The BDI study showing that climate protection and economic growth can go hand in hand should kill off the last arguments against ambitious climate protection, according to Greenpeace. ¡°The economic association is right to call for planning security in ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:17 Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A ...
03 May 2019, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Policy ZDF ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ 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 ...
20 Jan 2016, 00:00 Germany needs a pathway for exiting coal by 2050 at the very latest, according to Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks. She welcomed Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Minister Sigmar Gabriel's announcement of a round table on the thorny issue, and said a ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:16 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Utility EnBW has started ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:10 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 dpa ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ main conservative party (CDU) ?will present its own concept for a CO2 pricing scheme ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:28 Expert BWE- German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind dpa / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The number of newly installed wind power ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:00 Voters in the EU will head to the polls in June 2024 to elect the next European Parliament, kicking off a months-long process to pick the bloc¡¯s new leadership that will shape climate policy until the end of the decade. It will face the ...
14 Jun 2023, 13:45 Exceeding the 1.5¡ãC temperature limit of the Paris Climate Agreement would jeopardise the prospect of living in security and prosperity in Germany and globally, says ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ first-ever National Security Strategy. In the document, the ...
Falling emissions from the energy sector mean ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell slightly in 2015, compared to 2014, according to revised data published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). 901.9 million tonnes CO? equivalents were ...
12 Jun 2015
12 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Simply carry on¡± G7 politicians want to rid the world of fossil fuels but German industry will demand support for the decarbonisation, Karl-Heinz B¨¹schemann writes in the ...
03 Mar 2020, 14:13 S?ren Amelang Energiewende Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt German ministries continue to be divided over plans for a hydrogen economy, delaying publication of the country's highly anticipated strategy to lower emissions in high ...
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 ...
03 Feb 2020, 13:44 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Gas ...
29 Sep 2021, 13:42 Olaf Scholz has led Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) to an unexpected win in the country's 2021 elections. The finance minister of chancellor Angela Merkel's outgoing government has led a campaign based on continuity with ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International Security Bloomberg / Politico US Vice President Mike Pence has reiterated his administration¡¯s criticism of the controversial German-Russian Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project in the Baltic ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:39 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Renewables Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The share of renewable energy in German ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ, Tagesschau, Focus Online The German cabinet has passed a climate emergency programme allocating an additional 8.1 billion euros for climate protection measures over the next five ...
Several citizens¡¯ and environmental groups in Germany have reiterated their call for a standstill agreement on lignite mine expansion until the speed and scope of the country¡¯s coal phase-out has been determined, Ralph Jansen writes in the K?lner Stadt ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:13 S?ren Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Germany's environment minister Svenja Schulze has proposed to speed up the large-scale use of renewable hydrogen with a quota for aeroplane fuels and tenders for production.? "For me it is ...
23 Jun 2020, 13:48 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology 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 ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:59 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Spiegel Online CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article, the authors's name was misspelled as "Heckling". The correct name is " ...
09 Oct 2020, 13:43 S?ren Amelang Industry Hamburger Abendblatt Swiss-based building materials company Holcim is registering rising demand for climate-neutral concrete. "We register big interest from many companies in climate-neutral construction who ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ aspiring Jamaica coalition parties still disagree on a range of key policy fields one day before exploratory talks for a new government are scheduled to end, Gregor Waschinski writes for news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). ¡°There¡¯s a ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The number of air passengers in Germany is set to decline in 2020, as carriers are projected to reduce the number of available seats by 1.8 percent in the first nine months of the year, the ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:07 S?ren Amelang Cars International S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The EU Commission has ¡°brusquely¡± rebuffed a German call for a reappraisal of existing nitrogen oxide limits in what amounts to a ¡°slap in the face¡± for transport minister Andreas ...
The German Greens have signalled their readiness to make concessions on core policy demands in the field of climate protection for the sake of advancing the stagnant coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro ...
19 May 2022, 12:00 Germany has reacted largely positively to EU plans for ending dependence on Russian fossil fuel imports. Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the European Commission¡¯s RePowerEU Plan an ¡°important initiative¡± that could give fresh impetus to ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:45 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Cars Handelsblatt The SUV (sport utility vehicle) boom cheered on by German carmakers BMW, Daimler and VW is about to turn into a heavy liability for the industry as EU fines for excessive emissions loom ...
08 Feb 2018, 00:00 After weeks of intensive negotiations, Germany's would-be government partners have agreed on a coalition draft treaty. The Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ presents first reactions to texts on transport, climate and energy. [UPDATE adds VDA, VDMA ...
30 May 2017, 00:00 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition is a vast national project that is reshaping the entire country- but it is not happening at an equal pace everywhere in the country. Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ takes a look at the county Marburg-Biedenkopf in the central German ...
05 Sep 2019, 16:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices Investments in renewable energy were halved in Germany in 2018 compared to the year before, landing the country in fourth place in global renewable investments, said Ulf Moslener, ...
06 Mar 2019, 11:26 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Missing its? 2030 climate targets for the transport sector could cost Germany billions of euros,? according to a report by the NewClimate Institute ...
13 Mar 2019, 11:10 The Hambach Forest in western Germany has become a symbol for climate activists, who are seeking to prevent energy company RWE from razing it to expand a nearby coal mine. A lawsuit by the environmental NGO BUND last year temporarily ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:41 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza Agriculture In a global analysis of the potential of local food production to feed hungry cities in the present and in future, researchers from ...
17 May 2016
17 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Der Tagesspiegel / Vattenfall ¡°Around 3,000 participants end blockade¡± As part of the worldwide protests ¡°Break free from fossil fuels¡± around 3,000 demonstrators from all over ...
05 Jul 2022, 12:40 Possible state support for energy company Uniper ¨C Europe¡¯s largest buyer of Russian fossil gas ¨C is justified because an insolvency would trigger a domino effect and shake up the entire German gas industry, says energy analyst Andreas ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:35 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Freja Eriksen Heating Welt Online / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Tenants in Germany will be placed under further economic pressure by the new climate action ...
31 Aug 2015
31 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ¡°EU considers penalties for excessive CO2 emissions¡± The EU Commission is considering the introduction of binding regional climate targets for the development of ...
Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ state secretary Rainer Baake has quit after four years in charge of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ flagship Energiewende policy at the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (BMWi). Baake, a Green Party politician whose appointment by then economy minister Sigmar ...
20 Jan 2020, 13:23 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background Critics of Germany's roadmap for phasing out lignite-fired power plants have ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal exit should follow the Coal Exit Commission's final report as closely as possible, according to the commission¡¯s co-chair ...
30 Jun 2017, 00:00 One week ahead of the Hamburg G20 summit, the ambitious climate and energy action plan the German presidency was pushing hangs in the balance. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she is determined to make the meeting a success on ...
29 Jan 2015
29 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Rundschau Minister sees Bavaria as showcase for the Energiewende Bavarian economy minister Ilse Aigner says that far from blocking the energy transition, her state is a driver of the ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:10 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche St?dte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:26 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transport Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Reducing greenhouse gas ...
23 Jan 2019, 17:36 Developed countries have the responsibility to establish ¡°technologies from which others can benefit¡±, such as forms of renewable energy production, after they emitted a lot of CO? during the industrialisation, German Chancellor Angela ...
28 Apr 2017, 00:00 No other party has been part of a German federal government longer than the Free Democrats (FDP). They also governed together with Angela Merkel's CDU at the time of the Fukushima disaster and supported the second nuclear phase-out ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:01 The Social Democrats- emerging from a legislative period with a ¡°great deal of dissent¡± in energy policy with its conservative coalition partner- are hoping to find new partners and new ways to drive forward the expansion of renewable ...
12 Aug 2020, 13:55 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Gas Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Utility Uniper says there could be further delays to the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, or possibly even a failure ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:42 Charlotte Nijhuis Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transport Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt The German aviation industry is open to reducing the number of domestic flights to lower emissions, according to an industry concept paper ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:55 Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The largest part of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government support to coal and coal-fired power production and consumption goes to measures focusing on the transition away from the fossil fuel, ...
25 Jun 2019, 13:42 S?ren Amelang Cars Policy BR / Tagesspiegel Background A high-profile meeting between Chancellor Angela Merkel and car industry representatives has yielded few tangible results, according to media reports. The ¡¯car summit¡® lasted more ...
10 Jun 2022, 13:49 The German government and a broad alliance of business and civil society groups are calling on citizens to save energy with an advertising campaign aimed at reducing dependence on Russian imports while also accelerating the country¡¯s ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:14 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 ...
01 Oct 2020, 13:25 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 BWE- German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association Bundesverband ...
07 Dec 2018, 13:29 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 Politics Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German chancellor Angela ...
27 May 2016, 00:00 Update 27 May 2016 [European Commission approves state aid for closure of lignite power plants] | The government has approved wide reaching power market reform, including a phase-out plan for some lignite plants. A "coal reserve ...
20 Sep 2019, 10:12 Today, the grand coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) aim to agree on a major policy package to bring Germany back on track to reaching the international ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:48 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A group of anti-nuclear activists have protested against the transport of depleted uranium from a fuel rod ...
In response to accusations that Siemens¡¯ job cuts in its fossil power business are ¡°antisocial¡± and caused by bad management, company CEO Joe Kaeser says the Energiewende is right in principle but is poorly managed. In an open letter addressed to SPD head ...
The German Green Party has strengthened its focus on ecology and economic transformation as core topics for its election campaign. Following the Green¡¯s convention last weekend, the party published a set of amendments to its draft election campaign ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 The German government has conceded that the country is on course to widely miss its 2020 climate target. The economic boom, the pressure of immigration, and high emissions in transport mean that the energy transition pioneer is headed ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:44 Expert PwC Electricity market Transport Cars Business & Jobs Efficiency Heating Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The increasing demand for electric vehicles in Germany could become an important pillar of the country's ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:05 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Rheinische ...
28 May 2019, 13:21 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
23 Feb 2017, 00:00 Against a backdrop of general elections later this year, a debate about a general overhaul of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ much-imitated system for renewables support is gathering pace. Many proponents of replacing the current Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG) ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:37 Russia is ready to use ¡°pretexts and invented reasons¡± to obstruct Europe¡¯s energy supply, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said as his government prepares for a possible full halt to natural gas trading with the country¡¯s most ...
22 May 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A group of more than 1,000 companies from Germany has joined the appeal by student protest movement Fridays for Future (FfF) for greater climate action efforts. Under the label ...
15 May 2019, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s announcement to have the climate cabinet debate ways towards climate neutrality by 2050 is first and foremost ¡°a nod to Paris¡±, writes Andreas Mihm in an ...
14 May 2019, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Energiewende The rapid expansion of renewable power sources in Germany has not been matched by a parallel drop in carbon emissions and energy research experts of? science academy ESYS say ?that there ...
24 Oct 2019, 12:06 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Leading environmental NGOs have called on the government of western German mining region North Rhine-Westphalia to protect ...
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 ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Most people in Germany regard the mobility sector as a great threat to the country's climate targets and call for measures to reduce the impact of transport on greenhouse gas ...
03 May 2019, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Society ARD A large majority of Germans (81%) see a great need for action to protect the climate and say that climate change cannot be stopped without restrictions on people¡¯s lives,? according to a representative ...
24 Feb 2020, 13:59 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Euractiv / Tagesschau / Watson The Green Party surged into second place in the Hamburg regional elections this weekend, doubling its share of the vote after a campaign in which ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:34 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ exports to western Europe are one of the pillars a future Ukrainian economy could rest on, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukraine¡¯s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a conference in Berlin on the war-torn country¡¯s ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:22 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Gas International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The EU ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:19 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
02 Apr 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The new Model 3 by US e-car pioneer Tesla has overtaken German car industry heavyweights Daimler and BMW in European e-car sales in the first month after the model¡¯s launch on the ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:54 S?ren Amelang Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Raising the EU climate target will lead to job losses in the German car industry, the world's largest industry supplier Bosch and rival Schaeffler have warned. "In order to achieve the ...
22 Jul 2015
22 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ energytransition.de ¡°¡®5 megatrends¡¯ for a global energy transition¡± There are five global ¡®megatrends¡¯ pointing to a world-wide energy transition, according to an overview by renewable power ...
04 Sep 2019, 13:12 The expansion of Germany's most important renewable energy source, onshore wind, has almost come to a standstill. Bureaucratic hurdles and resistance to new turbines from different interest groups mean that only a handful of new ...
08 Apr 2015, 00:00 Regardless of recent squabbles about new power lines and rising electricity prices, Germans remain staunch supporters of the principles behind the Energiewende. Survey after survey shows a large majority of the population is in favour ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Utilities dpa / Tagesspiegel / Neue Osnabr¨¹cker Zeitung German energy industry heavyweight RWE has called for a roundtable of stakeholders to make progress on ending the current slump of onshore wind power ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ achievements in the field of climate and energy policy mustn¡¯t mean that the country becomes complacent now, Olaf Scholz, finance minister and the ...
12 Mar 2019, 13:48 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Thanks to strong winds, electricity production in Germany achieved a new record share of nearly 65 ...
01 Mar 2021, 14:00 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Handelsblatt The Social Democratic Party (SPD) ...
20 Aug 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Handelsblatt Influential German ...
13 May 2020, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 Hydrogen International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German chancellor Angela Merkel has said EU member states will have to re-negotiate their contributions to greenhouse gas emission ...
04 Mar 2019, 12:01 The school student protests for rapid climate action make headlines in Germany as well as in other countries, putting pressure on politicians to take a stance. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said this weekend she ¡°strongly welcomes¡± ...
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 ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:28 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Rachel Waldholz Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 Cars Business & Jobs Der Spiegel / Electrek / Bloomberg Volkswagen plans to introduce an internal CO2 levy in a drive to reduce the ...
07 Oct 2015
07 Oct 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Bloomberg Business, Greenpeace,?S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Greenpeace says can find cash to buy Vattenfall coal assets¡± Bloomberg Business reports that Greenpeace has registered its interest in buying ...
12 May 2021, 11:31 The German government has given the green light to the necessary legal changes to speed up the country's bid for climate neutrality, aiming to hit the goal five years earlier in 2045. Cabinet approved a reform of the country's ...
05 May 2020, 13:35 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert SPD- Social Democratic ...
17 Dec 2019, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Spiegel Online The German rail service Deutsche Bahn (DB) is going to make the biggest investment in its vehicle ...
04 Feb 2021, 13:12 CORRECTION: The headline of an earlier version of this article stated that the number of jobs in Germany's entire renewables sector has halved since 2011. However, this decrease only affected production and installation and not ...
02 Jul 2019, 13:39 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The likely next government coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and the Left Party in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ smallest state Bremen wants to declare a ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices ZDF / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background German politicians have largely welcomed the German Council of Economic Experts¡¯ opinion on CO? pricing presented last week. The ...
09 Mar 2015
09 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German Insurance Association (GDV) Insurers keen to increase investments in renewable energy German insurers want to pour more money into renewables to profit from the reliable income streams they ...
25 Jun 2021, 13:40 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ, ZEIT Online In its last session before the summer recess, the German parliament passed a bill that amends the federal Climate Action Law. The new law brings forward the deadline for ...
26 Sep 2018, 13:14 The German Football Association (DFB) has included a sustainability concept in its bid to host the 2024 European Football Championship. UEFA is set to select the host country this week. The DFB says it wants the tournament to contribute ...
11 Nov 2019, 14:46 Expert Heinrich B?ll Foundation Green policy think tank Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Society Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The challenge of finding and funding a final repository for ...
12 Oct 2018, 16:30 The surge of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a strong showing of the Green Party look set to end the absolute majority of conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavarian state elections on 14 October. The CSU is a ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:03 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit Humankind cannot continue living and economising the way it has, ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government is preparing legislation that will hold companies operating in the country to account for ensuring that social and environmental minimum standards ...
25 Mar 2020, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Passauer Neue Presse / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The nuclear plant Gundremmingen in Bavaria will go offline until the end of March or early April due to a malfunctioning fuel element that needs replacing, the ...
21 Aug 2015
21 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federal Network Agency / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Twelve minutes without power¡± The German power supply was more stable in 2014 than in any year since 2006, the Federal Network Agency said yesterday. ...
29 May 2018, 00:00 In a plea for global cooperation and the rule of law in international relations, German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the signatories of the Paris Climate Agreement to honour their commitment and implement the agreed emissions ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:34 German officials have reiterated that public support for new gas projects in other countries should be possible, as long as these are in line with overall climate commitments. The comments by the government come amid sharp criticism by ...
01 Aug 2018, 17:31 With a national ¡°diesel summit¡± in early August 2017, the German government tried to curb the fallout of the country¡¯s emissions fraud scandal and avoid being sued by the European Commission over excessive air pollution. One year on, ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Gas International Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German government officials, MPs and experts have criticised U.S. plans to tighten sanctions on the contentious natural gas pipeline project Nord ...
16 Aug 2019, 10:00 Voters in the eastern German states of Saxony and Brandenburg head to the polls on 1 September for crucial state elections. The results could have an outsized impact on German climate policy for three reasons. First, these states are ...
03 Mar 2020, 13:44 Rachel Waldholz Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt Tesla could break ground on its new e-car factory outside Berlin as soon as this month, and the company could be eligible for 280 million euros in subsidies from the ...
02 Mar 2020, 14:22 Expert DHL Express Transport Business & Jobs Expert Ferdinand Dudenh?ffer Professor and Director, Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Transport Cars S?ren Amelang Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The end of Deutsche Post DHL¡¯s electric ...
08 Sep 2017, 00:00 As the current legislative period draws to a close, The Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ asked key stakeholders to review the last four years of German energy and climate policy ¨C and tell us what they would like to see from the next government. ...
13 Apr 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Hydrogen Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (BMWi) State secretary Baake says Germany must stop registering fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 At a panel discussion Tuesday, ...
13 May 2019, 14:12 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices A CO? price can be a useful building block of a package of climate ...
02 Dec 2015
02 Dec 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Late, perhaps too late¡± RWE¡¯s plans are radical and effectively split ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ second largest utility in two, writes Caspar Busse in a commentary for S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°The decision is ...
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 ...
03 Nov 2015
03 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ BDEW / ZSW ¡°Renewables share will likely rise to 33 percent in 2015¡± Renewable energies are likely to cover around 33 percent of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ gross power consumption in 2015, research institute ZSW ...
02 Apr 2015
02 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Handelsblatt Fracking law: ¡°German Angst¡± There is no rational explanation for the resistance against fracking among German parliamentarians, Thomas Sigmund writes in an opinion piece for the ...
22 May 2020, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland An alliance of hard coal plant operators plans to achieve an expansion of the runtime of Germany's seven most modern hard coal plants by ...
14 Oct 2015
14 Oct 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Spiegel Online/dpa-AFX ¡°Renewable energy surcharge rises to record level of 6.35 cents¡± The renewables surcharge German consumers pay with their power bills will rise to a record 6.35 cents per KWh next year, ...
19 Jan 2016
19 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federal Ministry for Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Economic Affairs (BMWi) Gabriel says wants round table on future of coal ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy minister Sigmar Gabriel has said he wants to establish a round table on the ...
27 Sep 2021, 15:30 Germany is set to vote for a new government on 26 September. After 16 years at the helm of Europe's largest economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel will make room for a successor who will shape the country's energy and climate ...
15 May 2020, 14:07 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany is on track to widely miss its EU obligations to reduce CO2 emissions ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:30 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
05 Aug 2015
05 Aug 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Reuters ¡°German environment agency takes aim at auto sector over climate change ¡± The German Environment Agency (UBA) has called on the German transport sector to step up efforts to combat climate ...
23 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn tagesschau.de ¡°More eco and a little less nuclear¡± Many German media are reporting about France¡¯s new energy transition law, passed on Wednesday. The law says energy usage must be halved by 2050 and nuclear¡¯s share of ...
17 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) "European Commission has missed the opportunity for innovation in CO2 intensive materials" The EU Commission¡¯s proposal for carbon leakage ...
19 Dec 2019, 13:19 The use of gas from all sources will become more important as Germany seeks to decarbonise its economy and phase out nuclear power, the new head of Germany's largest energy industry lobby group, BDEW, has said. The Energiewende& ...
04 Nov 2021, 14:47 In light of several fossil fuel phase-out pledges at the COP26 climate summit, researchers and activists have pointed out that Germany's planned coal exit date is far from ambitious enough and called on the next government ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ last lignite-fired power plant will go off-line by 2040, the Social Democratic energy politician Bernd Westphal said at an event of innogy, the renewables spin-off of utility RWE, which owns many of the country¡¯s lignite plants. But the move ...
17 Jun 2015, 00:00 The shared electricity market between Austria and Germany was seen as a major achievement in 2002 but now it is coming under pressure from ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ increasing generation from renewables, showing the disintegrative side effects the ...
16 Jun 2015
16 Jun 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Reuters ¡°Merkel says Germany weighing further support for electric cars¡± Chancellor Angela Merkel said further public support is needed to achieve the government¡¯s aim of bringing 1 million electric cars on to ...
05 Dec 2019, 13:08 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 ...
28 Oct 2014, 00:00 The rise in renewable energy production and a mild winter have probably led to a decline in carbon emissions in Germany this year, energy research group AG Energiebilanzen said. Overall, German energy use dropped to the lowest level ...
05 Jun 2019, 12:33 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ planned coal exit in 2038 may have hardly any effect- and ...
27 Feb 2018, 00:00 German cities may ban diesel cars from polluted areas following a landmark court ruling. In a major blow to German carmakers still heavily relying on diesel car sales, and a victory for environmentalists, one of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ top courts ...
14 Sep 2021, 10:00 The EU¡¯s ¡®Fit for 55¡¯ package of climate and energy legislation will be ¡°incredibly difficult¡± to get through member states and German chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s successor must be willing to spend time, energy and diplomatic capital, ...
28 May 2019, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The results of the European elections, in which the Greens surged driven by concerns over global climate change, mean that energy companies must ...
20 Mar 2015
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 Clear and sunny weather, a solar eclipse and no blackout- Germany's power system has passed an important test. The eclipse was a taste of the future, as the rise in renewables will make fluctuations of this magnitude regular events ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:30 German government officials and industry associations have welcomed the EU¡¯s proposal for a ¡°Green Deal Industrial Plan,¡± intended to enhance the competitiveness of Europe's industry on the path to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions ...
03 May 2021, 12:59 The landmark ruling from ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ top court has catapulted climate to the top of the political debate as government coalition partners shifted into election campaign mode, blamed each other for shortcomings of the country¡¯s Climate ...
27 Nov 2018, 12:01 Germany risks showing up empty-handed at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Poland in December as the country¡¯s coal exit commission has decided to extend its work beyond the original end-of-2018 deadline. The task force has set ...
29 May 2019, 15:11 Julian Wettengel Coal International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ [Update adds reaction by non-profit environmental law organisation ClientEarth.] Environmental NGOs Climate Action Network Europe (CAN) and Sandbag criticised some EU member states ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:13 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Cars ...
04 Feb 2015
04 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Tageszeitung "Wind turbines that can float" The Dresden-based Gicon group is producing a prototype for a floating wind turbine (see picture above), Bernward Janzig from the taz reports. ...
11 Apr 2016, 00:00 [Updated 11 April with results from fourth round of solar PV auctions] Feed-in tariffs (FITs) have driven the expansion of renewable energy in Germany, but in 2014 the government decided to gradually replace them with an auction system. ...
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 ...
16 Apr 2019, 13:59 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ [Update adds comment by environment ministry spokesperson] By the end of 2019, the German government will decide whether to introduce CO ? pricing to reach its 2030 ...
09 Sep 2019, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Elections & Politics The Bavarian conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) ¨C sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU ¨C has agreed on what it calls a " ...
13 Jan 2020, 14:02 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Wind dpa / Focus Online / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Doing away with the ...
10 Jan 2020, 11:50 Expert EPH- Energetick? a pr?myslov? holding Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Rheinische Post / Reuters German energy company RWE could receive up to two billion euros ...
01 Dec 2015
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ RWE / Handelsblatt Utility RWE follows E.ON example, to split in two One of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest utilities RWE will split in two, the company announced on Tuesday. Renewables, grids and retail activities in Germany ...
20 May 2020, 13:44 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EWI- Institute of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:10 With its third energy cost relief package since the start of Russia¡¯s war on Ukraine, the German government hopes to alleviate concerns over skyrocketing prices for heating and electricity in the coming winter. The large package worth ...
15 Oct 2015
15 Oct 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Bloomberg ¡°Germany considers emissions levy as CO2 reduction target wobbles¡± Germany may have to introduce a tax on emissions in order to meet its target of cutting CO2 emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:49 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Erneuerbare Energien Germany's largest carmaker, VW, has extended the suspension of ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Gas International Security France and Germany have struck a compromise allowing Berlin to remain the lead negotiator with Russia on the Nord Stream II gas pipeline to Europe, reports news agency ...
13 May 2016
13 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Bundesregierung / dpa-AFX ¡°Federal and state governments stall on green electricity reform¡± Chancellor Angela Merkel and the state premiers postponed a decision on contentious issues ...
19 Mar 2015
19 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Bloomberg ¡°RWE said to consider 10 percent stake sale to Abu Dhabi investors¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ second largest utility RWE, grappling with rising debt, is considering selling a ten percent stake to ...
15 Nov 2021, 13:48 The results of the UN climate conference in Glasgow (COP26) add pressure to Germany's ongoing negotiations to form a new government coalition that needs to agree on ambitious steps to cut emissions. As the coalition negotiations ...
15 Jun 2020, 14:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars The German car sector may face a "series of bankruptcies¡±, leading industry representatives have warned. This is due to an almost unprecedented drop in demand caused by the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:11 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
04 Mar 2020, 11:02 The European Commission is unveiling its proposal for the EU's first ever climate law, which will form the basis of the EU's proposed Green Deal, and will provide a framework for reaching the bloc's target of becoming ...
20 Feb 2020, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's first renewable power auction of 2020 has once more failed to attract enough bidders for onshore wind power projects, leading industry groups to call for a ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:32 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background [UPDATE adds draft programme key content] The German Left Party (Die Linke) looks set to out ...
29 Mar 2016
29 Mar 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Handelsblatt ¡°Vattenfall delays coal sale¡± Vattenfall has postponed the sale of its German lignite operations, insiders told Handelsblatt¡¯s J¨¹rgen Flauger. The Swedish utility initially planned to make a ...
19 Jun 2018, 18:10 In her speech at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for more ambitious global climate action and multilateral cooperation. At international level, it will be important to develop a rulebook for the ...
24 Jun 2020, 17:30 Germany is one step closer to finalising legislation on the planned coal exit by 2038 at the latest, as the government approved a draft contract between the state and companies to flesh out the country¡¯s farewell to lignite. Among other ...
10 Nov 2021, 17:04 With the goal to "keep 1.5¡ã within reach", many see this year's COP26 in Glasgow as the most important UN climate change conference since the landmark 2015 Paris summit.? Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ tracks the latest views and comments from ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Tagesspiegel The German Social Democrats (SPD) have demanded a clear stance on the country¡¯s envisaged coal exit from their bigger partner in the governing coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s ...
20 May 2020, 13:50 Months of dispute within the government coalition and the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have significantly slowed down progress on a number of important German energy transition projects. The coal exit law has yet to be adopted by ...
25 May 2020, 12:41 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic ...
10 Jun 2020, 16:10 Germany places a large bet on hydrogen produced using renewable energy in its highly anticipated national hydrogen strategy that serves to underpin the country's ambitions to become a global leader in the technology. The strategy ...
21 Oct 2014
21 Oct 2014, 00:00 Der Tagesspiegel "Greenpeace enters roof of Willy-Brandt-House" Activists from environmental campaign organisation Greenpeace have protested against the climate policy of German Economy and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Minister Sigmar Gabriel at ...
14 May 2020, 14:07 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 Policy Germany should base its climate policy on a CO2 budget in line with the Paris Climate Agreement, which would require fast-tracking efforts to reach climate neutrality, ...
03 Nov 2020, 12:53 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ consumption and related CO2 emissions in Germany are set to fall significantly in Germany in 2020, data by energy market research group AGEB shows. The drop in CO2 output to a large extent is caused by the coronavirus pandemic ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Handelsblatt / n-tv American e-carmaker Tesla has applied for state subsidy payments in Germany to fund battery cell research and production in the host country of the company's planned new gigafactory, ...
02 May 2022, 14:14 Voters in the northern wind power state of Schleswig-Holstein head to the polls this Sunday (8 May) to elect a new parliament in one of the regions most crucial to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ efforts to phase out Russian fossil fuel imports and massively ...
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- Germany needs a national instrument to reduce carbon emissions from the power sector to meet climate targets by 2020 because even a reformed European Emissions Trading System (ETS) alone will not have enough impact, leaked ...
16 Jul 2019, 13:08 Siemens is planning a hydrogen research laboratory and innovation campus in the east German city of G?rlitz, where the company¡¯s turbine plant was previously due to be shut down. Chancellor Angela Merkel called the plans a ¡°milestone¡± ...
02 Mar 2016
02 Mar 2016, 00:00 tageszeitung ¡°Short-sighted cap fans¡± Despite fighting climate change being a national objective and renewables now the cheapest source of energy, leading conservative politicians want to use reform of the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG) to ...
17 Jul 2019, 12:46 Expert BEE- German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:42 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 BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung On the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear desaster, a majority of media commentators in ...
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 ...
09 Oct 2020, 13:49 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Technology EU Zeit Online / Tagesspiegel Background Europe and Germany both need a strategy for carbon sinks and storage, argue?Andreas Kuhlmann,?head of Germany's energy agency (dena), and Oliver ...
09 Apr 2019, 17:18 Innovation to make the use of energy cleaner, more flexible and efficient is the central quest of the global energy transition. At the Berlin Start-up Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition Tech Festival, the German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency (dena) promotes start-ups ...
09 Dec 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 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ international ...
01 Apr 2019, 14:09 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Politics Society Deutsche Welle / Spiegel Online / taz / dpa Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg continued to make waves in German media over the weekend, after she spoke to a crowd of thousands at ...
02 Jun 2016, 00:00 The latest reform of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ renewable energy law is taking shape ¨C on Tuesday the federal government and the heads of the 16 states reached an agreement on essential aspects of a reformed bill, such as the amount of onshore wind and ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Bizz Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A group of environmental NGOs in Germany has intensified its resistance to the construction of the country¡¯s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, ...
24 Feb 2021, 16:12 German forests have been damaged heavily by droughts, bark beetle infestations, storms and forest fires in recent years. In 2020, more surveyed trees died than in any year before, said the Forest Condition Report 2020 by the agriculture ...
28 Sep 2020, 13:42 The Green party crowned a recent surge in local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ most populous federal state, with wins in mayoral run-offs in several big cities, including Bonn, the seat of the UN¡¯s climate body, the ...
23 Aug 2018, 18:15 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal commission will not give any recommendation regarding mining-owner RWE¡¯s plans to continue clearing forest for the planned extension of the Hambach lignite mine in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The country's ...
18 Mar 2019, 13:55 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology Welt am Sonntag / Tagesspiegel German carmaker Volkswagen has threatened to quit the country¡¯s ...
03 Dec 2014, 00:00 The German government has approved a package of measures to achieve its goal of reducing carbon emissions 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990. The following collection provides a snapshot of comments and reactions. Sven Egenter Climate ...
21 Apr 2021, 12:37 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ conservatives have chosen Armin Laschet as their leading candidate for the national election in September, signalling continuity with the era of Chancellor Angela Merkel and ending a days-long power struggle with top rival ...
23 Mar 2020, 13:53 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 Climate & CO2 Industry Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
22 Feb 2018, 00:00 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Federal Administrative Court has postponed to next week a highly anticipated decision on whether polluted cities can ban diesel cars to improve air quality. S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transport Cars The Federal ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:34 With a significant ¡°safety buffer¡± of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity, the German government aims to ensure that the country and neighbouring states will receive sufficient supply of natural gas in the coming years, says ...
EU Member States must together reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent by 2030 compared to 2005 for the transport, buildings, agriculture, waste, land-use and forestry sectors, according to a proposal by the European Commission. The Effort ...
18 Sep 2017, 00:00 With Germans about to cast their votes in the federal election, Chancellor Angela Merkel is virtually certain to retain power. But the make-up of the next coalition will be key to how the new government tackles a host of energy and ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:15 10 years after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima that prompted Germany to confirm its prior nuclear phase-out decision, the environment ministry has published further steps necessary to reduce nuclear risk, including the use of nuclear ...
10 Jun 2020, 12:15 Extreme droughts and prolonged heat waves have significantly raised awareness of climate change dangers in Germany in the past years. And the changing weather patterns are also having a huge impact on the country's environment, as ...
20 Nov 2017, 00:00 After almost five weeks of deliberations, the pro-business Free Democratic Party has pulled the plug on Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s efforts to form a coalition government made up of her conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the Greens and the ...
09 Sep 2015
09 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Summer, sun and sorrows¡± There has never been more green energy in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ grid than in the first half of this year, state secretary Uwe Beckmeyer from the Ministry for ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:45 The members of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Social Democratic Party (SPD) have unexpectedly voted for a more left-leaning leadership, casting doubt on the future of the coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance. The ...
26 Aug 2015
26 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Handelsblatt ¡°Upwind¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ offshore wind development is accelerating, write Franz Hubik and Daniel Delhaes in the Handelsblatt. While the first wind parks suffered from delays, exploding costs ...
19 Oct 2020, 12:56 The three candidates for future leadership of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) ¨C party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, have all called for rigorous efforts to protect the climate at a debate organised by the party¡¯s ...
20 Jan 2022, 12:01 Germany's onshore wind power capacity is recovering from years of depressed expansion, but is still not close to levels necessary for the country¡¯s renewables targets for 2030, the country's wind power industry?said in its ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:32 Three men compete to take the lead of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Germany's largest party, and to possibly follow in the footsteps of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who leaves office after 16 years in September amid a global ...
17 Mar 2023, 14:25 A year after the launch of Russia's attack on Ukraine, Germany appears to be emerging from the energy crisis relatively unscathed. Russia¡¯s war has dealt a heavy blow to Europe¡¯s biggest economy, because it was particularly ...
02 May 2016
02 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Handelsblatt ¡°Dwindling chances for fracking¡± The proposed fracking law has been delayed and might not be adopted in the current legislative period, writes Klaus Stratmann in ...
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 ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:42 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 Climate & CO2 Renewables Policy Clean ...
07 Oct 2021, 12:17 Germany can reach its target of climate neutrality by 2045 but enormous tasks such as the massive expansion of renewable energy and transformation of whole industries have to be initiated as quickly as possible by the country¡¯s next ...
10 Mar 2023, 11:27 Despite its reputation as a nation at the forefront of green technologies like wind power, Denmark has been slow to focus on climate adaptation. Since a cloudburst shocked the capital Copenhagen with massive flooding in 2011, some steps ...
29 Apr 2016
29 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ VW / Handelsblatt ¡°We plan to make electric cars one of Volkswagen¡¯s new hallmarks¡± German carmaker Volkswagen wants to be at the forefront of big changes in the auto industry, in ...
12 Feb 2015
12 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Windmesse/Handelsblatt ¡°GE and Deutsche Telekom join forces for energy transition¡± US industrial conglomerate General Electric and Deutsche Telekom will cooperate to offer new solutions for smart ...
08 Jan 2015
08 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Dow Jones Newswires ¡°Renewable development leads to uncertainty for municipal utilities¡± Dow Jones reports on a study by the University of Leipzig for Commerzbank and the municipal utility ...
18 Jan 2021, 13:57 Armin Laschet has been elected the new leader of Germany's largest party, the Christian Democrats (CDU), clearing a major hurdle on what could be his way to becoming next German Chancellor. The premier of Germany's largest ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:55 Eastern German coal mining regions have welcomed draft legislation to support the states most affected by plans to phase out the fossil fuel by 2038 at the latest. The economy ministry presented an "investment law for coal regions ...
14 Dec 2018, 13:35 Germany abstained from a call by nine other European countries for a stronger and extended role of carbon pricing at the COP climate conference in Katowice. The German environment ministry said it did not want to pre-empt the country¡¯s ...
31 Mar 2016
31 Mar 2016, 00:00 (UPDATE- clarifies sourcing in section on emissions trading in paragraph 6- sources are Prognos and German Steel Federation, not Die Welt. Headline changes accordingly.) S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter ...
15 Dec 2014
15 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Electricity crime story¡± Wherever they can afford it, German towns and municipalities have been buying back power grids and gas supply networks and are beginning to generate ...
09 Jul 2019, 11:57 CORRECTION: This article previously stated that Gerd M¨¹ller is Germany's environment minister. That was a mistake. He is Germany's development minister. Planting huge amounts of trees across the globe could be an effective way ...
09 Feb 2021, 14:40 The energy transition marks the single largest effort in history to reduce industrial waste by pursuing the goal of burning zero fossil resources and replacing them with renewables- but it does not come without waste on its own. Germany ...
21 Nov 2022, 10:32 It remains virtually impossible to make truly "climate neutral" products in a modern economy, despite the rapid increase of such labels, says Susanne Spies of Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Entirely ...
10 Aug 2021, 13:00 German politicians and other stakeholders said the latest major report on climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an urgent warning that rapid emission cuts are needed to keep the Paris Agreement target ...
24 Mar 2022, 14:20 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government coalition has decided a wide-ranging relief package to help shield citizens from rising energy costs exacerbated by Russia¡¯s war against Ukraine. The government plans to introduce a 300-euro tax bonus for employed ...
27 Oct 2015
27 Oct 2015, 00:00 CORRECTION- Vattenfall's underlying operating profit was 3,388 million SEK in the third quarter of 2015, not 3,388 billion. Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Vattenfall 3rd quarter results / Two 500 MW lignite units will be ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:21 Germany has a rare window of opportunity to introduce CO? pricing as part of a comprehensive reform of the country¡¯s energy taxes and levies and must urgently use it, according to economist and government advisor Andreas L?schel. To ...
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 ...
15 Mar 2018, 00:00 Germany's new environment minister Svenja Schulze is a new face in Chancellor Angela Merkel's fourth cabinet. But the Social Democrat inherits a range of well-known challenges- from coal emissions to air pollution by diesel ...
20 Sep 2019, 10:25 Germany's highly anticipated future climate strategy remained uncertain on Friday morning as government coalition talks that lasted throughout the night were still ongoing. Negotiations between Chancellor Angela Merkel's ...
12 Jul 2021, 12:20 Germany's upcoming general election adds fuel to the debate about whether combustion engines have a future in the birth country of the automobile and whether a general speed limit should be introduced on its famed autobahns. Given ...
03 Nov 2020, 15:03 Governments in Germany and elsewhere in Europe are wary of the impact the US election could have on international climate action cooperation. While a win by incumbent President Donald Trump would likely exacerbate existing disputes on ...
28 Jul 2015
28 Jul 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Can overhead lines electrify freight traffic? Industry giant Siemens is testing the electrification of freight transport with overhead power lines on a two-kilometre track north of Berlin, ...
20 Nov 2017, 00:00 After almost five weeks of deliberations, the pro-business Free Democratic Party has pulled the plug on Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s efforts to form a coalition government made up of her conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the Greens and the ...
25 Nov 2014
25 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Dow Jones Newswires "Gabriel's coal proposal: utilities keep calm" German utilities are prepared to shut down some power stations, reports Dow Jones Newswires. They agreed to Economy ...
21 Dec 2021, 14:21 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ consumption in Germany has increased in 2021, as the economy recovered from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the country weathered a cold winter. At the same time, a year of depressed wind power production let the ...
08 Dec 2021, 15:00 The September 2021 election result has left Germany with several options for a new government coalition. Agreeing it will involve lengthy negotiations to overcome major discrepancies between party programmes, and agreeing on a ...
17 Sep 2021, 10:05 Never before in German history has climate policy played a role as big as it does in 2021. Even after one and a half years of a turbulent pandemic, credible climate policies remain the yardstick many voters plan to base their decision ...
14 Jan 2020, 10:06 Germany's shift to electric mobility looks set to get underway in earnest in 2020, and the country's mighty carmakers look ahead with trepidation to what promises to be a tremendous effort for the industry. Against the ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:11 Current polls suggest Germany's elections on 26 September will be followed by complicated coalition talks, but the Green Party refuses to reveal what they consider red lines during the negotiations. The party's climate policy ...
27 Apr 2015, 00:00 The environment ministry has rebuffed utilities¡¯ criticism of the planned levy for coal-fired power plants and maintains the sector shoulder its share of cutting CO2 emissions. Government and researchers stress the need for efficiency ...
13 Aug 2020, 13:48 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government has set out to accelerate planning procedures for infrastructure projects linked to the energy transition with a focus on speeding up onshore wind power expansion in particular. Utilities welcomed the streamlining ...
23 Feb 2016, 00:00 A reformed energy-only market and interconnections with electrical neighbours are Germany's visions for a future European power system, energy state secretary Baake says. Utility industry head Kempmann warns against splitting power ...
30 Jan 2015
30 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Zeit Online "Germany warns against overly strict thresholds for cars" Under EU regulations, by 2021 CO2 emissions from new cars must not exceed an average of 95 grams per kilometre. By ...
10 Feb 2021, 13:05 The material demands of a transition towards a low-carbon energy system are immense, meaning countries like Germany that expand renewable power generation will have to greatly expand imports of many different raw materials over the next ...
23 Sep 2019, 10:34 After receiving more than 43,500 signatures on a petition in August, the Berlin House of Representatives will have to deliberate on a climate emergency status for the German capital. Forty German municipalities have already declared ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:53 Expert BEE- German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
15 Jan 2018, 00:00 The parties currently in talks to form ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the ...
18 Dec 2018, 09:35 The role of gas ¨C both in its natural form and as a CO2-neutral variety made with renewable power ¨C will be one of the hottest topics on Germany's 2019 energy transition agenda, according to Carsten Rolle, secretary of the World ...
21 Aug 2019, 17:10 Angela Merkel's grand coalition government may survive yet another election debacle in the upcoming East German state votes ¨C despite ongoing leadership problems, says political scientist Gero Neugebauer. The Social Democratic ...
17 Mar 2023, 12:21 German government officials have welcomed proposals by the European Commission to boost net-zero industries and the competitiveness of European companies in an effort to keep up with other regions of the world, such as the U.S. and ...
12 May 2021, 15:34 The German government¡¯s decision to aim for greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045 ¨C five years earlier than previously envisaged ¨C is to be substantiated by a reform of the country¡¯s Climate Action Law. Angela Merkel and her ministers have ...
15 Oct 2021, 12:32 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ renewables levy will decrease to its lowest level in ten years as high wholesale power prices and support from the federal budget lower the need for payments from electricity consumers. This is good news for the economy and ...
07 Jun 2016
07 Jun 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Crucial German power grid extension delayed The construction and completion of important power lines in Germany will be delayed by at least three ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Hydrogen dw.com ¡°Lobby battle over Energiewende¡± There is a lot of pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers to hammer out a compromise at tonight¡¯s ...
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 ...
09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German Centre for Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Resources Freiberg (DER) Germans deeply split about coal Germans are deeply split about the mining and use of coal, a study from the German Centre for Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Resources ...
19 Feb 2015
19 Feb 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Die Welt ¡°Berlin wants to close its coal-fired power plants by 2020¡± The German capital of Berlin will shut its four remaining coal-fired power plants by 2020, according to provisional results from a parliamentary ...
12 Oct 2018, 16:40 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal commission wants to ease the coal exit by granting lignite mining regions preferential treatment in infrastructure and innovation projects, according to a leaked draft report seen by the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ. The paper ...
28 Jan 2016
28 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Die Welt ¡°Government wants to kill the engine¡± Onshore wind power is the backbone of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition, but government reform plans for the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act risk slowing down its ...
19 Dec 2018, 10:10 Germany must face several fundamental energy and climate decisions in 2019 to save the country's Energiewende and its international standing, according to Greenpeace head Jennifer Morgan. Most importantly, the promised Climate ...
07 Dec 2020, 09:46 Germans should not expect a lot of climate policy decisions next year, as the debates will be firmly in the grip of the national and state election campaigns, says Brigitte Knopf, secretary general of the Mercator Research Institute on ...
24 Nov 2015
24 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ZDF / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Allianz ¡°Allianz quits coal financing¡± German insurance company Allianz will no longer invest in companies that get more than 30 percent of their revenue ...
22 Jun 2017, 00:00 Germany's energy transition can only be successful if it is created by citizens themselves in a socially fair way, the Left Party writes in its election campaign programme. The Left is currently the largest opposition group in the ...
11 Dec 2015, 00:00 Agreement text expected Saturday morning / Germany, EU reiterate push for ambitious deal/ Leaders get on the phone/ Scientists fear weak deal Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate ...
27 Jun 2018, 17:29 As the energy transition touches more and more aspects of everday life, public acceptance will become a key question for the project's future, economist Andreas L?schel says. In the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ interview, the academic who heads the ...
24 Sep 2015
24 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ /sites/default/files/files/article/media-flawed-emissions-test-successful-policies-renewable-support/clew-reporters-guide-2015.pdf The Guardian ¡°UK, France and ...
17 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just days away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
01 Sep 2015
01 Sep 2015, 00:00 Institute of Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Industry (IWR) ¡°Additions of new solar arrays speeds up in July ¨C Total capacity exceeds threshold of 39,000 MW¡± The addition of new PV-systems has increased significantly in July compared to June, but not ...
24 Nov 2021, 16:23 The three parties planning to form the new German government have agreed on a coalition treaty that includes pulling forward the country's coal exit, "ideally" to 2030 from 2038, and rapidly speeding up the lagging ...
15 Oct 2015, 00:00 The levy to finance green power investment, which is added to Germans' electricity bills, will rise slightly in 2016 after falling this year for the first time since its 2000 introduction, German power grid operators said Thursday. ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:26 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world¡¯s fourth largest economy, we' ...
22 Feb 2022, 16:45 Many German politicians, business associations, and environmental NGOs have welcomed the government's decisions to halt the contentious gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 following Russian aggression towards Ukraine. Against the backdrop ...
15 Jan 2021, 10:19 While our roads are increasingly abuzz with electric cars and scooters, low-emission trucks are conspicuous by their absence. But this is about to change as new climate targets force sharp emission cuts in heavy duty transport. The ...
03 May 2018, 00:00 Negotiators from 184 countries gather in the city of Bonn from 30 April to 10 May to work on the implementation of the landmark Paris Agreement, designed to limit global warming to under 2¡ãC. The German government is a longtime ...
15 Jan 2015, 00:00 German trade unions are vocal stakeholders in the Energiewende, wary of job losses in the conventional energy sector and campaigning for labour rights in the growing renewables sector. Their importance is amplified by their traditional ...
05 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany's energy minister Peter Altmaier said there won't be any changes to fees on power and heat during his term, refuting the idea of a price for CO2 emissions floated by coalition partner SPD and the environment ministry. ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:17 Germany's environment minister has called for a sharp increase in the country's renewables targets. Svenja Schulze said the country will have to increase renewables' share in power use to "at least 75 percent, maybe ...
13 May 2019, 14:00 Implementing the Paris Agreement means that countries have to have more ambition on a national level and the same is true for the European Union, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ environment minister Svenja Schulze said at the opening of the 10th Petersberg ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:34 On its planned path to climate-neutrality by the middle of the century, Germany could achieve complete decarbonisation of its power sector already by 2040 ¨C and EU climate targets might even compel the country to greatly speed up the ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:39 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
14 Sep 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The proposal for a " historic consensus " in German society on the need for climate action and the goal of greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 by economy ...
15 Feb 2018, 00:00 In a bid to avoid EU fines for bad air quality, the German government has proposed to make public transport free of charge in polluted cities. But contradicting many press reports, the government clarified it had no plans for a blanket ...
04 Mar 2016, 00:00 On 13 March, three German states go to the polls in regional elections. Last time these states voted, energy policy was the hot topic, and Germany elected its first Green state premier. Now, energy and the climate have been completely ...
09 Feb 2015
09 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Brainpool / Fraunhofer IWES "This is what the power market of the future could look like" In order to incorporate fluctuating power from millions of small, decentralised producers, the ...
24 Jul 2020, 10:40 The rivalry between Europe and China in emission-free hydrogen technologies could become one of the defining business stories in the global effort to stop climate change. Scarred by its painful experience in solar PV manufacturing, ...
14 Aug 2020, 15:45 Germany will likely reach its original target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by the end of this year, compared to 1990, estimates by researchers from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate ...
03 Dec 2014, 00:00 The government approved what it claims to be the largest climate action package in the country¡¯s history. Most observers applauded the commitment to emissions reduction goals by 2020. But environmentalists criticised the lack of a ...
02 Jun 2021, 10:44 After 20 years, many pioneer clean energy projects are losing their guaranteed feed-in tariff, with possible repercussions for citizen involvement in the energy transition. In the solar sector, this change is mainly affecting households ...
26 Nov 2014, 00:00 The German government looks set to approve plans to force the power sector to reduce carbon emissions by an additional 22 million tons by 2020. Environmentalists worry the plans don't go far enough and are calling for more coal ...
08 Sep 2016, 00:00 Environmental organisations have responded to a government proposal to decarbonise the economy with outrage. They say the Climate Action Plan 2050 will fall well short of meeting climate targets, and accuse the environment ministry of ...
06 Jun 2019, 17:11 Germany continues to be off track regarding many of its energy and climate targets according to the economy ministry¡¯s? latest progress report on the energy transition. In an accompanying opinion, government advisors lament that the ...
07 Nov 2017, 00:00 As ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Jamaica coalition talks are approaching a critical point, the Green Party appears to soften core climate policy demands in an attempt to achieve similar concessions from its negotiating partners. Party leaders say that ...
18 Jun 2020, 12:00 A joint push by the EU and China remains the best hope to drive global climate action and build momentum ahead of next year¡¯s UN climate talks, researchers and NGOs say. The coronavirus pandemic has shifted national priorities, raised ...
29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Die Welt ¡°Steel before a great exodus¡± The EU¡¯s plans for a reform of the emissions trading system might lead to a mass exodus of steel companies from Europe, reports Carsten Dierig in Die Welt. ...
02 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
16 Jan 2019, 14:18 Berlin aims to slash carbon emissions by 60 percent by 2030 and become carbon-neutral by 2050. For a city growing at a rate of 50,000 inhabitants a year, that¡¯s no mean feat. But Ramona Pop, Berlin¡¯s Senator (minister) for Economy, ...
17 Jul 2021, 10:30 Catastrophic floods have killed more than 130 people in Germany in one of the worst natural disasters in the country's post-war history. The torrential rains have been widely linked to climate change, swinging the issue into focus ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:15 Many economists and climate researchers view raising the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels faster than currently planned as essential to reaching new, higher climate targets in both sectors. The debate about a ...
09 Mar 2021, 09:00 A regional vote in the south-western German state of Baden-W¨¹rttemberg on 14 March kicks off a busy election year in Germany that will conclude with the general elections in September and the selection of a new chancellor. While the ...
23 Jun 2015
23 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ World Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Council/Roland Berger ¡°Energiewende requires new financing models¡± Traditional utilities can no longer shoulder the huge infrastructure investments necessary for the Energiewende, ...
24 Feb 2015, 00:00 The energy ministry does not want to pay utilities to keep conventional power plants on reserve for times of scarcity in a pending redesign of the power market in Germany. ¡°We will propose not to intervene," said Rainer Baake, ...
01 Jun 2017, 00:00 A large share of the emissions from towns and cities comes from traffic. If Germany is to reach its Energiewende goals, each will have to do their bit to reduce the number of vehicles on their roads, and steer citizens towards greener ...
03 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country¡¯s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
21 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country¡¯s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
07 Dec 2018, 19:29 Germany's conservative Christian Democrats elected general secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel at the helm of the party. The election of Merkel's close ally and former premier in the ...
16 May 2019, 08:45 Germany is set to widely miss its greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2020 and 2030 unless significant steps such as the proposed coal exit are taken. The environment ministry¡¯s new emissions forecast shows that the country must ...
23 Oct 2014
23 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ policy: backwards roll¡± It is not just Germany undertaking an energy transition, writes Cerstin Gammelin in an opinion piece for the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung, other European ...
19 Dec 2014
19 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ taz ¡°The blind spot has to go¡° It is good and important that the future of coal power in Germany is finally being discussed, Patrick Graichen, head of the Berlin based think-tank Agora Energiewende ...
12 Apr 2022, 09:53 Russia¡¯s attack on Ukraine has added a new dimension to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ambitious aims for ramping up the share of renewables in its energy system. Marking a ¡° historic turning point,¡± the fast elimination of fossil fuel imports for Germany ...
27 Nov 2019, 15:35 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she disapproves of the European Investment Bank¡¯s decision to ban funding for natural gas projects by the end of 2021, several days after the German government had agreed to the new guidelines. ...
18 Nov 2015, 00:00 Days before the UN climate conference in Paris, Germany is taking stock of its national climate protection efforts. The government says the country is making ¡°good progress¡± with its energy transition, but independent experts warn that ...
17 Jun 2021, 12:00 As the German election campaign kicks into its next gear, the chancellor candidates of the country¡¯s major parties met face to face on Wednesday to discuss climate and energy issues at an event organised by energy industry association ...
15 Jul 2015, 00:00 The European Commission has launched its proposals for an Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Union, including reform of the emissions trading scheme, a redesign of the European power market, updated efficiency labelling and consumer empowerment. Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ has compiled ...
13 Nov 2014
13 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ? Der Tagesspiegel ¡°³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ problems with climate protection¡° Draft versions of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Climate Action Programme (Aktionsprogramm Klimaschutz), designed to reduce greenhouse gas ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal parliament has approved a controversial revamp of the country¡¯s energy transition. The government coalition of economy minister Sigmar Gabriel¡¯s Social Democrats and Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s Conservatives secured a majority vote for ...
04 Sep 2019, 10:53 This year's Frankfurt Motor Show steals the limelight for unusual reasons. Thousands of people will flock to the bi-annual industry fair ¨C but many of them not to admire horsepower-proud vehicles, but instead to call for their ...
21 Feb 2019, 14:36 The vast majority (90%) of Germans are supportive of the country's energy transition. However, more and more are losing faith in the government¡¯s ability to pursue this landmark project in a socially just way, a new survey finds. ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:33 Chancellor Angela Merkel's government coalition is racing to put together a major climate action package by 20 September, just in time for UN Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres' climate summit in New York on 23 September. Mere ...
23 Dec 2015
23 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ 'Frohe Weihnachten' from the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ newsroom Our best wishes for a joyous holiday season. We will publish our next News Digest on 28 December and take another short break from ...
07 Jan 2020, 11:30 Preview 2020: European climate diplomats are facing a busy 2020, and Germany looks set to play a key role as it holds the EU Council presidency in the second half of the year. After the UN climate conference in Madrid left many ...
13 Jan 2021, 11:41 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country¡¯s 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in autumn. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
25 Nov 2015
25 Nov 2015, 00:00 Spiegel Online/Urgewald ¡°German banks still put billions into brown coal¡± A study by environmental NGO Urgewald shows that German banks continue to finance climate-damaging brown coal, reports Spiegel Online. Deutsche Bank alone has ...
16 Dec 2019, 12:00 The UN climate summit COP25 in Spain is the last meeting of its kind before countries around the world are supposed to step up their ambitions under the Paris Climate Agreement in 2020. Germany has made several key climate action ...
08 Oct 2018, 16:58 Anti-coal activists in Germany and beyond experienced a sudden change in fortune on 5 October, when a court ruling boosted their cause and provisionally stopped plans of energy company RWE to cut down the embattled Hambach Forest in ...
17 Sep 2018, 10:30 A report about a proposal by one of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal commission co-heads for a coal exit by 2038 has caused irritation. Some commission members were quick to reject the report and warned that the commission's work was in peril should ...
25 Jan 2017, 00:00 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy policy will see little change as former justice minister Brigitte Zypries replaces Sigmar Gabriel as economy and energy minister this week, according to policy experts. Gabriel¡¯s Social Democratic party colleague ...
23 Oct 2015
23 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°An energy concept that electrifies no one¡± Bavaria will have to import 40-50 percent of its consumed electricity in 2025, Daniela Kuhr writes in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. The ...
23 Jun 2023, 10:00 As the two largest economies in the European Union, France and Germany, for at least a decade have acted as the bloc¡¯s key drivers of more ambitious climate action. A glaring gap in the two countries¡¯ energy policy has been exposed in ...
13 May 2015
13 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ARD tagesschau.de ¡°The German energy transformation is impressive¡± Ernest Moniz, the United States Secretary of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ, has praised ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ development of renewables but said the US were not ...
28 May 2020, 12:34 German industry and energy sector associations have welcomed the coronavirus recovery proposal presented by the European Commission. Lobby group BDI said the funds should focus on sustainability not only in regard to climate and ...
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 ...
02 Nov 2017, 00:00 After an expected clash over climate and energy policy last week, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ aspiring coalition partners of the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the pro-business FDP and the environmentalist Green Party also failed to agree on transport ...
21 Jan 2022, 18:40 The German government wants to use this year¡¯s presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialised nations and democracies to improve the coordination of global efforts to combat climate change. ¡°We want to achieve that no ...
14 Jul 2015
14 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ RWE ¡°Poll ¨C Lignite is essential stabiliser for energy supply¡± Two thirds of Germans believe electricity prices have a large influence on the competitiveness of German industry, according to a ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 After months of internal dispute, Germany's government has agreed on a draft law for reforming corporate responsibility for sustainable supply chains. Large companies that rely on imported resources and workers in source countries, ...
16 Oct 2015
16 Oct 2015, 00:00 Handelsblatt ¡°Coal reserve throws up questions¡± If at all possible, the German government wants to avoid using the planned ?brown coal reserve as an emergency power back-up, according to the economics and energy ministry, in an answer ...
29 May 2015, 00:00 Germany and its neighbouring countries have agreed to let the market determine wholesale power prices even if this means soaring prices at times of high demand, Germany's state secretary for energy Rainer Baake said. He also ...
14 Apr 2015
14 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) ¡°Germany as a business location: Energiewende beats Industry 4.0¡± A majority of companies in the electrical industry is ...
24 Jun 2019, 13:50 A plea for an accelerated coal exit in Germany by the state premier of Bavaria, Markus S?der, has caused a row within Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative alliance over how to deal with growing political pressure to improve the ...
08 Sep 2022, 12:00 Current "climate neutral" product claims may be flawed, but they are a clear sign that companies realise that consumers want climate action, argues?Jens Burchardt, the Boston Consulting Group's global expert on climate ...
01 Apr 2015
01 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Environment Ministry (BMUB) ¡°Cabinet decides on extensive restrictions on fracking¡± The German government has published a law proposal regulating the use of fracking for gas and oil exploitation. ...
06 Nov 2019, 14:38 Industry experts, researchers and lobbyists give the German government mediocre mid-term marks for its climate and energy efforts- while Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s coalition has presented a largely positive self-evaluation. In what ...
19 Sep 2018, 15:20 The German government has launched a new advisory panel to reduce transport emissions in line with national climate targets. The task force will broaden the focus of an earlier panel concentrated on electric cars, to discuss the entire ...
03 Mar 2015
03 Mar 2015, 00:00 Correction: Corrects spelling of Marijn Dekkers, CEO of Bayer and President of the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI). Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ?S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Greetings from the Stone Age¡± The new Moorburg ...
05 Jul 2017, 00:00 The pressure on Germany to take global leadership on climate action has been constantly mounting since US President Donald Trump decided to take the United States out of the Paris climate agreement. Ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg ...
21 Sep 2021, 10:43 Regional votes in two German states on 26 September are being overshadowed by the federal election on the same day. But the outcome in German capital Berlin and in the north-eastern state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will affect how ...
12 Apr 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Hydrogen DENEFF / PwC ¡°10 percent turnover growth in the efficiency sector¡± Companies in the business of supplying energy efficiency solutions grow much faster than the rest of the economy, ...
04 Dec 2014
04 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Welt online "Government advisors pick apart the Energiewende" Official advisors to the German government have criticised Energiewende policies as ¡°not concrete enough¡± and ¡°not enough to achieve ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ...
03 Dec 2021, 11:39 Many environmentalists have already written off sharp transport emission cuts under the next German government after the coalition agreed a treaty that is weak on mobility, and put the pro-business Free Democrats in charge of the ...
26 Nov 2014
26 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ FAZ/dpa ¡°Coal sector resists Gabriel¡¯s plans¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy sector believes it has already done plenty to increase efficiency and reach climate protection targets, according to the German ...
15 Sep 2015
15 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Economy Ministry/Reuters German economy min: No nuclear stress test results yet Germany's energy minister Sigmar Gabriel rejected media reports about provisioning shortfalls for ...
19 Nov 2014
19 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German Institute for Economic Research ¡°Shutting down old coal-fired power stations could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 23 million tones and stabilise the power market¡± A new study by the German ...
14 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen ? Ernst & Young ¡°Cautious upward trend: Approval of the Energiewende rises slightly¡± Business approval for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy is gradually rising, according to Ernst & Young¡¯s quarterly Energiewende Index ...
30 Mar 2016
30 Mar 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Reuters/SMA Solar ¡°SMA Solar returns to profit on foreign demand¡± SMA Solar, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest solar group, posted its first operating profit in three years thanks to strong foreign ...
19 Apr 2017
19 Apr 2017, 00:00 Operators have offered to build offshore wind farms in the North Sea without relying on support payments, in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ first competitive auction for the technology. Instead, the operators only will rely on the market rate for ...
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 ...
25 Nov 2020, 15:04 Germany's phase-out plan for hard coal plants can largely be carried out as planned by inviting operators to submit compensation claims in tender procedures, the European Commission has decided. The German government welcomed the ...
08 Feb 2016
08 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Der Tagesspiegel ¡°Government could use mercury limits to take coal plants offline¡± The government ¡°has a plan B up its sleeve" in case there is no political agreement on a coal exit, reports ...
11 Nov 2021, 16:01 After a week of political announcements, ministers this week join their negotiators to hash out the nitty-gritty of the Paris Agreement rulebook and eyes are on a possible solution for carbon markets under Article 6. Meanwhile in ...
10 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
15 Jan 2016
15 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Frankfurter Rundschau ¡°Full wind speed ahead¡± The reason why payments for renewables have increased to 24.1 billion euros in 2015 is to be found in their success, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in a Q ...
16 Jul 2019, 13:08 German defence minister and European Commission candidate Ursula von der Leyen told Members of the European Parliament that if elected, she would introduce a "Green Deal" for Europe in her first 100 days in office, including a ...
28 Dec 2015
28 Dec 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Spiegel Online ¡°Car and internet companies conquer the power sector¡± Utilities face massive new competition as the transformation of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy landscape attracts powerful new players from the IT and car ...
25 Oct 2021, 17:19 Developed countries have said they will deliver on their pledge to provide 100 billion US dollars per year in climate finance to support developing nations by 2023, three years later than originally planned. However, a ¡°climate finance ...
03 Sep 2015
03 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Die Zeit / Spiegel Online / Reuters Utilities must remain liable for nuclear clean-up costs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ companies are to remain liable for the cost of decommissioning nuclear power plants and storing ...
02 Jun 2017, 00:00 President Donald Trump has announced that he will pull the United States out of the landmark Paris Climate Agreement. The USA will be the first country to leave the seminal 2015 treaty signed by nearly 200 individual nations that agreed ...
23 Sep 2020, 15:30 Germany's government has agreed on an overhaul of the country's Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act, the core legislation for its landmark energy transition, to enable a share of 65 percent renewables in 2030 power consumption and a ...
25 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Hydrogen Greenpeace Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ¡°Power-to-gas reduces costs for Energiewende by billions and enables 100-percent renewable power supply¡± By using technology to store excess wind and solar power as ...
20 Mar 2017, 00:00 Germany aims to use a large international energy conference in Berlin to inject fresh momentum and ideas into the G20 process in the run up to the Hamburg summit in July. The Berlin Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition Dialogue ¨C a two-day conference on ...
18 Apr 2019, 15:15 Germany must make ¡°enormous efforts¡± to reach its climate and energy targets in the transport and buildings sectors, according to a draft of the government¡¯s 2019 progress report on the energy transition. The leaked paper includes new ...
07 Apr 2022, 11:20 Germany wants to fight the climate crisis and its heavy dependence on fossil fuel imports by speeding up the rollout of renewables with a massive overhaul of key energy legislation. In the ¡°biggest energy policy reform in decades,¡± the ...
23 Jun 2020, 15:13 Tough talks on how to make the European Union climate neutral by 2050 are a major challenge for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ 6-month EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020. The negotiations for a European economic recovery programme will be a ...
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 ...
21 Dec 2018, 15:08 Germany plans to use its diplomatic clout during its two-year term on the UN Security Council to ensure that climate change concerns are an integral part of UN security policy. People who are most vulnerable to global warming, such ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:51 The German government has refused to sign on to a COP26 climate summit declaration on zero emissions cars and vans because the transport and environment ministries could not agree on whether to include e-fuels in the country¡¯s ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:26 German environment minister Svenja Schulze has sent a first draft of the planned Climate Action Law to the chancellery for ¡°early coordination¡±, even as conservative politicians continue to criticise key elements and demand for it to be ...
11 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Reuters ¡°E.ON paves way for spin-off following record loss¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ biggest utility, E.ON, booked its largest ever annual loss, as a result of its ailing power plants, Reuters reports. The ...
20 Nov 2014
20 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Zeit online "Billions for utilities" If coal fired power stations were retired, everybody could profit: the climate, consumers and utilities, writes Marlies Uken for Zeit online. The problem is, none of the ...
06 Mar 2015
06 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Reuters ¡°Germany says using tax money for nuclear power ¡®out of question¡¯¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Minister for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ, Sigmar Gabriel, said that he would not agree ¡°by any means that ...
20 Aug 2015
20 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung "Incapable of acting" The market value of RWE, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest power producer, is shrinking so fast it is reminiscent of a company on the way to bankruptcy, writes ...
24 Jan 2020, 12:12 Pressure is rising fast on industry to join the great decarbonisation race. Many energy-intensive German companies, like chemical giant BASF or steelmaker thyssenkrupp, already have detailed plans for drastic emission cuts, but lack ...
11 Dec 2017, 00:00 A round of fresh ¡®green¡¯ finance pledges by companies and investors marks the kickoff on 12 December in Paris of a climate finance summit initiated by French President Emmanuel Macron. However, NGOs say that the developments so far have ...
19 May 2015, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande have thrown their weight behind an ambitious and urgent push to make the Paris climate summit a success. The international community must start work now in order to ...
02 Feb 2022, 12:52 With its Green Deal the European Union has embarked on the transition to a climate neutral economy by 2050, and it has made sustainable finance a key pillar of its efforts. The EU taxonomy ¨C a system that defines companies¡¯ activities ...
09 Jan 2019, 13:53 Municipal utility chief executive Andreas Feicht will take on the role as Germany's energy state secretary on 1 February. With his appointment, economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier fills a position crucial to the progress of ...
04 Feb 2016
04 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Decision on e-car support postponed The German government has postponed the decision about how to boost e-cars until March after a high-level meeting with ...
16 Dec 2021, 11:11 Discussions about climate action tend to centre around the need for mitigation ¨C reducing greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global warming. But even if we get on track to limiting warming to 1.5C, scientific projections show ...
01 Jul 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel can still hope to achieve substantial progress in climate protection as she enters difficult talks with the leaders of the world¡¯s largest economies at this week¡¯s G20 summit in Hamburg, John J. Kirton ...
16 Dec 2019, 10:24 Germany will miss its climate targets without leaps in technological innovation, even taking into account the recently agreed climate package, says Georg N¨¹?lein, deputy parliamentary group head of chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s ...
25 Feb 2015
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Handelsblatt ¡°Brave new world¡± The single market for European energy that EU citizens have been waiting for for years, is now called the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Union, Thomas Ludwig writes in an opinion piece for ...
08 May 2019, 10:26 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world¡¯s fourth largest economy, we' ...
06 Dec 2016, 00:00 According to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ constitutional court, the government¡¯s 2011 decision to speed up the nuclear power phase-out was in line with constitutional requirements. Nuclear power plant operators argued the move amounted to expropriation ...
29 Oct 2020, 17:50 The German car industry has committed to climate-neutral mobility by 2050 for the first time, but continues to reject a sole focus on electric mobility. Following a fierce quarrel within the lobby group, industry association VDA said ...
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 ...
22 Dec 2017, 00:00 After a year filled with events that put ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ climate policy in the limelight, such as the G20 summit in Hamburg, the COP23 in Bonn, or the debate over coal in the ill-fated ¡®Jamaica coalition¡¯ talks, the country¡¯s political life ...
10 Sep 2015
10 Sep 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ FAZ/Handelsblatt "Werner M¨¹ller wants to save RWE" RWE¡¯s municipal shareholders plan to put former German economy minister? Werner M¨¹ller ?in charge of the stricken utility¡¯s supervisory ...
25 Sep 2020, 14:04 With numerous protests across Germany, the Fridays for Future youth movement has taken aim at pushing climate action to the very top of the political agenda in the run-up to the country's general elections next year. The activists ...
12 Feb 2016
12 Feb 2016, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°ætransition.de ¡°Gas makes a (small) comeback in Germany¡± There are signs that gas turbines have become profitable again in Germany, even though they continue to produce very little power, Craig Morris reports ...
15 Aug 2016, 00:00 Germany's energy ministry wants to give top priority to saving energy in its move to a renewable future. It admits the long-term targets of the energy transition, or Energiewende, will be missed with current policies, and that ...
01 Jul 2015
01 Jul 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Dirty deal¡± At a high-level meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel tonight, the German government looks set to abandon plans for an additional levy on old coal-fired plants and instead adopt ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:12 Germany must rapidly step up its national climate and energy targets to bring efforts in line with new EU-wide goals, said the independent expert commission in charge of monitoring the country¡¯s energy transition. While details still ...
26 Jul 2018
26 Jul 2018, 16:22 Following last year¡¯s strong growth, wind energy expansion in the first half of 2018 dropped substantially. Wind power groups are calling on the government to launch the special auctions for renewable energies that it agreed to hold in ...
29 May 2017, 00:00 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition is a vast national project that is reshaping the entire country. But it is happening on a local level, too. Here, the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ looks at the path that one eastern German city is taking towards ...
