09 Apr 2024, 14:00 German environmental NGOs have welcomed a landmark climate victory by an association of women in Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights as a breakthrough for climate action. The court found that the European Convention on ...
21 Nov 2023, 08:43 The debates over the fallout of last week鈥檚 shock constitutional court ruling on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 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 ...
04 Oct 2021, 13:44 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel The German Environment Agency (UBA) has called to raise the country鈥檚 greenhouse gas emission ...
28 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025, 11:48 91tv Team Bloomberg: Porsche has nowhere to hide as Trump unleashes next tariff wave While Mercedes and BMW have some flexibility due to factories in the US, Porsche has no plants in North America. Bloomberg: German minister says Trump ...
23 Jan 2025, 10:30 Making German homes less climate-damaging and keeping them affordable for residents at the same time will be a central task for the country's next government. The heated controversy over a phaseout law for oil and gas boilers is ...
02 Apr 2025, 10:05 They may rail against immigration and climate action on stage but behind the scenes, far-right leaders across Europe welcome labour migrants who are needed for the continent鈥檚 energy transition. To fill its rapidly widening skill gaps, ...
12 Jan 2018, 00:00 The parties currently in talks to form 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Government Handelsblatt Germany's government coalition is facing yet more heated debates about how to plug a gap in the country's budget, as the deficit in next year's聽federal funding could be even bigger ...
13 May 2024, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal 91tv German forests are in a poor state, as four out of five trees of the most common species 鈥� spruce, pine, beech and oak 鈥� are damaged, said the agriculture ministry' ...
11 Dec 2018, 20:00 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
21 Dec 2021, 14:21 Energy consumption in Germany has increased in 2021, as the economy recovered from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the country weathered a cold winter. At the same time, a year of depressed wind power production let the ...
22 Feb 2019, 18:00 German environment minister Svenja Schulze is calling for an ambitious greenhouse gas reduction goal of 鈥渁t least 95 percent鈥� by the year 2050 compared to 1990, in a draft of the highly anticipated Climate Action Law, seen by Clean ...
22 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: Allianz sees damages worth tens of millions for German vineyards Insurer Allianz SE expects to pay German winemakers tens of millions of euros in insurance claims this year after many vineyards lost their ...
30 Jul 2019, 10:30 Markus S枚der, Bavaria鈥檚 conservative state premier, has called for climate action to be enshrined in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Basic Law, according to German daily S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. S枚der has thus embraced a long-standing demand by the Green Party, ...
07 Dec 2020, 09:46 Germans should not expect a lot of climate policy decisions next year, as the debates will be firmly in the grip of the national and state election campaigns, says Brigitte Knopf, secretary general of the Mercator Research Institute on ...
The right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) questions the scientific consensus that climate change is mainly caused by humans, wants the country to exit the Paris Climate Agreement and abolish the recently adopted Climate Action Plan 2050, ...
08 Nov 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government 91tv Industry representatives and environmental groups have warned the German government against scrapping key components of the country鈥檚 Climate Action Law in a planned ...
30 May 2025
30 May 2025, 11:40 91tv Team Politico: 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Merz vows to keep Nord Stream 2 pipeline switched off Some German politicians have pushed for the restoration of the flow of gas from Russia to Germany via the Nord Stream pipelines. UBA: Nature-based ...
07 Aug 2019, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang International 91tv Germany has to step up its climate ambitions so Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn鈥檛 travel to the UN Climate Action Summit in New York on 23 September empty-handed, according to Climate ...
18 May 2020, 14:02 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition Office Franco-Allemand pour la Transition 脡nerg茅tique / ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv A monitoring system for the expansion of renewable energy sources and better planning tools for companies are needed to ensure a reliable transformation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy, ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance International Handelsblatt The German business association CDU Economic Council, associated with Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, opposes plans by the European Central Bank (ECB) to make ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:48 After four days of negotiations, the EU member states have agreed on an unprecedented funding package to cushion the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and secure the bloc's budget until 2027. The 27 governments greenlighted a ...
28 Mar 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 91tv Reducing the energy consumption of Germany's least energy efficient buildings is essential for聽letting clean heating technologies achieve the sector's climate targets, a report by ...
31 May 2024, 15:00 As the European elections approach and the political parties in Italy engage in divisive campaigns over European policies and the management of various international contexts, the country is preparing to host the summit of G7 countries ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:07 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Several citizens in two German states have filed lawsuits against their state ...
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鈥� summer 2024 recess and some time off. However, there are exceptions: three eastern German federal states will ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Politics rbb / taz The city of Berlin has edged a decisive step closer to a new government coalition led by the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), after the incumbent Social Democrats (SPD) gave the green light to ...
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 ...
05 Jun 2020, 13:07 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Green stimulus Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The heads of state of Germany, Austria and Switzerland have warned against neglecting climate protection during the pandemic and urged an economic restart with ...
29 Jan 2025, 11:18 As Germans prepare to head to the polls for the 23 February snap election, the weakness of the country鈥檚 large industrial base has become a campaign focus. Some opposition policymakers blame exaggerated climate policies for the troubles ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:36 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Efficiency 91tv Three quarters of German buildings are ...
10 Aug 2023, 14:20 Nearly halfway through its four-year term, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government faces increasing public discontent over its switch from two years of energy crisis management to controversial climate policies. The coalition government of the Social ...
22 Oct 2020, 13:09 One year ago, the German government decided that the country should become climate-neutral by the middle of the century. What was lacking so far, however, was a plan how to achieve this. In order to fill this gap, three think tanks ...
10 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024, 11:44 Julian Wettengel FT: Northvolt to cut jobs and sell off unit to survive EV chill Swedish battery maker has been grappling with factory problems and slow growth in European EV take-up. Bloomberg: Europe braces for last of Ukraine鈥檚 ...
17 Aug 2023, 14:02 S枚ren Amelang Heating 91tv / Table.Media 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government has agreed on a draft law requiring municipalities to submit plans for the transition to climate-neutral heating, but has softened interim targets for ...
08 Feb 2021, 13:09 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn Heating Clean Energy ...
15 Jun 2020, 14:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars The German car sector may face a "series of bankruptcies鈥�, leading industry representatives have warned. This is due to an almost unprecedented drop in demand caused by the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, ...
27 Jul 2022, 15:02 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv The German government plans to spend 177.5 billion euros of the federal budget for climate action, and the transformation of the country鈥檚 economy, from 2023 to 2026. The cabinet ...
21 Jan 2021, 11:30 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country鈥檚 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in September. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
25 Sep 2019, 14:08 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
13 Apr 2023, 11:38 Even 15 years after its first climate adaptation strategy, and despite deadly floods and droughts, Germany is still failing to integrate climate adaptation into everyday decision-making at all levels. Insurers have sounded the alarm ...
13 Feb 2020, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang International 91tv The EU must commit to new climate targets this spring in order to increase the chances of success at this year's crucial climate conference COP26, an alliance of German environmental ...
23 Sep 2019, 13:56 Freja Eriksen Coal 91tv Germany has joined the international Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) but withheld fully endorsing the PPCA declaration, which would commit OECD countries to phase out unabated coal no later than ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:32 The German government has agreed to install a 鈥�climate cabinet鈥� to coordinate emissions reduction efforts across various ministries to reach the country's 2030 climate targets. Environment minister Svenja Schulze said the climate ...
02 Jul 2021, 13:15 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cities Der Tagesspiegel Not satisfied with the Berlin state government鈥檚 climate protection targets, a broad-based citizens鈥� initiative is aiming to mount a referendum to make the German capital carbon ...
10 Jan 2025, 09:59 Croatian citizens ended 2024 with a first round of presidential elections, marking the finale of a super election year. In terms of the climate, it was yet another year of above-average warmth, accompanied by numerous extreme weather ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:29 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 & ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background Green parliamentary group head Katrin G枚ring-Eckardt has called for an ecologic stimulus package as news of Germany's economy shrinking in the second ...
15 Oct 2024, 14:30 Fifteen companies in Germany have been awarded support guarantees in the first round of the so-called 鈥�climate contracts鈥� scheme that is meant to put the country鈥檚 industry sector on track towards climate neutrality. Economy minister ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:03 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv The German government's ...
10 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024, 13:44 With the summer break coming to an end, lawmakers in Brussels are back to school. After the newly elected European Parliament started its legislative term last July, all eyes are now on the formation of the next European Commission. ...
23 Jun 2020, 14:00 Helping European Union member states find a compromise on a coronavirus recovery package in July will be a first test for the German EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020, says Sophie Pornschlegel, senior policy analyst at ...
27 Apr 2022, 12:35 S枚ren Amelang Efficiency Heating 91tv The renovation of existing residential buildings to increase energy efficiency has become more cost-effective than ever before due to the massive spike in energy costs, according to a聽 ...
03 Dec 2014, 00:00 The German government has approved a package of measures to achieve its goal of reducing carbon emissions 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990. The following collection provides a snapshot of comments and reactions. Sven Egenter Climate ...
31 Jan 2025, 14:00 Poland鈥檚 energy transition is lagging and set to rely on natural gas as a bridge fuel and nuclear energy for baseload capacity. A far-right party is pushing against new renewable investment with a referendum on a pending new wind farm ...
28 May 2021, 12:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Solar 91tv The German Association ...
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 鈥渁 lot of room for improvement鈥�, a聽 report ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 91tv A majority of people in Germany (53%) agree that the next government should do more for climate protection, according to a survey commissioned by environmental NGO ...
21 Apr 2021, 16:38 German politicians have welcomed the deal concluded by EU lawmakers on a climate law that enshrines the goal of climate-neutrality 2050 and a more ambitious 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target. However, conservatives and industry ...
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,聽 writes Antje H枚ning in the Rheinische ...
08 Sep 2017, 00:00 As the current legislative period draws to a close, The 91tv asked key stakeholders to review the last four years of German energy and climate policy 鈥� and tell us what they would like to see from the next government. ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:35 S枚ren Amelang Politics Tagesspiegel / 91tv 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 ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:27 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Constitutional Court has declined to accept eleven constitutional complaints directed against existing state climate action laws and the lack of CO2 reduction paths ...
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 North-Eastern region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania said the government鈥檚 stance on climate protection was 鈥渨ay too hesitant鈥�, Dow Jones Newswire reports. 鈥淚f we as a party want to be taken seriously as far ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:10 Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv High incomes in Germany should be taxed more to generate funds for ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Residents in eastern German states are generally critical of the federal government鈥檚 energy and climate policies, while at the same time endorsing measures to reduce ...
08 Nov 2016, 00:00 After months of dispute, the German government has reached a tentative agreement on a roadmap to wean the world鈥檚 fourth largest economy from fossil fuels almost entirely by 2050, according to press reports. A last-minute Climate Action ...
02 Jul 2024
02 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Brussels urges EU countries to submit climate plans 鈥榓s soon as possible鈥� On 30 June, EU countries were legally obliged to submit their national energy and climate plans until 2030 (NECPs). These are key ...
21 Aug 2019, 16:00 Moment of truth for German climate policy: Right in time for the UN Climate Action Summit, chancellor Angela Merkel's government is due to present a raft of measures to drastically cut emissions. The eagerly awaited announcements ...
27 Feb 2025, 13:51 The European Commission unveiled a series of plans to make the bloc's industry more competitive, reduce energy costs and cut red tape. Germany's industry associations called the proposals an important first step in the right ...
11 Oct 2019, 14:09 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & ...
17 Oct 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv The implementation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is happening "too slowly", German environment ministry state secretary Rita Schwarzel眉hr-Sutter said ...
05 May 2021, 14:59 The German government has agreed to aim for climate neutrality as early as 2045, pulling forward its previous target by five years as part of more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases. In a reform to be presented next week, the ...
16 Aug 2019, 13:19 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert ...
24 Jan 2022, 13:31 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables Policy dpa / Stern The German coalition government has promised to accelerate the country's landmark energy transition and other core legislation procedures, newswire dpa report s in ...
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 ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:44 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv The International Energy Agency鈥檚 (IEA) latest report on renewable ...
Considerable discrepancies between the German Green Party鈥檚 draft election programme and the 鈥� Ten-point plan for Green governance 鈥� it published in May will make this weekend鈥檚 federal party conference difficult, writes Henrike Ro脽bach in an opinion ...
16 May 2019, 13:57 Expert Ecologic Institute Energiewende Policy International Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv The current emissions reduction and energy transition plans by all of the 28 EU member states do not ...
06 Nov 2015
06 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Fraunhofer ISE 鈥淲hat does the Energiewende cost?鈥� The costs of a climate-friendly transformation of the German energy system from now until 2050- when the country wants to emit 80 percent less ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:27 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Some 70 percent of respondents from several European countries see the energy transition as everyone's responsibility and believe all citizens should be actively involved, ...
13 May 2019, 14:00 Implementing the Paris Agreement means that countries have to have more ambition on a national level and the same is true for the European Union, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Svenja Schulze said at the opening of the 10th Petersberg ...
08 Jan 2025, 13:02 Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices Efficiency Heating 91tv Some 10 percent of 30 million households in Germany still reliant on fossil fuels for heating are unable to adequately warm their homes or are "heavily ...
27 Nov 2024, 13:15 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most powerful industry association has said the future government must reconsider the country鈥檚 strategy for becoming climate-neutral. Against the background of a sagging economy and news about mass layoffs, the head of the ...
28 Nov 2023, 13:47 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government 91tv / Table.Media Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz said his government would continue to pursue its green transition plans even in the face of a budget crisis resulting ...
25 Oct 2019, 15:22 The share of renewable energy in Germany's gross power consumption reached a record of almost 43 percent in the first nine months of 2019. But a near halt in the country's onshore wind power expansion overshadows the ...
18 Sep 2024
18 Sep 2024, 12:11 91tv Team Reuters: German conservative Merz set to run for chancellor in 2025 vote The leaders of Germany's conservatives have agreed to nominate Christian Democrat (CDU) chief Friedrich Merz to run as chancellor in next year' ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:04 S枚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. ...
08 Mar 2022, 13:33 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Government Clean Energy ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:44 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv Germany's railway service Deutsche Bahn has聽 inked an order 聽worth one billion euros for new ICE high speed ...
03 Apr 2024, 13:29 Edgar Meza Solar Resources & Recycling 91tv Better recycling infrastructure is needed for discarded solar panels in Germany, especially as waste volume is set to increase in the coming years, according to a report by ...
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眉ndnis 90/ ...
21 Jan 2025, 12:45 Edgar Meza Storage Start-ups 91tv Industrial cold storage facilities could become more efficient and be transformed into cost-saving energy storage facilities that contribute to grid stability,聽 the German Federal ...
13 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024, 15:30 The coming year will show whether the EU can use a new strategy to clean its industry and continue the path laid out over the past five years in the European Green Deal, or whether increasing global competition and protectionist efforts ...
27 Jun 2017
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Barbara Hendricks has shunned calls for making a clear commitment to initialising the country鈥檚 exit from coal-fired power production. At a press conference by government members of her Social Democratic Party (SPD), ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:29 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Disputes about coronavirus recovery funds slow down climate action in the EU, Hendrik Kafsack writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The veto of Hungary ...
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鈥檚 key objective as keeping the goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5掳C within reach. It is set ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Policy 91tv Germany is spending billions on becoming climate neutral by 2045 but has no idea whether this money is well spent, according to the country鈥檚 Federal Court of Auditors ...
06 Aug 2021, 13:20 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv A new funding model should link payments for climate protection performance for forest owners with ambitious biodiversity standards, the federal environment ministry (BMU) has proposed ...
14 Nov 2016, 00:00 Banning combustion engines in new cars by 2030 and exiting coal-fired power production as early as 2025 are likely to be two key Green Party demands in the general elections in autumn 2017, the party decided at its convention. But ...
02 Jun 2025
02 Jun 2025, 13:29 91tv Team European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change: Staying the course on climate action essential to EU security and competitiveness Board calls on the European Union to maintain high climate ambition as it revises the ...
20 Nov 2020, 13:20 Leading members of Germany's Green Party have called on climate activists to cooperate in the country's general elections next year. They warn that more radical climate platforms competing in elections could harm the fight ...
24 Apr 2020, 13:40 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 ...
13 Jun 2022, 12:07 S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans for the rollout of e-car charging infrastructure are greatly exaggerated, the country鈥檚 energy industry has warned. The government currently aims for one million public charging ...
13 May 2025, 13:23 Jack McGovan Transport 91tv A number of environmental organisations, trade unions and others have called on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new transport minister, Patrick Schnieder, to commit to sustainable local and regional transport in his ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Die Tageszeitung The planned modernisation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 military announced in chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 鈥淶eitenwende鈥� (turning of the times) speech following Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine could face substantial ...
16 May 2019, 08:45 Germany is set to widely miss its greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2020 and 2030 unless significant steps such as the proposed coal exit are taken. The environment ministry鈥檚 new emissions forecast shows that the country must ...
17 Apr 2025, 15:00 The return of nuclear energy in Italy is slowly but steadily shifting from possibility to concrete political project. The transition to renewables, meanwhile, has entered a paradoxical phase: installation numbers are solid yet local ...
16 Mar 2023, 12:59 Carolina Kyllmann Cities Politics Tagesspiegel At least five billion euros are to be earmarked for climate protection in the city of Berlin, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Cristian Democrats (CDU) decided, newspaper Tagesspiegel ...
13 Jul 2020, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices International Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The European Union should introduce a carbon border tax on imports as a source of income to finance the bloc's coronavirus recovery programmes ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:53 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:12 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
The federal environment ministry does not share the 鈥渆xtremely negative鈥� assessment by think tank Agora Energiewende * that Germany is heading for a 鈥渟pectacular鈥� miss of the 2020 climate targets, writes Susanne Ehlerding in the Tagesspiegel. 鈥淲e continue ...
It is 鈥渇easible鈥� that the UN climate summit in Katowice in December (COP24) will produce an agreement on implementation guidelines (also called rulebook or work programme) to the Paris Climate Agreement, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 negotiator Nicole Wilke from the ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Gas Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
11 Apr 2019, 12:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt The expectations towards German Chancellor Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 new 鈥�climate cabinet鈥� are high, and the federal government 鈥渃annot afford to fail鈥� in taking the right steps now for the ecologic ...
04 Sep 2020, 15:15 The era of Chancellor Angela Merkel will come to an end when Germans head to the polls next autumn after what looks set to become an unusually dramatic run-up to the federal elections. With no clear front-runner for her succession in ...
04 May 2022, 13:54 S枚ren Amelang Cities Der Tagesspiegel Berlin's city government has rejected a popular petition calling for Germany's capital to become climate neutral by 2030,聽 reports regional newspaper Tagesspiegel. "We must now use ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are well positioned to play a key role in a future global hydrogen economy- but must strengthen cooperation on infrastructure projects, said ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:59 Poland is emerging from a long election cycle- from parliamentary elections last October that brought a change of government to local ballots in April, and finally the European Parliament elections earlier this month. All these bring ...
02 Aug 2024, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Carmaker Volkswagen is facing 鈥渆normous efforts鈥� to meet its own business targets due to high costs and decreasing revenue, said the company鈥檚 CEO Oliver Blume. ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:03 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Forests across Germany absorbed 52.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2021, which corresponds to 6 percent of the country鈥檚 annual emissions in the same year, according to ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / WirtschaftsWoche / Welt / Frankfurter Rundschau German media have praised the EU Council鈥檚 decision to raise the bloc's 2030 climate target as a success for the country鈥檚 ...
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 ...
25 Oct 2024, 16:00 Poland鈥檚 new government has updated the country鈥檚 energy strategy, which it says is more ambitious, but implementation remains uncertain as it depends on how coal miner unions react. In its push to increase nuclear power generation, the ...
08 May 2024, 13:34 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EUElections2024 Clean Energy ...
The Green Party has put out a 鈥淐lean Car Roadmap鈥� with detailed proposals aimed at speeding up the move towards a low-carbon transport sector. The goal remained to end production of combustion engine cars by 2030. The paper urges a number of immediate ...
08 Mar 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German government鈥檚 plan to introduce a subsidy scheme with so-called 鈥�climate contracts鈥� for less climate-damaging industry processes will also include small and medium-sized ...
31 Aug 2021, 08:44 Tighter emission targets and mounting signs of climate change have once again turned Germany's coal exit into a hotly debated election campaign issue. The country agreed last year to phase out coal by 2038 at the latest, but many ...
31 Aug 2021, 11:38 Ahead of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 September federal election, almost all parties in parliament are calling for climate policies that quickly and lastingly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The country鈥檚 plans to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:51 S枚ren Amelang Policy International 91tv The EU Commission has warned EU countries including Germany that draft national plans for the coming decade are insufficient to achieve the bloc鈥檚 2030 energy and climate targets. ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:35 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government 91tv ...
13 May 2022, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv With the current legal framework for energy and climate policy, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 building sector climate target would be missed by a wide margin, said energy industry association BDEW in a report. The ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Concern about the impact of climate change is rising, while fewer people feel individual action is needed to combat the problem, according to a survey in 32 countries on ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation 91tv Germany must step up its climate adaptation efforts as it faces prolonged droughts, severe water loss and increasing warming, according to the latest update to the country's Adaptation ...
27 Sep 2021, 09:30 Germany is heading towards a three-party federal government with a significant climate action focus as the Social Democrats scored a thin victory in the federal elections following an unexpected comeback, and the long-ruling ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:28 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International Handelsblatt Industrialised countries like Germany have to 鈥渓ead by example鈥� through bold climate action policies in order to prevent emerging countries from ...
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鈥檚 goal of limiting global temperature rise to 2掳C 鈥� ideally 1.5掳C, ...
German climate, transport and agricultural policy under Chancellor Angela Merkel has 鈥渓acked farsightedness鈥� and needs rerouting by the next government, German environmental NGOs WWF, NABU, Greenpeace and DNR say in a joint press release. 鈥淓nvironmental ...
25 Jun 2021, 13:40 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv, ZEIT Online In its last session before the summer recess, the German parliament passed a bill that amends the federal Climate Action Law. The new law brings forward the deadline for ...
12 Aug 2024, 13:25 S枚ren Amelang Adaptation 91tv More than half of the forest in some central German regions is "severely damaged" following extreme drought periods over the past years, according to a report by the Helmholtz Centre ...
26 Nov 2020, 14:03 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Technology Handelsblatt / 91tv The capture and storage of CO2 has long been a controversial subject in Germany. But experts and politicians increasingly say carbon capture and storage ...
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 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cars Policy dpa / Reuters / BR Only one day after opening a state support programme for installing solar panels for charging electric vehicles (EVs), 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national development bank KfW closed the application ...
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28 May 2025, 11:29 91tv 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 ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:09 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv Climate policy could be a ...
26 Jun 2020, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Tagesschau / Frankfurter Rundschau Shareholders of Germany's Lufthansa have accepted the conditions of a multi-billion euro bailout which gives the government a stake in the company and 鈥� according ...
14 May 2020, 14:15 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv A broad coalition comprising unions, utilities, and climate protection organisations in Germany is pushing for new momentum in the country鈥檚 lagging efforts to lower emissions from heating. The ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:41 Expert RWI 鈥� Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI 鈥� Leibniz-Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert ZEW- Centre for European Economic Research Zentrum f眉r ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:44 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Cars Spiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor Olaf Scholz has invited the country鈥檚 top car executives and other experts to discuss the country鈥檚 lagging shift to clean transport, according to news media reports. The meeting ...
Implementing the sector targets for the year 2030 laid out in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Climate Action Plan 2050 will have positive effects on the country鈥檚 economy, according to a study commissioned by the federal environment ministry (BMU). While the goals could be ...
11 Sep 2020, 14:36 One year before Germany's next general election, economy minister Peter Altmaier calls for a "historic consensus" between all democratic parties, businesses and civil society to ensure that climate action and the ...
27 Nov 2020, 13:53 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Green stimulus 91tv The economic impact of the coronavirus crisis is pouring cold water on ...
03 Mar 2021, 12:20 Expert Ferdinand Dudenh枚ffer Professor and Director, Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany should double the price for diesel and petrol fuel ...
15 Nov 2019, 15:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government [Update adds opinion piece by S眉ddeutsche Zeitung] The German parliament (Bundestag) has decided the country's first major climate law, less than two months after the聽coalition of ...
The upcoming UN climate change conference (COP23), which will take place in Bonn on 6-17 November, will focus the international community鈥檚 attention on the fact that Germany, the poster boy of climate protection, is bound to miss its 2020 targets, writes ...
27 Mar 2025, 12:57 Germany's prospective next government is stepping back from its predecessor's ambition to speed up the country鈥檚 coal exit to 2030, sticking instead to the original 2038 deadline. Leaked negotiation documents reveal that many ...
17 Jan 2025, 15:00 Energy prices are becoming increasingly expensive for Italian businesses and households due to delays in the development of renewables and increases in the cost of gas on international markets. The rise in energy costs will be, along ...
Leading experts commissioned by the German economy ministry (BMWi) say Germany will probably miss key targets of the Energiewende, endangering the entire projects's credibility.鈥澛營n their advisory opinion on the BMWi鈥檚 fifth Energiewende Monitoring ...
01 Oct 2019, 13:50 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices International 91tv Germany's ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) ...
05 Dec 2024, 11:49 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government must focus on the shift to climate-friendly mobility to secure industry competitiveness and ensure a socially just energy transition, says Christian Hochfeld, director of green mobility think tank Agora ...
12 Apr 2024, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government 91tv Most people in Germany want the government to take on new debt to invest in areas that are important for security and prosperity in the future, rather than complying with strict ...
02 Mar 2022, 13:36 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Security Germany might ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:22 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Government EU 91tv The NGO Germanwatch has called on the European Commission to present an ambitious second part of the 鈥淔it for 55 package鈥� of energy and climate ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:49 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables 91tv The incoming coalition government in the eastern German state of Brandenburg has said it aims to continue the expansion of renewable energies to make the region surrounding the country ...
27 Sep 2021, 14:05 The Social Democrats (SPD) under chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz have narrowly won Germany's federal elections. According to preliminary final results, the SPD received 25.7 percent of votes, while the conservatives (CDU/CSU) ...
14 Jan 2019, 13:32 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned climate action law must not only prescribe CO鈧� emissions reduction, but secure social acceptance, technical feasibility and 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
22 Nov 2022, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Finance 91tv Achieving a climate-friendly transition in the automotive sector will require better information disclosure by carmakers to make the sector fit for investments from financial actors ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Policy EU FAZ The European Union should focus on strengthening existing policy instruments when charting the course for climate action in the years after 2030, write researchers Brigitte Knopf and Oliver Geden in an op ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Business Company climate claims 91tv Large food retailers in Germany have a long way to go to make good on their sustainability promises, according to a report by Dutch think tank Questionmark. ...
31 Mar 2022, 13:47 Kerstine Appunn Heating In a聽 12-point plan 聽for a heat transition in Germany, utility Vattenfall has proposed to expand city heating networks and convert them to climate-neutral fuels. To achieve this, Vattenfall is calling for a rapid ...
16 Dec 2019, 12:00 The UN climate summit COP25 in Spain is the last meeting of its kind before countries around the world are supposed to step up their ambitions under the Paris Climate Agreement in 2020. Germany has made several key climate action ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:11 The German environmental organisations DUH and Greenpeace have launched legal action against major carmakers VW, BMW and Mercedes Benz, as well as oil and gas company Wintershall Dea over their impact on climate change. The NGOs are ...
27 Feb 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv Closer cooperation with Germany on renewable power and other energy transition technologies could help India increase its energy sovereignty, chancellor Olaf Scholz has聽 said ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Policy n-tv / Die Welt The new support mechanism for accelerating the roll-out of electric vehicles in Germany through increased tax write-offs for company cars has been received well by the automotive industry, ...
22 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
24 Sep 2024, 13:45 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture 91tv The share of people in Germany who say that their diet does not contain meat has remained largely unchanged in recent years, figures in the agriculture ministry's nutrition report ...
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24 Sep 2024, 11:31 Julian Wettengel IRENA: Record growth drives cost advantage of renewable power Eighty-one percent of renewable additions in 2023 were cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives, offering countries a compelling business and investment case to ...
25 Aug 2021, 11:25 As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal election in September draws closer, climate activists put pressure on all parties to back the 1.5掳C global warming limit outlined in the Paris Climate Agreement. After a year of continuous protests in 2019, the ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:49 Julian Wettengel Renewables G20 & G7 91tv Leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) influential economies聽 have agreed 聽on the aim to triple of renewable energy capacity globally by 2030, but stopped short of calling for an ...
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 ...
11 Jun 2021, 14:09 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:55 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Companies in the German manufacturing and service sectors generated 107.5 billion euros in revenue from output that ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:41 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 BR The German state of Bavaria wants to be climate-neutral by 2040 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by 2030, according to the revised Climate Protection Act, passed by the state cabinet on ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Supporters of different climate action organisations have protested in Frankfurt against the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policy during the coronavirus ...
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鈥檚 car emissions reduction plans, business newspaper Handelsblatt reports. The ...
16 Sep 2020, 12:50 German industry, politicians and environmental NGOs have criticised first details of the European Commission proposal for a more ambitious 2030 climate target. Plans for more stringent passenger car emission rules and the inclusion of ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Mobility Cars 91tv Germany has a record number of cars, but fewer people are using them on the road, according to an analysis 聽by聽transport policy聽think tank Agora聽Verkehrswende.聽"Despite a slight ...
30 Sep 2020, 12:23 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has thrown her weight behind the European Commission鈥檚 proposal to increase the bloc鈥檚 climate target to a 55 percent greenhouse gas reduction by 2030. Speaking in federal parliament, she said the country ...
15 Jan 2019, 12:01 Expert Alliance for Climate and Economy Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel German businesses support the planned federal climate action ...
04 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas EU 91tv The European Union can cut its fossil gas use in half by 2030 and fully exit the fuel by 2050聽while maintaining supply security and industrial production at today鈥檚 levels without disruptive ...
20 Oct 2021, 13:18 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv The German federal government and state governments have reached an agreement about the protection of moorlands. Environment minister Svenja Schulze and agriculture minister Julia ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities Heating 91tv The largest river-based heat pump in Germany has started operations in the southern city of Mannheim. It will use water from the Rhine River to heat some 3,500 households, the local ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv / Hamburger Abendblatt The city of Hamburg needs to immediately start reducing the use of coal in its two main heat and power stations to be in line with the city-state鈥檚 coal phase-out plan for ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:56 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background Less money has been spent out of the Federal Energy and Climate Fund (EKF) than was available in 2020, Tagesspiegel Background writes after seeing the 2020 balance sheet of the ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv The German government coalition has unveiled a ten-point plan to strengthen the country鈥檚 economy and stimulate climate and energy efficiency investments. The announcement 聽includes ...
09 Feb 2021, 13:31 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics ZEIT online The German Left Party (Die Linke) puts climate protection at the heart of its federal election campaign, Katharina ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:42 The German government鈥檚 target of sourcing 80 percent of the country鈥檚 electricity from renewable sources by 2030 is very much achievable for Germany if current positive trends persist, economy minister Robert Habeck has said at a ...
25 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Carolina Kyllmann Politics Government 91tv Internal spats and external crises have caused the German ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:49 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal budget draft shows spending on the 鈥淓nergy and Climate Fund鈥� (EKF) tripling in 2021 to ...
04 Jan 2021, 14:26 The transformation of the German and European economies will become more tangible in 2021, as new technologies, policies and business models begin to have an effect, Karsten L枚ffler, head of sustainable finance at the Frankfurt School ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang Coal dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung East German coal mine operator LEAG has said it expects to extract lignite from its opencast pits past 2030, even though the government hopes to exit coal by that date. 鈥淲e are very ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:12 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 famed 鈥淢ittelstand鈥� sector of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) has coped well with turbulent prices on the energy markets caused by the Ukraine war,聽 ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs Deutschlandfunk / ARD / n-tv The influential business association Federation of German Industries (BDI) has urged the government of chancellor Olaf Scholz to quickly implement measures that ...
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 ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background If Germany doesn鈥檛 fulfil its greenhouse gas emission reduction obligations under the EU effort sharing, it could end up having to pay between 13.5 and 41 ...
05 May 2021, 10:03 The latest pledges for greenhouse gas reductions by large emitters like the EU and the U.S. are making a difference in predicted global temperature rise and 鈥渟how progress and a great need for action,鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister ...
24 Nov 2024, 15:30 Politicians and civil society from Germany have said that the agreement on future climate finance at the UN climate change conference COP29 shows that international cooperation has prevailed even in a challenging geopolitical context. ...
08 May 2023, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv / ARD Kenya has signalled its interest in becoming the first African nation in an international 鈥�climate club鈥� of countries agreeing on tighter climate action rules that ...
European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Ca帽ete鈥檚 proposal to raise the EU鈥檚 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target to 45 percent from 40 percent relative to 1990 levels would catalyse action on the part of other ...
24 Mar 2025, 11:00 Geopolitical disruption through events like Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine or a new transatlantic rift can speed up the rapid build-up of renewable energies, says Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:49 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Jack McGovan Resources & ...
02 Mar 2022, 12:15 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Heating 91tv In view of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its impact on the security of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy supply, the Wuppertal Institute sustainability research think tank is calling for increased ...
22 Dec 2023, 08:48 Germany made dealing with the consequences of climate change more binding in 2023, and it must now use this momentum to step up implementation, says Christian Kind, adaptation head of programme at think tank adelphi. Spreading the costs ...
15 May 2019, 12:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A Climate Action Law in Germany that spells out clear sectoral emissions reduction targets is in the interest of energy-intensive industries like steel, environment ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:12 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv The German government aims to submit the draft update of the country鈥檚 national energy and climate plan (NECP) to the EU sometime this summer, a spokesperson from the economy and climate ministry ...
08 Jan 2021, 12:41 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Green stimulus Elections & Politics 91tv / Focus Online The CSU 鈥� Bavarian sister party to ...
05 Mar 2025, 17:07 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 likely next government coalition parties have proposed an overhaul of state debt rules to make hundreds of billions of euros available for defence and infrastructure investments. The agreement, which faces a big hurdle in the ...
04 Sep 2019, 13:12 The expansion of Germany's most important renewable energy source, onshore wind, has almost come to a standstill. Bureaucratic hurdles and resistance to new turbines from different interest groups mean that only a handful of new ...
07 Jun 2022, 13:16 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Government 91tv The German government鈥檚 action on emission reductions is 鈥渋nsufficient鈥� for reaching its climate promises, an analysis NGO Climate Action Tracker has found. In a press ...
04 Apr 2023, 13:54 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 91tv Clear energy saving targets for 2030 will be set into 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 law for the first time, according to a draft of the Energy Efficiency Act released by the economy and climate action ministry ...
The German federal ministries, together with the Chancellery, have agreed on a national Climate Action Plan 2050 in time for COP22 in Marrakesh after months of dispute, reports Markus Wacket for Reuters. The federal cabinet is to approve the plan on ...
27 Nov 2023, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Government 91tv The court ruling on the unconstitutional nature of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Climate and Transformation Fund (CTF) hits at the country鈥檚 鈥渆conomic core鈥� and urgently requires a resolute and joint response ...
28 May 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv 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 ...
15 Dec 2016, 00:00 An expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German energy transition warned the country will probably miss its 2020 emission targets and other crucial Energiewende goals, threatening the entire project鈥檚 credibility. ...
A coal phase-out for Germany is implied in the federal government鈥檚 Climate Action Plan 2050, environment minister Barbara Hendricks told Susanne G枚tze and Susanne Schwarz in an interview for klimaretter.info. 鈥淚f you read the Climate Action Plan ...
29 May 2019, 12:57 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv German Chancellor Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 climate cabinet has announced it will make key decisions about climate action legislation and measures in September and adopt these by the end of ...
10 May 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system will need 鈥榞reen鈥� gas to become climate neutral, but government must set the right framework conditions to ensure the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy, said several gas ...
26 Sep 2023, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Efficiency 91tv / ARD Construction industry representatives have welcomed the German government鈥檚 new housing聽 package 聽 that will suspend the planned tightening of energy efficiency ...
15 Dec 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Renewables Government 91tv The new German government's plan to more than double power production from renewable sources by 2030 presents a 鈥済igantic task鈥� for the country, said Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs International 91tv The economy ministers from France and Germany will use their planned visit to the U.S. on Tuesday (7 February) to advocate for 鈥渏oint green lead markets鈥� for climate ...
04 Jan 2024, 12:51 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions fell around ten percent last year to the lowest level since around 1950, as a weak economy and high prices caused energy-intensive industry to lower production and electricity generation from coal ...
23 May 2025, 13:08 Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out 91tv / FT Economy and energy minister Katherina Reiche has confirmed media reports that her government agreed with France to largely drop its resistance to supporting new nuclear power ...
22 Mar 2019, 16:00 European leaders did not call for climate neutrality by 2050 at today鈥檚 summit in Brussels, despite several countries including France suggesting it to be included. Germany is among a group of countries rejecting a tougher wording on ...
01 Nov 2019, 15:35 Green and sustainable finance in Germany is not thinkable without the country's state-owned development bank KfW. The bank installed after the Second World War to finance reconstruction in Germany has become a major funder of ...
Germany will significantly miss its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels unless the government quickly implements additional measures beyond its Climate Action Programme from 2014, according to a study by ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:23 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU 91tv The European Union's heads of state and government have agreed to decide on a more ambitious 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target at the ...
20 Mar 2023, 17:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The world is on track to surpassing the crucial target of limiting global warming to 1.5掳C and should prepare accordingly, said Oliver Geden, senior fellow at the German Institute for ...
30 Nov 2023, 13:07 Edgar Meza Electricity Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 budget crisis has forced economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck to postpone his ministry鈥檚 long-awaited power plant strategy, Handelsblatt reports. Ministry sources ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:03 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading car rental company Sixt has announced plans to increase the share of its electric vehicles in its global fleet to between 70 and 90 percent by 2030. That share is expected to reach 12 ...
15 Jul 2024, 13:52 Jack McGovan Industry Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Many industrial companies have submitted proposals for low emission investments to the German government's scheme to reimburse them for the extra costs associated with climate ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:26 Jennifer Collins Cities Politics 91tv / Tagesspiegel / RBB Berlin鈥檚 Senate has adopted a five-billion-euro climate protection fund to flow into mobility, energy efficiency in buildings, power supply and the economy. The ...
Germany is likely to miss its 2020 target of reducing CO鈧� emissions by 40 percent compared to 1990, environment minister Barbara Hendricks said in an interview with the national radio station Deutschlandfunk. 鈥淚 suppose we won't quite reach our goal鈥� ...
26 Mar 2025, 13:43 Bennet Ribbeck Society 91tv Human rights organisation Amnesty International and other NGOs have criticised official charges against members of the German Last Generation climate movement because of 鈥渟uspicion of forming a ...
17 May 2019, 12:58 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) / Tagesspiegel Background As ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv / Bayrischer Rundfunk Bavaria's state cabinet has adopted a climate action law and additional measures to reach its target of becoming climate neutral between 2040 and 2050. The ...
Experts of the governing Social Democrats (SPD) call for a rapid expansion of railway traffic in Germany, writes Markus Balser in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淲e want to achieve a doubling of capacities of the railway network by 2030鈥�, Balser quotes an SPD ...
14 May 2020, 14:03 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany can establish an initial grid for transporting green hydrogen made with renewables by 2030 at limited costs, according to the country's gas transmission grid operator umbrella ...
The financial industry is a relevant actor in virtually all sectors of the economy and should therefore be included in聽 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Climate Action Law 聽as well as in any action plan aimed at reducing carbon emissions by 2030, the environmental NGO Climate ...
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06 Feb 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Reuters: Year begins with warmest January despite shift towards cooling La Nina Last month was the world's warmest January on record, continuing a streak of extreme global temperatures despite a shift towards the cooling ...
13 May 2019, 14:06 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Agora Energiewende / Agora Verkehrswende [This article was based on the German version of the proposals. Agora Energiewende and Agora Verkehrswende published an English version on 15 ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:15 Germany made significant progress in the area of climate adaptation in the past legislative period, said Andrea Fischer-Hotzel from the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu). From the national to the municipal level, there is now ...
17 Aug 2023, 14:30 Expert RWI 鈥� Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI 鈥� Leibniz-Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Business & Jobs 91tv Germany ...
22 May 2020, 14:11 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Green stimulus 91tv / Die Welt Energy-intensive industry groups short ...
27 Mar 2025, 10:12 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Industry 91tv / Table Media [UPDATES article to include support for scheme in coalition talks.] The European Commission has approved a support scheme worth five billion euros to help ...
04 Jun 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Policy 91tv The German government will decide whether to follow a sectoral emission reduction approach or a general pricing of carbon emissions in its bid to get on track in achieving the ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:11 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government plans to rapidly accelerate the expansion of solar power capacity in the country with several legal changes, energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel Background reports. ...
28 Jan 2019, 17:56 The German government is ready to quickly supply financial means for the country鈥檚 exit from coal, said economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier. It will now examine the details of the proposal agreed by the country鈥檚 coal exit ...
07 Sep 2021, 13:59 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 forests need to be adapted to global warming in order to remain intact and contribute to balancing ...
09 Oct 2024
09 Oct 2024, 10:29 91tv Team IEA: Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match entire power capacity of major economies today With solar leading their rapid deployment, renewables are on course to meet almost half of global electricity ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:21 Jack McGovan Efficiency Policy 91tv A legal framework for energy efficiency has been passed into law by the German parliament for the first time. The Energy Efficiency Act aims for a reduction in annual energy consumption ...
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 ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:17 The German Greens opted for a moderate climate policy path at a party conference over the weekend and officially anointed party co-leader Annalena Baerbock as chancellor candidate for the September elections. Facing a recent dip in the ...
05 Jan 2024, 10:00 The German government must stop relying too much on giving out subsidies for climate action from 2024, and instead tackle the country鈥檚 system of fossil fuel taxes, says energy analyst Andreas Schr枚der from commodity intelligence ...
12 May 2025, 13:47 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Most people in Germany continue to be very concerned about the impact of global ...
15 Jul 2021, 09:30 The German environment ministry has called new EU proposals to reform the bloc's climate and energy policy 鈥渘othing less than a new industrial revolution in the European Union.鈥� The European Commission's comprehensive proposal ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:22 Joey Grostern Wind 91tv Germany looks set to exceed its 2030 onshore wind power target by 2.6 percent, according to an analysis by the Google-backed think tank Goal100. Considering the number of applications and permits for ...
15 Oct 2024, 12:58 Jack McGovan Wind Cost & Prices taz The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) has proposed a statutory maximum limit on prices for land use among industry complaints that rents for wind farms continue to rise, newspaper Tageszeitung ...
23 Sep 2020, 15:30 Germany's government has agreed on an overhaul of the country's Renewable Energy Act, the core legislation for its landmark energy transition, to enable a share of 65 percent renewables in 2030 power consumption and a ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Spiegel Online / energate messenger Germany's ambassador to the EU, Michael Clau脽, has warned that the German EU Council presidency cannot take place as planned聽due to the coronavirus pandemic, ...
05 Jul 2021, 14:50 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Climate & CO2 91tv Environmental NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) has issued five new legal cases on ...
04 Sep 2024, 13:49 Jennifer Collins Storage Cars Table.Media / Focus The German government is opposing new draft EU rules that could make it more difficult for battery production factories to scale up in the country, according to a聽letter to the EU ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:13 Municipalities of all sizes are at the forefront of the transformation of cities, infrastructure and Europe鈥檚 energy system, and should therefore lead this change actively, the聽German Institute for Urban Affairs (Difu) said. Enabling ...
29 Jan 2025, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Society 91tv The energy transition is placing an uneven financial burden on Germany鈥榮 poorest households 鈥� and transition costs related to heating are impacting these citizens ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:49 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Reuters Volkswagen will likely have to step up its plans for electric car mass production to meet the new 2030 fleet emission limits, report Tassilo Hummel, Christoph Steitz and Irene Preisinger ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:43 Milou Dirkx Wind Cost & Prices FAZ New offshore wind farms could give an economic boost to German shipyards, but shipbuilding companies say they might not be able to finance the necessary investments without support, Frankfurter ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:39 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Freja Eriksen Transport 91tv The German transport ministry (BMVI) will ...
17 Apr 2024, 13:30 The election victory of the pro-EU coalition led by former European Council president Donald Tusk in late 2023 stirred high hopes for the start of serious climate policies in Poland after an eight-year lull during the rule of the right ...
13 Sep 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv Many companies in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 vast "Mittelstand" sector of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) still place high importance on sustainability, despite ...
02 Oct 2024, 13:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three-party coalition government is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in several elections, casting a shadow over the progress of the country鈥檚 energy transition. Energy industry and ...
25 Apr 2025, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Heating Society 91tv People in Germany would like to see more factual information around policies to make heating and transport more climate-friendly, such as carbon pricing, and they attach great ...
16 Oct 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv A consistent policy mix promoting decarbonisation and climate neutrality can significantly reduce energy imports and electricity costs for Germany in the next ...
27 Feb 2025
27 Feb 2025, 13:14 91tv Team Bloomberg: Don't sound the death knell for Germany's green wave yet The nation鈥檚 industrial giants believe clean technology is the best bet for the future. That should be an incentive for Friedrich Merz to stay the ...
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 ...
08 Apr 2025
08 Apr 2025, 11:31 91tv Team Copernicus: Warmest March in Europe and lowest Arctic winter sea ice The average temperature over European land for March 2025 was 6.03掳C, 2.41掳C above the 1991-2020 average for March, making it the warmest March for Europe. ...
06 May 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv / SWR The聽 Green Party 聽and聽the聽conservative聽 Christian Democratic Union 聽(CDU) have concluded a new聽 coalition agreement 聽in the southern German state of Baden ...
04 Aug 2015
04 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淲ith greetings to Paris鈥� The German environment ministry and several NGOs welcomed President Obama鈥檚 clean power deal as increasing the chances of achieving an effective ...
27 Nov 2023, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal ARD / Der Spiegel The German Green Party has finalised its manifesto for the 2024 EU elections, including a promise for rules to allow capturing and storing carbon emissions (CCS) from ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:48 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Organisers of the German section of the 鈥淔ridays For Future鈥� student climate protests have called for net zero emissions by 2035, a coal exit in 2030 and 100 percent renewables by ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU Tagesspiegel The European Union has set itself 鈥渁 damn ambitious鈥� greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 and must therefore quickly negotiate and implement the relevant legislation, said German ...
26 Apr 2021, 13:26 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel The vice chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group Andreas Jung is launching a new ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:27 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv Funding requests for new heating systems, energy efficient renovations and renewable energy systems are increasing in Germany, according to the Intelligent heizen (Intelligent Heating) service portal ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:15 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Wind Tageszeitung (taz) The German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) has warned that new ...
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. 鈥淭here are still EU countries that take climate ...
13 Nov 2024, 13:39 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Elections & Politics ...
07 Mar 2025, 15:00 Winter may finally be on the way out but Italy is still grappling with high electricity prices, with average wholesale prices in February among the highest in Europe. Under increasing pressure to halt further rises, the government ...
07 Jan 2020, 14:00 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche St盲dte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cities 91tv A more rapid and determined climate and energy transition policy is ...
22 Sep 2021, 13:41 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Cars Manager Magazin/ Handelsblatt An NGO has filed lawsuits to try and force BMW and Mercedes to stop producing internal combustion engines by 2030 at the latest. Environmental organisation ...
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 ...
20 May 2020, 13:50 Months of dispute within the government coalition and the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have significantly slowed down progress on a number of important German energy transition projects. The coal exit law has yet to be adopted by ...
23 Sep 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv / rbb German chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 Social Democratic Party (SPD) has narrowly defeated the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to emerge as the strongest party in the ...
30 Apr 2025, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Government 91tv The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has approved the coalition agreement with the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, led by chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz, clearing the final major hurdle to ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:49 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Elections & Politics 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government after the September election must quickly introduce measures and instruments to ensure the country reaches the ...
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眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & ...
21 Nov 2014, 00:00 Ten days before the plan to fix 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 "climate gap" is set for cabinet approval, it is still unclear how much the power sector will contribute toward the carbon emissions target of a 40 percent cut by 2020. Expert BMWi- ...
07 Mar 2025
07 Mar 2025, 11:28 91tv Team Politico: 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Merz has 2 weeks to deliver historic spending revolution Losing faith in Washington as a military ally, Berlin wants to rip up the old fiscal orthodoxy. But it鈥檚 now a race against the clock. DW: Peruvian ...
10 Jan 2019, 09:15 The German coal exit commission is set to deliver its final recommendations for the country鈥檚 coal exit in February 2019, but this report is likely to be only the beginning of a long and controversial policymaking process in the country ...
19 Dec 2018, 10:10 Germany must face several fundamental energy and climate decisions in 2019 to save the country's Energiewende and its international standing, according to Greenpeace head Jennifer Morgan. Most importantly, the promised Climate ...
11 May 2022, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Finance Frankfurter Rundschau / ARD Major shareholders of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest airline Lufthansa have criticised the company鈥檚 management for failing to introduce a credible strategy that outlines how the ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Energiewende EU 91tv Researchers at the German National Academy of Sciences have called on German and European governments to speed up efforts to transform the energy system to help reach climate targets, ...
31 Jul 2024
31 Jul 2024, 14:15 Benjamin Wehrmann International Energy 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 ...
18 May 2020, 18:14 The German government has agreed to remove key hurdles to the rollout of renewable energies that had begun to slow the country's landmark energy transition. The deal between chancellor Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance ...
24 Jan 2025, 15:30 Germany has fully switched into election campaign mode ahead of the national vote on 23 February. Parties have presented their manifestos, with key energy transition issues including the future of industry, boosting investments, energy ...
09 Dec 2020, 15:17 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Society International 91tv Around 77 percent of Germans say the EU should raise its 2030 climate target. In a聽 survey 聽commissioned by the country's utility association BDEW, only ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:47 German stakeholders have welcomed a European Union deal to reform the bloc鈥檚 CO2 emissions trading system. Negotiators from the parliament, member state governments and the European Commission had reached an agreement to strengthen the ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv 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 Nov 2024, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics MDR / dpa Three parties have agreed to form a coalition in Germany's eastern state of Thuringia following elections in September. The Christian Democrats (CDU), Social Democrats (SPD) and ...
15 May 2020, 14:07 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 91tv Germany is on track to widely miss its EU obligations to reduce CO2 emissions ...
13 Sep 2019, 13:24 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections ...
08 Nov 2024, 13:41 S枚ren Amelang Society Elections & Politics 91tv All Germans want significantly more climate action from the party they would vote for in the upcoming federal election, with the exception of those who support the far ...
06 May 2021, 13:05 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' ...
06 Jul 2020, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 91tv The council of German state governments has called for a speedy and comprehensive reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) to ensure the country reaches its 2030 target of expanding ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ambitious goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 can only be achieved through a comprehensive and multi-layered approach that includes ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:16 Bennet Ribbeck Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Progress of German energy transition continues to be mostly stagnating, 聽a report by research centre Prognos carried out on behalf of the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) said ...
05 Jan 2022, 13:47 Edgar Meza Carbon market Cost & Prices 91tv The German government raked in a record 12.5 billion euros from European and national emissions trading programmes in 2021, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) reported. ...
The concentration of harmful nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) emissions are above the legal limit in 116 cities and municipalities in Germany, NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says in a press release. The NGO鈥檚 analysis included 41 cities that so far had not ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:13 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Elections & Politics dts Significant parts of the population聽in Germany are not sufficiently prepared for the expected cost increases in fossil heating and mobility due to carbon pricing, said Dirk ...
11 Jan 2024, 14:17 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Policy Table.Media / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt The German government plans to cut development aid and funds earmarked for rail freight transport and cycling paths as part of saving ...
06 Feb 2024, 09:42 Germany is set to hold auctions to support the construction of new gas-fired power plants in the short term, which would then be converted to run on hydrogen in the mid-to-late 2030s, the ruling coalition said. The plants are considered ...
05 Apr 2019, 11:37 The head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservatives has criticised a key proposal for reaching Germany's 2030 climate targets, signalling major negotiations are still needed before the highly anticipated Climate Action Law ...
27 May 2022, 13:31 The Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) has committed to making their electricity systems 鈥減redominantly鈥� carbon-free by 2035, but stopped short of setting a concrete date for exiting coal. Following their meeting in ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Government International 91tv Several climate and environmental NGOs have called on the German government to step up its leadership efforts and remain a reliable climate protection advocate ahead of the ...
10 May 2019, 11:33 Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has proposed forming a coalition of the willing among European Union countries for CO鈧� pricing in transport, buildings and agriculture to meet 2030 climate targets. At a meeting of EU leaders in ...
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 ...
15 Oct 2021, 14:29 Three weeks after 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 election, the country is moving one step closer towards its first three-party government coalition. Following several days of intensive preliminary talks, the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the Free ...
Germany needs to significantly step up its climate policies to reach the government target of reducing CO 2 emissions by 55 percent by 2030, according to energy state secretary Rainer Baake. At an event in Munich, Baake singled out the transport sector ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:33 Edgar Meza Digitalisation 91tv 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 ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:33 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv A new report commissioned by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Bertelsmann Stiftung and carried out by the Forum 脰kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft (F脰S) economic think tank, criticises the ...
12 Jul 2021, 13:20 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Society Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 political parties should combine climate protection ...
06 Oct 2021, 12:16 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 EU 91tv As political leaders debate the European Commission鈥檚 Fit for 55 package of proposals to reduce emissions by 2030, German NGOs are calling for both the incoming and current governments ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:11 As German stakeholders eagerly await the European Commission鈥檚 proposals on overhauling the EU鈥檚 energy and climate policy, the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) has said new EU laws could mean that the country has to once again ...
30 Jun 2021, 13:59 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel CO鈧� emissions in Germany and ...
02 Jul 2021, 13:13 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Wind Die Welt / dpa / 91tv The North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state parliament has passed a new climate protection law that paves the way for climate neutrality by 2045, five years earlier than ...
09 May 2025, 16:15 Three years on from the invasion of Ukraine, the European Union is still trying to wean itself off Russian energy supplies. The bloc has come a long way from the dependency it once had, yet certain EU countries still rely on Russia for ...
14 Feb 2025, 10:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 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, ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv The exceptionally large wildfires in the Amazon region in South America have led German government members to criticise Brazil's government under President Jair ...
11 Nov 2019, 12:56 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:01 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Government International 91tv Germany will attempt to move towards a "social-ecological" market economy model that puts great emphasis on diplomacy to advance the global fight ...
24 Nov 2021, 11:32 S枚ren Amelang Elections & Politics Germany's prospective new government has agreed on a coalition treaty. The Social Democrats (SPD),聽 Green Party, and pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) said they will present the agreement at a ...
16 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Bloomberg: Top polluter China鈥檚 shrinking emissions put carbon peak in play-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Use of coal for power generation tumbled in second quarter-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Nation鈥檚 emissions seen on track to begin decline ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:45 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv High energy prices are hitting companies unevenly across 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 16 ...
20 May 2025, 13:06 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 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 ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:12 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Die Zeit, Handelsblatt, taz Climate protection has been high on the agenda in the run-up to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 26 September federal election, but one issue has been conspicuously absent from the debate: the ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:18 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Heating 91tv Climate targets in the ...
03 Aug 2021, 14:52 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics If they are part of a future government, the German Greens want to install a climate ministry that has the right to veto other ministry鈥檚 plans in case they are not compatible with the Paris ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:00 German industry association BDI has said that the country鈥檚 industrial success in the future depends on businesses doing well on green technologies such as modern power grids, wind energy, green hydrogen production, electric mobility, ...
18 Jan 2021, 13:50 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv ...
18 Jun 2019, 08:43 Germany will join a growing group of EU countries to support the pledge to aim for carbon neutrality by 2050, increasing the likelihood EU leaders will agree to the goal at a meeting this week (20-21 June), several media outlets report. ...
10 Aug 2021, 13:00 German politicians and other stakeholders said the latest major report on climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an urgent warning that rapid emission cuts are needed to keep the Paris Agreement target ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Government 91tv The German government鈥檚聽 new building energy legislation 聽to phase out the use of fossil fuel heating systems has generated mixed reactions from industry associations and ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Energiewende Security 91tv Germany will have to build new gas-fired power plants and introduce additional measures to avoid electricity supply shortages during peak demand periods as the ...
04 Dec 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Government COP28 Der Spiegel / 91tv 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 ...
04 Oct 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices EU Handelsblatt Some of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 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 ...
20 Jul 2022, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities 91tv In a bid to adapt cities and other urban areas to climate change effects such as extreme heat, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 buildings and construction ministry (BMWSB) has launched a programme to fund measures ...
26 Sep 2019, 13:56 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv The German government's newly agreed climate action ...
15 Jul 2021, 14:02 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU taz / FAZ / Volksstimme The European Commission鈥檚 legislative proposals to reach the new 2030 climate target have elicited mixed reactions from German media. The farewell to the conventional ...
14 Sep 2023, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The European Union should set up a joint transport infrastructure and storage facilities for CO2, said the German Green Party in its draft programme for the EU elections on 6-9 June ...
The European Union will reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 45 percent by 2030 if the new targets for renewables expansion and energy efficiency are fully implemented, according to the European Commission鈥檚 calculations outlined to the news ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:17 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:21 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
17 Aug 2021, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Promoting agroforestry, reforestation, sustainable forest management and, in particular, the rewetting of peatland soils have an important role to play in preserving and ...
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 ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background Climate policy plays an important role in the upcoming German state elections in Baden-W眉rttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate on 14 March, Tagesspiegel Background writes. ...
15 Oct 2020, 11:29 EU countries largely make good progress towards reaching their existing energy and climate targets for 2030, said the European Commission in a series of reports. But the assessment of national plans comes at a time when the union is in ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:43 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:11 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S枚ren Amelang Industry G20 & G7 91tv Germany should use its G7 presidency to push for more ...
30 Sep 2019, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Welt am Sonntag 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has made its critique of policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to protect the global climate a ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Bild am Sonntag Germany's new agriculture minister Cem 脰zdemir from the Green Party wants people to 鈥渧alue their food as much as their cars鈥�, he told Bild am Sonntag in an interview at the end of last ...
05 May 2022, 13:58 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices 91tv Even with significantly higher CO2 prices on transport and heating fuels, Germany will not reach targets set in the country鈥檚 Climate Action Law, shows a report commissioned by the German ...
22 Feb 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Better financing, hedging tools and support for innovation are needed to strengthen the production of energy transition technologies in Germany and Europe, economy ...
14 Apr 2020, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Green stimulus 91tv In a bid to allow a return to regular social life and economic activity amid the coronavirus outbreak, Germany's national academy of sciences, the Leopoldina, has ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Business & Jobs Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung French energy company TotalEnergies says it plans to stay on its expansion course in Germany, welcoming the CDU/CSU and SDP coalition deal that will continue ...
06 May 2021, 12:12 The German government has presented its strategy to make the country a global leader in sustainable finance and help mobilise money for greening the economy. The Sustainable Finance Strategy proposes a 鈥渢raffic light鈥� system to identify ...
20 Jan 2021, 13:27 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv ...
02 Dec 2024
02 Dec 2024, 11:47 91tv Team Reuters: Nine Volkswagen plants on strike as labour battle escalates Strikes could escalate into 24-hour or unlimited strikes if a deal is not struck in the next round of wage negotiations. Politico: The powerlessness of ...
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 ...
06 Jun 2019, 17:11 Germany continues to be off track regarding many of its energy and climate targets according to the economy ministry鈥檚聽 latest progress report on the energy transition. In an accompanying opinion, government advisors lament that the ...
27 May 2024, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Transport 91tv Germany should lead the way in making mobility more sustainable, transport and environmental association Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) said following the conclusion of the聽 ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:14 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Finance Elections & Politics 91tv Germany's next federal government can finance the necessary climate protection measures despite聽a聽return to the聽so-called 鈥渄ebt brake鈥�,- the ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:18 High energy prices continue to keep 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new government busy, and the coalition parties are debating ways to ease the burden on struggling consumers. A possible short-term remedy could be an earlier end to the country鈥檚 renewable ...
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 ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:19 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Expert ...
06 Jun 2023, 13:14 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Industry 91tv Steel and iron production plants dominate in a聽 list of the 30 most polluting industrial facilities 聽in Germany ...
17 Mar 2021, 13:04 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Electricity market 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The planned tightening of the EU climate target for 2030 would significantly increase CO2 prices in European emissions trading and thereby largely ...
29 May 2017, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition is a vast national project that is reshaping the entire country. But it is happening on a local level, too. Here, the 91tv looks at the path that one eastern German city is taking towards ...
25 Apr 2025, 14:00 The aspiring German coalition government under conservative leader Friedrich Merz is set to assume control at a time of unprecedented transatlantic turmoil for the EU. Amid a backlash against global climate policy led by the new US ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:25 Freja Eriksen Bioenergy Cars 91tv Together with nine other industry players, the automotive, farmers' and biofuel industry associations have agreed in a position paper that biofuels and electricity-based fuels must be ...
09 Nov 2022, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating 91tv Heat pumps are starting to play a significant role in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heat supply and were installed as the primary heating system in more than half of all new buildings in 2021, the national energy ...
15 Jan 2018, 00:00 The parties currently in talks to form 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the ...
11 May 2020, 13:48 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Freja Eriksen Society 91tv Almost 60 percent of Germans said the climate crisis will have larger long-term effects than the coronavirus聽 in a ...
11 Aug 2021, 13:49 Kerstine Appunn Finance 91tv One of the main objectives of this year鈥檚 UN Climate summit in Glasgow (COP26) should be reworking the details of international climate finance and include more links to reciprocal efforts in ...
28 May 2019, 13:25 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
16 Aug 2024, 12:00 Croatia is feeling the consequences of climate change this summer. The country experienced long heat waves and record temperatures were recorded in the Adriatic Sea. This has led to more media attention on the topic of climate change, ...
20 Dec 2021, 10:55 The start of Germany's new government makes 2022 a crucial year for the country's landmark energy transition. All eyes are on the three-way coalition's first steps towards implementing its ambitious climate plans, which ...
01 Dec 2022, 12:20 One year after taking over 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government, chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 鈥渢raffic light鈥� coalition looks back at some turbulent first twelve months in office that were overshadowed by Russia鈥檚 attack on Ukraine and the subsequent ...
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16 Apr 2025, 11:50 91tv Team DW: Euro emerges as safe haven amid Trump tariff turmoil聽 Anticipating European recovery amid US uncertainty, foreign investors shift capital from dollars into European stocks and bonds. EnergyTransition.org: New German ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:24 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Freja Eriksen Agriculture 91tv / Der Tagesspiegel Both climate action and adaptation to climate change must be given "higher priority" ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Cities 91tv A broad alliance of German trade unions and environmental associations has launched a joint call to the federal government for a legal reform to guarantee more financial support to implement ...
Biofuels 鈥渃elebrate a secret comeback鈥� in the recently adopted Climate Action Plan 2050 by the German federal government, writes Daniel Wetzel in die Welt. 鈥淚n the target scenario, the energy supply of street and rail traffic, as well as parts of air and ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:24 Germany is starting a novel subsidy programme worth billions of euros in a bid to make its prized heavy industry climate neutral. Following a preparatory phase beginning in early June, the country plans to introduce so-called Carbon ...
01 Nov 2024, 11:29 Julian Wettengel Finance COP29 Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Upcoming negotiations on a new goal for financial support from richer countries to developing economies to mitigate and adapt to climate change will be 鈥渧ery ...
04 Jan 2019, 11:00 German climate and energy policy must urgently become more proactive in 2019 to increase companies鈥� planning and investment security, says Mario Ohoven, president of the German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW). ...
17 May 2021, 12:30 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry ...
20 Dec 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU S眉ddeutsche Zeitung A new concept for supporting Europe鈥檚 green energy industry in light of the U.S. government鈥檚 subsidy programme 鈥淚nflation Reduction Act鈥� (IRA) has been presented jointly by ...
05 Jul 2024, 15:07 Months of negotiations among the parties in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 governing coalition about the country鈥檚 2025 budget have ushered in 鈥渞ecord investments鈥� into renewable power, industrial decarbonisation, electric mobility and a faster transition ...
08 May 2019, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Leading politicians from German Chancellor Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance call for European or international solutions for climate action, but this ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:12 Germany must rapidly step up its national climate and energy targets to bring efforts in line with new EU-wide goals, said the independent expert commission in charge of monitoring the country鈥檚 energy transition. While details still ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:22 Expert Ottmar Edenhofer Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC, Director of MCC, Deputy Director and Chief Economist of PIK Climate & CO2 Energiewende Technology Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:30 A number of key issues relating to France鈥檚 ecological transition have been put on hold after the rise of the far-right Rassemblement National party in June鈥檚 European elections caused president Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The German government is open to partnering with African countries on fossil gas projects, as well as blue hydrogen production (made from fossil gas, ...
01 Dec 2021, 13:54 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Efficiency Tagesspiegel Background Germany's funding programmes for environmental innovation and energy efficiency lack measurable targets that can quantify their effectiveness, the country' ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv The German economy and buildings ministries aim to connect 100,000 buildings to district heating annually in a bid to bring the sector closer to its climate targets. 鈥淲e believe that district ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:12 Germany is of central importance when it comes to the EU defining its priorities in energy and industrial policies, says Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. He argues that the country鈥檚 next ...
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08 Aug 2024, 15:22 91tv Team NewClimate Institute: Unpacking 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hydrogen import strategy: 3 considerations for Global South partners Expectation that lower production costs can partially offset high conversion losses & transport costs may not ...
18 Nov 2019, 13:33 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende 91tv The amount of packaging waste accruing in Germany has reached a new record high, the Federal ...
02 May 2023, 13:34 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Jessica Bateman Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background An analysis of solar power ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:55 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Cities Society 91tv Public support for climate protection measures such as the introduction of speed limits or the building of wind turbines, is split markedly between rural and urban ...
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03 Dec 2024, 11:35 91tv Team Nature: Why the EU must reset its Green Deal 鈥� or be left behind- comment The world has changed since Europe鈥檚 ambitious climate package was designed. Here鈥檚 how the agreement should evolve. Reuters: Dutch power grid group ...
A group of more than 40 companies has called for 2030-targets for all sectors in a Climate Action Plan 2050 that 鈥渃learly signals鈥� the implementation of the commitments made in the Paris Agreement. 鈥淭his is the only way that new business models and ...
01 Oct 2020, 16:41 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel EU 91tv EU ...
G20 agriculture ministers called for more sustainable use of resources in a joint declaration following the first G20 ministers meeting under the current German presidency. 鈥淚n light of the growing global population and the goals of the Agenda 2030, ...
10 Apr 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Industry Handelsblatt Cuts to battery technology research in Germany, which were triggered by a court ruling that confounded funding plans for climate and energy projects, could see the country fall behind in a ...
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 ...
14 Nov 2019, 13:26 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Federal Foreign Office Ausw盲rtiges ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables 91tv Germany needs more clarity on the future role of fossil gas in its energy system to allow industry to make the right investment choices, said the International Energy Agency (IEA) in a ...
22 May 2018, 00:00 Energy transition pioneer Germany is about to launch a highly anticipated task force on phasing out coal power, the most prominent blemish on the country鈥檚 climate record. The government will likely nominate the coal exit commission on ...
