01 Jul 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel can still hope to achieve substantial progress in climate protection as she enters difficult talks with the leaders of the world¡¯s largest economies at this week¡¯s G20 summit in Hamburg, John J. Kirton ...
An accelerated drive to phase out coal both in Europe and internationally ¨C fuelled by the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) and the emergence of the European Commission¡¯s Coal Regions in Transition Platform ¨C puts additional pressure on the EU¡¯s largest ...
Germany would have to discontinue coal-fired power production even without committing itself to climate protection goals, Oliver Krischer, vice-chairman of the Green Party¡¯s parliamentary group, said during a speech on his party¡¯s energy policy ambitions ...
22 Oct 2019, 14:17 Edgar Meza Finance Handelsblatt While Germany¡¯s federal government has welcomed the increase in ¡°green investment¡±, the country¡¯s central bank remains unsatisfied with the term and is calling for a clearer definition of what constitutes ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's coal plants provided the bulk of the country¡¯s power consumption amid a period of cloudy short days and little wind in early January, foreshadowing the ...
10 Sep 2020, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A group of villagers that reject a resettlement due to the expansion of the Garzweiler lignite mine in German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia have? said ?they filed a constitutional ...
Germany can take the most climate-damaging coal power stations off the grid by 2020 while also accelerating its nuclear exit without putting supply security at risk, according to an analysis by Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). In a detailed ¡°shutdown ...
The German environment ministry (BMUB) has called suggestions by U.S. energy secretary Rick Perry to renegotiate the Paris Climate Agreement ¡®absurd¡¯, report Joe Ryan and Brian Parkin for Bloomberg. The agreement already lets nations adjust their own ...
The complex risks arising from climate change, fragility and conflict could contribute to the emergence and growth of non-state armed groups, according to a report by consultancy Adelphi, commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office. The report found ...
Pope Francis has urged German Chancellor Angela Merkel to stand firm over international climate protection and protect the Paris Climate Agreement against dissenters, news agency Reuters reports. "The Pope encouraged me to continue to fight for ...
German NGOs, including Germanwatch and WWF, say the recommendations contained in the final report by the EU¡¯s High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (HLEG) are a ¡°key step toward using the finance market¡¯s leverage effects for climate protection.¡± ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The production of green hydrogen and prevention of pandemics are prime examples for promising research cooperation in the EU, German education minister Anja Karliczek said on ...
German reinsurance company Munich Re will no longer invest in companies that make more than 30 percent of their revenues from coal-based operations, CEO Joachim Wenning said in a guest article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ¡°Climate change is a ...
The European Commission has granted Germany and several other countries a ¡°very last deadline¡± to propose concrete measures on how they intend to comply with air quality standards, report Till Hoppe and Silke Kersting in the Handelsblatt. After what ...
The EU and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation will work together on an initiative to drive research and innovation in agricultural and food systems in developing countries, Georgi Gotev reports for EurActiv. EU Commissioner for International ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:12 Expert Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Sector, State of Baden-W¨¹rttemberg Ministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Klima und Energiewirtschaft, Baden-W¨¹rttemberg Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel ...
23 May 2017, 00:00 Days before the G7 summit in Italy, foreign governments praised German Chancellor Merkel for her international leadership on climate and urged her to sway US President Donald Trump to keep the United States in the Paris Agreement. " ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:32 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Natural gas has become by far the most important energy source for power generation of Germany's ...
The German government wants to make climate change a central topic at the upcoming G20 foreign affairs minister meeting in Bonn and is ready to challenge the new US administration on the issue, report Brian Parkin and Patrick Donahue for Bloomberg, citing ...
The German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has issued a study that compares climate protection strategies in six European countries. Researchers from the Fraunhofer ISI in Karlsruhe and Ecologic Institute in Berlin analysed national long-term climate ...
The German proposal to consider free public transport in cities is an ¡°overdue revolution¡± needed to shift mobility away from individual transport and thereby reducing air and noise pollution in inner cities, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in an opinion piece ...
According to German Solar Industry Association BSW, the industry¡¯s business climate has reached a seven-year high, reports Brian Parkin for Bloomberg. The association said it expects solar companies¡¯ order books to keep growing in the coming months thanks ...
The Paris Climate Agreement would never have been approved so quickly without the looming threat of a Donald Trump presidency, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in a commentary in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. But his election now throws a dark shadow over current ...
05 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
Economy minister Brigitte Zypries cautioned her Social Democrat colleague, environment minister Barbara Hendricks, not to agree to ¡°unreflected compromises¡± in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) reform negotiations, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:51 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Hydrogen Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Business and government representatives and researchers from Russia and Germany want to establish a bilateral cooperation on hydrogen, the? German-Russian ...
The German car industry has stepped up its rhetoric against looming diesel car bans, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. ¡°Whoever wants to ban diesel is also against climate protection,¡± said the head of the German carmakers¡¯ association (VDA), ...
The approval of the sale of Vattenfall¡¯s German lignite plants and mines to Czech utility EPH showed that Germany and Sweden were not willing to implement the Paris Climate Agreement, says Johan Rockstr?m, executive director of the Stockholm Resilience ...
17 Nov 2020, 13:53 Expert GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft f¨¹r Internationale Zusammenarbeit German development agency International Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Handelsblatt A new project launched by Germany's development cooperation ...
Rainfall is increasing due to climate change and more people will become victims of floods than previously thought in the near future, according to a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) published in Science Advances. ...
The Moorburg coal power plant in Hamburg wastes the energy equivalent of 36 tonnes of hard coal per hour during normal operation because environmental organisations and citizen initiatives prevent it from? using waste heat for district heating, Olaf Preu? ...
Strong demand for heavy sports utility vehicles (SUVs) means German carmarker Daimler has failed to reduce average emissions from its vehicle fleet for the first time since 2007, Handelsblatt Online reports. For the second year in a row, emissions stood ...
After heavy losses for her conservative CDU/CSU alliance in regional elections in Bavaria and Hesse, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that she will not seek re-election as party chairwoman. She also said she would not run for chancellor again. ...
After a first procedural session in June, Germany¡¯s coal exit commission meets today to ¡°lay the groundwork for joint understanding of the 24 experts and four heads¡±, writes Andreas Mihm in an article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The commission ¨C ...
Germany¡¯s greenhouse gas emissions rose to 906 million tonnes in 2016 (from 902 million tonnes in 2015), making it unlikely that the country will reach its 2020 emission reduction target, according to preliminary data by the Federal Environment Agency ...
The G7 and G20 summits provide European leaders with the opportunity to carefully ¡°push the Trump administration to take a stance on climate¡±, write Sara Stefanini and Andrew Restuccia for Politico. German chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s visit to the White ...
Coal-fired power generation ¡°looks set to remain the backbone¡± of Germany¡¯s energy supply, writes Vera Eckert for Reuters. This contrasts with Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s international ambition as climate protection role model, she adds. Read the article ...
Last year¡¯s increase in CO 2? emissions makes it increasingly unlikely that Germany will reach its 2020 climate target, according to a short analysis by Arepo Consult for the Green Party. Emissions would have to drop by 40 million tonnes per year until ...
The chief of Angela Merkel's chancellery, Peter Altmaier, wants ambitious EU and international goals for climate protection, instead of special national targets. ¡°I am completely convinced that the path of national targets is wrong,¡± he told a ...
Germany will release a G20 plan on addressing climate change next week, which will outline how member states can lead by example to implement the Paris Agreement, report Joe Ryan and Brian Parkin for Bloomberg. Germany was ¡°taking cautious steps ...
An EU parliament committee has voted in favour of a mandatory public housing modernisation quota to improve energy efficiency, but such a move would hurt Germany¡¯s poor, writes Michael Fabricius in a commentary in Die Welt. Germany¡¯s strict regulations ...
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. "We want to use our G20 presidency this year to find a common position for all ...
05 Jul 2021, 12:59 High uptake of government subsidies for electric cars has put Germany within striking distance of its original target of having 1 million e-cars on the road by 2020. Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and economy minister Peter Altmaier said that subsidies for ...
Scientists expect an average increase in air temperature in the North Sea region of 1.7- 3.2 ¡ãC by the end of the century, compared to the period 1971-2000, according to the report ¡°North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment¡± published by Helmholtz ...
A software update for manipulated diesel cars in Germany will reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions by 25 to 30 percent on average, making a mechanical retrofitting of affected cars unnecessary, says engine researcher Thomas Koch in an interview with Zeit ...
15 Jan 2021, 12:57 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur f¨¹r Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Kerstine Appunn Citizens' energy Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s renewable energy production capacity is to a ...
Special national targets for climate protection are ¡°counterproductive¡± and should be abolished, writes the Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in a concept paper on the EU energy market. The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) should ...
29 Sep 2020, 13:00 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Kerstine Appunn Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The transformation of the car industry will pose a challenge for German car manufacturer VW in the decades to come, brand chief Ralf Brandst?tter ...
Man-made climate change negatively impacts species in freshwater systems through rising CO? levels, write researchers from Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum (RUB) in an article in Current Biology. While ocean acidification is often called ¡°climate change¡¯s equally ...
12 May 2020, 13:09 Edgar Meza Coal Solar Plans by?Swiss technology company and solar panel manufacturer?Meyer Burger to supply panels for a 10 gigawatt (GW) floating solar plant on a lake to be left behind by the future closure of the Hambach coal mine is ...
The global energy transition will require the presence of a sizeable international market for synthetic fuels and Germany will have to import significant amounts of green fuels created by converting renewable energy with so-called power-to-x technologies, ...
The Meat Atlas 2018, published by the Heinrich B?ll Foundation, NGO Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) and Le Monde Diplomatique, offers a damning look at industrial meat production and highlights, among other things, the danger it poses to the climate. ...
The approach to phasing out coal-fired power production in Germany has become a bone of contention between the prospective coalition partners, the conservative CDU and the environmentalist Green Party, as remarks made by both parties¡¯ energy politicians ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:07 S?ren Amelang Cars International S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The EU Commission has ¡°brusquely¡± rebuffed a German call for a reappraisal of existing nitrogen oxide limits in what amounts to a ¡°slap in the face¡± for transport minister Andreas ...
Germany¡¯s environment minister Barbara Hendricks says the EU environment council¡¯s proposal for a reform of the Union¡¯s emissions trading system (ETS) is a success for climate protection and the industry alike. In a press release by the environment ...
14 Aug 2020, 14:27 Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Major German energy companies are making ¡°rapid progress¡± with their green energy transition thanks to renewables becoming clear profit-makers that are attractive to investors,? Jakob Schlandt writes in ...
Germany risks missing its climate targets in the building sector ¡°unless something drastic is done,¡± Joachim Wille writes in Frankfurter Rundschau. An energy-efficient upgrading of the country¡¯s building stock on average could increase energy savings by ...
Think tank Agora Energiewende* will present proposals to take better account of industry needs in the German energy transition, Angela Hennersdorf and Christian Schlesiger write in WirtschaftsWoche. In its "Charter for Energiewende Industrial Policy ...
Germany will help Iran? implememt its national climate protection targets, the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) says in a press release. During a visit to Teheran, German state secretary Jochen Flasbarth also aims ?to strengthen cooperation on ...
Natural catastrophes like hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria will cost the insurance industry a record amount of 135 billion US dollars in 2017, according to a review by German reinsurance company Munich RE. This meant that less than half of the overall ...
04 Feb 2020, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices International Handelsblatt The carbon border adjustment mechanism envisioned by the European Commission as part of its landmark Green Deal package is problematic and could lead to trade disputes with ...
Germany¡¯s fracking law, which takes effect today, is a setback for climate protection, argues Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) climate expert Ann-Kathrin Schneider in a guest commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. ¡°To limit global warming to a maximum ...
Germany¡¯s role in international climate protection demonstrates that the energy transition can be an economic success story, state secretary in the economy ministry (BMWi) Rainer Baake said at the presentation of the International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency¡¯s (IEA) ...
G20 president Germany will press the Group to reaffirm its commitment to fighting climate change when finance ministers meet next month for the first time since the election of Donald Trump, G20 sources said, report Noah Barkin and Jan Strupczewski for ...
Frank Appel, director of Germany¡¯s postal service Deutsche Post AG, says the country is unlikely to achieve its aim of shifting a considerable share of its freight transports from road to railroad ?to reduce emissions, Alfons Frese writes for Der ...
Like other recent studies, the German Industry Association¡¯s (BDI) study shows that cutting emissions by 80 percent by 2050 is technically and economically feasible, writes Andreas Mihm in an editorial in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. But the ...
Climate protection is part of the Green Party¡¯s ¡°core profile¡±, which makes it a prime campaign topic in the upcoming ?federal elections, scheduled for autumn, Winfried Kretschmann, state premier of Baden Wurttemberg told Berliner Zeitung. ¡°I don¡¯t see ...
07 Aug 2020, 14:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Business & Jobs dpa / RTL Online Germany's remote North Sea island Heligoland is hoping for a rapid increase in green hydrogen production with offshore wind power, news agency dpa reports in an ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / NDR / Bloomberg A nuclear power plant in northern Germany has come to the verge of being taken off the grid on Friday, a Lower Saxony state environment ministry spokesperson told ...
18 Sep 2020, 13:27 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German federal parliament has agreed to a reform of the motor vehicle tax that will take into account CO2?emissions, but critics said the changes will do far too little for ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Gas Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ All of the parties represented in the German parliament reject the economic sanctions threatened by the United States over the construction of the controversial ...
Germany¡¯s new transport minister, who did not mention climate protection and the transition to a sustainable transport system in his maiden speech to parliament, has not understood the signs of the times, according to sustainable transport association VCD ...
German experts say the global carbon floor price proposed by government advisors in a paper for the German economy ministry is unlikely to be agreed, Dagmar Dehmer writes in Tagesspiegel. ¡°Implementing a sufficiently high floor price seems unrealistic in ...
28 Nov 2018, 16:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 Society Elections & Politics New York Times As a turn towards conservative and right-wing politics appears to dominate the political agenda in Germany and elsewhere in the ...
Forest clearance and other changes to the landscape are responsible for more CO2-emissions than previously thought, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have found. ¡°Forests, grasslands and fields contribute considerably to climate ...
In an interview with German public broadcaster ARD, Green Party head Cem ?zdemir and his Free Democratic (FDP) counterpart, Christian Lindner, discussed the possibility of joining a government coalition after the general election. Lindner said he ...
A basic principle of international law says that ¡°agreements must be kept,¡± Stefan Kornelius writes in a commentary for S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. By publicly pondering whether to pull his country out of the Paris Climate Agreement, US President Donald Trump ...
The German Green Party has criticised the Social Democrat candidate for chancellor, Martin Schulz, for not having taken a clear stance on climate protection yet, news agency dpa reports. The Green¡¯s parliamentary group chairman Anton Hofreiter told dpa ...
In spite of the Trump administration¡¯s? apparently benevolent stance towards fossil fuel companies, the persisting ¡°carbon bubble¡± continues to pose a risk to capital markets, Markus Fr¨¹hauf writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). According to a ...
Germany can meet its energy sector climate goals with a CO 2-price floor between 50 and 75 euros, write Fabian Huneke, Carlos Perez Linkenheil and Simon G?? from the Berlin-based independent energy market specialist Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Brainpool, in a contribution for ...
German environmental organisations call on the European Commission to continue the official infringement procedure against Germany regarding high nitrogen dioxide (NOx) levels resulting from road traffic. In a letter ahead of a meeting with affected ...
Germany¡¯s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 to 95 percent by 2050 means the remaining 5-20 percent are being ¡°left undiscussed¡±,? Oliver Geden, head of the EU division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), ...
The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has published demands for the coming legislative period in the form of a 10-point plan. It calls for new ways to finance renewables expansion, tax-based support for energy-efficient building renovation, grid fee ...
The decarbonisation of supposed green pioneers like California and Germany is too slow to meet Paris climate targets, Eduardo Porter writes in the New York Times. Despite a substantial increase in German renewable capacity, generation barely rose last ...
Germany¡¯s environment minister Barbara Hendricks regards the new US administration¡¯s sceptical view of climate protection as a? monition for Germany and Europe to foster international efforts to curb global emissions, Dana Heide writes in Handelsblatt. ...
Several large business associations criticised Barbara Hendricks¡¯ climate plan draft and that its coordination lies primarily with the environment ministry. ¡°Because of its scope in many policy areas, the Climate Protection Plan 2050 must not be ...
Trends such as the digitalisation of the energy transition and autonomous driving pushed German electrical and electronics companies¡¯ sales up around 4 percent to a record 190 billion euros last year, according to the German Electrical and Electronic ...
10 Apr 2017
Germany¡¯s current system of levies, taxes, and fees on energy is unsuitable for the next phase of the country¡¯s energy transition, according to an analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. For heating oil, these add up to a mere 0.6 cents per ...
Germany¡¯s greenhouse gas emissions rose to 906 million tonnes in 2016 (from 902 mln in 2015), due to colder weather and rising emissions in the transport sector, according to preliminary calculations by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). The data ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:07 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Ensuring compliance with a possible supply chain act that makes certain ...
18 Mar 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Renewables Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The coronavirus pandemic has prompted major sell-offs in global markets, but demand for renewable energy investments remains strong, said German asset management firm aream in a? ...
It is surprising how long it takes for the subject of ¡°negative emission¡± to make its way from scientific models into climate policy mainstream, write Oliver Geden from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) and Stefan Sch?fer ...
A global surge of trade restrictions and protectionism could derail Germany¡¯s efforts in climate protection, Heinz J¨¹rgen Sch¨¹rmann writes in a commentary for Handelsblatt. ¡°Global interconnection is indispensable for a successful limitation of CO 2 ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:38 Storage Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A test of power consumption in electric cars shows that they consume between 10 and 25 percent more electricity than their on-board computers show, largely due to charging station losses, car drivers' ...
German industry conglomerate Siemens and logistics company DB Schenker are among a group of prominent European companies calling for stricter EU emission limits for trucks and lorries, reports Markus Becker on Spiegel Online. In a letter addressed to ...
The Federal Environment Agency¡¯s (UBA) proposal to raise the reduced VAT on animal products has no chance of enforcement due to widespread opposition, but is principally a reasonable means for climate protection, writes Georg Ehring in an opinion piece ...
Four German ministers will ¡°jointly work¡± in the country¡¯s ¡°coal commission¡± ¨C tasked with finding a phase-out compromise ¨C said chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) at a press conference after a two-day cabinet retreat in Meseberg near Berlin. Economy minister ...
Think20 (T20), which brings together research institutions and think tanks from the G20 countries, presented key policy recommendations for G20 policy makers at the T20 Summit in Berlin. The proposals include recommendations on climate policy, such as ...
The German Energiewende policy endangers the country¡¯s industry competitiveness, growth and employment, says an alliance of mining union IG BCE and businesses such as E.ON, Linde, BASF and Merck in a joint paper. The goal of competitiveness should be on ...
07 May 2020, 14:01 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Mobility Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The coronavirus crisis has added a new "feelgood factor" to private cars at the expense of public transport in Germany, according to a? survey ?conducted by the ...
Seventy German municipalities exceeded nitrogen oxide air pollution limits in 2017, down from 90 the previous year, writes the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). This development points in ¡°the right direction,¡± said UBA President Maria Krautzberger, ¡°but ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:16 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars Handelsblatt German multinational engineering company and automotive equipment supplier Bosch is targeting the established car industry with its own modular e-vehicle platform, ...
Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ policy was a burden on the 2017 coalition talks because the Green Party, the conservatives (CDU/CSU) and the Free Democrats (FDP) narrowed the discussions down to a ¡°symbolic political conflict¡±, writes Jakob Schlandt in Tagesspiegel. The parties ...
The outcome of the general election in Germany will not substantially influence the country¡¯s relations with the United States, as Angela Merkel is likely to remain chancellor, says Elmar Brok, Christian Democrat member of the European Parliament in an ...
A standstill can still be considered a success during Donald Trump¡¯s time as US president, write Malte Kreutzfeld and Ingo Arzt in an article for tageszeitung (taz). The G20, which isolated Trump on climate, did not bring progress to global climate ...
The German village of Immerath, located in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) not far from the venue of the ongoing UN climate conference COP23 in Bonn, is about to disappear in order to make way for the expansion of an open pit coal mine, ...
The transport ministry plans to raise the internal standing of climate protection by setting up a new department dedicated to the issue, reports Markus Balser for S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. A ministry spokesperson said climate protection would play an ...
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and its French counterpart CNES signed a cooperation agreement to realise the Franco-German climate satellite MERLIN. From 2021 onwards, the satellite will measure the concentration of the greenhouse gas methane in the ...
The environment ministry¡¯s new Climate Protection Report showed that the 2020 emissions reduction target of 40 percent could only be reached if the German economy collapsed, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°In theory, the German climate ...
A ¡°failed government policy that puts the brakes on the Energiewende¡± is the real reason that CO? emissions in the energy sector continue to rise, writes Kurt Stenger in an opinion piece in Neues Deutschland. The federal government should renew its ...
Our visiting cartoonist Mwelwa Musonko?(@MwelxTax) on the all-consuming focus on immigration in Germany and Europe, while barely anyone talks about threats from climate change. ...
Fixing the ongoing diesel crisis ranks among the top priorities of the new German government with the goal to avoid large-scale driving bans, Chancellor Angela Merkel told parliament in her first speech of the new legislative period. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð federal ...
The electric car will eventually take over as the dominant type of vehicle in Germany and this shift is going to cost the country jobs but clinging to the combustion engine would nonetheless be a big mistake, Christian Hochfeld, head of transportation ...
It is incomprehensible that the Left Party in the Brandenburg state government does not defend existing ambitious emission reduction targets against its coalition partner SPD, writes Eva Bulling-Schr?ter, spokesperson for energy and climate policy for the ...
Initiating the end of combustion engine technology in Germany with corresponding legislation would be in accordance with European law, environmental organisation Greenpeace says in a press release. According to a legal opinion commissioned by the ...
Ten German cities considerably exceed EU nitrogen oxide (NOx) limits, making diesel driving bans more likely in 2018, according to calculations by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), reports Der Tagesspiegel. ¡°Our results for 2017 show that neither ...
German statesecretary Rainer Baake has called for?¡°consistency on European climate and energy targets¡± and capacity markets not to undermine emission trading. Speaking during consultation between EU energy ministers' following the release of the ...
26 Oct 2018, 08:41 Members of Germany's coal exit commission have unanimously adopted the first major policy recommendations for the country's lignite mining regions affected by a future coal power phase-out. At an on-site meeting in the Rhenish ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel may not want to be US President Donald Trump¡¯s opponent, but she is, writes Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ¡°This could pay off in terms of domestic politics,¡± as other ...
Ottmar Edenhofer, German economist and Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), accused federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel of bowing to lobby interests in the negotiations about the country¡¯s climate ...
The world climate conference 2017 may be hosted by Germany, the news agency Reuters reports. Delegates at the COP22 in Marrakesh will vote on a proposition to hold the COP23 in the city of Bonn, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change¡¯s seat, ...
Three quarters of German companies have invested in climate protection in the past three years, according to a survey by utility E.ON. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð most important steps taken by every other company involved the renovation of heating systems and installation of ...
The German government will likely arrive empty-handed at an EU Commission meeting on 30 January where several states are supposed to show how and by when they intend to achieve compliance with European Union air quality directives, writes Nikolaus Doll in ...
Germany will not be able to reach its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target of 40 percent, compared to 1990, according to a draft of the federal environment ministry¡¯s Climate Protection Report 2016, seen by Tagesspiegel. The targets set for the transport ...
13 Aug 2020, 13:25 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Pandemic-related decreases in production and sales could hit some German companies even harder if they are faced with higher power bills due to losing their exemption from paying the ...
28 Oct 2020, 10:44 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany has already surpassed last year¡¯s ...
If the goal is to limit global greenhouse gas emissions, it is inefficient to break this down into individual national targets, writes Christoph M. Schmidt of?Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen) in a guest commentary in Die ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:47 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Transport EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Der Spiegel / dpa Germany¡¯s transport minister ...
12 May 2020, 13:19 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Systems Renewables Solar Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal's share in Germany's net public power production fell to around 16 ...
Several research institutes and environmental NGOs, among them the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the Wuppertal Institute, WWF Germany, and Germanwatch, have signed a petition asking the next German government to reconsider the use ...
Business prospects for the German car industry remain strong despite the ongoing debate about the future of the diesel engine, the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) said in its release on the ifo business climate index, the closely watched indicator ...
The lack of a consensus at the G20 could become actually a success for the German presidency, if it succeeded in building alliances for individual topics, in essence breaking with the forum¡¯s convention of consensus-based decision-making, Dennis Snower, ...
Aldi S¨¹d will become Germany's first major climate-neutral food retailer from January 2017, the company announced in a press release. Aldi S¨¹d uses up to 80 percent of electricity from its solar PV facilities and will acquire the remaining power ...
Renewable gas used in existing gas infrastructure could help reduce Europe¡¯s greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by mid-century, in accordance with the Paris Climate Agreement goals, according to a study conducted by the consultancy Ecofys and ...
It will be difficult for Germany to reach its climate targets, because the country will retire a lot of nuclear capacity over the next years, renewables growth is expected to slow and the dependence on coal remains high, writes The Economist Intelligence ...
Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks did well not to rush approval for the watered-down climate plan before the COP22, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. ¡°It may be embarrassing to arrive at the summit in Marrakesh empty ...
26 Jun 2020, 12:15 S?ren Amelang Cars WirtschaftsWoche German car industry association VDA will launch a working group to look into the sustainability of plug-in hybrid cars because these are often driven in combustion engine mode rather than using the ...
11 Nov 2019, 14:46 Expert Heinrich B?ll Foundation Green policy think tank Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Society Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The challenge of finding and funding a final repository for ...
12 Apr 2019, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Coal Business & Jobs Reuters / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s aim to wean Europe¡¯s biggest economy off fossil fuels is a key issue in regional elections in eastern German coal mining states in ...
05 May 2020, 14:09 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background ...
The European Emissions Trading System (ETS) amendment proposal passed in the European Parliament only partly recognises the threat to the competitiveness of the continent¡¯s industry, writes Hendrik Kafsack in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
Germany must start phasing out coal-fired power generation as the next step of its energy transition, and the matter was also on the agenda of the talks to form a new government coalition in Berlin, the state secretary in the economy and energy ministry, ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:50 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) ...
German manufacturing companies have invested a record 7.9 billion euros in 2014 in environment and climate protection measures to reduce, avoid or clean up emissions and save resources, Germany¡¯s statistics agency Destatis writes in a press release on the ...
28 Apr 2020, 12:28 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
Climate-friendly infrastructures in cities provide urban planners with a large potential for emission reduction, according to a new study by Felix Creutzig (lead author) from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and ...
Germans generally accept the idea that an energy transition costs money, but they are opposed to wasting money, Johannes Teyssen, manager of energy company E.ON, said in a joint interview with Green Party head Cem ?zdemir in the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that a decision on hardware retrofitting is not in sight. ¡°We will continue to examine the hardware retrofitting proposal, but according to what I saw, there will certainly not be a quick solution for millions of ...
Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel¡¯s assessment of why his Social Democratic party suffered so many losses in recent elections is ¡°hypocritical¡±, J?rg Staude says in a commentary for klimaretter.info. Gabriel said his party had neglected its voters¡¯ core ...
20 May 2015, 00:00 Industrialised countries¡¯ business associations have urged to make the Paris climate summit a success. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð world climate conference in Paris in December offers a chance to greatly advance global climate politics. The world must use ...
18 Dec 2020, 14:17 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Cars WirtschaftsWoche / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Despite Volkswagen¡¯s (VW) positioning as a pioneer in the mobility transition, the car manufacturer does not do enough to sell its ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Society S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The outdoor heater industry in Germany is almost being overwhelmed by a surge in demand due to restaurant and bar owners scrambling to find ways of ?continuing their business ...
The director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Ottmar Edenhofer, criticises the Christian church¡¯s lack of commitment against climate change in an interview with Bernhard P?tter for tageszeitung (taz). ¡°It¡¯s ...
Job security should be valued higher than environmental protection, according to a motion for the federal party conference of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) in December, writes Thomas Vitzthum in Die Welt. The motion calls for an impact assessment ...
The German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) is demanding a complete coal phase-out in Germany within the next two decades. The expert panel of seven university professors has published a statement saying that the upcoming legislative period will ...
15 Mar 2017
15 Mar 2017, 00:00 ¡°A Reporter¡¯s Guide to Germany's Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition¡± offers journalists covering energy and climate policy an overview of key stories, experts/decision-makers and facts on Germany¡¯s landmark effort to mitigate climate change. Click ...
A team of scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have published a comment in Nature Climate Change entitled ¡°Why the right climate target was agreed in Paris¡±. It highlights that the Paris goal of reducing the temperature ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Customs investigators in Bavaria have revealed the smuggling of solar modules from China sold at dumping prices in Germany worth at least 33 million euros. The customs office said it ...
20 May 2015
20 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) ¡°°Õ³ó±ð godmother of climate receives visitors¡± The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is Angela Merkel¡¯s reaction to the failed climate summit of Copenhagen ...
24 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just days away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
09 Oct 2020, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German parliament has voted in favour of a higher starting price for the country¡¯s new CO2 reduction scheme in the heating and transport sectors, dpa ...
The Energiewende, Germany¡¯s energy transition, has so far ?seen too much political planning and not enough free market forces, making coal-fired power production one of the project¡¯s ¡°winners¡± besides renewable energy sources, gas lobbyist Timm Kehler ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the ¡°de facto leader of the global green caucus¡± after US President Donald Trump decided to pull out of the Paris Agreement, writes Jamie Horgan in a blog article for The American Interest. But with the nuclear phase-out ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:08 Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung New vehicles in Germany are getting greener: average CO2 emissions of cars registered in the first half of 2020 were 4.4 ...
German climate targets for the building sector are in danger because many house owners shy away from modernising their buildings to meet higher energy standards due to the costs involved, writes Ralph Diermann in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. ...
A majority of Germans (53 percent) think their country should do more to remain a pioneer in climate protection, according to a YouGov survey commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The representative survey with 2105 participants was carried out ...
04 Feb 2021, 13:12 CORRECTION: The headline of an earlier version of this article stated that the number of jobs in Germany's entire renewables sector has halved since 2011. However, this decrease only affected production and installation and not ...
Utility Vattenfall wants to sell its Hamburg coal power plant Moorburg, according to a report by daily tageszeitung. Vattenfall CEO Magnus Hall did not rule out a sale within five years, as the company did not need Moorburg in the long term. A Vattenfall ...
Low prices of Chinese products, the reform of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), as well as levies connected to the Energiewende in Germany, all put a heavy burden on the German steel industry, writes Ulrich Grillo, president of the Federation of ...
Germany is making haste in ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement partly over fears that Donald Trump will pull out of the deal before it comes into force if he becomes US president, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°Time is pressing, and ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:49 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Gas International Handelsblatt Tumbling prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) due to the coronavirus pandemic are worsening conditions for planned gas import terminals in Germany, Klaus Stratmann ...
There is a ¡°creeping revolution¡± causing financial market actors to re-think their approaches, incorporating climate protection and sustainability as profitable investment strategies, write Green politicians Reinhard B¨¹tikofer and Anton Hofreiter in a ...
RWE¡¯s coal mining in the old Hambach Forest in western German state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) ¡°is unparalleled in its stupidity¡±, Ingo Arzt writes in a commentary for the left-wing Tageszeitung (taz). It is well known that the lignite mined in the ...
17 Feb 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Fossil fuels Security Handelsblatt / Deutsche Welle U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced one billion dollars in funding to support energy projects in Eastern and Central Europe as part of an effort to reduce ...
24 Aug 2020, 12:29 Expert BWE- German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Ministry for the Environment, Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ, Construction and Climate Protection, State of ...
30 Aug 2016
The leaders of the leading industrialised and emerging economies will discuss ways to funnel capital into financing climate measures at the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 4 and 5, a German government official said on Tuesday. The Chinese ...
29 Sep 2020, 13:04 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f¨¹r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The coronavirus pandemic is causing public transport to lose ground to individual transport means, such as ...
For the first time, union leaders from Germany's mining unions met with representatives from the annual ¡°climate camp¡± and local environmentalists in the Rhenish lignite coal mining region, reports Leonie Sontheimer in taz. While all agreed that ...
Germany in 2012 provided 57 billion euros in subsidies that were detrimental to the environment, of which more than 90 percent were harmful to the climate, according to a report by Federal Environment Agency (UBA). ¡°It¡¯s paradoxical: Germany commits ...
The Association of German Cities warns of driving bans in inner cities if nothing is done about the air pollution caused by diesel vehicles, writes Kerstin Schwenn in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). ¡°°Õ³ó±ð targets of the UN climate conference in ...
07 Dec 2017, 00:00 A coal exit is inevitable to reach Germany¡¯s climate targets, but the shift must not come at the expense of workers, according to SPD head Martin Schulz. In an address to a party convention in which delegates voted for holding coalition ...
The energy cost burdens on the German industry reached a new multi-year low in March 2017, despite a rising renewables surcharge, according to an analysis by Institute for Applied Ecology (?ko-Institut), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and ...
07 Dec 2015
07 Dec 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Handelsblatt ¡°Still up in the air¡± There are still many hurdles to an agreement in Paris and there is a real danger of disappointment, writes Klaus Stratmann in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. ...
The Green Party¡¯s plan for phasing out coal in Germany makes sense and is overdue, writes energy expert Claudia Kemfert, from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in a commentary for Hamburger Abendblatt. ¡°We have a massive power oversupply, ...
Peter Teffer writes in an article for EU Observer about the challenges ahead for Germany to reach its climate targets, such as a coal phase-out- which is likely to be discussed after the federal elections in autumn. Read the article in English here. For ...
In 2017, at least 5.4 billion euros were spent by the German government from the federal budget on the country¡¯s energy transition, up about 20 percent from the previous year, writes the German Taxpayers Federation in a study. Four billion euros were ...
In an interview with Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche, Daniela Jacob, head of Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), said Germany¡¯s phase out of nuclear energy would result in a short-term increase in carbon emissions because coal cannot be substituted ...
30 May 2018, 00:00 Germany struggles to get its highly anticipated coal exit task force on track. The government on Wednesday postponed at the last minute the official launch of the phase-out commission for the third time. The quarrels over the commission ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel tries to be factual and content-focussed in her clear criticism of US President Donald Trump¡¯s policies but she is unlikely to be successful in light of the ¡°cacophony of interests¡± at the G20 summit, writes Stefan ...
The Energiewende¡¯s economic costs are high but its contribution to reducing climate change is moderate, according to the German Council of Economic Experts¡¯ Annual Report. ¡°Given the global effect of greenhouse gases, a global approach to climate policy ...
18 May 2020, 14:13 Edgar Meza Cars Business & Jobs Der Spiegel The German government is weighing an 11,000 euro subsidy for electric cars in a bid to help the country¡¯s hard-hit auto industry in the coronavirus crisis, even though the sector is having ...
The federal government thinks Germany will increasingly be vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, writes Spiegel Online. Trade would be especially affected, according to the economy ministry¡¯s reply to a parliamentary enquiry by the Green group ...
Representatives of the G20 dialogue forums business (B20), civil society organisations (C20) and think tanks (T20) have together called on the Group of Twenty member countries to take the lead in implementing the Paris Climate Agreement. They demand a ...
22 Feb 2018, 00:00 Germany¡¯s Federal Administrative Court has postponed to next week a highly anticipated decision on whether polluted cities can ban diesel cars to improve air quality. S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transport Cars The Federal ...
11 Aug 2020, 11:42 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany¡¯s new CO? price on transport and heating fuels, which goes into effect on 1 January 2021, could mean some companies initially pay twice for their emissions, ...
Free Democratic Party (FDP) head Christian Lindner sees ¡°high hurdles in energy policy¡± for a possible government coalition of conservatives (CDU/CSU), Free Democrats and the Green Party after the German general elections, he told FOCUS Magazin in an ...
Several states have created their own environmental regulations because they are dissatisfied with federal laws and plans, writes Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð federal government¡¯s lip service in Paris doesn¡¯t do anything for the world climate. ...
Almost two-thirds of German residents say the government is thwarting the country¡¯s energy transition in heating by not providing enough consumer incentives to switch from systems burning fossil fuel to those using renewable energy, according to the ...
Environment organisations are disappointed with the government¡¯s proposal for a German sustainability strategy 2016 because targets for a higher market share of climate friendly rail transport have been deleted, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. ...
02 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
More than two-thirds of Germany¡¯s lignite plants emit higher amounts of nitrogen oxides (NOx) than would be permitted under new EU standards (which have not been implemented into German law so far), a report published by Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND ...
Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland and UN special envoy on climate change and El Ni?o, has condemned the UK and Germany for introducing new support schemes for the fossil fuel industry that betray the Paris climate deal, Adam Vaughan writes in ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:15 Finance International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Economists at Sparkasse, Germany¡¯s largest public bank, have criticised a planned carbon border tax, saying that a study of potential effects on the European economy¡¯s openness and fiscal ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:55 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Systems Renewables Solar Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewables Freja Eriksen Gas ...
It is ¡°remarkable¡± that the G20 summit in Hamburg did not end up in scandal given that US President Donald Trump came across like a ¡°grizzly bear among a mountaineering rope team¡±, writes Stefan Ulrich in an opinion piece for S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°Above ...
The cap of solar PV and wind power development established with the? reform of the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG) ?passed in parliament last week could endanger Germany¡¯s climate targets, said Maria Krautzberger, president of the Federal Environment Agency ...
The German government is paying more attention to its internal coalition agreement from 2013 than to the Paris Climate Agreement, Dagmar Dehmer writes in an op-ed for the Tagesspiegel. This is why the reformed Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act could does not support ...
The economic council of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) wants Germany to turn away from its current targets ?to lower the country¡¯s primary energy consumption, writes Martin Kessler in RP Online. These targets- a? 20 percent reduction by 2020 and 50 ...
Old coal-fired power plants can be made more flexible at reasonable expense, allowing countries with a high share of coal-based electricity to make a smooth transition to a climate-friendly energy system, according to a new study by think tank Agora ...
As a result of the diesel crisis, used car sales were down 1.9 percent in 2017, compared to the previous year, according to the German Association for Motor Trade and Repair (ZDK). ¡°Auto dealers are deeply unsettled,"?ZDK president J¨¹rgen Karpinski ...
The parties negotiating a ¡®Jamaica coalition¡¯ in Germany had made a lot of progress on energy and climate policy, as well as on several other policy areas, before the pro-market FDP party pulled out of the talks, Cerstin Gammelin and Markus Balser report ...
Germany will assist Fiji in preparing the 23 rd UN climate conference, the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) has said in a press release. Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the environment ministry, met Fiji¡¯s Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe ...
In a bid to avoid EU fines for excessive air pollution, the German government is considering plans to make public transport free of charge to improve air quality in cities. Transport experts welcomed the proposed measures designed to lure more people onto ...
Policymakers and companies must urgently pay attention to the commodities required by a large-scale roll-out of electric mobility to avoid bottlenecks and secure a sustainable supply, according to mobility think tank Agora Verkehrswende*. ¡°Securing the ...
The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has? told news agency dpa ?that people should reduce long-haul flights and instead spend their free time locally or on bike and hiking holidays in order to save greenhouse gas emissions. The government should reduce ...
07 Jan 2016, 00:00 Record renewables growth in 2015 meant Germany exported more coal-generated electricity than ever before, hampering the country's efforts to protect the climate, according to energy policy think tank Agora Energiewende. The data ...
Germany¡¯s coal commission is a ¡°societal innovation¡± and shows how the exit from the dirty fossil fuel can be organised responsibly, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. ¡°If we manage it, it will become an example for many, many nations and ...
As long as Donald Trump is president of the US, it is ¡°basically irrelevant¡± whether or not his country remains a party to the Paris Climate Agreement, development economist Stephan Klasen says on Zeit Online. Even if the US remained within the treaty, ...
17 Sep 2018, 10:30 A report about a proposal by one of Germany¡¯s coal commission co-heads for a coal exit by 2038 has caused irritation. Some commission members were quick to reject the report and warned that the commission's work was in peril should ...
24 Apr 2015, 00:00 [Updates explanation of climate contribution] The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (BMWi) has signalled it might make changes to its climate levy to ease concerns over potential job losses, media report on Friday as supporters ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s role as host of the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg will not be easy should the US administration decide to pull out of the Paris Agreement, because other countries ¨C ¡°the eternal laggards¡± ¨C would ¡°relapse into old blockade ...
Germany¡¯s Green Party has rejected an offer tabled by its aspiring coalition partners to reduce the country¡¯s coal power capacity by up to 5 gigawatt (GW), news agency Reuters reports. Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro ...
Think tank Agora Energiewende has launched a new publication series in English that is taking a closer look at the fundamental issues of transforming energy systems toward a low-carbon paradigm. The publications draw on the German experience, but also ...
After the TV debate between conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel and her social-democratic challenger Martin Schulz in the run-up to the German election on 24 September, Merkel was largely seen as more convincing, the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung reports.? In a ...
¡°Support for strengthening the EU ETS through unilateral measures by member states appears to have grown within the German government, according to a new draft climate plan,¡± Carbon Pulse writes. Find the article (behind paywall) in English here. ...
EU negotiators have reached a provisional deal to overhaul the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), bolster carbon prices and adjust the system to more ambitious climate goals, Ewa Krukowska reports for Bloomberg. The deal follows more than two years of ...
Germany¡¯s supermarkets are to receive a climate-friendly makeover. Environment minister Barbara Hendricks, together with the association of German retailers (HDE), has started a 1.3 million euro promotion campaign aimed at identifying energy saving ...
Renewable energy sources are booming in Germany as much as anywhere else but the country¡¯s simultaneous rise in coal use and carbon emissions nevertheless make it ¡°a dangerous role model¡± for countries setting out to emulate the German energy transition, ...
Protesting for global climate protection efforts and against the US decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, Greenpeace Germany has projected a heart-shaped map of the world and the words ¡°Planet Earth first¡± onto the Elbphilharmonie building, the ...
Low water levels in the Rhine river after a prolonged drought have disrupted fuel and chemical supplies on the vital European trade route, sparking concern over potential economic impact and raising questions about how climate change will hit Europe¡¯s ...
Most member companies of German oil traders group Avia will only sell ¡°climate-²Ô±ð³Ü³Ù°ù²¹±ô¡± heating oil in the future, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The group invests in climate protection projects around the globe to save almost the ...
In a draft for a call-to-vote, the Green Party writes that it is willing to negotiate with all parties except the AfD after the elections on 24 September, but ¡°distances itself as far as possible from the FDP¡± (Free Democratic Party), writes Stefan Braun ...
German farmers show a willingness to put more effort into protecting the climate and resources in a position paper by German Farmer¡¯s Association (DBV), writes Henrike Ro?bach for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ¡°Cultivation must not lead to harm¡± to the ...
The neighbours of a lignite power plant in the city of Bergheim in Germany¡¯s western region of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) are suing the energy company RWE over its plans to replace four older generating units at its Niederau?em plant with a modern coal ...
16 Jan 2019, 13:16 The German government has pledged long-term payments to lignite mining regions, removing a major hurdle to reaching a compromise over the country¡¯s coal exit. After a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Olaf ...
Germany's ambitious greenhouse gas reduction plans are facing a major obstacle: an apparent addiction to coal, reports Irene Banos Ruiz for Deutsche Welle. Mining company RWE is planning the expansion of some of Europe's biggest coal mines, ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:12 Freja Eriksen Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ/ Welt Online The European Commission has allocated a potential 877 million euros of its Just Transition Fund to support structural change in German coal mining regions, reports? Welt Online. ...
02 Jun 2020, 13:23 Expert ICCT- International Council on Clean Transportation Transport Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Cars ...
Fiscal instruments should complement Energiewende efforts to fight populist criticism that climate protection was a luxury at the expense of the regular citizen, writes Bernhard P?tter in an opinion piece for tageszeitung (taz). ¡°If citizens received a ...
04 Jan 2019, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewables S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Despite a record renewables share in 2018, carbon-intensive lignite is still the country¡¯s single most important electricity source, which shows that CO? allowances ...
Environmental organisations NABU and WWF have urged Germany¡¯s parties, currently negotiating to form a government, to stop the natural gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2, a joint press release by the two organisations says. In an open letter to party ...
The government coalition of the conservative CDU/CSU and Social Democrats (SPD) has failed to agree on a law (GEG) that would set new energy efficiency standards for Germany¡¯s buildings by 2019, Jens Tartler writes in Der Tagesspiegel. Social-Democrat ...
Greenpeace Germany has published a study proposing ¡°ambitious measures¡± to decarbonise German transport by 2035, carried out by Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ. To succeed, the scenario demands ¡°a comprehensive paradigm shift in ...
Germany will reach a deal by the end of the year on a deadline and way to exit coal-fired power generation, according to mining union IG BCE, reports Nathan Witkop for Montel. Union head Michael Vassiliadis told an industry association conference he was ...
The growth of solar energy has been grossly underestimated in the results of the models of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), writes Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in a press release. A new MCC ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:00 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel / dpa German finance minister Olaf Scholz said it is ¡°perfectly clear¡± that the German government will have to invest much more money ...
Retrofitting older diesel cars to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions could be financed ¡°fully or for the largest part possible¡± through a support mechanism, a group of government advisors writes in a draft report, Markus Balser and Michael Bauchm¨¹ller ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:40 Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s coal commission can conclude its work soon if the country¡¯s finance minister puts enough money on the table, the head of the ...
Diesel technology has long been hailed as a climate-friendly alternative to petrol but has? suddenly come under intense fire, amounting to ¡° a broadside against Germany¡¯s leading industry,¡± Alfred Gaffal, president of Bavarian industry association vbw, ...
The FDP¡¯s decision to let talks for a ¡®Jamaica coalition¡¯ government collapse after four weeks spared Germany a ¡°government rife with contradictions¡±, Heike G?bel writes in a commentary for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ¡°No labour market flexibility ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:59 S?ren Amelang Coal Bild Germany¡¯s Chancellor Angela Merkel has privately warned that the country¡¯s coal exit will fail without ¡°enormous effort,¡± Ralf Schuler reports for tabloid Bild. ¡°We have to really want this,¡± Merkel said at a ...
06 Jul 2020, 12:22 Gas Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germans still get a relatively good deal on gas prices, and will continue to do so even after the introduction of a CO2 price in transport and buildings next year, a report by price comparison ...
After the British vote to leave the European Union, the EU¡¯s energy union plans are at risk of being ¡°put on the back-burner until more pressing issues are worked out,¡± writes Sara Stefanini for Politico. In light of the UK¡¯s presidency of the Council of ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:07 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Die Welt The ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry accounts for about one third of the country's total industry emissions, meaning that becoming carbon-neutral by 2050 comes with particular challenges to the ...
Germany can teach Ireland many lessons about how to transition to a low-carbon energy system, writes Margaret Ward in an article in The Irish Times. Its citizen-owned renewable energy projects have created innovative business models and increased support ...
The new governing coalition of conservative CDU and economic liberal FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is set to undermine the country¡¯s climate protection goals, environmental organisation WWF says in a press release. The CDU-FDP coalition agreement ...
07 Feb 2020, 12:58 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Energiewende WirtschaftsWoche Germany needs to revamp its energy policy to avoid issues with supply security and ...
09 Mar 2016
09 Mar 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Government approves Paris climate deal The German cabinet of government ministers has approved the Paris Agreement on climate change, which 195 countries successfully negotiated in ...
04 Jan 2019, 13:33 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Cars dpa / Focus Germany¡¯s business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) have warned against a one-sided bet on electric mobility in the country¡¯s climate and transport policy. The head of the opposition ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:23 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Rheinische Post / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A group of villagers living in towns threatened by coal mine expansion in western Germany plan ...
The federal government should reform its tax code to achieve the necessary rate at which residences are renovated to be made more energy-efficient in order to meet its goal of a nearly climate-neutral building stock by mid-century, the German Economic ...
The new governing coalition in Germany¡¯s most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) may not care too much about climate protection despite ambitious promises, Ralf K?pke writes in a commentary for Energie & Management. The conservative ...
Switching to less resource-intensive consumption patterns is part of the solution to cutting carbon emissions, Felix Ekardt writes in a guest article for Zeit Online. Germany can only achieve its climate targets if people are willing to reduce their ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:39 Expert BEE- German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Parts of the ...
The General German Automobile Club (ADAC) says it has proof that the mechanical retrofitting of older diesel cars in order to cut air pollution ¡°is not only possible but also highly effective.¡± The influential car club says that tests carried out by its ...
30 Sep 2019, 13:41 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The last two of a group of eight lignite power plant units are entering Germany¡¯s security standby, reports news agency dpa. RWE¡¯s unit C at ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:43 Freja Eriksen Cars Tagesspiegel / dpa The German district near Berlin that e-carmaker Tesla has chosen as the location for its first European gigafactory is awaiting the paperwork from the US company to go ahead with necessary ...
Coalition talks between CDU, CSU, FDP and Green Party will be about the parties¡¯ ability ¡°to make something constructive of the differences¡±, said chancellery chief and Christian Democrat Peter Altmaier in an interview with German public broadcaster ARD ...
Germany needs to lower emissions in the heating sector by one fifth by 2020 in order to meet the government¡¯s climate goals, Hartmut Netz writes in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°To comply with the plan, twice as many buildings would need efficient retrofitting ...
The German hydrogen electrolysis sector must become a ¡°gigawatt industry¡± for Germany to reach its climate targets, according to a new study by Fraunhofer ISE, Fraunhofer IPA and E4tech, commissioned by the federal transport ministry (BMVI). The ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:48 Corrects third sentence: Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ use for cooling went up 30 percent, not for heating. S?ren Amelang Efficiency Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German households used less energy for heating and lighting in 2018 than 10 years earlier, but more ...
The future of the internal combustion engine and car manufacturing in Germany will be central topics at the International Motor Show (IAA) 2017 in September, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her annual summer press conference in Berlin. ¡°How do ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:09 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:28 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's largest energy company RWE, together with oil company BP, chemicals producer Evonik and gas ...
15 Jun 2020, 15:11 Expert Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Bundesanstalt f¨¹r Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Climate & CO2 Resources & Recycling Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Heating Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / ...
23 Feb 2016
23 Feb 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Die Welt ¡°Nuclear giants buy their way out for 18 billion¡± The expert commission on financing the nuclear clean-up will suggest to the government that utilities transfer their ...
19 Feb 2016
19 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ WirtschaftsWoche ¡°Expert commission re-calculates nuclear provisions¡± The expert commission on financing the nuclear clean-up has commissioned consultancy Warth & Klein to calculate the ...
Ill-advised legislation and an alienation of citizens from renewable investments put the success of Germany¡¯s energy transition in jeopardy, Hans-Josef Fell writes for EurActiv. The country continued to be internationally celebrated for its Energiewende, ...
15 Jul 2015
15 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°A fight for survival¡± Due to recent government decisions to mothball some lignite plants, utility RWE will cut 900 to 1000 jobs in the western German lignite industry, which ...
The fraction of Germany¡¯s budget generated by taxing economic activities harmful to the environment and the climate is declining, according to calculations by NGO Green Budget Germany (F?S). Just 4.3 percent of the public budget- less than the EU-average ...
11 Jan 2019, 10:27 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewables Security The global energy transition and the shift to renewables from fossil fuels is likely to reduce energy-related conflicts, says a report published by the Global Commission on the ...
The EU must make clear to the new US administration that ¡°transatlantic security discussions need to always include the fight against climate ³¦³ó²¹²Ô²µ±ð¡±, at this weekend¡¯s Munich Security Conference, writes Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director of Greenpeace ...
Germany¡¯s lignite power stations, which are particularly harmful to the climate, currently do not earn enough money to recuperate investment costs, or to invest in the maintenance and extension of connected mines, says a study conducted by the Institute ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:34 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Rachel Waldholz Nuclear phase-out taz / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Critics are denouncing plans to build a new interim storage facility for ...
09 Jun 2020, 12:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The volume of financial investments classified as sustainable increased by nearly one quarter in Germany last year, according to the latest figures published by the financial industry ...
23 Apr 2020, 13:46 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S?ren Amelang Cars Hydrogen Technology ntv / electrek Daimler subsidiary ...
The German government is preparing the launch of a commission tasked with finding measures to make buildings more energy efficient and bring down carbon emissions in the heating sector, Susanne Ehlerding writes in the energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
The grand government coalition in Germany failed to recognise that the economy was ¡°the central actor of the new climate movement,¡± writes German investor Jochen Wermuth in a guest article for German weekly Die Zeit. He calls for more divestment, a hold ...
The Paris Climate Agreement means transport has to be re-invented and cycling offers large untapped potential for climate protection, write Green Party parliamentary group¡¯s vice-chair Kerstin Andreae and the party¡¯s transport expert Matthias Gastel in a ...
Climate change is a threat to financial markets not just because of potential natural disasters, but also due to a tightening of climate protection measures, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung, citing a report prepared for the German ...
11 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:21 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Deutsche Welle / Quartz Coal mining workers in the Rhineland have mixed feelings about the pending coal exit, Gero Rueter reports in a feature for Deutsche Welle. The ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Energiewende International HSBC Germany is very well-placed for the low-carbon transition, given its particularly large cleantech industry and strong policies, writes British multinational financial services company ...
Governments around the world have committed to the ¡°historic¡± Paris Climate Agreement ¨C and now it is time for businesses to follow suit, writes R¨¹diger Grube, chairman of the board of Deutsche Bahn (DB) in a guest commentary in Handelsblatt. German rail ...
Back in December 2015, the Paris Climate Agreement was hailed as a ¡°historic¡± achievement- 17 months later it rather looks like international diplomacy has incurred an on-the-job accident of historic proportions, Andreas Mihm writes in Frankfurter ...
The effect of think tank Agora Energiewende¡¯s* proposal for an ecologic tax reform on Germany¡¯s major political parties will be limited, Hannes Koch writes in a commentary for tageszeitung (taz). Agora Energiewende suggests lowering fees on electricity ...
16 Sep 2020, 12:49 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany'smunicipalities, as well as its states and federal ...
28 Dec 2015
28 Dec 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Spiegel Online ¡°Car and internet companies conquer the power sector¡± Utilities face massive new competition as the transformation of Germany¡¯s energy landscape attracts powerful new players from the IT and car ...
Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) addresses the global coal phase-out in a new, short, overview policy brief. The main measures to help phase out coal are the abolishment of fossil-fuel subsidies, the introduction of ...
France and Germany should work together on some challenges on the way to a clean energy future- despite differences in the two countries¡¯ energy mixes, write German think tanks Agora Energiewende, Agora Verkehrswende* and French Institute for Sustainable ...
Germany¡¯s ¡°enormously expensive Energiewende¡± green energy transformation is sputtering and the country is falling behind other European countries, writes Kalina Oroschakoff in an article for Politico.? Read the article in English here. For background, ...
24 Jun 2015
24 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ minister speech at utilities congress Government considers alternative to climate levy The proposal to charge old coal-fired power stations a ¡°climate levy¡± to force them reduce CO2 ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:55 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S?ren Amelang Digitalisation Clean ...
The mayor of BMW hometown Munich is considering a ban on diesel cars to curb emission levels in the south German metropolis, Nina Bovensiepen writes in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°As much as I¡¯d be happy to do without this kind of bans, I don¡¯t see how we will ...
The Green Party plans to base its campaign for the autumn federal elections on the core topics of environment and climate protection, announced Green parliamentary group head Katrin G?ring-Eckhardt, writes Stefan Braun in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. She said her ...
The Association of Local Utilities (VKU) said the support for combined heat and power plants in the grid fee agreement was a ¡°strong signal for the value of decentral generation¡± and created planning security. ¡°Municipal utilities can now work intensively ...
Carmaker VW will consider plans to convert its factories in Emden and Hanover to build electric cars at a strategy review on November 16, report Stefan Menzel and Martin Murphy in business daily Handelsblatt. The company¡¯s plant in Emden near the North ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:53 S?ren Amelang Coal Financial Times Environmental NGOs have criticised the German Coal Commission¡¯s proposal to phase out coal use by 2038 as too slow, but the process could happen a lot faster than that, Nick Butler says in a op-ed for ...
The whole of the transport sector must switch to renewable energy by 2035 at the latest to reach the Paris Climate Agreement 1.5C target, Greenpeace¡¯s transport expert Daniel Moser told news agency dpa. Moser also warns that Germany would ¡°lose its ...
A coalition of German industry associations, together with the federal economy ministry (BMWi), is demanding changes in the European Commission¡¯s plans to reform the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). The group wants to ¡°find the balance between the two ...
18 Dec 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Wind Capital The wind power industry in Germany is facing challenges similar to those the country's solar power companies were having a few years ago and it could wane into insignificance if the current ...
Environmental protection and conservativism are two defining traits of German society but a corresponding political coalition of the Green Party and the CDU seems as distant as always days before this week¡¯s parliamentary election, Fabian Federl writes on ...
In 2015 and 2016, Germany¡¯s government-owned KfW bank issued nine ¡® green bonds ¡¯ worth a total of 6.5 billion euros to finance renewable energies, KfW said in its report on the environmental and social impacts of these bonds. With a market share of 61 ...
21 Oct 2015
21 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Environment State Secretary Flasbarth (BMUB) Germany must exit coal in the next 25-30 years A well-organised exit from coal which considers social aspects is needed in the next 25 to 30 years if ...
Germany¡¯s rising consumption of oil, gas and lignite in the first half of 2017 indicates that the country of the Energiewende will see another increase in emissions in 2017 after a rise in 2016, said Agora Energiewende * head Patrick Graichen. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð data ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:45 Freja Eriksen Coal Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Forty-one mayors from Germany, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Montenegro and Slovakia have signed a declaration calling on the European Union for more ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Die Welt The production stops and far-reaching sales collapse in the automotive industry is hitting Germany's major carmakers at a crucial time of transition, Florian Gehm writes in Die Welt. Car sales are ...
11 Dec 2019, 13:11 Freja Eriksen Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine / Stuttgarter Nachrichten The German car industry sees itself threatened by stricter CO2 limits planned by the European Commission, Volkmar Denner, head of German car part supplier Bosch, has ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:59 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Spiegel Online CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article, the authors's name was misspelled as "Heckling". The correct name is " ...
German chancellor Angela Merkel has defended diesel cars as environmentally friendly, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. ¡°Diesel cars are as good for climate protection today as they were yesterday and the day before yesterday,¡± Merkel said ...
The European Union would lose a strong voice for ambitious climate protection policy if the UK leaves following last week¡¯s referendum, writes Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in a guest commentary for Capital. A ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:27 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s? transport task force ?has postponed the deadline for presenting its highly anticipated proposals on how to lower emissions in the sector to meet the official ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists that she expects talks to discuss the possibilities for a new government coalition to last several weeks before actual negotiations begin, news agency Reuters reports. The lengthy talks were down to the ...
A rule of thumb in international environmental policy so far has been that it will move forward as long as the US and China agree ¨C ¡°but this rule seems to have become obsolete¡±, Jan Heidtmann writes in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. At the latest G7 summit, as ...
06 Dec 2019, 15:18 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
16 Jun 2016
16 Jun 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Volkswagen Group VW aims to sell 2-3 million e-cars by 2025 Car giant VW plans a "major electrification initiative" with more than 30 new?purely battery ...
Germany should specify its mid-century climate ambitions soon, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel. ¡°From my point of view, this must be decided at the start of the next legislative period,¡± she said at a conference by local utility association VKU. ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:52 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Fossil fuels Storage Lausitzer Rundschau Eastern German lignite mine operator Leag, a subsidiary of Czech energy company EPH, plans to build a large-scale battery near its power station in Schwarze ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:09 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The far-reaching measures taken in Germany and across ...
Just 20,000 people in Germany are still employed in the once-mighty coal sector but their influence on energy policy is far greater than their number would suggest, Felix Heilmann writes for Climate Home. Coal workers are well-organised and good at ...
German climate and energy policy should be combined to overcome bitter fights between the environment ministry and the economics ministry after next year¡¯s parliamentary election, argues sustainability expert Reinhard Loske from the University Witten ...
26 May 2015
26 May 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Berliner Morgenpost ¡°Climate debate splits government¡± The discussion about how Germany can achieve its climate goals has raised tensions within the government, reports the Berliner Morgenpost. Armin Laschet, ...
28 Aug 2019, 14:02 Edgar Meza Coal Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s cabinet on Wednesday adopted a draft law submitted by Germany's economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier aimed at strengthening coal regions following the ...
29 Nov 2019, 13:58 Expert Enercon GmbH Wind turbine manufacturer Wind Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Germany's leading wind turbine producer Enercon says the first major crisis in the company& ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:28 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Wholesale electricity ...
27 Nov 2019, 14:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Rheinische Post The German government must fast-track legislation for the country's coal power phase-out, Armin Laschet, state premier of Germany's most populous ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:25 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The sharp decline of coal use in Germany this ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:55 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The new EU car fleet emission limits will likely push carmakers to the limit, argues Hendrik Kafsack in an editorial for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung entitled ...
05 Mar 2020, 14:35 Rachel Waldholz Coal Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt Germany¡¯s largest coal state, North Rhine-Westphalia, says it cannot accept the federal government¡¯s proposed coal exit law without major amendments, arguing that ...
Industrial companies in Germany have invested 8.4 billion euros in 2016 in more sustainable technology that reduces, avoids or removes emission from environment, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) says in a press release. The figure equals about ...
An abrupt end to coal-fired power generation in Germany would damage the steel industry¡¯s competitiveness by pushing up electricity prices, the head of the country¡¯s steel association, Hans J¨¹rgen Kerkhoff, said at the National Steel Summit, Reuters ...
31 Aug 2015
31 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ¡°EU considers penalties for excessive CO2 emissions¡± The EU Commission is considering the introduction of binding regional climate targets for the development of ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:28 Expert BVG- German Geothermal Association Bundesverband Geothermie e.V. Renewables Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany needs a masterplan for deep geothermal energy in order to reap the technology' ...
02 Mar 2020, 13:34 Rachel Waldholz Cars Handelsblatt / Der Spiegel VW has decided not to develop new natural gas vehicles, just two years after predicting that cars fueled by compressed natural gas (CNG) could eventually account for up to 10 percent of ...
12 Jul 2019, 13:07 Sven Egenter Transport Die Welt The environment minister of the city state of Hamburg has called for the introduction of a tax on airplane fuels and said that domestic flights should ultimately be banned, the newspaper? Die Welt reports ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:24 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Clean ...
A energy transition working group of the CSU, the Bavarian sister party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU party, has published a paper saying that the effects of an end to coal-fired power production in Germany ¡°are far less damaging ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a ¡°huge mistake¡° when she argues that the question of ending coal-fired power generation should only be dealt with after ensuring the economic future of the affected workers, Green Party co-head Annalena Baerbock told ...
The Paris Climate Agreement clearly implies speeding up the Energiewende, but the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act reform will have the opposite effect, writes Werner Eckert in a commentary for public broadcaster?SWR. Instead of trying to solve the problems ...
14 Oct 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German coal exit could lead to a ¡°strong increase¡± in wholesale power prices, unless the framework conditions in the energy sector are adapted quickly, said consultancy ...
Of all meat and dairy corporations, German companies Deutsches Milchkontor and T?nnies Lebensmittel are among the top 25 contributors to climate change, according to a new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and the non ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:12 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
The German energy transition does not serve as a role model, as the cost for ¡°early renewables¡± is a heavy burden for consumers while the country was unable to significantly lower emissions and did not cut back on using coal, British economist Dieter Helm ...
Environment minister Svenja Schulze finds herself in conflict with four fellow ministers on many issues, such as phasing out lignite and conserving water, writes Bernhard P?tter in tageszeitung (taz). But Schulze has signalled her willingness to ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:51 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Rachel Waldholz Nuclear phase-out Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background The environmental group Friends of the Earth Germany ...
Blogger and author Craig Morris is leaving the "Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition: The Global Energiewende" blog to work for the Renewables Grid Initiative *. Morris has been the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition blog¡¯s main blogger and the lead author of its annually updated ...
07 Jan 2016
07 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Rundschau ¡°No climate protection without an energy transition in transport¡± Transport is absolutely crucial to decarbonising the economy and Germany should embrace a leading role, but ...
08 Nov 2019, 14:09 S?ren Amelang Renewables Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The number of permits issued for onshore wind turbines in Germany has dropped by more than 70 percent within three years, says German utility association BDEW. "Whereas three years ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs manager magazin The dieselgate scandal in which carmakers from Germany and other countries manipulated the engines of their vehicles to cheat on emissions tests has severely damaged the ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:21 Expert Forschungszentrum J¨¹lich Research institute for energy, climate and nuclear sciences Nuclear phase-out Technology Expert RWTH Aachen University Technology Rachel Waldholz Storage Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Battery storage systems have ...
06 Apr 2020, 13:58 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen ...
The quarrels in Germany¡¯s coal exit commission over a proposed end date for coal-fired power production in 2038 will continue to weigh on the country¡¯s reputation as a progressive energy transition advocate, Thorsten Preuschgas, CEO at solar power project ...
Diesel cars will continue to be necessary to reach climate protection targets, said Matthias Wissmann, president of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) in an interview with Handelsblatt. ¡°°Õ³ó±ðy use 25 percent less fuel than petrol ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:10 Rachel Waldholz Nuclear phase-out dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau / Neues Deutschland Environmentalists are raising concerns about the planned transport of reprocessed nuclear waste from England back to Germany, newswire dpa reports. Last ...
German utilities that are focusing on conventional power generation, i.e. RWE and Uniper, are exposed to ¡° decarbonisation risks,¡± rating agency Moody¡¯s has said. The country is likely to accelerate coal plant closures and implement other low-carbon ...
Car buyers around the world are ¡°in love with SUVs,¡± J¨¹rgen Stackmann, member of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand, told the news agency dpa. By 2025, every second car sold by VW would be an SUV. According to Stackmann, the ...
18 May 2017
In its ¡°Future Pact Energiewende Industrial Policy¡±, think tank Agora Energiewende and consultancy Roland Berger have presented proposals on how to reconcile the competitiveness of the country¡¯s industry with Germany¡¯s energy transition after the federal ...
12 Dec 2018, 13:21 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Utilities ARD The roll-out of renewable energies has increased profits at Germany¡¯s fifth-largest utility MVV Energie, according to a report by public broadcaster ARD. Operative profits at the ...
20 Jan 2016, 00:00 Germany needs a pathway for exiting coal by 2050 at the very latest, according to Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks. She welcomed Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Minister Sigmar Gabriel's announcement of a round table on the thorny issue, and said a ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables dpa / Focus Online Solar power systems and wind turbines in Germany fed 39.3 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity into the public grid from June to August, a 10 percent increase compared to the same ...
Germany¡¯s manufacturing industry and the services sector earned 70 billion euros in 2016 in sales of goods, construction material, and services related to environmental protection, according to a press release issued by the Federal Statistical Office ...
Germany¡¯s Energiewende might not be an export hit but it helps other countries questioning their own energy policy, Giorgio V. M¨¹ller writes in Swiss newspaper Neue Z¨¹rcher Zeitung (NZZ). According to? figures from the World Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Council, a majority of ...
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 2 at the UN climate conference: Negotiators begin their day-to-day work / Finance pledges for forests and renewables / New guidelines for climate compatible investment rules Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature ...
German chancellor Angela Merkel said during a visit to Poland in February that she hoped the neighbouring country would ¡° cooperate in terms of climate protection ¡±, Ulrich Kr?kel writes in Rheinische Post. But neither Poland¡¯s current national ...
Germany could flunk yet another climate target if it doesn¡¯t increase energy efficiency, Susanne Ehlerding writes for Tagesspiegel Background. Germany¡¯s efficiency target ¨C like the EU¡¯s ¨C is to reduce primary energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020 ...
Intensified cross border connections and the increased transfer between European electricity markets could help reach EU climate targets, according to a study by Fraunhofer ISE and the National Technical University of Athens. With the cooperative project ...
The German government has agreed to implement a decision by the European Commission on emission limits for power plants and industry facilities by 2021, meaning that many coal plants will have to undergo costly retrofitting, Jakob Schlandt writes in ...
German newspaper editorials focus on Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s shock move to prepare for departure. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð Merkel era draws to a close,¡± comments S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð CDU¡¯s renewal and reformation may begin [¡] This injects a new dynamism into German ...
15 Jun 2015
15 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ¡°Merkel¡¯s expensive targets¡± ¡°Climate chancellor¡± Angela Merkel¡¯s promise to put 1 million e-cars on German roads by 2020 might cost taxpayers dearly, writes Holger ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:13 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Cars Wirtschaftswoche Inhabitants of Germany¡¯s rural areas are more interested in buying an electric car than city dwellers, reports Thomas St?lzel in Wirtschaftswoche Online. According to data from ...
The largely state-owned German energy company EnBW says it has achieved ¡°a financial turnaround¡± in 2017, posting a profit of 2.1 billion euros in the fiscal year. At EnBW¡¯s general meeting, CEO Frank Mastiaux said the turnaround was ¡°a key milestone in ...
29 Jun 2015
29 Jun 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung ¡°Unemployment benefit for coal¡± The apparent death of the levy on old coal-fired power plants is bad news because the alternative presented by major utilities and mining ...
Germany¡¯s largest mining trade union has called on the next federal government to assign the tasks related to energy, transport, and housing policies to a ¡®ministry of energy transition¡¯. This would help the country avoid the current ¡°uncoordinated ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Electricity market Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Demand for green electricity contracts in Germany is on the rise again after several years of shrinking interest, according to the price comparison website Verivox. In June ...
While electric cars continue to face low sales despite government incentives, state premiums in Berlin for electric cargo bicycles triggered a flood of applications, Spiegel Online reports. The unexpected high demand for the increasingly popular utility ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Storage Technology Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German Engineering Federation (VDMA) says power-to-x technologies are a ¡°key element in reaching Germany¡¯s and Europe¡¯s energy policy goals,¡± but need ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:25 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Renewables Handelsblatt / Wuppertal Institut As members of the coal exit commission debate a concrete timetable for ...
31 Mar 2016
31 Mar 2016, 00:00 (UPDATE- clarifies sourcing in section on emissions trading in paragraph 6- sources are Prognos and German Steel Federation, not Die Welt. Headline changes accordingly.) S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter ...
With more and more renewables needed, the conflict between climate and nature protection grows ?- and simply ¡°saving energy¡± will not be sufficient, writes Ralf Nestler in an opinion piece for Tagesspiegel. ¡°Already, the limit of what can be asked of the ...
17 Dec 2014, 00:00 The latest figures on Germany¡¯s energy consumption and electricity generation for 2014 suggest that the country¡¯s recent rise in greenhouse gas emissions could be coming to an end. Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:33 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Renewables Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / pv magazine Germany's ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:49 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Julian Wettengel ...
German energy company RWE may be legally entitled to proceed with the expansion of its lignite mine near the Hambach Forest and to have police remove protesters, but the conditions that led to RWE¡¯s license for expansion ¡°have changed dramatically,¡± ...
The Energiewende¡¯s costs cannot be entirely levied on power customers if Germany¡¯s energy transition is going to succeed, Robert Busch, managing director of the Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Market Innovators (BNE), writes in a guest commentary for Handelsblatt. ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:27 Rachel Waldholz Cars Society The Verge German car companies have announced major initiatives to promote electric vehicles, but not everyone is convinced, reports US tech site The Verge. Protests in some cities- modelled after the French ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:45 Rachel Waldholz Gas Grid Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Producing hydrogen from renewable energy is already cost-competitive in niche markets and likely to be competitive in industrial-scale applications within a decade, according to a ...
03 Mar 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Transport Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A growing majority of German travelers say they are taking climate change and sustainability into account when planning vacations, according to a YouGov survey. 60 percent of German ...
25 May 2020, 14:58 Experts have criticised the German government's draft coal exit law for deviating from the compromise found by the coal commission in early 2019. At a parliamentary committee hearing, representatives from industry, research ...
It is true that Russia is Germany¡¯s biggest energy supplier but German consumers are not ¡°captives¡±, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ¡°To the dismay of climate politicians, an abundancy of oil, gas and coal is ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:52 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German energy consumption has decreased three percent in the first three months of 2019, ...
30 Apr 2015
30 Apr 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Rheinische Post ¡°CDU¡¯s economic council want to lower Merkel¡¯s climate ²µ´Ç²¹±ô²õ¡± A group representing business interests within Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s CDU demand a lowering of Germany¡¯s climate goals, reports the ...
Johannes Teyssen, the chief executive of energy company E.ON, said Germany is running the risk of losing the overarching plot of its Energiewende. He warned that the current government is focusing again too much on side-aspects such as the exact date and ...
22 Dec 2014
22 Dec 2014, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Die Welt ¡°Climate Change; The smarter way to produce energy¡± It is time to find a smarter way for preventing climate change, and not a model that defies countries¡¯ economic interests, writes the head of the ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:12 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Electricity ...
Europe¡¯s largest insurer Allianz has stopped selling policies to coal companies in an effort to fight climate change, report Oliver Ralph and Olaf Storbeck in the Financial Times. The company said it would immediately pull its coverage from single coal ...
17 Jun 2020, 15:16 S?ren Amelang Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German carmakers BMW, Mercedes, and Audi have recorded above-average sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles this year, according to a report by the Center of Automotive Management (CAM). While these ...
Germany¡¯s ruling conservative CDU party says its coalition partner Social Democrats (SPD) have to acknowledge that the expansion of Germany¡¯s renewable energy capacity will be more difficult than initially thought, Focus Online reports. So far, the SPD ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:00 S?ren Amelang Grid Renewables Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany¡¯s federal states have decided on a joint approach in climate policy, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. State premiers agreed to push ahead with the ...
Several European civil society organisations, including Friends of the Earth (BUND) and Climate-Alliance Germany, have launched a collective campaign ¡°to catalyse and hasten the move away from coal and towards clean renewable energy¡±. Several maps and ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:16 Sven Egenter Cars S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung German drivers do not want electric cars because these do not offer the same range as any gasoline car at a competitive price, e-mobility pioneer G¨¹nther Schuh says in an interview with S¨¹ddeutsche ...
If the Paris Agreement¡¯s targets are to be met, future CO? emissions must be kept within a finite budget, and the more this budget is overrun, the more relevant carbon dioxide removal technologies will become ¨C and those come with great uncertainties,¡± ...
Lowering energy costs is one of the most important goals for Germans in the Energiewende, according to the ¡°Stiebel Eltron Energie-Trendmonitor 2018¡± report, seen by the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ. Seventy-two percent of the respondents in the representative ...
Diesel engines will have ¡° a renaissance in the foreseeable future ¡± and shed its currently-tarnished image as a particularly polluting technology, VW head Michael M¨¹ller said at the important trade fair Geneva International Motor Show, the Frankfurter ...
20 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Coal Policy Tagesspiegel Background German economy minister Peter Altmaier said the government plans to agree on a ¡°Hard Coal Exit Law¡± in autumn, and the decision on which plants are shut down first will be taken via ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:57 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in Germany's inner cities is declining, but many urban ...
04 Jun 2015
04 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ BDI / IG BCE Industry Association joins forces with mining union to combat coal levy Leading German industry association BDI has thrown its weight behind mining union IG BCE ¡¯s efforts to thwart ...
Germany may have ¡°led the way in rhetoric on energy in the European Union [¡] but has not managed to match deeds to words¡±, Nick Butler, visiting professor and chair of the Kings Policy Institute at Kings College London writes in an op-ed for the ...
In a wide-ranging acceptance speech to members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) after his nomination as Chancellor candidate, former President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz also spoke about environment and climate protection. Schulz said ...
28 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Renewables Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Federation of German Industries ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:54 Rachel Waldholz Solar Cities Tagesspiegel Berlin is in the midst of a school construction boom, but so far none of those new schools will have solar power systems, Christoph Stollowsky reports in Der Tagesspiegel. That¡¯s despite the ...
20 Dec 2016, 00:00 German energy-related CO? emissions rose almost 1 percent in 2016, despite a fall in coal use and the ongoing expansion of renewable energy sources, according to first estimates by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen. A rise ...
Costs stemming from differences in regulation in individual countries have the potential to distort an otherwise competitive level playing field in cross-border renewable energy auctions in Northwestern Europe, writes energy think tank Agora Energiewende* ...
Federal employment minister Hubertus Heil has put forward a six-point plan to soften the effect of a coal phase-out in the three lignite (brown coal) mining districts in Germany. There should be a special plan for road, rail, and digital infrastructure ...
In a parliamentary debate, representatives of the centre-left SPD and Greens again called on Peter Altmaier, the federal minister for economic affairs and energy, to set a date for the promised special auctions for a combined 4 gigawatts of solar ...
18 Dec 2019, 13:25 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Hamburger ...
For the time being, economy minister Peter Altmaier will not specify a date for the launch of additional auctions for wind and solar energies, according to an article in the Handelsblatt. In their coalition treaty, the parties that make up the current ...
German energy policy will not serve as a global energy policy blueprint, but as inspiration, according to the World Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Council (WEC) Germany. In a survey, 60 percent of energy experts from 42 countries said the Energiewende could not serve as a global ...
03 Feb 2020, 13:46 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices ...
The political feasibility of carbon pricing depends more on public acceptance than on issues related to cost efficiency and economic benefits, a new study published by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change has found. In an ...
Train driver assistance systems could make passenger and freight rail even more environmentally friendly, cutting energy use by 15 percent, according to a study by the Pro-Rail Alliance lobby group. ¡°Driver assistance systems for rail transport are an ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Coal RP Online The German state is not liable to compensate coal plant operators over the coal phase out, Birgit Marschall says in an article for RP Online. The federal parliament¡¯s research service concludes that while ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:27 S?ren Amelang Wind Reuters A German court approved an application for insolvency from wind turbine manufacturer Senvion, which has more than a billion euros of debt,? report Alexander H¨¹bner and Michelle Martin for Reuters. Senvion has ...
09 Apr 2019, 12:44 Kerstine Appunn Transport Cars Tagesspiegel German transport minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) doesn¡¯t want a decision for ¡°transport technology of the future¡± to be made prematurely, Henrik Mortsiefer writes in Tagesspiegel. ¡°To only ...
Unconventional fracking, the gas drilling by means of chemicals, is a chance not only for supply security, but also for the climate, Michael Theurer, deputy leader of the Free Democrats (FDP) parliamentary group, told Der Spiegel. Using more natural gas ...
By 2050, an electricity supply based on renewable energies could be either approximately as expensive as or even cheaper than a fossil-based electricity system, if the cost of a tonne of CO? is 50 euros or more, according to a scenario comparison by the ...
No matter which parties will eventually form a coalition, Germany¡¯s next government will continue with an agenda of ecological modernisation, writes Arne Jungjohann, energy analyst and a consultant for the German Green Party, in a guest commentary on ...
Efforts to improve the fuel efficiency of new cars sold in the European Union (EU) stalled in 2017 compared to 2016, according to provisional data published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA). At 118.5 grammes (g) of carbon dioxide (CO2) per ...
Germany¡¯s new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, has indicated support for a national price on carbon emissions. ¡°I find the idea very plausible,¡± the Social Democrat told the daily energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel Background. She said that a ...
The German energy industry is utterly unsatisfied with the government¡¯s energy policy track record after the first six months in office, Michael Bauchm¨¹ller writes in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°We¡¯re lacking someone to set the pace in policymaking,¡± says ...
An alliance of climate activists and renewable proponents has published an advert in business daily Handelsblatt urging politicians to stop the reform of the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG) in parliament in order to ¡°save the Energiewende¡±. ¡°Anybody who wants ...
12 Nov 2020, 14:18 Germany¡¯s highest court has ruled that the compensation clauses in the country¡¯s nuclear exit law are unconstitutional. The decision forces the government to make changes to the law yet again, after the original legislation had to be ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:09 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Fossil fuels Policy Handelsblatt / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The stagnation in Germany¡¯s task force on a coal exit is mainly due to neglect or even obstruction by policymakers,? writes Klaus Stratmann in a ...
Synthetic fuels generated with electricity are a viable option to improve the climate record of Germany¡¯s transport sector but the government has so far failed to come up with a clear position on e-fuels, Klaus Stratmann writes in the Handelsblatt. ...
05 Jul 2018, 13:29 The climate advantage of natural gas can contribute to immediate CO? reduction by replacing coal and oil in the power sector and in heating, says J¨¹rgen Fuhlrott, Head of Business Development at Germany¡¯s biggest gas transmission grid ...
