23 Oct 2020, 11:56 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel EU 麻豆无码版 ...
06 Jul 2020, 12:23 Coal Spiegel / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / DW / NDR Following the German parliament鈥檚 vote on Friday in favour of a law ending all coal power production by 2038, the country鈥檚 media has been reacting to the controversial bill. As well as an ...
20 Sep 2019, 20:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel's so-called "climate cabinet" has put together the bedrock for future climate action legislation in Germany, just in time for UN Secretary-General Ant贸nio Guterres' Climate Action Summit in ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版, 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 ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal International 麻豆无码版 / Handelsblatt German energy company RWE is suing the Netherlands for compensation payments in relation to the ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:37 Edgar Meza Transport Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Leading German environmental organisations are calling for an immediate halt to the construction and expansion of highways and for a new federal mobility law to be passed ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:23 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert bne- Association of 麻豆无码版 ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation 麻豆无码版 Germany must step up its climate adaptation efforts as it faces prolonged droughts, severe water loss and increasing warming, according to the latest update to the country's Adaptation ...
10 May 2023, 12:20 Carolina Kyllmann Society 麻豆无码版 Germany should introduce a 鈥�climate passport鈥� for people displaced by the effects of climate change, an independent government advisory panel has proposed in its annual report. The Expert ...
24 Sep 2021, 13:43 In a last TV debate three days before the German elections, the representatives of almost all major parties have agreed that more rapid and effective climate protection must be a priority for the next government. At the same time, the ...
13 Jan 2025, 10:15 A last-minute move by Germany鈥檚 government to call for a delay to key EU sustainable finance legislation has caused dismay among observers from the finance industry and beyond. At a time when economic and political uncertainty is ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Contracts refunding companies for investments in low-emissions technologies could be a key tool to ensure industry starts the transition to聽 climate-neutral production, a ...
30 Apr 2021, 14:03 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 Germany's Constitutional Court ruling that the government鈥檚 climate policies are insufficient will have a major impact on the country's election campaign and beyond, media ...
05 Sep 2019, 12:30 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 ...
Germany will miss its climate targets unless the next federal government steps up its efforts, according to non-profit environmental and consumer protection association Environmental Action Germany (DUH). In a list of 85 measures for the energy, heating ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:51 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Heating Policy 麻豆无码版 [Updates with cabinet agreement] The German government has earmarked almost 60 billion euros to boost the country鈥檚 emission reduction efforts next year. The designated ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 麻豆无码版 Most people in Germany are ready to implement changes to their lifestyle in order to reduce their individual impact on the climate, a survey commissioned by the European ...
13 Jun 2025, 12:05 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Society 麻豆无码版 Millions of residents in Germany鈥檚 cities are being exposed to moderate or extreme heat stress caused by high temperatures, dense surface sealing and too little greenery, according ...
09 Nov 2021, 12:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics DLF Climate action will become 鈥減erhaps the most important point鈥� in the planned coalition treaty of the next German government, the Social Democrats鈥� (SPD) secretary general Lars Klingbeil has ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Bild am Sonntag Germany's new agriculture minister Cem 脰zdemir from the Green Party wants people to 鈥渧alue their food as much as their cars鈥�, he told Bild am Sonntag in an interview at the end of last ...
19 Aug 2020, 13:50 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean ...
09 Jul 2025, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Government 麻豆无码版 The German energy industry association BDEW has called on lawmakers to use the ongoing federal parliamentary budget negotiations to ensure wider electricity tax relief and ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:42 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 麻豆无码版聽 The German government coalition's first year in office has brought much-needed progress in key energy transition areas but still falls ...
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 ...
18 Jul 2025, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Finance 麻豆无码版 Germany's largest occupational pension fund for public sector employees will have to disclose how it invests contributions from more than five million insured civil servants, including ...
22 Apr 2025
22 Apr 2025, 12:35 麻豆无码版 Team FT: Germany鈥檚 neighbours eye share of Friedrich Merz鈥檚 big spending plans Germany鈥檚 economically liberal neighbours are warming to relaxing EU state subsidy rules for the long term, as they bet on their national industries ...
20 Jun 2025, 15:30 The coming weeks will be decisive for the European Union鈥檚 climate trajectory, with several key milestones rapidly approaching. Central among these is the European Commission鈥檚 long-awaited proposal for the EU鈥檚 2040 emissions reduction ...
07 May 2024, 13:31 Expert Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Bundesanstalt f眉r Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Climate & CO2 Resources & Recycling Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt ...
10 Dec 2024, 14:45 The early end of Olaf Scholz鈥檚 coalition government follows a three-year term marked by crises and a deep internal dispute over funding for future climate and energy policies. Despite its noisy demise, the chancellor鈥檚 three-party ...
14 May 2019, 16:28 Germany鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel said that her new climate cabinet will debate how Germany could reach climate neutrality by mid-century. Should the ministers find a 鈥渟ound鈥� way to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, ...
04 Sep 2019, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The expansion of renewable electricity facilities, such as wind and solar PV parks, is the crucial challenge currently facing Germany's energy transition (Energiewende), ...
16 Jun 2025, 12:50 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Construction Bild Assembling building parts in factories, also known as serial construction, could greatly reduce building costs in Germany, construction minister Verena Hubertz told tabloid Bild. "We can ...
30 Aug 2024, 12:47 Joey Grostern Coal Society K枚lner Stadt-Anzeiger / 麻豆无码版 B眉rgewald, an empty village on the edge of the Hambach open-cast coal mine in the western German state of North Rhine Westphalia, has been bought back by the local ...
19 Jun 2025, 12:38 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Jack McGovan Renewables Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 The ...
20 Aug 2019, 13:59 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
06 Oct 2021, 14:00 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU 麻豆无码版 Renewable energy and climate action are part of the solution to an energy crunch such as the one currently experienced by Europe, said German environment minister Svenja Schulze ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Heating dpa / BR / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The draft legislation to introduce a de-facto ban on new gas and oil heating systems in Germany starting in 2024 has sparked a dispute within the government coalition ...
20 Sep 2019, 13:03 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy ...
03 Dec 2014, 00:00 The government approved what it claims to be the largest climate action package in the country鈥檚 history. Most observers applauded the commitment to emissions reduction goals by 2020. But environmentalists criticised the lack of a ...
30 Jul 2025
30 Jul 2025, 12:46 麻豆无码版 Team IEEFA: D茅j脿 vu as EU risks overreliance on one gas supplier Plan of purchasing 750 billion dollars of US energy in next three years could risk bloc鈥檚 energy security. Allianz: Insurance market for hydrogen could reach more ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal 麻豆无码版 Limited capacity and environmental risks mean that carbon storage in the German North Sea should only be used for residual emissions that remain unavoidable, said ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 German municipalities are increasingly caught between rising climate protection needs and limited resources, a report by state-owned development bank KfW found. ...
11 Jul 2025, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Fossil fuels Industry 麻豆无码版 The buildout of a sizeable infrastructure for CO2 transport and storage is key to enable the market ramp-up for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies in ...
08 Nov 2019, 14:02 Expert ZEW- Centre for European Economic Research Zentrum f眉r Europ盲ische Wirtschaftsforschung Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government 麻豆无码版 A price on CO2聽emissions in Germany's buildings ...
30 Jun 2021, 13:59 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel CO鈧� emissions in Germany and ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Heating 麻豆无码版 Climate-friendly heating technologies may now be predominant in new builds in Germany but the country鈥檚 existing buildings continue to rely on fossil fuels, shows a report by the German 麻豆无码版 ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:47 The public debate in Poland in recent weeks has been dominated by international security and the implications of the rift between the new US administration and Europe on Ukraine. Beyond the frontpage news, there has been progress on ...
13 Oct 2022, 10:52 Climate activist Greta Thunberg has backed the continued use of nuclear power plants that are still in operation in Germany, fuelling a heated debate over runtime extensions as the government struggles to find a unified position on the ...
17 Mar 2025
17 Mar 2025, 13:00 麻豆无码版 Team FT: Green energy stocks fall back to levels last seen 5 years ago聽 Uncertainty over political support for clean transition depresses market. Reuters: Peruvian farmer takes German energy giant RWE to court in landmark climate ...
02 Apr 2019, 09:50 The German government is examining the possibility of CO鈧� pricing across economic sectors, according to media reports. Several newspapers report the chancellery has asked leading German research institutes to explore socially acceptable ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Spiegel Online / energate messenger Germany's ambassador to the EU, Michael Clau脽, has warned that the German EU Council presidency cannot take place as planned聽due to the coronavirus pandemic, ...
09 Jun 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating International 麻豆无码版 The French city of Strasbourg and the German town of Kehl, which are located on opposite sides of the river Rhine, are planning to connect their heating systems in a cross-border ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:30 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Society 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background More than 700 scientists from German-speaking countries have signed a petition that explicitly backs students鈥� strikes demanding rapid climate action by the ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:49 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 next government after the September election must quickly introduce measures and instruments to ensure the country reaches the ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Activists of the environmental action group Extinction Rebellion (XR) occupied the headquarters of Germany's lignite mining industry association, DEBRIV, in Berlin in ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:32 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable 麻豆无码版 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 ...
Germany鈥檚 new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, says Germany must regain its leadership position in the international effort to reduce carbon emissions. 鈥淕ermany quickly has to restore its pioneering role in climate action,鈥� Schulze said during her ...
31 Jul 2019, 13:57 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Rheinische Post The federal government is 鈥渇rightening鈥� the population with the debate about climate action measures such as higher prices for fossil car fuels and domestic ...
18 Dec 2015, 00:00 Second parliament chamber passes laws for combined heat and power support and new power cables / Progress in grid expansion and more money for efficient power stations will advance energy transition and national climate targets, says ...
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鈥檚 new leadership that will shape climate policy until the end of the decade. It will face the ...
12 May 2025, 13:47 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 麻豆无码版 Most people in Germany continue to be very concerned about the impact of global ...
30 Jun 2025, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation dpa / Tagesspiegel Temperatures in Germany have increased at a quicker rate than previously thought, researchers from the country鈥檚 meteorological service DWD have found. The rise since ...
11 Nov 2019, 12:56 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost ...
17 May 2022, 11:49 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 / SZ / Tagesspiegel Background German energy industry association BDEW has called for a 鈥渉ydrogen ramp-up law鈥� to ensure that the country quickly takes the steps necessary to build up a market ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:12 Julian Wettengel EU 麻豆无码版 The German government aims to submit the draft update of the country鈥檚 national energy and climate plan (NECP) to the EU sometime this summer, a spokesperson from the economy and climate ministry ...
More than 60 civil society groups under the umbrella organisation Climate Alliance are calling for an ambitious phase-out of coal-fired power generation, a higher goal for renewables expansion, and a CO鈧� floor price in the power sector. The alliance has ...
01 Nov 2024, 16:30 As the world heads to the international climate summit COP29, the European Union is in a tricky position. The Brussels machine is still getting back up and running after the June elections, with the European Commission chiefs yet to be ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Solar and heating industry associations have appealed to politicians at the federal and state levels to show clear policy commitments to the energy transition after ...
12 Jun 2025, 12:06 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 The majority of trees in German forests show an amount of crown thinning that implies they鈥檙e unhealthy, with only 21 percent of examined trees unaffected, found a survey by the ...
13 Feb 2025
13 Feb 2025, 13:49 麻豆无码版 Team Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)- Little potential for "climate plantations" within planetary boundaries Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is being discussed as a way to remove ...
23 Sep 2019, 13:56 Freja Eriksen Coal 麻豆无码版 Germany has joined the international Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) but withheld fully endorsing the PPCA declaration, which would commit OECD countries to phase out unabated coal no later than ...
26 Mar 2025, 13:43 Bennet Ribbeck Society 麻豆无码版 Human rights organisation Amnesty International and other NGOs have criticised official charges against members of the German Last Generation climate movement because of 鈥渟uspicion of forming a ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / 麻豆无码版 The row between Germany鈥檚 coalition partners over key climate and energy policies such as industry support shows no sign of letting up despite a two-day retreat ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:24 Edgar Meza Gas Security Die Welt The US government's threat of sanctions against companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project has led to angry calls of defiance by government officials and business leaders in ...
23 Sep 2019, 14:12 The future of Germany's much criticised climate strategy hangs in the balance as the Green Party vowed to amend the package, and experts warned legal hurdles threatened the government's concept for a CO2 price. Yet, Chancellor ...
07 Apr 2025, 09:39 Croatia is making moves on renewable energy reform, including new rules for self-supply, storage, and energy communities, but long-standing challenges persist. Grid bottlenecks continue to slow solar expansion, and major energy ...
07 Feb 2025
07 Feb 2025, 11:27 麻豆无码版 Team Climate Home: UN gives countries more time to submit 鈥渜uality鈥� climate plans for 2035 The head of the UN climate change body has urged countries to submit new 鈥渇irst-rate鈥� climate targets by September, after only a handful of ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:20 Franca Quecke Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 麻豆无码版 / Handelsblatt Eleven environmental associations and citizens' initiatives have joined forces to come out against聽 controversial technologies to capture and聽store CO鈧� ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:25 The German government has been urged to quickly devise a plan on how to regulate and manage the start of the European Union carbon emissions trading system for transport and heating fuels in 2027. Measures need to be put in place to ...
27 Nov 2024, 13:01 Ruby Russel Heating 麻豆无码版 Heat pump sales in Germany are set to fall to around 200,000 units this year, from 350,000 in 2023, according to the German Heat Pump Association (BWP), which blames the 45 percent decline on ...
07 Jul 2022, 14:21 Germany's ruling parties have dropped the target of 鈥渘ear 100 percent renewables鈥� in the power grid by 2035 but agreed on more favourable conditions for solar PV and strict wind power expansion targets for laggard states in their ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:44 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Cars Spiegel Germany鈥檚 chancellor Olaf Scholz has invited the country鈥檚 top car executives and other experts to discuss the country鈥檚 lagging shift to clean transport, according to news media reports. The meeting ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:53 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Renewables Germany鈥檚 ministries for the economy, the environment and construction have released a draft for translating the EU鈥檚 renewable energy directive (RED) into German law to speed up the roll-out of ...
12 Dec 2019, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband ...
Each federal ministry must come up with a plan to help achieve the country鈥檚 2030 climate goals by the end of 2018, Environment Minister Svenja Schulze writes in a guest article for Tagesspiegel Background. The federal government鈥檚 climate protection law, ...
Several associations and NGOs have called on economy minister Peter Altmaier and interior and building minister Horst Seehofer not to soften existing energy efficiency standards with the planned Building 麻豆无码版 Law (GEG). In a joint letter, Environmental ...
30 Nov 2021, 13:49 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background The new Berlin state government consisting of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the Left Party has presented its coalition agreement on Monday. The threey-party ...
The federal government鈥檚 鈥�climate 谤丑别迟辞谤颈肠鈥� runs contrary to recent plans and regulatory reforms, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Rundschau. Cabinet聽 decided 聽on a draft law to ratify the Paris Climate Agreement and Chancellor ...
15 Mar 2022, 10:46 More drastic forms of climate protest such as recent hunger strikes and motorway blockades risk widening the divisions within the German youth climate movement, says social movements researcher Dieter Rucht from the Berlin Social ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices EU 麻豆无码版 The planned EU emissions trading system for transport and buildings (ETS 2) must be designed in a way that guarantees a socially acceptable burden-sharing, an analysis ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Coal 麻豆无码版 / Hamburger Abendblatt The city of Hamburg needs to immediately start reducing the use of coal in its two main heat and power stations to be in line with the city-state鈥檚 coal phase-out plan for ...
28 Mar 2025, 13:48 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims 麻豆无码版 NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has won separate greenwashing lawsuits against airline Lufthansa and apparel company Adidas on the grounds of misleading consumers with ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:40 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & ...
07 Jul 2021, 12:27 Edgar Meza Heating 麻豆无码版 A newly formed cross-industry alliance is calling for a significantly faster decarbonisation of the building sector through renewable heating technologies and a correspondingly more ambitious energy ...
15 Oct 2024, 12:58 Jack McGovan Wind Cost & Prices taz The German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association (BWE) has proposed a statutory maximum limit on prices for land use among industry complaints that rents for wind farms continue to rise, newspaper Tageszeitung ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:23 Jack McGovan Cars 麻豆无码版 Germany's economy and climate ministry has welcomed the European Commission鈥檚 plans for the automotive sector, arguing it will increase the sector's international competitiveness. "With ...
05 Jun 2025, 13:23 S枚ren Amelang Society 麻豆无码版 A solid majority of people in rich countries are in favour of comprehensive climate action which includes payments to poorer countries, a study has found. 鈥淭here is strong and genuine support for ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / 麻豆无码版 The far-right Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD) party鈥檚 current high results in German polls can be attributed to mainstream political parties ...
17 Aug 2021, 12:19 Activists from the coalition group 鈥楢ugust Rise Up鈥� took to the streets in Berlin on Monday 16 August to call for more climate action six weeks ahead of the German federal election. Around two hundred people blocked the road in front of ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:22 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Government EU 麻豆无码版 The NGO Germanwatch has called on the European Commission to present an ambitious second part of the 鈥淔it for 55 package鈥� of energy and climate ...
Trying to micro-manage Germany鈥檚 long-term path to decarbonisation with a government climate plan is doomed to fail, because 鈥減olitics is regularly unable to plan and regulate for decades,鈥� writes Klaus Stratmann in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. He ...
07 Feb 2024, 10:30 The European Commission has recommended that the bloc reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, saying the EU's Green Deal now needs to become an "industrial decarbonisation deal." Politicians from member ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Construction S眉ddeutsche Zeitung A draft "modernisation" law intended to speed up housing construction in the southern German state of Bavaria has met resistance in cities and municipalities, as local ...
08 Feb 2021, 13:16 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Agrarheute / dpa The 16 German federal states have been unable to find a solution on how to spend farming subsidies allocated to ...
17 Jul 2025, 13:42 The EU鈥檚 climate neutrality, resilience and competitiveness goals risk being jeopardised by a lack of funding for climate and biodiversity protection in Europe's proposal for its upcoming budget cycle, environmental groups said. ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Tagesspiegel / 麻豆无码版 An earlier phase-out of coal-fired power production in Germany by 2030 is unlikely if the country does not manage to install sufficient alternative backup capacity to ...
02 Jul 2025
02 Jul 2025, 12:15 麻豆无码版 Team Reuters: EU to add international CO2 credits to next climate goal聽 Commission proposes 2040 climate target that for the first time will allow countries to use carbon credits from developing nations to meet a share of their ...
04 Sep 2019, 12:11 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Freja Eriksen Heating 麻豆无码版 ...
27 Feb 2025
27 Feb 2025, 13:14 麻豆无码版 Team Bloomberg: Don't sound the death knell for Germany's green wave yet The nation鈥檚 industrial giants believe clean technology is the best bet for the future. That should be an incentive for Friedrich Merz to stay the ...
23 Jun 2020, 13:52 EU 麻豆无码版 A group of non-governmental organisations warns in a report that corporate interests could push for and achieve climate-damaging EU legislation during the country鈥檚 upcoming EU Council presidency. Lobbycontrol and ...
18 Jul 2025
18 Jul 2025, 11:31 麻豆无码版 Team BBC: Plans for direct train to Berlin in new UK-Germany treaty UK聽Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, said the rail link could offer an alternative to flying within the next decade. DW:聽 Deutsche Bahn is on track for more ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities Heating 麻豆无码版 The largest river-based heat pump in Germany has started operations in the southern city of Mannheim. It will use water from the Rhine River to heat some 3,500 households, the local ...
11 Jun 2021, 14:14 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Heating 麻豆无码版 Agora Energiewende * and the聽 Climate Neutrality Foundation 聽have unveiled a聽 roadmap 聽aimed at facilitating the necessary heating transition to make the building sector ...
07 Jan 2020, 16:05 A sharp drop in coal use put a break on Germany's CO2 emissions last year and pushed the country "surprisingly鈥� close to its 2020 climate target, writes energy think tank Agora Energiewende in its 2019 review. But a rising CO2 ...
18 Mar 2019, 14:30 In the days after tens of thousands of students protested across Germany for more action on climate change, reactions poured in from across the political spectrum. Some conservative politicians argue students should not miss school, and ...
08 Apr 2025
08 Apr 2025, 11:31 麻豆无码版 Team Copernicus: Warmest March in Europe and lowest Arctic winter sea ice The average temperature over European land for March 2025 was 6.03掳C, 2.41掳C above the 1991-2020 average for March, making it the warmest March for Europe. ...
04 Dec 2024
04 Dec 2024, 11:44 麻豆无码版 Team Argus: Germany's 2030 coal phase-out ambitions called into question Earlier phase-out target is being reassessed owing to likelihood of further delays to power plant security act, which is meant to secure back-up capacity ...
31 Jan 2025, 14:00 Poland鈥檚 energy transition is lagging and set to rely on natural gas as a bridge fuel and nuclear energy for baseload capacity. A far-right party is pushing against new renewable investment with a referendum on a pending new wind farm ...
22 Jul 2025, 13:18 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Utilities Policy S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / 麻豆无码版 Amid growing uncertainty about the new German government鈥檚 future energy policy, both energy supplier Vattenfall and the country鈥檚 central bank, the ...
28 May 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Efficiency 麻豆无码版 A majority of companies in the energy efficiency industry are not satisfied with the work of the federal government, according to a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and ...
09 Jan 2025
09 Jan 2025, 12:00 麻豆无码版 Team Bloomberg: Northvolt owners back battery output as funding search continues EV supplier has been seeking investors post-Chapter 11 filing in US Swedish law requires shareholder assent after equity declines Bloomberg: Amundi, ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:04 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 European parliamentary hopefuls have been urged against campaigning on the EU鈥檚 successes in dealing with issues such as climate change and COVID-19, as polls show many ...
23 Aug 2024, 15:00 The summer holiday peak has arrived across Europe and most parliaments on the continent have gone into recess. But while federal politics won鈥檛 fully resume in Germany before 8 September, politicians and their observers have already ...
09 Jun 2020, 12:55 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:55 Conservative CDU member Katherina Reiche looks set to become Germany鈥檚 new economy and energy minister in a government led by Friedrich Merz as chancellor. Reiche looks back at ten years in the energy industry, where she assumed leading ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:27 Edgar Meza Heating 麻豆无码版 Funding requests for new heating systems, energy efficient renovations and renewable energy systems are increasing in Germany, according to the Intelligent heizen (Intelligent Heating) service portal ...
28 Feb 2025, 15:00 Last week鈥檚 parliamentary snap election changed Germany鈥檚 political landscape: The former tripartite 鈥渢raffic light coalition鈥� of chancellor Olaf Scholz has been clearly voted out- and conservative CDU opposition leader Friedrich Merz ...
09 Sep 2019, 13:41 Expert Alliance for Climate and Economy Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Germany should aim for greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050, a position paper ...
08 May 2023, 13:30 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche St盲dte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung Municipalities in Germany expect the ...
30 Sep 2020, 12:23 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has thrown her weight behind the European Commission鈥檚 proposal to increase the bloc鈥檚 climate target to a 55 percent greenhouse gas reduction by 2030. Speaking in federal parliament, she said the country ...
01 Oct 2019, 17:30 Germany is set to reach its goal of doubling contributions to international climate finance to four billion euros annually by 2020 compared to 2014 figures. A gap had become clear earlier this year, but a budget draft states that this ...
08 Nov 2024, 13:41 S枚ren Amelang Society Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 All Germans want significantly more climate action from the party they would vote for in the upcoming federal election, with the exception of those who support the far ...
30 Sep 2024, 13:46 S枚ren Amelang Carbon removal 麻豆无码版 The German government's current plan for allowing carbon capture and storage (CCS) is far too permissive and set to delay the phase-out of fossil fuels, said environmental NGOs. They ...
16 Dec 2021, 11:11 Discussions about climate action tend to centre around the need for mitigation 鈥� 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 ...
24 May 2024, 14:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Finance PV Magazine Finance minister Christian Lindner has presented a draft law reform that aims to ease the access for investment funds into Germany鈥檚 renewable power and energy system infrastructure, PV ...
08 Sep 2023, 15:13 S枚ren Amelang Heating Policy 麻豆无码版 A new law for the phase out of oil and gas boilers in Germany was agreed upon in parliament today (8 September 2023), though changes to the original plans following controversy within the ...
30 Apr 2025, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Government 麻豆无码版 The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has approved the coalition agreement with the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, led by chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz, clearing the final major hurdle to ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:33 Faced with a crisis in the construction sector and a housing shortage, the German government has decided to suspend the tightening of new building efficiency rules initially planned for 2025. Climate activists decried the agreement as a ...
31 Jul 2025, 13:29 A growing number of critics have voiced concerns over an upcoming energy transition monitoring report, which Germany鈥檚 economy ministry plans to use to guide future energy policy.聽 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Politics The planned ...
22 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 ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:47 Jessica Bateman Business 麻豆无码版 Private sector employees in Germany are largely in favour of their companies opting for tougher climate protection measures but are sceptical about their implementation, a survey commissioned ...
24 Feb 2025, 13:57 Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz wants to enter coalition talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz, after the German elections鈥� result has paved the way for the two parties to form a government ...
02 Mar 2022, 12:15 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Heating 麻豆无码版 In view of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its impact on the security of Germany鈥檚 energy supply, the Wuppertal Institute sustainability research think tank is calling for increased ...
06 May 2021, 13:05 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' ...
10 Mar 2025, 13:28 Germany鈥檚 likely next coalition government has agreed to a substantial electricity price cut to relieve households and companies and honour national and European climate targets. The Conservatives, under probable next chancellor ...
06 Dec 2024, 12:56 S枚ren Amelang Society Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Climate action has dropped in German voters鈥� priorities vs economic growth over the course of the past five years, according to a聽 survey 聽conducted by the Konrad Adenauer ...
31 Mar 2020, 14:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation ...
04 Sep 2023, 13:25 S枚ren Amelang Heating Policy 麻豆无码版 / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany鈥檚 parliament is set to agree a controversial law for a phase-out of fossil fuel-powered boilers on Friday (8 September). The vote will provisionally ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:25 S枚ren Amelang Policy Security Tagesspiegel Background The German government has agreed to hand extra power to the country鈥檚 grid agency to improve the protection of critical energy infrastructure. The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:37 Expert NPE- German National Platform for Electric Mobility Nationale Plattform Elektromobilit盲t Transport Policy Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Transport Cars 麻豆无码版 Germany's federal government does not plan to ...
27 Jan 2022, 12:50 Jessica Bateman 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Society 麻豆无码版 Young Germans supported by an environmental NGO have filed a new lawsuit with the country's highest court to force the government to further step up its climate ...
10 May 2024, 15:00 Poland saw a change in power last autumn when a pro-EU coalition led by former European Council president Donald Tusk took over after eight years of rule by the right-wing populist Law and Justice party (PiS). Since then, however, the ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Tagesspiegel The ministries responsible for implementing climate policy in Germany get bad marks from newspaper Tagesspiegel in an analysis of their first year in office after the ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Der Spiegel聽 A proposal by Germany鈥檚 transport ministry to accelerate the planning and construction of new motorways is causing an uproar by the Green Party, which ...
04 Jul 2025, 13:20 Two months after the new government entered office, climate action proponents are becoming increasingly concerned about the future direction of energy policy in Germany. Activists have accused the economy minister of planning to slow ...
27 May 2025, 12:17 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Technology WirtschaftsWoche In view of the massive energy capacity needed for artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, German energy company RWE is calling for government support to ensure the German ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Government International 麻豆无码版 Several climate and environmental NGOs have called on the German government to step up its leadership efforts and remain a reliable climate protection advocate ahead of the ...
23 Jul 2025
23 Jul 2025, 12:45 麻豆无码版 Team IRENA: 91% of new renewable projects now cheaper than fossil fuels alternatives New IRENA report confirms cost-competitiveness of renewables; warns of mounting grid integration and financing challenges notably in emerging and ...
28 Jul 2021, 12:09 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A larger number of German voters have listed climate change as a top priority following the devastating floods in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:57 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 International 麻豆无码版 / ZDF A landmark court hearing initiated by a Peruvian farmer and ...
01 Nov 2024, 11:29 Julian Wettengel Finance COP29 Tagesspiegel Background / 麻豆无码版 Upcoming negotiations on a new goal for financial support from richer countries to developing economies to mitigate and adapt to climate change will be 鈥渧ery ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Gas 麻豆无码版 The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has approved the German gas transmission grid operators鈥� framework scenario to develop the grid over the next ten years, but called on them to identify natural ...
17 Jan 2020, 13:48 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
21 Sep 2022, 13:22 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 SWR The state government of Baden-W眉rttemberg has passed a new version of its Climate Protection Act in an effort to further reduce greenhouse gases with ambitious new goals, but critics say the legislation ...
24 May 2023, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Heating Policy Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 The intensifying quarrel within the German government coalition is increasingly likely to delay a law designed to pave the way towards climate-friendly heating. ...
22 May 2019, 16:37 Ahead of the European Elections from the 23rd 鈥� 26th of May, organisers of the German Fridays for Futures see the election as a last chance to put climate at the top of the European Parliament鈥檚 agenda. 鈥淭his election will have a ...
29 Jul 2025, 12:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Transport Tagesspiegel / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A deadly train accident in southern Germany has raised questions of how prepared the country鈥檚 transport infrastructure is to withstand extreme weather ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Grid EU 麻豆无码版 / Reuters The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has said that Germany's network regulator, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), must act more independently when applying the ...
18 Dec 2018, 09:35 The role of gas 鈥� both in its natural form and as a CO2-neutral variety made with renewable power 鈥� will be one of the hottest topics on Germany's 2019 energy transition agenda, according to Carsten Rolle, secretary of the World ...
26 Aug 2021, 13:39 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 Germans doubt that climate protection and economic growth can ...
04 Jun 2025, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang Technology Heating 麻豆无码版 A large majority of new residential houses and buildings in Germany feature a heat pump as their main heating system, showed numbers from the government鈥檚 statistical office Destatis. ...
20 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025, 12:15 麻豆无码版 Team Carbon Pulse:聽 EU Commission announces withdrawal of Green Claims Directive The European Commission said it intends to withdraw its proposal for a Green Claims Directive on Friday (20 June), in answer to a question by Carbon ...
26 May 2023, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Society dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The UN has highlighted the importance of climate activists and their right to hold demonstrations following a crackdown on a street-blocking group in Germany. "Climate ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:51 Carolina Kyllmann Society 麻豆无码版 The cost hikes and uncertainties triggered by the energy crisis have not shaken German citizens鈥� belief that the energy transition must have a high priority, according to a survey. Sixty-nine ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:26 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society Washington Post Tens of thousands of teenagers across Europe have skipped school since the beginning of the year, joining protests demanding action on climate change, Luisa Beck reports in the ...
21 Jun 2016
21 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) Climate Action Plan 2050 delayed The Climate Action Plan 2050 that is to describe a pathway and policy measures for Germany to cut its ...
11 May 2023, 11:58 A regional election in the northern German city-state of Bremen is set to shed light on how much the weeks of wrangling over key climate policy in the federal government coalition have left their mark on public approval. Issues like ...
21 Jan 2025
21 Jan 2025, 11:00 麻豆无码版 Team AP: Trump signs executive order directing US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement 鈥� again Move is blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies. Ursula von ...
18 Mar 2020, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Coal Gas Hydrogen Policy 麻豆无码版 / Handelsblatt / Energate The German government has adjourned a decision on the country's highly anticipated strategy on how to boost the use of hydrogen to decarbonise ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:45 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Security G20 & G7 Clean ...
22 May 2019, 13:45 Voters across the EU will head to the polls between 23 and 26 May to elect a new European Parliament. It鈥檚 one of three major European institutions 鈥� along with the European Commission and Council 鈥� due for elections or leadership ...
31 May 2019, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Euractiv German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the world to do 鈥渆verything humanly possible鈥� to combat climate change and pledged to do her part,聽 reports Euractiv. 鈥�Climate ...
04 Aug 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU FAZ / 麻豆无码版 Forty-one percent of economics professors said the EU should do more on climate, according to a survey by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo), writes Frankfurter ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:36 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Efficiency 麻豆无码版 Three quarters of German buildings are ...
01 Aug 2025, 12:45 Joey Grostern Mobility ARD The German government will announce a package of structural reforms to the country鈥檚 national railway system and state-owned operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) by the end of summer, transport minister Patrick ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:16 Jack McGovan Adaptation Cities 麻豆无码版 Areas destroyed by floods in western Germany in 2021 should not only be restored, but be rebuilt in a way that makes them more sustainable and resilient against future flood events, said ...
02 Dec 2020, 13:44 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry International 麻豆无码版 EU member states have聽 reached an agreement 聽on a new supply chain law, which is to hold countries and companies accountable for ensuring that social and environmental standards ...
18 Jul 2025, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Technology Government 麻豆无码版 German chancellor Friedrich Merz said that his country鈥檚 key contribution in the fight against global warming was developing the right technologies. 鈥淚f we want to contribute to ...
27 Oct 2020, 13:47 Coal Hamburger Abendblatt Hamburg鈥檚 Wedel coal-fired district heating plant is lowering its coal combustion, which will lead to lower CO2 emissions in the years until its planned shutdown in 2025, Jens Meyer-Wellmann writes in the ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Transport 麻豆无码版 / tagesschau.de German transport minister Volker Wissing has renewed his rejection of a general speed limit on the country鈥檚 autobahns after a report found that the measure could save almost ...
21 Aug 2019, 16:00 Moment of truth for German climate policy: Right in time for the UN Climate Action Summit, chancellor Angela Merkel's government is due to present a raft of measures to drastically cut emissions. The eagerly awaited announcements ...
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 ...
16 May 2019, 14:02 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables 麻豆无码版 A new law that is aimed at ...
02 Jul 2025, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Gas 麻豆无码版 The German government has greenlit a project with the Netherlands to exploit natural gas resources in the North Sea. The agreement implements a proposal from the coalition treaty ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:11 The German environmental organisations DUH and Greenpeace have launched legal action against major carmakers VW, BMW and Mercedes Benz, as well as oil and gas company Wintershall Dea over their impact on climate change. The NGOs are ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 If the global temperature rise is to be limited to 1.5掳C, Germany has nearly or fully used up its "fair share" of the remaining global CO2 emissions budget, the German ...
The Group of Twenty (G20) is 鈥渂eginning to head in the right direction鈥� towards a low-carbon economy but needs to step up its efforts to meet the Paris Agreement鈥檚 temperature goals, according to a report by Climate Transparency, the international ...
31 Aug 2021, 08:44 Tighter emission targets and mounting signs of climate change have once again turned Germany's coal exit into a hotly debated election campaign issue. The country agreed last year to phase out coal by 2038 at the latest, but many ...
13 Dec 2019, 13:11 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Freja Eriksen Heating 麻豆无码版 Consumption of oil and natural gas for heating Germany's residential buildings rose by 1.1 and 1.5 ...
27 Oct 2021, 16:14 Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Elections & Politics WDR / 麻豆无码版 / Die Zeit Conservative CDU politician Hendrik W眉st has been voted in as new state premier of Germany鈥檚 most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia ...
02 May 2025, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Table Media / Handelsblatt Several international climate policy experts have warned that the next German government鈥檚 decision to strip the foreign office of its responsibility for ...
11 Jun 2019, 13:26 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & ...
17 Jul 2025
17 Jul 2025, 09:43 麻豆无码版 Team Reuters: Low water hinders Rhine river shipping in Germany despite rain聽 Cargo vessels are generally only able to sail about half full. But freight is still being delivered, with loads being carried by several vessels instead ...
While ambitious climate policy is an opportunity for growth and prosperity, the economic costs of inaction 鈥渃an hardly be quantified, but they are enormous鈥�, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 9 th Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin. 鈥�Climate ...
14 Jun 2023, 13:10 Jessica Bateman Heating Table.Media / 麻豆无码版 The German government has reached a compromise on the shift to climate-friendly heating by effectively postponing a ban on the installation of new fossil fuel heating systems, ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang Transport dpa / 麻豆无码版 German industry groups and other car lobby organisations have said the European Parliament鈥檚 decision to back a ban of new combustion engine cars in 2035 is a blow to climate protection ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:30 Germany takes first tentative steps towards a change away from area-based farming subsidies to payments made depending on the environmental performance of farmers. The government cabinet has agreed on how to implement European rules ...
06 Jun 2025, 13:16 S枚ren Amelang Society 麻豆无码版 One in two Germans say they feel weighed down psychologically by climate change and its effects. In a survey, 53 percent of respondents聽 told the country鈥檚 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) that ...
11 Oct 2019, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 German car manufacturers Daimler and BMW, utility RWE and building materials company HeidelbergCement are among the world's most influential lobbyists against ...
11 Dec 2020, 14:14 German politicians have welcomed the EU leaders鈥� decision to increase the bloc鈥檚 2030 climate target as an important decision that puts the Union on a credible path towards climate neutrality by 2050 and means the bloc is once again one ...
24 Apr 2025, 17:08 Poland is driving European efforts to end the reliance on Russian fossil fuel imports and has announced an 鈥渆conomic nationalism鈥� policy in response to US tariffs, which could have an impact on energy and climate policy. In the meantime ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:43 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for 麻豆无码版 Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation ...
21 Mar 2025, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Electricity market 麻豆无码版 A projected increase in electricity demand and a reduction of power plant capacity able to supply electricity at any moment are set to represent concrete challenges for Germany' ...
22 Nov 2024, 09:30 The collapse of Germany鈥檚 coalition government has thrown climate policymaking in Europe鈥檚 largest economy into disarray, and added many question marks to the progress of its landmark energy transition. The sacking of finance minister ...
In an interview with public broadcaster ARD, German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the proposal for a more ambitious EU greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 by Miguel Arias Ca帽ete, commissioner for climate action and energy. 鈥淚 am not so happy ...
25 Aug 2021, 13:18 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Wirtschaftswoche The German Council of Economic Experts member Veronika Grimm has criticised Germany鈥檚 climate policy and called for a market-based approach that builds on the already existing Emissions ...
24 Jun 2025, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Society 麻豆无码版 Around half of university students in Germany feel that climate change affects their mental health negatively, according to a survey by the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg and insurer ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:24 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 麻豆无码版 The German government cabinet has approved the programme for its EU Council presidency one week before the start of its six-month tenure next week (1 ...
23 Jul 2019, 13:57 Sven Egenter Coal Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Germany should set a carbon price 鈥渟ignificantly鈥� higher than that of the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) on CO2 emissions across all sectors, the German National Academy of ...
04 May 2022, 13:54 S枚ren Amelang Cities Der Tagesspiegel Berlin's city government has rejected a popular petition calling for Germany's capital to become climate neutral by 2030,聽 reports regional newspaper Tagesspiegel. "We must now use ...
23 Jun 2020, 15:13 Tough talks on how to make the European Union climate neutral by 2050 are a major challenge for Germany鈥檚 6-month EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020. The negotiations for a European economic recovery programme will be a ...
12 Jun 2025
12 Jun 2025, 09:23 麻豆无码版 Team Bloomberg: Europe is stepping up to be the world鈥檚 climate sheriff 聽 While the US backslides on environmental action, more global companies are modeling themselves on EU standards. The Guardian: Funds to tackle Europe鈥檚 forest ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:27 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics dpa, ZEIT Online Climate protection plans need a stronger focus on social equality, Reiner Hoffman, head of the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB), has said. The EU Green Deal, a ...
11 Jun 2025
11 Jun 2025, 11:51 麻豆无码版 Team OECD & UNDP: Accelerated climate action can be a driver of growth and development Ambitious climate targets that are underpinned by robust implementation and investment plans can provide economic opportunities, unlock ...
04 Jul 2025, 12:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Business & Jobs 麻豆无码版 Germany plans to invest 400 million euros in climate-friendly shipping and ports over the next four years as part of its Climate and Transformation Fund (CTF). 鈥淭he ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Renewables Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy ministry (BMWK), which is currently run by the Greens, who will likely not be part of the new coalition government, has presented ...
Germany鈥檚 coal states are calling on the federal government to prevent stricter emissions limits for coal-fired power plants by taking legal action against the EU Commission, writes public broadcaster rbb in an article. A spokesperson for Saxony鈥檚 ...
16 Mar 2016
16 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淰erdi lets go of pro-coal attitude鈥� Trade union Verdi is open to more climate action and a coal exit before 2050, board member Andreas Scheidt told the Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
29 Jul 2025, 13:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Government 麻豆无码版 Uncertainty over the course of the energy transition and high energy prices are causing distress to one in three companies in Germany, a聽 survey 聽by the Association of ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Handelsblatt The German economy ministry will delay the release of a report on the impacts of the country鈥檚 coal phase-out on energy security, power prices, and the climate targets, business daily ...
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 ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel Applications for heat pump subsidies in Germany dropped by roughly half in the first six months of 2023 following a subsidy cut, newspaper Der Spiegel reported. According to ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:50 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt Germany's government wants to boost the expansion of hydrogen projects by giving them "overriding public interest" status, which would streamline planning ...
27 May 2019, 13:46 Rose-Anne Clermont Grid Renewables n-tv Federal economy minister Peter Altmaier of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) met with the heads of departments of all 16 German federal states in Hanover on 24 May to discuss how to better ...
15 Oct 2021, 11:32 Edgar Meza Agriculture Bioenergy 麻豆无码版 The German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) are increasingly relying on certified sustainable palm oil in its procurement of food as part of an effort to counter new rainforest destruction by ...
16 May 2025, 14:30 As Croatia goes to the polls for local elections on 18 May the green transition has been relatively absent in political campaigns. Citizen participation in the transition has picked up with the opening of the first large-scale solar ...
23 Jun 2025
23 Jun 2025, 11:43 麻豆无码版 Team Politico: Von der Leyen faces political crisis after groups threaten to withdraw support聽 Socialists and liberals outraged that EPP sided with far right in pulling 鈥済reenwashing鈥� legislation and could now block EU鈥檚 law-making ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:47 German stakeholders have welcomed a European Union deal to reform the bloc鈥檚 CO2 emissions trading system. Negotiators from the parliament, member state governments and the European Commission had reached an agreement to strengthen the ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:19 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / 麻豆无码版 Germany's energy industry has warned that the country might struggle to find investors to build new hydrogen-ready gas power plants, following the end of a ...
02 Apr 2020, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 1,850 stationary facilities covered under the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) emitted about 363 million tonnes of CO鈧� equivalents (CO鈧俥q) in 2019, a drop of ...
25 Jul 2024, 13:12 Jack McGovan Renewables Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 The German government drafted a law to accelerate the expansion of onshore wind, solar farms and energy storage facilities by shortening approval times for projects and designing so ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:25 S枚ren Amelang Heating Politics 麻豆无码版 In a setback for Germany鈥檚 coalition government, the country鈥檚 constitutional court has stalled the rapid parliamentary adoption of the coalition鈥檚 controversial heating law. The court ...
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 ...
06 Nov 2014
06 Nov 2014, 00:00 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 SolarServer 鈥淪urvey: Energiewende little known in neighbouring countries, but support for goals鈥� Public awareness of the Energiewende 鈥� or energy transition 鈥� among some of Germany鈥檚 immediate neighbours is low, ...
10 Apr 2025, 14:11 Germany鈥檚 prospective government has agreed in its coalition treaty to continue the country鈥檚 landmark energy transition without major adjustments and stick to existing climate targets. Faced with economic stagnation and the ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German transport minister Volker Wissing has triggered a fresh debate over the government decision to switch off the country鈥檚 remaining nuclear plants ...
17 Dec 2020, 10:36 If Germany doesn鈥檛 help existing and promote new renewable energy installations, it risks a 鈥済reen power gap鈥� in 2030, Simone Peter, President of the German Renewable 麻豆无码版 Federation (BEE) says. With the EU tightening its climate ...
29 May 2019, 15:11 Julian Wettengel Coal International 麻豆无码版 [Update adds reaction by non-profit environmental law organisation ClientEarth.] Environmental NGOs Climate Action Network Europe (CAN) and Sandbag criticised some EU member states ...
21 Jan 2025, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Elections & Politics Die Welt The mayor of Hamburg has warned against burdening citizens with too ambitious climate targets, as Germany鈥檚 second largest city might be headed for a referendum on its emissions ...
06 Oct 2021, 12:16 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 EU 麻豆无码版 As political leaders debate the European Commission鈥檚 Fit for 55 package of proposals to reduce emissions by 2030, German NGOs are calling for both the incoming and current governments ...
01 Feb 2019, 14:08 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Coal Germany's grand coalition government is almost certain to accept the coal exit commission 's recommendation and transpose it into law, but if the first phase-out deadline of 2022 is ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:47 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Utilities 麻豆无码版 More than two-thirds of municipal utilities in a survey by the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) consider the country's target to reach climate neutrality by 2045 ...
17 May 2024
17 May 2024, 11:28 After months of negotiations, politicians in the Netherlands reached a deal to form a new government that will include populist parties: the nationalist Party for Freedom (PVV) and the agrarian-populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB). ...
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 ...
24 Jun 2019, 13:50 A plea for an accelerated coal exit in Germany by the state premier of Bavaria, Markus S枚der, has caused a row within Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative alliance over how to deal with growing political pressure to improve the ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:10 S枚ren Amelang Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Germany's chancellor-in-waiting, conservative Christian Democrat Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz, has reached a breakthrough deal on the 500-billion-euros ...
19 May 2025, 17:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas Policy 麻豆无码版 [UPDATE adds quotes by minister Reiche, Commissioner Ribera] The new German government should largely adopt the previous government's plans for building new gas power ...
14 Apr 2020, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Green stimulus 麻豆无码版 In a bid to allow a return to regular social life and economic activity amid the coronavirus outbreak, Germany's national academy of sciences, the Leopoldina, has ...
A combination of lack of transparency and denial of legal protection means that German power grid fees cannot be sufficiently checked by consumers, consumer organisations, or even politicians, according to a legal analysis published by the Regulatory ...
21 May 2025, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation 麻豆无码版 The cost of extracting water from Berlin鈥檚 main river, the Spree, should be increased to reduce future demand and help prevent conflicts about allocation, economists at the German Institute ...
27 Jan 2020, 13:46 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities dpa / Donaukurier Authorities in four German cities with active driving bans for diesel cars have registered over 15 ...
22 May 2025, 10:46 Carbon capture is set to play a key role in decarbonising the cement and concrete industry, says Jan Theulen, Group Lead Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) at Heidelberg Materials, one of the world's largest cement ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:25 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Grid Renewables ...
13 Feb 2025, 13:45 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Transport 麻豆无码版 Germany鈥檚 government has agreed on the country鈥檚 first ever聽 pedestrian transport strategy 聽that aims to strengthen walking as a sustainable and healthy way of getting around. Transport ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Solar 麻豆无码版 A 鈥渞adical simplification鈥� in the registration, installation and commissioning of plug-in solar units is needed in Germany to involve more homeowners and tenants to ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU Tagesspiegel The European Union has set itself 鈥渁 damn ambitious鈥� greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 and must therefore quickly negotiate and implement the relevant legislation, said German ...
19 May 2023, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Politics Tagesspiegel Background / Bild / ARD / Table.Media / PV Magazine Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck is seeking to quickly replace energy state secretary Patrick Graichen, whose exit following ...
23 Jul 2025, 12:36 Germany鈥檚 new government leaves the option open to convert its planned new natural gas power plants to hydrogen after they begin generating electricity with the fossil fuel. Unlike the previous government, the new coalition hasn鈥檛 ...
Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has announced it will expand its legal action over air pollution from diesel cars to several more German cities. In a press release, the environmental organisation said it would sue authorities in the cities of Kiel, ...
22 Apr 2021, 10:00 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil ...
16 Jun 2025
16 Jun 2025, 11:56 麻豆无码版 Team FT: Germany puts rail first in 鈧�500bn investment spree State-owned Deutsche Bahn expected to receive 10.5 billion euros this year from newly established infrastructure fund. The Times: How Germany鈥檚 steel titans are powering ...
19 Aug 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt / dpa Germany's cabinet will discuss a draft law to better protect so-called critical infrastructure against physical damage "shortly after the summer break", dpa reported in an ...
10 Apr 2024, 12:10 Europe is set to face a climate backlash caused by the divide between urban and rural views, with populists increasingly capitalising on rural resistance against policies seen as elitist, argues Daphne Halikiopoulou, Chair of ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:30 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ ...
15 Apr 2024, 12:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Der Spiegel / 麻豆无码版 The German parliament (Bundestag) has given the green light for the construction of a 9,700-kilometre pipeline network to transport hydrogen across the country and to its ...
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 ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:41 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society S枚ren Amelang Efficiency Heating 麻豆无码版 German government buildings are much too inefficient to contribute to the country's climate ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:04 Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Policy EU 麻豆无码版 Germany will focus its upcoming EU Council presidency on the dual challenges of overcoming the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and making the continent more ...
29 Oct 2024
29 Oct 2024, 12:06 麻豆无码版 Team 10 New Insights in Climate Science: Leading scientists review the most pressing findings New report responds to calls for policy guidance during a climate-critical decade. UN Climate Change: New climate change report shows ...
18 Mar 2019, 13:58 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, 麻豆无码版 and Mobility Institut f眉r Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilit盲t Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Frankfurter Rundschau The German ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:37 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 / dpa / WirtschaftsWoche / ZDF Germany's environment minister has promised better precautions to prevent fraud in emissions reduction schemes abroad after a special session in ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:41 Julian Wettengel EU 麻豆无码版 / Euractiv German environment minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) has slammed the EU member state governments' failure to consent to the bloc's Nature Restoration Law at today's (25 ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende 麻豆无码版 The government鈥檚 recently adopted comprehensive climate package will have little effect on the Germany economy in 2020, says Deutsche Bank Research in its outlook for the ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 The next German government must restructure climate policy to make sure the whole population can participate in the transition, the Climate Neutrality Foundation ...
30 Jun 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Agriculture EU 麻豆无码版 / Dlf / taz German farmers have called on the EU to put more emphasis on food security in its "Green Deal" strategy to become climate neutral by 2050. The farmers& ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:42 The decade-long debate about the the role of nuclear power in Germany flared up for a last time before the remaining three reactors are shut down on Saturday 15 April. Politicians from government coalition party FDP and the opposition ...
13 May 2025, 13:37 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Renewables Government 麻豆无码版 The new German government鈥檚 energy policy framework is 鈥減romising鈥� despite few concrete quantitative targets in the coalition agreement, a report from Deutsche Bank ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Policy 麻豆无码版 The German government is 鈥榮ystematically blocking鈥� important climate protection measures despite legally binding targets for emission reductions in all sectors, according to a group of ...
30 May 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 麻豆无码版 Germany's cabinet has agreed to give hydrogen infrastructure planning and approval priority to drive the rapid development and expansion of its production, storage and supply. The draft ...
28 Jan 2019, 17:56 The German government is ready to quickly supply financial means for the country鈥檚 exit from coal, said economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier. It will now examine the details of the proposal agreed by the country鈥檚 coal exit ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 The absence of climate mitigation measures is the greatest threat to prosperity and security in Germany and Europe, a group of environmental organisations said in a joint ...
27 Nov 2024, 13:15 Germany鈥檚 most powerful industry association has said the future government must reconsider the country鈥檚 strategy for becoming climate-neutral. Against the background of a sagging economy and news about mass layoffs, the head of the ...
04 Nov 2024, 13:46 A position paper in which German finance minister Christian Lindner calls for fundamental economic policy changes has sparked outcry from coalition government partners, further destabilising an already weakened alliance. The paper was ...
17 Jun 2020, 15:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Heating 麻豆无码版 Germany is seeking to make progress on greenhouse gas reduction in the building sector with a new long-term renovation strategy. The strategy is meant to help with implementation of ...
Germany鈥檚 carmakers might face a wave of lawsuits after reports over possible collusion to fix costs and technology emerged last week, business newspaper Handelsblatt reports. Tens of thousands of customers might seek compensation for 鈥減ossibly paying a ...
13 Apr 2023, 11:38 Even 15 years after its first climate adaptation strategy, and despite deadly floods and droughts, Germany is still failing to integrate climate adaptation into everyday decision-making at all levels. Insurers have sounded the alarm ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:43 Jack McGovan Heating Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 The new German government after the election on 23 February should implement an ambitious heating package that promotes the expansion of climate-neutral heat supply, said ...
18 Mar 2021, 14:03 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Heating 麻豆无码版 The Federation of German Industries (BDI) wants ...
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 ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:07 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 ZDF German environment minister Steffi Lemke is demanding clarification from the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) following allegations of fraudulent emission reduction projects in China used by fossil fuel ...
06 Sep 2022, 14:05 Julian Wettengel Renewables 麻豆无码版 Germany must use the price advantage of renewable energy sources to weather the energy crisis over the coming winter and beyond, said the renewables association BEE. The lobby group said ...
12 Jun 2025, 10:30 The re-arming of Europe looks set to become one of the most dynamic policy areas for the EU in the foreseeable future. Hundreds of billions of euros will be invested between Portugal and Finland in the coming years to bolster national ...
08 Sep 2022, 13:00 Products labelled as 鈥�climate neutral鈥� deceive consumers and undermine progress in reducing emissions, argues Environmental Action Germany, an NGO specialising in fighting environmental cases in court. 鈥淭hey are totally ...
14 Apr 2025
14 Apr 2025, 12:20 麻豆无码版 Team UN: Countries reach historic deal to cut shipping emissions聽 Under new system, ships exceeding emissions limits need to acquire remedial units to offset excess pollution. BBC: Race to keep furnaces burning at British Steel ...
08 Aug 2019, 13:41 A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on land use shows that climate change is threatening the world's food supply and livelihood, making it an "existential question", said German ...
06 Dec 2024, 09:25 Ensuring the timely construction of new hydrogen-ready gas power plants must be a top priority in energy policy for Germany's next government, says the head of the German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries (BDEW). Lobby ...
06 Jan 2021, 11:52 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and 麻豆无码版 (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Wind Tagesspiegel ...
19 Jul 2019, 14:04 Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed the introduction of price on CO2 emissions as part of a package to reach the country鈥檚 2030 climate targets. In her annual mid-year press conference, Merkel said experts had made a convincing case for ...
18 Mar 2021, 13:57 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 EU 麻豆无码版 The European Union is planning to make the CO2 uptake of natural sinks part of its path toward climate neutrality, but depending on the specific rules a loss in stored greenhouse ...
17 Jun 2024, 12:15 Julian Wettengel EU 麻豆无码版 / AP Government members and NGOs from Germany have welcomed the adoption of the EU nature restoration law by member states following months of delay. Member states on Monday gave their final ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars rbb24 The government of the federal state of Berlin has decided to ban older diesel cars from eight roads in the city and create dozens of zones with a 30 kilometre per hour speed limit, public ...
13 Nov 2014
13 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 聽 Der Tagesspiegel 鈥淕ermany鈥檚 problems with climate protection鈥� Draft versions of Germany鈥檚 Climate Action Programme (Aktionsprogramm Klimaschutz), designed to reduce greenhouse gas ...
29 Aug 2024, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Insurance companies expect damages from extreme weather events in Germany to amount to at least seven billion euros by the end of 2024 and are calling on the government to ...
30 Jun 2025, 15:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Carbon market Cost & Prices EU Handelsblatt Billions of euros in EU subsidies for socially just climate action projects in Germany are at risk as the country鈥檚 government looks set to miss a 30 June deadline for ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:33 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics EU Dlf / 麻豆无码版 / dpa The European Union鈥檚 focus on climate in all policy fields is unnecessary and the Green Deal should be abolished, Maximilian Krah, the German populist far-right ...
16 May 2025, 13:20 Expert BMUKN- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Bundesminister f眉r Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Policy Government ...
01 Mar 2021, 14:13 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Germany must phase out coal by 2030, oil and fossil gas by the early 2040s and base its energy system on renewables, ...
05 Jun 2025, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Society 麻豆无码版 Ten years after the landmark Paris Climate Agreement was decided, the social dimension of climate policy must play a greater role in government plans to curb emissions, Germany鈥檚 ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:35 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG Business Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity ...
09 Sep 2024
09 Sep 2024, 11:35 Julian Wettengel FT: Mario Draghi calls for 鈧�800bn EU investment boost Former Italian premier demands 鈥榥ew industrial strategy鈥� to stop Europe falling behind US and China. EU Commission: The future of European competitiveness: Report by ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:45 The members of Germany鈥檚 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鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance. The ...
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 ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:19 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:03 Wars, climate change and competition for land increase worldwide hunger, so Germany must ensure the EU directive on a sustainable food system "becomes a sharp sword" for resilience in the coming year, Reinhild Benning, ...
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 ...
17 Jul 2025, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Technology n-tv Germany's research ministry aims to make the country a leader in battery storage innovation and manufacturing, nuclear fusion and geothermal technology, as well as microchip production, n-tv ...
The German government will introduce a climate protection law to ensure the country reaches its 2030 climate targets, but achieving these goals will be 鈥渧ery, very challenging鈥�, said Chancellor Angela Merkel during her annual summer press conference. The ...
09 Dec 2020, 15:17 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Society International 麻豆无码版 Around 77 percent of Germans say the EU should raise its 2030 climate target. In a聽 survey 聽commissioned by the country's utility association BDEW, only ...
31 May 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Policy dpa / n-tv The German government coalition has agreed on a draft law for reforming municipal heating regulation as part of a wider package to decarbonise the country鈥檚 heating sector, news agency dpa ...
08 Jan 2025, 13:08 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 In 2024, Germany recorded the highest surface temperatures in its North Sea since records began, with temperatures rising by up to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the long-term average, ...
02 Sep 2020, 12:55 A faster deployment of more renewable installations that run into less problems with citizens and are able to quickly survive in the market without government support are at the centre of a renewables law reform proposal by Germany鈥檚 ...
28 Oct 2024, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Business Policy 麻豆无码版 Support for Germany's energy policies varies starkly between employees backing populist parties compared to those supporting the centre left or centre right, according to a study ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:00 Germany鈥檚 prospective coalition government has agreed to continue the country鈥檚 landmark energy transition without major adjustments, and stick to existing climate targets. In their coalition treaty,聽conservatives and Social Democrats ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:58 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs International Bloomberg Germany sounded a note of caution as energy ministers from EU member states debated a proposal to aim for net-zero emissions from the bloc by the middle of the century, reports ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars Government S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt Germany鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel summoned the leaders of the country鈥檚 transport commission and several cabinet members to make sure the body ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:03 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Policy 麻豆无码版 Germany might need to drastically rethink its climate policy if it wants to reach its emission reduction targets, government advisors have warned. It is 鈥渜uestionable whether ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Heating EU Contexte 脡nergie Several European energy experts warn that the German government coalition row over a planned law to phase out fossil fuel-powered boilers could have repercussions for similar ongoing ...
19 Mar 2020, 13:59 Foundations are calling on the EU to use any economic stimulus enacted in response to the coronavirus to accelerate the transition to a green economy. The global climate crisis cannot be ignored even as governments focus on the health ...
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鈥檚 new emissions forecast shows that the country must ...
05 Mar 2025, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas 麻豆无码版 Fossil gas is set to continue to play a crucial role in Germany鈥檚 energy supply throughout this decade, and consumption will fall slower than authorities currently plan, said consultancy McKinsey ...
28 Jan 2019, 12:43 Kerstine Appunn Transport Bild am Sonntag The freedom to choose your speed on German motorways has proved itself and introducing a speed limit would only save a small amount of CO2, federal transport minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) told ...
05 Aug 2019, 13:17 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ ...
13 Oct 2020, 13:21 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Finance EU 麻豆无码版 Many smaller companies in Germany are worried that the EU鈥檚 ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Tagesspiegel The German Social Democrats (SPD) have demanded a clear stance on the country鈥檚 envisaged coal exit from their bigger partner in the governing coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 ...
28 May 2024, 13:28 Edgar Meza Transport Freight 麻豆无码版 In an effort to boost climate-neutrality in the shipping industry, the German government is bringing together representatives of the maritime sector, science, industrial and environmental ...
02 Aug 2024, 12:34 The upcoming elections in three Eastern German states in September have put the region at the centre of attention of the country鈥檚 political landscape in 2024, especially due to the expected success of populist parties which could shake ...
09 Jan 2020, 13:35 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 climate package to reach 2030 targets ...
08 Aug 2023, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Heating Policy Spiegel Demand for heat pumps has slumped in Germany as a fierce debate about government plans 聽to decarbonise the heating sector unnerved many citizens. The number of subsidy applications halved in the ...
02 Oct 2024, 13:00 Germany鈥檚 three-party coalition government is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in several elections, casting a shadow over the progress of the country鈥檚 energy transition. 麻豆无码版 industry and ...
29 Nov 2021, 13:13 Expert BBH- Becker B眉ttner Held energy law firm Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:17 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 ...
10 Feb 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Solar 麻豆无码版 Several German ministries have launched a coordinated initiative to better use the potential locations for constructing new renewable energy installations. In one of the first ...
10 Oct 2024, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Carbon market 麻豆无码版 Germany should alter its current plans for a national carbon price for transport and heating fuel emissions and stick to a fixed price until the new EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for ...
19 Jan 2021, 09:30 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country鈥檚 16 federal states and the federal parliamentary elections in September. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and ...
01 Nov 2019, 15:35 Green and sustainable finance in Germany is not thinkable without the country's state-owned development bank KfW. The bank installed after the Second World War to finance reconstruction in Germany has become a major funder of ...
For a long time, Germany had been confident it was on the right track when it comes to climate action, but scepticism and resistance towards low-emission technologies are on the rise in the country today, Niklas Zaboji writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Society 麻豆无码版 Austria鈥檚 branch of the 鈥淟ast Generation鈥� (Letzte Generation) climate action group has announced its dissolution, arguing its direct action protests cannot be successful. In an open聽 letter ...
10 May 2021, 14:29 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Policy Elections & Politics Zeit Online / Reuters Germany鈥檚 Social Democratic Party ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:31 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert Ministry of the Environment, Climate ...
12 Nov 2019, 12:40 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
05 Mar 2025
05 Mar 2025, 11:25 麻豆无码版 Team European Commission boosts European automotive industry's global competitiveness As part of an action plan for the sector, the Commission proposed to weaken CO2 limit rules for carmakers. Bloomberg: Europe鈥檚 EV market ...
19 Jul 2024, 15:00 Every year in August, Italy and its political scene grind to an almost complete halt for the summer holidays. The debate around the country鈥檚 energy transition has almost entirely narrowed down to a single topic: whether to return to ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:23 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU 麻豆无码版 The European Union's heads of state and government have agreed to decide on a more ambitious 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target at the ...
24 Jun 2025, 13:18 With a massive increase in defence spending and energy cost subsidies for companies and citizens, Germany鈥檚 new budget aims to achieve the twin goal of ramping up the country鈥檚 military and reviving growth in Europe鈥檚 biggest economy. ...
27 Sep 2021, 14:06 The Social Democratic Party (SPD), which narrowly won Germany's federal elections, topped off its election day results with two victories in regional votes in the German capital Berlin and the eastern renewable energy state ...
18 Jul 2025, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility 麻豆无码版 Germany needs purchase incentives and tax breaks for electric vehicles, a subsidy programme for cycling and walking, and a reduction in electricity tax for charging electric trucks to get the ...
13 Jun 2024, 13:30 This year's G7 leaders' summit in Italy, to be held in a secluded luxury resort in the Puglia region on 13-15 June, has been largely sidelined in the country's public discourse as the focus is firmly on the campaign for ...
20 Jan 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Security Welt am Sonntag / 麻豆无码版 A new law planned for the better integration of solar energy sources into Germany鈥檚 electricity system bears the risk that foreign powers gain control over relevant ...
15 Jul 2021, 13:58 Expert BWE- German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Renewables Wind 麻豆无码版 Germany will not add ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:19 Jack McGovan Politics rbb / 麻豆无码版 Germany and Poland have agreed on a 40 page action plan for the countries to collaborate more closely on issues like energy and security, reports rbb24. The announcement comes after German ...
24 Feb 2023, 13:03 Expert VDE- Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies Verband der Elektrotechnik Informationstechnik e.V. Technology Carolina Kyllmann Solar Handelsblatt / 麻豆无码版 The installation of plug-in ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Industry WirtschaftsWoche Parties鈥� failure to agree on final details of a reform to allow carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Germany ahead of the election on 23 February will set efforts back significantly, industry ...
07 Jun 2023, 11:49 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Gas Tagesspiegel Background The government鈥檚 plan to introduce a tender system to ensure new gas-fired power plants are built 鈥� which the government considers necessary as a supplement to renewables ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / n-tv online Halting coal mining at the embattled Hambach Forest would cost operator RWE 聽more than a billion euros, the company said in an article by news agency dpa carried by website n-tv online. ...
19 Mar 2025
19 Mar 2025, 10:40 麻豆无码版 Team Reuters: Germany's energy use dropped 1.1% in 2024, AGEB says Germany's energy use dropped 1.1 percent in 2024 on mild weather and a weak economy, but the decline slowed its pace after an 8 percent drop in 2023 ...
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 ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Elections & Politics Passauer Neue Presse / M眉nchner Merkur The leadership of Germany鈥檚 conservative opposition party Christian Democrats (CDU) plans to adopt a position paper that calls for the rolling ...
05 Aug 2024, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 Germany is set to reform its electricity market design as it moves to decarbonise its power sector. In a paper outlining fields of action, the economy ministry ...
12 Mar 2019, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Aachener Nachrichten A court in the western German city of Cologne has started to hear a case by NGO Friends of the Earth (BUND) against the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest, news agency dpa ...
10 May 2019, 11:33 Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has proposed forming a coalition of the willing among European Union countries for CO鈧� pricing in transport, buildings and agriculture to meet 2030 climate targets. At a meeting of EU leaders in ...
11 Oct 2024, 16:39 In Italian, the expression 鈥渉ot autumn鈥� describes what happens when, after the long summer lull, political and social conflict cyclically rises again. For the energy transition, this is going to be a hot autumn indeed. Three of Italy鈥檚 ...
31 May 2024, 15:00 As the European elections approach and the political parties in Italy engage in divisive campaigns over European policies and the management of various international contexts, the country is preparing to host the summit of G7 countries ...
06 Oct 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 麻豆无码版 The majority of over 200 economists surveyed by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) reject German economy minister Robert Habeck鈥檚 proposal to subsidise electricity for ...
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. 鈥淭he economic association is right to call for planning security in ...
06 Mar 2019, 13:37 Rachel Waldholz Transport The Brussels Times / Spiegel Online Belgium has proposed an EU-wide tax on commercial air travel to reduce carbon emissions. The proposal, made during a meeting of EU environment ministers, drew support from ...
14 Apr 2020, 14:26 Freja Eriksen Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act | EEG 2016 Der Spiegel Industry actors in Germany have proposed changes to the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) that would help them avoid possible lawsuits over failures to pay the renewables surcharge,聽 ...
17 Mar 2025, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / BR The plan to reform Germany鈥檚 debt brake to allow greater defence spending and set up a 500-billion-euro special fund for infrastructure faces another hurdle ...
17 Dec 2018, 10:11 Nearly 200 nations agreed on a rulebook for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Agreement at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Katowice, Poland. The deal on climate action rules was immediately hailed as a victory for ...
15 Oct 2021, 14:29 Three weeks after Germany鈥檚 election, the country is moving one step closer towards its first three-party government coalition. Following several days of intensive preliminary talks, the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the Free ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 International Handelsblatt / Guardian A 鈥�climate-neutral, prosperous and equitable鈥� European economy is possible by 2050, said EU commissioner for climate action and energy Miguel Arias Ca帽ete in an ...
15 Jul 2021, 09:30 The German environment ministry has called new EU proposals to reform the bloc's climate and energy policy 鈥渘othing less than a new industrial revolution in the European Union.鈥� The European Commission's comprehensive proposal ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:45 S枚ren Amelang Gas Policy Tagesspiegel Background / 麻豆无码版 Gas storage operators and Germany's energy industry have warned that the economy and climate ministry's law proposal aimed at ensuring sufficient gas supply ...
09 Feb 2021, 13:21 Expert Economic Council- CDU Wirtschaftsrat Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) of Germany Business & Jobs Society Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Heating 麻豆无码版 Government measures to create a climate ...
11 Dec 2018, 20:00 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
09 May 2025, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Security 麻豆无码版 Germany must speed up the electrification of its rail network for military purposes as well as for environmental reasons, said the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) ...
21 Jul 2023, 12:23 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for 麻豆无码版 Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:15 The next German government must achieve what the previous few have not: increasing digitalisation, says Robert Busch, managing director of the Association of 麻豆无码版 Market Innovators (bne). Electricity system flexibility can only be ...
18 Aug 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Government Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung An internal government coalition row over a new 鈥済rowth opportunities act鈥� is causing a stir among business leaders in Germany, newspaper Handelsblatt ...
07 Jan 2025, 14:01 Jennifer Collins Heating dpa / 麻豆无码版 More than a third of Germany's municipalities are working on municipal heat planning to help phase out fossil fuel systems, with 13 percent already finished with their plans, reports ...
15 Aug 2023, 14:19 Jack McGovan Solar Government Table.Media A new draft law that makes it easier to install solar panels on residential buildings and agricultural land is set to be adopted this Wednesday (16 August),聽 according to Table.Media. Government ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:31 Bennet Ribbeck Business & Jobs International 麻豆无码版 European industry could profit from a possible US drawback in climate-policy related collaborations, said Germany鈥檚 foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock. Climate ...
06 Mar 2020, 10:27 Germany's massive policy push to reach 2030 climate targets is insufficient, two studies commissioned by the government have found. Despite the agreement on a coal phase-out, the introduction of a CO2 price and a host of other ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 The conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) has said it aims to strengthen Germany鈥檚 competitiveness as a basis for ...
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 ...
11 Jan 2021, 12:51 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country鈥檚 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in autumn. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
22 Jun 2023, 14:03 Edgar Meza Transport Cars Policy 麻豆无码版 Germany's government cabinet has approved a draft law that would give cities and municipalities a greater say in regulating road traffic, particularly when it comes to bus lanes, ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Freight 麻豆无码版 A consortium linked to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has built a plant at the Mannheim wastewater treatment plant that cleans generated biogas and uses the resulting ...
28 Aug 2020, 10:02 German coal regions will finally be able to use state support funds from the landmark phase-out agreement to help with their transition away from the fossil fuel. Federal and state governments signed a deal in Berlin to make official ...
21 Jun 2021, 12:25 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Spiegel, Tagesspiegel Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU)/Christian Social Union (CSU) alliance is set to name few climate policy details in its joint election ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Industry Handelsblatt / 麻豆无码版 The break-up of the coalition government and insecure funding mean that it is unclear whether Germany鈥檚 pioneering 鈥�climate contract鈥� subsidy scheme to slash industry emissions ...
07 Feb 2025, 14:40 The fallout triggered by the dissolution of the French National Assembly last June continues to afflict political decisionmaking in France. The collapse of the Barnier government 聽in December, and the resulting ministerial reshuffle, ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:42 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 麻豆无码版 Germany must improve precautionary and adaptation measures against the negative impacts of climate change in order to fulfil its human rights obligations, said the German Institute ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society 麻豆无码版 The majority of people in Germany view renewable energies favourably, but many worry about costs associated with the energy transition and there are clear differences between the ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Government 麻豆无码版 The German government has approved its climate adaptation strategy to better prepare the country for dealing with extreme weather events, such as heat waves, droughts, heavy ...
08 Jan 2018, 00:00 The negotiation partners in Germany's ongoing coalition talks have agreed to postpone the country's 2020 emissions reduction target until "the early 2020s". Party negotiators also agreed on introducing a climate ...
01 Nov 2024, 11:27 Julian Wettengel Utilities Correctiv / Wirtschaftswoche Many of Germany鈥檚 large local utilities continue to bet on fossil gas for heating and stall the transition to more climate-friendly ways to heat homes, found business weekly ...
25 Jan 2021, 10:48 Germany is facing a packed election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country鈥檚 16 states and federal parliamentary elections in September. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of parties ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 麻豆无码版 Twenty-seven youth organisations from the fields of climate, social affairs, trade unions, development, religion, civil protection, environment and sport have ...
14 Apr 2021, 15:06 Edgar Meza 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Cities dpa / Tagesspiegel The city of Berlin's government has approved a draft law that would significantly step up the German capital's climate protection ambitions, according to a dpa report ...
06 Sep 2024, 12:30 Julian Wettengel Finance 麻豆无码版 Greenwashing-related incidents have an overall negative effect on company stock prices, but only once financial supervisory bodies intervene, according to a report by finance NGO Finance Watch ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Government n-tv There are not enough skilled workers to carry out infrastructure modernisation improvements set out in Germany's historic investment agreement, the Association of German ...
03 Jun 2025, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Grid Zeit Online Amid the phase-out of coal power, Germany plans to install new gas-fired power plants as a backup for renewable energy sources. Economy minister Katherina Reiche announced at a party convention of ...
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鈥檚 energy transition. While details still ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:18 S枚ren Amelang 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Mobility Policy Handelsblatt A price on CO2 emissions would be a far superior solution to the government鈥檚 鈥渃ommand economy鈥� approach to advance the energy transition in the transport sector, because ...
31 Jul 2024, 13:43 Edgar Meza Adaptation Cities 麻豆无码版 The majority of cities in Germany do not adequately protect people from the increasing incidence of extremely high temperatures associated with the climate crisis, according to a聽 report ...
17 Dec 2021, 12:28 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 麻豆无码版 Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken out against linking the operating permit for the controversial Russian-German natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 to efforts to de-escalate the Ukraine ...
14 May 2024, 13:27 Jack McGovan Society 麻豆无码版 Climate change is a great concern for middle-aged and older people in Germany, according to a survey published by the German Centre of Gerontology. People over the age of 43, which is defined as ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel / 麻豆无码版 The decommissioning of local gas grids in German cities should be flagged ten years in advance to allow households to prepare accordingly and avoid the purchase ...
22 May 2023, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Heating Policy n-tv/RTL / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany鈥檚 chancellor Olaf Scholz said he does not expect any fundamental changes to his coalition government鈥檚 controversial plans to phase out fossil fuel heating systems. The ...
10 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025, 10:21 麻豆无码版 Team Copernicus Climate Change Service: 2024 鈥� a second record-breaking year, following the exceptional 2023 Multiple global records were broken, for greenhouse gas levels, and for both air temperature and sea surface temperature, ...
27 Sep 2021, 14:05 The Social Democrats (SPD) under chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz have narrowly won Germany's federal elections. According to preliminary final results, the SPD received 25.7 percent of votes, while the conservatives (CDU/CSU) ...
08 Jun 2016
08 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 麻豆无码版 麻豆无码版 Federal government Renewables law reform gets government approval Angela Merkel鈥檚 cabinet has decided on the reform of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG) that is to take ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables EU 麻豆无码版 The implementation into national law agreed by Germany鈥檚 government of an EU emergency regulation on the accelerated buildout of renewable energy sources will greatly boost the country鈥檚 ...
20 Mar 2024, 10:10 Julian Wettengel EUElections2024 International EU 麻豆无码版 / Table.Media / Reuters The German government has said it will give its consent to the EU nature restoration law in an upcoming member state meeting which is set to ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:15 The elections in Germany's eastern federal states Saxony and Brandenburg have dealt a blow to the country's governing parties, CDU and SPD, and brought huge gains for the far-right AfD. Even though the climate change-denying ...
09 Apr 2025
09 Apr 2025, 12:00 麻豆无码版 Team Bloomberg: German power prices to stay high as link to gas seen stronger Electricity prices in Germany will remain elevated as their link to natural gas is poised to strengthen over the coming years, analysts say. DPA: Trump ...
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 鈥渟trongly welcomes鈥� ...
16 Jun 2020
16 Jun 2020, 15:06 麻豆无码版 The German government鈥檚 proposed Building 麻豆无码版 Act is lightweight and should be scrapped in favour of laws that enshrine climate neutrality in all new construction and renovation projects,聽an environmental group has ...
12 Nov 2019, 12:36 Expert dena- German 麻豆无码版 Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Efficiency 麻豆无码版 The final energy use for heating rooms and water in Germany's 22 ...
25 Jul 2025, 14:47 The patience of France鈥檚 energy companies is wearing thin as they wait for regulations governing the sector鈥檚 future to be drawn up. President Emmanuel Macron may have insisted on the need to expand both renewable and nuclear energy but ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:37 Edgar Meza Efficiency Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung / Politico Germany鈥檚 construction minister, Klara Geywitz, has pushed back against EU plans to mandate energy-efficiency renovations for the bloc's worst performing buildings, she told ...
15 Mar 2021, 13:18 The German agriculture ministry has proposed six voluntary environmental measures to make the country鈥檚 farming sector more sustainable and climate-friendly. Its draft plan on how Germany will spend EU agricultural subsidies as of 2023 ...
28 Jun 2023, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Efficiency 麻豆无码版 The energy efficiency investment index by University of Stuttgart, which assesses current and planned activities in German industry on energy efficiency twice a year, has reached a historic ...
04 Dec 2024, 12:23 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market 麻豆无码版 An energy system dominated by solar and wind energy does not require baseload power stations to guarantee supply security, German research academies聽 have said. 鈥淭he academy project ...
24 Apr 2020, 09:30 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Green stimulus 麻豆无码版 The European Union鈥檚 planned coronavirus 鈥渞ecovery fund鈥� should be used to make substantial investments ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating 麻豆无码版 The ...
06 Aug 2019, 13:57 Expert BDEW-German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Utilities Elections & Politics Recharge ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:30 Edgar Meza Adaptation Society 麻豆无码版 Germany's major aid organisations are urging the future government to increase civil protections in light of " the disasters resulting from rapidly increasing global warming and ...
23 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn tagesschau.de 鈥淢ore eco and a little less nuclear鈥� Many German media are reporting about France鈥檚 new energy transition law, passed on Wednesday. The law says energy usage must be halved by 2050 and nuclear鈥檚 share of ...
14 May 2020, 14:15 Edgar Meza Heating 麻豆无码版 A broad coalition comprising unions, utilities, and climate protection organisations in Germany is pushing for new momentum in the country鈥檚 lagging efforts to lower emissions from heating. The ...
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鈥檚 next ...
05 Mar 2025, 17:07 Germany鈥檚 likely next government coalition parties have proposed an overhaul of state debt rules to make hundreds of billions of euros available for defence and infrastructure investments. The agreement, which faces a big hurdle in the ...
15 May 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics NDR / Weser Kurier The Social Democrats (SPD) have emerged as the clear winner of the state election in Bremen, Germany鈥檚 smallest state, while the Green Party suffered its worst result in the ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices ZDF / 麻豆无码版 / Tagesspiegel Background German politicians have largely welcomed the German Council of Economic Experts鈥� opinion on CO鈧� pricing presented last week. The ...
