The announcement by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 would-be grand coalition partners CDU/CSU and SPD to water down the country鈥檚 national 2020 climate target 鈥渉as shocked many climate activists in the Philippines鈥�, Philippine Senator Loren Legarda writes in a guest article ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition is expensive and ineffective, writes economist Joachim Weimann of the University of Magdeburg in a guest commentary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Despite high financial support for green energies and high electricity ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chief climate diplomat Karsten Sach has stressed the need for China and Germany to show joint 鈥減ragmatic鈥� leadership in climate protection in light of new disorder in international climate diplomacy following the decision of US President Donald ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang Transport Cars 麻豆无码版 Germany needs a profound shift to a renewable transport system to improve local air quality instead of ineffective diesel driving bans, according to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 National Academy of Sciences ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 manufacturing companies spent 3.3 billion euros on climate protection measures in 2016, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) says in a press release. In total, the sector (excluding construction) generated 31.8 billion euros in current ...
German industry fears the next government coalition could make 鈥渞otten compromises鈥� on energy and climate policy, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. While the Greens are adamant on climate protection and shutting down coal plants, its potential ...
Germans like to think their country is a climate protection pioneer, but other countries like China and France have more clearly understood what the Paris Agreement means for the economy, and have taken the bull by the horns, writes Carola von Schmettow, ...
21 Dec 2017, 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 ...
08 Jun 2015, 00:00 The G7 has published its final communiqu茅 after the summit in Elmau in southern Germany. 麻豆无码版 presents reactions from Germany to the results of the meeting of major industrialised countries. Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean 麻豆无码版 ...
Once a leader on climate protection, Germany is now falling behind, former US Vice President Al Gore said in an interview with Politico Europe. Its continued reliance on coal to power its economy endangers not only its international reputation but also ...
The new delay of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 official coal exit commission launch shows that large parts of the new government do not care about climate protection, writes Malte Kreutzfeld in a commentary for Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淭丑别 fresh delay does not bear witness to ...
08 May 2015, 00:00 Feed-in tariffs set by government or parliament have supported rapid expansion of renewable power production, along with falling costs. Now the government wants to move to a more market-based approach. With this is mind, the 2014 ...
04 Jun 2015, 00:00 G7 countries hope to present their vision of a long-term target for climate protection at their upcoming summit in Germany, according to a German official. Industrialised nations could also make pledges to decarbonise their economies, ...
A price on CO鈧� in Germany would bring a push in innovation from which German companies could profit in international competition, Ottmar Edenhofer, designated director of The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), told Spiegel in an ...
09 Jul 2021, 12:25 Expert Leuphana University of L眉neburg Energiewende Business & Jobs Society Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Citizens' energy Renewables pv magazine, ...
10 Jun 2021, 13:49 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Transport Hydrogen Heating 麻豆无码版 German industry has called on the government to include transport and heating in the hydrogen economy ramp-up. "Policymakers must not leave out the ...
The current dry period in Germany will cause complete crop failures for some farmers, particularly in the north and east of the country, Bernhard Kr眉sken, general secretary of the German Farmers鈥� Association (DBV), told Friederike Meier in an interview ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:14 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚聽Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union聽(NABU) has blasted聽 German government plans 聽to expand areas of the Baltic and North Seas for聽 offshore wind power ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 Curbing CO2 through the EU鈥檚 Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has not hurt the profitability of companies or jobs in Europe between 2005 and ...
Climate protection is the main economic pillar of the environmental industry in Germany, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) says in a press release. Companies producing climate-friendly materials and products, as well as offering climate protection ...
The European 麻豆无码版 Exchange in Leipzig on Friday auctioned a total of 4.36 million emission allowances for the German government that brought in 64.7 million euros, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The success of the auction marks a new ...
A premature phase-out of the lignite industry doesn鈥檛 make 鈥�climate policy sense,鈥� it is 鈥渉umbug,鈥� writes 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 former economy and employment minister Wolfgang Clement in an opinion piece in the Handelsblatt. He argues that the legal end date for ...
The COP23 climate conference in Bonn could be more important than ever for the 鈥� self-proclaimed climate champion 鈥� Germany, writes Petra Pinzler in a commentary for Die Zeit. Because the November summit will likely coincide with negotiations to form a ...
27 Nov 2018, 14:00 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs The exceptionally dry weather that has gripped Germany over ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:04 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels International 麻豆无码版 Despite the extension of the work of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission, the country鈥檚 delegation will not go to Katowice empty-handed, said environment ...
The EU should quickly introduce a minimum price to the Emissions Trading System (ETS), because the current prices do not create the necessary incentives for low-carbon assets, according to a policy paper published jointly by the Mercator Research ...
Representatives of hundreds of cities from around the world meet in Bonn in the framework of the UN Climate Change Conference in the former German capital to discuss mitigation measures against global warming and other policies necessary to reduce ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:50 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's gas industry plans to establish a pipeline network measuring 5,900 kilometres to enable the large-scale use of hydrogen in the country. According to a plan seen by business daily ...
03 May 2021, 12:55 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Wind 麻豆无码版 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest onshore ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:25 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Handelsblatt When presenting the European Commission鈥檚 plans for a carbon-neutral EU in 2050, energy commissioner Miguel Arias Canete鈥檚聽 remark that certain ...
Germany must immediately cut its lignite power capacity if it wants to achieve its 2020 climate target of reducing emissions by 40 percent compared to 1990 levels, climate scientist Mojib Latif says in an article on Spiegel Online. 鈥淏ut what is lacking ...
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15 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Economy Ministry/Reuters German economy min: No nuclear stress test results yet Germany's energy minister Sigmar Gabriel rejected media reports about provisioning shortfalls for ...
The term 鈥渏ust transition鈥� was used at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue to mean limiting the economic consequences of decarbonisation in regions of industrial countries 鈥� a reasonable demand, Bernhard P枚tter writes in an opinion piece for tageszeitung (taz ...
National climate policy, in addition to international emissions trading schemes, only produces costs and does not lead to fewer emissions overall, writes economist Joachim Weimann in a guest commentary in German weekly Die Zeit. This is because excess ...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a global organisation of 35 developed and emerging countries, has urged Germany to adopt further measures to reach its climate targets.聽鈥淎dditional policies are needed to meet even the ...
The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is likely to have already met its 2020 emissions reduction target of 25 percent compared to 1990 levels, the state鈥檚 environment agency (LANUV) says in a press release. Almost one third of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
The Green Party and environmental NGOs have strongly criticised the government鈥檚 choice of leadership for the coal exit commission, Thorsten Knuf reports for Frankfurter Rundschau. The nomination of the former mining state premiers Matthias Platzeck, a ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 麻豆无码版 The number of flights taken in Germany to domestic as well as international destinations continues to rise, the Destatis national statistical office has found. In the first half of 2019, the ...
The European Union agreeing on a more ambitious renewables target than the German government had pushed for shows that the Energiewende country is increasingly struggling when it comes to climate protection, writes Thorsten Knuf in an opinion piece in ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:30 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Germany shutting down the last of its nuclear power plants by 2022 could force the country to use more coal power- temporarily pushing up emissions- even ...
The avalanche of press reports on the 2015 Paris Climate Summit reached the majority of the German public, but didn鈥檛 trigger any changes in their attitude towards climate change, a study by Michael Br眉ggemann et al from the University of Hamburg has ...
30 Mar 2022, 13:49 Germany has triggered the first stage of its national gas supply emergency plan over fears that Russia might soon cut supplies if it doesn't receive payments from foreign buyers in roubles. The government called on all consumers to ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security The contenders from Germany's governing parties to become Germany's next chancellor have both signalled their readiness to shutter the contentious Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if the Russian ...
Global warming is likely to increase the volatility of wind power production throughout large parts of Europe, a new study from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has found. According to a press release from KIT, wind power generation on the ...
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Our visiting cartoonist Mwelwa Musonko (@MwelxTax) from Zambia on the result of many surveys that Germans support the energy transition in principle but grapple with the costs associated with it. ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Augsburger Allgemeine The end of nuclear power production in Germany in 2022 will not compromise the electricity supply of southern economic powerhouse state Bavaria, the state's ...
13 May 2020, 13:21 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cost & Prices International 麻豆无码版 Germany's ranking in the World Economic Forum's聽 麻豆无码版 Transition Index 聽has slid to 20th聽this year from 17th聽last year. "It ...
The G20 summits will continue to play an important role for climate protection, because 鈥渨ithout the pressure on the political level, implementing and monitoring climate targets would hardly be possible in some countries鈥�, write Susanne Dr枚ge and Felix ...
20 Jul 2021, 13:12 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Zeit Online Charging an electric vehicle at a public charging point can be significantly more expensive than doing it at home, Zeit Online writes. The price of electricity at a public charging station can be ...
The commission tasked with planning the phase-out of coal-fired power production in Germany will get a climate expert as its fourth co-leader, Malte Kreutzfeldt reports in the Tageszeitung (taz). The climate and energy economist Barbara Praetorius is said ...
German climate policy announcements are the most ambitious among all of the western industrialised nations in the G7 but the country only comes second to last in the group when it comes to ending support for fossil fuel use, the think tank Overseas ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:26 Coal Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Bloomberg 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Rhine River could be impassable to ships again this summer if Europe has another drought,聽 reports William Wilkes for Bloomberg. German and Swiss scientists say that heavy ...
Diesel technology can in theory help protect the climate, but the average diesel car in Germany hardly emits less CO鈧� than the average petrol car, Federal Environment Agency (UBA) president Maria Krautzberger told S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Efficiency gains ...
18 May 2021, 13:29 Correction: This article was updated to reflect that the named German companies whose supply chains have been implicated in the " Uyghur Forced Labour and Global Solar Supply Chains 鈥� report are not solar photovoltaic module ...
Due to climate change, droughts in Europe will last longer, affect greater areas, and have an impact on more people, according to an article published in Nature Climate Change by an international team of scientists coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for ...
If Germany contributed to reaching the Paris Climate Agreement鈥檚 1.5掳C temperature target in accordance with its share of the global population, the country would have to stop all CO 2 聽emissions now, according to calculations provided by the Institute ...
07 Sep 2020, 13:58 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cars t-online / Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / dpa / 麻豆无码版 Labour unions and political parties in ...
23 Mar 2020, 13:57 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Expert VZBV- ...
25 Sep 2019, 14:02 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Digitalisation 麻豆无码版 While three quarters of German energy companies expect artificial ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 role as a host of this year鈥檚 UN climate conference 鈥渓eft a question mark for many diplomats鈥� at the COP23 in Bonn, J眉rgen Polzin writes in an op-ed for the Hamburger Abendblatt. That Germany is still ruled by a provisional government and ...
鈥淥nce upon a time鈥�, Germany used to be a 鈥渨orld champion in climate 辫谤辞迟别肠迟颈辞苍鈥� but it risks losing this title as the country鈥檚 negotiating government coalition parties mull dropping the 2020 climate target, Joachim Wille writes in a commentary for ...
Diesel engines no longer qualify as being more climate-friendly and are more expensive than other engine technologies like hybrid or petrol, meaning that their falling market share is no bad news for the climate, the International Council on Clean ...
Five major companies from Germany are among the world鈥檚 35 most active anti-climate policy lobbying enterprises, British think tank InfluenceMap says. In a study that examines the companies most influential in shaping climate and energy policy around the ...
01 Aug 2019, 09:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 fleet of lignite power stations has likely lost more than 600 million euros in the first half of 2019, as profits 鈥渃ollapsed鈥� and fixed costs could not be covered, according to modelling by Sandbag. The climate change think ...
The German Federal Ministry of Environment suggests a new 鈥渟ocial contract鈥� to align the agricultural sector with the country鈥檚 environment and climate protection targets. This would include linking subsidies to farmers鈥� contributions to climate change ...
11 Dec 2020, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Efficiency 麻豆无码版 Germany is supporting research into making the storage and distribution of a new coronavirus vaccine more climate-friendly. The economy ministry (BMWi) said it would ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government sits on a big budget surplus, money it should spend on the energy transition and climate protection but it does not, writes Petra Pinzler in a commentary on Zeit Online. The government could use the money to push climate-friendly ...
Implementing the Paris Climate Agreement must be a priority in the upcoming coalition talks, according to German economic cooperation and development minister Gerd M眉ller (CSU). M眉ller set out a 5-point plan for climate protection in Bild am Sonntag. He ...
09 Apr 2021, 09:39 Julian Wettengel Renewables 麻豆无码版 [CLARIFICATION: Agora Energiewende said Q1 developments in the power market show greenhouse gas emissions could rise in 2021. Drops reference to 2020 target.] 聽 Unfavourable weather ...
The focus on climate protection by activists and politicians could overshadow necessary efforts in environmental protection, Ferdinan Knau脽 writes in the business weekly WirtschaftsWoche. 鈥淭丑别 preservation of biological diversity, of natural habitats and ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 forests could take in three times the amount of CO鈧� from the atmosphere by the end of the century if they are better protected and used more ecologically than is the case today, says Greenpeace Germany, based on a study conducted by the ...
The parliamentary group of German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU party has welcomed the first session of the commission tasked with planning the country鈥檚 coal exit, but stressed that 鈥渢horoughness must come before speed鈥� in the group鈥檚 ...
22 May 2020, 14:02 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs Clean ...
Environment minister and Social Democrat (SPD) Svenja Schulze called on her party to become more vocal in environmental and climate protection policy, reports newspaper Merkur. The Social Democrats have "for a long time not been decisive and ...
Over one third (35 percent) of companies surveyed by the German 麻豆无码版 Agency (dena) say that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate and energy policy targets are not ambitious enough, while especially larger companies (about 37 percent) consider the goals too ambitious. ...
The United Nation鈥檚 warning about a 鈥渨orrying鈥� gap between climate pledges and emissions cuts needed ahead of the climate conference in Bonn could provide the Green Party with tailwind in the ongoing talks to form a new government coalition, writes ...
China is ready to fill the void left in international climate diplomacy left by a parting USA, former World Bank vice president and current board member of the European Climate Foundation* (ECF), Caio Koch-Weser writes in a guest commentary for ...
The decisions to be taken by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission 鈥渃ould have ripple effects around the world,鈥� writes Brad Plumer in the New York Times newsletter 鈥�Climate FWD:鈥�. 鈥淚t鈥檚 the biggest climate story no one is talking about,鈥� said Justin Guay, ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Cars 麻豆无码版 German millennials' attitudes towards cars are less sceptical than generally assumed, according to a survey by business advisory Duff & Phelps. The use of cars is more prevalent among ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:01 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende S枚ren Amelang Heating Cities 麻豆无码版 Two thirds of new residential buildings completed in 2018 in Germany are heated with renewable energies. ...
17 Apr 2019, 13:27 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 IASS- Institute for Advanced ...
German energy think tank Agora Energiewende*, together with the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut), has published a new analysis of the recent reforms to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). After remaining in the single digits for years, the ...
German politicians might appear more concerned with halting global climate change than the current US administration, but in reality they have done little in recent years to actually improve their country鈥檚 climate record, Philip Bethge writes in Der ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:17 S枚ren Amelang Cars International Die Welt At the Las Vegas consumer electronics show CES, technology "made in Germany" only plays聽a supporting role, while real progress happens elsewhere, report Stefan Beutelsbacher and Thomas ...
17 Oct 2019, 13:38 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Deutsche Post Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Storage Transport Freight 麻豆无码版 Renewable ...
28 May 2021, 13:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Business International Tagesschau / Wirtschaftswoche The German government has come to an agreement on the supply chain law, which aims to ensure human rights and the protection of the environment in production along ...
15 Oct 2019, 12:24 Expert F脰S- Green Budget Germany Forum 脰kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace 麻豆无码版 (now Green Planet 麻豆无码版) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Electricity market Climate Home News The end of coal-fired power production in Germany can be achieved much more quickly than proposed by the country鈥檚 coal exit commission if the government ...
The new coalition treaty of CDU/CSU and SPD falls short on climate and energy policy, write Alexander Reitzenstein and Sabrina Schulz in a background briefing for E3G. They analyse treaty provisions and look at key political events since the swearing-in ...
Lower Saxony should become a 鈥� pioneer region 鈥� for storing excess wind power by converting it into hydrogen, the German federal state鈥檚 environment minister, Olaf Lies, told the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Lies argues that Germany needs power-to-gas ...
The new federal government has to work out a comprehensive concept to secure the German industry鈥檚 competitiveness, write Christoph Schmidt and Steffen Elstner of the Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen) in a guest commentary ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment ministry has launched the European Climate Initiative (EUKI) to strengthen internal European cooperation on climate protection, the ministry announced in a press release. The initiative will initially supply funding for 22 projects ...
Replacing an old fossil-fuelled boiler with a new one saves less energy than often assumed, said the German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE), based on a report published by the consultancy Econsult. Depending on the type of old boiler, 2 to 15 percent ...
03 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germany's primary energy consumption is likely to remain broadly unchanged this year, according to estimates by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). While data for the first nine months of the year indicate a ...
Germany can save nearly 28 billion euros a year if it stops mining and using lignite, a study by Green Budget Germany (F脰S) commissioned by green power provider Greenpeace 麻豆无码版 has found. Apart from the costs of energy generation with lignite, which is ...
The finance sector 鈥渃ertainly underestimates鈥澛� risks associated with climate change and the transition to a green economy, Andreas Dombret, executive board member of the Deutsche Bundesbank (German central bank) said at an event at the National University ...
In their third grand coalition, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 governing parties CDU/CSU and SPD are showing less interest in environmental protection than ever before, Veit Medick, Ralf Neukirch, Michael Sauga and Gerald Traufetter write in Der Spiegel. The coalition ...
The German 2020 climate target can still be attained by combining a regional carbon floor price of 25 euros per tonne with a shutdown of the dirtiest coal plants in Germany, environmental organisation WWF Germany writes in a press release. According to a ...
The pro-business party FDP stands out at the ongoing Jamaica coalition talks for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next federal government with its 鈥渁stonishing claims on climate and energy鈥�, Malte Kreutzfeldt writes in left-wing newspaper Die Tageszeitung (taz). Remarks by FDP ...
Climate change is largely kept out of the election campaign in Germany for allegedly being too abstract and distant, but that is a flawed notion and points at a grave failure of both the media and politics, Maximilian Probst and Daniel Pelletier write in ...
04 Feb 2021, 13:29 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities S枚ren Amelang Cars 麻豆无码版 Many Germans remain deeply sceptical about electric cars. Thirty-nine ...
The head of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 central bank, Andreas Dombret, has warned that 鈥渇ar-reaching interventions鈥� in the economic system are necessary if the global community wants to come close to reaching the Paris Climate Agreement鈥檚 goal of limiting global warming to ...
The city of Hamburg, host of this week鈥檚 G20 summit, has joined the international network Covenant of Mayors for Climate and 麻豆无码版, according to a press release. 鈥淐ities and communities are key to reaching international climate targets. Especially after ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:44 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Renewables Solar 麻豆无码版 The expansion of renewable power generation in Germany's urban areas has ...
A court in Germany has agreed to hear Peruvian farmer and mountain guide Sa煤l Luciano Lliuya鈥檚 case against RWE, over the German utility鈥檚 contribution to climate change, NGO Germanwatch said in a press release. 鈥淚t is the first time a court has ...
The rail company Deutsche Bahn (DB) is affected by the effects of climate change 鈥渓ike no other large company in Germany,鈥� and needs to prepare for more frequent extreme weather events, DB said in a press release, based on a study conducted by the Potsdam ...
To help protect the climate, members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) should vote in favour of a grand coalition government with Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance, writes Benjamin von Brackel in an opinion piece for klimaretter.info. 鈥淎 ...
麻豆无码版 state secretary Rainer Baake has quit after four years in charge of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 flagship Energiewende policy at the Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (BMWi). Baake, a Green Party politician whose appointment by then economy minister Sigmar ...
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche told the carmaker's shareholders investments in e-mobility will weigh on company results, reports the news agency dpa. 鈥淢ore electric cars are good for the CO鈧� footprint, but not so good for our corporate earnings 鈥� at ...
The price for emitting one tonne of CO 2 聽under the EU鈥檚 Emissions Trading System (ETS) has been frozen at five euros for years because 鈥渢he EU reaches its climate targets either way鈥�, Hendrik Kafsack writes in a commentary for Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
02 Jul 2018, 16:12 鈥� A Reporter鈥檚 Guide to the Energiewende 鈥� offers journalists covering energy and climate policy an overview of key stories, experts/decision-makers and facts on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 landmark effort to mitigate climate change. Click on the link to ...
Hurricane Irma's devastation in the Caribbean will fuel small island nations' demand for support from the world鈥檚 large greenhouse-gas-emitting countries for damages attributable to climate change at the UN climate conference in Bonn in November ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 acting Finance Minister Peter Altmaier said that green finance should receive support at EU level to stimulate the growth of a business model of the future, the news agency dpa reports in an article carried by eu-info.de. Investments that ...
17 Dec 2020, 13:53 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 ...
European agriculture often harms the environment, thus half of all subsidies allocated from the EU budget should be dedicated to measures that help protect it in the future, writes J枚rg-Andreas Kr眉ger in an opinion piece in the tageszeitung (taz). Kr眉ger ...
The energy industry in Germany are the 鈥済ood guys鈥� of the energy transition, as it is probably the only sector on track to do its part to meet the country鈥檚 target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, Johannes Kempmann, president of ...
German utility RWE could turn out as 鈥� one of the winners of the expected grand coalition鈥� between the conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD), Maximilian V枚lkl writes in the business magazine Der Aktion盲r. Researchers like Manuel ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:41 Julian Wettengel Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels International 麻豆无码版 While it remains unclear whether the coal exit commission will present parts of its plan for the fossil fuel鈥檚 phase-out ahead of the UN climate change ...
22 Jan 2021, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang Coal Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany's most prominent hard coal power plant to be decommissioned as part of the country's coal exit is set to become a production site for renewable hydrogen. Oil major Shell, ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new and old coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have 鈥渕ade a shambles of the successful pro-climate and pro-renewables policy of the SPD-Greens coalition鈥� in the early 2000s, Green politician Hans ...
Germany is likely to miss its 2020 emissions reduction target by nearly 120 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent- a far greater margin than previously thought, think tank Agora Energiewende* said in a new study. The country should quickly implement an ...
21 Jan 2021, 14:25 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Tagesspiegel Background An Eastern German city is attempting to stop an opencast lignite mine in neighbouring Poland, reports newsletter Tagesspiegel Background. The city of Zittau, located聽very ...
26 Oct 2020, 13:48 S枚ren Amelang Transport Technology Welt am Sonntag German researchers and companies are about to test the world's first emission-free pusher towboat on the rivers and canals between Hamburg and the capital Berlin, reports Stefan ...
The German government praises diesel technology as an important component of climate protection in the transport sector- but this claim is more and more contested by transport and climate researchers, Bernhard P枚tter writes in Tageszeitung (taz). Claiming ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:50 Freja Eriksen Transport Elections & Politics Rheinische Post Ahead of the climate cabinet鈥檚 next meeting, German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze is calling for 鈥渁 fair CO2 price for air travel鈥�, the Rheinische Post reports. She ...
In a letter addressed to Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leading negotiators in the ongoing government coalition talks between the CDU/CSU and the SPD, several German NGOs, including BUND, WWF, and NABU, call for a clear commitment to the 2020 climate ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the country鈥檚 鈥渃oal commission鈥� tasked with finding a phase-out compromise should be headed by the ministry for economics and energy. After a cabinet meeting, she also said in addition to economy minister Peter ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest industry federation, BDI, warns that high power prices could lead to an exodus of companies to cheaper production locations abroad, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Spiegel Online. BDI head Dieter Kempf said Germany had ...
06 Feb 2020, 14:10 Thomas Kemmerich of the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) has been elected state premier by the Thuringia state parliament with support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), in what many politicians see as breaking a taboo. ...
Parliamentarians from the German opposition Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens took aim at the government鈥檚 policies pertaining to energy and the climate, and to the international context of the country鈥檚 energy transition, the Energiewende. At a ...
German foundation World Future Council (WFC) says the current state of the global energy industry is like the financial industry on the eve of the global crisis in 2008. The group called for a bailout fund to absorb losses suffered because of the ...
The parties negotiating a new grand coalition government in Berlin seem to prefer to delegate important climate policy decisions 鈥� such as finding a date for a coal exit 鈥� to a future commission, rather than taking on the responsibility themselves, writes ...
Against the backdrop of the COP23 climate conference in Bonn, 麻豆无码版 invited journalists, journalism and media networks, communication scientists, policymakers and journalism funders to discuss what global energy transition reporting should ...
The joint communiqu茅 from July鈥檚 G20 summit in Hamburg was a 鈥渕ajor success鈥� for multilateralism, German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 economic advisor and G20 sherpa Lars-Henrik R枚ller said at an event on the sidelines of the UN climate conference in Bonn. ...
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Speaking to Die Welt, Claudia Kemfert, climate policy expert at the German Institute for Economic Research, says the prospective coalition partners鈥� giving up on 鈥渢heir own climate targets鈥� is a 鈥渄eclaration of bankruptcy鈥�. This not only damages ...
22 Nov 2018, 15:06 The German government wants to postpone the deadline for the conclusion of the country鈥檚 coal exit commission. Sources told the 麻豆无码版 the commission may have to extend its work on the phase out of the fossil fuel until ...
The German Green Party is at risk of becoming the weakest parliamentary group after this week鈥檚 elections, although extreme weather patterns in the Caribbean and the dieselgate scandal at home have shifted the political focus to the environmentalist party ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Greens elected a new joint leadership duo at a weekend convention, breaking with tradition by selecting two members of the party鈥檚 moderate wing, reports Politico. Green MP Annalena Baerbock served as speaker of the Green parliamentary group on ...
15 Jan 2021, 12:55 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Charlotte Nijhuis Cars 麻豆无码版 The transport sector will not automatically become more sustainable through the adoption ...
The German financial system urgently needs a revamp to adapt to the decarbonisation of the economy, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and the Hub for Sustainable Finance Germany, which ...
At their special congress held on 21 January, 56 percent of SPD delegates voted to enter formal negotiations to renew 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grand coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU block, reports Reuters. SPD leaders vowed to ...
The states of Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia are pushing for stricter rules on minimum wind turbine distances near settlements and for curbing planning privileges that enable wind parks to be planned and built in less time. The Bundesrat, Germany ...
19 Nov 2017, 00:00 Germany's aspiring coalition partners continued talks past a second deadline on Sunday, 19. November, after having made little headway in key climate and energy issues in exploratory talks that had already gone past the first self ...
German industry believes the world鈥檚 fourth largest economy can boost its status as a manufacturing powerhouse by protecting the climate. Reducing emissions by 80 percent by 2050 is good for the economy even if Germany goes it alone, the Federation of ...
The decisive message of the聽 German Industry Association鈥檚 (BDI) study 聽is that climate protection can be an economic success story, writes Ekkehard R眉ger in an editorial for the Westdeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭o hear this wake-up call not just from ...
Religious groups and organisations are becoming increasingly influential in international climate policy, according to research presented at the University of M眉nster (WWU). 鈥淭丑别y have established themselves as non-governmental actors at the UN climate ...
With federal elections coming up in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel 鈥渘eeds some sort of win on climate change at the G20鈥�, Andrew Light, a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute (WRI) told the Washington Post. Things will 鈥済et interesting鈥� at ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said that current amendment plans for the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) do not yet include 鈥渟pecial auctions鈥� for onshore wind and solar PV, which were agreed in the grand coalition treaty, reports ...
15 Jul 2021, 17:19 Updates with original proposal for reducing equity interest rates for investments in the electricity and gas grids by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der ...
An internal paper from the German environment ministry shows the country will miss the 2020 greenhouse gas emission target set by the European Union for sectors not covered by the EU emission trading system (ETS), Jakob Schlandt writes in energy and ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 negotiating coalition parties, Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD), have defended their decision to postpone the country鈥檚 2020 goal of reducing emissions by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 ...
Germany will likely miss several of its key energy transition goals, according to leading experts commissioned by the German economy ministry (BMWi) to monitor the progress of the country鈥榮 energy transition. Among the three elements of the government& ...
France and Germany aim to renew their seminal 脡lys茅e Treaty of 1963, which formally ended centuries of rivalry between the two European powers, and will intensify their cooperation in fields ranging from cultural exchanges through security to climate ...
The EU鈥檚 plan to allow fuel from felled trees to qualify as renewable energy could accelerate climate change, writes Felix Creutzig of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in a guest commentary in the S眉ddeutsche ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:49 Kerstine Appunn Coal Spiegel Online 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has commissioned a sensitive study on water needs for the renaturation of lignite coal mines from a subsidiary of mining company LEAG, Susanne G枚tze reports ...
In recent years, German politicians endorsed a 鈥渇ake climate goal鈥� that could not have been met, renowned German environmentalist 聽Ernst Ulrich von Weizs盲cker said in an interview with the Main Post. Von Weizs盲cker said 鈥渋t is good鈥� the parties in ...
The chief of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 chancellery, Peter Altmaier, has said that while Germany is intent on meeting its 2020 emissions-reduction goals, it was not clear it would succeed. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 know if we鈥檒l make it,鈥� Altmaier said at the debate ...
26 Nov 2019, 13:04 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Greenpeace 麻豆无码版 (now Green Planet 麻豆无码版) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator ...
Examining the decision by coalition negotiators to postpone 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate goals, Akshat Rathi, writing in Quartz, looks at both sides of the issue. On the one hand, the decision makes sense in view of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 major investment in renewable energy ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:20 Freja Eriksen Renewables Hydrogen International 麻豆无码版 The German city of Hamburg and Japanese prefecture of Fukushima want to strengthen their cooperation within the development and use of renewable energies. Hamburg hopes ...
27 Nov 2020, 14:22 Charlotte Nijhuis Cars EU Handelsblatt / WirtschaftsWoche German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against excessively strict exhaust regulations for the European car industry, Handelsblatt writes. Europe shouldn鈥檛 say it won鈥檛 ban the ...
The Green parliamentary group in the German Bundestag (parliament) has introduced a motion calling on the government to give 鈥渢op priority鈥� to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, initiating a debate in the plenary. ...
09 Oct 2019, 10:40 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 Freja Eriksen Gas Utilities Heating 麻豆无码版 Most ...
Writing for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jasper von Altenbockum says the prospective government has made unexpectedly short work of climate protection policy. Where the CDU/CSU, FDP and Greens haggled over fossil fuels for weeks, the conservatives and ...
A draft of conclusions to the G20 summit in Hamburg contains a compromise on climate protection between the US and other member states, news agency Reuters reports. The document, dated 3 July, acknowledged Washington鈥檚 鈥渋solation in opposing the Paris ...
With its Energiewende, Germany is a global role model, but only in terms of renewable energy development, writes Bernhard P枚tter in an opinion piece for the tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淚n terms of the difficult policy and economic decisions, we duck out like ...
23 Jul 2019, 13:53 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 dpa / Handelsblatt Online 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
06 Feb 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Mobility Elections & Politics dpa / Focus Online 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport minister Andreas Scheuer has invited politicians from opposition parties to join the country鈥檚 mobility ...
In response to an inquiry from the Green Party, the governing coalition has expressed its opposition to geoengineering, according to an article in the Tagesspiegel. Geoengineering refers to the controversial intervention in the Earth鈥檚 climate system, ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 likely failure to meet 2020 climate targets highlights the question of what direction energy policy should take in the future, according to the Institute for Economic Research (ifo). A collection of short papers by contributors such as Claudia ...
25 Nov 2020, 14:25 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Heating 麻豆无码版 The use of energy in Germany has become increasingly efficient since the 1990s, but not at the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE) trade union, which covers workers in the mining, chemicals and energy sectors, has welcomed the move by likely coalition partners CDU/CSU and SPD to give up on 2020 climate protection targets, Detlef ...
The German federal parliament, the Bundestag, has elected Chancellor Angela Merkel to a fourth term in office. Merkel, who will head a renewed grand coalition between her conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), was elected ...
19 May 2021, 13:38 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Heating 麻豆无码版 / dpa Conservative parliamentarians and members of the Bundesrat have announced their opposition to government plans for tenants and landlords to share the burden of extra ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn plans to test a hydrogen-powered train in an effort to ...
29 May 2020, 10:31 The corona pandemic has upended the transition to sustainable urban mobility around the world. While the fear of infection has put people off public transport and vehicle sharing schemes, it has boosted private cars, cycling and walking ...
A majority of Germans (64 percent) are in favour of closing coal power plants in order to reach 2020 climate targets, even if this move would cost jobs or push up electricity prices, according to a poll by public broadcaster ZDF. In contrast, 31 percent ...
Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will make the world increasingly dependent on technologies that extract CO 2 from the atmosphere, according to new studies published by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change ...
It is impossible to predict the climate policy results of the G20 summit in July after the US decision to leave the Paris Agreement, said German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert in an interview with public radio broadcaster NDR 90,3. But it is ...
Giving in to eastern German coal states by delaying a coal commission agreement would bury hopes of 聽a reasonable phase-out compromise, writes Bernhard P枚tter in a commentary for the Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淭his is why environmental聽 NGOs, participating ...
In light of fears that the country will miss its 2020 climate targets by a wider margin than previously anticipated, climate protection has become a key issue in the ongoing coalition talks to form the next German government, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in ...
In a 鈥� decisive year 鈥� 2018, the next German government must determine the course for the country鈥檚 exit from coal-fired power generation, and deal with the looming failure to reach its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in ...
German environment minister Barbara Hendricks will travel to Washington from May 15-17 to meet her US counterpart, EPA head Scott Pruit, and talk about climate and environmental protection, the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) said in a press ...
The latest leaked drafts of the coalition treaty show that the possible future government partners CDU/CSU and SPD know where the difficulties lie in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system, but they shy away from making important decisions, writes Jakob Schlandt in an ...
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10 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淭丑别 country, a wind industry park鈥� "Rapeseed, maize, and wind monocultures" in the German countryside reveal what the solar age looks like, ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 foreign minister and former SPD head Sigmar Gabriel says his party should focus less on environmental and climate protection and instead emphasise topics that concern its traditional voting bloc, such as industrial job security and upholding ...
The effects of climate change on the yield of European wind turbines are far less clear than suggested by a recent study from the University of Colorado, Piotr Heller writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. The study, published Nature ...
In contrast to Germany, coal use and emissions have fallen quickly in the UK, following the introduction of a carbon floor price, writes Craig Morris in a blog on聽 energytransition.org.聽鈥淟ike Germany, the UK has made too little progress outside the power ...
06 Nov 2019, 13:32 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 Clean ...
The Social Democrats (SPD) have compiled a list of 11 topics to be addressed during talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservatives on renewing a grand coalition of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 two largest political camps. Talking point number 11 is entitled 鈥淔or ...
People living in Germany are the most worried about climate change in a comparison of 18 countries by the British agency National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). While 44 percent of Germans say they are very or extremely worried about climate change, ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:40 Rachel Waldholz Elections & Politics New York Times German politics are undergoing a realignment, and the environment will be a key flashpoint in the future, argues Alexander G枚rlach of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in ...
The transition to a climate-friendly transport sector can deliver a net economic benefit for Germany in some scenarios, but only if the country invests heavily in charging and grid infrastructure as well as workforce adjustments, according to a study by ...
It is surprising that climate protection is not a big election campaign topic in Germany, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The government will not be able to avoid 鈥渉arsh interventions with expensive ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is determined to lead the climate negotiations at the G20 summit in Hamburg 鈥渋n a way that they serve the content and goal of the Paris Agreement鈥�, she said in a government declaration before the federal parliament. After ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:52 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase ...
The German government expects difficult negotiations in climate and trade policy with US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, reports Henrike Ro脽bach in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淚n terms of trade and climate, the communiqu茅 ...
Current discussions about the future of transport tend to revolve around electric cars, but many German research projects are focusing on renewable liquid fuels, which are likely to play an important role for freight transport, shipping and aviation, ...
The next German government 鈥� possibly a Jamaica coalition of CDU/CSU, FDP and Green Party 鈥� must get 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate policy back on track, writes Holger Dambeck in an opinion piece for Spiegel Online. 鈥淎bove all, the future government parties must dare ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:26 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal 麻豆无码版 / Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hard coal power plant operators criticise the ...
The 鈥渃haotic鈥� internal strife in the German government's conservative camp over immigration means that no progress of any kind can be expected in the country's energy and climate policymaking for some time, writes Tagesspiegel Background in an ...
The industrialised world has created the problem of climate change and now must work to solve it, Johannes Teyssen, CEO of electric utility E.ON, writes in a guest commentary in the Handelsblatt. Mitigating global warming would not only improve the lives ...
The significant increase of investments into renewables in G20 countries is insufficient to meet the Paris Climate Agreement鈥檚 pledge to keep global warming well below two degrees Celsius, Klaus Stratmann and Silke Kersting write in Handelsblatt Global. ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:24 Sven Egenter Cars Business & Jobs dpa / tagesschau.de German car part supplier Bosch will cut around 2,600 jobs in the coming years because the demand for diesel and petrol cars is waning, according to a report by newsagency dpa run ...
A German CO 2 tax in combination with a European carbon floor price would be a very effective means to protect the climate, according to a study by consultancy 麻豆无码版 Brainpool commissioned by the German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE). This model would ...
In a televised town hall campaign event, Chancellor Angela Merkel promised voters that Germany would find ways to meet its ambitious target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020. One young first-time voter asked about shutting down coal ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:47 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal International Sydney Morning Herald Australia faces similar challenges to Germany when it comes to phasing out coal and might want to follow 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 example by setting up a commission to work ...
Due to its inner unity, reliability and common interests like free trade and climate protection, China has become the most important G20 ally for Germany, besides other EU states, writes Finn Mayer-Kuckuk for Frankfurter Rundschau. Major topics of dispute ...
Environmental organisations have warned Chancellor Angela Merkel and her negotiating partners at the ongoing Jamaica coalition talks for a new German government of risking a 鈥�climate policy blackout鈥�. Merkel had to make 鈥渁 clear commitment鈥� to the ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:07 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen ...
Disagreements over energy and climate policy were not the ultimate reasons for the collapse of coalition talks to form a new government, representatives of three of the parties involved said at the annual congress of the German 麻豆无码版 Agency (dena) in ...
The energy sector could achieve a 40 percent CO 2 reduction by 2020 if an extra five gigawatt (GW) of brown and hard coal-fired power stations were shut down in the next years, industry association BDEW says. The energy association finds in its analysis ...
02 Nov 2020, 13:59 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Cars Welt am Sonntag Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has imposed a fine of twelve million euros on ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 aspiring Jamaica coalition parties still disagree on a range of key policy fields one day before exploratory talks for a new government are scheduled to end, Gregor Waschinski writes for news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). 鈥淭丑别re鈥檚 a ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 right-wing national conservative party Alternative for Germany (AfD) calls the human effect on global warming into question and wants to scrap efforts to cut carbon emissions, Maria Fiedler writes in Tagesspiegel. 鈥淭丑别re have been cold and warm ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel might enjoy global respect as 鈥渓eader of the free world鈥� but her current standing also warranted 鈥渁 more nuanced assessment鈥� of what her country 鈥渉as done and can do鈥�, Michael Br枚ning writes in an opinion piece for Politico ...
19 Dec 2018, 14:21 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy-related CO鈧� emissions dropped by more than six percent year-on-year as the country consumed 鈥渟ignificantly鈥� less energy in 2018, but with a greater share of renewables than last year, said energy market research group ...
After almost five weeks of deliberations, the pro-business Free Democratic Party has pulled the plug on Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 efforts to form a coalition government made up of her conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the Greens and the FDP. Migration was ...
New German environment minister Svenja Schulze has asked relevant ministers for proposals on how each sector can do its part to reach the country鈥檚 greenhouse gas reduction targets. 鈥淲e鈥檝e agreed on firm climate targets together, so everybody must ...
By 28 March Germany had already used up its annual CO鈧� budget for 2018, one week earlier than last year, according to the natural gas industry initiative Zukunft Erdgas. 鈥淭丑别 reason for this is the climate strategy of the government, where the measures ...
The merger of German energy companies Wintershall and DEA creates Europe鈥檚 biggest private oil and gas company at a time when international climate researchers urge industrialised countries to tame their appetite for carbon-intensive energy generation, ...
A farmer from Peru, who has sued 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 major utility RWE over the effects of its decade-long greenhouse gas emissions, has achieved a stage win after a German appeal court ruled his claim was 鈥渁dmissible鈥�, Deutsche Welle reports. 鈥淎 court in the ...
German chancellor Angela Merkel has described the climate talks at the G7 meeting in Italy as 鈥渧ery unsatisfying鈥�. The US鈥檚 reluctance to say whether it will remain in or leave the international Paris Agreement on climate protection had created a 鈥渟ix ...
25 Mar 2021, 14:02 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 With the aim to scale hydrogen technology and ensure its integration in the energy market, a new project partnership in northern Germany will invest 1.3 million euros to create a 鈥淐lean ...
Germany needs to demonstrate that 鈥�climate protection and economic success are not mutually exclusive,鈥� social democratic Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel told weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag. According to a Spiegel Online article citing the interview, ...
German climate policy often overlooks the important principle of keeping costs at a minimum, economists Hubertus Bardt and Thilo Schaefer write in a guest commentary for the Handelsblatt. 鈥淥f course, there might be good reasons to diverge from this ...
The only way to enable 鈥淐hancellor [Angela] Merkel鈥檚 next government to reach the 2020 climate target is to exit from coal-fired power generation,鈥� writes Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International in a guest commentary in the ...
Germany and other EU member states should strengthen聽 cooperation on climate protection, in light of the upcoming US administration's likely reversal of climate legislation, writes Susanne Dr枚ge in an commentary for the German Institute for ...
Over 80 percent of Germans aged between 18 and 67 say the country needs to step up its efforts to reduce the transport sector鈥檚 impact on the environment, a survey conducted by the government-owned financing institution KfW suggests. Almost 90 percent of ...
Each and every party involved in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥楯amaica coalition鈥� talks to form a new federal government should have an interest in securing 鈥渁 quick and orderly coal exit鈥�, as the alternatives 鈥渁re way too risky鈥�, Anna Pegels and Jonas Keil from the German ...
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has warned the global community against the anti-climate course of the United States and urged leaders to stick to the Paris climate agreement in an interview on the environmental magazine movum.info. 鈥淔or the US ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:28 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 The large-scale import of green hydrogen is highly complex and many studies underestimate the problems that still need to be solved, says a report by the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and ...
31 May 2019, 12:16 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' ...
An article by Axel Bojanowski for Spiegel lists some of the One Planet Summit鈥檚 achievements as follows: World Bank announces it will stop supporting oil and gas production as of 2019 From 2018, the World Bank will publish all the projects it funds in the ...
The German federal government is struggling to implement an effective carbon pricing mechanism despite a consensus among climate experts about the need for such a scheme, writes Joachim Wille in the Frankfurter Rundschau. However, the recent call by Green ...
A small circle of representatives from CDU, CSU, FDP and the Green Party will meet this afternoon (2 November) to try and find common ground on climate and energy in the ongoing exploratory talks ahead of official negotiations to build the next government ...
Climate policy should be integrated with the G20 finance ministers鈥� agenda in order to stay below the 2 degrees Celsius guardrail set in the Paris Agreement, a team of authors including Ottmar Edenhofer, director of Mercator Research Institute on Global ...
13 Jan 2021, 13:35 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Fossil fuels Tagesspiegel Background The amendment for the tightening of air pollution limits for Germany's fossil power plants that is discussed in parliament on Wednesday draws sharp criticism from ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:21 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen EU dpa / finanzen.net The French government is planning to cooperate with Germany in the development of hydrogen technologies,聽 reports 聽newsagency dpa in article carried by finanzen.net. French economy minister ...
This year鈥檚 G20 summit was not a major step forward in solving the climate problem, yet it did not result in a major clash with US President Donald Trump either, Brigitte Knopf writes in the T20 blog, an initiative led by the German Development Institute ...
G20 member states are beginning to decarbonise their economies, but the required investment in fossil fuels remains so high that the 鈥渨ell below 2掳Celsius鈥� global warming reduction target will be 鈥渕issed by a wide margin鈥�, according to the Brown to Green ...
G20 member states are beginning to decarbonise their economies, but the required investment in fossil fuels remains so high that the 鈥渨ell below 2掳Celsius鈥� global warming reduction target will be 鈥渕issed by a wide margin鈥�, according to the Brown to Green ...
Germany and China vowed to continue their fight against climate change hours before U.S. President Donald Trump announces whether he will quit the Paris Agreement, according to a Reuters report. "We are living in times of global uncertainty and see ...
Moral responsibility plays a more important role in environmental policy than previously thought, according to a new study by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin f眉r ...
A new Jamaica coalition government聽of CDU, CSU, FDP and the Greens could 鈥渋mprove the energy transition鈥�, Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the German 麻豆无码版 Agency (dena), told Die Welt in an interview. Kuhlmann said the different demands brought forward by the ...
Global business leaders including Kurt Bock, CEO of German chemical giant BASF, have called on G20 governments to up their efforts on climate protection, Cordula Tutt writes in WirtschaftsWoche. Bock, who heads the B20 麻豆无码版, Climate & Resource ...
Ahead of the next round of coalition talks, Anton Hofreiter, head of the Green Party parliamentary group, has called for a 鈥渃oncrete schedule鈥� to allow Germany to reach its 2020 climate targets, Rheinische Post reports. 鈥淭丑别 coming four years will be ...
More than two-thirds of Germans are most worried about climate change ahead of the general elections in September, according to a representative survey by Kantar Emnid commissioned by Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ). The 鈥渟urprising result鈥� showed ...
In a second round of coalition talks, representatives from CDU, CSU, FDP and the Green Party agreed on 鈥渁 common working basis鈥� in the areas of budget, finances and taxes, Green leader Cem 脰zdemir said in a video message after the meeting. A paper ...
Many climate scientists are worried that incoming US President Donald Trump鈥檚 administration will confound international negotiations, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭丑别re鈥檚 either a scenario Bush or a scenario crazy in store for US ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:09 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Cars 麻豆无码版 New registrations of cars with alternative drive systems ...
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), the party foundation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU, has compiled and updated an overview of private-sector involvement in financing climate protection in the G20 countries. Find the report ...
An internal federal government paper calls for an 鈥渉onest debate about possible consequences鈥� from learning that the country will likely miss its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target by a wide margin, report Klaus Stratmann and Thomas Sigmund in ...
A technology think-tank is calling for an overhaul of legislation, to unlock the huge potential of digitalisation to catapult 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition to a new level. A paper by Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV) says digital solutions can make the ...
German companies booked revenues of some 66 billion euros with products and services aimed at environmental and climate protection in 2015, the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW K枚ln) says in a report. Metal working and electronics manufacturers ...
08 Jan 2021, 12:39 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Tagesspiegel Background / 麻豆无码版 The plan to circumvent US sanctions on companies involved in completing the Russian-German natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 by creating a 鈥�climate鈥� foundation ...
Two executives of major German companies, VW CEO Herbert Diess and RWE CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz have traded blows over lignite mining, reports business daily Handelsblatt. Diess triggered the dispute by declaring in an interview the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung ...
28 Sep 2017, 00:00 A 鈥楯amaica鈥� coalition between the CDU/CSU, the FDP and the Greens is currently the only realistic scenario for a stable government in Germany, and all parties must compromise to prevent 鈥渄readful鈥� new elections, says long-time Merkel ...
With its reaction to reports on Germany missing its own 2020 emissions reduction goals, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment ministry (BMUB) has given a prime example of political opportunism, Thorsten Knuf writes in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. In early ...
The University of M眉nster is the first German university to rule out investments in the coal, gas and oil sectors, the divestment initiative Fossil Free M眉nster says in a press release. 鈥淭his decision makes the University of M眉nster a role model of ...
18 Sep 2017, 00:00 Protecting the climate has become so commonplace among Germany's political parties that it is hard for one of them to stand out on an environmentalist platform, says Torsten Schneider-Haase of German opinion polling company Kantar ...
The Prime Minister of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Armin Laschet, will represent Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU party in the areas of climate, energy, and transport in the 鈥楯amaica coalition鈥� talks, the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 G20 presidency is 鈥渁n important opportunity for other major powers to resist backsliding鈥� on climate change, especially in view of uncertainty over the new US president Donald Trump's energy policy, writes Climate Home. The German ...
Even though renewable power is now cheaper than conventional fossil power in many countries, it would be wrong to assume global energy and climate policy will become 鈥渁 no-brainer,鈥� Brigitte Knopf, secretary general of the Mercator Research Institute on ...
17 Dec 2019, 13:19 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Transport ...
German coal states have been insincere by voting for the Paris Climate Agreement last year in the Bundesrat 鈥� the council of state governments 鈥� and now toning down their climate protection efforts, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in an opinion piece in ...
鈥沦辞尘别 climate protection advocates rhetorically resemble religious fanatics,鈥� Michael Fabricius writes in a commentary for Die Welt Online. If two major energy agencies demand a sevenfold increase in CO 2-emissions reduction 鈥渨ithout explaining how that ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Freight Business & Jobs manager magazin Shipping company Hapag-Lloyd says a recovery of international maritime trade after the slump caused by the coronavirus pandemic is helping the company to regain its strength ...
Climate protection enjoys widespread backing in Germany but when it comes down to the details of how it can be done, support often turns into resistance, Andreas Mihm writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung鈥檚 website faz.net. 鈥淭丑别 past four years ...
Environmental groups called on participants of the UN鈥檚 Climate Change Conference in the German city of Bonn to not be sidetracked by the 鈥渄istracting fire鈥� of US President Donald Trump, reports Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Details of ...
The G20 group of leading industrialised and emerging countries have agreed on a joint communique at the summit in Hamburg, though leaders had still to iron out one last 鈥渨rinkle鈥� in the climate section, news agency Reuters reported, citing an EU official. ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥渉eadline success story鈥� on climate protection has 鈥渁 dark underside that is usually overlooked in all the fanfare,鈥� Paul Hockenos writes for CNN Online. The country鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions have 鈥渟tagnated at about 900 million tonnes鈥� of CO鈧� ...
15 Sep 2017, 00:00 The scope of the next government's ambition for the Energiewende depends on the constellation of its coalition, says Arne Jungjohann, energy policy analyst and Green Party member, although the shift to a renewables-based economy is ...
The Bundestag, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliament, is currently in a transition phase that is likely to take some time and which will delay the appointment of the parliamentary committees for climate and energy, Jakob Schlandt writes for the Tagesspiegel Background ...
Incoming US president Donald Trump could have many indirect effects on international climate policy, according to Ottmar Edenhofer, Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). 鈥淭rump could try to drive the ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:10 Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out NWZ Online The northern German state of Lower Saxony has been rattled by Dutch plans to assess the construction of聽up to聽 10 new 聽nuclear power plants, one of which could be聽 located near 聽the German ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze鈥檚 decision to back away from her call for more ambitious new EU CO鈧� car emissions limits is 鈥渁 defeat for the climate, and for the industry 鈥� once again 鈥� a Pyrrhic victory,鈥� writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in an ...
Challenging Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 recent promise that Germany will find ways to meet its 2020 climate targets, nine analysts and researchers contacted by Bloomberg have said that the country will probably fail in its efforts, report Mathew Carr, ...
The German Green Party鈥檚 co-leader, Cem 脰zdemir, has said that climate protection, European integration, and social justice are the topics his party will be most adamant on in a possible coalition with the conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the economic ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 efforts to protect the climate by reducing its CO 2 emissions have largely been in vain because the country falls short of implementing a much needed coal phase-out, Petra Pinzler writes in weekly newspaper Die Zeit. 鈥淭丑别 country of the ...
The resolute stance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in advocating climate protection on the international stage could be seen as being at odds with her energy and climate policy at home, Silke Kersting writes in Handelsblatt Global. 鈥淣ot much is left ...
Christian Lindner, the head of German free-market liberal party FDP, has said his party and the German Greens are especially at odds over their approaches to energy policy. In an interview with Austrian newspaper Die Presse, Lindner said the Greens were ...
As the Greens exert pro-environment pressure on the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the FDP will be pulling Merkel and her party in the other direction in possible coalition talks after the German election, write Gero Rueter and Ruby Russell in an ...
No matter who will govern Germany after this week鈥檚 election, a coalition agreement that does not include a commitment to address a phase-out of coal-fired power production 鈥渨ould be a聽bad sign鈥�, Julian Schwartzkopff writes on euractiv.com. The technology ...
"Designing the world's future" was the topic of this year鈥檚 Youth20 Dialogue Forum in Hamburg, where young people from more than 20 countries met to discuss global issues including climate change. The forum presented recommendations to ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 criticism of the current US administration鈥檚 stance on the Paris Climate Agreement, as well as her call for greater European assertiveness, have met with broad support from German politicians and business representatives, ...
The next German government after Sunday鈥檚 election should begin with 鈥渁 critical examination鈥� of existing climate and energy policy guidelines and decide new, 鈥渕ore realistic鈥� ones, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ...
The Green Party would have the opportunity to help re-adjust 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate protection policy if it entered into a coalition with the CDU/CSU and the FDP, said Green member of the Bundestag Renate K眉nast in an interview with Tagesspiegel. K眉nast called ...
Negotiations on climate policy in the framework of a possible coalition between the conservative CDU/CSU, the economic liberal Free Democrats (FDP), and the Green Party will be difficult, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
05 Jun 2019, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Policy dpa / Spiegel Online The governing conservative CDU/CSU alliance in Germany considers to end the tax exemption for kerosene in a bid to reduce the aviation sector鈥檚 impact on carbon emissions, news ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 mining labour union IG BCE has called on the parties of the so-called grand coalition to pursue a 鈥渞easonable鈥� energy and climate policy, news agency dpa reports. IG BCE head Michael Vassiliadis said 鈥渕ore realism鈥� and a 鈥渕odernisation boost鈥� ...
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to miss the G20 leaders鈥� discussion on climate and energy as they have scheduled their first personal meeting during the working session, German news聽 website Spiegel Online ...
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to miss the G20 leaders鈥� discussion on climate and energy as they have scheduled their first personal meeting during the working session, German news聽 website Spiegel Online ...
Social Democratic (SPD) head of the federal parliamentary group Thomas Oppermann called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to forge a 鈥�19:1 alliance鈥� against US President Donald Trump on climate policy, reports news agency dpa. In a speech in the German ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government was still committed to reaching the country鈥檚 2020 target to reduce emissions by 40 percent despite greenhouse gas emissions in Germany having increased. Asked if she thinks the government would succeed, Merkel ...
The outcome of the struggle over the embattled Hambach Forest, which German energy company RWE wants to cut down to make way for the expansion of a lignite mine, will have 鈥減rofound significance for the future of energy in Germany, as well as for climate ...
鈥�Climate change and the challenge of defending multilateralism in an era of Trumpian protectionism has finally given Germany a global leadership role,鈥� writes Jennifer Tollmann in a blog article for E3G. US president Donald Trump鈥檚 rejection of the ...
Germany supports renewable energies with more money than any other country on Earth, but the effect on CO 2 emissions remains limited, according to Justus Haucap, head of the Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) at D眉sseldorf University. Without a ...
Climate protection and the energy transition are among the losers of the German election campaign, writes Ralf K枚pke in sector magazine Energie & Management. The current grand coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU and the Social ...
Differing views on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 future energy system are emerging as a major source of contention between the parties attempting to establish a new German federal government, Andreas Mihm writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The Greens want Germany ...
The leaders of the G7 must fully commit to climate protection and the implementation of the Paris Agreement, and industry 鈥渘eeds more than a minimum consensus鈥�, said Dieter Kempf, president of Federation of German Industries (BDI), in a press release. 鈥淣o ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Green Party has made the聽closure of seven gigawatts (GW) of coal power a deal-breaker if it is to enter government, Arthur Neslen writes for online climate news site Climate Home, citing an interview with the Green Member of European Parliament, ...
Fulfilling the EU鈥檚 climate protection standards in agriculture cost German farmers about 310 million euros every year, the German Farmers鈥� Association (DBV) says in a press release. Total costs for complying with 鈥渢he high national and European鈥� ...
G20 countries must promote climate protection and the implementation of the Paris Agreement, said the Federation of German Industries (BDI), Germanwatch and Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in a joint press release ...
The German transport NGO Transport Club Germany (VCD) has been one of the most vocal critics of German car companies in the ongoing dieselgate emissions fraud scandal, but now it has re-included diesel vehicles in its ranking of eco-friendly cars. New ...
In contrast to their prepared text, G20 finance ministers and central bank governors included no mention of the challenges posed by climate change in the communiqu茅 after their meeting in Baden-Baden on 18 March, writes Germanwatch. 鈥淎pparently, the new ...
The election battle in Germany leaves little room for hoping that the country鈥檚 climate protection record will improve soon, Ralf K枚pke writes in Energie & Management. While the wind power industry currently approaches a new expansion record and ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democratic challenger Martin Schulz failed to address climate and energy policies in Sunday鈥檚 TV debate ahead of the 24 September federal election. The debate focused mostly on questions related to refugee ...
German discount supermarket chain Aldi S眉d has been honoured by German environment minister Barbara Hendricks for its efforts to integrate climate protection into its business practices, the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) said in a press ...
The Hamburg summit must send out the clear signal that the 鈥渙verwhelming majority鈥� will now implement the Paris Climate Agreement 鈥� with or without the US, says environmental NGO Germanwatch in a press release. 鈥淭丑别 G20 has a special responsibility for ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her chief task during 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 G20 presidency is to 鈥渨ork on options for an agreement and not contribute to speechlessness". In an interview with weekly newspaper Die Zeit ahead of this year鈥檚 G20 summit in ...
The new government of conservative CDU and business-oriented FDP in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) seems intent on ramping up climate protection goals and quickly remedying air pollution in inner cities associated with car ...
The German Free Democratic Party (FDP) has proposed doing away with EU emissions limits for passenger cars and freight vehicles and instead including the transport sector in the European Emissions Trading System (ETS), the German parliament says in a ...
Rising temperatures associated with the man-made effect on global climate are likely to shift the bulk of Europe鈥檚 power demand from the continent鈥檚 north to the south, German research institution Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) has ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars electrive.net / Der Spiegel Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess has prevailed in an internal power struggle at Germany's largest carmaker, allowing him to pursue the company's ambitious e-mobility agenda as ...
Environmental NGO WWF Germany is calling on the G20 finance ministers to show a clear commitment to climate protection at the upcoming meeting in Washington, DC., after they聽 made no mention of the issue in the communiqu茅 that followed their last meeting. ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:36 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Freight Hydrogen Technology NDR German airline Lufthansa will start sourcing ...
Scientists have discussed the possibility of geo-engineering to curb the warming of the earth's atmosphere, Christoph Schrader writes on Spiegel Online. At a conference in Berlin, researchers debated measures such as reforestation, extracting CO 2 ...
The G20 should boost the innovative strength of industry and accelerate technology development, so that it can 鈥渕ake its maximum contribution to climate protection,鈥� writes Kurt Bock, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors and CEO of BASF, and ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:43 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 Transport Clean ...
A CO 2 tax or European wide minimum price for CO 2 emissions as suggested by French President Emmanuel Macron is worth thinking about, writes Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The current system is 鈥渋nefficient, prone to lobby interests ...
Germany and the rest of Europe should redouble their efforts to fight climate change after the United States鈥� decision to leave the Paris Climate Agreement, Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the annual meeting of the Christian Democratic Union group in ...
Around 6,000 European climate change activists aiming to "block coal infrastructure, to call for an immediate phase-out" of lignite mining, 聽have gathered in Germany's coal districts, writes Chase Winter in an article for Deutsche Welle. ...
鈥淭丑别 climate torch passes from Chancellor Angela Merkel to President Emmanuel Macron,鈥� Christine Coester writes for Handelsblatt Global in a piece about the One Planet Summit. While Merkel struggled to form a government back home, Macron was taking over ...
The German Farmers' Association (DBV) has criticised German and EU transport policy, saying conventional biofuels were necessary for climate protection beyond 2020. 鈥淭raditional biofuels鈥� based on rapeseed, sugar beet or grains are sustainable, and ...
Europe will have to 鈥渇ill the gap鈥� in cooperating with China on climate protection if the future US administration refuses to maintain the Obama government's impetus, German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said at the DENEFF financial forum ...
12 Apr 2019, 13:40 Expert Hans-Josef Fell Politician Renewables Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Energiewende Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Watch Group / LUT University A global energy system fully based on ...
The EU should block the Russian-German gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 not only for reasons of energy security, 聽but also on climate grounds, writes Marcin Stoczkiewicz, head of Central & Eastern Europe at ClientEarth in a guest commentary on ...
05 Oct 2018, 17:00 Clearing operations at the embattled Hambach Forest to make way for a coal mine have to be halted to decide whether the forest is protected by EU environmental rules, a German court has decided. The judges said energy company RWE did ...
07 Dec 2020, 13:55 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The German Greens and one of the country's largest environmental organisations have reached a compromise on reconciling wind power expansion with bird protection,聽 ...
19 Aug 2020, 14:03 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal WirtschaftsWoche The energy firm RWE is auctioning off a mammoth coal digger known as a bucket wheel excavator,聽 WirtschaftsWoche writes. ...
The chief of the German chancellery, Peter Altmaier, says Germany can still meet its own national 2020 climate protection goals despite increased emissions in 2016. He told public TV channel ZDF鈥檚 show 鈥淏erlin direkt鈥� that he would 鈥� not give up on the ...
The effect on the German economy of the bid to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 will be small and positive, according to an unpublished study by Boston Consulting Group and Prognos, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...
People around the globe identify ISIS and climate change as the leading threats to national security, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. In Germany, 77 percent of respondents identified ISIS a major threat, 66 percent cyber attacks from other ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:15 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Renewables 麻豆无码版 / pv magazine A decentralised model for European renewable power generation would ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:47 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Renewables Business International Allianz / Germanwatch Germany has ceded its position as the G20鈥檚 most attractive market for renewable energy investments to its neighbour France, the Climate ...
The head of the German Greens鈥� parliamentary group, Anton Hofreiter, says a coalition with the conservative CDU/CSU and free-market FDP is far from a fait accompli. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not a done deal at all,鈥� Hofreiter said in an interview with Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would try to work on climate policy with US President-elect Donald Trump, who has threatened to pull out of the Paris Agreement, reports news agency Reuters. At a meeting of her party (CDU), Merkel pointed out that ...
A global emissions trading system would be the ideal instrument to fight climate change, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. 鈥淚t would be best if damaging emissions had a price world-wide. A global carbon market would be an incentive for the ...
Renewables are the most positively received energy sources for Germans, while the country鈥檚 population largely rejects higher electricity prices and taxes on fossil sources, according to a four-country cross-national survey by Cardiff University, Climate ...
Despite the outcome of last week鈥檚 G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, a consensual statement by all leaders 鈥渟hould be the aspiration鈥� for the G20 summit in Germany in July, said Lars-Hendrik R枚ller, Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 economic advisor and the ...
04 Apr 2019, 14:09 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Gas Hydrogen Technology 麻豆无码版 German steelmaker Salzgitter has expressed confidence that policymakers will provide the support necessary to realise a large-scale hydrogen project to ...
22 Oct 2020, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Tagesspiegel Background The price crash on international oil markets caused by the coronavirus pandemic is having a heavy impact on Germany's domestic oil industry, with companies cancelling ...
Helmar Rendez, head of Lusatian energy company Leag, is opposed to phasing out lignite-fired power production to protect the climate, Jens Tartler writes in Der Tagesspiegel. 鈥淲e need to let go of the illusion that Lusatia can save the world鈥檚 climate ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel calls climate change "a question of survival", but blocks a coal exit in Germany, according to Greenpeace. "Climate protection without coal exit is like trying to extinguish a fire with petrol,"聺 said ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit will be a major energy and climate policy topic in the coalition talks and the next government should work towards a coal consensus 鈥� similar to the one found on the exit from nuclear power, J眉rgen Flauger writes in an opinion piece in ...
Members of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal-exit commission used their second plenary meeting on Friday, 13 July to hear presentations about the 鈥渢asks, framework conditions and structural policy challenges鈥� that are to form the basis for their decision-making in the ...
Germany did 鈥渁 fantastic job鈥� working for climate protection at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, said former US Vice President Al Gore in an interview with German public broadcaster ARD. 鈥淚 admire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leadership,鈥� said Gore. 鈥淐hancellor [Angela] ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:36 S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities 麻豆无码版 Current market prices 鈥渕ake a mockery鈥� of compensation claims by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest utility RWE under the country鈥檚 coal phase-out plan, according to think-tank Institute for 麻豆无码版 ...
The German federal government cabinet has decided on a draft law for the ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement. Once the parliament passes the law, Germany has done its bit to ratify the climate treaty. The ratification law would also be 鈥渢he basis ...
For China, India, Russia and the USA, climate protection plays a minor role among reasons to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a study by conservative foundation Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS). Fighting poverty, ensuring economic ...
German carmakers Mercedes and Audi enter the e-car market with two e-SUVs, but instead of contributing to reducing emissions in the country鈥檚 transport sector, these big and heavy vehicles might even worsen the sector鈥檚 climate impact, Christian W眉st ...
Amid a growing anti-coal movement, thousands of masked protesters in聽hooded white jumpsuits have blocked 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal infrastructure, Paul Hockenos reports for聽The Nation. Find the article in English here. Get background on the question when will ...
Until now, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has not been the driving force behind climate protection, and if the party continues to govern with the Social Democrats (SPD) after this year鈥檚 election, a rapid coal exit would be a real surprise, Birgit ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:46 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A Swiss study has shed light on the efficiency gains of so-called 鈥済rey energy鈥� ...
The presidency of this November鈥檚 UN Climate Change Conference, the government of Fiji, is 鈥渧ery optimistic鈥� about the outcome of COP23, while the US administration still has not decided on its international climate policy positions. 鈥淭丑别 rest of the ...
Introducing a CO 2 price would not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also the returns on investments into fossil fuel energy sources, leading to increased investment in technology, research and development in other sectors, the Mercator Research ...
Climate risks have to be included in company reports, writes Peter Wolff, head of department World Economy and Development Financing at the German Development Institute (DIE), in a guest article in Frankfurter Rundschau. The move was demanded by ...
Electric vehicles already have a smaller carbon footprint than conventional ones, even though Germany still has a high volume of fossil-fuels in its power mix, writes Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko Institut) in a press release. Because the fuel source ...
The G20 summit鈥檚 G19 outcome on climate is 鈥渜uite acceptable鈥� as Donald Trump was unlikely to change his mind on pulling out of the Paris Agreement, writes Christoph Seidler for Spiegel Online. Little has therefore changed as the countries鈥� commitments ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition is no longer a political project that can be steered by the government as independent customers have started pushing ahead with the project themselves, E.ON鈥檚 CEO Johannes Teyssen said at a conference in Berlin. 鈥淭丑别 times of ...
The wording on climate policies in the final G20 communiqu茅 was still not decided, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters at a press conference after leaders met to discuss the issue. The 鈥渓arge majority鈥� of G20 members expressed their commitment ...
German finance minister Wolfgang Sch盲uble cited the fact that the large majority of G20 countries showed clear commitment to the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement in the Hamburg summit talks as proof that the summit was a success. In an ...
The BRICS group of powerful emerging economies add pressure on US President Donald Trump by urging an implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement at the G20 summit in Germany, news agency Reuters reports. In a joint communiqu茅 issued by the Russian ...
For Germans, climate change topped the list of the most pressing global issues for G20 to fix, a poll by public broadcaster ZDF showed. Thirty-three percent put solutions to climate change at the top of the list, 29 percent said the migrant crisis was the ...
For Germans, climate change topped the list of the most pressing global issues for G20 to fix, a poll by public broadcaster ZDF showed. Thirty-three percent put solutions to climate change at the top of the list, 29 percent said the migrant crisis was the ...
Climate and 麻豆无码版 have been the most debated G20 topics discussed on social media on the first day of this year鈥檚 summit in Hamburg according to data provided by the Press and Information Office of the German Government. The office counted 16,881 posts ...
Bringing down emission levels in the transport sector is set to become the German 鈥渟ociety鈥檚 next major conflict,鈥� Thorsten Knuf writes in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter Rundschau. A recent study conducted by the think tank Agora Verkehrswende* ...
The T20 group of international think tanks are hoping for 鈥淕17, G18, G19鈥� solution on the disputed issue of climate protection, where 鈥渨e know that some of us are moving in the wrong direction鈥�, but the rest grew closer together in their push forward, ...
G20 governments put four times more money into fossil energy generation than into renewables- despite their official commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement鈥檚 aims, NGOs including WWF, Urgewald and Friends of the Earth say in a press release. In a ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Business & Jobs Efficiency 麻豆无码版 The European market for energy efficiency solutions is set to grow rapidly, reaching a volume of around 50 billion euros by 2025, according to a ...
The G20 summit in Germany in July 2017 will provide an important opportunity for major powers to resist backsliding on global climate goals, despite uncertainties after the US election, and it could even aid progress, according to a post on ...
Renewable energy technologies hold significant potential in decarbonising industrial heating and cooling processes, writes the German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE) in a press release, based on a short study compiled by the Hamburg Institute. 鈥淎s more ...
The topic of climate change should be 鈥渢reated with utmost intensity and seriousness鈥� at the Hamburg Summit, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said at a press conference before official talks began. Juncker said he was 鈥渢hankful鈥� that ...
The topic of climate change should be 鈥渢reated with utmost intensity and seriousness鈥� at the Hamburg Summit, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said at a press conference before official talks began. Juncker said he was 鈥渢hankful鈥� that ...
G20 states鈥� annual investments in renewable energies must almost double compared to 2015 levels to carry out measures needed to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, according to the Allianz Climate and 麻豆无码版 Monitor 2017 by Allianz Climate ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende 鈥� the country鈥檚 double shift to a low-carbon and nuclear-free economy 鈥� yielded mixed results in the past year, according to an analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende.* Thanks to a partial switch from coal to gas and a ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Green Party is calling for power, heat and transport to be integrated as part of its聽 鈥済reen future plan鈥� published on Monday. 鈥淔or the successful energy transition, we will not only switch our electricity supply to 100-percent renewable, but ...
International efforts in the framework of the G20 to limit the effects of climate change will have to rely on wind power as a pillar of low-carbon energy generation, the German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association (BWE) says in a press release. 鈥淎uctions for wind and ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Transport Cars Cost & Prices Agora Verkehrswende A transition of the German transport sector towards carbon-neutral mobility will not be possible without a comprehensive and 鈥渟ocially ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:21 S枚ren Amelang Coal Policy dpa / Zeit Online The controversial resettlement of five villages in the Rhenish lignite mining area in Western Germany to expand an opencast mine is set to continue, reports news agency dpa in an聽 article ...
The federal economy ministry鈥檚 proposed new strategy 鈥溌槎刮蘼氚� efficiency and heat from renewable energies鈥� could endanger 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate goals as it hindered house owners from installing modern fossil fuel-based heating systems, say conservative ...
26 Feb 2021, 12:14 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry ...
The new IRENA report 鈥� Global 麻豆无码版 Transformation: A Roadmap to 2050 鈥� finds that renewable energy needs to be scaled up six fold to keep the temperature rise below 2掳C, but it turns a blind eye to the problem Germany is facing despite very high ...
More than 300 civil society organisations call on 鈥渢he remaining 19 members of the G20 to reaffirm their unfaltering commitment鈥� to the implementation of The Paris Agreement after the US decision to leave the accord. The G20 engagement group Civil20 (C20) ...
The European Union, together with China, Canada 鈥渁nd other important partners鈥� must take on a leadership role in international climate policy, after the US announced that it would pull out of the Paris Agreement, environment minister Barbara Hendricks ...
The head negotiators of CDU and SPD in the coalition talks have praised the decisions on energy and climate policy as 鈥渁 good compromise鈥� (Armin Laschet, CDU) and a 鈥渉uge step forward鈥� (Barbara Hendricks, SPD). Hendricks, who is acting environment ...
Germany and the US state of California are teaming up to tackle climate change, after US President Donald Trump聽 announced that the US would leave the Paris Climate Agreement. California鈥檚 Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister ...
German environment minister Barbara Hendricks welcomed the commitment to climate protection that all G7 members except the United States made in the final communiqu茅 of the environment minister meeting in Italy, according to a press release. 鈥淭丑别 Paris ...
A joint report by the International Renewable 麻豆无码版 Agency and the International 麻豆无码版 Agency, on investment needed by 2050 to transform the world鈥檚 energy supply in line with Paris Climate Agreement targets, shows competing visions of a clean energy ...
The US will join the G7 in the communiqu茅 of environment ministers meeting in Bologna, but it will acknowledge points of disagreement, a German official told reporters attending the meeting, according to a Bloomberg article by Chiara Albanese and Brian ...
Canada鈥檚 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau disputed a report by German weekly Der Spiegel which claimed he proposed to strike the references to the Paris Agreement from the upcoming G20 communiqu茅 in a telephone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. 鈥淣o, ...
German pension institutions aren鈥檛 taking account climate risks in their investment strategies, according to a survey commissioned by WWF Germany. 鈥淭his can have serious consequences,鈥� Matthias Kopp, director of sustainable finance at WWF Germany, said in ...
Russia and Germany have pledged to intensify their cooperation on聽 implementing the Paris Agreement 鈥檚 climate protection targets, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) said in a press release. Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the BMUB ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2020 climate protection target is likely to fail due to the country鈥檚 鈥� addiction to coal 鈥�, according to an analysis by British climate NGO Sandbag. Sandbag argues that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 vast electricity exports allowed for a reduction of its coal ...
10 Nov 2020, 14:09 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Electricity market Grid 麻豆无码版 German and Belgian transmission system operators Amprion and Elia Group have completed the first direct current ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government takes on a leadership role in international climate protection 鈥� a role fostered by the fact that the German population has overwhelmingly supported the transition to a greener economy, writes Ruby Russell in an article for ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:28 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Rachel Waldholz 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Climate & CO2 Cars Business & Jobs Der Spiegel / Electrek / Bloomberg Volkswagen plans to introduce an internal CO2 levy in a drive to reduce the ...
The German Green Party has made a strengthened commitment to climate protection and energy transition a prerequisite for joining a future coalition after September鈥檚 parliamentary elections. 鈥淲e are ready for talks with any party鈥�, but there had to be a ...
Environmental and development NGO Germanwatch is 鈥渞elieved鈥� that all leaders except US President Donald Trump clearly committed to the Paris Climate Agreement and there was no 鈥渨eakening or re-interpretation鈥� of the accord, the organisation writes in a ...
The German and Russian governments agreed to deepen their cooperation in the areas of environment and climate protection, it was announced after consultations in St. Petersburg. 鈥淓specially now that the US announced their exit from the Paris Agreement, it ...
06 Nov 2020, 14:19 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Green stimulus Handelsblatt Leading figures of Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance have called ...
Ending diesel tax benefits in the EU would significantly help decrease CO鈧� and nitrogen oxide emissions in road transport, because diesel vehicle users are very price sensitive, the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) ...
The German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE) will present a proposal to put a tax on the use of fossil fuels in power generation, which would complement the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. A study by consultancy ...
Cultivating feed in industrial facilities rather than on croplands, using a method originally developed during the Cold War for space travel, could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other negative implications for the environment, according to a ...
Germany no longer is among the countries most engaged in advancing climate protection, Werner R盲tz, co-founder of global justice group Attac Germany says in an interview with Frankfurter Rundschau. This year鈥檚 G20 host is advancing its energy transition ...
20 Mar 2017, 00:00 Germany aims to use a large international energy conference in Berlin to inject fresh momentum and ideas into the G20 process in the run up to the Hamburg summit in July. The Berlin 麻豆无码版 Transition Dialogue 鈥� a two-day conference on ...
Top managers in German banks, insurers and saving banks have so far failed to grasp the international trend to take climate risks into account and adjust their business models accordingly, Henry Sch盲fer, professor for business administration and finance ...
This week's G7 summit in Italy comes 鈥渁t the right moment" to talk about the Paris Climate Agreement with the US administration, but it will be a 鈥渃ontinuous dialogue鈥� in a long process until the G20 summit in Germany in July, said a German ...
Germany's would-be governing coalition partners have concluded a treaty that is likely to result in a final deadline for coal-fired power production in Germany. The agreement reached after weeks of intensive talks largely confirms the most important ...
With an increase of almost 5 million tonnes of CO鈧� emissions, the transport sector contributed most to the rise of German energy-related CO鈧� emissions in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period last year, according to think tanks Agora ...
German industry associations such as BDEW, Zukunft Erdgas and the German Biogas Association released a joint statement emphasising the potential of energy source gas for climate protection. Gas could help Germany reach its climate targets in heating, ...
31 May 2021, 11:05 Many of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 early renewable energy pioneers were experimenters with onshore wind technology. Inspired by the example of neighbouring Denmark, which had already proven the effectiveness of wind technology in the early 1990s, a ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:55 Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 The largest part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government support to coal and coal-fired power production and consumption goes to measures focusing on the transition away from the fossil fuel, ...
The G20 foreign ministers will have to talk about global warming at their meeting in Bonn, as climate change increasingly is a threat to world peace, writes Christoph Bals of environmental NGO Germanwatch in a guest article for Zeit Online. 鈥淭丑别 intensity ...
Several German federal states have revamped their approach towards the energy transition and climate protection. In a joint initiative, the states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate are calling for a reform of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) to speed ...
24 Jun 2019, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Policy Die Welt / 麻豆无码版 Due to the rising number of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) in Germany, the governing Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the Left Party have called for limiting the ...
Reducing global emissions from transport sector is key to limiting climate change, and G20 countries are responsible for the lion鈥檚 share, according to a study by the German government's international development agency (GIZ) and transport think tank ...
The Social Democrats鈥� (SPD) deputy chair Ralf Stegner has said that as far as he is concerned, the German coal exit is not a question of 鈥渋f鈥� but 鈥渉ow.鈥� At the debate forum鈥淪ustainability and climate protection: What roadmap do the parties have?鈥�, ...
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12 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Windmesse/Handelsblatt 鈥淕E and Deutsche Telekom join forces for energy transition鈥� US industrial conglomerate General Electric and Deutsche Telekom will cooperate to offer new solutions for smart ...
09 Jul 2020, 13:35 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Industry 麻豆无码版 Newly formed technology company Siemens 麻豆无码版 wants to phase-out any operations to do with coal-fired power production, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser said at an extraordinary ...
French President Emmanuel Macron鈥檚 proposal to introduce a high price on CO鈧� emissions in the European Union would give France an 鈥渆normous competitive edge鈥� over Germany, as his country鈥檚 energy supply is based mostly on emission-free nuclear and hydro ...
Total EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) stationary emissions rose by 0.3 percent in 2017 compared to the previous year 鈥� the first rise in seven years, according to an analysis by British climate NGO Sandbag, based on provisional EU data. Lignite ...
The importance of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥渃oal commission鈥� means it must not be led by the economy ministry alone, Malte Kreutzfeldt writes in a commentary for the Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淚t鈥檚 a good sign that the new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, isn鈥檛 leaving ...
Coal-fired power generation does not have a future in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, write the environmental NGO WWF Germany and the green power provider LichtBlick in a joint report, seen by the 麻豆无码版. In their report 鈥淒ead end coal 鈥� Why coal ...
A commitment to green public procurement could lower 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 carbon footprint and contribute to achieving the country鈥檚 2020 climate targets, according to a paper by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). 鈥淕iven the large volumes of ...
30 Nov 2020, 14:25 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities dpa / Die Welt The involvement of German state Baden-Wurttemberg in the utility EnBW appears ...
Germany will raise its contribution to the climate change adaptation fund by 50 million euros, the environment ministry announced on the opening day of the COP23 climate summit in Bonn. The development cooperation ministry pledged an additional 50 million ...
G20 finance ministers may encourage private funding for climate change instead of government pledges, according to a draft statement for the upcoming G20 finance ministers meeting, writes Joe Ryan for Bloomberg. This was a significant shift from what ...
New environment minister Svenja Schulze might be a 鈥渟troke of luck鈥� for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate policy, because she could narrow the gap between the political camps regarding the country鈥檚 coal exit, writes Kurt Stukenberg, co-chief editor of Greenpeace ...
