09 Nov 2022, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann International dpa / Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Politicians and business representatives from France and Germany have stressed the need for a sound and extensive cooperation of the two key EU members to maintain ...
11 Jul 2019, 13:33 The shift to a low-carbon future is turning the economy inside out. Policy has a crucial role to play, but ultimately it is businesses that will make the energy transition happen. In Energiewende home country Germany, many start-ups are ...
05 Dec 2022, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Welt am Sonntag The German government is considering setting up a company with state participation to oversee the establishment of a national hydrogen network as part of the country¡¯s move to climate neutrality ...
07 May 2024, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Company climate claims Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Commercials that promote climate-damaging products are in violation of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ State Treaty for Media, the labour union-affiliated Otto-Brenner-Foundation said. The ...
04 Mar 2021, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German lobby group Rail Alliance has called for a quick ramp-up of cross-border European express and night train services as a way to replace flights and thus combat the transport sector¡¯s ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:13 Italy has just taken over the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) large democratic economies, but its positions on climate policy often remain ambiguous, says Luca Bergamaschi, co-founder of the think tank Ecco Climate. He ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:45 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) is filing lawsuits against five German states on behalf ...
Employing power-to-gas technologies (PtG) help to achieve ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ 2050 climate targets in the most cost-efficient way, writes the German Association of Gas and Water (DVGW) in a press release. The association commissioned a meta-analysis by consultancy ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy The German Green Party is calling for a radical overhaul of the country¡¯s forests to better protect the natural landscape from extreme heat and drought, news agency dpa reports in an article ...
06 Mar 2019, 13:32 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Both the new state secretary in the energy ministry, Andreas Feicht, and CDU-head Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer have made tentatively positive remarks about a price on carbon ...
17 Jun 2021, 13:02 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The possible impact of the next German government's climate policy is dividing the corporate sector into two equally strong camps, according to a survey of ...
31 Jan 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Several NGOs and industry trade union IG BCE have called on the government to make fundamental changes to how the state uses its financial powers to push the transition to ...
23 Aug 2024, 12:34 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany could cover at least part of its future critical raw material demand with domestic production, found a report by the Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A group of experts largely rejected calls for tougher penalties for climate activists who stage acts of civil disobedience like motorway blockades or artwork attacks.? In response to a motion ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:38 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under particular pressure to underline Germany's climate policy credibility when ministers from 40 countries meet at the 13th ...
11 Jul 2023, 13:38 James Jackson Transport Policy Die Zeit The German government plans to cut funds for bike paths, while leaving spending for roads unchanged,? reports ?weekly Die Zeit. According to the draft budget for 2024, funds allocated to the ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:42 S?ren Amelang Electricity Coal Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Electricity generation from coal dropped to a record low in Germany in the spring, while renewables produced more electricity than ever during the same period. Lignite feed-in ...
15 Oct 2021, 11:34 Thanks to more and more businesses publicly making ¡°carbon neutrality¡± or ¡°net-zero¡± commitments, the voluntary market for carbon emission offsets is booming both globally and in Germany. Critics, however, consider buying into projects ...
11 Jan 2024, 13:49 Jennifer Collins Agriculture Society Tagesspiegel Germany risks becoming as polarised as the U.S. as farmers have blocked roads with tractors in massive protests over cuts to diesel subsidies, agriculture minister Cem ?zdemir said, ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:21 Jack McGovan Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / ntv The majority of rare earth imports into Germany in 2024 came from China, according to data by the country's statistical offce (Destatis). Rare earth ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Reuters ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ special envoy for international climate action Jennifer Morgan welcomed the climate and energy diplomacy priorities adopted by the EU Council ...
01 Feb 2021, 13:47 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt The German industry is confident that the goal of achieving ...
23 Feb 2023, 13:43 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Zeit Online / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The premier of eastern German lignite mining state Brandenburg has said he is open to talks about an earlier coal phase-out under certain conditions. Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ supply must be reliable ...
10 Oct 2022, 14:07 Julian Wettengel Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German postal service Deutsche Post DHL is testing emission-free delivery on Berlin¡¯s Spree river with a solar-powered ship. The pilot project in the capital is an addition to the company¡¯s ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Wind dpa / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The planned offshore wind power expansion could affect up to one quarter of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ exclusive economic zone in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, said the ...
06 Dec 2021, 13:36 Jessica Bateman Renewables Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The incoming German coalition government¡¯s ambitious energy and climate goals can only be achieved with industrial transformation on a scale never before seen in Germany, ...
The draft of a coalition treaty agreed by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ negotiating parties suggests that Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) have found common ground on energy and climate policy, mirroring several aspects ...
24 Jan 2022, 12:32 Jessica Bateman Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal dpa Only a fraction of the promised financial aid for coal regions has been distributed, triggering worries that a just transition is being put at risk, reports newswire dpa in an article ...
18 Jan 2024, 13:21 S?ren Amelang Business Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Much of today¡¯s business reporting still ignores the dramatic impact the climate crisis has on companies, making it vulnerable to greenwashing and lagging behind institutional investors, ...
20 Oct 2015
20 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Fraunhofer ISE ¡°Exported power more expensive than imported power¡± Germany makes billions of euros from exporting power every year, researchers at the Fraunhofer ISE found. The country made 1.7 ...
24 Oct 2022, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society dpa / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Several thousand people took to the streets across Germany on 22 October to demand solidarity and redistribution in the energy crisis, news agency dpa reported. With the ...
08 Aug 2024, 14:03 S?ren Amelang Fossil fuels Society dpa / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A German court has temporarily banned the construction of an electricity connection needed to power a planned gas drilling platform in the Wadden Sea, a World Heritage Site in ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:01 Expert DHL Express Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Freight Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German postal service Deutsche Post DHL is investing seven billion euros in climate-neutral logistics until 2030, the company ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ 2030 emissions targets can only be achieved if the country "substantially" changes track and carries out "enormous efforts" to electrify its ...
15 Jun 2016
15 Jun 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ¡°Buyer¡¯s premium for e-cars still cannot be applied for¡° Customers still cannot apply for a buyer¡¯s premium for new e-cars after the ...
04 Oct 2021, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background German parties shared a few details only on the ongoing exploratory coalition talks after the national election, but said that climate action, ...
14 Jun 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 Science ministers of the G7 countries have agreed on a number of measures to promote greater climate change research, CO2 removal and protection of the ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus. A meeting in Frankfurt on ...
10 Jun 2025, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Water temperatures in the North Sea this spring hit their highest level ever recorded by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ?Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). The average temperature ...
The 2030 emissions reduction target defines the duty and objectives of the commission tasked with planning ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal exit, climate economist Barbara Praetorius said in an interview with Der Tagesspiegel. ¡°The 2030 climate targets are set, they ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:17 Jennifer Collins Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The number of?battery-electric cars registered in Germany rose by 39.1 percent to 1.4 million in 2023, while the number of hybrids now stands at 2.9 million, according to the latest figures from ...
20 Nov 2018, 10:30 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal exit commission?aims to propose a path for the country¡¯s phase-out by the end of November. Agreeing a compromise on how to end the use of Germany's most important fossil fuel in such a short time will be difficult, ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:45 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The EU can meet its 2030 climate targets and even ratchet up its commitments in time for the 2020 UN climate summit, writes energy transition think tank Agora Energiewende* in a ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:44 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:05 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Government Handelsblatt In an op-ed in Handelsblatt, Klaus Stratmann argues that the draft Climate Action Law¡¯s rigid sector targets don¡¯t allow for innovation that could make future emissions cuts more ...
06 Jun 2024, 13:51 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Nearly 60 percent of all electricity fed into the German grid in the first three months of 2024 ...
22 Jul 2024, 13:10 Edgar Meza Citizens' energy Solar pv magazine Plug-in solar panels accounted for 200 megawatts (MW) of added photovoltaic (PV) power capacity in Germany in the first half of 2024, pv magazine reports, citing data from the Federal ...
26 Nov 2024
26 Nov 2024, 11:15 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Reuters: Germany's Scholz: disagree with EU fines for carmakers who miss CO2 limits German chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday there should be no fines in the European Union for car companies that do not comply with ...
22 Jun 2022, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's finance minister has said the country will not back EU plans that amount to a ban on the sale of new combustion engine cars from 2035, arguing such a move would shut the door ...
11 Jun 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 YouGov / dpa A majority of Germans would refrain from short-haul flights (74 percent), eat ¡°significantly¡± less meat (63 percent) and move without their car in inner cities (56 percent), according to? ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Company climate claims Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germans¡¯ holidays have become more sustainable, but the demand for offers with an eco-label, or for CO2?compensation is still at a low level,? said the ...
Green Party head Cem ?zdemir has said his party will call for the introduction of a blue badge to be awarded only to lower-emission vehicles, in the upcoming exploratory coalition talks, Konstantin Schwarz writes for Stuttgarter Nachrichten. Such a badge ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Adaptation dpa / Bild Germany's health minister Karl Lauterbach is set to present first proposals for a national heat protection plan to better help the population in case of heat waves, reported news agency dpa. ...
Despite many setbacks, a number of achievements towards greater environmental protection in the past decade is cause for optimism, Achim Steiner, former executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, tells Bernhard P?tter in an interview ...
10 Jul 2025, 13:50 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Hundreds of thousands of homes in Germany are at a serious risk of flooding, according to a report by environmental NGO DUH. Across the country, over 320,000 homes could suffer damages from ...
Through a new online programme, house owners in the south German town of Freising can now determine if their roofs are suitable for solar panels, and how much it would cost to install them, according to an article in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. A ...
21 Jul 2022, 14:10 Edgar Meza Cars Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz¡¯s Social Democrats (SPD) and the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) have rejected a? Green Party-backed proposal ?for a climate levy on new combustion engine cars, ...
18 Mar 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Tageszeitung / Frankfurter Rundschau ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ environment minister Svenja Schulze is confident that the ministries relevant to the country¡¯s greenhouse gas emissions record will eventually ...
23 Nov 2020, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn International G20 & G7 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The heads of state and government from the G20 (Group of Twenty) major economies have formally confirmed their cooperation on climate protection. Despite the United States ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:34 On its planned path to climate-neutrality by the middle of the century, Germany could achieve complete decarbonisation of its power sector already by 2040 ¨C and EU climate targets might even compel the country to greatly speed up the ...
26 Sep 2024
26 Sep 2024, 11:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team AP: The leaders of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Greens are quitting after several election defeats The leaders of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Greens, one of three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz¡¯s troubled coalition government, announced Wednesday (25 September ...
28 Oct 2022, 13:17 Julian Wettengel International COP27 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government aims to continue efforts to regain the trust of the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, while at the same time strengthening ...
05 Feb 2025, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Handelsblatt The German government and industry players are considering using parts of the contentious Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea for hydrogen deliveries ...
14 May 2024, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany should invest an additional 213 billion euros compared to current budget plans over the next ten years in public services and infrastructure to decarbonise its economy ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:06 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A tightening of the EU's 2030 climate target would come ...
09 Nov 2022, 13:55 Kiprotich Koros Renewables COP27 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Kenya and Germany have signed a roadmap for a climate and development partnership that will see the East African country increase its share of renewables in the power system to 100 ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:58 Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Tagesspiegel Berlin wants to become climate-neutral by 2050. To achieve this, climate senator Regine G¨¹nther (Green Party) proposed an amendment to the city¡¯s Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition Act (EWG) on 9 February, ...
02 Nov 2017, 00:00 After an expected clash over climate and energy policy last week, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ aspiring coalition partners of the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the pro-business FDP and the environmentalist Green Party also failed to agree on transport ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:25 Jack McGovan Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / PV Magazine There are too few installations of solar panels on the roofs of apartment buildings across Germany, making rental homes an underutilised source for renewable energy generation, ...
26 Mar 2021, 13:44 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ New internal combustion engine vehicles should be taxed exclusively according to their CO2 emissions to accelerate the switch to electric mobility, the Climate Neutrality Foundation writes in ...
19 May 2022, 12:05 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A German NGO specialising in environmental litigation has launched legal action against Nivea maker Beiersdorf, oil majors BP, Shell, TotalEnergies and other ...
23 Oct 2020, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG Handelsblatt The German government¡¯s draft update of the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG) is not ambitious enough, as it fails to take into account developments that increase the need for renewable ...
26 Feb 2024, 15:55 The German government has proposed plans to make carbon capture and storage (CCS) possible to help the country reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045. State support would focus on capturing and storing or using carbon from industrial ...
In an international ranking compiled by the US non-profit organisation ACEEE, Germany and Italy came first for being the most energy efficient countries among the world¡¯s 25 largest energy consumers. While ¡°no country came close to a perfect score¡± of 100 ...
16 Aug 2021, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Handelsblatt ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ revised climate targets mean the country's coal power phase-out will need to be completed by 2030, eight years earlier than currently planned, newspaper ...
12 May 2022, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Society G20 & G7 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Die Zeit Several major environmental groups have urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to step up the country¡¯s climate action efforts and make the topic a priority of the G7 ...
08 Nov 2023, 14:13 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen International Handelsblatt Norwegian shipping company H?egh LNG is set to convert its floating liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals in Germany to import hydrogen starting 2028, the company's CEO,?Erik ...
The German federal government¡¯s new support programme for electric vehicles benefits Tesla in particular, economics correspondent Philipp Vetter writes in Die Welt. The programme, which runs until the end of 2021, allows employees who drive company ...
02 May 2023, 13:39 Internationally agreed targets to expand renewable energies and increase energy efficiency are needed to put the global economy back on a path towards limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5¡ãC, Germany's foreign minister ...
28 Nov 2023, 14:36 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Business Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German industry is increasingly investing in climate protection measures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28 ...
21 May 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit Parties which stand for election in the European Parliament vote this weekend may face a "historic opportunity" to set the continent on track for ambitious ...
23 Feb 2022, 14:35 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The EU Commission's proposals for adapting the gas market to climate targets are not enough to ensure a rapid scale-up of the hydrogen economy, according to Germany's hydrogen ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:13 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 EU In an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau, Green Party colleagues?Lisa Badum, a member?of the German parliament, and ...
30 Apr 2021, 14:05 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The fight against climate change and environmental degradation continues to be a top concern for Germans even during the pandemic, according to a survey commissioned by the country' ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Tageszeitung The Climate Action Law proposed by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ environment ministry is ¡°a planned economy approach¡± that could ¡°paralyse the country without making progress on climate action,¡± ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:22 Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ High energy prices have little influence on the transformation needs of most of the 100 companies on ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ HDAX stock market index compared to four other ...
27 Jun 2019, 10:20 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ engineering prowess and excellent support programmes have spawned a world-leading scene of start-ups dedicated to pushing the energy transition with innovative ideas, according to start-up expert Klaus Fichter. There are ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:37 S?ren Amelang Coal Grid Nuclear phase-out Renewables Germany will not experience an electricity shortage as a result of an exit from coal and nuclear power generation if it rolls out renewables as planned, even if the country¡¯s power ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:46 S?ren Amelang Company climate claims Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Food product labels such as ¡°climate neutral,¡± ¡°CO2-neutral¡± or ¡°climate positive¡± do not indicate that these are climate-friendly at all and should be banned, consumer NGO ...
14 Aug 2020, 15:45 Germany will likely reach its original target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by the end of this year, compared to 1990, estimates by researchers from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Dlf / Spiegel / dpa The Paris Climate Agreement¡¯s aim to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius is ¡°politically basically no longer manageable,¡± Stefan Rahmstorf, climate ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Society Der Spiegel / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate activists occupying the western German town of L¨¹tzerath to prevent it from being destroyed to make way for a nearby coal mine are to be evicted from January next ...
23 Feb 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Finance Correctiv Leading German insurance companies continue to provide cover to liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure, even as they often make sustainability a key corporate goal, investigative news outlet ...
Many parties avoided clear messages on a lignite phase-out in their election programmes, but ¡°coal does not have reliable friends in any of the parties, anymore¡±, writes Klaus Stratmann in an article for Handelsblatt. Party programmes lack ¡°coherent ...
04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country¡¯s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
25 Jul 2024, 13:12 Jack McGovan Renewables Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government drafted a law to accelerate the expansion of onshore wind, solar farms and energy storage facilities by shortening approval times for projects and designing so ...
10 Jan 2020, 11:52 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 VCI- German Chemicals Industry ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Carbon removal EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An agreement by the majority of EU member states on a draft for an EU wide standardised and voluntary certification framework for CO2 removal and carbon farming marks an important step ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:16 Policy Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The Covid-19 pandemic can offer insights into how to cope with the climate change crisis in terms of risk management and policy reaction,? a Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) study says ...
07 Jul 2021, 13:15 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Kerstine Appunn Transport Seven major German cities want to test 30 km/h speed limits on a large scale. While inner-town speeds ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:33 Ruby Russel Gas Zeit Online Construction of Germany's first onshore liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal has begun at Stade in the state of Lower Saxony, close to the northern port city Hamburg. Expected to be operational by 2027, ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:08 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The COVID-19 crisis is widening the gap between ...
22 Sep 2021, 15:08 The conservative CDU has been heading Germany's government since 2005- and used its time in power to lay the groundwork for making the country the first climate-neutral industrialised nation before the middle of the century, says ...
15 May 2024, 12:35 Jack McGovan Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany could meet 25 percent of its heat demand from deep geothermal energy and the government should therefore make better use of this energy source, says NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) in a ...
12 Dec 2018, 17:52 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:38 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 Government International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
12 Oct 2021, 13:09 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Expert RWI ¨C Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI ¨C Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & ...
11 Oct 2022, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany aims to keep the Paris Climate Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5¡ãC within reach, even as the energy crisis in Europe puts a focus on fossil fuels in the short term, ...
Despite a new advertising campaign, efficiency measures in Germany aren¡¯t successful, particularly in the building sector, Michael Bauchm¨¹ller and Benedikt M¨¹ller write in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. In order to achieve its climate targets, the country would ...
07 Nov 2017, 00:00 Conference off to a reassuring start, final agenda passed / Developing nations want to talk about pre2020 climate action by industrialised states / German companies call for a coal exit path and climate friendly regulation / Emission ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind International n-tv / Bloomberg / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A new offshore wind power project in the German North Sea is causing a stir in the European wind power industry, as the project will be the first of its kind to ...
15 Feb 2022, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate action and the protection of biodiversity need be more closely linked, according to a German scientist contributing to the UN¡¯s climate change report, which ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:40 Edgar Meza Grid Solar Handelsblatt German transmission grid operator 50Hertz has called for a more balanced and careful approach when it comes to the further expansion of solar photovoltaics (PV), saying there is a risk of overloading ...
21 Apr 2021, 12:37 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ conservatives have chosen Armin Laschet as their leading candidate for the national election in September, signalling continuity with the era of Chancellor Angela Merkel and ending a days-long power struggle with top rival ...
15 Jun 2022, 15:01 German states will have to actively look for areas that can be designated for wind farm construction in order to meet government targets. The cabinet is forwarding another set of draft laws aimed at accelerating the country¡¯s energy ...
07 Apr 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Efficiency Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ After keeping pleas to the public to use less energy to a minimum amid the Ukraine war and the ensuing energy crisis so far, the German government has published efficieny advice ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany is set to produce a record 256 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity from renewable sources this year, but the amount is still insufficient to put it on track to its 2030 targets, ...
22 Oct 2015
22 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) ¡°The energy transition in Europe: initial lessons from Germany, the UK and France¡± The experience of Germany, the UK and France shows that the transition to a ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:38 Expert Forschungsgruppe Wahlen e.V. Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany is currently the country most concerned about climate change out of the 28 surveyed for the August update ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Die Zeit ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government has formally adopted the country¡¯s draft budget for 2025 and amended the 2024 budget, which had become a difficult task after a court ...
22 May 2025, 10:46 Carbon capture is set to play a key role in decarbonising the cement and concrete industry, says Jan Theulen, Group Lead Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) at Heidelberg Materials, one of the world's largest cement ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Finance EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The European emissions trading system (EU ETS) and national carbon pricing brought Germany a record 13.2 billion euros from the sale of carbon dioxide pollution rights in 2022, the Federal ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:25 S?ren Amelang Society Tagesspiegel Background Far-right extremists in Germany have started to mobilise for a ¡°hot autumn¡± of protests against soaring energy prices on social media, reports energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
06 Jan 2025, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German solar industry marked a milestone at the turn of the year, as the total capacity of all installed solar power systems surpassed 100 gigawatts (GW), said industry association BSW Solar. ...
23 Mar 2022, 12:38 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 G20 & G7 S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Germany has a key role to play when it comes to getting governments across the world on board for the transition away from fossil fuels, said the country¡¯s new state ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:28 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Solar Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / pv magazine Germany's latest renewable auctions have ...
22 Jan 2024, 14:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Technology Handelsblatt / Reuters German chemical company BASF's sale of Wintershall Dea assets to UK producer Harbour Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ could be a risk for the country's security, because it ...
13 May 2015
13 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ARD tagesschau.de ¡°The German energy transformation is impressive¡± Ernest Moniz, the United States Secretary of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ, has praised ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ development of renewables but said the US were not ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture Deutschlandfunk / Die Welt As German forests continue to suffer from heat damage and bark-beetle infestation, the country¡¯s ¡°most important ally for climate action¡± is in danger, writes ...
21 Jul 2022, 14:12 Edgar Meza Gas EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German policymakers and utilities have welcomed a European Commission? proposal asking EU?member states?to?adopt?voluntary measures to reduce?gas?consumption amid fears of Russia cutting off ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:18 Expert BWE- German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
German car manufacturers have invested in many measures to make their manufacturing process more climate and environmentally friendly and are saving money with these programmes, Spiegel Online reports. Since 2006, VW¡¯s increased resource efficiency has ...
16 Jul 2025, 12:40 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Emissions from Germany's industry and energy sectors have almost halved since ...
07 May 2024, 13:31 Expert Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Bundesanstalt f¨¹r Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Climate & CO2 Resources & Recycling Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt ...
07 Jul 2020, 13:25 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Green stimulus Die Welt The head of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ waste management association BDE has criticised the German government for ignoring recycling in its massive post-coronavirus stimulus package. In an interview with Die ...
05 Aug 2022, 11:34 With natural gas deliveries from Russia dwindling, the German government is preparing for a winter without sufficient supplies of the fossil fuel it relies on heavily for heating homes. As well as increasing the import of liquified gas ...
20 Jul 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German politicians are calling for investments in urban planning to better prepare cities for extreme weather events, such as the ...
The government cabinet approved the second phase of a programme to support hydrogen and fuel cell technology, according to a transport ministry press release. From 2016 to 2019, the programme provides almost 250 million euros to support innovations in ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:00 S?ren Amelang Resources & Recycling Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Reaching climate targets will only be possible with a new sufficiency approach, German government advisors? have said. "Ecological crises are progressing at an alarming rate ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The announcement of a new microchip factory of U.S. semiconductor producer Wolfspeed with an investment by German automotive industry supplier ZF has been welcome by ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The Association of German Cities (Deutscher St?dtetag) has called on the federal government to adopt a price on CO2 emissions as ¡°an appropriate and necessary approach for ...
30 Apr 2020, 12:37 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International ...
14 Jul 2025, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Society Neue Osnabr¨¹cker Zeitung Germany is not sufficiently prepared to protect its citizens in the event of widespread power outages or large-scale natural disasters, Kay Ruge, head of the German ...
According to environment ministry calculations, Germany would have to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 62 percent by 2030, compared to 1990 levels, to meet the requirements laid out by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:23 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S?ren Amelang Electricity Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
16 Sep 2020, 12:58 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Society EU Der Spiegel A large majority of Germans harbours little hope that the EU can reach its target of becoming the globe's first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Only 17 percent of ...
04 Aug 2025, 12:17 Jennifer Collins Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Dlf Germany needs a ¡°robust¡± and ¡°reliable¡± steel strategy if it is to maintain a domestic industry and move towards sustainable production in the longer term, said German chancellor ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:37 Expert BEE- German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert RWI ¨C Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI ¨C ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel EU G20 & G7 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate action tops the agenda of the German presidency of the G7 group of influential economies, which the new economy and climate ministry aims (BMWK) to use to improve greenhouse gas ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:24 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Climate change is still young Germans¡¯ biggest concern, but they would rather politicians act on the topic than drastically change their own lifestyles, a survey ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:01 Freja Eriksen Cars Focus Online / RND Twenty-one percent of Germans would opt for an electric model when buying a new car after the German government has announced it will double the existing buyer's premium for electric vehicles ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:38 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The parliamentary groups of German government coalition partners CDU/CSU and SPD are calling for forest owners to be financially rewarded for their?contribution to ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:13 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 Government International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
25 Jan 2023, 13:22 S?ren Amelang Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government no longer believes that the energy crisis will plunge Europe¡¯s largest economy into recession this year. The government¡¯s latest economic forecast said the ...
13 Sep 2019, 13:21 Freja Eriksen Cars Frankfurter Rundschau / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Europe's largest auto show (IAA) in Frankfurt am Main is turning into a? "PR fiasco" ?for the German car industry due to climate protests and now a dispute with ...
13 Mar 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Handelsblatt / dpa ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy and agriculture ministers seek to intensify strategic cooperation with Brazil and Colombia on trade and climate action, they said. Over a six-day ...
20 Nov 2020, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewables Wind International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The plans by the European Commission to significantly ramp up renewable energy generation at sea have been mostly welcomed by German policymakers ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:51 Edgar Meza Mobility Cars Handelsblatt Electric cars will need to account for most new registrations in Germany in just four years and the end of new combustion engine cars will have to begin in 2030, says a report by the National ...
25 May 2021, 13:15 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ?The German government¡¯s goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2045 has put companies from energy-intensive industries, such as steel, chemicals, paper and cement, ...
16 May 2024, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Transport Freight Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ To decarbonise freight transport more quickly, government action should prioritise the expansion of the charging infrastructure for electric trucks, said the German Council of ...
The Green election programme would demand a lot of possible coalition partners after the elections, such as the coal exit and the phase-out of the combustion engine, said Schleswig-Holstein state energy minister Robert Habeck in an interview with daily ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Producing synthetic alcohol with renewable power could become a significant energy storage option for the energy transition, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)?research ...
07 May 2019, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An increasing number of Germans say they have major worries about climate change (61 percent in 2019 compared to 37 percent in 2017) and many are calling for action in ...
06 Dec 2024, 09:25 Ensuring the timely construction of new hydrogen-ready gas power plants must be a top priority in energy policy for Germany's next government, says the head of the German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries (BDEW). Lobby ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Society EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Security and affordability is the top priority for the future young Europeans want, followed by a liveable planet and social justice, according to the Next Generations Study 2023 survey by ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:45 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Rundschau It will be much tougher for the European Union to reach climate targets without climate ¡°poster child¡± UK after Brexit, ...
24 Jul 2025
24 Jul 2025, 11:54 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Bloomberg: EU and China intend to sign climate statement at Beijing summit The European Union and China are preparing a landmark joint statement on climate cooperation, a move that could help galvanise momentum ahead of the ...
23 Apr 2021, 12:17 The governing coalition parties in German parliament have agreed on higher tender volumes for next year's wind and solar PV installations. But parliamentarians did not make headway on a new renewables target for 2030, which has ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Tageszeitung The coming petition by hundreds of German scientists who openly support the school student movement Fridays for Future that calls for more rapid climate action is a laudable ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:06 Expert BTU- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg Renewables Hydrogen Technology Efficiency Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Systems Renewables Solar Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches ...
11 Jul 2025, 15:00 It¡¯s been a difficult few weeks for Italy: heatwaves have slowed the economy, and extreme weather events have caused casualties and damage, bringing debates around climate change back to the front pages. The Meloni government has ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A large majority of the German public continues to support the energy transition, but financial hardships as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could dampen households¡¯ willingness to ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:33 S?ren Amelang Cost & Prices Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A large majority of Germans are worried that the ongoing rise in everyday costs will erode their standard of living, according to a survey by insurer R+V. "People feel their ...
29 Mar 2021, 13:16 Germany will spend over 40 percent of the farming subsidies it expects to receive from the EU on climate, biodiversity and other sustainability-related practices, the country¡¯s 16 state agriculture ministers have agreed after 33 hours ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:24 Edgar Meza Finance EU Handelsblatt The European Central Bank's (ECB) test of the resilience of lenders to the financial and economic consequences of global warming have turned out to be far more benign than widely expected, ...
Sustainability criteria, such as climate protection, are becoming more and more important for major companies, and new developments in data transparency increase the pressure on them to act accordingly, Jan Willmroth writes in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. Former ...
22 May 2019, 13:19 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 Coal Elections & ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Rheinische Post ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the country must stop its ¡°easy-peasy¡± ("Pillepalle") approach to climate action and announced ¡°radical changes¡± to her ...
10 Sep 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Society International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A clear majority of people in major European countries are in favour of halting talks over the Mercosur agreement between the EU and South American states if it contributes to a ...
The Bavarian state government is a powerful supporter of German farmers¡¯ demand to receive recurring compensation payments if power transmission lines are built on their premises, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The governing ...
12 Mar 2020, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The environmental impact of offshore wind turbines remains a hotly contested subject in Germany. German offshore wind farm operator association BWO said a study found that populations of loon ...
30 Nov 2021, 13:53 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate policy is a cross-sectoral task that requires a reform of its mode of governance, researchers from the state-supported Ariadne project write in a policy paper directed ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt German conglomerate thyssenkrupp finds it increasingly difficult to spin off its troubled steelmaking division, Kevin Knitterscheidt and Martin Murphy write in Handelsblatt. In order to successfully sell ...
17 May 2023, 12:56 S?ren Amelang Mobility Start-ups S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Munich-based electric car start-up Sono Motors has filed for insolvency and it is unlikely that clients will get their pre-payment for one of its PV-clad vehicles back,? reports ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany has unveiled a package of measures aimed at providing cost relief to farmers who are under pressure to make food production more sustainable and in line with ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ politicians from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) are proposing to introduce a mandated share of climate-friendly gases into the German gas mix, reported Handelsblatt. Companies that ...
24 Jan 2020, 12:12 Pressure is rising fast on industry to join the great decarbonisation race. Many energy-intensive German companies, like chemical giant BASF or steelmaker thyssenkrupp, already have detailed plans for drastic emission cuts, but lack ...
20 Oct 2021, 10:40 From large car manufacturers to globally operating logistics companies ¨C the number of businesses pursuing net-zero targets and wanting to reduce their carbon footprint is growing. As many of the companies cannot or do not want to ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:36 Edgar Meza Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) in the EU is thriving due to new strategies and regulatory changes adopted by the bloc since 2022, in large part because of Russia's war on Ukraine, according to a ...
30 Mar 2020, 13:53 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 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The executives of companies worldwide are becoming increasingly concerned about climate change, but in Germany less so in global comparison, said ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:39 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Elections & Politics S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Die Zeit The Green Party wants to promote the purchase of cargo bicycles with subsidies totalling up to one billion euros in the next legislative period, ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:36 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany and Algeria are discussing closer bilateral cooperation in the rollout of renewables and green hydrogen during a visit by economy minister Robert Habeck to the north African ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Transport Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany has to reform its transport sector taxes to help reach climate targets, but also to ensure sufficient revenue in a climate-friendly mobility future, says a report ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:10 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K?ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The role of global warming and climate action in German media has grown ...
08 May 2019, 13:31 German industry heavyweights including chemical maker BASF, HeidelbergCement, gas supplier Linde and steelmaker Salzgitter say they are prepared for profound emissions cuts, but still lack the necessary market signal from policymakers. ...
24 Feb 2022, 12:59 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch ...
26 Sep 2022, 13:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Company climate claims Supermarket shelves are awash with "climate neutral" product claims and one company after the next is signing up to a "net zero" target. But how watertight are their pledges? Are they ...
26 Oct 2018, 10:47 As ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal government parties, Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU camp and the Social Democrats (SPD), suffer from voter flight due to the coalition¡¯s constant quarrels, the Green Party emerges as one of the big ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:51 S?ren Amelang Renewables Wind EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ plans for a rapid expansion of offshore wind energy at the end of the decade could clash with similar plans of its neighbours around the North Sea, the country¡¯s section of ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:37 Jennifer Collins Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Handelsblatt Registrations of new plug-in electric cars in Germany fell by more than a quarter in 2024 compared to the previous year, while the average CO2 emissions of newly registered ...
07 May 2019, 12:30 Expert BEE- German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
15 Mar 2023, 13:21 S?ren Amelang Renewables Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government can count on very broad popular support for its plans to accelerate the rollout of renewable energies, a survey has revealed. ¡°The population is ready for a ...
29 Jul 2025
29 Jul 2025, 12:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team FT: Donald Trump¡¯s EU oil and gas deal is ¡®pie in the sky¡¯, energy experts warn Analysts say Brussels¡¯ vow to buy 750 billion dollars of US energy as part of trade deal will be impossible to meet. Politico:? EU admits it can¡¯t ...
30 Mar 2022, 15:54 Renewable energy sources are the answer to both the climate crisis and the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia¡¯s war against Ukraine, said ministers at the Berlin Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition Dialogue. Experts, politicians, business leaders and ...
08 Sep 2022, 12:00 Current "climate neutral" product claims may be flawed, but they are a clear sign that companies realise that consumers want climate action, argues?Jens Burchardt, the Boston Consulting Group's global expert on climate ...
24 Nov 2021, 13:06 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The European parliament has passed the rules for funding European farmers but German NGOs and farmers associations insist that the new German government has to make changes to its ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Government International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government plans to support climate and environmental protection projects in Indonesia with credits worth 2.5 billion euros by 2025, the German development ...
09 Feb 2023, 15:22 The spread of corporate net zero targets is starting to make itself felt across the world ¨C not only among businesses, but also far beyond. An increasing number of companies have started to scan- and then reduce- the climate impact of ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Government EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ France and Germany, who have recently been at odds over the future role of nuclear and gas, will intensify their cooperation on climate action in Europe and work ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Adaptation Cities Table.Media The German government has called for municipalities to prepare risk analyses on the expected impacts of climate change throughout Germany. In an interview with Table.Media, environment minister ...
Germany must ¡°significantly increase¡± its goals for renewables expansion to supply all sectors with electricity in the future and reach its own climate targets, writes the Social Democratic parliamentary group in the Bundestag (SPD) in a new position ...
20 Dec 2021, 13:33 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Policy Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Robert Habeck, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new minister for economic affairs and climate protection, will present an ¡°opening balance¡± at the ...
A Greenpeace-commissioned study conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Economics and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ System Technology posits that Germany can still meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, provided that several brown-coal-fired power plants are ...
17 May 2019, 13:00 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The 18-year old student and Fridays ForFuture activist Ferdinand Klemm has ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:46 Julian Wettengel Gas International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Zeit Online / t-online The NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has called on economy minister Robert Habeck to follow the example of the U.S. government and declare a moratorium ...
31 Aug 2021, 13:41 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Industry dpa / Der Spiegel Tough and lengthy approval procedures are slowing down the ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany needs a ¡°national master plan¡± to save its forests as carbon sinks and the federal government should provide 800 million euros over the coming four years to states ...
12 Mar 2018, 00:00 Car industry hub Germany is under increasing pressure to accelerate the shift to sustainable mobility in order to reach its climate targets and improve the quality of air in inner city areas. Against the backdrop of a looming ban on ...
German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries (BDEW) head Stefan Kapferer warns that calls from the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) for recurring compensation payments to farmers if power transmission lines are built on their premises would make ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:17 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Cars Automobilwoche / Electrive / Electrek VW subsidiaries Porsche and Audi are planning to ramp up production capacities for their first fully electric models in ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society dpa / Tagesspiegel The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg says ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ school strikes for climate action give her ¡°a lot of hope,¡± news agency dpa reports in an article in the ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:03 Swedish activist Greta Thunberg visited Berlin on Friday, joining thousands of young people who took to the streets in the most recent "Fridays for Future" school strike demanding more action on climate change. Protesters ...
A range of comparatively simple measures could increase the capacity of the German power grid within the next two to four years, energy think tank Agora Energiewende * finds in a study. An ad-hoc investment programme could improve the transmission grid to ...
08 Oct 2024
08 Oct 2024, 10:30 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Reuters: EU backing for China EV tariffs shows Berlin's waning influence Germany was one of only five EU members to reject tariffs after months of pressure from its carmakers, which rely on China for almost a third of ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:53 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EWI- Institute of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business & ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:27 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The roll-out of solar thermal installations in Germany slowed down in 2018 despite an ongoing construction boom. The number of new installations dropped to 71,000 from 78,000 ...
09 Nov 2021, 12:50 Edgar Meza Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The heads of Greenpeace Germany and an activist from climate protest group Fridays for Future activist have filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen in a German court accusing the carmaker of failing to do ...
11 Dec 2024, 13:10 Importing green hydrogen via ships is not a viable strategy for the decarbonisation of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ steel and chemical industries, the country¡¯s government-funded Ariadne energy transition research alliance? has warned. These sectors ...
29 Apr 2015
29 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Residual Risk¡± There are worrying parallels between the current E.ON split into two separate companies and the finance industry¡¯s spinning off of risky assets into bad banks in ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany will raise its federal budget contribution for international climate financing from the current four billion euros to six billion euros annually by 2025. The success of the ...
18 Dec 2014
18 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ taz ¡°A dangerous thought¡± The minister-president of Lower Saxony, Stephan Weil, told the taz he was worried German tax money would be used to fund nuclear energy projects in other European ...
09 Feb 2024, 13:01 S?ren Amelang Mobility Transport A broad alliance of German climate NGOs, welfare organisations, trade unions and business associations? has warned ?that the cuts to the country¡¯s railway budget puts the mobility transition and climate ...
Germany will have to double its share of renewable power and cut its use of coal and oil by half to reach its official target of cutting CO 2 emissions by 55 percent by 2030, according to energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. The country must also use 30 ...
02 May 2025, 09:30 The European Union should strive for a well-connected energy system designed in a way that allows different national strengths to complement each other, says Nikos Tsafos, deputy energy minister of Greece. The country is expected to ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:20 Franca Quecke Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Handelsblatt Eleven environmental associations and citizens' initiatives have joined forces to come out against? controversial technologies to capture and?store CO? ...
22 Mar 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Grid Energate The higher renewable targets of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government will require a faster expansion of the power grid, Tim Meyerj¨¹rgens, COO of transmission grid operator TenneT, has told Energate. Connecting the ...
20 May 2016
20 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Institute for Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (IWR) ¡°Wind power overtakes nuclear energy for first time in Germany¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ wind turbines will generate more electricity this year than nuclear ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:26 Powering aeroplanes with renewable fuels is crucial for making flying less climate-damaging, but it will get aviation nowhere near climate neutrality, environmental NGOs, industry representatives and researchers agreed at a conference ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:18 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Cities Tagesspiegel The city of Berlin plans to speed up its coal exit, regional newspaper Tagesspiegel? reports. The prospective city government composed of the Social Democrats (SPD), the ...
10 Nov 2023, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The market for used electric vehicles (EVs) is growing fast in Germany, the country's most important motorist club, ADAC, has? found. Second-hand EVs are becoming ¡°a true ...
06 Jun 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Figures used by the government for planning the buildout of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Germany are ¡°massively¡± overestimating the actual need for new charging points, ...
06 Feb 2024, 13:12 Jack McGovan Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government has pledged to support the multinational steel manufacturing corporation?ArcelorMittal with a total of 1.3 billion euros to help reduce carbon emissions from steel production ...
01 Dec 2021, 14:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics Der Spiegel Conservative (CDU) state premier Michael Kretschmer from Saxony, an Eastern German coal mining state, has encouraged labour unions to protest against plans by the prospective ...
20 Mar 2024, 13:41 S?ren Amelang Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ One in two German utilities are finding it difficult to attract new employees, and four out of five companies in the sector expect the problem to worsen in the near future and slow ...
28 Apr 2021, 13:17 Charlotte Nijhuis Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Most young Germans are in favour of the energy transition, according to a survey conducted by the German environment ministry (BMU) and the federal agency for nature conservation (BfN). Two ...
08 Nov 2023, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Freight Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German road freight sector¡¯s shift towards climate neutrality is being complicated by framework conditions, a group of industry associations and lorry producers have warned in a ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Most people in Germany agree with the ¡°core aim¡± of the government¡¯s controversial building energy law to replace old fossil heating systems with sustainable alternatives, ...
15 Jan 2021, 10:19 While our roads are increasingly abuzz with electric cars and scooters, low-emission trucks are conspicuous by their absence. But this is about to change as new climate targets force sharp emission cuts in heavy duty transport. The ...
24 Mar 2015, 00:00 German utilities say plans to cut 22 millions tonnes of CO2 emissions from the energy sector by demanding additional emissions trading allowances from older power plants amount to an exit plan for the brown coal industry. But despite ...
30 May 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's cabinet has agreed to give hydrogen infrastructure planning and approval priority to drive the rapid development and expansion of its production, storage and supply. The draft ...
07 Mar 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Cars Spiegel, Handelsblatt The German government is aiming to see 15 million electric cars on the roads by 2030, but current sales are making this target increasingly difficult to reach, transport transition think tank Agora ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Europe's wind power industry and the German government have agreed on a set of measures to tackle challenges regarding the sector¡¯s competitiveness, continued investments ...
07 Dec 2016, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party left energy and climate policy on the sidelines at the Christian Democratic Union¡¯s (CDU) conference in Essen. The centre-right party laid the groundwork on Tuesday for its 2017 federal election ...
07 Feb 2023, 13:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility EU Die Zeit / Handelsblatt The planned EU car emissions target norm, Euro 7, has come under fire from the German car industry and the country¡¯s transport minister, who argue the regulation will threaten many ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:23 Expert Greenpeace Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (now Green Planet Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Eastern German lignite power plants that are scheduled to ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The new advisory council on sustainable finance established by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government has held its first meeting to debate how the country¡¯s financial sector can better ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:04 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ European parliamentary hopefuls have been urged against campaigning on the EU¡¯s successes in dealing with issues such as climate change and COVID-19, as polls show many ...
18 Jul 2025, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's largest occupational pension fund for public sector employees will have to disclose how it invests contributions from more than five million insured civil servants, including ...
16 May 2019, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Chancellor Angela Merkel says the need for a reform of financial markets along sustainability criteria is one of the most pressing challenges the sector is facing. ...
26 Jun 2025, 13:49 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany has for the first time cancelled more than 500,000 emission certificates from the ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The year 2023 was the windiest in Germany in more than 15 years, providing excellent conditions for wind electricity generation, said Germany's National Meteorological ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:39 The German government, its coal mining states and several major utilities have agreed on a roadmap for shutting down the country's lignite-fired power plants and on compensation payments for operators. Many analysts and ...
24 Apr 2017, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans to go beyond a rational take on the Energiewende and develop ¡°a certain passion and joy¡± for the country¡¯s generational project. Speaking at an event by her conservative CDU/CSU group in the ...
23 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Electrek: Porsche scales back 80% EV goal by 2030 amid falling sales, shifting market Although it could still happen, Porsche said the target was too ambitious and the transition ¡°will take longer than we assumed.¡± ...
10 May 2021, 14:32 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewables Utilities Die Welt Germany's largest electricity producer RWE has set its sights on becoming the leading provider of renewable energy in numerous industrialised countries. In an ...
17 May 2022, 12:36 Edgar Meza Agriculture Tagesspiegel Background / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federal agriculture minister Cem ?zdemir has presented several proposals to protect ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ forests, including more funding to land owners to introduce climate ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:10 S?ren Amelang Carbon market Policy Tagesspiegel Background ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coalition government is committed to returning revenues from the country¡¯s rising national CO2 price for heating and transport to citizens, reports energy and climate ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A new area development plan for the expansion of offshore wind energy is a key step in helping Germany come closer to its target of installing at least 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, the economy and ...
While the coal exit commission meets in Rhenish mining district in the state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), thousands of coal workers protested for their jobs not far from the symbolic Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut down to make way ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:50 The criminalisation of climate protesters is intensifying all over Europe, with multiple countries considering harsh new laws. While human rights activists express concern at the crackdown, experts are divided over the impact on the ...
19 May 2015, 00:00 UPDATE: Angela Merkel weighs into the dispute about the proposed climate levy on old fossil-fuelled power stations and summons ministers to the chancellery on Wednesday. The climate levy could be reduced and special rules applied to ...
01 Aug 2025
01 Aug 2025, 12:09 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Reuters: Europe is breaking its reliance on American science ? European governments are taking steps to break their dependence on critical scientific data the United States historically made freely available to the world, and ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:31 Expert Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate activists have criticised new stock index rules introduced by Germany's stock exchange operator Deutsche B?rse for not ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:31 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Die Zeit Germany needs more consistent and ambitious climate policies, including a higher ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:30 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 Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The share of ...
20 Dec 2018, 09:06 The weak and fragile German government is unlikely to implement the drastic measures needed for a speedy coal exit, regardless of the coal commission 's proposals due early next year, according to energy policy reseacher Claudia ...
04 Jun 2025, 13:23 S?ren Amelang Adaptation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Around 3,000 people have died due to high temperatures during each of the past two summers in Germany, said both the country¡¯s environment agency (UBA) and its disease control authority, the ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Policy EU Table.Media The consequences of Germany's current budget struggles will have implications on the European Union, but the extent of the impact will depend on decisions taken by the ruling coalition ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:28 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Elections & ...
04 Jul 2022, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices ARD The German government will not introduce a general speed limit on motorways to reduce the transport sector¡¯s energy consumption amid the crisis fuelled by Russia¡¯s war on Ukraine, Chancellor ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:58 Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs Handelsblatt In order to achieve ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ambitious energy transition targets, the pace of wind and solar power expansion is expected to quadruple in the coming years, but a lack of skilled ...
07 Jun 2022, 13:12 Julian Wettengel EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Reuters Environmental NGOs from Germany are among the lobby groups making last-minute efforts to influence European Union lawmakers, who are scheduled to vote on key elements of the bloc¡¯s future ...
22 Jul 2025, 13:15 S?ren Amelang Transport Freight Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ rail infrastructure investments rose to a record 198 euros per capita in 2024, a 74 percent increase compared to 2023, according to lobby group Pro Rail Alliance and ...
21 Jul 2025
21 Jul 2025, 11:31 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Reuters: German firms launch 'Made for Germany' investment initiative ? 61 companies have collectively pledged 631 billion euros of investments by 2028. pv magazine: German battery storage reaches 22.1 GWh at halfway ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Eastern ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest lignite mine operator, LEAG, is ready to build one of Germany's first hydrogen-ready gas power plants. The company said the gas turbine power plant ...
The US states, cities, companies, and civil society actors that have confirmed their unwavering support for international climate action despite the US administration¡¯s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement ¡°gives courage¡± to everyone adhering to ...
04 Aug 2022, 14:05 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Hannah Naylor EU Security RND / Deutschlandfunk / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ NGOs ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:11 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Mobility Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A broad-based coalition of environmental groups and police representatives is calling for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next government to impose a?general speed limit on?the country¡¯s ...
02 Jun 2025, 13:11 S?ren Amelang Adaptation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Zeit Heavy rainfall and flooding caused insured damages worth 2.6 billion euros in Germany last year, around one billion euros more than the long-term average, industry association GDV? said. ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:05 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The looming trade conflict between Europe and the U.S. about government subsidies for green investments could be significantly defused after the American ...
27 Nov 2024, 13:00 Julian Wettengel Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany will grow its solar PV capacity by an annual record of around 17.5 gigawatts (GW) by the end of 2024, said energy industry association BDEW. This would bring total installed capacity in ...
07 May 2025, 11:40 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Climate & CO2 Bloomberg: Orsted cancels major UK offshore wind farm as costs jump The move is a significant blow to UK plans to boost the clean energy source in the coming years, and also a setback for the offshore wind ...
05 Apr 2023, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate Action Germany (DUH) has won a lawsuit against TotalEnergies over ¡°climate-neutral¡± and ¡°CO2-compensated¡± heating oil claims, the environmental NGO announced. DHU had ...
The German federal cabinet finally approved the government¡¯s Climate Action Plan 2050 as the basic framework on how Germany is to become largely greenhouse gas neutral in 2050. In a press release, environment minister Barbara Hendricks pointed out that ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Utilities dpa / n-tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ local utility association VKU has called for public support to finance the decommissioning of the country¡¯s natural gas grid and avoid high fees for customers, news agency dpa ...
30 Jun 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Agriculture EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Dlf / taz German farmers have called on the EU to put more emphasis on food security in its "Green Deal" strategy to become climate neutral by 2050. The farmers& ...
27 Jun 2025
27 Jun 2025, 11:58 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Bloomberg: Heat wave threatens European crops and power systems Heat wave will bake western Europe in conditions as much as 10C above the norm in the coming days, threatening harvests, stressing power systems and triggering ...
25 Feb 2019, 14:17 The first draft of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Climate Action Law, presented last week, has laid bare conflicting views within the German coalition?government over how the country should meet its climate targets. The proposal has drawn criticism from ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:21 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 Wind EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The Federation ...
07 Aug 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The reform of an energy consumption label for passenger cars underestimates the projected CO2 price of transport fuels like diesel and petrol, consumer protection ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany has become the first member state to join an EU scheme to support domestic renewable hydrogen production through the European Hydrogen Bank. Under the "Auctions-as-a-Service¡± ...
22 Jul 2021, 13:52 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Politics Die Welt In light of the catastrophic floods that hit Germany, including Bavaria, last week, Bavarian state premier Markus S?der (CSU) has said more effort is needed to combat climate change. ¡°We can and ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:33 S?ren Amelang Cost & Prices Heating Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The share of homeowners who say they don¡¯t have the money to install climate-friendly technologies has increased significantly in Germany. 41 percent of property owners ...
20 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024, 14:57 Dave Keating *** Our weekly Dispatches provide an overview of the most relevant recent and upcoming developments for the shift to climate neutrality i n selected European countries, from policy and diplomacy to society and industry. For ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:42 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs G20 & G7 Reuters / Passauer Neue Presse / Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:06 S?ren Amelang Electricity market Storage Technology pv magazine Large-scale battery projects with a combined capacity of 226 gigawatts (GW) seek to be connected to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ transmission grid, fanning industry speculation that the ...
03 May 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Industry Digitalisation EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed chipmaker Infineon¡¯s new semiconductor production plant as crucial for the country¡¯s status as a green technology leader. The company ...
17 Nov 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Mobility Tagesspiegel The city of Berlin has approved a plan to expand its bicycle route network to a total of 3,000 kilometres, Tagesspiegel reports. "We will increase the proportion of ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:36 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Policy German Institute for International and Security ...
19 Jul 2019, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy Rheinische Post The leader of the conservative CDU party¡¯s parliamentary group, Ralph Brinkhaus, has called for ¡°hundreds of billions of euros¡± to be invested in climate action over the next ...
17 Sep 2020, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The right-wing nationalist AfD party has called for an end to all major climate action efforts Germany has committed itself to and wants to? abandon ...
07 Dec 2021, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Bioenergy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The potential of cannabis for climate action and sustainability should be included in the new German government coalition¡¯s plans, the German Cannabis Industry Association (BvCW) ...
Scientists from a group of research institutes, including the Wuppertal Institute and Fraunhofer ISI, have presented their report ¡°Technologies for the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition¡± to the federal economy ministry. The report examines the status quo, expectations, ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's federal states need to band together and devise a coherent strategy to ensure that the expansion of renewable energy sources can proceed in line with the ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:37 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG Elections & ...
22 Nov 2022, 13:57 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ It is possible to achieve ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ target of covering half of heat production with renewable energies by 2030, the German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation (BEE) said at the presentation of its ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:36 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU M¨¹nchner Merkur Europe's largest car brand Volkswagen will end the sale of combustion engine cars in the region by the middle of the next decade, branch manager Klaus ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:22 Jack McGovan Gas Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The EU isn¡¯t prepared to properly deal with a future gas crisis like the one resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to a new report ...
02 Aug 2021, 12:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics The debate about Germany's decision to shut down the last coal-fired power plant by 2038 at the latest has intensified in the election campaign. Economy minister Peter Altmaier ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:30 Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt Despite the much-anticipated release of its National Hydrogen Strategy this summer, uncertainty still surrounds ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ green hydrogen plans, making the path forward unclear despite the government¡¯s ...
06 Dec 2021, 13:34 Jessica Bateman Coal Der Tagesspiegel Leaders from the east German coal-mining region of Lusatia have criticised the incoming coalition government¡¯s plan to phase out the fossil fuel by 2030 instead of 2038, newspaper Der Tagesspiegel ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German energy crisis has not ended yet, but has become ¡°manageable¡± to a point where the government is confident it could be overcome for good by 2024, economy and climate minister ...
25 Jul 2025, 13:27 Joey Grostern Efficiency Heating Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government should reform building efficiency and housing regulations to better support low and middle-income households through the transition to sustainable heating ...
As negotiators are hammering out the rules for a global scheme to slow the growth in the airline industry¡¯s carbon dioxide emissions, the airline lobby is calling for an end to the inclusion of the aviation sector in the EU¡¯s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS ...
09 Jul 2025
09 Jul 2025, 11:28 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team EU Commission: Clarity to hydrogen sector with new EU methodology for low-carbon hydrogen and fuels To be considered low carbon, hydrogen and related fuels will need to reach a threshold of 70 percent greenhouse gas emission ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Elections & Politics dpa / Rheinische Post The planned German ¡® climate cabinet ¡¯ that aims to improve coordination among climate-relevant ministries to put the country on track to meet its ...
09 Jul 2024, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Electricity market Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's government is planning a new levy for electricity consumers to fund the construction of the country's planned ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / pv magazine Spaces alongside German highways could be utilised better to build solar energy systems, with around 250,000 potential sites identified? in a report ?by the Federal Highway Research ...
21 May 2024, 14:05 Jack McGovan Renewables Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background A law reform agreed by lawmakers from Germany's government coalition would speed up approval processes around the planning and construction of new ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ To reach its climate targets, Germany's building sector must phase out the use of fossil fuel boilers and introduce minimum efficiency standards for existing buildings, a? ...
22 Mar 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Rheinische Post ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new climate cabinet is proof that policymakers can look ahead only as far ahead as the next election, and are unable to make decisions that might cause upset, ...
23 May 2022, 13:14 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen International G20 & G7 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The burgeoning global trade in green hydrogen risks becoming an environmental and social burden in producing countries, and the G7 must take steps to ensure it will ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:50 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Stuttgarter Nachrichten / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Regional transmission system operator Terranets bw in Baden ...
18 Jun 2025, 13:52 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:53 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid dpa / Handelsblatt Expansion of the German power grid is ...
29 May 2020, 13:09 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen Green stimulus S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung There is significant opposition among Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s ...
21 Sep 2021, 14:04 The German state secretary in the environment ministry, Jochen Flasbarth, has called on wealthy nations to do more on climate finance and come up with a plan to reach the target of mobilising 100 billion U.S. dollars per year for ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:38 Aniket Narawad Climate & CO2 Society Only 47 percent of people in Germany agree that high-income countries should take the lead on compensating low-income countries for climate change-led economic losses, one of the lowest support ...
20 Oct 2021, 13:32 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate activists from Fridays for Future have presented a list of demands for the first 100 days of a new German government. The activists first and ...
07 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations about 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 ...
29 Nov 2024, 11:00 Military and energy security are key priorities for Poland as it prepares to assume the EU¡¯s rotating presidency in January 2025. The country plans to achieve these targets by pushing for nuclear energy, sanctions on Russia, and EU ...
16 Feb 2021, 14:16 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 Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Cities Clean ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 EIB / YouGov US citizens are somewhat more optimistic than EU citizens about the economic benefits of measures to combat climate change, according to a survey by online pollster ...
26 Aug 2015
26 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Handelsblatt ¡°Upwind¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ offshore wind development is accelerating, write Franz Hubik and Daniel Delhaes in the Handelsblatt. While the first wind parks suffered from delays, exploding costs ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:14 Expert EWI- Institute of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Freja Eriksen Renewables ...
12 Dec 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen Die Welt Steel producers in the western German state of Saarland have been granted 2.6 billion euros in state support to transform their production procedures towards climate neutrality. Economy and ...
The dispute within ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal government over environment minister Barbara Hendricks¡¯ Climate Action Plan 2050 ¡°is becoming increasingly uncomfortable for Chancellor Angela Merkel,¡± writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°At the next UN ...
21 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024, 11:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team AP: Ford, facing economic headwinds and weak EV sales, to cut 4,000 jobs in Europe Of the total, 2,900 jobs would be lost in Germany, 800 in Britain and 300 in other European Union countries. Reuters: Volkswagen enters third ...
12 Dec 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs Der Tagesspiegel Coal mining states in eastern Germany have called for clarity regarding the release of 1.75 billion euros in support funds from the federal government for the transition away ...
26 Jan 2019, 16:45 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ transition home country Germany eyes a phase-out of coal power by 2038 at the very latest, as the country tries to get back on track to create a climate-friendly economy. In its highly anticipated phase-out proposal, the country ...
10 Nov 2020, 13:47 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 Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Renewables ...
25 Sep 2020, 14:04 With numerous protests across Germany, the Fridays for Future youth movement has taken aim at pushing climate action to the very top of the political agenda in the run-up to the country's general elections next year. The activists ...
18 Dec 2020, 12:15 In the upcoming election year, the 20-year-old climate activist for Fridays for Future (FfF) Jakob Blasel will run for German parliament on a Green Party ticket. Blasel told Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ his decision was based on the need to close ...
01 Feb 2019, 13:53 The initial relief in Germany over a coal exit deal has given way to fresh discussions over how to implement the hard-won compromise. Chancellor Angela Merkel and politicians from her grand coalition government praised the agreement by ...
11 Jul 2025, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Transport ARD / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal auditors have called on the government to tackle the fundamental problems of the national railway operator Deutsche Bahn ¡°systematically and holistically¡±, arguing ...
Large German environmental NGOs plan to boycott an upcoming hearing on the Climate Action Plan 2050, organised by the federal environment ministry, writes Der Spiegel. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) and Nature and Biodiversity ...
26 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: German, French companies less hopeful over economic recovery Companies in the euro zone's two largest economies are growing more pessimistic, surveys showed on Thursday (26 July), raising concerns over ...
08 Jan 2025, 10:08 Jennifer Collins Electricity Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The share of renewable energy in net public electricity generation in Germany in 2024 reached a record high of 62.7 percent, with solar power smashing government expansion ...
23 Aug 2022, 13:32 Edgar Meza Digitalisation Efficiency Tagesspiegel Background The German government plans a new digitalisation strategy? that could pave the way for greater energy efficiency in the electricty sector, industry, and buildings, reports ...
Heating systems in Germany will have to change substantially by 2030 if the country is to reach its climate targets for 2050, according to a study commissioned by energy think-tank Agora Energiewende*. While the share of natural gas used for heating will ...
22 Oct 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Focus Online A key high-voltage power line set to transport electricity from Germany's windy north to the industrial south has begun construction. Grid operator TenneT has laid the first ...
14 May 2025, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Handelsblatt / Ludwigshafen 24 / TAZ The mild winter and low rainwater levels could have severe consequences for Germany's agriculture, shipping industry ...
04 Aug 2025
04 Aug 2025, 11:25 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team FT: Europe¡¯s electricity system tested by heatwaves as air-conditioning use soars Record temperatures also force temporary shutdowns at power plants. Politico: Confused politics fans the flames of southern Europe¡¯s wildfires ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany will be able to procure the volumes of hydrogen imports needed by 2030 if it quickly sets the right infrastructural, legal and entrepreneurial course, a team of researchers ...
10 May 2023, 12:20 Carolina Kyllmann Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany should introduce a ¡®climate passport¡¯ for people displaced by the effects of climate change, an independent government advisory panel has proposed in its annual report. The Expert ...
27 Jun 2025, 12:41 S?ren Amelang Construction Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ house owners will have to spend at least 137 billion euros by 2035 to climate-proof their houses and buildings, a report by consultancy Prognos commissioned by building materials ...
19 May 2025, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's federal government needs to provide additional funds for climate mitigation and adaptation measures, and make these easily available to its states ...
19 Jun 2023, 13:12 S?ren Amelang Coal International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Germany has committed an additional 200 million euros to help Colombia reach its climate targets. During the Colombian President, Gustavo Petro¡¯s, visit to Germany, the ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ sector experts as well as industry representatives have warned that a shortage of constantly available electricity capacity could lead to new short-lived but ...
27 Aug 2019, 16:42 Addressing climate change and the pros and cons of renewable power have dominated German public debate for almost two decades, but the role of the finance sector in emissions reduction has taken a back seat. Many countries have already ...
04 Oct 2019, 13:42 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German steel industry should receive billions in ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:06 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
13 Jun 2025, 12:07 Jack McGovan International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The international community must put on a united front at the upcoming climate negotiations in Bonn to prove it can pursue effective climate policy even without the US, environmental NGO ...
09 Feb 2018, 00:00 The coalition agreement by Germany's would-be coalition parties CDU/CSU and SPD is a step towards "realistic" Energiewende policy, says CDU energy policy spokesperson Joachim Pfeiffer. He argues a coal exit date for ...
15 Dec 2015, 00:00 The widely celebrated Paris Agreement has intensified the debate about how Germany can achieve its endangered climate targets. Most commentators and climate activists argued the results of the climate summit vindicated demands that ...
04 Dec 2020, 13:01 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG Tagesspiegel Background Germany will fail to achieve its 2030 target of a 65 percent renewables share in power consumption, even with added ambition in the latest draft for the ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:33 S?ren Amelang Transport Hydrogen Heating Policy Handelsblatt The German government wants to use hydrogen for decarbonising road transport and heating, in addition to industry, according to a highly anticipated revamp of the national ...
27 Oct 2020
27 Oct 2020, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn dpa Countries should use nuclear energy because ¡°every path to reaching the Paris Agreement¡¯s two degree warming limit would be near on impossible without it¡±, Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic ...
18 Jul 2023, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Society RND Public health officers in Germany have proposed to introduce a midday break akin to the Spanish ¡®siesta¡¯ to protect workers during the hottest hours of the day, media network RND reported. ¡°We ...
17 May 2023, 12:53 S?ren Amelang Heating Policy Stuttgarter Nachrichten The leader of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Social Democrats (SPD) said it was the party's imperative to prevent sharp cost increases for tenants during the shift to climate-friendly heating systems ...
27 Jun 2018, 17:29 As the energy transition touches more and more aspects of everday life, public acceptance will become a key question for the project's future, economist Andreas L?schel says. In the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ interview, the academic who heads the ...
20 Aug 2021, 13:37 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Grid Industry dpa / Reuters / Tagesspiegel SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz is aiming for a new law to ensure industry has enough renewable electricity to decarbonise over the coming decades, ...
12 Jul 2023, 13:22 James Jackson Transport Travel Talk Lufthansa, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest airline, wants to increase the number of domestic flights to compete with rail travel and video conferencing services, the company¡¯s sales manager, Frank Naeve, told ...
09 Jan 2019, 10:45 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and climate policy has played a notable role in recent elections in Germany, where public opinion is split over the course of the country's coal exit and diesel emissions in inner cities, says Michael Sch?fer, head of ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Transport Agriculture Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany, Finland, France and Portugal¡¯s National Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Climate Plans (NECPs) drafts include ambitious goals but ¡°lack details and concrete measures¡± to ensure ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany will likely need several lignite power units that had been brought back online from reserve during the energy crisis last year also for the coming winter, economy minister Robert Habeck ...
31 Jan 2024, 13:21 Franca Quecke Renewables Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The volume of bids in the latest German auction for ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) projects has once again by far exceeded the auctioned capacity, the Federal Network Agency ...
11 Mar 2022, 14:26 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Security Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
15 Feb 2022, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables dpa / Volksstimme The five eastern German states want to become trailblazers in the country¡¯s energy transition plans and greatly expand their capacity and infrastructure for renewable power production and ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt Several large energy companies say that a potential bottleneck for components needed for gas turbines in power stations could threaten Germany's plans for expanding gas-fired power generation in ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Plans to sell the western German coal plant operator STEAG could present a significant hurdle to government plans to pull the country¡¯s coal exit forward to 2030, unless the company puts in place ...
19 Feb 2024, 15:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics EUElections2024 dpa / Reuters / Der Spiegel / Zeit Online / Politico / Tagesspiegel / Augsburger Allgemeine European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is seeking a second term at the ...
15 Jun 2021, 10:53 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background The conservative CDU/CSU union of outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel aims for an earlier switch from fixed prices to market-based prices in ...
30 Apr 2021, 14:03 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's Constitutional Court ruling that the government¡¯s climate policies are insufficient will have a major impact on the country's election campaign and beyond, media ...
05 Aug 2019, 13:11 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:08 Franca Quecke Renewables Solar Wind dpa / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The southern German state of Bavaria continues to lead the field in renewable energy expansion, news agency dpa reports in an article published in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Water levels at Lake Constance are nearing a historic low point following a lack of rain and reduced snow meltwater coming from the Alps, reported public broadcaster ARD. While low water ...
The federal environment ministry (BMUB) will continue to use citizens¡¯ participation processes to develop climate policy in the future, the ministry said in a press release. ¡°What we learned in the stakeholder process helped us in developing the Climate ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Transport Dlf / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government will present a ¡°modern public transport ticket¡± after the population has ¡°embraced¡± the 9-euro ticket the country introduced as part of a relief package in the ...
16 Jan 2024, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Augsburger Allgemeine In a parliamentary hearing, economists have largely backed the German government¡¯s insistence on gradually phasing out subsidies for diesel fuel ...
28 Aug 2018, 13:59 The expansion of a lignite mine that threatens a nearby forest has become a first touchstone of the German coal exit commission¡¯s robustness. But despite fears that the row over the embattled Hambach Forest could gravely impede the ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:00 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 Elections & Politics ...
10 Feb 2021, 13:00 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:17 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Elections & Politics Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland The Green Party has called for an investment programme worth 800 million ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:46 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Agriculture Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Regions in Poland, Belarus and Ukraine are at a high risk of experiencing a drought in 2025, as an "extremely dry" winter could not regenerate ...
14 Dec 2021, 11:28 Edgar Meza Coal Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ As part of its efforts to achieve a coal phaseout in Germany by 2030, Commerzbank is introducing a number of measures aimed at decreasing business linked to fossil fuels. From 1 January, ...
Tenants in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will be able to benefit from solar PV panels installed on the rooftop of the buildings they live in. The state government has introduced a support programme for self-consumption power ...
29 May 2024, 14:30 In a bid to help Germany reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045, the government has presented a draft law reform that would allow the storage of CO2 under the seabed, as well as onshore ¨C but only if the federal states choose to do so. ...
Members of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) group in the Bundestag have strongly criticised the current draft of federal environment minister Barbara Hendricks¡¯ Climate Action Plan 2050, Silke Kersting and Klaus Stratmann write in ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society The Fridays for Future student climate protest movement will leave its mark on society, independent of its eventual duration, according to a working paper by the Institute for Social Movement ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:24 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Climate & CO2 CarbonBrief If the German government adopts the commission recommendations for a coal exit by 2038, coal capacity would barely fall faster than a business-as-usual pathway over ...
Germany can only reach its 2030 climate targets for the transport sector with ambitious EU car emission limits and a host of additional measures, according to a study by the Institute for Applied Ecology (?ko-Institut) and the International Council on ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:49 Edgar Meza Renewables Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The new CEO of Germany's largest energy company RWE, Markus Krebber, expressed hope that ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next government will quickly clear hurdles currently ...
27 Jun 2025, 12:50 S?ren Amelang Carbon market EU Tagesspiegel Background More than a dozen EU member states, including Germany, have called on the European Commission to change its plans for the introduction of a carbon price on transport and heating ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Reuters / dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau This week a campaign addressing the ¡°true¡± environmental cost of food products by German supermarket chain Penny is set to receive ...
The four parties that currently negotiate whether to form ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next coalition government must adopt a programme designed to break the ¡°vicious cycle¡± of energy prices, Michael Bauchm¨¹ller writes in an op-ed for the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. A drop in ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Airplanes in Germany will be made more environmentally friendly by supplying them with clean electricity during stops at the airport, the country¡¯s transport minister, Volker Wissing, has said. Airplanes ...
China and the USA ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement?shortly before the start of the G20 summit in China proves that both countries now see more chances than risks in climate protection, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. The move will ...
08 Jul 2025, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The real estate industry could profit from efforts to decarbonise housing in Germany, for example by retrofitting, switching heating systems and carrying out other efficiency improvements, said ...
07 Apr 2022, 13:51 Expert Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Brainpool Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Letting existing nuclear plants run longer will lead to large amounts of renewable energy ...
10 Jun 2024, 13:32 S?ren Amelang Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany must pay more attention to social and environmental impacts in its ambitious rollout of offshore wind energy, environmental NGOs and unions have said. ¡°The protection of nature, species and ...
08 Jan 2025, 12:06 The application of sustainable finance principles across the EU will take a major step forward in 2025 as reporting duties for environmental data are expanded to cover a much wider range of companies, says Matthias H¨¹bner, head of the ...
02 Jan 2023, 13:07 S?ren Amelang Coal dpa / Welt / Bild ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy minister Robert Habeck has called for pulling forward the country¡¯s coal exit to 2030 from 2038 in the east of the country, following an agreement in the west. "The generation ...
03 Jul 2025
03 Jul 2025, 09:47 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Bloomberg: How much does a heat wave cost?? Insurers and CEOs Want to Know A new market for heat insurance, driven by the growth in AI and data centers, is starting to emerge. Reuters: Heatwaves may cut GDP by 0.5 pct points ...
The German Greens have signalled their readiness to make concessions on core policy demands in the field of climate protection for the sake of advancing the stagnant coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:32 S?ren Amelang Society Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Der Tagesspiegel Climate activists' repeated blockages of motorways in Berlin and other German cities have sparked a debate among government parties about the legitimacy of these ...
16 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany has seen its driest February to mid-April months since 1931,? according to the country's meteorological service DWD. ?? DWD ?recorded about 40 litres of rain per square ...
15 Jul 2025
15 Jul 2025, 12:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Bloomberg: EU to outline what tech can be used for permanent CO2 removal The European Commission will outline rules for certifying tools such as Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage, Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage and ...
22 May 2023, 13:26 S?ren Amelang Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An economist and regional state secretary will become ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new energy state secretary following the departure of Patrick Graichen due to violations of the ministry's compliance rules. ...
29 May 2019, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The Energiewende (energy transition) is the linchpin of German climate policy, but the governing parties do little to deal with opposition, explain the ...
