29 Aug 2024, 14:15 Jack McGovan Adaptation Agriculture Weather conditions exacerbated by the climate crisis ¨C like late frosts, a wet autumn and a record-breaking warm spring ¨C have led to a 9.1 percent decrease in grain yields (excluding maize), ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:21 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry, which is central to Europe¡¯s plans to establish a green hydrogen economy, is calling for postponing existing deadlines for using the climate-neutral gas, reported business ...
07 May 2020, 08:58 The performance of Germany's electricity system during the coronavirus pandemic offers important lessons for the future of the country's landmark energy transition, says Hanns Koenig from consultancy Aurora Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Research. ...
20 Dec 2024, 13:07 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Wind power output in Germany is not at risk of increasingly being decimated by so ...
18 Mar 2022, 16:15 The EU's taxonomy has been widely perceived as a product of regulators eager to steer financial markets to a more environmentally-friendly and socially just future- a major misconception that is typical for the neglect given to ...
14 Mar 2025
14 Mar 2025, 12:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Economist: Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany? ? Bombshell fiscal package¡ªcurrently under negotiation¡ªrepresents more than just the start of deficit spending on defence. It is the beginning of a new European growth ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Construction Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ With a new label for low-carbon cement, Germany's industry aims to ramp up production and sales of the climate friendlier construction material, business ...
27 Aug 2021, 13:32 Edgar Meza Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Der Spiegel A German court has ruled against the country¡¯s newest coal plant, finding that building permission for the facility was granted illegally. The ruling removes one of two legal foundations ...
16 Dec 2024, 14:02 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Many people in Germany associate climate policy with state control and the fear of being financially overburdened due to decisions made by the departing coalition government, ...
25 Apr 2025, 09:00 European and UK leaders have pledged to cooperate closely to strengthen energy supply security, and said bringing down fossil fuel imports and ramping up domestic clean sources is the only way to do so. At an energy security summit in ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Industry EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Financial Times / Reuters / NY Times German economy minister Robert Habeck has welcomed the European Commission¡¯s decision to further relax state aid rules for clean technologies as part ...
14 May 2021, 14:08 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Finance Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The youth climate activists from Fridays for Future are for the first time specifically targeting banks and other financial services companies for their involvement in ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:22 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany must urgently address a whole range of difficult choices to get the country¡¯s energy transition on track for 2050 targets by triggering rapid investments in low ...
A recent study by Agora Energiewende * shows that Germany can achieve its climate goals in the heating sector by increasing efficiency and by rolling out millions of heat pumps to replace oil-fired heating systems, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. But it ...
10 May 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Restructuring the landscape of big cities may be key to a successful climate policy, as large conurbations and their growth are a top source of carbon emissions around the ...
23 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025, 12:28 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Ember: Record 47% of the European Union¡¯s electricity now comes from solar and other renewables? Another year of coal and gas decline cut EU power sector emissions to below half their 2007 peak and reduced reliance on imported ...
The problem with being in power for a long time is that it becomes possible to judge a politician by whether they fulfilled their promises, writes Cerstin Gammelin in an op-ed for S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. Angela Merkel in her 13 th year as chancellor is ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:44 Jessica Bateman Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s €9?nationwide public transport ticket improved low-income households¡¯ social participation and boosted their overall quality of life, a report has found. Researchers from the ...
16 Jan 2024, 12:51 Edgar Meza Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung A global rush to find natural hydrogen (H2) is intensifying the focus on what could turn out to be a much cheaper source for the gas, seen to play a key role in the energy ...
Environment and climate policy ¡° do not take place ¡± in Germany under the current grand coalition government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD), writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in an opinion piece ...
Increasing the admissible maximum weight of freight trucks from 40 to 44 tonnes could save ¡°millions of truck rides¡± and reduce carbon emissions in Germany¡¯s transport sector, the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI) says in a press release. ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s five biggest power ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Finance S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Central banks should not actively engage in climate policy as they lack both the expertise and the mandate to decide which investments make sense from a climate protection point of view, ...
15 May 2019, 12:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics The Guardian Climate change denial has become a key topic of Germany¡¯s far-right populist party AfD ahead of the EU parliamentary elections and the party particularly focuses ...
07 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany has launched official talks to phase out coal power in a bid to cut greenhouse gas emissions that have remained stubbornly high despite the country¡¯s shift to renewable power. The Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ collects reactions from ...
04 Jun 2021, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s industry, transport and heating sectors will need significantly more hydrogen to help reach future climate targets than the government currently expects, said the head of the ...
16 Jun 2023, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Cities Tagesspiegel / Berliner Zeitung The conservative Cristian Democrats (CDU) who lead the new government coalition of the city of Berlin aim to freeze all new cylce lane projects if their construction ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Hydrogen Deutsche Welle The German government wants to promote a culture of innovation to develop CO?-neutral aviation, reports Deutsche Welle. "We want to make Germany a leading ...
15 May 2020, 14:17 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Several German parliamentarians have criticised government plans to set up a domestic ...
19 Jul 2021, 13:46 Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany has to increase its climate protection efforts after catastrophic floods killed over 150 people in the country. The disaster has brought climate change to the centre of the election campaign. After ...
19 Aug 2021, 13:35 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Cars Manager magazine The German government has created a one billion euro fund to support the car industry's shift to low-emission mobility. A "future fund" earmarked for this purpose ...
01 Apr 2021, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The conversion of large parts of the German gas infrastructure to reflect changing supply is well underway, the country¡¯s gas grid operators write in their implementation report for the ...
24 Jan 2025
24 Jan 2025, 12:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Reuters: German power grids need higher earnings to fund energy transition, TSO says Grid operator Amprion argues regulator should raise the cap on returns on infrastructure spending. Germany Trade&Invest: Germany Earns ...
05 Apr 2016
05 Apr 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Federal Environment Agency ¡°Emissions trading: industry¡¯s emissions almost unchanged in 2015¡± The CO? emissions of German energy intensive industry remained virtually unchanged for the ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:20 S?ren Amelang Fossil fuels Handelsblatt The German government is concerned about the country¡¯s oil refineries, which are facing the most serious crisis in decades caused by the rising cost of emissions, cheap fuel imports, weak demand ...
The German government has been fighting for weaker EU climate targets, car emission standards and coal pollution rules, writes Zach Boren for the Greenpeace journalism project Unearthed. ¡°The widely reported fight for the [Hambach] forest may be the ...
The support of German citizens for the country¡¯s Energiewende [energy transition] is unwavering, a poll commissioned by the country¡¯s Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency (AEE) and conducted by pollster Kantar Emnid has shown. According to the AEE, 93 percent of ...
24 Mar 2025
24 Mar 2025, 12:30 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team IEA: Growth in global energy demand surged in 2024 to almost twice its recent average IEA¡¯s Global Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Review is the first global assessment of 2024 trends across the energy sector. Based on the most recent data, it covers ...
07 Jul 2021, 13:13 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 ...
31 May 2019, 13:40 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Euractiv German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the world to do ¡°everything humanly possible¡± to combat climate change and pledged to do her part,? reports Euractiv. ¡°Climate ...
08 Aug 2019, 13:51 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt An increasing number of MPs from Germany's governing parties are in favour of abandoning the target of a balanced budget in order to finance the fight against climate ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government should protect poorer households against incurring higher costs from the rising national carbon price, researchers at the Mercator Research ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:50 Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices Policy The deputy head of Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU parliamentary group, Andreas Jung, has suggested consumers should pay less for electricity and receive an ¡°eco commuters¡¯ allowance¡±, ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:03 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A European CO2 border adjustment payment can be a first step towards a fairer competition environment regarding emission costs but not accounting for indirect emissions means that a ...
The Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) calls for an end of Germany¡¯s Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG), which is aimed at supporting the expansion of renewable energy sources financially. In a press release on its ¡°Agenda for Germany¡± for the year 2030, the vbw ...
26 Sep 2019, 13:59 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) are prepared to ...
01 Nov 2021, 12:48 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 COP26 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The G20 summit in Rome has achieved good results on climate policy, said German chancellor Angela Merkel. ¡°That is a good signal for Glasgow," she said. Ahead of the UN Climate Change ...
19 Nov 2021, 13:10 Expert PwC Electricity market Transport Cars Business & Jobs Efficiency Heating S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transport Freight Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Many German shipping companies are reluctant to implement emissions reduction ...
18 May 2021, 13:32 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany should legally anchor its 2045 net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target in a way that prevents operators of fossil fuel-burning power plants from later seeking taxpayer-funded ...
Germany must immediately and drastically reduce emissions in the transport sector to meet the goals of both the Paris Climate Agreement and Germany¡¯s Climate Action Plan 2050, according to an analysis by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). The UBA makes ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Der Spiegel? A proposal by Germany¡¯s transport ministry to accelerate the planning and construction of new motorways is causing an uproar by the Green Party, which ...
When it comes to progress in phasing out carbon-intensive coal from the national power mix, Germany is the worst performing western country in the industrialised nations¡¯ G7 club, only trailed by Japan but outperformed by the US and its pro-coal ...
Fast decisions on climate targets, renewable growth and fossil fuel phase-out are required to plan the future German grid system, a study by the Institute for Applied Ecology (?ko-Institut) within a project funded by the Ministry for Education and ...
16 Jan 2025, 13:09 S?ren Amelang Technology Heating NDR The northern German city of Flensburg has commissioned one of the world¡¯s largest seawater heat pumps to supply climate-neutral heat through its district heating system, reports regional public ...
17 May 2018
Organising a ¡°just transition¡± to a largely decarbonised economy has to become much more of a focus of the political debate, Germany¡¯s largest trade union umbrella group DGB said in a newly adopted decision at its annual congress this week. The DGB is the ...
The rising price for CO 2 emissions in the EU¡¯s Emissions Trading System (ETS) has created windfall gains for Germany¡¯s energy and climate funds, the latest monthly report by Germany¡¯s Federal Environment Agency (UBA) reveals. According to the July 2018 ...
The fact that climate protection has been one of the most discussed topics at the G20 summit in Hamburg is ¡°one of the paradoxical achievements of Donald Trump¡±, Michael Bauchm¨¹ller writes in an opinion piece for S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°Alas, the climate ...
Germany is ranked 29th in this year¡¯s Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) by environmental organisation Germanwatch ¨C a position blamed on lagging greenhouse gas emissions reduction and the lack of a clear roadmap for ending coal-fired power ...
06 Jan 2025
06 Jan 2025, 10:43 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team HydrogenInsight: German chancellor calls on EU to shelve 'excessively strict' green hydrogen definition Scholz argues that planned projects cannot compete based on what the European Commission will accept is a ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung France and Germany should collaborate more intensively on key projects regarding climate action and energy transition policy and together ¡°define a ...
The German federal government must implement the promised additional tenders for offshore wind energy without delay and must also rapidly increase the expansion paths for all renewable energy sources, the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) ...
26 Sep 2019, 13:55 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare ...
24 Oct 2019, 12:19 Expert Economic Council- CDU Wirtschaftsrat Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) of Germany Business & Jobs Society Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities S?ren Amelang Gas Nuclear ...
13 Nov 2019, 13:53 Government plans to tighten distance rules for onshore wind turbines are a threat to Germany's energy and climate targets, according to stark warnings by industry, trade unions and environmental NGOs. Strict minimum distances to ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:52 Kerstine Appunn Wind Die Welt Shipping, fisheries, offshore wind power, raw material extraction and nature conservation all have been assigned their space in the German waters in the latest plan of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 Efficiency Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / dpa / Handelsblatt The German government has put back plans to set up a commission tasked with ne gotiating possible measures for reducing ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:15 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 NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
20 Apr 2016
20 Apr 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ BMUB / Deutsche Welle ¡°Germany asks Belgium to hit the switch on disputed Tihange and Doel nuclear reactors¡± Environment minister Barbara Hendricks submitted an ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The extreme weather events Germany experienced in recent years have served as a ¡°wake-up call¡± for many people in the country to ramp up their individual emissions reduction ...
Trying to micro-manage Germany¡¯s long-term path to decarbonisation with a government climate plan is doomed to fail, because ¡°politics is regularly unable to plan and regulate for decades,¡± writes Klaus Stratmann in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. He ...
21 Mar 2025
21 Mar 2025, 12:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Reuters: German energy transition could be 300 billion euros cheaper with more efficiency, finds report BCG & BDI industry association say investments currently planned in renewables, power grids and hydrogen far exceed ...
16 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
Big cities around the world have a special and urgent responsibility to press ahead in the fight against global warming, Berlin¡¯s Green energy senator Ramona Pop says in a guest article for the Berliner Zeitung. If the federal government fails to give the ...
17 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germans will elect a new federal government in autumn 2017. Security, economic stability and refugees are likely to dominate election campaigns, but keeping the Energiewende on a steady course and fulfilling Germany¡¯s international ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Opposition parties in Germany have criticised energy minister Peter Altmaier for insisting that the country will consume less electricity in 2030 than it does today, ...
Germany¡¯s energy transition can only become a success if the country does not neglect efficiency, the second important pillar of the Energiewende besides renewables expansion, said acting German Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries at the annual kick-off ...
17 Sep 2020, 13:08 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germans have particularly strong aspirations for their country to become more environmentally friendly when compared to people in many other countries,? a survey by the ...
02 Jun 2021, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Tagesschau An agreement by the government coalition to split the extra costs from Germany¡¯s new carbon price for heating fuels 50:50 between landlords and tenants is in jeopardy after ...
No tax money should be used to finance the hardware retrofitting of older diesel vehicles, writes Markus Balser in an opinion piece in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°Instead of subsidising the ironing out of funny business, the federal government must finally ...
05 Nov 2021, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Government Der Spiegel / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt The German coalition talks could take longer than the planned deadline at the end of November, Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock ...
08 Oct 2015
08 Oct 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) ¡°Average duration of power supply cuts per consumer and year less than 12 minutes for first time¡± The average power consumer in Germany ...
Germany and France have agreed to develop a 2050 European Union strategy for long-term decarbonisation, both governments said in a declaration following a joint ministerial meeting near Berlin. This is not only a necessity, but also an economic ...
The German Green Party¡¯s new-found readiness to compromise on a coal exit and a ban on combustion engines by 2030 might give the impression that the party is caving in to pressure from its negotiating partners in the Jamaica coalition talks but this view ...
The former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, and a group of scientists including Hans Joachim Schellnhuber of?the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) set out a six-point plan for ...
The next federal government should put a high priority on introducing a higher price on CO? across all economic sectors and a fundamental reform of energy-related taxes and levies in Germany, if climate targets are to be taken seriously, according to a ...
Germany and California have agreed to ramp up their cooperation and commitment to reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement and limiting the effects of global warming, the California Environmental Protection Agency said in a press release. Germany¡¯s State ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ With a rather low offshore wind power capacity expansion of 342 megawatts (MW) in 2022, Germany must quickly gear up to bring the buildout in line with its ambitious renewable power targets, wind ...
19 Nov 2020, 13:53 Charlotte Nijhuis Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Mobility Der Spiegel State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn will sharply cut back its use of coal power by increasing the share of renewable electricity,? reports ?Gerald Traufetter in ...
Donald Trump¡¯s decision to withdraw his support for the joint communiqu¨¦ at the G7 summit in Canada is ¡°sobering and a bit depressing¡±, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Anne Will in a television interview for German public broadcaster ARD. Merkel said ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The increasing risk of prolonged droughts in central Europe warrants a "paradigm shift" in Germany's water management in order to avoid supply bottlenecks, the ...
21 Apr 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Solar International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany has joined an international alliance of 75 countries to further the expansion of solar energy generation, the ministries for energy and development announced after a cabinet ...
26 Nov 2024, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Businesses in Germany invested 85 billion euros in measures to reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, a 12 percent increase over the previous year, shows a survey ...
In the fight against pollution from diesel cars and with EU fines looming, five German model cities want to make their public transport systems better and cheaper. At a press conference with transport minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) and environment ...
13 Nov 2020, 15:01 Charlotte Nijhuis Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The majority of driving license holders in Germany would consider buying an electric car, a survey by E.ON shows. ¡°In principle, 64 percent would consider purchasing such a vehicle,¡± says Jonas ...
The star of Germany as a climate action leader has been descending for several years, not least due to its rigid stance on phasing out nuclear power and filling the energy generation gap with carbon-intensive coal power, Michael Shellenberger writes for ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:10 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal Welt / Tagesspiegel Background A legal opinion by the energy law firm Rosin ...
02 Nov 2020, 14:09 S?ren Amelang Transport Cities Zeit Online / Deutsche Welle The much-delayed opening of Berlin's new airport BER last weekend has been accompanied by climate activists' protests. According to a? Zeit Online report, various ...
The governments of France and Germany have vowed to make cross-sectoral climate protection covering all areas ¡°a priority¡± of their bilateral activities. In a joint statement by the Franco-German council of ministers, the countries¡¯ leaderships said they ...
The Energiewende and climate protection are ¡°central projects¡± of the new government coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the Left Party in the federal state of Berlin. The three parties confirm Berlin¡¯s plan to become climate-neutral by ...
22 Jan 2021, 14:07 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Heating Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:29 Expert Mojib Latif Head of the Research Division: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sports federations like the German Football Association ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:48 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 & ...
23 Feb 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Swiss solar module maker Meyer Burger has announced its intention to wind up panel production in Germany, citing ¡°grave market distortion¡± and better investment conditions in ...
Concerns over global warming are more and more pressing, yet the German party that addresses them most consistently struggle to maintain a solid voter base, Matthias Geis writes in weekly newspaper Die Zeit. Not only did the Green Party fail to enter? the ...
The federal government¡¯s ¡°Climate Action Plan 2050" is ¡°a continuation and intensification of a purely national climate policy,¡± says German economist Joachim Weimann in a guest commentary in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The emissions avoided in ...
06 Jun 2018
Ahead of the G7 summit in Canada, German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated the importance of her government¡¯s commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, after the US had decided to leave the accord last year. ¡°All the more it¡¯s on us to reach our ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann International EU Handelsblatt France and Germany are preparing a relaunch of their cooperation on energy policy, competitiveness, and technology for when conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz has formed his ...
19 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024, 11:48 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Eurostat: Renewables account for 24.5% of EU energy use in 2023 In 2023, 24.5 percent of gross final energy consumption in the EU came from renewable sources, up by 1.4 percentage points compared with 2022. IISD: Fossil fuels ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs ...
23 Sep 2020, 13:30 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 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Clean ...
Climate activist group Ende Gel?nde has announced it will hold at least two major protests against coal-fired power production in Germany this year. The activists said they would ¡°block the production of coal in the Rhineland lignite fields- as long as ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:43 Franca Quecke Cars Cities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Following the decision by the citizens of the French capital Paris in a recent referendum to triple the parking fees for SUVs, NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has announced formal ...
The German Green Party¡¯s new economic policy concept ¡°is going to demand a lot from companies¡±, as the party itself puts it, Silke Kersting writes on Handelsblatt Online. The party wants to ¡°reflect environmental costs in prices in an ecologic-social ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:04 Following intense criticism of the German government's planned minimum distance rules for wind power by industry and environmental groups, economy minister Peter Altmaier says the government has not made a final decision on what ...
20 Sep 2024, 12:14 Edgar Meza Adaptation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Case studies on climate adaptation from around the world do not yet demonstrate truly sustainable strategies, yet sustainable climate adaptation is key for measures to be successful in the long ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn Cars Deutschlandfunk Environment minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) remains optimistic that Germany¡¯s government cabinet will find a common line on the ban of internal combustion engine cars in the EU, despite recent ...
26 Sep 2024, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / ARD Germany's national railway operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) plans to test long-range drones that can survey railway tracks after severe weather events. From 2025, DB plans to deploy ...
Germany is an industrial leader with a reputation for being ¡°a righteous leader in climate protection¡±- but a closer look at its actions suggests it deserves to be labelled a ¡°climate change hypocrite¡±, Paul Hockenos writes in Foreign Policy. While it may ...
13 Feb 2020, 13:33 S?ren Amelang Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Reinsurer Munich Re has joined the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, promising to make its asset portfolio climate-neutral by 2050. "We extend our climate strategy with this step, ...
10 Dec 2018, 09:03 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 ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) were the two most popular parties among young voters in the German elections, an analysis conducted by research institute ...
07 Feb 2018, 00:00 Agreeing on climate and energy policy was one of the simpler tasks during Germany's coalition negotiations, says Social Democratic (SPD) energy spokesman Bernd Westphal. However, he concedes that the challenges awaiting the country ...
04 Feb 2021, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Die Welt Bavaria's state premier Markus S?der has said that global warming will be the central challenge for whoever forms a government in Germany after September¡¯s general elections, ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power was a "historic mistake," Fatih Birol, head of the International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency (IEA) told business daily Handelsblatt. ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The implementation into national law agreed by Germany¡¯s government of an EU emergency regulation on the accelerated buildout of renewable energy sources will greatly boost the country¡¯s ...
13 Jan 2020, 17:00 Preview 2020: Green and sustainable finance has made a steep ascent in Germany last year and established itself as a key element of climate policy. Government plans to become a leading location for green financial products, intensifying ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ High energy prices are beginning to bite into companies¡¯ investment plans and curtail production in Germany, raising the spectre of de-industrialisation in the country ...
The intense media coverage of the 2015 Paris Climate Summit only had a ¡°modest appeasing rather than mobilizing effect¡± on the German public, according to a five-author paper published by Nature Climate Change. Before and after surveys showed that ...
The federal government ignored many of the results of the environment ministry¡¯s stakeholder consultation process for the Climate Action Plan 2050 because of strong pressure from economic interests, according to a report commissioned by Greenpeace. The ...
19 Sep 2019, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Voters in Germany would have supported a coal phase-out much earlier than 2038, the date proposed by the country's coal exit commission earlier this year, according to a ...
German bilateral cooperation such as with the state of California in the USA is ¡°a good recipe to implement a sustainable and dependable energy system quicker, cheaper, and more efficiently,¡± said state secretary Thomas Barei? in a statement ahead of a ...
27 Jan 2022, 12:59 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background Key raw materials needed for most types of clean hydrogen production could become scarce and much more expensive, Germany's Federal Institute ...
27 Oct 2021, 13:36 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Citizens' energy Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Citizen groups planning renewable energy projects in Germany should receive free advice and funding to enable their successful participation in the ...
The commission tasked with planning Germany¡¯s coal exit could extend its negotiations well into 2019, although it is scheduled to deliver ideas for quick emissions reduction and an end date for coal-fired power production by December this year. According ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 Politics Society S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung French President Emmanuel Macron might have made several mistakes when introducing a new tax on petrol and heating oil but ¡°he shows a level ...
04 Aug 2022, 13:43 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Die Zeit France¡¯s huge nuclear power plant fleet currently only delivers a fraction of its energy ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German consumers saw the greatest rise in prices ever recorded for electricity, gas and heating oil in 2021, comparison website Verivox has said. The price for gas climbed by almost ...
The new Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 contributes little to solving environmental problems, writes Dagmar Dehmer in an opinion piece for Der Tagesspiegel. ¡°Not using the federal transport infrastructure plan as an element of a climate concept ...
01 Aug 2022, 13:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security dpa / Zeit Online The first retired hard coal ...
28 Jan 2019, 12:48 Kerstine Appunn Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany has the fourth largest solar PV capacity in the world (46 gigawatt [GW]), German Solar Association (BSW) has said in a press release. But the former front runner has in recent years been ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:48 La¨ªs Clemente Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The student climate protest movement Fridays for Future (FfF) has announced to bring activists to the streets in 25 German cities on 18 June. As German COVID-19 ...
28 Feb 2025
28 Feb 2025, 11:54 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team AP: UN talks end in Rome with nations backing $200 billion a year plan to protect nature Global negotiators concluded an extended session of the United Nations biodiversity conference, COP16, with key commitments on funds ...
Among the motivations for Germany's? reform of its renewable energy support system have been complaints from neighbouring countries, and the EU Commission¡¯s rules on state aid to the energy sector, writes Dave Keating for Deutsche Welle. But D?rte ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit At the end of her term in office, German Chancellor Angela Merkel aims to resume her former self-styled role as ¡° climate chancellor ¡±, motivated by the Fridays For ...
21 Aug 2023, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Policy Der Spiegel The government of Germany¡¯s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, looks set to abolish a controversial minimum distance rule for wind turbines, news magazine Der Spiegel reported. ...
Germany¡¯s new environment minister Svenja Schulze says acting on climate change must not be a project for the elites. At the German government¡¯s 4 th Berlin Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition Dialogue (BETD), Schulze said policymakers had to ensure that the necessary ...
The squabbling in the German government over its Climate Action Plan 2050 is a result of the seriousness with which the topic is being treated, writes Bernhard P?tter in a commentary for Deutschlandfunk¡¯s website. ¡°Most other countries come up with some ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze backs? Chancellor Angela Merkel position on the European Commission¡¯s proposal to raise the 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target. ¡°We have set goals for 2020, which we will not reach. To then say ¡®we will set ...
10 Jun 2015
10 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Handelsblatt ¡°Great aim, little deed¡± When it comes to decarbonising the economy, Germany is nowhere near as ambitious as the government likes to say, writes Silke Kersting in a commentary for the ...
Several associations and NGOs have called on economy minister Peter Altmaier and interior and building minister Horst Seehofer not to soften existing energy efficiency standards with the planned Building Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Law (GEG). In a joint letter, Environmental ...
The buyer¡¯s premium for alternative car engines introduced by the German government last May has largely failed its objective of boosting the sale of e-cars, writes Dana Heide in Handelsblatt. Economy minister Sigmar Gabriel expected the one-billion-euro ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars rbb24 The government of the federal state of Berlin has decided to ban older diesel cars from eight roads in the city and create dozens of zones with a 30 kilometre per hour speed limit, public ...
Germany can reach its target of increasing the share of renewable energy to 65 percent of power consumption by 2030 from the current 36 percent at moderate costs,?according to energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. Agora proposes a series of measures to ...
Germany should aim to achieve its 2020 emissions reduction goals at some point in the 2020s instead of ¡°new year¡¯s eve 2020¡±, Michael Vassiliadis, head of mining labour union IG BCE, has said at a union conference in Berlin. ¡°It¡¯s not a sin to stretch the ...
30 Oct 2020, 10:42 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Mobility Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s federal states are lagging behind on many sustainable transport targets, particularly on climate protection goals, according to a study commissioned by German transport and ...
11 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025, 12:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Reuters: Clock ticks for German fiscal bonanza but Merz ally optimistic A senior ally of Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday (11 March) was optimistic about securing support for a massive increase ...
A gradual reduction of coal-fired power production and the parallel expansion of renewable energy sources to 65 percent of Germany¡¯s 2030 power mix would reduce electricity costs and emissions and allow the country to reach its climate target in the ...
07 Nov 2023, 12:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Electricity Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany saw a slight drop in ...
17 Sep 2020, 13:13 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ HeidelbergCement, one of the world's largest cement makers, has stepped up its climate ambitions. The German company? said ?it would reduce CO2?emissions per tonne by ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:54 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The number of bids in the ...
03 Nov 2020, 13:49 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs International Tageszeitung (taz) As US voters go to the polls on Tuesday, leading German chemicals producer Bayer will be mainly sponsoring candidates from US President Donald Trump¡¯s Republican Party, ...
US President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement does not mean that the country¡¯s climate policy was already ¡°fully outlined¡±, a German government official told reporters at a press briefing in Berlin, when asked about the upcoming G20 ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: Wind power became Germany's single most important power source in 2019 and appears well under way to fulfill its role as the central technology of the country's energy transition. Nevertheless, the wind industry ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Fossil fuels Cost & Prices RND / Tagesspiegel Background Germany is reducing its fossil fuel imports even as the cost of buying them has increased from 2021 to 2023, according to a report by the ?ko-Institut ...
16 Jan 2015
16 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Business Green "Germany breezes past 1GW offshore wind milestone" Germany's renewables industry is celebrating another milestone this week, as an industry-backed report confirmed ...
It is economically beneficial for G20 member states to invest in climate protection measures, according to the new report "Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth" by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), presented ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:34 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn Industry Cost & Prices EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) ...
17 Feb 2021, 13:23 Expert Franco-German Office for the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition Office Franco-Allemand pour la Transition ?nerg¨¦tique / Deutsch-Franz?sisches B¨¹ro f¨¹r die Energiewende Renewables Energiewende S?ren Amelang Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The upcoming ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Accelerating the transition to largely domestically produced sustainable energy such as wind and solar electricity is the only way to really ensure energy security in Europe, said the European ...
08 Jan 2019, 11:00 A key premise?for Germany to meet?its climate goals is a strong CO2 price signal, says Manuel Frondel, head of the department "Environment and Resources" at the RWI-Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. Preferably, such a ...
04 Jan 2022, 11:00 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / pv magazine Germany saw the installation of 240 ...
20 Feb 2020, 13:35 Rachel Waldholz Electricity Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Eighty-five percent of Germans believe the country¡¯s coal exit will lead to significantly higher electricity prices, according to a survey of 500 households conducted by the Bonn-based ...
The German government is considering creating a joint fund with carmakers to pay for advanced exhaust systems that make diesel cars cleaner, reports German weekly Der Spiegel. The fund would back the hardware retrofitting of a large part of Germany¡¯s 15 ...
17 Aug 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Power prices on the European Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Exchange (EEX), based in the eastern German city of Leipzig, have reached a new all-time record level in day-ahead auctions of 553 ...
The German government is considering providing financial support to the construction of what would be the country¡¯s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, according to spokesperson Steffen Seibert. While private investors are currently examining ...
08 May 2019, 13:46 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Digitalisation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Digitalisation has immense negative effects on the environment, but ¨C steered in the right direction ¨C it can create new opportunities for climate action and the global ...
22 Oct 2021, 13:15 Charlotte Nijhuis Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Europe¡¯s largest banks are lagging behind on setting climate targets needed to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, according to a report by German consulting firm Zeb seen by the ...
05 May 2021, 12:35 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Background Many European Union member states are rejecting calls to expand emissions trading to?the heating and transport?sectors in the bloc in order to more ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Enthusiasm for Tesla purchases has waned considerably in Germany in the wake of the political activities of the US car company¡¯s CEO, Elon Musk, according to market ...
Low carbon prices within the EU have helped coal power plants remain competitive, and put German emissions targets in danger, writes Angela Macdonald-Smith for Australian Financial Times. The ¡°political argy-bargy¡± surrounding the approval of the ...
15 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025, 11:45 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team dpa: Parties row over Germany's shift to 'green' steel Conservative leader Merz doubts viability of climate-friendly steel, but labour union says it's industry's only chance of survival. Andreas ...
Forcing global carmakers based on 130-year-old technology to switch to e-mobility will be complicated and protracted, writes Hannes Koch in a commentary for tageszeitung. He says even the Green party depends on the well-being of large companies for its ...
21 Oct 2024, 13:49 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Policy Tagesspiegel Background The German government will evaluate methods for CO2 removal and storage in its?first online?consultation on a planned long-term strategy for negative emissions to help ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Anchoring health, climate and environment in all government departments and ministries is one of the recommendations put forward by Germany's health and resilience expert council, an ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Die Welt / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Germany¡¯s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has called on the country¡¯s states to massively ramp up their onshore wind power efforts, newspaper Die Welt reports. ...
05 Feb 2025
05 Feb 2025, 11:30 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Agora Energiewende: Stronger incentives needed to fast-track Europe¡¯s heating transition With current policies, Europe may end up installing tens of millions of new fossil fuel boilers by 2040, jeopardising climate and energy ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 International Handelsblatt / Guardian A ¡°climate-neutral, prosperous and equitable¡± European economy is possible by 2050, said EU commissioner for climate action and energy Miguel Arias Ca?ete in an ...
15 May 2020, 16:34 The U.S. administration is aggressively promoting the country¡¯s liquefied natural gas (LNG) to European partners, portraying it both as a supply that would help them diversify away from Russian gas and as a way to reduce greenhouse gas ...
13 Oct 2021, 13:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices EU Der Tagesspiegel The rise of energy costs across Europe could become a major challenge for the European Union¡¯s decarbonisation plans, as the envisaged carbon pricing of fossil energy sources might ...
About 10,000 people gathered at the Hambach Forest over the past weekend to again protest against the forest¡¯s clearing to make way for a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. At a protest event on Sunday, environment expert Peter Wohlleben told ...
20 Aug 2019, 13:57 Julian Wettengel Transport Freight Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany should introduce a truck toll on all German roads and use the revenues to strengthen the country's rail freight infrastructure, said ...
07 Jan 2021, 13:56 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur f¨¹r Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An overwhelming but slightly shrinking majority of people ...
10 Aug 2020, 13:30 Cars Frankfurter Rundschau The reality of having to shift to climate-neutral production and products has finally hit German automakers, writes Rolf Obertreis in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter Rundschau. A combination of political ...
27 Jul 2020, 09:50 Europe's economy is well placed to benefit from the fledgling global hydrogen economy and should decisively follow through with its hydrogen strategies, says Veronika Grimm, a member of Germany's council of economic experts, ...
07 May 2021, 13:45 Electric cars have long been touted as key to a more sustainable future, but their contribution is clouded by the climate impact of making and disposing of them. As part of an industry-wide bid to roll out entirely CO2-neutral vehicles, ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Electricity prices in Germany are unlikely to go down in the near future, despite repeated claims that a complete switch to renewable power is going to make ...
31 Aug 2023, 10:00 Climate change is putting Europe¡¯s water resources under immense pressure. Scientists expect heavy rain and dry periods to happen more often, be more severe, and last longer, leading to floods and droughts. Without swift mitigation and ...
01 Apr 2025, 17:38 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Planned investments to expand and modernise the EU's electricity grids by 2050 fall short of the necessary amounts of money required to support the bloc's move to climate neutrality, ...
25 Aug 2020, 13:29 Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics taz/ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Several members of Fridays for Future (FfF) Germany have declared their intention to run for federal parliament, exposing divisions within the non-partisan climate ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Long-distance bus service provider FlixBus insists on being included in Germany¡¯s planned monthly 49-euro ticket for nationwide public ...
Germany needs to rapidly and decisively reduce its coal-fired power generation capacity by roughly 50 percent to meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, writes the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) in a letter addressed to economy minister Peter ...
11 May 2018, 00:00 The climate talks in the city of Bonn failed to meet expectations they would deliver a draft rulebook for the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement. After eleven days of negotiations, an extra session in Bangkok is now planned in ...
20 May 2019, 16:29 Financial markets are excellent processors of information- and they currently don't seem to expect that the global economy will be geared towards respecting the Paris Climate Agreement 's goals and give up fossil fuel ...
09 Sep 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Many people in Germany are worried that rising global temperatures will have a "dramatic" impact on human life. In a long-term study by insurance company R+V, 41 ...
27 Apr 2020, 14:13 Expert bne- Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Market Innovators Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft Electricity market Grid Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables ...
After an expected clash over climate and energy policy last week, Germany¡¯s aspiring coalition partners of the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the pro-business FDP and the environmentalist Green Party also failed to find a first official agreement on ...
06 Mar 2019, 13:35 Rachel Waldholz Transport dpa / Welt Online / AP / Washington Post BMW chief Harald Kr¨¹ger said he ¡¯ s confident the company can meet the EU¡¯s 2021 emissions targets, but the 2030 targets are more difficult, reports news agency dpa via ...
Members of the German business association Economic Council, associated with Angela Merkel¡¯s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), want an end to the grand government coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD), and call for a ¡°realignment¡± of the country¡¯s ...
10 Sep 2024, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The agriculture and forestry sector could play an important role in the EU's goal to achieve climate neutrality by mid-century, while at the same time improving biodiversity ...
13 Nov 2015
13 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ EnBW ¡°Stable development and progress with restructuring¡± Germany¡¯s third largest utility EnBW has achieved revenue of around 15.3 billion euros and an operating result (adjusted EBITDA) of around ...
The German environment ministry (BMUB) published a fact-check of US President Donald Trump¡¯s announcement speech to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement. To Trump¡¯s statement that the accord was a ¡°deal that punishes the United States¡±, BMUB replies: ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The buildout of Germany¡¯s renewable power capacity is a ¡°herculean task¡± that will likely take longer than planned and therefore make an early end to gas and coal-fired power ...
06 Oct 2020, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann International Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has said the country's military needs to better adapt to the challenges posed by climate change and improve its equipment ...
14 Sep 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Colombia has become an important supplier of hard coal to Germany, substituting for Russia, the government has said in an? answer ?to a parliamentary inquiry by the Left Party. ...
27 Jun 2024, 14:15 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Adaptation The probability of stronger rains has increased due to the climate crisis, an analysis by the German Meteorological Service (DWD) has found, as reported by news magazine Der Spiegel. Heavy rains ...
13 Nov 2020, 15:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Elections & Politics HR / Der Spiegel The dispersal of a protest camp against the construction of a highway in the central German state of Hesse by the police is exposing a deepening rift between climate ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:29 Edgar Meza Electricity market Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Higher electricity demand, fewer fossil power plants, and insufficient renewable energy, combined with extreme weather conditions, could lead to gaps in Germany¡¯s power supply ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:55 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) has ...
The price for emitting one tonne of CO 2 has more than tripled since the beginning of the year and now stands at 17 euros, Bernward Janzing writes in the taz. There is now hope that this climate action measure is finally working. When prices rise above 15 ...
30 Oct 2024, 11:48 Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Current plans for gas networks in European countries largely fail to account for the necessary decline in gas consumption in the coming years as states try to reach climate targets, according to a ...
31 Jul 2020, 12:19 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
17 Feb 2021, 13:26 Charlotte Nijhuis Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Online Young politicians in chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) want to improve the party's image as a driver of climate action, ...
09 Sep 2019, 12:00 Citizens have been a crucial driver of Germany's energy transition and many regard sustainability and especially environmental action a crucial feature of sound investments. Yet, the vast majority of savings in the country are not ...
German steel manufacturer Thyssen-Krupp launched a research project on using steel mill gases like nitrogen, methane or hydrogen oxide as resources for chemical materials, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The project, dubbed Carbon2Chem, showed how ...
Companies in Germany used about 9,347 tonnes of fluorocarbons in 2015, up by around 72 tonnes, or 0.8 percent, on the previous year, Germany¡¯s statistics agency Destatis says in a press release. In 2014, the particularly harmful greenhouse gas accounted ...
05 Nov 2021, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Gas COP26 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The role of gas has emerged as a key issue that keeps the German government from signing on to a COP26 pledge to end foreign fossil fuel funding by 2022. The pledge's text lacks a clear ...
After the US decision to leave the Paris Agreement, the German government will work on uniting all remaining G20 members in climate protection efforts in the run-up to the summit in July, said government spokesperson Steffen Seibert at a press conference ...
24 Oct 2014, 00:00 The framework for energy policy until 2030 failed to meet all Germany¡¯s ambitions but government says the agreement is in line with the energy transition. Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der ...
16 Jul 2024, 12:24 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Protecting and restoring coastal ecosystems that serve as natural marine carbon sinks, such as mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and tidal marshes, can be a significant measure for ...
13 Jul 2020, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background More than two years after quitting his job due to differences with the new government at the time, Rainer Baake, former German state ...
The upcoming UN climate conference (COP23) in Bonn will be an important milestone on the way to creating a rulebook for the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, Germany¡¯s chief UNFCCC negotiator Karsten Sach said at a briefing in Berlin. ¡°If ...
31 Jan 2020, 14:15 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International S?ren Amelang Efficiency Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's heat pump ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:28 Edgar Meza Solar Cost & Prices pv magazine Solar photovoltaics (PV) became the main source in Germany¡¯s net power production in the month of June while also achieving its highest price ever, Sandra Enkhardt writes in pv magazine, ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany is failing to take advantage of the huge potential of the ¡°rigorous electrification¡± of transport and heating to cut emissions, consultancy McKinsey says in its latest ...
30 Oct 2015
30 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ UN Climate Change Secretariat ¡°Global response to climate change keeps door open to 2 degree C temperature limit¡± A report assessing the 140 climate action plans submitted to the United Nations ...
10 May 2021, 14:27 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transport Hydrogen German?federal?and state?governments and industrial leaders have? agreed ?on a roadmap aimed at establishing?climate-friendly?power-to-liquid (PtL)?aviation fuel?production.?The? PtL ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:35 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Freja Eriksen Efficiency Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German heating industry saw sales increase for the third year in a row in 2019, with nearly 175,000 ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel EU Politico / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Reuters The European Union as a business location is set to profit from additional infrastructure investments planned by the likely next German government, Philipp J?ger of the Jacques ...
The renowned German environmentalist an co-president of the sustainability organisation Club of Rome,? Ernst Ulrich von Weizs?cker, has warned that a quick phase-out of cars with combustion engines could lead to several unintended consequences that are ...
The leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) dissociated itself from a paper by a conservative group within the party ¨C ¡°Berlin Circle¡± ¨C that had criticised ¡°increasingly aggressive policy goal setting, especially the CO? ...
07 Jul 2021, 12:16 Edgar Meza Grid Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German companies could make a significant contribution to stabilising the electricity grid by flexibly adapting their demand to available supply, according to a new study conducted by the ...
The next German government alliance should not ¡°seal a coalition agreement that does not include the goal of achieving the 2020 target,¡± Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the environment ministry told the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ. ¡°The 2020 target is about ...
29 Oct 2024
29 Oct 2024, 12:06 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team 10 New Insights in Climate Science: Leading scientists review the most pressing findings New report responds to calls for policy guidance during a climate-critical decade. UN Climate Change: New climate change report shows ...
11 Oct 2024, 16:39 In Italian, the expression ¡°hot autumn¡° describes what happens when, after the long summer lull, political and social conflict cyclically rises again. For the energy transition, this is going to be a hot autumn indeed. Three of Italy¡¯s ...
04 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 5 at the UN climate conference: Negotiatons are not "leaping forward" / 1.5¡ãC should be mentioned in agreement / German climate action in the spotlight at home Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature ...
Wind turbines in Germany should not be illuminated throughout the whole night as this would gravely impede the acceptance of wind power by local residents, the conservative CDU¡¯s deputy parliamentary group leader Carsten Linnemann told the Frankfurter ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The capacity of pumped storage hydro power stations available to the German energy system is expected to grow by about 1.4 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, with roughly one third of the capacity being ...
02 Jun 2015, 00:00 Europe must deliver on its own targets for a successful climate summit in Paris at the end of this year, the head of the German Chancellery, Peter Altmaier, told a business conference on Tuesday. At the same time, he stressed that the ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Politics Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German far-right nationalist party AfD is among the most climate-sceptical of European populist parties, explicitly denying that humans impact the global climate ...
While talks over forming a Jamaica coalition government of CDU, CSU, FDP and Green Party have failed, a coal phase-out compromise between Merkel¡¯s conservatives and the Greens could survive, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt in tageszeitung (taz). Toward the end ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:01 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 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / ...
Even if the German government approves a climate plan similar to the latest drafts that became public, it would not be enough to reach climate targets set out in the Paris Agreement, writes Hans-Josef Fell, former member of the German Bundestag and ...
09 Oct 2023, 13:49 The parties of Germany¡¯s government coalition suffered heavy losses in two state elections in economically strong Hesse and Bavaria in western and southern Germany, while populist parties including the far-right AfD celebrated ...
01 Sep 2022, 13:42 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ policy links between the UK and the European Union have remained strong since the UK officially left the bloc in January 2020, in contrast to complications in many other policy areas. A new renewable power interconnector project ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Neue Z¨¹rcher Zeitung am Sonntag Despite Germany¡¯s debate over stepping up national climate action intensifying, demand for air travel with the country¡¯s largest airline, Lufthansa, is rising ...
10 Oct 2024, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Carbon market Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany should alter its current plans for a national carbon price for transport and heating fuel emissions and stick to a fixed price until the new EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for ...
02 Feb 2021, 13:40 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities A group of local utilities in Germany will double ...
29 Jul 2021, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / taz Following years of protests in the western German Rhenish lignite mining region, activist group Ende Gel?nde is set to target plans for an import terminal for LNG (liquefied natural gas) ...
05 Sep 2019, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany is set to miss several key energy transition targets for the year 2020, and the country's high power supply security is at risk unless new generation capacity and grid ...
The expansion of wind power in Germany must be accelerated both onshore and offshore to make good on climate action plans outlined in the government¡¯s coalition treaty, industry organisations German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association (BWE) and Offshore Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:05 Sven Egenter Freight Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The companies that depend on the Rhine River ¨C Germany¡¯s most important shipping artery for heavy goods and raw materials ¨C have developed an action plan with the transport ministry, following last ...
14 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025, 11:26 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Reuters: German premium carmakers' sales battered in China and Germany amid slowdown Germany's top-end carmakers took a battering at home and in China in 2024, sales volume data showed, as wealthier consumers held ...
18 Dec 2018, 11:24 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Cars Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German carmakers have decried the EU agreement on 2030 car fleet emission targets as ...
16 Aug 2019, 12:09 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Freja Eriksen Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Zeit Online Transport minister Andreas ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has set out on a tour of South and Central America that retraces the steps of the famous 19th?century ...
03 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
The G20 meeting in Hamburg is meant to address some of the most pressing global problems but many of the heads of state present at this year¡¯s summit have a very poor record of defending human rights in their own countries, Christian Grefe writes in a ...
05 Aug 2019, 13:17 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Rheinische Post The ¡°clear recommendations¡± on CO? pricing given by Germany¡¯s top economic advisers ¡°mark a milestone¡±, Klaus Stratmann argues in an opinion piece in ...
09 May 2019, 16:55 S?ren Amelang Cars Efficiency Reuters [CORRECTION: We apologise for misspelling the author's name. The Reuters article is by Caroline Copley.] German automotive supplier Bosch plans to become fully carbon neutral by 2020, making it ...
23 Feb 2021, 11:48 Expert DHL Express Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Cars Business & Jobs Manager Magazin Online The electric delivery vehicle StreetScooter, a subsidiary of German postal service Deutsche Post, has attracted potential ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Rheinische Post The leader of Germany¡¯s governing Social Democrats (SPD), Andrea Nahles, has called for a quick implementation of the proposals made by the country¡¯s coal exit commission, Jan Drebes ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:29 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Cars Handelsblatt / Financial Times German carmaker Daimler is considering an earlier end to the combustion engine for its Mercedes brand than the currently envisaged ...
02 Sep 2020, 13:05 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency S?ren Amelang Policy Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The economic effects of the corona pandemic could slow the energy transition in Germany as ...
The decision by parties negotiating Germany¡¯s next government to weaken the country¡¯s 2020 climate protection goals was an ¡°appropriate¡± move that took ¡°courage¡±, Johannes Teyssen, CEO of utility E.ON, said at an energy industry conference held by ...
25 Aug 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / dpa Electricity transmission system operator (TSO) Amprion announced plans to build power lines to bring electricity from wind turbines in the North Sea to consumers in power-hungry ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:31 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and climate cooperation, as well as countering migration, will be among the top priorities of Italy's G7 presidency this year. Led by prime minister Giorgia Meloni, the country's right-wing government will bring its ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze will argue for limiting CO 2 car emission cuts to 30 percent by 2030 at today¡¯s decisive meeting with her EU counterparts, despite believing the proposal by the EU commission falls far short of what¡¯s necessary ...
Germany has provided inspiring and visionary leadership on energy and climate for many years, but is now at risk of being left behind, according to former US Vice President Al Gore. While stakeholders met for the first session of Germany¡¯s coal exit ...
09 Jan 2020, 13:33 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs S?ren Amelang Coal Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's Fridays for Future student climate protest movement has increased the pressure on engineering conglomerate Siemens for its involvement in ...
Germany faces fines to the tune of two billion euros by 2020 for failing to meet emissions reduction targets in sectors not covered by the European Emissions Trading System (ETS), Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The German ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Storage Resources & Recycling Tagesspiegel Background Several new industry initiatives aimed at improving battery lifetime in e-cars and other applications show the growing awareness in ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:08 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Transport Freight Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s shipbuilding and offshore supply industry is an " ...
11 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024, 11:42 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team France24: Germany's Scholz calls for European EV subsidy plan Chancellor's call comes as country's flagship auto industry struggles with the transition to battery-powered cars. WEF: The Cost of Inaction: A CEO ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:52 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A rapid roll-out of charging infrastructure as planned by the German government could significantly speed up the uptake of electric vehicles, according to a report by the ...
07 Jun 2015, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel has voiced optimism that Germany can find a way to cut emissions from coal-fired power plants. Merkel, who seeks to convince other leaders of major industrialised countries to commit to ambitious climate action ...
10 Feb 2022, 13:57 S?ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out EU Der Tagesspiegel Germany's economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has denounced France's focus on nuclear power as "outdated." The neighbouring country was pursuing a " ...
The transition away from combustion engines to electric ones will destroy many jobs in the German car industry, but also create new ones, Henrik Mortsiefer writes in Der Tagesspiegel. ¡°An electric car consists of about 200 parts, a car running with petrol ...
The German Green Party¡¯s first fundamental policy statement in 16 years heralds ¡°a new stage¡± in the ecologic-liberal party, Cordula Ebel writes in the Tagesspiegel. The party will use a convention to start working on the paper, which is scheduled for ...
Germany¡¯s government has fallen behind in the transformation of the energy industry triggered by the energy transition, and must now speed up its policy making processes to support the sector in reaching emissions reduction goals, the managing director of ...
Germany will not be able to phase out coal-fired power production by 2030, said Rolf Martin Schmitz, head of RWE, the country¡¯s biggest power producer and Europe¡¯s biggest private emitter of CO 2. In an interview with the Rheinische Post on the eve of the ...
21 Jun 2019, 13:32 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs S?ren Amelang Transport Freight Tageszeitung (taz) German railway operator Deutsche Bahn has agreed to a massive increase in passenger and freight capacities in ...
The energy transition remains the German government coalition¡¯s ¡°largest construction site,¡± due to its gigantic regulatory needs, writes Die Welt. ¡°The goal of cutting CO? emissions by 40 percent by 2020 will clearly be missed. [¡] Grid expansion was ...
The decision by US President Donald Trump to pull his country out of the global Paris Climate Agreement has been met with dismay and defiance by the German government, Silke Kersting writes on Handelsblatt Online. Meanwhile, environmental organisations ...
17 Mar 2022, 13:57 S?ren Amelang Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government has instructed the country's cartel authorities to look into the recent spike of diesel and petrol prices and to take action on any indication of ...
The Group of Twenty (G20) is ¡°beginning to head in the right direction¡± towards a low-carbon economy but needs to step up its efforts to meet the Paris Agreement¡¯s temperature goals, according to a report by Climate Transparency, the international ...
18 Nov 2017, 00:00 Bonn had delivered what was necessary to be on schedule for the decisions needed at COP24 in Katowice, the Germany delegation said / Negotiations finished in the early hours of 18 November / Last contentious issues still debated through ...
03 Dec 2018
03 Dec 2018, 14:38 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German environment minister Svenja Schulze has called on the international community to use the UN climate change conference in Poland to show willingness to raise ambitions in ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate-friendly heating technologies may now be predominant in new builds in Germany but the country¡¯s existing buildings continue to rely on fossil fuels, shows a report by the German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
10 Jul 2019, 13:01 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport WDR / Die Welt / Neues Deutschland France¡¯s? plans to introduce an eco-tax of between 1.50 and 18 euros on flight tickets ? got mixed reviews from commentators in the German media. ¡°The new ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:13 Renewables Hydrogen Energate Messenger The roll-out of electric cars and the production of synthetic hydrogen-based fuels will push up Germany's demand for electricity in the years to come, resulting in a need to speed up the ...
17 Mar 2016
17 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federal Environment Agency (UBA) Emissions data 2015 ¨C 6 million tonnes more?CO2 2015 has seen a slight increase in greenhouse gas emissions, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) reports. According ...
04 Jun 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Spiegel The political dispute about rising petrol prices in Germany shows the hypocrisy of many politicians¡¯ climate policy approaches, writes Gerald Traufetter in an opinion ...
The current German renewable energy surcharge will not be enough to put the Energiewende on a sound financial basis, due to growing demand for electricity in transport and heating (sector coupling), economy minister Sigmar Gabriel said at the annual ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:27 Freja Eriksen Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The first grid development plan (NEP) based on Germany's target of 65 percent renewables in gross power consumption and planned coal exit has been approved by the German Federal Network Agency ...
15 Aug 2023, 14:04 Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The share of fully electric passenger cars in Germany continues to grow quickly, with the number of e-car ...
05 Nov 2021, 12:23 Edgar Meza Transport Freight Elections & Politics Spiegel / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The Greens and pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP), which look set to join the Social Democrats (SPD) in Germany¡¯s next coalition government, ...
08 Sep 2020, 13:58 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Transport EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The European Union has to " ...
03 Jan 2024, 12:09 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables Germany's lignite power production fell to the lowest level since 1963 last year, while hard coal power ...
24 May 2017, 00:00 Days before the G7 summit in Italy, foreign governments praised German Chancellor Merkel for her international leadership on climate and urged her to sway US President Donald Trump to keep the United States in the Paris Agreement. ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German leaders see the country well-equipped to get through the coming winter in the ongoing energy crisis. The government had initiated the necessary preparations to secure ...
The criticism of the Green Party¡¯s climate policy by Andrea Nahles, leader of the? SPD, Germany¡¯s junior government coalition partner, has led to consternation and objections by the Greens and environmental groups. NGO Greenpeace said in a mailed ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:18 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Independence from oil and gas imports is an important goal of the energy transition, according 86 percent of Germans responding to a recent representative survey ...
30 Sep 2024, 13:46 S?ren Amelang Carbon removal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government's current plan for allowing carbon capture and storage (CCS) is far too permissive and set to delay the phase-out of fossil fuels, said environmental NGOs. They ...
Completing the energy transition and reaching Germany¡¯s climate targets is possible only with a corresponding transport transition (Verkehrswende), according to a policy paper by new think tank Agora Verkehrswende.* The organisation presents ¡°Twelve ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:05 Edgar Meza Storage Cars manager magazin US electric car manufacturer Tesla will be manufacturing battery cells along with electric vehicles at its planned German factory in Gr¨¹nheide near Berlin, manager magazine? reported citing ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:31 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ In its quest for global green hydrogen leadership, Germany has launched three flagship zero-emission technology projects. Following a call for ideas, the country's research ministry said it ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics New York Times For years, Germany has been embroiled in a cultural war over immigration, refugees and diversity, but the environment has also emerged as a deeply polarising issue that the ...
In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung¡¯s Kerstin Schwenn, German minister of transport Andreas Scheuer, a member of the conservative CSU party, said the retrofitting of millions of diesel cars to make them cleaner and reduce emissions ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:54 Julian Wettengel Coal Tagesspiegel Background / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The federal government has largely rejected calls by German states to make changes to the planned coal exit law, reports Nora Zaremba in energy and climate policy ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:39 Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices Efficiency dpa / Merkur The German Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community is in favour of introducing tax incentives for homeowners who want to renovate parts of their homes to increase energy ...
Germany is demonstrating leadership across the EU in transparently reporting its fossil fuel subsidies, but its subsidies applied through tax deductions in transport and electricity remain very high, write the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the ...
Consultancy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Brainpool has analysed Germany¡¯s aspiring government coalition parties¡¯ manifestos on their energy policy positions. The group derived five major challenges that can serve as a basis for common action. A so-called Jamaica coalition of ...
30 Jan 2023, 15:52 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Table.Media / taz [CLARIFICATION: It is not just Agora Energiewende which says LNG expansion plans are oversized. The grid operators in their draft plan state that if all planned LNG capacity is ...
15 Dec 2021, 12:09 S?ren Amelang Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A large hard coal power station and two small-scale combined heat and power plants in Germany are set to stop selling electricity by May 2023 as part of the country's coal exit. In the fourth ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:07 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 ZDF German environment minister Steffi Lemke is demanding clarification from the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) following allegations of fraudulent emission reduction projects in China used by fossil fuel ...
26 Feb 2021, 12:17 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Citizens' energy Energiewende Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background German citizens want to participate in the energy ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:39 Preview 2020: Solar power in Germany has bottomed out from its breakdown a few years back and looks ahead at 2020 full of confidence that the odds are in its favour in the country thanks to the introduction of carbon pricing in the ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:43 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Employing multi-stakeholder task forces like Germany¡¯s coal exit ...
20 Oct 2020, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Security Tagesspiegel Background The coronavirus pandemic shows that Europe needs to broaden its security policy focus to include non-military or terrorist threats such as infectious disease and global warming, former ...
27 Nov 2020, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German economy ministry (BMWi) will join the environment ministry (BMU) in managing the government's international power-to-X hub to facilitate the production of ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:18 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Heating Handelsblatt German households are increasingly switching to electric heat pumps when upgrading their heating systems and analysts predict demand will continue to grow, Handelsblatt reports. Heat ...
19 Aug 2022, 12:53 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 Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The ...
An international group of 45 private foundations and philanthropic organisations has called on the G20 to make the implementation of the UN agreements on climate protection and sustainability their core responsibility. ¡°If necessary, this must be enforced ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:39 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A mandatory minimum distance for wind turbines from residential areas would severely ...
29 Jun 2021, 13:57 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza Cars Elections & Politics WirtschaftsWoche / dpa / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung German transport minister Andreas Scheuer has ...
11 Feb 2025
11 Feb 2025, 11:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team PIK: Research institute compiles 85,000 individual studies about climate policy, offering "wealth of evidence" Over a quarter of studies reviewed from 2020 or later; Potsdam Institute for Cliamte Impact Research ...
15 Sep 2021, 13:05 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S?ren Amelang Hydrogen German utilities have said that the ...
11 Dec 2019, 12:59 Freja Eriksen Finance S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Germany is wavering at the last minute to make a decision on whether to support an EU taxonomy for green financial activities that aims to identify the investments that will be regarded as ...
23 Sep 2021, 12:45 ¡°Achieving net-zero¡± emissions by the middle of the century is a goal that few would fault. But when it comes to reaching a balance of greenhouse gases and carbon removal ¨C as not all emissions from food and industrial production can be ...
18 May 2022, 12:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security ARD / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The governing Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Germany grapples with the connections of some of its senior party members with Russian fossil fuel companies. ...
05 Dec 2019, 12:47 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German auto industry association VDA has warned against the new European Commission's push for ...
21 Apr 2021, 13:17 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 Technology Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
12 Aug 2022, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Efficiency Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An alliance of associations have called on Germany¡¯s government to boost energy efficiency ahead of the winter, as rising prices and a looming shortage of gas affect ...
09 May 2019, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance AFP / Handelsblatt Allianz, Germany¡¯s leading insurer, aims to make its investments completely climate-neutral by the middle of the century, company CEO OIiver B?te told shareholders, news agency AFP reports. ...
15 Nov 2024, 12:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal dpa / Euwid The legacy of lignite mining is posing great challenges to the water management of eastern German coal mining area Lusatia. The issue could also affect the water supply of the country¡¯s nearby capital ...
04 Mar 2020, 13:46 Rachel Waldholz Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Austria¡¯s new government has set ambitious climate targets that will require massive new investments in renewable energy ¨C and it is looking to Germany, and ...
The plenary debate in the German Parliament about Germany¡¯s 2019 budget for environmental policy on 12 September centred on the country¡¯s coal exit. Referring to the current situation in the embattled Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut ...
German energy minister Peter Altmaier has rejected calls from a group of EU countries to increase the share of renewables to between 33 and 35 percent of the bloc¡¯s energy mix by 2030, Fr¨¦d¨¦ric Simon writes in EURACTIV. Speaking at an 11 June Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
The chief energy policy negotiator of German Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU in the ongoing ¡®Jamaica coalition¡¯ talks, North Rhine-Westphalia¡¯s (NRW) State Premier Armin Laschet, said that Germany could give up coal-fired power production by ...
The agricultural sector is not suitable for full inclusion in the European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS), experts commissioned by the German Ministry for Food and Agriculture said during a presentation of a ministry report on climate ...
07 Jan 2025, 14:01 Jennifer Collins Heating dpa / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ More than a third of Germany's municipalities are working on municipal heat planning to help phase out fossil fuel systems, with 13 percent already finished with their plans, reports ...
24 Jan 2019, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Welt Online Germany looks set to decide an expensive future coal exit plan ¨C money that would just be spent to ¡°marginally speed up¡± what is already in ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:30 Edgar Meza Solar Wind n-tv Despite Germany¡¯s increased focus on renewable energy following its decoupling from Russian energy sources in the wake of the war on Ukraine, high inflation and other economic developments have thrown the wind ...
19 Feb 2021, 14:03 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Many German banks fail to realise their crucial role in the transformation towards a sustainable economy and neglect the topic of sustainability, a report by consultancy ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ In order to reach climate neutrality in the most affordable way, Germany must ensure it can transport energy across its regions by expanding its electricity and hydrogen grids, ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The decommissioning of local gas grids in German cities should be flagged ten years in advance to allow households to prepare accordingly and avoid the purchase ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:58 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Financial Times Germany¡¯s last hard coal mine in the Ruhr area will officially close on Friday 21 December and with it the era of a ¡°fuel that propelled the nation¡¯s economic and political expansion ¨C for ...
With a surprise last-minute veto, federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel blocked a tentative agreement on Germany¡¯s Climate Action Plan 2050, writes Markus Wacket for news agency Reuters. German mining, chemicals and energy trade union IG BCE and the ...
Due to the sluggish advance of its energy transition in the heating and transport sectors, Germany is set to miss the EU target of covering 18-percent of final energy consumption with renewables by 2020, lobby group the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation (BEE) ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:08 Rachel Waldholz Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany¡¯s increased subsidy for electric vehicles goes into effect today (Wednesday, Feb. 19), FAZ.net reports. The increase in the e-car buyer¡¯s premium was first announced in ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:31 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Gas Wind Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Engineering conglomerate Siemens, oil giant Shell and German grid operator TenneT have called for stepping up the country¡¯s plans to roll out offshore wind, in ...
The governments of China and Germany have vowed to intensify their joint efforts in global climate diplomacy and in upholding free trade, as well as in the development and rollout of energy transition technologies, the German government says in a press ...
31 Mar 2023, 11:38 The era of nuclear power in Germany will end on 15 April as planned, the country¡¯s environment minister has said. Minister Steffi Lemke stressed that the phase-out would not endanger the power supply security in Germany or other ...
11 Nov 2024
11 Nov 2024, 11:24 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Guardian: The collapse of Germany¡¯s government will delight Trump ¨C and his European friends The German dream of centrist, stable government has been dashed by geopolitical forces and the cult of balanced budgets, writes Paul ...
13 Oct 2020, 13:21 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Finance EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Many smaller companies in Germany are worried that the EU¡¯s ...
25 Mar 2015
25 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Institute for Applied Ecology / Friends of the Earth Germany Exit from lignite possible by 2030 Germany¡¯s national and regional climate goals imply that lignite mining will have to stop much ...
21 Mar 2022, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / ARD Germany¡¯s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has launched an energy partnership with the Emir of Qatar which includes both the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and ...
22 Apr 2021, 12:58 Germany's utilities say the delay to the EU decision on whether natural gas projects count as a sustainable investment imperils the country's supply security and climate targets. They argue that the exclusion of gas from the ...
18 Mar 2019, 13:58 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Mobility Institut f¨¹r Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilit?t Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Frankfurter Rundschau The German ...
12 Apr 2019, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A broad alliance of environmental NGOs, police unions and traffic accident victim organisations has called for the swift introduction of a general speed limit on the ...
27 Sep 2024, 13:33 It will be very difficult for Germany to reach its target of providing developing countries with at least six billion euros in climate finance from its federal budget by 2025, said government officials in Berlin. The recent budget ...
07 Sep 2021, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling WirtschaftsWoche The current supply shortages of semiconductors due to the pandemic for the European car industry could be a glimpse of future difficulties the industry will face ...
Any date for abandoning coal agreed by Germany¡¯s coal exit commission must be linked to specific conditions- and these must be fulfilled to actually implement the agreement, the state premier of Germany¡¯s most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia ...
13 Nov 2024, 12:02 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel More than half of companies in Germany¡¯s most important stock indices are lagging behind on their self-imposed targets for emission reductions, ...
The protests against energy company RWE in that Hambach Forest are directed at a coal lobby that wants to show its power and create precedents, even though clearing the forest is now technically not necessary, Rainer Balcerowiak writes in an opinion piece ...
03 May 2022, 12:28 Edgar Meza Bioenergy Frankfurter Rundschau Germany¡¯s environment minister is planning further reductions in biofuel production in view of growing food shortages due to the war in Ukraine, Frankfurter Rundschau reports. The war is ¡°a ...
18 Sep 2024, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Europe should establish a so-called ¡°Carbon Central Bank¡± ¨C an institution to oversee a market mechanism to remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere ¨C to reach climate targets, ...
12 Jun 2020, 13:37 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Mobility Digitalisation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The coronavirus pandemic has boosted digitalisation because it forced many people to do without business trips, work remotely and shop online, which offers ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel The growing level of emissions caused by air travel has started to move into the debate about Germany¡¯s climate action, Helge Hommers writes for the newspaper Tagesspiegel. A ...
Japan and Great Britain did not sign a joint statement with France, Germany and Italy in reaction to the US decision to leave the Paris Agreement, and Canada¡¯s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed to strike the references to the Paris Agreement from the ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:03 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Solar Storage Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The number of solar power storage devices ...
15 Mar 2021, 13:33 "Super election year" 2021 in Germany has been kicked off with a resounding defeat of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU in two state elections that saw the party incur historic losses. For the rivalling Green ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ consumption in Germany in the first three months of 2023 was almost seven percent below that of the same period last year due to high prices and a shrunk gross domestic ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:45 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 dpa Temperatures in Lake Constance, located in the border triangle of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, are rising, with harmful consequences for fish and plants living there, reports news agency dpa. ...
09 Jan 2025
09 Jan 2025, 12:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Bloomberg: Northvolt owners back battery output as funding search continues EV supplier has been seeking investors post-Chapter 11 filing in US Swedish law requires shareholder assent after equity declines Bloomberg: Amundi, ...
26 Apr 2022, 12:34 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Efficiency Security Tagesspiegel More than 58,000 people in Germany have signed a petition submitted to the German Bundestag demanding a national speed limit, car-free Sundays and a ban on domestic flights to ...
21 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
24 Nov 2017, 00:00 For the first time in its post-war history, Germany struggles to form a stable government coalition two months after voters cast their ballot in September's elections. The so-called Jamaica coalition talks' collapse plunges ...
21 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Germany's four ...
30 May 2016
30 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Die Welt ¡°EU wants to split Germany into two power price zones¡± The European Commission ¡°is threatening to split [Germany] into two power price zones,¡± which would make power more ...
06 Dec 2019, 15:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government will meet with state representatives in January to discuss how to expand renewable energy installations at a pace that will raise the share of renewables in ...
By 2030, the total purchase, maintenance and operation costs of a battery electric vehicle will be significantly lower than those of a conventional car that emits the same amount of greenhouse gases, according to a study published by the Institute for ...
The G20 is in principle ¡°an acceptable format¡± to find solutions for big global challenges, but the Hamburg summit ¡°must deliver results¡± given the costs associated with hosting the event, said Sweelin Heuss, managing director at Greenpeace Germany, at a ...
30 May 2023, 13:19 Jessica Bateman Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Bloomberg The number of solar panel systems in Germany hit three million on Monday (29 May), with?total solar PV installed capacity reaching?more than 70 gigawatts (GW), according to? industry ...
02 Mar 2020, 14:10 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:31 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur f¨¹r Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The share of renewable energies used in Germany¡¯s transport sector stagnated at 5.6% in 2019, a study ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:20 Edgar Meza Grid Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Berlin-based think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial has called for alternative methods to finance electricity grid expansion in Germany. The current financing of electricity grid expansion via grid fees ...
26 May 2020, 12:38 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 Left Party Die Linke Renewable ...
13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024, 13:14 Jack McGovan Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A vast majority of municipalities in Germany have already suffered from the impacts of climate change, according to a survey commissioned by the country's environment agency (UBA). Seventy-seven ...
The German ministries for economic affairs and energy (BMWi) and environment (BMU) compete for taking the lead in the planned commission that is tasked with preparing the country¡¯s coal exit ¨C dubbed "coal commission" ¨C, Reuters news agency ...
After several hours of negotiations on diesel emissions and immigration, the federal government coalition also agreed that it would decide to implement special renewables auctions ¡°to contribute to closing the gap in the 2020 climate target¡± in a cabinet ...
The European Commission has given up plans to tighten the European emissions reduction goal for 2030 ahead of the UN climate conference COP24 in Katowice as member states did not voice sufficient support for the ambitious target to reduce CO 2 levels by ...
13 Nov 2019, 12:01 Freja Eriksen Gas Finance Der Tagesspiegel / Euractiv Former secretary-general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has called on the German government to back the? proposal to ban ?all fossil fuels projects, including natural gas, from ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:40 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The biggest bottleneck in skilled labour supply affecting Germany's energy transition is in electrical construction, according to a report by the German Economic Institute¡¯s (IW) ...
04 Sep 2020, 16:24 Swedish utility Vattenfall wants to shut down its youngest and most efficient coal-fired power plant in Germany because it is unprofitable. After participating in the first hard coal phase-out tender, CEO Magnus Hall said that if his ...
05 Nov 2019, 13:58 S?ren Amelang Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The number of jobs in Germany will increase if the country pursues ambitious emissions cuts, according to a study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), which is affiliated with the ...
11 Apr 2022, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The number of construction permits issued for new onshore wind turbines in the first three months of 2022 fell 14 percent compared to the same period last year, wind energy industry association ...
21 Mar 2016
21 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Reuters / EnBW ¡°Germany's EnBW cuts dividend, sees lower profits in 2016¡± Germany¡¯s third largest utility EnBW posted a 125-million-euro net profit in 2015, but the adjusted operating result ...
03 May 2019, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Policy ZDF Germany¡¯s economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier is sceptical of the idea of introducing a tax on CO?, he said on?Maybrit Illner, a political television talk show by ...
It was ¡°tactically unwise¡± for social democratic environment minister Svenja Schulze not to coordinate her initiative for a price on CO? emissions better with finance minister and party colleague Olaf Scholz, writes Jan Drebes in an opinion piece in ...
29 Sep 2023, 13:56 S?ren Amelang Electricity Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewables covered more than half of Germany¡¯s electricity consumption so far this year, according to calculations by utility association BDEW and the Centre for Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and ...
02 Dec 2024, 12:47 S?ren Amelang Business & Jobs International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The expansion of renewable energies, in particular geothermal, as well as Germany¡¯s shortage of skilled workers needed to implement its landmark energy transition will be ...
07 Aug 2019, 13:51 S?ren Amelang Storage Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The rapid spread of home batteries in Germany has brought the European residential storage market to an economic tipping point, according to a report by energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie. ¡°Germany ...
The future design of the EU Emissions Trading System is of "existential importance" for the steel industry, according to the German Steel Industry Association (Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl). The association says in a press release that the ...
17 May 2021, 12:31 Edgar Meza Transport Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel As Germany¡¯s election year campaigning heats up, political leaders hoping to succeed chancellor Angela Merkel are taking aim at cheap flights and domestic air travel as they ...
The German government should quickly narrow down its mid-century greenhouse gas reduction goal because energy policy decisions in the here and now depend on it, said German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency (dena) head Andreas Kuhlmann. ¡°My recommendation to the government ...
30 Aug 2019, 15:19 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Freja Eriksen Transport Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung / Tagesschau MPs from the conservative German government coalition party ...
The European auto industry is questioning existing and future EU car fleet CO? emission limits, reports news agency dpa in an article carried by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ¡°Our industry is worrying about whether we¡¯ll be able to reach the 2021 target ...
01 Dec 2023, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's grid agency has proposed to reduce electricity grid fees in areas with a high share of renewables, in a bid to distribute the costs of rolling out wind and solar energy more fairly ...
12 Aug 2019, 12:25 Expert BWE- German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
17 Mar 2016
17 Mar 2016, 00:00 (UPDATES with new quotes from the conference. Please note: this item will be updated throughout the conference)- The world has to move from negotiations to actions on climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy after the ...
21 Apr 2016
21 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ WWF Germany ¡°Germans want more climate action¡± German citizens would like to see more engagement in the fight against climate change, environment organisation WWF Germany says, ...
15 Mar 2021, 13:18 The German agriculture ministry has proposed six voluntary environmental measures to make the country¡¯s farming sector more sustainable and climate-friendly. Its draft plan on how Germany will spend EU agricultural subsidies as of 2023 ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:05 Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany¡¯s largest steelmaker thyssenkrupp has set itself the target of cutting its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. ¡°Thyssenkrupp aims to be climate ...
14 Apr 2021, 14:56 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Gas International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH)?has? filed a lawsuit ?against the continued construction of the Baltic Sea gas pipeline Nord Stream 2.?The non-profit ...
17 Feb 2016
17 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Handelsblatt / Ministry for Environment ¡°Everything for the climate¡± The Ministry for Environment (BMUB) is about to enter the second phase of consultation for its Climate Action Plan 2050, and has ...
Germany¡¯s renewable levy? decreases for the second year in a row, but the government should lower household power prices by abolishing exemptions for companies that do not compete internationally, writes Joachim Wille in an editorial in the Frankfurter ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:38 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The members of Germany¡¯s coal exit commission are ¡°willing to work together constructively to find solutions¡±, but the conditions are ¡°chaotic ...
Germany¡¯s energy transition ¡°is no energy transition¡± since the country continues to heavily rely on lignite power as its most important source of energy, Christian Schlesinger writes in the business weekly WirtschaftsWoche. If Germany wants to lower its ...
30 Sep 2020, 13:15 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Heating CO2 ...
04 Dec 2024, 12:31 Jack McGovan Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background The CDU/CSU conservative alliance in Germany has called for revenues from the upcoming Emissions Trading System (ETS II) for fuels used in transport and heating to ...
24 Oct 2024
24 Oct 2024, 13:15 Germany's economy minister has proposed a ten percent state aid premium for industry investments to boost the struggling economy and ease the path to climate neutrality. Robert Habeck said the country is falling behind ...
27 Oct 2021, 16:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Elections & Politics WDR / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Die Zeit Conservative CDU politician Hendrik W¨¹st has been voted in as new state premier of Germany¡¯s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia ...
30 Sep 2020, 13:18 S?ren Amelang Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Shell plans to make Germany a test case in its global ambition to become a net-zero emission company. The British-Dutch oil major, one of the world's largest companies by revenues ...
01 Aug 2024, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Electricity Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Primary energy consumption in Germany has continued to decrease in the first half of 2024 with the country consuming 3.4 percent less than the same period the previous ...
28 Oct 2020, 14:31 Edgar Meza Coal Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / Frankfurter Rundschau / Deutsche Welle Denouncing wasteful public spending, the German Taxpayers?Federation has taken issue with what it perceives to be the country¡¯s overly costly coal ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cost & Prices Greater emphasis on large-scale solar power plants built on open land could cut the costs of Germany¡¯s energy transition by up to 3.5 billion euros by 2030, according to a study commissioned by ...
The European Commission has set a deadline for Germany and other countries to show how they intend to comply with the EU¡¯s air quality standards or face court action, reports Florian Eder for Politico. In a letter seen by Politico, Commissioner for the ...
23 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germany¡¯s industry should work with the government to reach the goals in the country¡¯s newly adopted Climate Action Plan 2050 rather than criticise the plan or individual measures, energy state secretary Rainer Baake told a conference ...
10 Jul 2019, 12:56 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 DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche ...
Germany is far from phasing out coal use for its energy supply ¨C despite its political commitment to a low-carbon economy, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) writes in a report on ¡°The role of coal in Europe¡¯s power mix¡±. The country¡¯s dependence on ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background New military exclusion zones could lead to the loss of up to a third of federal land for wind power generation in Germany, Tagesspiegel Background reported. The German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association (BWE ...
Germany¡¯s Energiewende will not succeed ¡°fast and easy¡±, and the country¡¯s energy supply will continue to depend on lignite for some time, said Brandenburg¡¯s state economy minister Albrecht Gerber in an interview with S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°I do know that ...
11 Feb 2020, 14:18 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Mobility Institut f¨¹r Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilit?t Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German ...
26 Nov 2021, 13:11 Following the publication of the coalition treaty, the Green Party has named its future ministers who will be in charge of the foreign office, the ¡°super ministry" for economy and climate, the environment department, and the food ...
15 Jun 2021, 12:50 Edgar Meza Digitalisation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The digitalisation of the energy transition process again made noticeable progress last year, but long-awaited regulations are still pending, according to the latest study commissioned by the ...
A global Energiewende is already underway, but world leaders should give it a further push at the upcoming G20 meeting in China, according to a WWF report. ¡°As the current level of coal in the mix remains a problem to be solved for Germany, the country ...
14 Jun 2024, 13:02 S?ren Amelang Adaptation Agriculture Frankfurter Rundschau Due to rising global temperatures, the first hobby farmers in Germany have started growing olive groves, which are on track to becoming profitable in the future, reports ...
02 Mar 2020, 14:01 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Most banks in Germany lack proper preparation to cope with risks stemming from climate change and will have a hard ...
02 Aug 2021, 12:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Neue Osnabr¨¹cker Zeitung A quick increase of Germany's CO2 price in the heating and transport sector is "exactly the right way forward" to ensure the country is ...
According to a government official, Germany wants the 8-9 June G7 summit, to be held in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, Canada, to issue a joint communiqu¨¦ that also covers climate and energy-related issues. In light of the US¡¯ position, agreeing on a ...
Germany¡¯s leading lobbyist for the car industry, Matthias Wissmann, says that those opponents of the use of cars who today fight for the condemnation of diesel cars in the wake of the emissions fraud scandal will eventually turn against electric cars as ...
10 May 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society YouGov / ZDF Attitudes toward a tax on carbon emissions in Germany strongly depend on age, with older people in general being much more sceptical of such a policy, a survey by pollster YouGov ...
09 Dec 2024, 13:58 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background It remains unclear whether Germany¡¯s planned reform of its carbon storage law will make it through parliament ahead of the snap election in February 2025,? ...
With more cooperation on energy infrastructure, European states could counter the risks associated with fluctuating supply of wind power, Ralph Diermann writes on Spiegel Online. According to a study in Nature Climate Change, variable weather conditions ...
23 Mar 2022, 15:41 A sudden stop of energy imports from Russia would threaten "hundreds of thousands of jobs" and push Europe's economy into recession, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned. He said Germany will end its energy dependence as ...
07 Aug 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Focus Renewable energy supplied a record of 69.2 percent of Germany¡¯s public net electricity generation in July 2023, according to data by research institute Fraunhofer ISE. Due ...
28 Jan 2022, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt A sharp reversal halting the drop in prices for solar panels, wind turbines and batteries caused by supply chain problems and rising raw material costs could ...
15 Mar 2016
15 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Was the nuclear phase-out unconstitutional?¡± Germany¡¯s Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe will on Tuesday and Wednesday hear parties in the case of the country¡¯s nuclear phase ...
08 Feb 2021, 13:51 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Transport Handelsblatt German carmaker Audi plans to set up its own charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. Company head Markus Duesmann told business daily Handelsblatt at least 30 percent of Audi cars ...
Germany¡¯s Green Party is open to discuss its prominent election campaign demand to ban combustion engines in newly registered vehicles by 2030, Claudia Kade, Birger Nicolai, Philipp Vetter write in Die Welt. ¡°We Greens are not determined to phase out ...
10 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024, 13:16 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Nature: Overconfidence in climate overshoot Global and regional climate change and associated risks after a temporary overshoot of global warming limits are different from a world that avoids it. Reuters: German economy ...
