two German brands in top ten of least damaging airlines

    10 Dec 2018, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Transport 麻豆无码版 German airlines TUIfly and Condor are among the ten least climate-damaging aviation companies in the world, NGO atmosfair says in its Airline Index ...
  • 19 Jan 2021 |

    German economy ministry announces lightweight construction strategy

    19 Jan 2021, 13:49 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Technology 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 12 Nov 2021 |

    EU taxonomy must distinguish between fossil and green gas 鈥 German state minister

    12 Nov 2021, 13:04 The upcoming rules in the European Union taxonomy for sustainable investments have to treat the supply of fossil gas different from the buildout of infrastructure that can also be used with green gases, said Jan Philipp Albrecht, Green ...
  • 10 Dec 2018 |

    Germany cashes in on emissions allowances as ETS price rises

    10 Dec 2018, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Finance Focus Online The trade in emissions certificates has brought Germany more money than ever in one year in 2018, the news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Focus ...
  • Nuclear plant shutdown will boost wind energy in northern German state 鈥 env min

    09 Dec 2021, 13:43 Charlotte Nijhuis Nuclear phase-out Renewables Focus Online The shutdown of the last nuclear power plant in Schleswig-Holstein will boost wind power in the northern German state, its environment minister Jan Philipp Albrecht (Greens) ...
  • Nuclear power no longer an option for Germany, former advocate party FDP says

    07 Jan 2022, 11:56 Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government 麻豆无码版 Nuclear power is not a sustainable energy generation technology and ...
  • German ports unprepared for offshore ramp-up 鈥 business associations

    25 Feb 2022, 13:20 Expert BVMW- German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses Bundesverband mittelst盲ndische Wirtschaft Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 Germany's sea ports are not ...
  • 12 Feb 2021 |

    "Hydrogen could become big business for us" 鈥 Siemens Gamesa CEO

    12 Feb 2021, 13:58 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Hydrogen Handelsblatt Renewables energy company Siemens Gamesa is to start production of green hydrogen in addition to wind power, CEO Andreas Nauen said in an interview ...
  • 18 Oct 2019 |

    Almost all of Germany's non-residential buildings need climate-friendly modernisation- KfW bank

    18 Oct 2019, 14:25 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Freja Eriksen Efficiency 麻豆无码版 "Practically all" of Germany's three-million non-residential building stock will have ...
  • 29 Nov 2018 |

    Increase in engine performance major driver of rising total CO鈧 emissions of passenger cars

    29 Nov 2018, 15:43 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cars Destatis An increase in the average engine performance of both diesel and petrol cars is one of the main reasons for the continuously increasing CO鈧 emissions caused by passenger cars in Germany, ...
  • 29 Nov 2018 |

    Material producer makes sports field from carbon dioxide

    29 Nov 2018, 16:32 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Technology Rheinische Post German polymer producer Covestro has developed a new CO2-based foam material that can be used as flooring at sports fields, Stefan Schneider writes in ...
  • 03 Dec 2021 |

    EU ministers fail to find agreement on energy price crisis as Germany and Austria make gas solidarity-pact

    03 Dec 2021, 13:21 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Gas EU Energate messenger, 麻豆无码版 The 27 EU energy ministers have failed to ...
  • 11 Mar 2022 |

    Next oversubscribed auction and energy independence push spur German wind industry

    11 Mar 2022, 13:50 Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 The second oversubscribed onshore wind ...
  • 26 Nov 2020 |

    German states struggle to find compromise on recycling construction materials

    26 Nov 2020, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Tageszeitung (taz) The introduction of a uniform system for recycling the vast volumes of construction waste is not making headway even after 15 years of negotiations between Germany's 16 states, Heike ...
  • 27 Nov 2020 |
    Gas

    Germany earmarks 135 million euros for LNG tank vessels

    27 Nov 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 麻豆无码版 / NDR The German parliament's budget committee has set aside 135 million euros for supporting the development of a liquid natural gas (LNG) tank vessel infrastructure. "This is how we ...
  • 12 Jun 2019 |

    Start-up Next Kraftwerke's renewable virtual power plant stabilises grid

    12 Jun 2019, 13:26 麻豆无码版 is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world鈥檚 fourth largest economy, we' ...
  • 11 Mar 2021 |

    Germany right to stick to nuclear exit despite revival plans abroad- media comments

    11 Mar 2021, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung On the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear desaster, a majority of media commentators in ...
  • CO2 pricing 'not a cure-all' says German industry association BDI

    20 Aug 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 / Handelsblatt Influential German ...
  • 11 Aug 2021 |

    German government releases support to hard coal regions

    11 Aug 2021, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Coal 麻豆无码版 Germany's federal government has released the structural aid to hard coal power plant regions, the energy聽 ministry announced. By signing an administrative agreement with the states concerned, ...
  • Uniper, Siemens 麻豆无码版 plan green power, heat and hydrogen project at Hamburg coal plant site

    24 Feb 2021, 12:37 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Heating 麻豆无码版 German energy companies Uniper and Siemens 麻豆无码版 have proposed a project to set up a renewable power-based energy plant at the site of ...
  • 18 Sep 2019 |

    麻豆无码版 efficiency sector has low hopes for German climate cabinet outcome 鈥 survey

    18 Sep 2019, 12:30 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for 麻豆无码版 Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Freja Eriksen Efficiency 麻豆无码版 Companies in Germany's ...
  • 17 Dec 2021 |

    Popular conservative Merz wins bid for German CDU leadership

    17 Dec 2021, 14:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Conservative hardliner Friedrich Merz looks set to become the leader of German opposition party the Christian Democrats (CDU). In an internal vote by CDU members, Merz ...
  • 2018 heat wave affected power plants, supply security not in danger 鈥 German govt

    28 Jun 2019, 12:34 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Electricity market 麻豆无码版 Due to the 2018 heat wave in northern Europe, some German power plants had to ...
  • 11 Mar 2019 |

    Leading climate researcher calls for ban on domestic flights in Germany to save emissions

    11 Mar 2019, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Society 麻豆无码版 / Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung Leading German climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber has called for a substantial shift in strategy for the tourism industry to make sure that ...
  • 01 Nov 2019 |

    Finance minister says Germany to issue 'environment bonds'

    01 Nov 2019, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German finance minister Olaf Scholz has said the government intends to issue state bonds dedicated exclusively to financing sustainable projects by 2020. In an interview with the S眉ddeutsche ...
  • 11 Jan 2022 |

    Shared e-scooters causing overall increase of emissions in urban mobility 鈥 study

    11 Jan 2022, 13:44 Edgar Meza Transport Cities Die Zeit / 麻豆无码版 The proliferation of electric kick scooters in European cities in recent years cause more damage than benefits for the environment, Daniel Reck, a researcher with the Swiss ...
  • Regulatory hurdles limit huge potential of green PPAs in Germany- energy agency

    17 Nov 2021, 13:03 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Electricity market Renewables 麻豆无码版 Green power purchase ...
  • 03 Dec 2019 |

    German carbon-offsetting nonprofit organisations report rising demand

    03 Dec 2019, 13:54 S枚ren Amelang Transport Society dpa / Focus Online German carbon offsetting nonprofit organisations atmosfair and Arktik are reporting rising demand in the wake of the Fridays for Future protest movement, according to a聽 report by ...
  • 16 Apr 2020 |

    Corona crisis endangers Siemens 麻豆无码版 spinoff 鈥 report

    16 Apr 2020, 13:02 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Capital Siemens might have to delay the spin-off of its subsidiary Siemens 麻豆无码版 due to the corona crisis,聽 reports Bernd Ziesemer in Capital magazine. Officially, ...
  • 15 Mar 2021 |

    German transport minister wants to save combustion engine cars with synthetic fuels

    15 Mar 2021, 13:38 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Cars dpa German transport minister Andreas Scheuer wants throw a lifeline to combustion engine cars by scaling up the use of synthetic fuels and fight more stringent EU emission rules. "Our target must be the ...
  • 14 Oct 2020 |

    Germans convinced transport must change but doubt e-cars are the solution- survey

    14 Oct 2020, 15:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 麻豆无码版 Most people in Germany regard the mobility sector as a great threat to the country's climate targets and call for measures to reduce the impact of transport on greenhouse gas ...
  • 20 Aug 2020 |

    Home office could significantly reduce commuting emissions- study

    20 Aug 2020, 13:10 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Mobility 麻豆无码版 The increase of remote working triggered by the coronavirus pandemic can contribute significantly to ...
  • 16 Jun 2020 |

    Germany and six allies push for key hydrogen role in Europe's energy future

    16 Jun 2020, 14:57 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen ...
  • 08 Apr 2020 |

    Record 151 million passengers on German long-distance trains in 2019

    08 Apr 2020, 12:51 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Julian Wettengel Transport 麻豆无码版 The number of passengers using long-distance rail services in Germany grew 1.9 percent in 2019 to a record 151 ...
  • 01 Apr 2022 |

    Siemens 麻豆无码版 and BASF warn Russian gas supply cuts would cause severe damage

    01 Apr 2022, 13:01 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Security Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The heads of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 large, energy intensive companies have warned against severe damages that would be caused by a stop to Russian gas ...
  • 09 Mar 2021 |

    Need more than strict CO2 limits for transport transition 鈥 MEP and VW workers鈥 council head

    09 Mar 2021, 13:20 Kerstine Appunn Cars Business & Jobs S眉ddeutsche Zeitung In setting ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gases, the European Union and its member states should be careful not to forget about the impact this has on the bloc鈥檚 ...
  • 08 Sep 2020 |

    Legal opinions over legitimacy of Germany's lignite compensation vary widely

    08 Sep 2020, 13:49 Expert Aurora 麻豆无码版 Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch ...
  • 03 Dec 2020 |

    German car manufacturers risk billions in EU fines due to SUV sales 鈥 Greenpeace

    03 Dec 2020, 13:49 Charlotte Nijhuis Cars 麻豆无码版 German car manufacturers are increasing CO2 emissions and risking billions in EU fines with the increasing number of SUV models, Greenpeace says in a report. According to the NGO鈥檚 evaluation of ...
  • 06 Dec 2021 |

    New German govt faces tough challenge in French nuclear power push for the EU 鈥 media

    06 Dec 2021, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU Der Spiegel The plans of French President Emmanuel Macron to make nuclear power a pillar of the EU鈥檚 decarbonisation strategy pose a 鈥減olitical nightmare鈥 for the next German government, Michael ...
  • 06 May 2020 |

    Demand for solar heating in Germany rises with higher subsidies

    06 May 2020, 13:42 Freja Eriksen 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Heating 麻豆无码版 Demand for solar heating systems in Germany has risen markedly in the first three months of 2020 as subsidies for sustainable heating increased at the beginning of the year ...
  • 04 Sep 2019 |

    Room heating demand in German households rises for third year in a row 鈥 study

    04 Sep 2019, 13:06 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Efficiency Heating ...
  • 04 Oct 2021 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid expansion going slower than planned

    04 Oct 2021, 12:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Grid Der Spiegel Bureaucratic hurdles and citizens鈥 initiatives ...
  • 25 Jan 2021 |

    German environment minister in favour of Nord Stream 2 completion

    25 Jan 2021, 12:36 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
  • Government defines 鈥済reen hydrogen鈥, decides rules for rapid market ramp-up

    20 May 2021, 13:34 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first movers in hydrogen generation using electricity will be supported by lower power prices and a wide definition of 鈥済reen鈥 hydrogen, the government has decided. By creating 鈥渃lear and pragmatic鈥 requirements for green ...
  • 01 Mar 2022 |

    Germany to prescribe minimum levels for gas storages, set up 30-day coal reserve

    01 Mar 2022, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Wind 麻豆无码版 / Spiegel / Bloomberg The German government is set to introduce a law to prescribe minimum levels for the country鈥檚 gas storages, according to economy and climate ministry plans seen by ...
  • 15 Aug 2022 |

    Germany sets new gas levy at 2.4 cents, sparking warnings about rising inflation

    15 Aug 2022, 14:30 A new levy on natural gas use that is meant to save struggling importers from bankruptcy is going to further inflate already high bills of German consumers. The government argues the levy is needed to ensure the country鈥檚 gas market ...
  • 06 Aug 2019 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 finance ministry considers screening of state budget by climate criteria

    06 Aug 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Policy 麻豆无码版 The German finance ministry (BMF) is pondering a review of the federal budget based on sustainability criteria in order to prepare the issuing of a green state bond, a ministry source ...
  • 16 Feb 2021 |

    Air pollution in German cities within EU limits- but ten years too late

    16 Feb 2021, 14:10 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 麻豆无码版 Air pollution with nitrogen dioxide has fallen below legal limit values in most cities across ...
  • 18 Jun 2021 |

    City of Berlin lawmakers pass rooftop solar law, approve buyback of city grid

    18 Jun 2021, 13:07 Edgar Meza Grid Solar Spiegel, rbb As expected, the Berlin House of Representatives has passed a law making solar photovoltaic (PV) systems mandatory on residential and non-residential buildings in the city, Spiegel writes. The Berlin ...
  • 29 Jul 2019 |

    Right-wing AfD continues to reject man-made climate change in environmental position paper

    29 Jul 2019, 13:43 Freja Eriksen Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 / Spiegel Online German right-wing party Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD) has presented an declaration on its environmental policy agenda stating that the influence of CO2 on ...
  • SPD nomination of finance minister Scholz as chancellor candidate kicks off Germany's election year

    10 Aug 2020, 14:15 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government 麻豆无码版 Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) have ...
  • NGOs and citizens file lawsuit with 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 highest court to enforce climate protection

    29 Nov 2018, 15:46 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Society Government WDR A group of German citizens and NGOs has filed a lawsuit with the country鈥檚 constitutional court to oblige the government to pursue a more rigorous climate ...
  • Germans favour energy-efficient building modernisations, critical of higher CO2 price- survey

    17 Sep 2021, 12:38 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Efficiency Heating 麻豆无码版 People in Germany are very much in favour of government support for solar thermal heating systems and heat pumps as well as building refurbishments that make homes ...
  • 29 Sep 2022 |

    Germany agrees 200-billion euro 鈥榙efence shield鈥 against soaring energy prices

    29 Sep 2022, 17:37 The German government has agreed on a relief package worth up to 200 billion euros to fight soaring energy prices. 鈥淧rices must go down 鈥 that鈥檚 our conviction, and the government will do anything to achieve that,鈥 said chancellor Olaf ...
  • 19 Jul 2019 |

    Climate concern could lead to Green chancellor in Germany 鈥 media

    19 Jul 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Reuters Growing concern over global warming in Germany has seen the Green party rise to record popularity in polls, and made a Green chancellor a real possibility, Madeline Chambers writes for ...
  • 29 Sep 2020 |

    Siemens 麻豆无码版 listing sparks criticism of fossil fuel operations

    29 Sep 2020, 13:07 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Industry taz / ARD Industrial giant Siemens has listed its power plant division on the stock exchange, leading to scrutiny and criticism of its activities in the fossil fuel sector, writes Kai ...
  • Right climate policy can reconcile yellow vests and Fridays For Future 鈥 French and German advisors

    16 Jul 2019, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / 麻豆无码版 With European cooperation and an 鈥渁ppropriate design鈥 of climate policy, the seemingly diverging calls for change by French yellow vests ...
  • 13 Sep 2021 |

    Majority of motorists drive slower than 130 km/h on German motorways

    13 Sep 2021, 13:57 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Cars Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Around 77 percent of motorists drive slower than 130 km/h on German ...
  • 25 Feb 2020 |

    Storm Yulia sets new record in German wind power

    25 Feb 2020, 14:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar 麻豆无码版 Systems ...
  • 09 Dec 2019 |

    Germany will cancel EU ETS allowances in framework of coal exit 鈥 state sec

    09 Dec 2019, 12:55 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 麻豆无码版 / ...
  • 15 Oct 2021 |

    German seaports seen as key sites for development and transport of green hydrogen

    15 Oct 2021, 11:31 Edgar Meza Hydrogen International Die Welt German seaports could soon become key sites for the development of the country鈥檚 hydrogen economy, according to a recent report by the German Maritime Center (DMZ) in Hamburg. Hydrogen is seen ...
  • Merkel鈥檚 endorsement of climate strikes 鈥渉ypocritical鈥- teachers鈥 assoc

    20 Mar 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics Tageszeitung (taz) Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 support for the climate school strike movement Fridays for Future is 鈥渉ypocritical鈥 because it pretends that the government has nothing to ...
  • Communication crucial for success of carbon pricing schemes 鈥 study

    14 Aug 2019, 11:55 Expert adelphi Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 There is no general recipe for a successful carbon pricing scheme, but its introduction should be accompanied by open and targeted ...
  • 27 Sep 2019 |

    Project-based carbon contracts for differences could help lower industry emissions 鈥 analysis

    27 Sep 2019, 13:51 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices ...
  • 08 Nov 2021 |

    German energy consumption up 3 percent in 2021 as renewables share declines

    08 Nov 2021, 14:02 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business ...
  • Four climate policy initiatives for a fair transformation

    Climate policy must take into account all the affected people, empower them, hold those responsible for climate change accountable, and create both global and national prospects for the future, according to the German Advisory Council on Global Change ...
  • 21 Sep 2022 |

    Germany nationalises largest gas importer to avert market collapse following Russia鈥檚 gas cut

    21 Sep 2022, 13:02 Gas importer Uniper will be put under control of the German state after the company has accrued crushing losses over the past months due to skyrocketing gas prices resulting from Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine. The German government provides ...
  • 19 Oct 2020 |

    SUV鈥檚 profit from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 e-car premium, observers cry foul

    19 Oct 2020, 13:02 Kerstine Appunn Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 recent e-car boom 鈥 a聽 record number 聽of electric vehicles were registered in September 2020 鈥 is partly thanks to generous government incentives 鈥 but ...
  • 05 Oct 2021 |
    Gas

    鈥淚t is becoming difficult for LNG in the German market鈥 鈥 Uniper

    05 Oct 2021, 12:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas energate messenger / taz The energy group Uniper no longer believes in the construction of an LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal in northern German Wilhelmshaven, reports ...
  • German building material giant HeidelbergCement benefits from rising ETS price

    08 Nov 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The rising price for emissions allowances in the EU's trading system ETS is increasing the price of cement, giving German building material giant ...
  • 18 Jan 2021 |

    German hard coal imports set to continue steep decline in 2021- industry group

    18 Jan 2021, 13:52 Expert Coal Importer Association Verein der Kohleimporteure Fossil fuels Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal 麻豆无码版 Last year's sharp drop in Germany's hard coal imports is set to continue ...
  • 05 Jul 2022 |

    State support for Uniper is right, as insolvency would shake up entire German gas industry 鈥 analyst

    05 Jul 2022, 12:40 Possible state support for energy company Uniper 鈥 Europe鈥檚 largest buyer of Russian fossil gas 鈥 is justified because an insolvency would trigger a domino effect and shake up the entire German gas industry, says energy analyst Andreas ...
  • 06 Sep 2019 |

    German subsidies for environment and energy rise in 2018

    06 Sep 2019, 13:38 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut f眉r Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 German financial aid in the fields of environment and energy is "rising ...
  • 09 Aug 2021 |

    Germany's search for nuclear repository runs into first difficulties

    09 Aug 2021, 12:08 Expert BGE- Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal Bundesgesellschaft f眉r Endlagerung Nuclear phase-out Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Kerstine Appunn ...
  • Slow progress in Paris rulebook negotiations 鈥渄eeply worrying,鈥 Germany must honour its climate commitments 鈥 researchers

    The slow pace of progress in the negotiations on a rulebook for the Paris Climate Agreement is 鈥渄eeply worrying,鈥 and industrial countries must both help configure global climate policy in a socially responsible way and do their own homework, write ...
  • 28 Oct 2021 |

    Germany must make better use of existing power grid's capacity- report

    28 Oct 2021, 14:34 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Grid 麻豆无码版 Germany's existing power grid could handle much more electricity ...
  • 04 Jun 2019 |

    If Germany wants to achieve climate neutrality, it needs nuclear power 鈥 opinion

    04 Jun 2019, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Washington Post If 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel is really serious about her聽 promise to make the country climate-neutral by 2050, her first step would be to reverse the end of nuclear power by 2022, ...
  • 16 Sep 2019 |

    Infeasible "myths" dominate Germany's transport transition debate- db research

    16 Sep 2019, 12:31 Edgar Meza Transport 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport transition is largely dependent on the adoption of widely circulated concepts based on new technologies and planned infrastructure developments, Deutsche Bank Research says in a ...
  • 22 Nov 2021 |

    Southern German states call on EU to allow regional wind power privileges

    22 Nov 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The leader of four German states have asked the European Commission to pass a special wind energy quota for the country's South, arguing that the expansion of wind energy needs to 鈥減ick up ...
  • Climate change abroad hits German economy- Federal Environment Agency

    17 Dec 2018, 12:51 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy is particularly sensitive to ...
  • 05 Dec 2019 |

    Sustainable funds climbing in Germany as chemicals heavyweight commits to ESG criteria

    05 Dec 2019, 13:13 Expert German Investment Funds Association Deutscher Fondsverband Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 麻豆无码版 The volume of assets managed in retail funds under sustainability criteria in Germany has doubled over the past five ...
  • 26 Aug 2020 |

    Coronavirus crisis accelerates investments in sustainability 鈥 RWE CEO

    26 Aug 2020, 12:24 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities Handelsblatt The coronavirus crisis is accelerating investments in sustainability rather than pushing aside climate change as a ...
  • NGO Germanwatch calls on government to follow 12 other EU states with CO2 tax

    12 Jul 2019, 13:16 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Twelve EU member states have already set a price on CO2 and all opted for a tax solution as Germany continues discussions on the ...
  • 08 Mar 2022 |

    Chancellor Scholz says Russian energy supplies 鈥渆ssential鈥 as fears of halt to trading loom

    08 Mar 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann International Security 麻豆无码版 / The Guardian / CNN German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected calls for immediately ending all energy trading with Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. 鈥淓urope鈥檚 ...
  • High energy prices: German government examines support for poorer households

    07 Jan 2022, 11:59 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Electricity market Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background The German government has ...
  • 18 Feb 2020 |

    Germany's leading role in green technologies at risk 鈥 agency

    18 Feb 2020, 13:55 S枚ren Amelang Industry Start-ups 麻豆无码版 Germany's strong position in the global market for environmental technologies is at risk, warns the country's environment agency (UBA). "Germany's international ...
  • 30 Jul 2021 |

    Heat pumps key to helping decarbonise urban buildings- researchers

    30 Jul 2021, 11:34 Jessica Bateman Heating 麻豆无码版 The Fraunhofer Institute for 麻豆无码版 Economics and 麻豆无码版 System Technology IEE has released a study looking at how heat pumps could contribute to climate neutral urban communities. In a press ...
  • SPD proposes end of renewables surcharge and mandatory solar power in energy policy reform

    29 Oct 2020, 13:44 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
  • 28 Sep 2018 |

    Greens want climate protection included in German Basic Law

    The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag has introduced a draft law that would make international climate goals and obligations, as well as the nuclear exit, binding under German Basic Law. In a plenary debate, Green group leader Anton Hofreiter ...
  • 17 Sep 2021 |

    Germany to introduce stricter requirements for plug-in hybrid subsidies

    17 Sep 2021, 12:40 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Kerstine Appunn Cars dpa The government鈥檚 new eligibility requirements will make it harder for people to access a government subsidy on the purchase of a plug-in hybrid ...
  • 17 Mar 2020 |

    Domestic gas production in Germany down as consumption increases

    17 Mar 2020, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Consumption of natural gas by Germany's private households and industry customers increased in 2019, while domestic production of the fossil fuel continued to decline, the national ...
  • 07 Dec 2021 |

    Suppliers say 'mixed approach' with e-cars and e-fuels could save many European car industry jobs

    07 Dec 2021, 12:55 Jessica Bateman Cars Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 Following a "mixed technology approach" in the decarbonisation of Europe's transport sector could deliver significant CO2 emissions reduction while simultaneously ...
  • 22 Oct 2020 |

    Volkswagen continues fight with German car lobby group over future use of fuels

    22 Oct 2020, 12:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Hydrogen S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The German car industry lobby group VDA and its biggest member, Volkswagen, are continuing their internal argument over whether combustion engines in passenger cars still have a future ...
  • 07 Aug 2020 |

    Green hydrogen pilot plant for chemicals production opens in Saxony-Anhalt

    07 Aug 2020, 15:11 Hydrogen Industry 麻豆无码版 A pilot plant for producing green hydrogen energy for low-emission production of chemicals and fuel has opened in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Fraunhofer Centre for Chemical-Biotechnological ...
  • 19 Jan 2016

    麻豆无码版 minister wants round table on coal, unions demand commission

    19 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Federal Ministry for 麻豆无码版 and Economic Affairs (BMWi) Gabriel says wants round table on future of coal 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy minister Sigmar Gabriel has said he wants to establish a round table on the ...
  • German government could finance climate goals with little fiscal strain 鈥 consultancy

    05 Dec 2018, 13:55 Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Finance Prognos Germany can implement effective measures to mitigate climate change without straining its fiscal leeway ...
  • 06 Sep 2021 |

    Conversion of Bavaria鈥檚 largest oil refinery to hydrogen plagued by legal uncertainties

    06 Sep 2021, 14:12 Edgar Meza Bioenergy Hydrogen S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Bayernoil, Bavaria鈥檚 biggest oil refinery, is planning to move away from petrol and heating oil and towards e-fuels created with sustainably produced hydrogen, but legal uncertainties ...
  • 25 Sep 2018 |

    German industry calls for more decisive energy and climate policy

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy and climate policy lacks decisiveness and a coherent approach, according to representatives of the country鈥檚 industries. 鈥淕别谤尘补苍y must urgently take an integral approach to the climate-friendly modernisation of our economy, instead of ...
  • 03 Mar 2020 |

    Lower taxes for diesel cost Germany up to seven billion euros in 2019

    03 Mar 2020, 14:22 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Cars Rheinische Post The lower ...
  • Battery gigafactories will rapidly make e-cars even greener 鈥 battery expert

    03 May 2021, 10:50 The batteries used in electric cars will quickly become more sustainable, and many concerns about their CO2 footprint are overblown, says Hans Eric Melin, founder and managing director of London-based consultancy聽 Circular 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 30 Jul 2020 |

    German hard coal company suing for better phase-out compensation

    30 Jul 2020, 13:30 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Coal Handelsblatt Hard coal power station operator Steag is suing to get better compensation for the shutdown of its plants under 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit plan, writes J眉rgen Flauger ...
  • 03 May 2019 |

    Climate protests accompany RWE鈥檚 shareholder meeting

    03 May 2019, 13:23 S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities 麻豆无码版 Climate activists called for a swift end to coal-fired power generation at power plant operator RWE鈥檚 annual general meeting. Members of the Fridays for Future student protest movement ...
  • 10 Nov 2020 |

    North Rhine-Westphalia presents hydrogen roadmap, eyes creation of 130,000 new jobs

    10 Nov 2020, 14:00 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 The state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is accelerating the development of a future-oriented hydrogen economy, energy minister Andreas Pinkwart announced on Monday. By 2025, NRW is set to have its ...
  • 06 Oct 2020 |

    Germany says green hydrogen imports should not harm environment in partner countries

    06 Oct 2020, 13:30 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Hydrogen International 麻豆无码版 The German government says green hydrogen production projects with partner countries should not come at the expense of local ...
  • Head of German Council of Economic Experts says chances greater than ever for introducing CO2 price

    11 Jun 2019, 13:27 Expert RWI 鈥 Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI 鈥 Leibniz-Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices dpa / Welt ...
  • 29 Jun 2020 |

    German power grid planning shows little ambition 鈥 media

    29 Jun 2020, 13:07 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
  • Climate Chancellor鈥 Merkel has failed 鈥 opinion

    30 Nov 2018, 15:07 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Politics Government WirtschaftsWoche German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government have failed on climate protection policy and have not been able to come up with a vision ...
  • German Greens attach conditions to confirming von der Leyen as Commission president

    09 Jul 2019, 12:45 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics International tageszeitung (taz) / 麻豆无码版 The German members of the Green group in the European Parliament (EP) said they would only support German defence minister Ursula von der ...
  • Merkel calls climate change 鈥渧ital question鈥 in new year鈥檚 address

    02 Jan 2019, 13:10 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 diesel strategy pointless from a climate perspective

    29 Nov 2018, 15:54 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Cars Politics Spiegel Online The rise in emissions from passenger cars in Germany shows that 鈥渢he diesel strategy has been pointless for the climate,鈥 Spiegel Online reports. ...
  • 27 Sep 2021 |

    German power prices continue to rise as first gas supplier terminates supply

    27 Sep 2021, 13:59 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Electricity Gas dpa / Zeit / Wirtschaftswoche ...
  • Slowdown in wind power expansion could signal end to Germany's 鈥済reen fairy tale鈥 鈥 commentary

    02 Sep 2019, 13:13 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Renewables Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's "green fairy tale is in danger" as wind power expansion in the country has almost come to a "complete standstill,"聽 writes Michael ...
  • Germany to open climate research institute in coal region

    11 Mar 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 The German environment ministry (BMU) says it will open a research centre focused on reducing emmissions in energy-intensive industries in the eastern German ...
  • 16 Apr 2019 |

    麻豆无码版 company RWE's share price up amid coal exit debate and climate protests

    16 Apr 2019, 14:27 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Utilities S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German coal plant and lignite mine operator RWE has seen its share price increase by almost 40 percent since ...
  • 11 Apr 2019 |

    The World Bank still massively invests in fossil fuels despite climate pledge 鈥 NGO

    11 Apr 2019, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Finance International ICIJ / Urgewald The World Bank is touting investments in solar parks and other climate-friendly projects 聽but has continued to finance oil and gas exploration, pipelines and refineries that ...
  • 04 Dec 2018 |

    German development minister proposes biennial rhythm for COP climate summits

    04 Dec 2018, 15:31 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Politics COP24 Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 development minister Gerd M眉ller has proposed a biennial rhythm for the yearly COP climate summits to make the talks more efficient, report Philipp Fritz and Daniel ...
  • 22 Oct 2018 |

    Several German states to call for additional free ETS allowances for steel industry

    Several German states are demanding that the federal government and the EU should protect the steel industry from stricter environmental regulations and rising electricity costs, reports S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. In a draft of the joint final statement for ...
  • 27 Oct 2020 |

    Home insulation makes big difference in heating bill and CO2 emissions 鈥 government report

    27 Oct 2020, 13:25 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Clean 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 22 Nov 2018 |

    Climate passport鈥 proposed by Green Party a ludicrous idea 鈥 commentary

    The Green Party鈥檚 demand to grant 鈥climate passports鈥 to people whose livelihoods have been destroyed by climate change sounds reasonable but is crazy, argues Ulrich Ladurner on Zeit Online. 鈥淭he Germans haven鈥檛 recovered from the great migration in 2015, ...
  • Boom of electric heaters causing concerns about German grid stability next winter

    02 Aug 2022, 13:05 German consumers are swarming to shops to buy electric heaters as fears of a true gas shortage caused by Russia's war on Ukraine rise, but experts warn this could pose problems for power supply security. The majority of heating and ...
  • 21 Sep 2020 |

    German Social Democrats in government push for CO2 price contribution by landlords

    21 Sep 2020, 13:58 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz ...
  • 麻豆无码版 innovation is our biggest hope in fight against climate change 鈥 WEC

    09 Apr 2019, 13:29 The speed of energy transition innovations led by start-ups around the world continues to exceed expectations and is our biggest hope in the fight against climate change, according to Christoph Frei, secretary general and CEO of the ...
  • COP24 in Katowice will be 鈥渕ilestone in international climate 辫辞濒颈肠测鈥 鈥 state secretary

    There is much detail work to be done until the UN Climate Change Conference will start in Polish Katowice on 2 December, said the German environment ministry after a preparatory meeting in Krak贸w. However, the will of governments to agree on a rulebook ...
  • 05 Mar 2020 |

    A third of Germans open to buying an e-car in next five years 鈥 survey

    05 Mar 2020, 14:39 Rachel Waldholz Cars 麻豆无码版 Over one third of German car owners (36 percent) say they could imagine buying an electric car in the next five years, but more than half say it鈥檚 not an option, in large part because of the cost. ...
  • Germany must show Security Council members value of making security policy implications key topic

    The German government has to carefully moderate the many differing interests in order to successfully make security policy implications of climate change a key topic during its two-year term as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, writes ...
  • 13 Oct 2021 |

    Gas price hike may hit German economy with production cuts- media reports

    13 Oct 2021, 13:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices WirtschaftsWoche / Der Spiegel / manager magazin Media reports show that rising prices for energy and especially for natural gas across Europe could start to hamper German companies鈥 ability to ...
  • 04 Mar 2015 |

    Lobbies, experts disagree over ideal power market redesign

    04 Mar 2015, 00:00 The consultation period for the government's green paper on power market reform is over and submissions reveal stakeholders' different ideas and priorities for a redesign. Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Electricity ...
  • 03 Aug 2020 |

    There will be no big comeback for the German solar industry- opinion

    03 Aug 2020, 13:52 Edgar Meza Solar Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Despite plans by a major solar energy company from Switzerland to revive solar pv manufacturing in Germany, there is no chance that a large-scale industry will return under current ...
  • German renewables levy to rise slightly in 2020 and peak the year after 鈥 think tank

    19 Aug 2019, 12:59 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Freja Eriksen Renewables Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2016 Clean 麻豆无码版 ...
  • New govt climate report ups pressure on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission

    A new government report detailing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 failure at emissions reductions increases the pressure on the country鈥檚 coal commission to agree on a speedy phase-out plan. Germany remains set to widely miss its self-imposed 2020 emission reduction target, ...
  • On energy policy, Germany thinks itself an island in Europe 鈥 opinion

    16 Aug 2019, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Energiewende International Die Zeit The German government's energy policy often lacks an appropriate and necessary coordination with European neighbours, writes Michael Thumann in an opinion piece in Die Zeit. ...
  • 14 Mar 2019 |

    Coal phase-out in Germany will be economic net gain, study finds

    14 Mar 2019, 13:40 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Ecologic Institute ...
  • 18 Jun 2020 |

    Germany says green finance criteria not a guiding principle in EU stability mechanism

    18 Jun 2020, 14:29 Expert Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Finance EU 麻豆无码版 The German government has said green and sustainable finance criteria will not influence investment ...
  • 12 Nov 2019 |

    Environmental lawyers call on German govt to support ban on EIB gas lending

    12 Nov 2019, 12:52 Julian Wettengel Gas Finance 麻豆无码版 / EurActiv ClientEarth, an NGO of lawyers and environmental experts, has called on the German government to back the proposal to ban all fossil fuel projects, including natural gas, from ...
  • Threatened Siemens site in mining region to become hub for hydrogen research

    16 Jul 2019, 13:08 Siemens is planning a hydrogen research laboratory and innovation campus in the east German city of G枚rlitz, where the company鈥檚 turbine plant was previously due to be shut down. Chancellor Angela Merkel called the plans a 鈥渕ilestone鈥 ...
  • 03 Dec 2018 |

    World must step up cooperation to fight global warming but it does not 鈥 opinion

    03 Dec 2018, 14:39 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 COP24 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The international community is failing badly to cooperate as needed to counter the rise in global temperature, writes Andreas Mihm in an ...
  • No tightening of building efficiency standards planned in Germany

    29 Nov 2018, 15:36 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Efficiency Government Tagesspiegel The new draft law on the energy efficiency of 聽buildings, proposed by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 interior (BMI) and economy and energy (BMWi) ministries, does ...
  • 27 Aug 2020 |

    Ukraine and Germany ink energy partnership to 'modernise' Ukraine's energy sector

    27 Aug 2020, 11:49 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 17 Feb 2020 |

    German subsidies expected to boost low-emission heating systems

    17 Feb 2020, 14:05 Rachel Waldholz Hydrogen Heating Welt Online New federal subsidies are expected to boost the sale of low-emissions heating systems in Germany, news website Welt Online reports. According to the article, the Federation of the German ...
  • 13 Jun 2018 |

    Government no longer dares to take climate protection seriously 鈥 opinion

    The German government鈥檚聽鈥 Climate Protection Report 鈥櫬爄s a 鈥渢estimony of failure,鈥 writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in a commentary for the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭he truth is that this government no longer dares to pursue a serious climate policy. [鈥 It ...
  • Summer drought shows need for climate-conscious agriculture 鈥 environment ministry

    This year鈥檚 persistent drought could help the push towards more climate-friendly agriculture in Germany, Susanne Ehlerding writes for Der Tagesspiegel. A working paper published after a meeting between farmers and environment minister Svenja Schulze lists ...
  • 12 Mar 2020 |

    German energy-intensive companies call for Europe-wide industry power price

    12 Mar 2020, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt 麻豆无码版-intensive companies from Germany are calling for an EU-wide electricity price for industry as a simple instrument to safeguard the sector's global competitiveness during ...
  • 03 Aug 2022 |

    Scholz says "no technical reasons" for reduced gas flows from Russia

    03 Aug 2022, 13:37 Russia is ready to use 鈥減retexts and invented reasons鈥 to obstruct Europe鈥檚 energy supply, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said as his government prepares for a possible full halt to natural gas trading with the country鈥檚 most ...
  • 14 May 2020 |

    Driverless trucks could shift transport from rails to road 鈥 report

    14 May 2020, 14:17 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Transport Freight 麻豆无码版 The introduction of automated heavy trucks could further shift transport from rail to road, according to a report by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Aerospace Center (DLR) on the ...
  • Quality of reporting on climate risks by German companies must increase 鈥 consultancy

    While many German companies have recognised the need for more transparency and other changes in measuring climate risks, the quality of reporting on the topic is not high enough, writes the consultancy Ernst & Young (EY). In a report, EY examined how ...
  • 28 Oct 2014 |

    German CO2 emissions set to fall in 2014 as overall energy use drops

    28 Oct 2014, 00:00 The rise in renewable energy production and a mild winter have probably led to a decline in carbon emissions in Germany this year, energy research group AG Energiebilanzen said. Overall, German energy use dropped to the lowest level ...
  • 21 Jan 2021 |

    Merkel sticks with Nord Stream 2 despite mounting opposition in Germany and EU

    21 Jan 2021, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 麻豆无码版 / Reuters German chancellor Angela Merkel has reaffirmed her support for the contentious Russian-German pipeline Nord Stream 2, even as pressure from those opposing project increases by ...
  • 13 Mar 2018 |

    Climate policy in the coalition treaty: Three steps forward, four steps back

    The German government's coalition agreement is a major missed opportunity to realign German climate policy with the Paris Agreement, Niklas H枚hne writes in a blog for the New Climate Institute, translated to English for Climate Home. In scrapping the ...
  • Focus on climate in Bavarian coalition treaty is a surprise, but might be less ambitious than first meets the eye - reports

    The focus on climate in Bavaria鈥檚 coalition treaty 聽between conservative parties Christian Socialist Union (CSU) and Free Voters is a surprise, writes Peter Issig for the Die Welt. 鈥淪ome of it seems to have been copied directly from the Greens,鈥 writes ...
  • German environment agency submits considerations for long-term EU climate strategy

    The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has submitted its considerations regarding a future long-term climate plan for the European Union. The EU is currently preparing its respective mid-century long-term climate strategy, which would drag Europe鈥檚 economy ...
  • Thyssenkrupp tests use of hydrogen in steel production to bring down emissions

    12 Nov 2019, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest steelmaker thyssenkrupp has launched a series of tests into the use of hydrogen in a working blast furnace aimed at reducing CO2 emissions ...
  • 24 Mar 2021 |

    Germany risks falling behind in green technology leadership 鈥 Deutsche Bank

    24 Mar 2021, 13:13 Charlotte Nijhuis Technology International 麻豆无码版 Germany risks falling behind in the global race for technology leadership, including green technology, Deutsche Bank writes in a monitoring report. The report looks at Germany ...
  • Large majority of Germans say government is not doing enough to curb climate change

    More than three-fifths of Germans believe that their government is not doing enough to limit the country鈥檚 impact on climate change, a survey commissioned by the solar power lobby group BSW Solar has found. In the survey, conducted by pollster YouGov, ...
  • 15 Apr 2021 |

    European transmission grid operators plan to connect offshore wind platforms

    15 Apr 2021, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Wind Seven European transmission grid operators (TSO) have launched an initiative for interconnecting offshore wind platforms across Europe. The aim of 鈥淓urobar鈥 is to securely and efficiently ...
  • 21 Feb 2019 |

    Shipping needs 鈥減ower-to-x鈥 technologies to become climate-friendly- engineering body

    21 Feb 2019, 13:43 Rachel Waldholz Transport Freight Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany must support 鈥減ower-to-x鈥 technologies as a key part of the energy transition, says German engineering association VDMA in a press release (in English). The federation ...
  • 19 May 2020 |

    Public transport plunge due to coronavirus could inflate Germany's transport emissions 鈥 NGO

    19 May 2020, 14:12 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 麻豆无码版 A drop in the use of public transport due to passengers鈥 coronavirus fears could increase Germany's transport ...
  • G7 must increase financial support for climate change adaptation 鈥 NGO

    Ahead of the G7 environment, energy and ocean ministers meeting in Halifax, Canada, humanitarian relief organisation CARE published a comprehensive analysis of the finance provided by the G7 group to developing countries for climate change adaptation and ...
  • 10 Aug 2015

    RWE unveils turnaround plan

    10 Aug 2015, 00:00 Germany's second-largest utility announces it is consolidating its operations under one roof and shaking up its management structure. Spinning off the conventional power business was kept as an option but not planned, CEO Peter ...
  • 24 Jan 2019 |

    Autobahn speed limit: good for climate and safety, or a useless loss of freedom?

    24 Jan 2019, 12:07 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Following the leak of a working paper from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 sustainable mobility commission, the debate about speed limits on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Autobahn system continues unabated ...
  • 15 Jan 2019 |

    Germany should continue nuclear fusion research to fight climate change- opinion

    15 Jan 2019, 11:57 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Technology Handelsblatt Germany must take responsibility for fighting climate change by continuing research into nuclear fusion, Julian Olk writes in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. ...
  • 03 Aug 2020 |

    German government officials increased domestic air travel in 2019

    03 Aug 2020, 13:46 Edgar Meza Transport Government Welt am Sonntag German government employees last year took 27,216 more individual flights than in 2018, with a particular increase in short inland flights that are considered to be particularly harmful to ...
  • 08 Jun 2021 |

    Partial solar eclipse in Germany will reduce solar PV output by 4.2 GW on Thursday

    08 Jun 2021, 13:18 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid Solar 麻豆无码版 German transmission grid operators (TSO) are preparing for the partial solar eclipse on Thursday, 10 June but are confident that ...
  • 29 Apr 2016

    Volkswagen's new clean image / 'Wind turbines are standing still'

    29 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 VW / Handelsblatt 鈥淲e plan to make electric cars one of Volkswagen鈥檚 new hallmarks鈥 German carmaker Volkswagen wants to be at the forefront of big changes in the auto industry, in ...
  • 07 Apr 2021 |

    German and European car suppliers to profit from e-car boom

    07 Apr 2021, 12:52 Julian Wettengel Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt With their products and skills, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 car supplier companies will be able to benefit greatly from the shift to e-mobility, despite the competition from other world markets, ...
  • Climate change, if uncontained, 鈥渨ill change the face of our planet鈥- Merkel

    07 Dec 2018, 13:29 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Politics Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 German chancellor Angela ...
  • It鈥檚 certain now: German industry wants climate protection and energy transition - opinion

    The Federation of German Industries (BDI) signalling a new stance on climate protection with its 鈥Climate paths鈥 study is a 鈥渂reakthrough, more important [鈥 than most governmental climate protection plans and targets,鈥 writes Jakob Schlandt in an opinion ...
  • 08 Mar 2016

    RWE posts net loss / Nuclear in focus ahead of Fukushima anniversary

    08 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 RWE/Bloomberg RWE posts second net loss in two years 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest power producer RWE posted its second net loss in three years, reports Tino Andresen for Bloomberg. The group鈥檚 net loss ...
  • 11 Sep 2019 |

    Automotive supplier Continental plans CO2-neutral production by 2040

    11 Sep 2019, 14:03 S枚ren Amelang Cars Xinhua Continental, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 second largest car industry supplier, is planning to be CO2-neutral "in all of its production processes" by 2040, company CEO Elmar Degenhart announced at the International ...
  • 09 Apr 2020 |

    Greens call for clarity on ETS allowance cancellations during German coal exit

    09 Apr 2020, 13:43 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
  • 07 Jul 2021 |

    Share of regrowing raw materials amounted to 16% in Germany in 2018

    07 Jul 2021, 13:27 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Kerstine Appunn Resources & Recycling The use of regrowing biotic raw materials such as cereals and wood accounted for 16 percent, or 224 million ...
  • 19 Dec 2018 |

    Greatest threat to car industry jobs are not climate targets, but uninspired carmakers 鈥 op-ed

    19 Dec 2018, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars ARD The outcry from German carmakers over new EU fleet emission targets are a bitter disappointment, argues Karin Dohr in a commentary for public broadcaster ARD. 鈥淐ar bosses seem to ignore the ...
  • Little evidence of investment leakage due to EU emissions trade 鈥 analysis

    15 May 2019, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 There is so far little evidence that German companies whose CO鈧 emissions are limited by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) are responding by setting up ...
  • 14 Jul 2020 |

    Industry could reduce emissions by nearly 90 percent with modern technology 鈥 VDMA

    14 Jul 2020, 14:15 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Hydrogen Industry The use of new low-emission technology across all ...
  • 14 Dec 2018 |

    Climate scientist warns 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission could fail

    14 Dec 2018, 14:34 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Fossil fuels Politics Focus Online The commission tasked with planning the end of coal-fired power production in Germany may be imperilled by internal differences that hinder compromise, climate ...
  • 02 Jun 2020 |

    German metal-processing industry calls for common European industry power price

    02 Jun 2020, 13:26 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Industry Handelsblatt The German industry federation for metal-processing companies, WVMetalle, is calling for an ...
  • Coal commission delay is embarrassment for Germany 鈥 commentary

    The coal commission delay is 鈥渆mbarrassing for the former climate pioneer鈥 Germany, because the government will not be able to demonstrate it is serious about climate ambitions at the UN climate summit in Poland in early December, writes Joachim Wille in ...
  • 16 Dec 2020 |

    Villagers keep up fight against relocation due to German coal mine as media report tells of government "disinformation"

    16 Dec 2020, 15:59 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Society Die Zeit / Der Spiegel The fight against a planned resettlement of five villages due to expansion of a lignite mine in West Germany continues, writes newspaper die Zeit. In a state parliament hearing, the ...
  • 24 May 2019 |

    Deutsche Bank subsidiary head says 鈥渢sunami鈥 of sustainable investment activity ahead

    24 May 2019, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Reuters The investment fund subsidiary of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Deutsche Bank, DWS, wants to increase the share of sustainable investments, with a greater focus on the so-called ESG criteria for asset selection, which ...
  • Resolute renewables expansion will reduce power price and emissions amid coal exit 鈥 report

    06 Feb 2019, 14:10 Expert Greenpeace 麻豆无码版 (now Green Planet 麻豆无码版) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices An ambitious and ...
  • Coal commission mandate 鈥渘owhere near enough鈥 鈥 Green Party

    The coal commission鈥檚 mandate is 鈥渘owhere near enough,鈥 according to Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock. 鈥淭he commission now has the difficult task of outgrowing this mandate. Neither the climate, nor the regions鈥 affected residents can afford a ...
  • 05 Dec 2018 |

    VW plans climate-neutral production of ID Neo model, successor of E-Golf

    05 Dec 2018, 13:48 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cars Handelsblatt Carmaker VW is planning the climate-neutral production of its upcoming electric model ID Neo, which is the successor to the company鈥檚 best ...
  • 12 Mar 2021 |

    E-bike sales jump during pandemic to reach 40 percent share in Germany

    12 Mar 2021, 13:39 Charlotte Nijhuis Transport 麻豆无码版 The sales of bicycles and e-bikes in Germany increased by 16.9 percent in 2020 compared to the year before, amounting to 6.44 billion euros, the German bicycle industry association (ZIV) ...
  • 23 Aug 2018 |

    Sustainability strategy for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2024 European Football Championship bid

    The German Football Association (DFB) has published a sustainability concept for its bid to host the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship (UEFA Euro 2024), which includes a 100 percent renewable electricity goal, as well as the plan to develop ...
  • 25 Oct 2018 |

    "Inconvenient truths" about 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate policy

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government is creating a 鈥climate chaos,鈥 the tabloid newspaper Bild writes in a page two article. Despite the high costs of renewable power, the targets of the energy transition are far from being reached, the article says. Another point of ...
  • 15 Jun 2021 |

    German onshore wind tender surpasses 1,000 megawatt mark for first time since 2017

    15 Jun 2021, 12:33 Edgar Meza Wind 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest onshore wind tender has resulted in 240 new planned wind turbines with a combined capacity of 1,110 megawatt (MW), just under the total offered volume of 1,243 MW, the Federal Network ...
  • 13 Aug 2020 |

    Germany paves way for faster wind power expansion licenses

    13 Aug 2020, 13:48 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has set out to accelerate planning procedures for infrastructure projects linked to the energy transition with a focus on speeding up onshore wind power expansion in particular. Utilities welcomed the streamlining ...
  • 25 Oct 2017 |

    COP23 鈥 'Germany can achieve most for climate by technology export'

    25 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany is hosting this year鈥檚 international climate summit (COP23) in Bonn. The conference will be about establishing the trust in mutually agreed rules on climate protection, says Carsten Rolle, head of the energy and climate policy ...
  • E-car boom spells trouble for secure lithium supply 鈥 German-Canadian supplier

    15 Jul 2021, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt The rapid increase in e-car purchases in Germany and other countries could thwart existing calculations for the industry supply of lithium, a key raw material for the ...
  • Don鈥檛 deploy negative emissions technologies without ethical analysis 鈥 researchers

    The vast scale at which 鈥榥egative emissions technologies鈥 that suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere would need to be implemented raises ethical concerns, writes a group of researchers from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate ...
  • 30 Oct 2018 |

    German parliament and finance ministry ignore huge costs of climate inaction

    Germany聽 will likely have to buy emissions rights 聽worth billions of euros for failing EU transport and agriculture climate targets in the 2020s, but parliament and finance ministry appear only dimly aware of this risk, writes Bernhard P枚tter in ...
  • Germany must pull its weight in UN Security Council to address climate change 鈥 commentary

    Germany will have to actively lobby to make climate change and its security policy implications a key feature of its two-year term as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, Susanne Dr枚ge writes in a commentary for the German Institute for ...
  • 11 May 2018 |

    German government looks ahead as Bonn climate talks disappoint expectations

    Eleven days of climate negotiations in the city of Bonn have failed to deliver a draft text for the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement implementation guidelines. While the different text proposals had become more concrete and short, and the process of creating ...
  • 21 Nov 2018 |

    Climate campaigners launch international petition demanding quick German coal exit

    The climate change campaign group聽 350.org 聽has launched an international petition demanding an immediate stop to coal expansion and a rapid coal phase-out in Germany. 鈥淭his petition is being launched ahead of a highly anticipated coal phase-out proposal ...
  • 26 Sep 2018 |

    Germany makes no progress in cutting climate impact of heating

    Households in Germany spent almost seven percent less on heating in 2017 due to lower energy prices, but there was no progress in climate protection because energy consumption remained unchanged, according to a study conducted by the German Institute for ...
  • 07 Sep 2021 |

    Operator says Nord Stream 2 pipeline almost complete, bets on quick start of operations

    07 Sep 2021, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 麻豆无码版 / Die Welt The operator of the controversial gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 has announced that the project is almost complete. The last pipe segments connecting Germany and Russia through the ...
  • 07 Nov 2017 |

    鈥淕别谤尘补苍 climate policy 鈥 better than its image鈥 鈥 op-ed

    Germany is constantly worried that it might lose its image of climate protection pioneer, which appears to be a legitimate fear due to its stalling performance in CO 2 emissions reduction and sluggish renewable energy expansion, Axel Bojanowski writes in ...
  • SPD at odds with itself over level of ambition in climate policy to regain ground

    The German Social Democrats (SPD) have made climate policy one of the key topics during a special conference ("debate camp") following defeats in two state elections in which the federal government coalition party suffered major voter losses, ...
  • 05 Jul 2018 |

    Closing 2020 climate gap increasingly difficult, says German environment minister

    In an interview with Silke Kersting and Klaus Stratmann of financial daily Handelsblatt, German environment minister Svenja Schulze warns that the country is facing an uphill battle to achieve its climate protection goals. 鈥淲e have already lost too much ...
  • Coal power must be addressed to achieve Paris climate targets, IEA head says in Berlin

    As global CO 2 emissions are predicted to reach a historic high in 2018, 鈥渢here is a growing and worrying disconnect between climate targets and what is happening in the real energy markets,鈥 said Fatih Birol, head of the International 麻豆无码版 Agency. ...
  • "Politicians and Industry squander 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading role in climate protection"

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 politicians and companies are squandering the country鈥檚 leading role in climate protection even though the energy transition can benefit the economy, according to a ten-page special report in business daily Handelsblatt by Silke Kersting and ...
  • 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission insists no decision yet on exit date

    18 Sep 2018, 18:50 The country鈥檚 coal exit commission said there were no predetermined decisions regarding a date for the end to coal-fired power generation. Following irritation about reports of a supposed compromise on a 2038 end date, economy minister ...
  • 16 Jul 2020 |

    Volkswagen and Bosch CEOs clash over future use of hydrogen in cars

    16 Jul 2020, 13:52 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Hydrogen Die Welt German car industry heavyweights Volkswagen and Bosch are at odds over the use of hydrogen in mobility, with the world's largest carmaker clinging to a ...
  • Germans are a little less worried about climate change than other Europeans 鈥 EIB survey

    A climate survey published by the European Investment Bank (EIB) shows a north-south divide in EU citizens鈥 sentiment towards global warming. Southern Europeans are more concerned and see it as a more immediate threat compared to northern Europeans, who ...
  • Germany faces 鈥渕arathon鈥 to comply with climate targets and energy transition goals

    Reducing emissions across all sectors in Germany and gearing the energy system towards renewables and greater efficiency will be a 鈥渓ong-distance run that you can hardly practise for鈥, Anton Berger writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in a ...
  • 07 Nov 2018 |

    German policy shamefully neglects building emissions 鈥 commentary

    Buildings cause a third of German emissions, but the government continues to 鈥渟hamefully neglect鈥 this problem, writes Bernhard P枚tter in a commentary for tageszeitung. 鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 really bother anyone that all climate targets are missed in this sector, ...
  • 20 Mar 2019 |
    Gas

    Environmental NGOs step up opposition to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first LNG terminal

    20 Mar 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Gas 麻豆无码版 / Bizz 麻豆无码版 A group of environmental NGOs in Germany has intensified its resistance to the construction of the country鈥檚 first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, ...
  • Industry says environmental NGOs have thwarted compromise on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport emissions

    29 Mar 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Cars 麻豆无码版 The influential lobby group Federation of German Industries (BDI) has said that a 鈥渂lockade mentality鈥 by environmental NGOs has prevented a compromise within Germany ...
  • New Bavarian government coalition plans state climate protection law

    Bavarian conservative parties Christian Socialist Union (CSU) and Free Voters have signed a coalition treaty for the coming five years in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 southern economic power house and largest federal state. The alliance aims to make climate protection a ...
  • NGO calls for anti-coal protests in dozens of German cities

    Environmental NGO Greenpeace is calling on anti-coal protesters to gather in 54 German cities on 17 November to demand a resolute phase-out of coal-fired power production in the country. 鈥淓nd the dirty age of coal,鈥 will be the protests鈥 central message, ...
  • 07 Nov 2018 |

    Europe鈥檚 diesel boom didn鈥檛 help the climate 鈥 study

    The rapid spread of diesel engines in Europe over the past two decades thanks to subsidies has not lowered CO 2 emissions, according to a study by the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Trier University, and the International Council on ...
  • Germany's environment minister says closure of French nuclear plant makes Germany safer

    21 Feb 2020, 14:06 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
  • 16 Jul 2018 |

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate likely to mirror Northern Italy鈥檚 鈥 interview

    Global warming is shifting climate zones throughout Europe, Ernst Rauch, climate expert at Munich Reinsurance Company, said in an interview with Tagesspiegel. Germany will have vegetation similar to that found in Northern Italy by the end of the century ...
  • 29 Oct 2018 |

    Need to involve all actors in society for climate protection 鈥 President Steinmeier

    Germany is able to live up to its obligations in international climate protection and should not give up the pioneer role it has played in areas such as renewable energies and environmental technologies, said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at ...
  • 01 Nov 2018 |

    Climate change among greatest challenges of our time 鈥 CDU party head candidate

    The long-time rival of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former parliamentary group leader of the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, Friedrich Merz, 聽provided the first details on his candidacy to become chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in ...
  • 06 Nov 2017 |

    COP23- German negotiator will try to keep Turkey on side

    06 Nov 2017, 00:00 German-Turkish relations might be at a low-point in many respects but when it comes to climate politics, Germany will try to keep the country on side during the COP23 summit in Bonn. Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, ...
  • Germany stays out of call for stronger carbon pricing in EU

    14 Dec 2018, 13:35 Germany abstained from a call by nine other European countries for a stronger and extended role of carbon pricing at the COP climate conference in Katowice. The German environment ministry said it did not want to pre-empt the country鈥檚 ...
  • 19 Feb 2021 |

    Virtual meetings can replace a third of business trips, saving emissions 鈥 survey

    19 Feb 2021, 13:55 Charlotte Nijhuis 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Transport Following the pandemic, one third of business trips in Germany could be replaced by video conferences, a survey 聽conducted by the Borderstep Institute on behalf of the Ecological ...
  • No good climate without good work 鈥 op-ed

    With their protest slogan 鈥淣o good climate without good work鈥澛犫 used to demand job protection as Germany plans a coal phase-out聽鈥 coal workers are making a valid point, Joachim Wille writes in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Rundschau. But despite ...
  • Investor alliance challenges firms on climate lobbying

    An alliance of investors, led by the Church of England Pensions Board and the Swedish Pension Fund AP7, has written a joint letter to 55 high-carbon companies in Europe, including German carmaker VW, urging them to better align their lobbying stance with ...
  • 26 Oct 2018 |

    Climate and nature protection through moorland restoration

    The environment ministry wants to promote the restoration of moorlands in Germany, a press release said. Ninety percent of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 moors are drained, making them into a source instead of a sink for CO 2. 鈥淥nly a wet moor is a good moor,鈥 environment ...
  • 14 Oct 2021 |

    Onshore wind energy continues slow recovery in Germany with more bids in latest tender

    14 Oct 2021, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Renewables 麻豆无码版 For the first time since December 2020, an onshore wind power auction was oversubscribed in Germany. Developers submitted 210 bids totalling 1,824megawatt (MW) for the tender volume of 1,492 ...
  • Preview2018- Merkel is "a master of announcements"- environment NGO

    04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
  • 27 Mar 2019 |
    Gas

    Cabinet drafts regulation to reduce costs for LNG terminal operators

    27 Mar 2019, 12:19 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 24 Oct 2019 |

    NGOs call on coal mining state to protect villages and forest near mine

    24 Oct 2019, 12:06 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal 麻豆无码版 Leading environmental NGOs have called on the government of western German mining region North Rhine-Westphalia to protect ...
  • 14 Apr 2020 |

    Carmakers call for state support to boost industry and green mobility after corona

    14 Apr 2020, 14:24 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Freja Eriksen Cars dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German carmaker BMW has proposed that the German government introduce an " ...
  • 07 May 2019 |

    Eastern German state premiers call for EU support to exit coal

    07 May 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The heads of government of eastern German lignite states Brandenburg, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt have called for EU support to cope with the transition away from coal, news agency dpa reports in an article ...
  • 12 Apr 2021 |

    German government ready to support 'very important' Tesla battery factory

    12 Apr 2021, 14:11 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Storage Cars The German government has assured US automaker Tesla that it will make financial support available for battery production at its new factory near Berlin, Dietmar Neuerer聽 reports 聽in ...
  • 20 Jun 2018 |

    Climate targets and SDGs achievable together with smart policy mix

    A broad combination of policies ranging from straightforward CO鈧 pricing to regulation of water and forest protection, as well as lifestyle changes such as eating less meat, may be the best way to meet climate-stabilisation targets alongside most of the ...
  • 02 Sep 2020 |

    Greenpeace 麻豆无码版 launches complaint against hard coal tenders

    02 Sep 2020, 13:03 Expert Greenpeace 麻豆无码版 (now Green Planet 麻豆无码版) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal Renewables 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background Power supplier Greenpeace ...
  • Gas-fired power generation reaches record high in Germany

    26 Feb 2020, 13:55 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Gas Hydrogen Frankfurter ...
  • 28 Feb 2019 |

    Survey reveals many German economists ignorant of key coal exit details

    28 Feb 2019, 10:36 A survey of economics professors that found widespread scepticism about the climate impact of Germany's landmark coal exit deal accidentally revealed that many economists have only a patchy grasp on key details of the plan. More ...
  • Germany can reach 2020 climate target with three year delay 鈥 study

    Germany can reach its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target with a delay of three years by taking 9 gigawatts (GW) of lignite-fired power plant capacity offline by 2023 without endangering power supply security, according to a study by Aurora 麻豆无码版 ...
  • 14 Jan 2021 |

    Seven million Germans considering switch to green power contract at home

    14 Jan 2021, 13:37 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Kerstine Appunn Renewables Society 麻豆无码版 Many Germans are starting the new year with 鈥climate resolutions鈥 鈥 around 24 percent of them want to ...
  • Europe's courts are holding governments to account for climate change

    Courts in Germany and other European Union countries are posing a growing challenge to governments and business interests regarding climate change in recent months, reports Rick Noack in The Washington Post. Examples include an appeals court in the ...
  • Germany can鈥檛 make progress on climate protection without coal exit 鈥 Greenpeace commentary

    The stagnation in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 CO 2 emissions in 2017 suggested by AGEB data implies that Germany has lost another year in the fight against climate change, according to Greenpeace. 鈥淭he disastrous record underlines what has been evident for so long: Without ...
  • 12 Dec 2019 |

    Germany's green bond will have volume of around ten billion euros

    12 Dec 2019, 13:30 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Freja Eriksen Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine The volume Germany's green bond will be in the region of ten billion euros, the country's ...
  • German consumers waste 9 billion euros worth of power each year 鈥 survey

    27 Feb 2019, 13:30 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Private households in Germany could save 9 billion euros and 18 million tonnes of CO 2 each year by following electricity saving advice, according to a survey ...
  • Metalworkers鈥 union head warns Green party against overlooking energy transition鈥檚 social challenges

    The German Green Party should not overlook the concerns of workers in the steel or car industry when it debates the decarbonisation of the country鈥檚 economy, metalworker union IG Metall head J枚rg Hofmann said as a guest speaker at the Greens鈥 annual party ...
  • 20 May 2019 |

    Church near Hambach Forest prepared for demolition to make room for coal mine

    20 May 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society Rheinische Post A church in the town of Kerpen-Manheim, in the western German Rhenish coal mining region, has been prepared for demolition to expand a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. About ...
  • 03 May 2018 |

    Power-to-gas crucial if Germany pursues ambitious climate policy - metastudy

    Producing gas using renewable power is crucial for the success of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition if the country decides to pursue ambitious climate targets, according to a meta-analysis by energy management consultancy enervis commissioned by Leipzig natural ...
  • 16 Jun 2020 |

    Germany launches competition for green mobility projects as pandemic takes toll on public transport

    16 Jun 2020, 15:03 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Transport 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
  • 26 Sep 2018 |

    Industry spends around 10 percent of environmental budget on climate protection

    German industry spent 3.3 billion euros on climate protection in 2016, according to the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This expenditure equalled 10.5 percent of the total sum businesses (excluding construction) spent on environmental ...
  • Climate change adaptation important topic at G7 environment ministers鈥 meeting 鈥 env min

    Climate change adaptation has played a big role at the G7 environment ministers鈥 meeting, said German environment minister Svenja Schulze in a telephone press briefing after the first day of the meeting in Halifax, Canada. 鈥淚t is important to discuss this ...
  • 26 Sep 2018 |

    Cut power taxes to advance climate protection 鈥 utility association

    The government should cut power taxes and levies to boost the energy transition and climate protection, argues Stefan Kapferer, head of utility association BDEW, in an op-ed in the business daily Handelsblatt. Kapferer argues that electricity must become ...
  • 20 Aug 2018 |

    World is finally awakening to reality of global warming 鈥 鈥渉othouse Earth鈥 study co-author

    This summer鈥檚 record-breaking temperatures and forest fires have demonstrated to the public the enormous threat climate change poses to humanity, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and co-author ...
  • Few countries are pricing carbon high enough to meet climate targets 鈥 OECD

    Governments need to raise carbon prices much faster if they are to meet their commitments on cutting emissions and slowing the pace of climate change under the Paris Agreement, according to a OECD report. In a separate press statement, Lukas K枚hler, ...
  • Economists from fossil-fuel importing countries give high priority to energy transition 鈥 survey

    01 Mar 2019, 13:43 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Fossil fuels International 麻豆无码版 A majority of ...
  • 31 Jul 2018 |

    Germany must both mitigate and adapt to global warming 鈥 interview

    Extreme weather events like the heat wave currently gripping Germany are expected to become more frequent in the future, necessitating both meaningful climate protection and adaptation to the inevitable consequences of global warming, federal environment ...
  • 07 May 2019 |

    Germany opens first overhead electricity test track for trucks on autobahn

    07 May 2019, 12:33 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Transport Freight Clean ...
  • 20 Aug 2020 |

    German commuters return to public transport as operators implement health measures

    20 Aug 2020, 13:28 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Mobility German commuters are slowly returning to public transport following the coronavirus lockdown. The Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) said the positive trend is evident in the ...
  • 12 Jul 2021 |

    Bird protection pilot site hoped to boost wind power in southern Germany

    12 Jul 2021, 13:23 Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Wind 麻豆无码版 Researchers in Germany are ...
  • 10 Feb 2020 |

    Merkel confidante decision to quit as CDU leader reopens dispute over party's direction

    10 Feb 2020, 14:42 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 German chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 anointed successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has announced she will step down as conservative party (CDU) head at the end of 2020 and not run ...
  • New German energy state secretary takes carbon price off table for now

    15 Feb 2019, 13:49 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 ...
  • Germany should focus on energy efficiency before power-to-x 鈥 energy experts

    22 Aug 2019, 13:44 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for 麻豆无码版 Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Storage Hydrogen Efficiency Clean ...
  • 09 Jun 2020 |

    Fewer German cities breaking diesel pollution limit

    09 Jun 2020, 12:48 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
  • 16 Jan 2020 |

    Mix of centralised and decentralised technologies key to successful Energiewende 鈥 researchers

    16 Jan 2020, 13:14 Freja Eriksen Energiewende 麻豆无码版 Only a mix of centralised and decentralised technologies can make German energy supply "climate-friendly, secure and affordable," say researchers from three of the country's ...
  • Natural gas could power up to 10 percent of all cars 鈥 Volkswagen

    03 Jul 2018, 15:30 Cars fuelled by compressed natural gas (CNG) could reach a share of up to ten percent of the total fleet in Germany and Europe, says Stephen Neumann, Volkswagen Group Officer for Natural Gas Mobility in an interview with the Clean ...
  • 07 Sep 2018 |

    Companies should make climate and energy key factors in their strategic planning

    A new study by WWF Germany and Foundation 2掳 examines the effects of a 鈥渂elow two degrees climate path鈥 on economic risks and opportunities for companies in the automobile and chemical industries. Businesses must include climate and energy targets in ...
  • Green Party wants to include climate protection in German constitution

    The German Green Party wants to write climate protection into the country鈥檚 constitution, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. At a Green campaign event in the central German federal state of Hesse, where state elections will take place on 28 ...
  • 04 May 2021 |

    Ukraine could become important part of Europe鈥檚 hydrogen supply chain 鈥 German MPs

    04 May 2021, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Security Handelsblatt / 麻豆无码版 German politicians have said that Ukraine could have 鈥渁 key role鈥 in Europe鈥檚 future supply with hydrogen,聽 reports business daily Handelsblatt. Germany and Europe had ...
  • 26 Jul 2021 |

    New cable between Germany and UK advances Europe鈥檚 integrated power system

    26 Jul 2021, 11:54 One of the first project financed interconnectors in Europe is due to be built between Germany and the UK by 2023-24. The opening up of the interconnector market to private investment has been promoted by both the UK and German ...
  • 10 Jan 2020 |

    Less than ten percent of Germany's wind turbines built in woodlands

    10 Jan 2020, 11:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 麻豆无码版 Only one out of ten onshore wind turbines in Germany is built in woodlands and the effect of the renewable energy technology on the country's forests is "small and locally limited," ...
  • German energy ministry investigates CCS options to meet climate targets

    The German economy and energy ministry (BMWi) has commissioned a study of the country鈥檚 options for capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions to lower its carbon footprint, Manuel Berkel writes on Spiegel Online. According to the article, energy ...
  • 鈥淲hy coal power is Merkel鈥檚 biggest climate 肠丑补濒濒别苍驳别鈥

    Exiting coal-fired power production will be the litmus test of German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 climate policy record, write Bloomberg鈥檚 Brian Parkin and William Wilkes. 鈥淢erkel will want a credible end date for coal to burnish her reputation as a ...
  • SPD accuses Green Party of pursuing reckless climate protection

    The leader of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 junior government coalition partner SPD, Andrea Nahles, has attacked the Green Party, in parliamentary opposition, for pursuing a climate policy 鈥渢hat does not care about people in coal regions,鈥 Veit Medick writes on Spiegel ...
  • Thyssenkrupp to switch to hydrogen-based steel production by 2050

    22 Jan 2019, 13:33 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Technology Handelsblatt German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp plans to phase out CO鈧-intensive coke-based steel production and replace it with a hydrogen-based process by 2050, ...
  • 13 Jul 2018 |

    Germany is no longer a leader in the battle against global warming 鈥 env minister

    Germany has lost its role as a pioneer in the global fight against climate change, environment minister Svenja Schulze said in an interview with Deutsche Welle. The intra-parliamentary fight over immigration has also distracted attention from other issues ...
  • 06 Jul 2018 |

    WWF, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management launch green climate tracker

    The Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and WWF Germany have developed a new online platform that assesses the climate impact of financial regulations in Germany and the EU. The Finance Fit for Paris tracker reviews laws and current measures to ...
  • German reactions to reports on US withdrawal from Paris Agreement

    01 Jun 2017, 00:00 According to several US media reports, the Trump administration has decided to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. The US President said on Twitter he would announce his decision on Thursday. The USA would be the first country to ...
  • 鈥淕别谤尘补苍y in 2017 is a coal country with climate 蹿辞濒办濒辞谤别鈥

    There鈥檚 a big discrepancy between Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 call for other countries to decarbonise their economies and the grand coalition鈥檚 climate policy at home, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in an opinion piece for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Merkel was able ...
  • Geman police move into Hambach Forest climate activist camp to 鈥渞emove barricades鈥

    Police forces in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have moved into the embattled Hambach Forest that energy company RWE wants to cut down to make room for a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. On Twitter, police said they ...
  • Transport minister cancels clean mobility commission meeting following speed limit controversy

    23 Jan 2019, 13:21 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Transport Cars Frankfurter ...
  • 20 Aug 2018 |

    German climate investments abroad more effective than renewables support at home 鈥 FDP head

    Germany should invest more money in climate protection in other parts of the world by, for example, buying rain forests, Christian Lindner, head of the economic liberal Free Democrats, told the news site t-online.de, according to an article in the ...
  • 鈥淚nternational dismay at 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2020 climate target lapse鈥

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 reputation as a climate protection leader is slipping following reports that a coalition government between the CDU/CSU and SPD would postpone the country鈥檚 2020 emissions target, Megan Darby writes in Climate Home News. 鈥淓xperts described a ...
  • 24 Aug 2021 |

    Most Germans reject nuclear power as sustainable investment target- survey

    24 Aug 2021, 13:44 Expert B眉rgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Edgar Meza Nuclear phase-out Finance 麻豆无码版 / Reuters An overwhelming majority of Germans see no place for nuclear power in sustainable investments, according to ...
  • 20 Jun 2019 |

    Maritime energy transition needs LNG, says German shipping industry

    20 Jun 2019, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Gas Freight 麻豆无码版 A maritime energy transition in line with the Paris Climate Agreement is only possible with the help of liquefied natural gas (LNG), says the Maritime LNG Platform in a press release. LNG ...
  • Germany gears up for official talks on coal phase-out

    麻豆无码版 transition pioneer Germany is about to launch a highly anticipated task force on phasing out coal power, the most prominent blemish on the country鈥檚 climate record. The government will likely nominate the coal exit commission next Tuesday. There ...
  • UN Climate Secretary Espinosa: 鈥淓verybody must raise their ambitions, also the EU鈥

    Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Patricia Espinosa sees a more active role for China and the EU in climate diplomacy and technological development in the renewables sector after US President Donald ...
  • Climate change is reality in New Zealand; Help us fight it 鈥 guest commentary

    New Zealand鈥檚 Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called on European political decisionmakers to support her country in fighting climate change in a guest commentary in Tagesspiegel. Climate change is not just theory, but a reality that manifests itself, for ...
  • 24 Sep 2015 |

    Europe's largest electricity market set to split

    24 Sep 2015, 00:00 UPDATE 24 Sept | The European grid regulator has recommended that the Austrian-German electricity trading zone should be partially disconnected. Countries including Poland and the Czech Republic have called for the split, to prevent ...
  • 22 Aug 2018 |

    LNG in shipping not much better for climate than heavy fuel oil 鈥 environmental group

    With just one exception, all cruise ships operating in Europe are powered by heavy fuel oil, 鈥渢he dirtiest of all fuels,鈥 according to a new ranking from Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), the organisation writes in a press release. Newly ...
  • Merkel vows to convince climate sceptic 鈥渆lephant in the room鈥

    23 May 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised to try and convince 鈥渄oubters鈥 of the urgent need to mitigate climate change. But environmental organisations said her credibility as 鈥Climate Chancellor鈥 was severely damaged because Germany had ...
  • 30 Mar 2022 |
    Gas

    麻豆无码版 industry calls for gas supply priority list of German companies

    30 Mar 2022, 14:45 Germany must decide which companies are considered crucial enough to receive gas in case of a shortage caused by Russian supply cuts, Kerstin Andreae, head of energy industry association BDEW told 麻豆无码版. Andreae welcomed ...
  • 鈥淢an can't contribute much to climate change鈥 鈥 head of far-right AfD in summer interview

    In an interview with public TV station ZDF, head of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alexander Gauland said he wasn鈥檛 denying climate change but didn鈥檛 think mankind carried much responsibility.聽 He also said he doubted we could prevent ...
  • 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 missed climate targets are a wake-up call for governments everywhere

    骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 failure to reach its 2020 climate targets 鈥渋s an ominous signal for other nations struggling to reach their own targets,鈥 write William Wilkes, Heyley Warren and Brian Parkin in an article for Bloomberg. 鈥淥ther nations are looking at how Germany ...
  • 09 Aug 2018 |

    Heatwave offers chance to get serious about battling climate change 鈥 opinion

    This summer鈥檚 heatwave should finally make people feel the meaning of global warming and understand that we urgently need to fight it, writes Maike Br眉lls in a commentary in taz newspaper. 鈥淟et鈥檚 see the summer 2018 as an opportunity. Let鈥檚 keep cool ...
  • 27 Nov 2019 |

    Former energy lobbyist and Merkel confidante to lead German carmaker association

    27 Nov 2019, 13:30 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Former energy industry lobbyist Hildegard M眉ller will become the next head of the influential lobby group German ...
  • 25 Jun 2021 |

    Green tech startup alliance pushes for 500-euro 鈥榚nergy transition bonus鈥 for German households

    25 Jun 2021, 13:45 Edgar Meza Technology Business Insider Five green sector startups have joined forces to lobby for an 鈥渆nergy transition premium鈥 of 500 euros per household for smart home devices, Business Insider鈥檚 startup news site Gr眉nderszene ...
  • 08 Aug 2018 |

    Heatwaves and scientists鈥 warnings show that climate must top political agenda - opinion

    The dangers of our planet sliding into a 鈥渉othouse Earth鈥 state are speculative but real, argues Georg Ehring in a commentary carried by the public radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, referencing a scientific paper published by a team of scientists, ...
  • Climate change denial is irrationality beating reason 鈥 opinion

    The extreme summer of 2018 in Germany and most of Europe has prompted climate change deniers to hastily announce that the exceptional heat and drought are merely normal weather phenomena and do not testify to the human effect on the global climate, ...
  • 10 Aug 2018 |

    Majority of Germans make connection between heat wave and climate change

    Sixty-eight percent of respondents to a survey for ZDF-Politbarometer believe the hot weather this summer was a result of climate change. The figure is up from 48 percent who replied to the same question in 2015. In 2018, 28 percent believed the hot ...
  • German Green Party calls for two-billion euro climate change aid fund

    In the face of one of the hottest and driest summers ever recorded in Germany, the Green Party is calling for an aid fund worth at least two billion euros to provide financial resources for climate change mitigation across the country, the party says in a ...
  • India and Germany vow to reinforce cooperation on climate protection

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel want to intensify bilateral cooperation on climate and environmental protection, the German government said in a press release. The Indo-German alliance for climate protection and ...
  • 17 Aug 2021 |

    Germany launches tender to quickly expand countrywide e-car charging network

    17 Aug 2021, 13:29 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 麻豆无码版 The German transport ministry (BMVI ...
  • Liquid fuels necessary to achieve 2050 climate goals 鈥 petrol industry

    The EU鈥檚 2050 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal cannot be achieved without liquid fuels, the German Petroleum Industry Association (MWV) says in its annual report. The petrol industry lobby group says petrol companies want to contribute to a more ...
  • 06 Apr 2018 |

    In defense of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy and climate policies - opinion

    Germany, which is 鈥渄eservedly famous鈥 for its Energiewende, has so far failed in honouring its commitment to the EU鈥檚 short-term climate targets, but this does not mean that the country has strayed from the EU鈥檚, or its own, climate agenda, writes ...
  • 01 Jul 2019 |

    Grid operators step up defense against cyberattacks

    01 Jul 2019, 13:51 Sven Egenter Grid Digitalisation Tagesspiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid operators are working on their defenses against hacker attacks on their critical infrastructure, Christian Schaudwet writes for energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
  • Departure of key conservative energy MP could give 鈥渘ew momentum鈥 to renewables talks 鈥 SPD

    13 Apr 2021, 12:27 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert SPD- Social Democratic ...
  • Replacement of coal with natural gas would benefit climate 鈥 study

    Gas-fired power plants could replace their coal-fired counterparts without endangering the power supply, according to a new study commissioned by RWTH Aachen University on behalf of the German natural gas industry, Die Welt reports. According to the study ...
  • 15 Apr 2019 |

    Germany needs comprehensive reform of power grid fees 鈥 think tank

    15 Apr 2019, 12:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Grid Agora Energiewende With the new offshore grid fee ...
  • Hurricane Irma 鈥渨ake-up call for resolute climate 辫辞濒颈肠测鈥

    Hurricanes such as Irma and Harvey are a 鈥渨ake-up call for resolute climate 辫辞濒颈肠测鈥 and it is alarming that climate is playing no role in the current German federal election campaign, writes environmental and development NGO Germanwatch in a press release ...
  • 30 Oct 2017 |

    What happens at the UN climate conference? 鈥 infographic

    Ahead of COP23 in Bonn in November, klimafakten.de has published a detailed infographic (see above) that explains processes, content and actors at a UN climate conference, and presents a timeline of past COPs. The graph is a translation from the Clean ...
  • 24 Aug 2018 |

    Coal exit highlights contradictions in climate and energy policy for eastern Germany

    Devising a plan for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit through a commission is a tough job with many 聽pitfalls for policymakers, Cecile Boutelet reports for Le Monde. Coal region Lusatia in eastern Germany is one example of a place 鈥渨here the contradictory narratives of ...
  • Comparing old and new: Changes to Germany's Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act

    07 Oct 2014, 00:00 In the summer of 2014 Germany amended its Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz or EEG). The new law, often referred to as 鈥淓EG 2.0鈥, came into effect on the 1st of August 2014. The EEG is at the heart of the transformation ...
  • 01 Jul 2015 |

    Technologies of Energiewende

    01 Jul 2015, 00:00 This factsheet provides an overview of some of the main areas for research and development (R&D) in providing technological solutions for the greening of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity supply. Hydrogen Technology Utility-scale storage The ...
  • Interconnectors & blockages 鈥 German grid at odds with EU power market

    12 Apr 2018, 00:00 The European Commission is pushing for a single European energy market. That demands a better-connected system, which could result in cheaper power and a more stable grid. At the centre of Europe, neighbouring eight other EU states, ...
  • Vote2017: German parties' energy & climate policy positions

    01 Sep 2017, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende is a project that enjoys backing from almost all of the country鈥檚 relevant political parties. But apart from the general intention to decarbonise the economy by the middle of the century and abide by the goals set ...
  • 27 Jul 2018 |

    Air cargo emissions in Germany

    27 Jul 2018, 15:05 Aviation is one of the fastest-growing sources of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Direct emissions from airplanes and other aircrafts account for more than two percent of global emissions, roughly equivalent to the total greenhoue ...
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    Three questions to Angelina Davydova, 麻豆无码版 Ambassador for Russia and Central Asia

    23 Aug 2019, 10:20 Martha Otwinowski Policy International Angelina Davydova is a freelance journalist who regularly covers climate change, environmental/climate policy at the international and Russian level, the circular economy and energy transition ...
  • Now complete: Jury for the second 麻豆无码版 cross-border energy transition story grants

    15 Jan 2019, 16:25 Martha Otwinowski Climate & CO2 Business International The jury for the 麻豆无码版 cross-border journalism story grants is complete: The accomplished and experienced journalists Clara Nav铆o, Isabel Hilton and Pilita Clark will pick the ...
  • Three questions to At芒yi-Babs Opaluwah, 麻豆无码版 Ambassador for Nigeria and West Africa

    01 Nov 2019, 11:34 At芒yi-Babs Opaluwah Martha Otwinowski Climate & CO2 Renewables International At芒yi is a freelance journalist and communication specialist who regularly covers the energy transition, climate change, and the circular economy. He ...
  • Three questions to Simona Dreven拧ek, 麻豆无码版 ambassador for Central and Eastern Europe

    18 Oct 2019, 14:45 Simona Drevensek Martha Otwinowski Climate & CO2 Renewables International Simona Dreven拧ek is a journalist who regularly covers the energy transition, climate change, and the circular economy. She writes for leading Slovene daily ...
  • 19 Jul 2019 |

    Beyond a coal phase out: The ethical side of climate reporting

    19 Jul 2019, 14:46 Rose-Anne Clermont Policy Society Susanne Ehlerding writes about climate and energy for one of Berlin's most widely circulated daily papers, Der Tagesspiegel. Ehlerding spoke in a workshop on the blind spots of business, climate ...
  • Three questions to Emilio Godoy, 麻豆无码版 Ambassador for Mexico and Latin America

    26 Sep 2019, 10:55 Emilio Godoy Martha Otwinowski Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels International Emilio Godoy is a freelance journalist who regularly covers the energy transition, climate change, and the circular economy. He writes for Inter Press Service ...
  • 28 Jun 2019 |

    Digital freight entrepreneur urges others to 'walk the talk' on climate protection

    28 Jun 2019, 09:26 Rose-Anne Clermont Business Apart from changing his own lifestyle and his business to reduce greenhouse gases and be more environmentally friendly, the German entrepreneur and co-founder of digital freight forwarder FreightHub, Ferry ...
  • 30 Nov 2018 |

    COP24 鈥 麻豆无码版 and climate policy experts in Poland

    30 Nov 2018, 15:56 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 COP24 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 has compiled a list of Polish contacts for journalists reporting on the UN Climate Conference in Katowice in December. 麻豆无码版's mission is to make life ...
  • Key take-aways from 1st Global 麻豆无码版 Transition Journalism Conference

    22 Dec 2017, 14:00 Sven Egenter Martha Otwinowski Climate & CO2 International COP23 "Don't annoy a journalist if you don't have a good story," said Claude Turmes, Member of the European Parliament from the Group of the Greens ...
  • 16 Aug 2019 |

    Three questions to: Rudi Bressa, 麻豆无码版 Ambassador for Italy

    16 Aug 2019, 12:15 Martha Otwinowski Policy International Rudi is 麻豆无码版 ambassador for Italy. He is a freelance journalist who regularly covers the energy transition, climate change, and the circular economy. Rudi contributes to La Stampa, LifeGate, ...
  • 14 Jun 2019 |

    Reporter's Guide: The core of 麻豆无码版's offer to print, take with you or share

    14 Jun 2019, 07:45 Julian Wettengel Energiewende In what's now the 7th edition of our 鈥 Reporter鈥檚 Guide to the 麻豆无码版 Transition 鈥, we offer journalists covering energy and climate policy an overview of key stories, experts and facts on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
  • Three questions to Justin Gerdes, 麻豆无码版 Ambassador for the United States (West Coast)

    25 Oct 2019, 09:59 Justin Gerdes Martha Otwinowski Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics International Justin Gerdes is a freelance journalist who regularly covers the energy transition from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a Contributing Writer for ...
  • 麻豆无码版 Institute Hrvoje Po啪ar (EIHP, Croatia)

    Wholly state-owned, non-profit scientific institution financed on a per-project basis through the execution of project development contracts won following international and national competitive biddings.聽Areas of activity include:聽strategic planning in ...
  • Stella Kyriakides, European commissioner for health and food safety

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  • French National Assembly

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  • Elisa Ferreira, European commissioner for cohesion and reforms

    Elisa Ferreira is the European commissioner for cohesion and reforms and one of the seven members of the Commissioners鈥 Group on the European Green Deal since 2019. Her portfolio includes ensuring support for regions most affected by digital and climate ...
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  • Swedish Forest Industries

    Organisation for Sweden鈥檚 key forest products industry. Has energy and climate initiatives. Started Wood Be Better, a Brussels-based networking group with a focus on forest industry and EU policy. Has statistics on forest industry, energy use, etc. www ...
  • Nordic Investment Bank

    Set up in 1975 by the five Nordic countries. The Baltic countries became members in 2005. The bank finances all types of infrastructure projects, including energy and electrification, as well as projects addressing climate change. www.nib.int Jukka Ahonen ...
  • Electricity and gas transmission grid operator Denmark

    Energinet owns, operates and develops Denmark鈥檚 electricity and natural gas transmission systems. It is an independent public enterprise owned by the Danish Ministry of Climate, 麻豆无码版 and Utilities. www.energinet.dk Jesper N酶rskov Rasmussen jnr@energinet ...
  • Government of Flanders (Belgium)

    In the field of energy, the Belgian regions of Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia are responsible for wind energy on land, solar energy, distribution of gas and electricity at lower voltage. The Belgian federal government is responsible for nuclear power ...
  • Kadri Simson, European commissioner for energy

    Kadri Simson is the European commissioner for energy and one of the seven members of the Commissioners鈥 Group on the European Green Deal since 2019. Her portfolio includes developing an integrated, interconnected and properly functioning European energy ...
  • DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service

    Germany's National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) is a public institution responsible for providing meteorological services for the general public or for industrial customers and users. They also issue weather forecasts and ...
  • Danish 麻豆无码版 Agency

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  • Natalia Fabra

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  • Climate Service Center Germany

    The Climate Service Center Germany provides advisory services based on sound scientific knowledge for decision makers in Germany聽 in order to support government, administration and business in their efforts to adapt to climate change. www.climate-service ...
  • State of Green

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  • Alfred Wegener Institute

    The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) is a Helmholtz centre for polar and marine research and works mostly in the cold and temperate regions of the world. Seeing that the planet is experiencing radical climate change, AWI scientists are participating in ...
  • Sabine Minninger

    Sabine Minninger is a policy advisor on climate change with the German Protestant aid agency Brot f眉r die Welt (Bread for the World), dealing with global warming and development issues. Since 2008 she has been following the UNFCCC process together with ...
  • GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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  • WirtschaftsVereinigung Metalle (WVM)

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  • Climate-Alliance Germany

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  • PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

    PIK addresses crucial scientific questions in the fields of global change, climate impacts and sustainable development. Researchers from the natural and social sciences work together to generate interdisciplinary insights and to provide society with sound ...
  • Germanwatch

    Since 1991, Germanwatch has been engaged in global equity and the preservation of livelihoods under the motto 鈥淥bserving, Analysing, Acting鈥. Germanwatch believes the political and globalised market structures of the North, as well as their resource ...
  • NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union

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  • BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany

    BUND is a grassroots NGO with more than 480,000 members and supporters. It was founded in 1975 to promote nature conservation and protect the environment. BUND gets involved in policy making processes on environment issues, climate, transport, chemicals ...
  • I脰W- Institute for Ecological Economy Research

    The I脰W is a scientific institute in the field of practice-oriented sustainability research. It devises strategies and approaches for viable, long-term economic activity 鈥 for an economy which enables a good life and preserves natural resources. http:/ ...
  • Greenpeace Germany

    Greenpeace Germany was established in 1980 and has more than 580,000 members (2.8 million members worldwide). The group has always been a vocal promoter of the nuclear shut-down in Germany and currently (July 2014) lobbies for a coal phase-out, to be ...
  • IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, 麻豆无码版 and Mobility

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  • Berlin 麻豆无码版 Press Briefing: Poland ahead of COP24

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  • Carmesin

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