28 Apr 2021, 13:17 Charlotte Nijhuis Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Most young Germans are in favour of the energy transition, according to a survey conducted by the German environment ministry (BMU) and the federal agency for nature conservation (BfN). Two ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ fracking law, which takes effect today, is a setback for climate protection, argues Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) climate expert Ann-Kathrin Schneider in a guest commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. ¡°To limit global warming to a maximum ...
15 May 2025, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new chancellor Friedrich Merz has announced a mixture of policy restarts and continuity in his first government declaration in parliament, ...
01 Jul 2025
01 Jul 2025, 13:40 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team E3G: European Commission must not further delay 2040 climate target Achieving at least 90% emissions reduction "is feasible and necessary" for net-zero in 2050 and EU competitiveness, think tank says.? Euractiv: ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Lignite projects in Germany received around 1.7 billion euros worth of support throughout 2022, according to an analysis by think tank Green Budget Germany (F?S). Despite the country¡¯s ambition ...
22 Jul 2025
22 Jul 2025, 12:33 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Reuters: Vulcan Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ gets 104 mln euros in German grants for clean lithium production? Grants to go towards project "designed to assist with building Germany's and Europe's critical raw materials supply chain ...
26 Oct 2015
26 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ¡°Gabriel: Brown coal agreement is important contribution to reaching climate targets¡± Coal power plant operators will gradually transfer 2.7 ...
Germany? will likely have to buy emissions rights ?worth billions of euros for failing EU transport and agriculture climate targets in the 2020s, but parliament and finance ministry appear only dimly aware of this risk, writes Bernhard P?tter in ...
09 Sep 2019, 13:40 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Der Tagesspiegel The German government coalition "cannot continue" if it is not prepared to clarify how Germany will achieve its climate targets by 2030, German environment minister Svenja ...
12 May 2025, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Die Zeit Most people in Germany say they do not think that the country is going to meet is national climate target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, a? survey ?commissioned by ...
10 Jun 2025
10 Jun 2025, 11:23 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team EEA: ¡°Leave no one behind¡± must be central to Europe¡¯s climate resilience efforts New report from the European Environment Agency shows that most vulnerable groups are often overlooked in climate adaptation. NYTimes: Europe ...
More than two-thirds of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ lignite plants emit higher amounts of nitrogen oxides (NOx) than would be permitted under new EU standards (which have not been implemented into German law so far), a report published by Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND ...
31 Mar 2015
31 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ? Federal Environment Agency (UBA) ¡°Trend reversal: Emissions decrease to lowest level since 2010¡± German greenhouse gas emissions have decreased in 2014 for the first time in three years, ...
21 Oct 2021, 13:32 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next government must act quickly, trigger large-scale investments and set the right framework to ensure the country transforms its economy to reach climate neutrality by 2045, said industry association BDI and Boston ...
13 Feb 2023, 14:05 Milou Dirkx Climate & CO2 Society Coverage of climate change on German public television has increased over the past years but still lags behind other topics such as business news, leaving ¡°a lot of room for improvement¡±, a? report ...
12 Dec 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen Die Welt Steel producers in the western German state of Saarland have been granted 2.6 billion euros in state support to transform their production procedures towards climate neutrality. Economy and ...
29 Nov 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Global climate action and environmental protection can only work with an active Russian engagement, Germany's development minister Gerd M¨¹ller said at the German ...
26 Jun 2025
26 Jun 2025, 12:27 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Environment Agency (UBA): The German GreenTech industry has become key for national economy Industry provides stable employment and contributes significantly to value creation, says environment agency report. Politico: Germany ...
27 Jul 2022, 15:02 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government plans to spend 177.5 billion euros of the federal budget for climate action, and the transformation of the country¡¯s economy, from 2023 to 2026. The cabinet ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:49 Julian Wettengel Renewables G20 & G7 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) influential economies? have agreed ?on the aim to triple of renewable energy capacity globally by 2030, but stopped short of calling for an ...
11 Aug 2021, 13:49 Kerstine Appunn Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ One of the main objectives of this year¡¯s UN Climate summit in Glasgow (COP26) should be reworking the details of international climate finance and include more links to reciprocal efforts in ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German energy crisis has not ended yet, but has become ¡°manageable¡± to a point where the government is confident it could be overcome for good by 2024, economy and climate minister ...
01 Nov 2021, 12:45 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung In the runup to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, eight leading environmental organisations have called on ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next government ...
23 Sep 2019, 14:04 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom have called for "increased ambition and action by the global community" to conserve and restore tropical ...
04 Oct 2019, 13:42 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German steel industry should receive billions in ...
24 Jun 2020, 17:30 Germany is one step closer to finalising legislation on the planned coal exit by 2038 at the latest, as the government approved a draft contract between the state and companies to flesh out the country¡¯s farewell to lignite. Among other ...
23 Mar 2022, 15:41 A sudden stop of energy imports from Russia would threaten "hundreds of thousands of jobs" and push Europe's economy into recession, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned. He said Germany will end its energy dependence as ...
16 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) plans to streamline planning and approval procedures for faster construction of wind turbines, rail projects and even houses, newspaper Handelsblatt? reports. The ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Greening Europe¡¯s industrial base, ensuring resilient clean-tech value chains and setting up a new EU climate fund should be among the priorities of the next European ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:31 Expert Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate activists have criticised new stock index rules introduced by Germany's stock exchange operator Deutsche B?rse for not ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The European Commission¡¯s proposals for emergency measures to speed up the expansion of renewable energy would give Germany the opportunity to quickly implement a number of measures ...
07 Feb 2023, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background / ntv The ¡®neglected topic¡¯ of building renovations and an absence of energy consumption optimisation have cost Germany an "unnecessary" 50 billion euros ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:56 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background Less money has been spent out of the Federal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Climate Fund (EKF) than was available in 2020, Tagesspiegel Background writes after seeing the 2020 balance sheet of the ...
04 Apr 2022, 14:01 S?ren Amelang Cars Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A group of Volkswagen shareholders pushes Europe's largest carmaker to reveal its emissions regulation lobbying, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Seven institutional ...
11 Jul 2025
11 Jul 2025, 11:33 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Reuters:? Ford agrees voluntary redundancies for troubled e-car site in Cologne Ford has agreed to a job protection scheme at its Cologne plant covering over 10,000 workers, with voluntary redundancies planned in response to ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:41 Europeans will head to the polls one year from now to elect a new EU legislature that will shape the bloc¡¯s energy and climate policy in the years leading to the 2030 climate target deadline. With its Green Deal strategy to make Europe ...
14 Feb 2025, 10:00 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ snap elections on 23 February take place against the backdrop of massive changes in geopolitics, presenting the next government with the opportunity to reset its relationships with major European partners, says Rafael Loss, ...
24 Aug 2022, 13:27 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Agriculture Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The ongoing drought in Germany is expected to have dire effects on this year¡¯s harvest, which is already estimated to be below the average of previous years, said the German ...
09 Dec 2019, 12:55 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:23 S?ren Amelang Cars dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The expansion of Germany's charging network for electric vehicles is making fast progress. The network grew by 45,000 charging points to a total of nearly 146,000 ...
27 Nov 2023, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The court ruling on the unconstitutional nature of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Climate and Transformation Fund (CTF) hits at the country¡¯s ¡°economic core¡± and urgently requires a resolute and joint response ...
19 Feb 2024, 15:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics EUElections2024 dpa / Reuters / Der Spiegel / Zeit Online / Politico / Tagesspiegel / Augsburger Allgemeine European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is seeking a second term at the ...
28 May 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Finance Company climate claims Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ EU rules have pushed many investment funds to drop terms like ¡°sustainable¡± or ¡°climate¡± from their names if they could not live up to the promise, even though guidelines ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:28 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Elections & ...
05 Aug 2019, 13:11 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
30 Sep 2019, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Welt am Sonntag ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has made its critique of policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to protect the global climate a ...
German climate targets for the building sector are in danger because many house owners shy away from modernising their buildings to meet higher energy standards due to the costs involved, writes Ralph Diermann in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. ...
27 May 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background Germany is set to miss its 2030 energy efficiency target if it relies only on its existing policy measures, a report commissioned by industry energy efficiency ...
30 Aug 2022, 13:11 Edgar Meza Transport Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The popularity of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ temporary 9-euro public transport ticket has not only shown that people are willing to embrace public transport and stop using their cars if such ...
17 Nov 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Mobility Tagesspiegel The city of Berlin has approved a plan to expand its bicycle route network to a total of 3,000 kilometres, Tagesspiegel reports. "We will increase the proportion of ...
23 May 2022, 13:14 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen International G20 & G7 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The burgeoning global trade in green hydrogen risks becoming an environmental and social burden in producing countries, and the G7 must take steps to ensure it will ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:47 Jack McGovan Solar Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ most recent push to boost the rollout of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the country, which is set to be agreed upon in parliament on Friday (26 April), could result in ...
19 Jun 2023, 13:12 S?ren Amelang Coal International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Germany has committed an additional 200 million euros to help Colombia reach its climate targets. During the Colombian President, Gustavo Petro¡¯s, visit to Germany, the ...
09 Jan 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Tagesspiegel / Rheinische Post The German government will continue with its plans to rollback tax breaks for agricultural businesses, said ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:49 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal budget draft shows spending on the ¡°Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Climate Fund¡± (EKF) tripling in 2021 to ...
16 Aug 2019, 13:19 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewables have increased their power output in Germany to 49 percent in the first half of 2022, according to first estimates published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Bioenergy Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Table.Media A draft bill that would seal a deal to phase out biofuels derived from food or feed crops should be voted on by ministers ¡°as soon as possible¡±, German environment ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:50 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) ...
The US states, cities, companies, and civil society actors that have confirmed their unwavering support for international climate action despite the US administration¡¯s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement ¡°gives courage¡± to everyone adhering to ...
17 Sep 2020, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The right-wing nationalist AfD party has called for an end to all major climate action efforts Germany has committed itself to and wants to? abandon ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society The Fridays for Future student climate protest movement will leave its mark on society, independent of its eventual duration, according to a working paper by the Institute for Social Movement ...
12 Jul 2023, 13:22 James Jackson Transport Travel Talk Lufthansa, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest airline, wants to increase the number of domestic flights to compete with rail travel and video conferencing services, the company¡¯s sales manager, Frank Naeve, told ...
Several states have created their own environmental regulations because they are dissatisfied with federal laws and plans, writes Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche. ¡°The federal government¡¯s lip service in Paris doesn¡¯t do anything for the world climate. ...
23 Aug 2022, 13:32 Edgar Meza Digitalisation Efficiency Tagesspiegel Background The German government plans a new digitalisation strategy? that could pave the way for greater energy efficiency in the electricty sector, industry, and buildings, reports ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Heating Cities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The European ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:26 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Die Welt ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ hard coal power plant operators criticise the ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:42 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs G20 & G7 Reuters / Passauer Neue Presse / Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
27 Oct 2020
27 Oct 2020, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn dpa Countries should use nuclear energy because ¡°every path to reaching the Paris Agreement¡¯s two degree warming limit would be near on impossible without it¡±, Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic ...
30 Aug 2016, 00:00 The German government and the EU Commission have reached an agreement on state-aid related aspects of the country¡¯s new power market law and other energy policy issues, clearing the way for the ¡°most important reform¡± since the market ...
07 Sep 2021, 13:59 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ forests need to be adapted to global warming in order to remain intact and contribute to balancing ...
21 Nov 2023, 08:43 The debates over the fallout of last week¡¯s shock constitutional court ruling on ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ state budget borrowing rules are in full swing, as the government faces difficult decisions on how to fill a 60-billion-euro gap in its special ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:18 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Cities Tagesspiegel The city of Berlin plans to speed up its coal exit, regional newspaper Tagesspiegel? reports. The prospective city government composed of the Social Democrats (SPD), the ...
29 Nov 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Fridays for Future and other climate activist groups are losing sympathy in German media, according to an analysis by Media Tenor, der Spiegel reports. The institute looked at coverage of climate ...
10 Jul 2024, 14:01 S?ren Amelang Grid Cost & Prices Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Leading energy economists have called for splitting Germany into different electricity price zones to reflect regional differences in power availability, and to stop ...
15 Nov 2023, 11:44 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government is supporting the construction of a 9,700-kilometre-long pipeline network to transport hydrogen across the country and to its neighbours, the economy ministry said in ...
08 Aug 2019, 14:10 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 The Guardian Heat, drought and storms, as well as beetle and fungi plagues, have damaged an area of German forest the size of 200,000 football fields this year, leading politicians to raise the issue to a ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:21 Joey Grostern Adaptation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Topsoil across much of Germany is significantly drier than usual for the beginning of April which could impact crop yields, with some of the driest springtime conditions since records began, ...
16 Apr 2024, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Cars Business & Jobs n-tv / Handelsblatt / Elektrek / The Guardian Plans announced by electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla to cut ten percent of its global workforce have led to worries over the potential impact on ...
22 Jul 2022, 13:43 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Background Rural districts in Northern Germany have the country¡¯s largest potential for green hydrogen production due to their windpower capacities, according to a ¡° Hydrogen Atlas ...
27 Aug 2021, 13:31 Kerstine Appunn EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The European Union¡¯s? forest strategy ?should ¡°meaningfully flank and complement¡± the forest policies of the member states but not replace them, the agriculture ministers of Germany and Austria have ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German education and research ministry (BMBF), through a new support programme for nuclear fusion research, aims to lay the groundwork for building the country¡¯s first ...
The German federal cabinet finally approved the government¡¯s Climate Action Plan 2050 as the basic framework on how Germany is to become largely greenhouse gas neutral in 2050. In a press release, environment minister Barbara Hendricks pointed out that ...
11 Jun 2025, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's renewable energy industry has welcomed a?draft detailing the design of the country¡¯s 500-billion euro special fund for infrastructure and climate neutrality ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:43 The EU is struggling to decarbonise its buildings, most of which are heated by fossil fuels that spew planet-heating gasses. But it has the technologies to go green. The bigger problem, experts say, is overcoming the barriers to rolling ...
31 Jul 2024
31 Jul 2024, 14:15 Benjamin Wehrmann International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agency: World adding 510 GW renewable capacity in 2023 means 50%-increase from a year before Under current policies & market trends, global renewable capacity is set to be 2.5 times higher by ...
Elements of the Climate Action Programme 2020, which the German government approved in 2014 to close the gap between projected greenhouse gas emissions and the reduction target of 40 percent by 2020, have still not been put into action, Silke Kersting ...
22 Sep 2021, 15:08 The conservative CDU has been heading Germany's government since 2005- and used its time in power to lay the groundwork for making the country the first climate-neutral industrialised nation before the middle of the century, says ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Reuters / dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau This week a campaign addressing the ¡°true¡± environmental cost of food products by German supermarket chain Penny is set to receive ...
02 Jan 2023, 13:10 S?ren Amelang Gas Bild am Sonntag ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ finance minister Christian Lindner has renewed his call for allowing the controversial fracking technology to increase gas supplies. ¡°The ban should be lifted,¡± the head of the Free Democrats ...
13 Mar 2020, 14:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The measures outlined in the German government's climate package last year will likely not be sufficient to meet the country's 2030 climate targets, a? study ...
01 Jun 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann International G20 & G7 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The G7 countries have to deliver a breakthrough in international climate policy that is commensurate with the urgency of protecting natural habitats in grave danger due to ...
18 Dec 2020, 12:15 In the upcoming election year, the 20-year-old climate activist for Fridays for Future (FfF) Jakob Blasel will run for German parliament on a Green Party ticket. Blasel told Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ his decision was based on the need to close ...
02 May 2025, 14:40 Against the backdrop of the major blackout on the Iberian Peninsula in late April, which also affected parts of France, the country is heading for controversial discussions about its energy strategy for the coming decade. A focus will ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:53 Jessica Bateman Gas Society S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Local activists in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein are protesting the government¡¯s liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure construction plans, newspaper S¨¹ddeutsche ...
07 Apr 2021, 08:47 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ruling conservatives and the Greens are about to kick off the 2021 national election race in earnest by naming their respective leading candidates to take over the helm of Europe¡¯s biggest economy in autumn. While the country ...
10 Apr 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Heating Focus Online The eastern German city of Cottbus in coal mining region Lusatia plans to use an artificial lake in a former open pit mine for the installation of a large heat pump that could cover up to 40 ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Der Spiegel A proposed subsidised electricity price for heavy industry would not be effective for the economy as a whole, according to a report by the German Institute for ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Airplanes in Germany will be made more environmentally friendly by supplying them with clean electricity during stops at the airport, the country¡¯s transport minister, Volker Wissing, has said. Airplanes ...
15 Jun 2022, 12:20 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany should be able to import green hydrogen from Australia at competitive prices, a feasibility study has revealed. German industry association BDI and the National Academy of Science and ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Transport Dlf / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government will present a ¡°modern public transport ticket¡± after the population has ¡°embraced¡± the 9-euro ticket the country introduced as part of a relief package in the ...
European Commissioner for Climate Action and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Miguel Arias Ca?ete¡¯s proposal to raise the EU¡¯s 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target to 45 percent from 40 percent relative to 1990 levels would catalyse action on the part of other ...
04 Jul 2025
04 Jul 2025, 12:20 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Ember: Heat and power: Impacts of the 2025 heatwave in Europe Heatwaves push up daily power demand by up to 14% as thermal plants are hit by outages. Euronews: Wildfires in eastern Germany injure two firefighters and force ...
20 Jul 2021, 13:12 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Zeit Online Charging an electric vehicle at a public charging point can be significantly more expensive than doing it at home, Zeit Online writes. The price of electricity at a public charging station can be ...
11 Mar 2022, 14:26 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Security Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:51 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics Die Zeit Since the start of the pandemic, climate activists from Fridays for Future have shied away from organising mass demonstrations and turned to soft lobbying instead, Nele Spandick ...
04 Aug 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt / Zeit / FAZ German media commentators have taken a closer look at the Green Party¡¯s climate action emergency programme for the first 100 ...
11 Nov 2021, 16:01 After a week of political announcements, ministers this week join their negotiators to hash out the nitty-gritty of the Paris Agreement rulebook and eyes are on a possible solution for carbon markets under Article 6. Meanwhile in ...
19 Sep 2022, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government has to urgently step up its energy transition efforts in response to the ¡°Zeitenwende¡± (turn of an era) brought on by Russia¡¯s war against Ukraine, an ...
15 Mar 2016
15 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Was the nuclear phase-out unconstitutional?¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe will on Tuesday and Wednesday hear parties in the case of the country¡¯s nuclear phase ...
27 Jul 2017, 00:00 Germany's most important carmakers have met in "secret workshops" since the 1990s in order to reach agreements on technological standards and prices, according to a report by news magazine Der Spiegel. The companies ...
The neighbours of a lignite power plant in the city of Bergheim in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ western region of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) are suing the energy company RWE over its plans to replace four older generating units at its Niederau?em plant with a modern coal ...
02 Apr 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Europe could reduce its spending on security and defence by cutting its reliance on fossil fuels ¨C thereby starving Russia of funds from oil exports which are critical ...
The proposal for a G20 energy and climate action plan, prepared for the summit in Hamburg on 7 and 8 July, remains vague and lacks ambition- and might yet be stopped completely by the United States, the tageszeitung (taz) newspaper writes. The 13-page ...
24 Nov 2023, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Die Welt / Stern / NDR / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Governments in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal states are concerned that the recent ruling by the country¡¯s highest court declaring parts of the federal government¡¯s budget ...
30 Apr 2025, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ In the waters of the German North and Baltic Seas, the options for marine carbon dioxide removal and geological storage are limited to just a few approaches, said researchers from the ...
14 Nov 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Outdoor air pollution contributed to over 44,800 premature deaths in Germany in 2016, more than 8,000 of which were linked to coal, says a policy briefing on Germany based on the Lancet ...
12 Aug 2019, 12:30 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Post / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coordinated action on climate by Germany and the Netherlands is critical for Europe, several researchers wrote ahead of a joint German-Dutch climate ...
17 Jun 2022, 14:12 Expert BWE- German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Industrial and commercial zones in urban areas ...
06 May 2021, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Zeit Online / SZ / General-Anzeiger German media commentaries largely welcome the government¡¯s agreement to increase the country¡¯s climate targets, but caution that the goals must now be underpinned ...
25 Jun 2019, 13:36 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A heatwave with temperatures expected to rise to around 40¡ã Celsius has fanned calls ...
04 May 2021, 12:09 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs ...
30 Nov 2023, 13:07 Edgar Meza Electricity Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ budget crisis has forced economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck to postpone his ministry¡¯s long-awaited power plant strategy, Handelsblatt reports. Ministry sources ...
A coal phase-out for Germany is implied in the federal government¡¯s Climate Action Plan 2050, environment minister Barbara Hendricks told Susanne G?tze and Susanne Schwarz in an interview for klimaretter.info. ¡°If you read the Climate Action Plan ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Industry International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany has signed agreements to intensify its cooperation on climate and energy with Chile and Uruguay, with strong focus on decarbonising emission-intensive industry. At the ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:00 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics ...
04 Nov 2021, 14:09 Finding sources of funding for climate action and ensuring a fair distribution of benefits and costs among different groups in society look set to become the main challenges for negotiators of a new German government coalition. While ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:02 Carolina Kyllmann Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ There is high acceptance for ambitious climate policy in Germany, although many citizens are dissatisfied with the political implementation of the energy and transport transitions, the largest ...
The dispute within ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal government over environment minister Barbara Hendricks¡¯ Climate Action Plan 2050 ¡°is becoming increasingly uncomfortable for Chancellor Angela Merkel,¡± writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°At the next UN ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:37 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German Climate Action Programme 2030 will only become ...
31 Aug 2016, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s refugee policy continues to dominate the political debates across all federal states and immigration trumps other topics in the upcoming state elections in the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Security Nature Intensifying climate change will increase the future risk of violent armed conflict within countries, according to a study published in the journal Nature co-authored by an ...
17 Nov 2014, 00:00 Following heated debate over a possible exit from coal-fired power, Sigmar Gabriel has reaffirmed his commitment to reducing carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2020. Sven Egenter Sven Egenter Climate & CO2 Germany's Minister for ...
12 Dec 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ With several years of delay, construction of a key piece of grid infrastructure in Germany has started in the southern state of Bavaria. The SuedOstLink connection built by grid operator TenneT ...
Large German environmental NGOs plan to boycott an upcoming hearing on the Climate Action Plan 2050, organised by the federal environment ministry, writes Der Spiegel. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) and Nature and Biodiversity ...
10 Mar 2023, 11:27 Despite its reputation as a nation at the forefront of green technologies like wind power, Denmark has been slow to focus on climate adaptation. Since a cloudburst shocked the capital Copenhagen with massive flooding in 2011, some steps ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Solar Tagesspiegel The number of sunshine hours registered in Germany has constantly been on the rise over the past few decades, data by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Meteorological Service (DWD) has shown. Between 2011 ...
14 Jun 2021, 13:07 Edgar Meza Electricity market Renewables WirtschaftsWoche German economic affairs and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said his ministry will submit new calculations for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ expected energy demand in the coming years due to ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Gas Neue Osnabr¨¹cker Zeitung ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ...
13 Jun 2025
13 Jun 2025, 12:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Bloomberg: Bid to refill key German gas storage site ends in failure ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ race to fill its vast gas storage sites ahead of next winter is entering crunch time after one of the country¡¯s largest facilities failed to find ...
28 May 2025
28 May 2025, 11:29 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team WMO: Global climate predictions show temperatures expected to remain at or near record levels in coming 5 years Global climate predictions show temperatures are expected to continue at or near record levels in the next five ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:26 Jennifer Collins Cities Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel / RBB Berlin¡¯s Senate has adopted a five-billion-euro climate protection fund to flow into mobility, energy efficiency in buildings, power supply and the economy. The ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Grid Die Welt German grid regulator BNetzA is facing a backlash ...
05 Nov 2020, 14:17 Expert DBV- German Farmers¡® Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German farmers have understood the need for making agriculture more sustainable and integrate food production in ...
01 Mar 2024, 14:06 At the height of its popularity just a few years ago, the climate protest movement Fridays for Future brought over a million people to the streets in Germany and across the world. Yet the movement now fights against losing relevance in ...
06 Jun 2025
06 Jun 2025, 11:37 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Financial Times: Hotter world will drive more wars, EU climate chief warns Military staff increasingly concerned about rising sea levels, droughts and floods, according to EU commissioner. Montel: French-German energy ...
NGOs and Green Party politicians have criticised the environment ministry for failing to meet the deadline to adopt stricter EU limits on pollution from power plants into national law, Benjamin Dierks reports for Deutschlandfunk. Germany was among the ...
The German Free Democratic Party (FDP) has proposed doing away with EU emissions limits for passenger cars and freight vehicles and instead including the transport sector in the European Emissions Trading System (ETS), the German parliament says in a ...
07 Nov 2023, 13:05 Edgar Meza Hydrogen International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government is supporting the establishment of Africa¡¯s first green ironworks with a grant of 13 million euros. A consortium consisting of three German companies, CO2Grab, TS ...
19 Jan 2021, 12:18 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert bne- Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
11 Feb 2022, 13:44 S?ren Amelang Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German Fridays for Future climate protest movement has said the new German government is nowhere near to implementing the policies necessary to address the climate emergency. "It's ...
04 Aug 2021, 12:26 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:33 Bennet Ribbeck Climate & CO2 Adaptation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Extreme droughts and floods hit Italy, Greece and Spain more than most other countries across the globe in the past 30 years, causing many deaths and high economical losses, ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:01 S?ren Amelang Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The electrification of heating is gathering pace in Germany as sales of heat pumps increased by more than half last year. Sales rose 53 percent to 236,000 units, making heat pumps the technology ...
13 May 2022, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An alliance of environmental NGOs has called on parliamentarians to make significant changes to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ planned acceleration of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects to ensure that the current ...
Eleven consumer and tenant associations are putting pressure on energy minister Peter Altmaier to reform the tenant power law, Kathrin Witsch writes for Handelsblatt. The law, which was to animate landlords to install solar panels and offer their tenants ...
29 Jun 2016, 00:00 The energy industry and transport sector may escape specific greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to a new draft version of Germany's Climate Action Plan 2050. The proposal also omits an end date for power production from ...
14 Jul 2022, 11:51 Germany must better prepare for the impacts of climate change, environment minister Steffi Lemke said, as a heat wave is sweeping across Europe exactly one year after deadly floods killed hundreds of people in Germany and neighbouring ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:09 Members of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ governing coalition have agreed on new rules to ensure a significant increase in the country¡¯s renewable power production. However, exact targets of the much-anticipated reform of the country's landmark ...
25 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Carolina Kyllmann Politics Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Internal spats and external crises have caused the German ...
24 Jul 2015
24 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Prisoners of the atom¡± The share of nuclear power in France¡¯s power generation is to be reduced from 75 percent today to 50 percent in 2025. But it¡¯s wrong to think that the ...
29 Apr 2025, 13:37 Germany is unlikely to face the kind of massive power outage which hit Spain and Portugal on 28 April, as the country¡¯s system is based on redundancies and many safeguard measures are in place, said grid agency BNetzA. The two countries ...
02 Jun 2025, 13:24 S?ren Amelang Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The new German government could implement its planned support for electric car purchases in a socially fair manner without an additional burden on public coffers, argues a report commissioned by a ...
The federal environment ministry (BMUB) will continue to use citizens¡¯ participation processes to develop climate policy in the future, the ministry said in a press release. ¡°What we learned in the stakeholder process helped us in developing the Climate ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Hydrogen dw.com ¡°Lobby battle over Energiewende¡± There is a lot of pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers to hammer out a compromise at tonight¡¯s ...
07 Nov 2022, 13:35 S?ren Amelang Renewables Industry Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Excessive red tape hinders ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ shift to a low-emission economy, according to a report by industry association BDI. Planning and approval procedures are not only becoming ...
Successful and resolute climate action has a mixed record among European countries, but former trailblazer Germany today is known for trailing behind, Joachim Wille writes in the Frankfurter Rundschau. ¡°There are still EU countries that take climate ...
20 May 2025, 13:09 Edgar Meza International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germanwatch is calling for greater support for Africa¡¯s energy transition as the continent continues to provide raw materials for Europe¡¯s green transformation. An upcoming meeting between ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Heating Table.Media / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Spiegel The German government coalition is edging closer to a compromise in the dispute about a de facto ban on new fossil fuel heating systems from next year, Table.Media ...
The focus on climate in Bavaria¡¯s coalition treaty ?between conservative parties Christian Socialist Union (CSU) and Free Voters is a surprise, writes Peter Issig for the Die Welt. ¡°Some of it seems to have been copied directly from the Greens,¡± writes ...
04 Dec 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Government COP28 Der Spiegel / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has called off a planned trip to the UN climate conference COP28, due to the ongoing budget crisis that has upset the climate ...
The Paris Climate Agreement clearly implies speeding up the Energiewende, but the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act reform will have the opposite effect, writes Werner Eckert in a commentary for public broadcaster?SWR. Instead of trying to solve the problems ...
21 Feb 2025, 15:00 Croatia is exploring the possibility of constructing small modular nuclear reactors, a technology not yet commercially available. The economy ministry has set up a taskforce to investigate possibilities and locations, as well as ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Tagesspiegel / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ In the landmark climate litigation case brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy company RWE, the judge responsible for the case at a German ...
13 Jan 2020, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A new "competence centre" for climate action in the aviation sector has been launched at Germany's most important airport in Frankfurt am Main to facilitate progress in ...
Members of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) group in the Bundestag have strongly criticised the current draft of federal environment minister Barbara Hendricks¡¯ Climate Action Plan 2050, Silke Kersting and Klaus Stratmann write in ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:37 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Die Zeit The German Green Party's candidate for chancellor, Annalena Baerbock, has said her party would ...
04 May 2021, 12:08 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Clean Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:42 Edgar Meza Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tageszeitung (taz) The Scientists for Future organisation and the B¨¹rgerbegehren Klimaschutz (BBK) climate action group have launched a citizen's climate council. The NGOs have assembled a ...
26 May 2020, 12:43 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ An active removal of several hundred ...
05 Feb 2019, 14:23 Germany's four transmission grid operators have published their proposal for the 2030 electricity grid, including some 1,600 kilometres of new power lines and updating another 2,900 km. This comes with a price tag of 52 billion ...
28 Jun 2022, 17:16 G7 leaders have finished their three-day meeting in the Bavarian Alps with a commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, even as they agreed that public funding could be necessary for some fossil gas projects to reduce dependence on ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:39 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ ...
17 Aug 2020, 13:40 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Society dpa / die Welt / taz ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with climate activists including Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer on Thursday (20 August) to discuss climate policy,? dpa reports in an ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:36 Milou Dirkx Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Germany reached its target of raising six billion euros from its state budget for international climate finance three years ahead of time, said the development ministry (BMZ). ...
China and the USA ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement?shortly before the start of the G20 summit in China proves that both countries now see more chances than risks in climate protection, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. The move will ...
09 Sep 2020, 14:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities rbb24 The government coalition in the City of Berlin has failed to reach an agreement on a new climate action package that would include a ban on cars with fossil-fuelled combustion engines within the next ...
07 Jul 2025, 12:09 Joey Grostern Mobility Cities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The majority of the population in Germany's cities can already access most daily services within a 15-minute walk or bike ride, according to a report by the Federal Institute for ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG Handelsblatt German power transmission grid operators have said that an additional 7.8 billion euros from the country's budget is needed to pay out renewable energy support in 2024, reports ...
12 Nov 2021, 13:39 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A large number of German companies are?pursuing sustainability strategies and have ambitious climate protection goals to reduce their carbon footprint, according to ...
26 Aug 2021, 13:45 Charlotte Nijhuis Solar Cities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German cities are failing to fully utilise solar PV installations on new building rooftops, according to the country¡¯s largest green power provider LichtBlick. The ratio of newly ...
Initiating the end of combustion engine technology in Germany with corresponding legislation would be in accordance with European law, environmental organisation Greenpeace says in a press release. According to a legal opinion commissioned by the ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background Green parliamentary group head Katrin G?ring-Eckardt has called for an ecologic stimulus package as news of Germany's economy shrinking in the second ...
15 May 2025, 13:43 Expert DGNB ¨C German Sustainable Building Council Deutsche Gesellschaft f¨¹r Nachhaltiges Bauen Climate & CO2 Efficiency Cities Construction Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Construction Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate-friendly homes ...
06 Nov 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The fulfilment of US President Donald Trump's election promise to pull the country out of the Paris Climate Agreement might impress his own voters but ...
The city of Berlin has decided to exit coal power generation by 2030 to protect the climate. The state coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), the Left Party, and the Greens has passed a corresponding law, according to a news report by press agency dpa ...
06 May 2024, 12:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Der Spiegel The expansion of power transmission lines ...
19 Mar 2021, 13:36 Climate activists from the Fridays for Future movement across the world took to the streets on Friday for their seventh Global Climate Strike. In a year of multiple state elections and a federal election for Germany, activists in over ...
The envrionmental organisation Nabu has criticised the German government for sacrificing the protection of nature and wildlife to meet its energy transition and climate protection goals, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. In a statement on ...
The government coalition of the conservative CDU/CSU and Social Democrats (SPD) has failed to agree on a law (GEG) that would set new energy efficiency standards for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ buildings by 2019, Jens Tartler writes in Der Tagesspiegel. Social-Democrat ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:28 Edgar Meza Finance EU Spiegel / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government has joined environmentalists in condemning the European Parliament¡¯s decision to support the inclusion of nuclear and gas power plants in the list of ...
08 Aug 2024
08 Aug 2024, 15:22 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team NewClimate Institute: Unpacking ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ hydrogen import strategy: 3 considerations for Global South partners Expectation that lower production costs can partially offset high conversion losses & transport costs may not ...
21 May 2024, 14:17 The EU¡¯s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, has boosted hopes in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ eastern coal mining region Lusatia that a prosperous future lies ahead in the transition towards climate-neutral industry in the area. At a visit to ...
14 Sep 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The proposal for a " historic consensus " in German society on the need for climate action and the goal of greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 by economy ...
20 Oct 2022, 14:27 The German government has said it increased public climate finance for developing and emerging countries to 5.34 billion euros last year, meaning the country is on track towards reaching its target of 6 billion euros by 2025. Together ...
29 Oct 2021, 13:39 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewables Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Long-term company contracts for the supply of renewable energy, known as green power purchase agreements (PPAs), should become a central part of Germany's ...
Delays in approving the Climate Action Plan 2050 ?are the reason projects for structural change in eastern ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ lignite mining regions aren't yet receiving funding, writes Kurt Stenger in the socialist newspaper Neues Deutschland. The 2016 ...
23 Mar 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Heating Handelsblatt Plans by the German economy and climate protection ministry (BMWK) to de-facto ban the installation of new oil and gas heating systems from 2024 are generating great uncertainty among homeowners, business ...
19 May 2025
19 May 2025, 12:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team FT: Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France Berlin has signalled to Paris it will no longer block French efforts to ensure nuclear power is treated on par with renewable energy in EU legislation, ...
13 May 2025, 13:23 Jack McGovan Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A number of environmental organisations, trade unions and others have called on ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new transport minister, Patrick Schnieder, to commit to sustainable local and regional transport in his ...
06 Oct 2022, 13:52 Expert NewClimate Institute Institute for Climate Policy and Global Sustainability Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ climate diplomacy initiative has made a promising start ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:14 Carolina Kyllmann Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ People in Germany rank security as their top priority when it comes to energy supply, according to a survey by consultancy EY. The majority (61%) of those surveyed ranked energy supply ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:59 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Spiegel Online Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has reelected Manuela Schwesig as premier of the northeastern coastal state, which is aiming for climate neutrality by 2040. A member ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Government COP24 Zeit Online Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ minister Peter Altmaier correctly said that Germany needs a new approach to climate action by the government and businesses, but it is now up to him and ...
11 Apr 2022, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ state governments have agreed not to use fallow land and special eco areas for regular food production and instead preserve them for biodiversity and climate action. Large farm ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Efficiency Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Most homeowners in Germany support climate-friendly modernisation of heating systems, according a survey by non-profit consultancy co2online. Nearly 80 percent said it is ...
16 Jun 2016
16 Jun 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Volkswagen Group VW aims to sell 2-3 million e-cars by 2025 Car giant VW plans a "major electrification initiative" with more than 30 new?purely battery ...
Germany's climate protection efforts are proving insufficient to achieve its climate protection targets for 2020 as well as for the period from 2021 to 2030 in the areas of transport, buildings and agriculture, according to a joint report by sister ...
08 Nov 2016, 00:00 After months of dispute, the German government has reached a tentative agreement on a roadmap to wean the world¡¯s fourth largest economy from fossil fuels almost entirely by 2050, according to press reports. A last-minute Climate Action ...
15 Dec 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Renewables Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The new German government's plan to more than double power production from renewable sources by 2030 presents a ¡°gigantic task¡± for the country, said Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...
Germany and China vowed to continue their fight against climate change hours before U.S. President Donald Trump announces whether he will quit the Paris Agreement, according to a Reuters report. "We are living in times of global uncertainty and see ...
13 Oct 2020, 13:54 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy ...
27 May 2022, 14:00 S?ren Amelang Agriculture Die Zeit Following massive damages in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ forests due to extreme weather, the country¡¯s forestry industry has called for long-term support for making woodlands more climate-resilient. Between 2018 and ...
25 Oct 2023, 11:00 Germany's economy ministry wants to strengthen the country as an industrial location with a new industry strategy, a key aspect of it being a so-called bridge electricity price for energy-intensive companies. Robert Habeck wants to ...
02 Apr 2020, 13:31 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The decision to postpone the COP26 UN climate negotiations because of the coronavirus pandemic drew praise and concern from Germany. Government officials, experts and ...
18 Jun 2024, 13:23 Edgar Meza Heating Tagesspiegel Background Representatives of federal and state consumer protection ministries report an "urgent need for action" in view of recent price hikes in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ district heating market, energy ...
08 Jul 2019, 12:08 Financial markets can be a great accelerator for developments in the economy, but without a clear political roadmap for emissions reduction, they are unable to unleash their supporting abilities, Gerhard Schick, founder of the German ...
23 Jul 2021, 13:24 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ, Welt Activists are protesting for better climate protection measures after ...
27 Sep 2018, 13:57 Germany needs to have a rational and open public discussion about carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) and storage (CCS) as ways to avoid releasing climate-harmful emissions from industry into the environment. A position paper by the ...
19 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024, 09:33 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Electric-Vehicles.com: Nio in talks to buy Audi¡¯s factory in Belgium Move is part of its strategy to establish local production in Europe and avoid European Commission tariffs on imported Chinese EVs. Euractiv: Europe's ...
18 Mar 2022, 14:48 The new German three-party coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz had started its term at the end of last year with optimism to launch a vigorous climate action programme after two difficult years in a pandemic. But the ¡°traffic light ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:30 German government officials and industry associations have welcomed the EU¡¯s proposal for a ¡°Green Deal Industrial Plan,¡± intended to enhance the competitiveness of Europe's industry on the path to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions ...
09 Feb 2021, 13:33 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cities Der Tagesspiegel A report by the German parliament¡¯s scientific service has backed Berlin¡¯s city government in its rejection of a motorway project that cuts right through the eastern centre of the ...
17 Apr 2019, 13:19 Kerstine Appunn Transport Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The highest administrative court of the state of Baden-W¨¹rttemberg has ruled that state governments must retain diesel driving bans in their clean air plans if pollution limits exceed the ...
19 Feb 2024, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The potential of so-called prosumers in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition should be exploited more to reduce costs and increase the system's stability, the Federation of German Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and ...
25 Feb 2021, 13:14 Expert F?S- Green Budget Germany Forum ?kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Cost & Prices Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ If ...
11 Aug 2021, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's federal government has released the structural aid to hard coal power plant regions, the energy? ministry announced. By signing an administrative agreement with the states concerned, ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government coalition has unveiled a ten-point plan to strengthen the country¡¯s economy and stimulate climate and energy efficiency investments. The announcement ?includes ...
07 Jul 2021, 13:15 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Kerstine Appunn Transport Seven major German cities want to test 30 km/h speed limits on a large scale. While inner-town speeds ...
26 Nov 2019, 17:36 The effects of global warming are becoming increasingly felt in Germany, shows a government report on climate change adaptation. The average air temperature in the country rose by 1.5¡ãC from 1881 until 2018, and more frequent heat waves ...
The approval of the government¡¯s long-awaited Climate Action Plan 2050 in cabinet in the coming weeks remains uncertain, according to the environment ministry. ¡°We would like to have a Climate Action Plan before the start of the COP 22 in Marrakesh, but ...
16 Jul 2019, 13:15 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 International Bild Two interior ministers of the German states Hessen and Bavaria have rebuked the ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:13 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's hydrogen council has said the country must urgently make up its mind whether to use hydrogen made with fossil fuels in its market ramp-up of the technology deemed key to reach ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:13 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Edgar Meza Cars Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has taken ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ leading political leaders to task for ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:26 S?ren Amelang Industry EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The EU¡¯s proposed strategy for scaling up energy transition technologies would soften environmental standards across the board, is too broad in scope, and also lacks the necessary funding,? ...
17 Sep 2021, 12:36 Kerstine Appunn Coal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Spiegel Online German energy company RWE is ready to close down its coal-fired power stations earlier than prescribed by the country¡¯s coal exit law, CEO Markus Krebber told? Spiegel Online. RWE ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:17 Germany's environment minister has called for a sharp increase in the country's renewables targets. Svenja Schulze said the country will have to increase renewables' share in power use to "at least 75 percent, maybe ...
13 Jun 2022, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Deutschlandfunk / Spiegel German economy minister Robert Habeck has said that the government intends to tighten the country¡¯s antitrust law amid concerns that oil companies do not pass on ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:35 S?ren Amelang Politics Tagesspiegel / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Social Democrats (SPD) and Conservatives (CDU), who want to form a government in the city of Berlin following an election in February, have agreed on a coalition treaty. A week ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German government wants to strengthen the role of recycled raw materials in the country's industry in a bid to increase supply security of metals and industrial ...
Germany will strive to get parliamentary approval for the ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement before the next climate summit gets underway in Marrakech in November 2016, environment minister Barbara Hendricks said at the opening press conference ...
07 Jul 2025
07 Jul 2025, 10:59 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Reuters: Euro zone investor morale hits three-year record as recovery broadens? Germany, Europe's largest economy, also showed continued improvement. Financial Times: Berlin explores €4bn subsidies for German heavy ...
28 Mar 2022, 12:49 Kerstine Appunn Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal parliament (Bundestag)? has passed ?legislation forcing gas infrastructure operators to fill storage facilities to certain levels throughout the year in order to avoid shortages ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:32 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Tagesspiegel / dpa The German federal government and ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:16 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Handelsblatt The German government¡¯s budget crisis could be largely solved by cancelling ...
13 Jan 2021, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ farmers will have to make greater efforts to contribute to the country¡¯s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, environment Minister Svenja Schulze has said at her ministry¡¯s annual Agriculture ...
03 Mar 2022, 12:46 Edgar Meza Technology Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ While Germany remains a leading source for environmental technology patents ¨C currently holding a 13 percent global share ¨C its growth rates in the area are clearly lagging behind in an ...
16 Jul 2025
16 Jul 2025, 10:43 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Montel: Green push must not mean ¡°deindustrialisation¡± ¨C German industry Many sceptical about government efforts to tackle spiralling energy bills, energy-intensive industry told Montel. Agora Energiewende: A new investment ...
26 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024, 11:43 German ministers and lawmakers, just like most of their peers across the European Union, are heading into the parliaments¡¯ summer 2024 recess and some time off. However, there are exceptions: three eastern German federal states will ...
13 May 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel EU Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new economy and energy minister, Katherina Reiche, has emphasised the value in working with European partners to ensure energy supply for the continent. ¡°Cooperation with European ...
11 Dec 2020, 13:05 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Agriculture Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ agriculture ministry has launched a 1-billion-euro ¡±Farmers for climate action¡± package, including an investment programme worth 816 million euros to boost ...
26 Mar 2020, 14:00 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Rundschau Emissions reductions due to the coronavirus crisis cannot be considered good news, ...
10 Oct 2023, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Handelsblatt / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung One day after being thrashed by voters in two state elections, the three parties of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal government coalition went into damage ...
Federal environment minister Barbara Hendricks rebuked her cabinet colleagues, the Christian Social Union transport and agriculture ministers, for insufficient climate protection, writes Reuters. ¡°Like the transport sector, agriculture ¨C of course ¨C is ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:48 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Society Germany hit its highest temperature ever on July 24, when the town of Geilenkirchen in the state North Rhine-Westphalia recorded 40.5 degrees Celsius, yet the record may stand of only one day as ...
04 Feb 2022, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / Tagesspiegel Background / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Consumers must fully benefit from any potential early end to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ renewables levy, the top-up to power prices ...
08 Nov 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices International Tagesspiegel / Handelsblatt ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ finance minister Christian Lindner has warned against a ¡°trade conflict¡± between the EU and the U.S. as a result of the American government¡¯s ...
15 Jun 2020, 08:46 The independent expert commission in charge of monitoring Germany's energy transition says the European Green Deal requires the country to do more to fight climate change. The government advisors say a quicker-than-planned coal ...
01 Mar 2022, 14:31 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government has initiated the first steps of a wide-ranging renewables reform that should make the country¡¯s power supply almost 100 percent renewable by 2035. In a draft paper seen by Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ, the economy and climate ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:24 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Resources & Recycling Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German solar power and recycling companies have released a joint proposal for ...
08 Mar 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German government¡¯s plan to introduce a subsidy scheme with so-called ¡°climate contracts¡± for less climate-damaging industry processes will also include small and medium-sized ...
18 Dec 2024, 10:13 Italy is considering a return to nuclear power as part of its strategy to achieve carbon neutrality and increase energy independence. The debate has reignited political tensions over the issue, with proponents arguing that nuclear ...
06 Dec 2019, 14:56 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The new leaders of Germany's Social ...
13 Feb 2023, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German states have signalled their readiness to expand onshore wind power in the country ¡°in almost unknown unity¡±, economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said. His ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:48 The first auction for the decommissioning of hard coal plants in Germany has been hailed as a success both by coal plant operators and climate activists, as it ensures that plants with a capacity of almost 5 gigawatts will be off the ...
02 May 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ EU member states¡¯ national climate plans insufficiently address just transition issues, a crucial deficiency ahead of the introduction of a carbon price on ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:37 Expert BEE- German Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert RWI ¨C Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI ¨C ...
The federal government plans to phase out the tax privileges for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) next year, according to a draft law seen by news agency Reuters. ¡°Originally, the privileges for the comparably climate-friendly liquefied gas were supposed to ...
24 Sep 2021, 13:13 Youth climate movement Fridays for Future called for a rapid transition to climate neutrality at its eighth global climate strike just two days before the German federal election. Protests took place in hundreds of German towns and ...
14 Oct 2015
14 Oct 2015, 00:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Spiegel Online/dpa-AFX ¡°Renewable energy surcharge rises to record level of 6.35 cents¡± The renewables surcharge German consumers pay with their power bills will rise to a record 6.35 cents per KWh next year, ...
02 Nov 2021, 12:57 Taking her final bow on the world stage after 26 years of climate policy involvement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the opening of COP26 in Glasgow that progress in emission reductions has been insufficient to achieve the ...
18 Nov 2020, 13:40 S?ren Amelang Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Der Spiegel Germany's Constitutional Court has rejected a complaint by villagers fearing resettlement due to the expansion of an open-cast lignite mine in the West of the country,? reports ...
01 Jul 2019, 13:35 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Financial Times Environmental and development organisation Germanwatch? has said it is ¡°relieved¡° that 19 of the G20 countries at ...
Social Democratic economy minister Sigmar Gabriel has lost his credibility regarding climate and environment policy with his last-minute decision to block an agreement on ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Climate Action Plan 2050 out of consideration for unions and industry, ...
29 Mar 2023, 13:19 Sven Egenter International Security Increasing competition and new global power structures caused by the shift to climate-neutral industries and energy sources risk splitting the world anew into conflictive spheres, German economy and ...
28 May 2019, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The results of the European elections, in which the Greens surged driven by concerns over global climate change, mean that energy companies must ...
03 Aug 2023, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ While the vast majority (91%) of Germans support a climate and environmentally-friendly economic transformation, many worry that it could lead to social injustice and threaten ...
24 Jun 2025, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Cost & Prices Policy WirtschaftsWoche A new social leasing programme should enable those in lower income brackets in Germany to participate in the transition to climate-friendly mobility, Isabel ...
30 May 2025, 12:41 Julian Wettengel Grid Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Current planning for electricity grid development in Europe and Germany may underestimate infrastructure and flexibility needs as it uses simplified weather assumptions and idealised prosumer ...
28 May 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Homeowners in Germany installed more gas boilers than climate-friendly heat pumps when replacing their heating systems in 2024, though the gap is closing, found a report by the government ...
23 May 2025, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Security Handelsblatt ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ leading arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is looking to convert a large part of its fuel supply to renewable energy-based e-fuels. At an industry summit hosted by business daily ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:23 Edgar Meza Wind Security Der Spiegel Growing tensions between the West and China are leading to increasing concern over the role of Chinese companies in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy sector, particularly in the wind power segment, Spiegel reports. A ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:40 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert B¨¹rgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe ...
The German government and the EU Commission have reached an agreement on state-aid related aspects of the country¡¯s power market, clearing the way for the ¡°most important reform¡± since the market liberalisation, German energy minister Sigmar Gabriel told ...
24 Nov 2021, 16:23 The three parties planning to form the new German government have agreed on a coalition treaty that includes pulling forward the country's coal exit, "ideally" to 2030 from 2038, and rapidly speeding up the lagging ...
16 Jul 2021, 13:04 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany and the U.S. have entered a partnership aimed at strengthening climate ambition and deepening the countries¡¯ collaboration on policies and sustainable ...
14 Aug 2023, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German economy looks set to remain on a low-growth track in the coming months even though challenging factors such as price inflation and supply chain problems appear to ...
28 Oct 2021, 13:30 Governments from across the world will descend on Glasgow next week for the UN climate change conference COP26, with the UK presidency¡¯s key objective as keeping the goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5¡ãC within reach. It is set ...
22 Jan 2020, 11:28 The German coal exit commission 's compromise reached in early 2019 was hailed as a breakthrough for cooperation between industry representatives, policymakers and environmental groups, as it outlined how to phase-out the fossil ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Chancellor Olaf Scholz has proposed a "Pact for Germany" in which all levels of government and the opposition pull together to guarantee the country's success in the future. ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:42 Edgar Meza Cars Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A majority of Germans oppose the EU¡¯s planned 2035 ban of combustion engine cars, according to a survey by research institute forsa for UNITI, the German association of small and medium-sized ...
08 Jun 2020, 13:11 Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Industry Rheinische Post The German government is working on an action plan to support the country's steel industry in becoming more competitive and climate friendly,? writes Antje H?ning in the Rheinische ...
05 May 2017, 00:00 Nicknamed the ¡°cradle of the Energiewende¡± by its own government, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein, embodies some of the most pressing challenges and solutions to the country¡¯s energy turnaround. With their decision in ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Gas Wind Freight Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Handelsblatt ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ chancellor Olaf Scholz has unveiled plans to strengthen the country¡¯s ports to support the expansion of offshore wind power and LNG and ...
Swiss voters have been lured into voting for the government¡¯s Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Strategy 2050 by ¡°a phalanx of profiteers¡± of the new law, Giorgio V. M¨¹ller writes in a commentary for conservative Swiss newspaper Neue Z¨¹rcher Zeitung (NZZ). The vote could have been ...
10 Jan 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government dpa / t-online With a set of immediate measures, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new economy and climate minister Robert Habeck wants to kickstart the government¡¯s ambitious plans for fast emissions reduction and ...
13 Jan 2020, 14:02 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Wind dpa / Focus Online / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Doing away with the ...
20 Feb 2023, 13:55 Carolina Kyllmann International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The economic interests of all states need to be accounted for in the fight against climate change, as moral reasons won¡¯t be enough to motivate a successful green transition, German ...
27 Mar 2023, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German revenue from the European and national emissions trading schemes could amount to 227 billion euros for the years 2021-2030, said researchers from the ...
03 Mar 2023, 12:55 By insisting on a future for new combustion engine vehicles after 2035, German finance minister Christian Lindner has upended hopes for those aiming to agree an effective ban for the technology at a vote on EU car emissions initially ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:33 Edgar Meza Digitalisation Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Increased digitalisation in the energy sector can offer significant but limited opportunities to save greenhouse gases, according to a new report by the Institute for Ecological Economic ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:02 The coronavirus pandemic has stifled the possibility of staging mass protests on the streets. Young climate activists from Fridays for Future (FfF) therefore have had to devise new ways to get their message across. In the run-up to ...
10 Jul 2025
10 Jul 2025, 11:52 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team UN: Heat waves put older persons at high risk, warns UN report As extreme heat grips many countries and becomes ¡°the new normal¡±, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warns of heightened health risks for older persons in the ...
26 Feb 2021, 17:01 Countries across the world and especially the top greenhouse gas emitters must redouble their climate efforts if the global community is to reach the Paris Agreement¡¯s goal of limiting global temperature rise to 2¡ãC ¨C ideally 1.5¡ãC, ...
16 Dec 2021, 12:26 Julian Wettengel EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German politicians, NGOs and industry representatives have generally welcomed the second part of the European Commission¡¯s ¡°Fit for 55¡± package of energy and climate legislation, but criticised ...
23 Nov 2016
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ industry should work with the government to reach the goals in the country¡¯s newly adopted Climate Action Plan 2050 rather than just criticise the plan or individual measures, energy state secretary Rainer Baake told the ¡° Agenda 2017 ¡± ...
14 Nov 2016, 00:00 After a public consultation process of over a year and months of political wrangling, the German government agreed on a climate action plan 2050. While this roadmap to a nearly carbon-emission free economy contains detailed targets for ...
The planned law on energy efficiency in public buildings will be further delayed due to disagreements within the government coalition of conservatives (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD), writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. ¡°Buildings are key for ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:58 Expert BWE- German Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Wind Handelsblatt / RND The number of approved applications for ...
27 May 2025
27 May 2025, 12:00 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team ECB: The European economy is not drought-proof ? The degradation of natural ecosystems slows growth and leads to financial instability. Water scarcity, natural flood protection and water quality are most critical. Euractiv: ...
German nuclear utilities E.ON, RWE and EnBW can hope for the repayment of about 6 billion euros after the Federal Constitutional Court declared the nuclear fuel tax law invalid and incompatible with basic law, reports Reuters. The federal government did ...
03 Feb 2022, 13:46 Jessica Bateman Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background The new German government has not yet agreed on a joint position for the EU¡¯s car emissions reduction plans, business newspaper Handelsblatt reports. The ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The coming legislative period is decisive in implementing the sustainable transformation in all economic sectors, a group of German environmental NGOs has said while presenting ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:35 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Freja Eriksen Heating Welt Online / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Tenants in Germany will be placed under further economic pressure by the new climate action ...
05 Jun 2025
05 Jun 2025, 11:51 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Bloomberg:? There aren¡¯t enough engineers to meet world¡¯s growing hunger for power The world¡¯s need for power is outstripping the workforce that can build it. Aging populations and anti-immigration rhetoric aren¡¯t helping. ...
03 May 2019, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Society ARD A large majority of Germans (81%) see a great need for action to protect the climate and say that climate change cannot be stopped without restrictions on people¡¯s lives,? according to a representative ...
18 Jun 2025, 13:57 Jack McGovan Cars Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ More drivers have switched to fully electric cars because of lower energy costs than a desire to protect the climate, found a survey by energy company E.ON. Of the 1,000 drivers ...
13 Dec 2022, 11:30 European countries will continue to deal with the energy crisis throughout next year, and seek sufficient gas supply on world markets while boosting renewable energy and key technologies such as heat pumps. However, the biggest climate ...
19 Aug 2020, 13:52 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate change is still perceived as the top problem facing humanity, a survey ?carried out in seven European ...
21 Dec 2023, 10:12 Preparing a fast expansion of renewable power will be a key challenge for governments across Europe in 2024, says Sarah Jilibert-Schabram of the Franco-German Office for the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Transition (DFBEW). France and Germany both have stated ...
23 Sep 2015
23 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Die Welt ¡°The German government knew the cheating technology¡± The German ministry for transport has known for a long time that car manufacturers are using technologies that interfere ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:09 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate policy could be a ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Amid the coronavirus crisis, German Fridays for Future student climate activists are focusing on online activities for the announced? Global Climate Strike ?on 24 April. The protesters are ...
Environment minister Barbara Hendricks wants to have her Climate Action Plan 2050 approved before the climate conference in Morocco in November, ¡°to send a signal to the global community¡±, she writes in a guest commentary in the Handelsblatt. ¡°What ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:16 Two new projects for the climate-friendly production of steel and cement illustrate the ambition of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ industry to meet sustainability targets without ceding market share to foreign competitors. Economy minister, Robert Habeck, ...
16 Jul 2021, 10:23 The UK is leading the world in terms of climate targets as it heads towards COP26. This is in no small part due to the work of climate activists, who, in the words of the campaigning group Extinction Rebellion, have come together to ...
20 Jan 2021, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Wind Der Spiegel / Tagesspiegel Background The first mandatory share offers in a new wind power farm for neighbouring residents have been introduced in Germany, news website Der Spiegel reports. ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:04 S?ren Amelang Transport Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Germany is set to spend less than half of the funds originally planned on the modernisation of its ailing railway system, report business daily Handelsblatt and other media outlets. ...
09 Jun 2020, 13:15 Expert BDEW-German Association of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
20 Feb 2020, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany's first renewable power auction of 2020 has once more failed to attract enough bidders for onshore wind power projects, leading industry groups to call for a ...
23 Jul 2025, 12:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Tagesspiegel Exploiting a recent oil discovery in Poland¡¯s section of the Baltic Sea could come with substantial costs to tourism and environmental protection, the ...
15 Jan 2025, 11:20 As geopolitical tensions escalate and make UN climate negotiations increasingly difficult, the next German government should continue to explore alternative alliances to push for decarbonisation, says Marian Feist, senior research ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ambitious goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 can only be achieved through a comprehensive and multi-layered approach that includes ...
04 Jun 2021, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Cars dpa German carmaker BMW has announced it wants to reduce supply chain CO2 emissions in China by 20 percent from 2019 levels by 2030, reports news agency dpa. ¡°Many people believe that the biggest source of ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:15 Germany's government has removed the last hurdles to finalising the country's much-anticipated coal exit law, clearing the way for a passage of the bill in parliament at the end of the week. The draft agreement grants ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:16 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Benjamin Wehrmann Finance International AFP Germany's finance ministry (BMF) has said Germany does not plan to increase its contribution to ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Three out of four Germans say it is right for scientists to get involved in the climate policy debate if political decision-making does not take into account their research ...
21 Mar 2025, 15:30 French prime minister Francois Bayrou may have fended off a vote of no-confidence in parliament for the adoption of the 2025 finance bill, but the nation still has a long way to go to recover from the political turmoil brought by last ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:41 S?ren Amelang Adaptation Society Die Welt / Main Post One of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ final traditional wooden sled manufacturers is halting production because of climate change, report ed daily paper Die Welt. ¡°The fact that there is virtually no ...
06 Nov 2017, 00:00 The UNFCCC conference in Bonn needs to see more states make ambitious climate mitigation pledges, Sabine Nallinger, Managing Director of the Foundation 2¡ã- German Businesses for Climate Protection, tells Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ. The outcome could spur the ...
05 Jun 2025, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Gas Utilities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Auctions for new gas-fired power plants in Germany should be held before the end of this year, economy and energy minister Katherina Reiche has said. While the ...
01 Oct 2019, 13:46 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Freja Eriksen Wind Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The targets for renewable power consumption and wind energy expansion on land set by the German government's new ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:39 S?ren Amelang International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany aims to put pressure on China to raise its climate targets, according to the? government¡¯s first strategy ?for dealing with the east Asian country. The paper, which was adopted by ...
The current draft of the environment ministry¡¯s Climate Action Plan 2050 showed that Chancellor Angela Merkel ¨C weakened by the refugee crisis ¨C avoided a dispute over climate targets with the economic wing of her party, writes Bernhard P?tter in an ...
24 Jun 2024, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU ARD / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung A visit by German economy minister Robert Habeck to China has led to hopes that a diplomatic solution to the looming trade conflict about possible illicit state support for electric ...
20 Jan 2022, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany narrowly managed to meet its emissions budget for 2020 under the EU¡¯s climate action targets for sectors such as transport and buildings (Effort Sharing Decision), the final ...
31 May 2019, 13:34 S?ren Amelang Transport Efficiency Policy Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German ministers proposed to expand public transport and to offer billions in tax breaks for the modernisation of buildings during this week¡¯s second meeting of the government ...
17 Mar 2025, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The German energy transition requires a ¡°restart¡± as the country is on the verge of establishing a climate neutral energy system and renewables already account for about ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ capital, Berlin, is set to introduce a new mobility law which aims to enhance the status of low-carbon means of transportation, Klaus Kurpjuweit reports in Der Tagesspiegel. The governing coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), Green Party and Left ...
22 May 2020, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland An alliance of hard coal plant operators plans to achieve an expansion of the runtime of Germany's seven most modern hard coal plants by ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:16 Expert Difu- German Institute of Urban Affairs Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Urbanistik Cities Society Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ German citizens would like to see their municipalities act more on climate ...
The housing industry has criticised the federal government¡¯s Climate Action Plan 2050, because of last-minute changes at the expense of the sector, writes Henrike Ro?bach for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). After economy minister Sigmar Gabriel ...
Several German states are demanding that the federal government and the EU should protect the steel industry from stricter environmental regulations and rising electricity costs, reports S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. In a draft of the joint final statement for ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:45 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate ...
27 Sep 2021, 14:01 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ At first sight, this election result could be interpreted as a defeat for climate action because both the Green Party and the Left Party, which have the most convincing answers ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Gas Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ quest for liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a substitute for halted Russian pipeline supplies entails significant risks regarding climate change mitigation, as the country¡¯s demand could ...
16 Feb 2022, 13:35 S?ren Amelang Cars EU Handelsblatt / Reuters / Spiegel The German government has settled its dispute over future CO2 rules for cars and will not call for more stringent EU fleet emission limits than currently proposed by the European ...
As the first government to adopt a long-term, economy-wide strategy towards decarbonisation, the German leadership expects its Climate Action Plan 2050 to trigger innovation and boost economic development, writes Richard Black for businessGreen. Black¡¯s ...
06 Jan 2021, 18:13 A German state government attempts to circumvent looming U.S. sanctions on the contentious natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 with the help of a ¡°climate¡± foundation. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where the pipeline will land, ...
13 May 2025
13 May 2025, 11:46 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Bloomberg: Southern Spain outages preceded nationwide blackout, report says About 2.2 gigawatts of capacity went offline in the south of Spain less than a minute before the complete collapse of the Iberian Peninsula¡¯s ...
Think tank Agora Energiewende* will present proposals to take better account of industry needs in the German energy transition, Angela Hennersdorf and Christian Schlesiger write in WirtschaftsWoche. In its "Charter for Energiewende Industrial Policy ...
The German government says the EU should devote at least 20 percent of its budget to climate-friendly projects and programmes, Rheinische Post reports. ¡°The government supports the propositions of the EU¡¯s Green Growth Group,¡± which called for one fifth ...
Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks has demanded Chancellor Angela Merkel put down her foot in the? dispute ?over the? Climate Action Plan 2050. According to news agency dpa, Hendricks told the Funke Mediengruppe ?she had discussed her proposals with ...
26 Sep 2018, 13:53 The German Football Association (DFB) has included a sustainability concept in its bid to host the 2024 European Football Championship. While the plan lacks concrete goals for action, awarding the tournament to Germany could obligate ...
01 Jun 2022, 14:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Renewable energies will be at the heart of supply security in Germany in the future, but the country will continue to need gas and must ¡°think big¡± when it comes to ramping up hydrogen, ...
08 Apr 2022, 14:13 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & ...
25 Jun 2025
25 Jun 2025, 13:44 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Hydrogen Insight: 'Excessive regulations'- German utility EWE shelves 50MW green hydrogen project ArcelorMittal's cancellation of green steel programme also "significantly influenced" decision. ...
10 Mar 2023, 13:29 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A new solar PV strategy tabled by the ...
25 Sep 2015
25 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Spiegel Online ¡°Exhaust affair: VW tricks increase doubts about climate calculations¡± Car manufacturers are not only using tricks to stay under nitrogen oxide thresholds in tests but also to reduce ...
The German Trade Union Association DGB is set to reposition itself on climate policy at its upcoming annual congress, reports Malte Kreutzfeldt in daily taz. In a draft paper on energy, the unions only say they support the Paris climate goals, thereby ...
30 Jun 2023
30 Jun 2023, 12:20 Julian Wettengel NOZ / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Zeit German environment and consumer protection minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) supports the European Commission¡¯s push to reign in false ¡°greenwashing¡± claims by companies, she told Neue ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:11 Current polls suggest Germany's elections on 26 September will be followed by complicated coalition talks, but the Green Party refuses to reveal what they consider red lines during the negotiations. The party's climate policy ...
Federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel does not support setting an end date for coal-fired power generation in Germany, he said in the plenary of the German Bundestag, reaffirming his position that had held up the government¡¯s Climate Action Plan 2050. ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ upcoming coal phase-out commission must not be ¡°dominated¡± by climate action and should instead focus on supply security and economic considerations in the affected regions, conservative (CDU) energy politician Joachim Pfeiffer told the news ...
26 May 2025
26 May 2025, 11:06 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Bloomberg: Trump extends deadline for 50% tariffs on EU goods to July 9 U.S. president Donald Trump said he would extend the deadline for the European Union to face 50 percent tariffs until July 9 after a phone call with ...
20 May 2025, 13:06 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new government aims for a speedy adoption of the 2025 federal budget to finally end months of provisional budget operations resulting from the break-up of the previous coalition government. The finance ministry under its new ...
Environment minister Barbara Hendricks criticised her federal coalition partners for obstructing her ministry¡¯s Climate Action Plan 2050 in an interview with German weekly Der Spiegel. ¡°The objections of the ministries of agriculture and transport show ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:38 Germany is betting on sustainable hydrogen to decarbonise its economy and will largely have to import the fuel in future due to unfavourable local conditions for renewable electricity production. With its hydrogen import strategy, the ...
04 Oct 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices EU Handelsblatt Some of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ biggest CO2 emitters have taken advantage of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to ensure their own emissions remain low-priced, according to a Handelsblatt report by ...
21 May 2025, 13:19 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The new German government is aiming to increase investments in eastern Germany, where political opposition to current energy transition and climate policies has grown ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:52 S?ren Amelang Coal Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Anti-coal activists and the student protest movement Fridays for Future are planning a series of demonstrations in Western Germany in the coming days. On Friday 21 June, Fridays For Future ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:00 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The proportion of peole in Germany who consider climate change to be "the single most serious problem facing the world" has doubled since 2017 to 30 percent, the latest ...
09 Jul 2020, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics tageszeitung (taz) Chancellor Angela Merkel must now walk the walk when it comes to making sure climate action ¡°tops¡± the German EU Council presidency agenda and ensuring that ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:21 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Coal Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German coal industry is looking to hydrogen production as an alternative in light of the ...
08 Nov 2021, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Finance Funke Mediengruppe / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany will work towards an exclusion of nuclear power from the EU taxonomy for sustainable investments, the country¡¯s environment minister ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ In a televised debate following on that of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ three chancellor candidates, the four smaller parties in the country¡¯s parliament have traded blows over the course of ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:22 Expert BAFA- Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control Bundesamt f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle Fossil fuels Renewables Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Benjamin Wehrmann ...
The federal agriculture ministry wants to make further changes to the already watered down Climate Action Plan 2050 by Social Democrat environment minister Barbara Hendricks, writes Jan Grossarth in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). An internal ...
27 Mar 2023, 14:01 Julian Wettengel Cars EU Handelsblatt / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The deal between Germany and the European Commission to allow new combustion engine cars after 2035 ¨C if they run exclusively on e-fuels ¨C could upset politicians¡¯ climate policy ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:37 Julian Wettengel International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The G7 group of influential economies have set up an international climate club to support the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, with a focus on pushing the climate-friendly ...
27 Feb 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Closer cooperation with Germany on renewable power and other energy transition technologies could help India increase its energy sovereignty, chancellor Olaf Scholz has? said ...
17 Jul 2021, 10:30 Catastrophic floods have killed more than 130 people in Germany in one of the worst natural disasters in the country's post-war history. The torrential rains have been widely linked to climate change, swinging the issue into focus ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:51 Bennet Ribbeck Carbon removal Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germany and the EU need a short-term strategy for enabling the necessary ramp-up of carbon dioxide removals (CDR), said the think tank German Institute for International and Security ...
12 Jan 2015
12 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ E.ON Press Release E.ON sells Italian coal and gas operations? E.ON said Monday it would sell its coal and gas-fueled electricity operations to the Czech energy company Energetick? a Pr?myslov? ...
13 Sep 2023, 14:20 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Jack McGovan Solar Cities Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Rooftop solar panels in small and mid-sized German towns technically could generate enough electricity for the 41 million ...
21 Jul 2023, 14:12 Expert Greenpeace Czech Republic Climate & CO2 Renewables Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Jack McGovan Coal International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / taz / ARD A decision by Poland¡¯s Supreme Administrative ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ France and Germany could soon agree on a reform of the EU electricity market, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz have said after their meeting in ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal-exit commission could provide useful lessons for other countries and sectors seeking to both decarbonise and protect workers, Pieter de Pous writes in a blog post published by E3G, a climate-change think-tank. However, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ recently ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:56 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The hasty buildout of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ liquefied natural gas (LNG) import infrastructure is turning into a ...
15 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025, 11:55 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Copernicus/WMO: European State of the Climate Report- 2024 warmest year on record During the year, there was a striking east-west contrast in climate conditions, with extremely dry and often record-warm conditions in the east, ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt German conglomerate thyssenkrupp finds it increasingly difficult to spin off its troubled steelmaking division, Kevin Knitterscheidt and Martin Murphy write in Handelsblatt. In order to successfully sell ...
25 Aug 2021, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Humus build-up and a more climate resilient choice of field crops are among the main targets of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new ¡° Arable farming strategy 2035 ¡±, which was presented by the Federal agriculture ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Finance Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Financial Times / Guardian The German government is advocating a fundamental reform of the World Bank with an increased focus on the climate crisis. ¡°My goal is a World Bank which is well ...
20 Sep 2019
20 Sep 2019, 12:55 Hundreds of thousands of people demanded rapid climate action at Germany's Fridays for Future protests, keeping public pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel's government following the announcement of a broad action package to ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:25 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut f¨¹r Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Julian Wettengel Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Climate & CO2 Agriculture Frankfurter Rundschau Any serious discussion on climate action ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel, economy minister Sigmar Gabriel and environment minister Barbara Hendricks have agreed on the Climate Action Plan 2050, which they had heavily debated in the run-up to the COP22 climate talks in Marrakesh, writes news agency ...
The passing of a new law on the ¡°Digitalisation of the Energiewende¡± in the second house of the German parliament, the Bundesrat, has been overshadowed by the vote on the reform ?of the Renewable Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Act (EEG), according to an article in pv magazine. ...
15 Nov 2021, 13:48 The results of the UN climate conference in Glasgow (COP26) add pressure to Germany's ongoing negotiations to form a new government coalition that needs to agree on ambitious steps to cut emissions. As the coalition negotiations ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ bioenergy plant fleet is at risk of shrinking as many operators lack a perspective for economically viable operations, industry lobby association HBB has warned. ...
02 May 2025, 11:30 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Government International T&E: How to defuse the EU¡¯s carbon tax time bomb The decision to create a Europe-wide carbon price was right but creates significant political risk. The good news is it can still be fixed. Carbon ...
30 Jan 2023, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine The heads of many renewable energy companies showed mixed opinions in whether Germany can meet its targets for green electricity generation, according to an article in newspaper ...
Bavarian conservative parties Christian Socialist Union (CSU) and Free Voters have signed a coalition treaty for the coming five years in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ southern economic power house and largest federal state. The alliance aims to make climate protection a ...
15 Jun 2020, 10:30 A mainly fossil energy guzzler, heating in Germany has taken a back seat to the Energiewende's poster child, the power sector. But the ¡°W?rmewende¡±, or heating transition, has significant potential to curb emissions and is ...
The new governing coalition in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) may not care too much about climate protection despite ambitious promises, Ralf K?pke writes in a commentary for Energie & Management. The conservative ...
10 Aug 2021, 12:56 Kerstine Appunn Coal Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ The world is heating up, but the German government is clinging to its coal phase-out date in 2038, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in a? commentary for S¨¹ddeutsche ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:19 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Expert ...
04 Oct 2018, 17:11 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government has decided to reduce emissions from diesel cars in polluted cities by swapping old models for new ones and retrofitting some older cars. Transport minister Andreas Scheuer and environment minister Svenja Schulze ...
G20 members commend private commitment to climate risk reporting but do not universally recommend it in the climate and energy action plan, which was annexed to the G20 Hamburg summit leaders¡¯ communiqu¨¦, writes Dagmar Dehmer for Tagesspiegel Background. ...
26 Oct 2020, 13:57 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities S?ren Amelang Society Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ People in Germany believe that politicians and consumers share equal blame for slow progress in climate action. In a survey ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy ministry is drafting a law to accelerate the development of the country¡¯s electricity network, Michael Bauchm¨¹ller reports in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. The draft, seen by the paper, will include streamlining the planning procedure, ...
19 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025, 12:31 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team German Marshall Fund (GMF): North African stability powers Europe¡¯s energy transition NATO and EU face a strategic test in their southern neighborhood. Bloomberg: ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ defense firms need steelmakers to help fuel boom ...
The governments of France and Germany have entered into an unusual alliance with BlackRock, the world¡¯s biggest investment fund, to achieve progress in unlocking private capital for investments in climate action, Astrid D?rner and Peter K?hler write in ...
20 May 2025
20 May 2025, 11:30 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Team Prospect: ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next move could make or break green Europe Urgent national security and economic demands are competing with the country¡¯s climate commitments. European Commission: Economic forecast for Germany After ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:06 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society dpa / Tagesspiegel / Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Students are expected to walk out of school in more than 1,000 cities around the world on Friday, as part of a global strike to demand action on climate ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are not yet technically mature enough to contribute to climate action, the German government has said in an answer to a ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / WirtschaftsWoche / Welt / Frankfurter Rundschau German media have praised the EU Council¡¯s decision to raise the bloc's 2030 climate target as a success for the country¡¯s ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:11 Edgar Meza Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Mobility Cars Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ A broad-based coalition of environmental groups and police representatives is calling for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next government to impose a?general speed limit on?the country¡¯s ...
06 Aug 2019, 14:12 S?ren Amelang Society International Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Germans consider "the environment, climate and energy" the most important issue facing the country at the moment, according to a EU poll. 36 percent of respondents named it ...
03 Aug 2021, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ / Die Welt The earnings from selling allowances in the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for the German state look set to reach a new record level in 2021 ...
17 Aug 2023, 14:25 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Efficiency Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ¡°excessive¡± energy efficiency standards for new buildings make the construction of new homes too expensive, proving fatal for people who need affordable housing ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Finance International Die Zeit The German and French economy ministers said ¡°substantial progress¡± has been made in talks about transparency and cooperation on green subsidies between the EU and the U.S during a visit ...
02 Aug 2017
02 Aug 2017, 00:00 German carmakers have pledged to update the software in some 5 million diesel cars to lower emissions at the so-called "diesel summit", where leaders of the industry met with federal ministers and heads of federal states. ...
