24 Nov 2022, 13:46 S?ren Amelang Company climate claims Society 91tv Food product labels such as ¡°climate neutral,¡± ¡°CO2-neutral¡± or ¡°climate positive¡± do not indicate that these are climate-friendly at all and should be banned, consumer NGO ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:36 Edgar Meza Solar 91tv Rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) in the EU is thriving due to new strategies and regulatory changes adopted by the bloc since 2022, in large part because of Russia's war on Ukraine, according to a ...
12 May 2022, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Society G20 & G7 91tv / Die Zeit Several major environmental groups have urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to step up the country¡¯s climate action efforts and make the topic a priority of the G7 ...
15 Feb 2022, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv Climate action and the protection of biodiversity need be more closely linked, according to a German scientist contributing to the UN¡¯s climate change report, which ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:13 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 EU In an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau, Green Party colleagues?Lisa Badum, a member?of the German parliament, and ...
The draft of a coalition treaty agreed by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ negotiating parties suggests that Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) have found common ground on energy and climate policy, mirroring several aspects ...
13 Mar 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv / Handelsblatt / dpa ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy and agriculture ministers seek to intensify strategic cooperation with Brazil and Colombia on trade and climate action, they said. Over a six-day ...
Through a new online programme, house owners in the south German town of Freising can now determine if their roofs are suitable for solar panels, and how much it would cost to install them, according to an article in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. A ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:18 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:08 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International 91tv The COVID-19 crisis is widening the gap between ...
14 Aug 2020, 15:45 Germany will likely reach its original target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by the end of this year, compared to 1990, estimates by researchers from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate ...
15 May 2025, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government 91tv / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new chancellor Friedrich Merz has announced a mixture of policy restarts and continuity in his first government declaration in parliament, ...
01 Apr 2025, 12:50 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Germany is already experiencing the consequences of climate change and undergoing accelerated warming, according to a report by the country¡¯s National Meteorological Service (DWD). The DWD ...
08 Jan 2025, 10:08 Jennifer Collins Electricity Renewables 91tv The share of renewable energy in net public electricity generation in Germany in 2024 reached a record high of 62.7 percent, with solar power smashing government expansion ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Tageszeitung The Climate Action Law proposed by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ environment ministry is ¡°a planned economy approach¡± that could ¡°paralyse the country without making progress on climate action,¡± ...
23 Nov 2020, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn International G20 & G7 91tv The heads of state and government from the G20 (Group of Twenty) major economies have formally confirmed their cooperation on climate protection. Despite the United States ...
The 2030 emissions reduction target defines the duty and objectives of the commission tasked with planning ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal exit, climate economist Barbara Praetorius said in an interview with Der Tagesspiegel. ¡°The 2030 climate targets are set, they ...
16 Aug 2021, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Handelsblatt ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ revised climate targets mean the country's coal power phase-out will need to be completed by 2030, eight years earlier than currently planned, newspaper ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Solar 91tv / pv magazine Spaces alongside German highways could be utilised better to build solar energy systems, with around 250,000 potential sites identified? in a report ?by the Federal Highway Research ...
20 Nov 2018, 10:30 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal exit commission?aims to propose a path for the country¡¯s phase-out by the end of November. Agreeing a compromise on how to end the use of Germany's most important fossil fuel in such a short time will be difficult, ...
23 Feb 2022, 14:35 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen EU 91tv The EU Commission's proposals for adapting the gas market to climate targets are not enough to ensure a rapid scale-up of the hydrogen economy, according to Germany's hydrogen ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:34 On its planned path to climate-neutrality by the middle of the century, Germany could achieve complete decarbonisation of its power sector already by 2040 ¨C and EU climate targets might even compel the country to greatly speed up the ...
06 Jun 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cars 91tv Figures used by the government for planning the buildout of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Germany are ¡°massively¡± overestimating the actual need for new charging points, ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:38 Expert Forschungsgruppe Wahlen e.V. Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Germany is currently the country most concerned about climate change out of the 28 surveyed for the August update ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:06 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU 91tv A tightening of the EU's 2030 climate target would come ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Society EU 91tv Security and affordability is the top priority for the future young Europeans want, followed by a liveable planet and social justice, according to the Next Generations Study 2023 survey by ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:53 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business & ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:36 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv Germany and Algeria are discussing closer bilateral cooperation in the rollout of renewables and green hydrogen during a visit by economy minister Robert Habeck to the north African ...
11 Oct 2022, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv Germany aims to keep the Paris Climate Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5¡ãC within reach, even as the energy crisis in Europe puts a focus on fossil fuels in the short term, ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:20 Franca Quecke Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 91tv / Handelsblatt Eleven environmental associations and citizens' initiatives have joined forces to come out against? controversial technologies to capture and?store CO? ...
26 Sep 2022, 13:00 91tv Team Company climate claims Supermarket shelves are awash with "climate neutral" product claims and one company after the next is signing up to a "net zero" target. But how watertight are their pledges? Are they ...
Green Party head Cem ?zdemir has said his party will call for the introduction of a blue badge to be awarded only to lower-emission vehicles, in the upcoming exploratory coalition talks, Konstantin Schwarz writes for Stuttgarter Nachrichten. Such a badge ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:58 Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Tagesspiegel Berlin wants to become climate-neutral by 2050. To achieve this, climate senator Regine G¨¹nther (Green Party) proposed an amendment to the city¡¯s Energy Transition Act (EWG) on 9 February, ...
26 Mar 2021, 13:44 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility 91tv New internal combustion engine vehicles should be taxed exclusively according to their CO2 emissions to accelerate the switch to electric mobility, the Climate Neutrality Foundation writes in ...
23 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Electrek: Porsche scales back 80% EV goal by 2030 amid falling sales, shifting market Although it could still happen, Porsche said the target was too ambitious and the transition ¡°will take longer than we assumed.¡± ...
The German federal government¡¯s new support programme for electric vehicles benefits Tesla in particular, economics correspondent Philipp Vetter writes in Die Welt. The programme, which runs until the end of 2021, allows employees who drive company ...
21 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team AP: Ford, facing economic headwinds and weak EV sales, to cut 4,000 jobs in Europe Of the total, 2,900 jobs would be lost in Germany, 800 in Britain and 300 in other European Union countries. Reuters: Volkswagen enters third ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Germany is set to produce a record 256 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity from renewable sources this year, but the amount is still insufficient to put it on track to its 2030 targets, ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Finance EU 91tv The European emissions trading system (EU ETS) and national carbon pricing brought Germany a record 13.2 billion euros from the sale of carbon dioxide pollution rights in 2022, the Federal ...
15 Jun 2016
15 Jun 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ¡°Buyer¡¯s premium for e-cars still cannot be applied for¡° Customers still cannot apply for a buyer¡¯s premium for new e-cars after the ...
20 Oct 2015
20 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Fraunhofer ISE ¡°Exported power more expensive than imported power¡± Germany makes billions of euros from exporting power every year, researchers at the Fraunhofer ISE found. The country made 1.7 ...
Despite many setbacks, a number of achievements towards greater environmental protection in the past decade is cause for optimism, Achim Steiner, former executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, tells Bernhard P?tter in an interview ...
23 Oct 2020, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Handelsblatt The German government¡¯s draft update of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) is not ambitious enough, as it fails to take into account developments that increase the need for renewable ...
29 Nov 2024, 11:00 Military and energy security are key priorities for Poland as it prepares to assume the EU¡¯s rotating presidency in January 2025. The country plans to achieve these targets by pushing for nuclear energy, sanctions on Russia, and EU ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal 91tv Limited capacity and environmental risks mean that carbon storage in the German North Sea should only be used for residual emissions that remain unavoidable, said ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:33 S?ren Amelang Cost & Prices Society 91tv A large majority of Germans are worried that the ongoing rise in everyday costs will erode their standard of living, according to a survey by insurer R+V. "People feel their ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:46 Julian Wettengel Gas International 91tv / Zeit Online / t-online The NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has called on economy minister Robert Habeck to follow the example of the U.S. government and declare a moratorium ...
10 Jan 2020, 11:52 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry ...
In an international ranking compiled by the US non-profit organisation ACEEE, Germany and Italy came first for being the most energy efficient countries among the world¡¯s 25 largest energy consumers. While ¡°no country came close to a perfect score¡± of 100 ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The announcement of a new microchip factory of U.S. semiconductor producer Wolfspeed with an investment by German automotive industry supplier ZF has been welcome by ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:25 S?ren Amelang Society Tagesspiegel Background Far-right extremists in Germany have started to mobilise for a ¡°hot autumn¡± of protests against soaring energy prices on social media, reports energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
07 Apr 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Efficiency 91tv After keeping pleas to the public to use less energy to a minimum amid the Ukraine war and the ensuing energy crisis so far, the German government has published efficieny advice ...
30 May 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv Germany's cabinet has agreed to give hydrogen infrastructure planning and approval priority to drive the rapid development and expansion of its production, storage and supply. The draft ...
21 May 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit Parties which stand for election in the European Parliament vote this weekend may face a "historic opportunity" to set the continent on track for ambitious ...
21 Jul 2022, 14:12 Edgar Meza Gas EU 91tv German policymakers and utilities have welcomed a European Commission? proposal asking EU?member states?to?adopt?voluntary measures to reduce?gas?consumption amid fears of Russia cutting off ...
Many parties avoided clear messages on a lignite phase-out in their election programmes, but ¡°coal does not have reliable friends in any of the parties, anymore¡±, writes Klaus Stratmann in an article for Handelsblatt. Party programmes lack ¡°coherent ...
07 Jul 2021, 13:15 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Kerstine Appunn Transport Seven major German cities want to test 30 km/h speed limits on a large scale. While inner-town speeds ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture Deutschlandfunk / Die Welt As German forests continue to suffer from heat damage and bark-beetle infestation, the country¡¯s ¡°most important ally for climate action¡± is in danger, writes ...
17 May 2023, 12:56 S?ren Amelang Mobility Start-ups S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Munich-based electric car start-up Sono Motors has filed for insolvency and it is unlikely that clients will get their pre-payment for one of its PV-clad vehicles back,? reports ...
27 Jun 2019, 10:20 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ engineering prowess and excellent support programmes have spawned a world-leading scene of start-ups dedicated to pushing the energy transition with innovative ideas, according to start-up expert Klaus Fichter. There are ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:24 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Climate change is still young Germans¡¯ biggest concern, but they would rather politicians act on the topic than drastically change their own lifestyles, a survey ...
12 Oct 2021, 13:09 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Expert RWI ¨C Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI ¨C Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & ...
28 May 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Finance Company climate claims 91tv EU rules have pushed many investment funds to drop terms like ¡°sustainable¡± or ¡°climate¡± from their names if they could not live up to the promise, even though guidelines ...
25 Jan 2023, 13:22 S?ren Amelang Business & Jobs 91tv The German government no longer believes that the energy crisis will plunge Europe¡¯s largest economy into recession this year. The government¡¯s latest economic forecast said the ...
15 Jun 2022, 15:01 German states will have to actively look for areas that can be designated for wind farm construction in order to meet government targets. The cabinet is forwarding another set of draft laws aimed at accelerating the country¡¯s energy ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:38 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The parliamentary groups of German government coalition partners CDU/CSU and SPD are calling for forest owners to be financially rewarded for their?contribution to ...
20 Mar 2024, 13:41 S?ren Amelang Business & Jobs 91tv One in two German utilities are finding it difficult to attract new employees, and four out of five companies in the sector expect the problem to worsen in the near future and slow ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:16 Policy Society 91tv The Covid-19 pandemic can offer insights into how to cope with the climate change crisis in terms of risk management and policy reaction,? a Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) study says ...
23 Mar 2022, 12:38 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 G20 & G7 S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Germany has a key role to play when it comes to getting governments across the world on board for the transition away from fossil fuels, said the country¡¯s new state ...
22 Sep 2021, 15:08 The conservative CDU has been heading Germany's government since 2005- and used its time in power to lay the groundwork for making the country the first climate-neutral industrialised nation before the middle of the century, says ...
22 Oct 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv / Focus Online A key high-voltage power line set to transport electricity from Germany's windy north to the industrial south has begun construction. Grid operator TenneT has laid the first ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Energy politicians from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) are proposing to introduce a mandated share of climate-friendly gases into the German gas mix, reported Handelsblatt. Companies that ...
09 Feb 2024, 13:01 S?ren Amelang Mobility Transport A broad alliance of German climate NGOs, welfare organisations, trade unions and business associations? has warned ?that the cuts to the country¡¯s railway budget puts the mobility transition and climate ...
30 Apr 2020, 12:37 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:38 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Government International 91tv ...
02 Nov 2017, 00:00 After an expected clash over climate and energy policy last week, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ aspiring coalition partners of the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the pro-business FDP and the environmentalist Green Party also failed to agree on transport ...
25 May 2021, 13:15 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry Handelsblatt / 91tv ?The German government¡¯s goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2045 has put companies from energy-intensive industries, such as steel, chemicals, paper and cement, ...
06 Feb 2024, 13:12 Jack McGovan Industry 91tv The German government has pledged to support the multinational steel manufacturing corporation?ArcelorMittal with a total of 1.3 billion euros to help reduce carbon emissions from steel production ...
10 Nov 2023, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices 91tv The market for used electric vehicles (EVs) is growing fast in Germany, the country's most important motorist club, ADAC, has? found. Second-hand EVs are becoming ¡°a true ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Hydrogen 91tv Eastern ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest lignite mine operator, LEAG, is ready to build one of Germany's first hydrogen-ready gas power plants. The company said the gas turbine power plant ...
09 Feb 2023, 15:22 The spread of corporate net zero targets is starting to make itself felt across the world ¨C not only among businesses, but also far beyond. An increasing number of companies have started to scan- and then reduce- the climate impact of ...
08 Jan 2025, 12:06 The application of sustainable finance principles across the EU will take a major step forward in 2025 as reporting duties for environmental data are expanded to cover a much wider range of companies, says Matthias H¨¹bner, head of the ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv The year 2023 was the windiest in Germany in more than 15 years, providing excellent conditions for wind electricity generation, said Germany's National Meteorological ...
05 Aug 2022, 11:34 With natural gas deliveries from Russia dwindling, the German government is preparing for a winter without sufficient supplies of the fossil fuel it relies on heavily for heating homes. As well as increasing the import of liquified gas ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Adaptation Cities Table.Media The German government has called for municipalities to prepare risk analyses on the expected impacts of climate change throughout Germany. In an interview with Table.Media, environment minister ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:04 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv European parliamentary hopefuls have been urged against campaigning on the EU¡¯s successes in dealing with issues such as climate change and COVID-19, as polls show many ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cities 91tv The Association of German Cities (Deutscher St?dtetag) has called on the federal government to adopt a price on CO2 emissions as ¡°an appropriate and necessary approach for ...
30 Nov 2021, 13:53 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Climate policy is a cross-sectoral task that requires a reform of its mode of governance, researchers from the state-supported Ariadne project write in a policy paper directed ...
21 Apr 2021, 12:37 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ conservatives have chosen Armin Laschet as their leading candidate for the national election in September, signalling continuity with the era of Chancellor Angela Merkel and ending a days-long power struggle with top rival ...
07 Nov 2017, 00:00 Conference off to a reassuring start, final agenda passed / Developing nations want to talk about pre2020 climate action by industrialised states / German companies call for a coal exit path and climate friendly regulation / Emission ...
09 Jul 2024, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Electricity market Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's government is planning a new levy for electricity consumers to fund the construction of the country's planned ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:11 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The past year was ¡°a record year¡± for ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:22 Jack McGovan Gas Security 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The EU isn¡¯t prepared to properly deal with a future gas crisis like the one resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to a new report ...
20 Jul 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German politicians are calling for investments in urban planning to better prepare cities for extreme weather events, such as the ...
26 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: German, French companies less hopeful over economic recovery Companies in the euro zone's two largest economies are growing more pessimistic, surveys showed on Thursday (26 July), raising concerns over ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:45 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Rundschau It will be much tougher for the European Union to reach climate targets without climate ¡°poster child¡± UK after Brexit, ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel EU G20 & G7 91tv Climate action tops the agenda of the German presidency of the G7 group of influential economies, which the new economy and climate ministry aims (BMWK) to use to improve greenhouse gas ...
Despite a new advertising campaign, efficiency measures in Germany aren¡¯t successful, particularly in the building sector, Michael Bauchm¨¹ller and Benedikt M¨¹ller write in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. In order to achieve its climate targets, the country would ...
04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country¡¯s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
15 Mar 2023, 13:21 S?ren Amelang Renewables Society 91tv The German government can count on very broad popular support for its plans to accelerate the rollout of renewable energies, a survey has revealed. ¡°The population is ready for a ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Utilities dpa / n-tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ local utility association VKU has called for public support to finance the decommissioning of the country¡¯s natural gas grid and avoid high fees for customers, news agency dpa ...
08 Sep 2022, 12:00 Current "climate neutral" product claims may be flawed, but they are a clear sign that companies realise that consumers want climate action, argues?Jens Burchardt, the Boston Consulting Group's global expert on climate ...
07 Jul 2020, 13:25 91tv 91tv Green stimulus Die Welt The head of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ waste management association BDE has criticised the German government for ignoring recycling in its massive post-coronavirus stimulus package. In an interview with Die ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:01 Freja Eriksen Cars Focus Online / RND Twenty-one percent of Germans would opt for an electric model when buying a new car after the German government has announced it will double the existing buyer's premium for electric vehicles ...
20 Oct 2021, 10:40 From large car manufacturers to globally operating logistics companies ¨C the number of businesses pursuing net-zero targets and wanting to reduce their carbon footprint is growing. As many of the companies cannot or do not want to ...
12 Dec 2018, 17:52 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 ...
29 Mar 2021, 13:16 Germany will spend over 40 percent of the farming subsidies it expects to receive from the EU on climate, biodiversity and other sustainability-related practices, the country¡¯s 16 state agriculture ministers have agreed after 33 hours ...
08 Nov 2023, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Freight 91tv The German road freight sector¡¯s shift towards climate neutrality is being complicated by framework conditions, a group of industry associations and lorry producers have warned in a ...
The government cabinet approved the second phase of a programme to support hydrogen and fuel cell technology, according to a transport ministry press release. From 2016 to 2019, the programme provides almost 250 million euros to support innovations in ...
24 Nov 2021, 13:06 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture 91tv The European parliament has passed the rules for funding European farmers but German NGOs and farmers associations insist that the new German government has to make changes to its ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:24 Edgar Meza Finance EU Handelsblatt The European Central Bank's (ECB) test of the resilience of lenders to the financial and economic consequences of global warming have turned out to be far more benign than widely expected, ...
03 Dec 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling 91tv Germany's government cabinet is set to adopt a national circular economy strategy tomorrow (4 December), said the environment ministry. The ministry spells out targets ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:28 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Solar Wind 91tv / pv magazine Germany's latest renewable auctions have ...
17 May 2022, 12:36 Edgar Meza Agriculture Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Federal agriculture minister Cem ?zdemir has presented several proposals to protect ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ forests, including more funding to land owners to introduce climate ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Most people in Germany agree with the ¡°core aim¡± of the government¡¯s controversial building energy law to replace old fossil heating systems with sustainable alternatives, ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Tageszeitung The coming petition by hundreds of German scientists who openly support the school student movement Fridays for Future that calls for more rapid climate action is a laudable ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:37 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert RWI ¨C Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI ¨C ...
30 Mar 2020, 13:53 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:10 S?ren Amelang Carbon market Policy Tagesspiegel Background ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coalition government is committed to returning revenues from the country¡¯s rising national CO2 price for heating and transport to citizens, reports energy and climate ...
21 May 2024, 14:05 Jack McGovan Renewables Government 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background A law reform agreed by lawmakers from Germany's government coalition would speed up approval processes around the planning and construction of new ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:21 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Wind EU 91tv The Federation ...
German car manufacturers have invested in many measures to make their manufacturing process more climate and environmentally friendly and are saving money with these programmes, Spiegel Online reports. Since 2006, VW¡¯s increased resource efficiency has ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:10 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K?ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The role of global warming and climate action in German media has grown ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Rheinische Post ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the country must stop its ¡°easy-peasy¡± ("Pillepalle") approach to climate action and announced ¡°radical changes¡± to her ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:51 Edgar Meza Mobility Cars Handelsblatt Electric cars will need to account for most new registrations in Germany in just four years and the end of new combustion engine cars will have to begin in 2030, says a report by the National ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:13 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Government International 91tv ...
16 Sep 2020, 12:58 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Society EU Der Spiegel A large majority of Germans harbours little hope that the EU can reach its target of becoming the globe's first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Only 17 percent of ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:21 Joey Grostern Adaptation 91tv Topsoil across much of Germany is significantly drier than usual for the beginning of April which could impact crop yields, with some of the driest springtime conditions since records began, ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Policy EU Table.Media The consequences of Germany's current budget struggles will have implications on the European Union, but the extent of the impact will depend on decisions taken by the ruling coalition ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 91tv A large majority of the German public continues to support the energy transition, but financial hardships as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could dampen households¡¯ willingness to ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry Business & Jobs 91tv The executives of companies worldwide are becoming increasingly concerned about climate change, but in Germany less so in global comparison, said ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt German conglomerate thyssenkrupp finds it increasingly difficult to spin off its troubled steelmaking division, Kevin Knitterscheidt and Martin Murphy write in Handelsblatt. In order to successfully sell ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany will raise its federal budget contribution for international climate financing from the current four billion euros to six billion euros annually by 2025. The success of the ...
29 May 2024, 14:30 In a bid to help Germany reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045, the government has presented a draft law reform that would allow the storage of CO2 under the seabed, as well as onshore ¨C but only if the federal states choose to do so. ...
22 Oct 2015
22 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) ¡°The energy transition in Europe: initial lessons from Germany, the UK and France¡± The experience of Germany, the UK and France shows that the transition to a ...
24 Feb 2022, 12:59 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:06 Expert BTU- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg Renewables Hydrogen Technology Efficiency Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:39 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Elections & Politics S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Die Zeit The Green Party wants to promote the purchase of cargo bicycles with subsidies totalling up to one billion euros in the next legislative period, ...
13 Sep 2019, 13:21 Freja Eriksen Cars Frankfurter Rundschau / 91tv Europe's largest auto show (IAA) in Frankfurt am Main is turning into a? "PR fiasco" ?for the German car industry due to climate protests and now a dispute with ...
30 Jun 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Agriculture EU 91tv / Dlf / taz German farmers have called on the EU to put more emphasis on food security in its "Green Deal" strategy to become climate neutral by 2050. The farmers& ...
23 Apr 2021, 12:17 The governing coalition parties in German parliament have agreed on higher tender volumes for next year's wind and solar PV installations. But parliamentarians did not make headway on a new renewables target for 2030, which has ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Transport Cost & Prices 91tv Germany has to reform its transport sector taxes to help reach climate targets, but also to ensure sufficient revenue in a climate-friendly mobility future, says a report ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:23 S?ren Amelang Cars dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau / 91tv The expansion of Germany's charging network for electric vehicles is making fast progress. The network grew by 45,000 charging points to a total of nearly 146,000 ...
According to environment ministry calculations, Germany would have to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 62 percent by 2030, compared to 1990 levels, to meet the requirements laid out by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
10 Sep 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Society International 91tv A clear majority of people in major European countries are in favour of halting talks over the Mercosur agreement between the EU and South American states if it contributes to a ...
05 Apr 2023, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims 91tv Climate Action Germany (DUH) has won a lawsuit against TotalEnergies over ¡°climate-neutral¡± and ¡°CO2-compensated¡± heating oil claims, the environmental NGO announced. DHU had ...
13 May 2015
13 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv ARD tagesschau.de ¡°The German energy transformation is impressive¡± Ernest Moniz, the United States Secretary of Energy, has praised ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ development of renewables but said the US were not ...
20 Nov 2020, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind International 91tv The plans by the European Commission to significantly ramp up renewable energy generation at sea have been mostly welcomed by German policymakers ...
30 Apr 2025, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 91tv In the waters of the German North and Baltic Seas, the options for marine carbon dioxide removal and geological storage are limited to just a few approaches, said researchers from the ...
07 May 2019, 12:30 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean Energy ...
30 Mar 2022, 15:54 Renewable energy sources are the answer to both the climate crisis and the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia¡¯s war against Ukraine, said ministers at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue. Experts, politicians, business leaders and ...
The Green election programme would demand a lot of possible coalition partners after the elections, such as the coal exit and the phase-out of the combustion engine, said Schleswig-Holstein state energy minister Robert Habeck in an interview with daily ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Germany needs a ¡°national master plan¡± to save its forests as carbon sinks and the federal government should provide 800 million euros over the coming four years to states ...
07 May 2019, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Cars 91tv An increasing number of Germans say they have major worries about climate change (61 percent in 2019 compared to 37 percent in 2017) and many are calling for action in ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Germany has become the first member state to join an EU scheme to support domestic renewable hydrogen production through the European Hydrogen Bank. Under the "Auctions-as-a-Service¡± ...
The Bavarian state government is a powerful supporter of German farmers¡¯ demand to receive recurring compensation payments if power transmission lines are built on their premises, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The governing ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:38 Aniket Narawad Climate & CO2 Society Only 47 percent of people in Germany agree that high-income countries should take the lead on compensating low-income countries for climate change-led economic losses, one of the lowest support ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Government International 91tv The German government plans to support climate and environmental protection projects in Indonesia with credits worth 2.5 billion euros by 2025, the German development ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:38 European transmission system operators (TSOs) have recommended that Germany split its single electricity price zone into up to five bidding zones. This should maximise economic efficiency across the whole market area, ensuring security ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Government EU 91tv France and Germany, who have recently been at odds over the future role of nuclear and gas, will intensify their cooperation on climate action in Europe and work ...
07 Mar 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Cars Spiegel, Handelsblatt The German government is aiming to see 15 million electric cars on the roads by 2030, but current sales are making this target increasingly difficult to reach, transport transition think tank Agora ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:50 The criminalisation of climate protesters is intensifying all over Europe, with multiple countries considering harsh new laws. While human rights activists express concern at the crackdown, experts are divided over the impact on the ...
07 Feb 2023, 13:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility EU Die Zeit / Handelsblatt The planned EU car emissions target norm, Euro 7, has come under fire from the German car industry and the country¡¯s transport minister, who argue the regulation will threaten many ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:33 S?ren Amelang Cost & Prices Heating Society 91tv The share of homeowners who say they don¡¯t have the money to install climate-friendly technologies has increased significantly in Germany. 41 percent of property owners ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society dpa / Tagesspiegel The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg says ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ school strikes for climate action give her ¡°a lot of hope,¡± news agency dpa reports in an article in the ...
02 Apr 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Europe could reduce its spending on security and defence by cutting its reliance on fossil fuels ¨C thereby starving Russia of funds from oil exports which are critical ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:03 Swedish activist Greta Thunberg visited Berlin on Friday, joining thousands of young people who took to the streets in the most recent "Fridays for Future" school strike demanding more action on climate change. Protesters ...
20 Dec 2021, 13:33 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Policy Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Robert Habeck, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new minister for economic affairs and climate protection, will present an ¡°opening balance¡± at the ...
Sustainability criteria, such as climate protection, are becoming more and more important for major companies, and new developments in data transparency increase the pressure on them to act accordingly, Jan Willmroth writes in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. Former ...
15 May 2025, 13:43 Expert DGNB ¨C German Sustainable Building Council Deutsche Gesellschaft f¨¹r Nachhaltiges Bauen Climate & CO2 Efficiency Cities Construction Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Construction 91tv Climate-friendly homes ...
12 Mar 2020, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The environmental impact of offshore wind turbines remains a hotly contested subject in Germany. German offshore wind farm operator association BWO said a study found that populations of loon ...
07 Aug 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv The reform of an energy consumption label for passenger cars underestimates the projected CO2 price of transport fuels like diesel and petrol, consumer protection ...
29 Apr 2025, 13:37 Germany is unlikely to face the kind of massive power outage which hit Spain and Portugal on 28 April, as the country¡¯s system is based on redundancies and many safeguard measures are in place, said grid agency BNetzA. The two countries ...
12 Dec 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs Der Tagesspiegel Coal mining states in eastern Germany have called for clarity regarding the release of 1.75 billion euros in support funds from the federal government for the transition away ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:05 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Solar Tagesspiegel The number of sunshine hours registered in Germany has constantly been on the rise over the past few decades, data by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Meteorological Service (DWD) has shown. Between 2011 ...
31 Aug 2021, 13:41 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Industry dpa / Der Spiegel Tough and lengthy approval procedures are slowing down the ...
22 Mar 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Grid Energate The higher renewable targets of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government will require a faster expansion of the power grid, Tim Meyerj¨¹rgens, COO of transmission grid operator TenneT, has told Energate. Connecting the ...
19 May 2025
19 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team FT: Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France Berlin has signalled to Paris it will no longer block French efforts to ensure nuclear power is treated on par with renewable energy in EU legislation, ...
22 May 2019, 13:19 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Coal Elections & ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv A new area development plan for the expansion of offshore wind energy is a key step in helping Germany come closer to its target of installing at least 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, the economy and ...
16 Jan 2024, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices 91tv / Augsburger Allgemeine In a parliamentary hearing, economists have largely backed the German government¡¯s insistence on gradually phasing out subsidies for diesel fuel ...
12 Dec 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen Die Welt Steel producers in the western German state of Saarland have been granted 2.6 billion euros in state support to transform their production procedures towards climate neutrality. Economy and ...
24 Jan 2020, 12:12 Pressure is rising fast on industry to join the great decarbonisation race. Many energy-intensive German companies, like chemical giant BASF or steelmaker thyssenkrupp, already have detailed plans for drastic emission cuts, but lack ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:17 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Automobilwoche / Electrive / Electrek VW subsidiaries Porsche and Audi are planning to ramp up production capacities for their first fully electric models in ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
09 Nov 2021, 12:50 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv The heads of Greenpeace Germany and an activist from climate protest group Fridays for Future activist have filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen in a German court accusing the carmaker of failing to do ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt Several large energy companies say that a potential bottleneck for components needed for gas turbines in power stations could threaten Germany's plans for expanding gas-fired power generation in ...
01 Dec 2021, 14:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics Der Spiegel Conservative (CDU) state premier Michael Kretschmer from Saxony, an Eastern German coal mining state, has encouraged labour unions to protest against plans by the prospective ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:18 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Cities Tagesspiegel The city of Berlin plans to speed up its coal exit, regional newspaper Tagesspiegel? reports. The prospective city government composed of the Social Democrats (SPD), the ...
German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) head Stefan Kapferer warns that calls from the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) for recurring compensation payments to farmers if power transmission lines are built on their premises would make ...
10 Jun 2024, 13:32 S?ren Amelang Wind 91tv Germany must pay more attention to social and environmental impacts in its ambitious rollout of offshore wind energy, environmental NGOs and unions have said. ¡°The protection of nature, species and ...
31 Jan 2024, 13:21 Franca Quecke Renewables Solar 91tv The volume of bids in the latest German auction for ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) projects has once again by far exceeded the auctioned capacity, the Federal Network Agency ...
03 May 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Industry Digitalisation EU 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed chipmaker Infineon¡¯s new semiconductor production plant as crucial for the country¡¯s status as a green technology leader. The company ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Heating 91tv To reach its climate targets, Germany's building sector must phase out the use of fossil fuel boilers and introduce minimum efficiency standards for existing buildings, a? ...
08 May 2019, 13:31 German industry heavyweights including chemical maker BASF, HeidelbergCement, gas supplier Linde and steelmaker Salzgitter say they are prepared for profound emissions cuts, but still lack the necessary market signal from policymakers. ...
17 May 2019, 13:00 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The 18-year old student and Fridays ForFuture activist Ferdinand Klemm has ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Finance 91tv The new advisory council on sustainable finance established by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government has held its first meeting to debate how the country¡¯s financial sector can better ...
20 May 2016
20 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Institute for Renewable Energy (IWR) ¡°Wind power overtakes nuclear energy for first time in Germany¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ wind turbines will generate more electricity this year than nuclear ...
26 Oct 2018, 10:47 As ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal government parties, Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU camp and the Social Democrats (SPD), suffer from voter flight due to the coalition¡¯s constant quarrels, the Green Party emerges as one of the big ...
18 Jul 2023, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Society RND Public health officers in Germany have proposed to introduce a midday break akin to the Spanish ¡®siesta¡¯ to protect workers during the hottest hours of the day, media network RND reported. ¡°We ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU Handelsblatt / 91tv The looming trade conflict between Europe and the U.S. about government subsidies for green investments could be significantly defused after the American ...
28 Apr 2021, 13:17 Charlotte Nijhuis Society 91tv Most young Germans are in favour of the energy transition, according to a survey conducted by the German environment ministry (BMU) and the federal agency for nature conservation (BfN). Two ...
16 May 2019, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Finance 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Chancellor Angela Merkel says the need for a reform of financial markets along sustainability criteria is one of the most pressing challenges the sector is facing. ...
19 Feb 2024, 15:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics EUElections2024 dpa / Reuters / Der Spiegel / Zeit Online / Politico / Tagesspiegel / Augsburger Allgemeine European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is seeking a second term at the ...
A Greenpeace-commissioned study conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology posits that Germany can still meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, provided that several brown-coal-fired power plants are ...
04 Jul 2022, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices ARD The German government will not introduce a general speed limit on motorways to reduce the transport sector¡¯s energy consumption amid the crisis fuelled by Russia¡¯s war on Ukraine, Chancellor ...
Germany must ¡°significantly increase¡± its goals for renewables expansion to supply all sectors with electricity in the future and reach its own climate targets, writes the Social Democratic parliamentary group in the Bundestag (SPD) in a new position ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:27 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Solar 91tv The roll-out of solar thermal installations in Germany slowed down in 2018 despite an ongoing construction boom. The number of new installations dropped to 71,000 from 78,000 ...
A range of comparatively simple measures could increase the capacity of the German power grid within the next two to four years, energy think tank Agora Energiewende * finds in a study. An ad-hoc investment programme could improve the transmission grid to ...
10 Jul 2024, 14:01 S?ren Amelang Grid Cost & Prices Policy 91tv Leading energy economists have called for splitting Germany into different electricity price zones to reflect regional differences in power availability, and to stop ...
07 Dec 2021, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Bioenergy 91tv The potential of cannabis for climate action and sustainability should be included in the new German government coalition¡¯s plans, the German Cannabis Industry Association (BvCW) ...
04 Aug 2022, 14:05 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Hannah Naylor EU Security RND / Deutschlandfunk / 91tv NGOs ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:08 Franca Quecke Renewables Solar Wind dpa / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The southern German state of Bavaria continues to lead the field in renewable energy expansion, news agency dpa reports in an article published in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:23 Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 91tv Eastern German lignite power plants that are scheduled to ...
07 Jun 2022, 13:12 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv / Reuters Environmental NGOs from Germany are among the lobby groups making last-minute efforts to influence European Union lawmakers, who are scheduled to vote on key elements of the bloc¡¯s future ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv The German energy crisis has not ended yet, but has become ¡°manageable¡± to a point where the government is confident it could be overcome for good by 2024, economy and climate minister ...
04 Oct 2024, 12:19 Joey Grostern Solar dpa The number of plug-in solar systems dubbed ¡°balcony power plants¡± in Germany has surpassed 700,000 as of 2 October, having doubled since the start of 2024, according to reporting from news agency dpa, citing data ...
15 Jan 2021, 10:19 While our roads are increasingly abuzz with electric cars and scooters, low-emission trucks are conspicuous by their absence. But this is about to change as new climate targets force sharp emission cuts in heavy duty transport. The ...
10 May 2021, 14:32 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Renewables Utilities Die Welt Germany's largest electricity producer RWE has set its sights on becoming the leading provider of renewable energy in numerous industrialised countries. In an ...
Germany will have to double its share of renewable power and cut its use of coal and oil by half to reach its official target of cutting CO 2 emissions by 55 percent by 2030, according to energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. The country must also use 30 ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:58 Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs Handelsblatt In order to achieve ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ambitious energy transition targets, the pace of wind and solar power expansion is expected to quadruple in the coming years, but a lack of skilled ...
22 Nov 2022, 13:57 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv It is possible to achieve ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ target of covering half of heat production with renewable energies by 2030, the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) said at the presentation of its ...
12 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024, 12:26 S?ren Amelang S&P Global: Germany's gas storage operators warn demand curtailments still required ahead of winter Storage sites 84% full by mid-July but extreme cold could prompt gas shortages and empty reserves by February ...
13 May 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel EU Security 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new economy and energy minister, Katherina Reiche, has emphasised the value in working with European partners to ensure energy supply for the continent. ¡°Cooperation with European ...
21 Oct 2024, 14:18 Jennifer Collins Solar 91tv Solar energy expansion in major German cities is picking up speed, according to a report by renewable electricity provider LichtBlick, which looks at growth in installed roof-mounted solar ...
21 Sep 2021, 14:04 The German state secretary in the environment ministry, Jochen Flasbarth, has called on wealthy nations to do more on climate finance and come up with a plan to reach the target of mobilising 100 billion U.S. dollars per year for ...
12 Mar 2018, 00:00 Car industry hub Germany is under increasing pressure to accelerate the shift to sustainable mobility in order to reach its climate targets and improve the quality of air in inner city areas. Against the backdrop of a looming ban on ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:11 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Mobility Cars 91tv A broad-based coalition of environmental groups and police representatives is calling for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next government to impose a?general speed limit on?the country¡¯s ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:26 Powering aeroplanes with renewable fuels is crucial for making flying less climate-damaging, but it will get aviation nowhere near climate neutrality, environmental NGOs, industry representatives and researchers agreed at a conference ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 91tv The share of ...
19 Jun 2023, 13:12 S?ren Amelang Coal International 91tv / Tagesspiegel Germany has committed an additional 200 million euros to help Colombia reach its climate targets. During the Colombian President, Gustavo Petro¡¯s, visit to Germany, the ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:31 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Die Zeit Germany needs more consistent and ambitious climate policies, including a higher ...
25 Feb 2019, 14:17 The first draft of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Climate Action Law, presented last week, has laid bare conflicting views within the German coalition?government over how the country should meet its climate targets. The proposal has drawn criticism from ...
19 Jul 2019, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy Rheinische Post The leader of the conservative CDU party¡¯s parliamentary group, Ralph Brinkhaus, has called for ¡°hundreds of billions of euros¡± to be invested in climate action over the next ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Tagesspiegel / 91tv In the landmark climate litigation case brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy company RWE, the judge responsible for the case at a German ...
30 May 2025, 12:41 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv Current planning for electricity grid development in Europe and Germany may underestimate infrastructure and flexibility needs as it uses simplified weather assumptions and idealised prosumer ...
10 May 2023, 12:20 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv Germany should introduce a ¡®climate passport¡¯ for people displaced by the effects of climate change, an independent government advisory panel has proposed in its annual report. The Expert ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:50 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Stuttgarter Nachrichten / 91tv Regional transmission system operator Terranets bw in Baden ...
09 May 2025
09 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Montel: German zone split plan ¡°half-baked¡±, may lead to extreme prices? Large impact of weather on green output expected in the smaller of five proposed areas. Reuters: Germany's energy transition hits reverse so far in ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:31 Expert Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Climate activists have criticised new stock index rules introduced by Germany's stock exchange operator Deutsche B?rse for not ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:33 S?ren Amelang Transport Hydrogen Heating Policy Handelsblatt The German government wants to use hydrogen for decarbonising road transport and heating, in addition to industry, according to a highly anticipated revamp of the national ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Germany will likely need several lignite power units that had been brought back online from reserve during the energy crisis last year also for the coming winter, economy minister Robert Habeck ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:33 Bennet Ribbeck Climate & CO2 Adaptation 91tv Extreme droughts and floods hit Italy, Greece and Spain more than most other countries across the globe in the past 30 years, causing many deaths and high economical losses, ...
12 Jul 2023, 13:22 James Jackson Transport Travel Talk Lufthansa, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest airline, wants to increase the number of domestic flights to compete with rail travel and video conferencing services, the company¡¯s sales manager, Frank Naeve, told ...
18 Dec 2014
18 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv taz ¡°A dangerous thought¡± The minister-president of Lower Saxony, Stephan Weil, told the taz he was worried German tax money would be used to fund nuclear energy projects in other European ...
24 May 2024, 14:00 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU Clean ...
07 Dec 2016, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party left energy and climate policy on the sidelines at the Christian Democratic Union¡¯s (CDU) conference in Essen. The centre-right party laid the groundwork on Tuesday for its 2017 federal election ...
17 May 2023, 12:53 S?ren Amelang Heating Policy Stuttgarter Nachrichten The leader of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Social Democrats (SPD) said it was the party's imperative to prevent sharp cost increases for tenants during the shift to climate-friendly heating systems ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:36 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Policy German Institute for International and Security ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Plans to sell the western German coal plant operator STEAG could present a significant hurdle to government plans to pull the country¡¯s coal exit forward to 2030, unless the company puts in place ...
While the coal exit commission meets in Rhenish mining district in the state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), thousands of coal workers protested for their jobs not far from the symbolic Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut down to make way ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:57 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 International 91tv / ZDF A landmark court hearing initiated by a Peruvian farmer and ...
17 Nov 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Mobility Tagesspiegel The city of Berlin has approved a plan to expand its bicycle route network to a total of 3,000 kilometres, Tagesspiegel reports. "We will increase the proportion of ...
29 Apr 2015
29 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Residual Risk¡± There are worrying parallels between the current E.ON split into two separate companies and the finance industry¡¯s spinning off of risky assets into bad banks in ...
23 May 2022, 13:14 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen International G20 & G7 91tv The burgeoning global trade in green hydrogen risks becoming an environmental and social burden in producing countries, and the G7 must take steps to ensure it will ...
11 Apr 2022, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Security Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland Climate action must not be eroded as governments focus on Russia¡¯s war against Ukraine and its effects on the economy, the head of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ environment agency ...
09 Jan 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices 91tv / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Tagesspiegel / Rheinische Post The German government will continue with its plans to rollback tax breaks for agricultural businesses, said ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:28 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Elections & ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:44 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 EIB / YouGov US citizens are somewhat more optimistic than EU citizens about the economic benefits of measures to combat climate change, according to a survey by online pollster ...
22 Jul 2021, 13:52 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Politics Die Welt In light of the catastrophic floods that hit Germany, including Bavaria, last week, Bavarian state premier Markus S?der (CSU) has said more effort is needed to combat climate change. ¡°We can and ...
24 Apr 2017, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans to go beyond a rational take on the Energiewende and develop ¡°a certain passion and joy¡± for the country¡¯s generational project. Speaking at an event by her conservative CDU/CSU group in the ...
22 Mar 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Rheinische Post ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new climate cabinet is proof that policymakers can look ahead only as far ahead as the next election, and are unable to make decisions that might cause upset, ...
06 Dec 2021, 13:34 Jessica Bateman Coal Der Tagesspiegel Leaders from the east German coal-mining region of Lusatia have criticised the incoming coalition government¡¯s plan to phase out the fossil fuel by 2030 instead of 2038, newspaper Der Tagesspiegel ...
20 Dec 2018, 09:06 The weak and fragile German government is unlikely to implement the drastic measures needed for a speedy coal exit, regardless of the coal commission 's proposals due early next year, according to energy policy reseacher Claudia ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:39 The German government, its coal mining states and several major utilities have agreed on a roadmap for shutting down the country's lignite-fired power plants and on compensation payments for operators. Many analysts and ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:57 Germany will continue to aim to provide 6 billion euros annually in funds to developing countries for climate mitigation and adaptation by 2025, foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said. The government would do so despite a recent ...
The US states, cities, companies, and civil society actors that have confirmed their unwavering support for international climate action despite the US administration¡¯s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement ¡°gives courage¡± to everyone adhering to ...
24 Mar 2015, 00:00 German utilities say plans to cut 22 millions tonnes of CO2 emissions from the energy sector by demanding additional emissions trading allowances from older power plants amount to an exit plan for the brown coal industry. But despite ...
23 Aug 2022, 13:32 Edgar Meza Digitalisation Efficiency Tagesspiegel Background The German government plans a new digitalisation strategy? that could pave the way for greater energy efficiency in the electricty sector, industry, and buildings, reports ...
02 Aug 2021, 12:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics The debate about Germany's decision to shut down the last coal-fired power plant by 2038 at the latest has intensified in the election campaign. Economy minister Peter Altmaier ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society 91tv / Reuters / dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau This week a campaign addressing the ¡°true¡± environmental cost of food products by German supermarket chain Penny is set to receive ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:36 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU M¨¹nchner Merkur Europe's largest car brand Volkswagen will end the sale of combustion engine cars in the region by the middle of the next decade, branch manager Klaus ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:37 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Elections & ...
17 Sep 2020, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Elections & Politics 91tv The right-wing nationalist AfD party has called for an end to all major climate action efforts Germany has committed itself to and wants to? abandon ...
20 Oct 2021, 13:32 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv Climate activists from Fridays for Future have presented a list of demands for the first 100 days of a new German government. The activists first and ...
29 May 2020, 13:09 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen Green stimulus S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung There is significant opposition among Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s ...
27 May 2025
27 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team ECB: The European economy is not drought-proof ? The degradation of natural ecosystems slows growth and leads to financial instability. Water scarcity, natural flood protection and water quality are most critical. Euractiv: ...
20 Sep 2024, 12:19 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv The Deutschlandticket, a subscription public transportation ticket, likely contributed to a six percent year-on-year increase in the number of passengers using local bus and train services in ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany will be able to procure the volumes of hydrogen imports needed by 2030 if it quickly sets the right infrastructural, legal and entrepreneurial course, a team of researchers ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Airplanes in Germany will be made more environmentally friendly by supplying them with clean electricity during stops at the airport, the country¡¯s transport minister, Volker Wissing, has said. Airplanes ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:30 Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt Despite the much-anticipated release of its National Hydrogen Strategy this summer, uncertainty still surrounds ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ green hydrogen plans, making the path forward unclear despite the government¡¯s ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:42 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs G20 & G7 Reuters / Passauer Neue Presse / Handelsblatt / 91tv ...
30 Apr 2021, 14:03 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv Germany's Constitutional Court ruling that the government¡¯s climate policies are insufficient will have a major impact on the country's election campaign and beyond, media ...
19 Dec 2023, 13:25 Jack McGovan Transport Policy S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The German government¡¯s decision to cut its climate budget by 45 billion euros over the next three years could put the country¡¯s ¡®Deutschlandticket¡¯ at risk, the transport minister for ...
08 Oct 2024, 13:42 Jack McGovan Transport Cars 91tv The number of cars on German roads has reached a record high of 49.1 million at the start of 2024, according to a new report from the government¡¯s statistical office Destatis. From January ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and ...
Scientists from a group of research institutes, including the Wuppertal Institute and Fraunhofer ISI, have presented their report ¡°Technologies for the Energy Transition¡± to the federal economy ministry. The report examines the status quo, expectations, ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Electricity market Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Germany's plan to secure the supply of electricity at all times through hydrogen-ready gas power plants could not materialise ...
02 May 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv EU member states¡¯ national climate plans insufficiently address just transition issues, a crucial deficiency ahead of the introduction of a carbon price on ...
16 Feb 2021, 14:16 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Cities Clean ...
04 Oct 2019, 13:42 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German steel industry should receive billions in ...
The German federal cabinet finally approved the government¡¯s Climate Action Plan 2050 as the basic framework on how Germany is to become largely greenhouse gas neutral in 2050. In a press release, environment minister Barbara Hendricks pointed out that ...
19 May 2015, 00:00 UPDATE: Angela Merkel weighs into the dispute about the proposed climate levy on old fossil-fuelled power stations and summons ministers to the chancellery on Wednesday. The climate levy could be reduced and special rules applied to ...
22 May 2023, 13:26 S?ren Amelang Politics 91tv An economist and regional state secretary will become ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new energy state secretary following the departure of Patrick Graichen due to violations of the ministry's compliance rules. ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices dpa / n-tv / 91tv Falling wholesale power prices have torn a hole in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ financing of renewable energy sources, whose operators receive state support if revenues from ...
As negotiators are hammering out the rules for a global scheme to slow the growth in the airline industry¡¯s carbon dioxide emissions, the airline lobby is calling for an end to the inclusion of the aviation sector in the EU¡¯s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind Policy 91tv Germany's federal states need to band together and devise a coherent strategy to ensure that the expansion of renewable energy sources can proceed in line with the ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Transport Dlf / 91tv The German government will present a ¡°modern public transport ticket¡± after the population has ¡°embraced¡± the 9-euro ticket the country introduced as part of a relief package in the ...
02 Jan 2023, 13:07 S?ren Amelang Coal dpa / Welt / Bild ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy minister Robert Habeck has called for pulling forward the country¡¯s coal exit to 2030 from 2038 in the east of the country, following an agreement in the west. "The generation ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Elections & Politics dpa / Rheinische Post The planned German ¡® climate cabinet ¡¯ that aims to improve coordination among climate-relevant ministries to put the country on track to meet its ...
12 Dec 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid 91tv With several years of delay, construction of a key piece of grid infrastructure in Germany has started in the southern state of Bavaria. The SuedOstLink connection built by grid operator TenneT ...
24 Aug 2022, 13:27 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv The ongoing drought in Germany is expected to have dire effects on this year¡¯s harvest, which is already estimated to be below the average of previous years, said the German ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:13 S?ren Amelang Carbon market Industry Policy EU 91tv The European Commission has greenlighted a German 6.5 billion euro scheme to prevent energy-intensive companies from relocating production to countries with less stringent ...
09 Jan 2019, 10:45 Energy and climate policy has played a notable role in recent elections in Germany, where public opinion is split over the course of the country's coal exit and diesel emissions in inner cities, says Michael Sch?fer, head of ...
18 Dec 2020, 12:15 In the upcoming election year, the 20-year-old climate activist for Fridays for Future (FfF) Jakob Blasel will run for German parliament on a Green Party ticket. Blasel told 91tv his decision was based on the need to close ...
23 Aug 2024, 12:39 Jack McGovan Solar n-tv Germany saw a record level of solar power output in July despite sunshine levels being lower than the previous year, broadcaster n-tv reported. At 10.1 terawatt hours (TWh), solar power accounted for around 43 ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:53 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid dpa / Handelsblatt Expansion of the German power grid is ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:02 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv There is high acceptance for ambitious climate policy in Germany, although many citizens are dissatisfied with the political implementation of the energy and transport transitions, the largest ...
11 Mar 2022, 14:26 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Security Clean Energy ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Transport Agriculture 91tv Germany, Finland, France and Portugal¡¯s National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) drafts include ambitious goals but ¡°lack details and concrete measures¡± to ensure ...
25 Sep 2020, 14:04 With numerous protests across Germany, the Fridays for Future youth movement has taken aim at pushing climate action to the very top of the political agenda in the run-up to the country's general elections next year. The activists ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Industry International 91tv Germany has signed agreements to intensify its cooperation on climate and energy with Chile and Uruguay, with strong focus on decarbonising emission-intensive industry. At the ...
22 Aug 2024, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Cars 91tv About a third of drivers under the age of 30 in Germany expect to buy an electric vehicle (EV) the next time they change cars, according to a survey by opinion research institute Bilendi. The ...
10 Nov 2020, 13:47 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Renewables ...
05 Aug 2019, 13:11 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:14 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Freja Eriksen Renewables ...
15 Feb 2022, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables dpa / Volksstimme The five eastern German states want to become trailblazers in the country¡¯s energy transition plans and greatly expand their capacity and infrastructure for renewable power production and ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:25 The German government has been urged to quickly devise a plan on how to regulate and manage the start of the European Union carbon emissions trading system for transport and heating fuels in 2027. Measures need to be put in place to ...
20 Nov 2023, 16:30 Germany will invest 4 billion euros in sustainable energy projects in Africa until 2030 to help improve the continet¡¯s role in renewable power, green hydrogen and critical raw material extraction, chancellor Olaf Scholz announced at the ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:06 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
12 Dec 2023, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs ARD Automotive industry supplier Bosch will cut up to 1,500 jobs in its home region in southern Germany, arguing that the transition to electric vehicles would lead to a permanently lower ...
24 Nov 2023, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Die Welt / Stern / NDR / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Governments in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal states are concerned that the recent ruling by the country¡¯s highest court declaring parts of the federal government¡¯s budget ...
27 Oct 2020
27 Oct 2020, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn dpa Countries should use nuclear energy because ¡°every path to reaching the Paris Agreement¡¯s two degree warming limit would be near on impossible without it¡±, Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic ...
30 Aug 2022, 13:11 Edgar Meza Transport Cost & Prices 91tv The popularity of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ temporary 9-euro public transport ticket has not only shown that people are willing to embrace public transport and stop using their cars if such ...
20 Aug 2021, 13:37 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Grid Industry dpa / Reuters / Tagesspiegel SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz is aiming for a new law to ensure industry has enough renewable electricity to decarbonise over the coming decades, ...
19 Aug 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Bioenergy Finance RND / dpa / Handelsblatt Biomass could continue to play an important role in Germany's future energy system, economy minister Robert Habeck told dpa as reported by media house RND. He announced a ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / 91tv The row between ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coalition partners over key climate and energy policies such as industry support shows no sign of letting up despite a two-day retreat ...
01 Jun 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann International G20 & G7 91tv The G7 countries have to deliver a breakthrough in international climate policy that is commensurate with the urgency of protecting natural habitats in grave danger due to ...
06 Oct 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 91tv The majority of over 200 economists surveyed by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) reject German economy minister Robert Habeck¡¯s proposal to subsidise electricity for ...
07 Nov 2023, 13:05 Edgar Meza Hydrogen International 91tv The German government is supporting the establishment of Africa¡¯s first green ironworks with a grant of 13 million euros. A consortium consisting of three German companies, CO2Grab, TS ...
07 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations about a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society The Fridays for Future student climate protest movement will leave its mark on society, independent of its eventual duration, according to a working paper by the Institute for Social Movement ...
04 Dec 2020, 13:01 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Tagesspiegel Background Germany will fail to achieve its 2030 target of a 65 percent renewables share in power consumption, even with added ambition in the latest draft for the ...
02 Aug 2022, 14:06 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Coal S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The decision by ...
15 Jun 2021, 10:53 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background The conservative CDU/CSU union of outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel aims for an earlier switch from fixed prices to market-based prices in ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:00 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics ...
The dispute within ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal government over environment minister Barbara Hendricks¡¯ Climate Action Plan 2050 ¡°is becoming increasingly uncomfortable for Chancellor Angela Merkel,¡± writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°At the next UN ...
02 Aug 2023, 14:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv [Update adds link to report] Germany has generated a record 3.89 billion euros from the sale of allowances under the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ...
13 May 2025
13 May 2025, 11:46 91tv Team Bloomberg: Southern Spain outages preceded nationwide blackout, report says About 2.2 gigawatts of capacity went offline in the south of Spain less than a minute before the complete collapse of the Iberian Peninsula¡¯s ...
26 May 2025
26 May 2025, 11:06 91tv Team Bloomberg: Trump extends deadline for 50% tariffs on EU goods to July 9 U.S. president Donald Trump said he would extend the deadline for the European Union to face 50 percent tariffs until July 9 after a phone call with ...
Large German environmental NGOs plan to boycott an upcoming hearing on the Climate Action Plan 2050, organised by the federal environment ministry, writes Der Spiegel. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) and Nature and Biodiversity ...
14 Dec 2021, 11:28 Edgar Meza Coal Finance 91tv As part of its efforts to achieve a coal phaseout in Germany by 2030, Commerzbank is introducing a number of measures aimed at decreasing business linked to fossil fuels. From 1 January, ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:24 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 CarbonBrief If the German government adopts the commission recommendations for a coal exit by 2038, coal capacity would barely fall faster than a business-as-usual pathway over ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables G20 & G7 91tv Germany is advocating for an agreement on "a clear and concrete target" for the global expansion of renewables among the Group of Twenty (G20), said ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:32 S?ren Amelang Society Government 91tv / Der Tagesspiegel Climate activists' repeated blockages of motorways in Berlin and other German cities have sparked a debate among government parties about the legitimacy of these ...
15 Jun 2022, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv For a ¡°fair and adequate¡± German contribution to efforts to reach the international climate target of keeping the global temperature rise below 1.5¡ãC, the country may emit no more ...
19 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024, 09:33 91tv Team Electric-Vehicles.com: Nio in talks to buy Audi¡¯s factory in Belgium Move is part of its strategy to establish local production in Europe and avoid European Commission tariffs on imported Chinese EVs. Euractiv: Europe's ...
21 May 2025, 13:19 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The new German government is aiming to increase investments in eastern Germany, where political opposition to current energy transition and climate policies has grown ...
01 Feb 2019, 13:53 The initial relief in Germany over a coal exit deal has given way to fresh discussions over how to implement the hard-won compromise. Chancellor Angela Merkel and politicians from her grand coalition government praised the agreement by ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:37 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv There¡¯s a large imbalance between current investment and the potential for cheap hydrogen production in individual European regions, according to a new report. Regions with high potential to ...
07 Apr 2022, 13:51 Expert Energy Brainpool Energy consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv Letting existing nuclear plants run longer will lead to large amounts of renewable energy ...
26 Jan 2019, 16:45 Energy transition home country Germany eyes a phase-out of coal power by 2038 at the very latest, as the country tries to get back on track to create a climate-friendly economy. In its highly anticipated phase-out proposal, the country ...
27 Apr 2023, 12:44 Julian Wettengel International Table.Media German chancellor Olaf Scholz will have an opportunity to improve his ¨C and the country¡¯s ¨C international credibility on climate when the government invites ministers from several dozen ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:53 S?ren Amelang Wind Policy Tagesspiegel Background ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ wind industry has accused the operator of the country¡¯s motorways of sabotaging the roll-out of wind turbines, which are key to reaching climate targets. The government-owned ...
10 Feb 2021, 13:00 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy ...
Heating systems in Germany will have to change substantially by 2030 if the country is to reach its climate targets for 2050, according to a study commissioned by energy think-tank Agora Energiewende*. While the share of natural gas used for heating will ...
19 May 2023, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv / Financial Times ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ chancellor Olaf Scholz must push for an accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, as the issue has not featured prominently enough ...
26 Aug 2015
26 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt ¡°Upwind¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ offshore wind development is accelerating, write Franz Hubik and Daniel Delhaes in the Handelsblatt. While the first wind parks suffered from delays, exploding costs ...
27 Aug 2019, 16:42 Addressing climate change and the pros and cons of renewable power have dominated German public debate for almost two decades, but the role of the finance sector in emissions reduction has taken a back seat. Many countries have already ...
08 Aug 2019, 14:10 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 The Guardian Heat, drought and storms, as well as beetle and fungi plagues, have damaged an area of German forest the size of 200,000 football fields this year, leading politicians to raise the issue to a ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:49 Edgar Meza Renewables Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The new CEO of Germany's largest energy company RWE, Markus Krebber, expressed hope that ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next government will quickly clear hurdles currently ...
29 Oct 2019, 17:41 Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp drop in coal consumption is driving a decline of the country¡¯s overall energy use in 2019. If this trend continues, the ...
24 Sep 2021, 11:20 Their goal is to create an entirely new industry, one that will become as important as today¡¯s oil and gas giants, because the world will be in desperate need of removing carbon to mitigate climate change. Swiss company Climeworks has ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:17 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Elections & Politics Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland The Green Party has called for an investment programme worth 800 million ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:27 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv Salt caverns could be an effective location for storing hydrogen in Germany due to their geological, physical and chemical properties, according? to a report published ?by the Institute of Energy ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Most people in Germany are ready to implement changes to their lifestyle in order to reduce their individual impact on the climate, a survey commissioned by the European ...
10 Mar 2023, 11:27 Despite its reputation as a nation at the forefront of green technologies like wind power, Denmark has been slow to focus on climate adaptation. Since a cloudburst shocked the capital Copenhagen with massive flooding in 2011, some steps ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Renewable Energy Act | EEG Handelsblatt German power transmission grid operators have said that an additional 7.8 billion euros from the country's budget is needed to pay out renewable energy support in 2024, reports ...
Tenants in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will be able to benefit from solar PV panels installed on the rooftop of the buildings they live in. The state government has introduced a support programme for self-consumption power ...
18 Jun 2024, 13:23 Edgar Meza Heating Tagesspiegel Background Representatives of federal and state consumer protection ministries report an "urgent need for action" in view of recent price hikes in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ district heating market, energy ...
13 Jul 2023, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Policy ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ environment minister Steffi Lemke aims to better prepare cities and municipalities for the consequences of climate change with a? national climate adaptation law, as many are unprepared to ...
09 Nov 2021, 12:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics DLF Climate action will become ¡°perhaps the most important point¡± in the planned coalition treaty of the next German government, the Social Democrats¡® (SPD) secretary general Lars Klingbeil has ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:51 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics Die Zeit Since the start of the pandemic, climate activists from Fridays for Future have shied away from organising mass demonstrations and turned to soft lobbying instead, Nele Spandick ...
The proposal for a G20 energy and climate action plan, prepared for the summit in Hamburg on 7 and 8 July, remains vague and lacks ambition- and might yet be stopped completely by the United States, the tageszeitung (taz) newspaper writes. The 13-page ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:36 Milou Dirkx Finance 91tv / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Germany reached its target of raising six billion euros from its state budget for international climate finance three years ahead of time, said the development ministry (BMZ). ...
23 Nov 2021, 14:23 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Elections & Politics 91tv The new German government should enable ...
27 Jun 2018, 17:29 As the energy transition touches more and more aspects of everday life, public acceptance will become a key question for the project's future, economist Andreas L?schel says. In the 91tv interview, the academic who heads the ...
21 May 2025
21 May 2025, 12:50 91tv Team Bloomberg: EU likely to propose quota to ban Russia gas imports by end 2027 The European Union is likely to propose a quota as the mechanism to enforce a bloc-wide import ban on Russian gas by the end of 2027, which officials ...
05 Oct 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Several lignite power plants in Germany will be allowed to return to the market this winter to help secure supply and save gas during the heating period, said the economy ministry in a press ...
The federal environment ministry (BMUB) will continue to use citizens¡¯ participation processes to develop climate policy in the future, the ministry said in a press release. ¡°What we learned in the stakeholder process helped us in developing the Climate ...
09 Feb 2018, 00:00 The coalition agreement by Germany's would-be coalition parties CDU/CSU and SPD is a step towards "realistic" Energiewende policy, says CDU energy policy spokesperson Joachim Pfeiffer. He argues a coal exit date for ...
28 Nov 2023, 14:31 Edgar Meza Transport Cars Tagesspiegel The German government and leading automakers reiterated their goal of putting at least 15 million electric vehicles on German roads by 2030 at an industry summit in Berlin on Monday (27 November). ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Efficiency Die Welt The sluggish emissions reduction in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ heating sector could mean the country will face severe financial sanctions by the European Union for failing to ...
15 Dec 2015, 00:00 The widely celebrated Paris Agreement has intensified the debate about how Germany can achieve its endangered climate targets. Most commentators and climate activists argued the results of the climate summit vindicated demands that ...
20 May 2025
20 May 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Prospect: ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next move could make or break green Europe Urgent national security and economic demands are competing with the country¡¯s climate commitments. European Commission: Economic forecast for Germany After ...
02 May 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Government International T&E: How to defuse the EU¡¯s carbon tax time bomb The decision to create a Europe-wide carbon price was right but creates significant political risk. The good news is it can still be fixed. Carbon ...
15 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025, 11:55 91tv Team Copernicus/WMO: European State of the Climate Report- 2024 warmest year on record During the year, there was a striking east-west contrast in climate conditions, with extremely dry and often record-warm conditions in the east, ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Industry Policy 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche The German government¡¯s plans for a so-called capacity market, which would reward power plant operators for providing generation capacity rather ...
Germany can only reach its 2030 climate targets for the transport sector with ambitious EU car emission limits and a host of additional measures, according to a study by the Institute for Applied Ecology (?ko-Institut) and the International Council on ...
12 Aug 2019, 12:30 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Energy Post / 91tv Coordinated action on climate by Germany and the Netherlands is critical for Europe, several researchers wrote ahead of a joint German-Dutch climate ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:50 S?ren Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv Germany will likely far exceed the government target for installing new PV arrays this year, the country¡¯s engineering association VDI said. Additional capacity installations are set to ...
The four parties that currently negotiate whether to form ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next coalition government must adopt a programme designed to break the ¡°vicious cycle¡± of energy prices, Michael Bauchm¨¹ller writes in an op-ed for the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. A drop in ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:41 S?ren Amelang Adaptation Society Die Welt / Main Post One of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ final traditional wooden sled manufacturers is halting production because of climate change, report ed daily paper Die Welt. ¡°The fact that there is virtually no ...
25 Oct 2021, 13:37 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Coal dpa / Stern Germany's mining labour union and the premier of a lignite mining state have warned against speeding up the country's coal exit under a new government. In their current ...
13 Sep 2024, 12:06 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv Planned hydrogen storage projects remain significantly behind forecasted demand, an issue which could affect ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ attempts to move towards a renewable energy system, found a report ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:48 Carolina Kyllmann Coal dpa The premier of eastern German lignite mining state Saxony-Anhalt has said his state will not follow an? agreement ?on an early coal phase-out made in the heavy industry state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in ...
06 Jul 2021, 13:20 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 The ...
11 Feb 2022, 13:44 S?ren Amelang Society 91tv The German Fridays for Future climate protest movement has said the new German government is nowhere near to implementing the policies necessary to address the climate emergency. "It's ...
14 Nov 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv Outdoor air pollution contributed to over 44,800 premature deaths in Germany in 2016, more than 8,000 of which were linked to coal, says a policy briefing on Germany based on the Lancet ...
Members of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) group in the Bundestag have strongly criticised the current draft of federal environment minister Barbara Hendricks¡¯ Climate Action Plan 2050, Silke Kersting and Klaus Stratmann write in ...
22 May 2025
22 May 2025, 12:05 91tv Team FT: Northvolt failure raises stakes for Europe¡¯s battery industry Swedish start-up¡¯s fate raises fears its European peers will also perish in the ¡®valley of death¡¯. Bloomberg: Spain, Portugal urge EU effort on power link after ...
28 Aug 2018, 13:59 The expansion of a lignite mine that threatens a nearby forest has become a first touchstone of the German coal exit commission¡¯s robustness. But despite fears that the row over the embattled Hambach Forest could gravely impede the ...
25 Jun 2019, 13:36 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv A heatwave with temperatures expected to rise to around 40¡ã Celsius has fanned calls ...
11 Sep 2024, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Wind Handelsblatt Offshore wind parks located far away from ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coast would be more profitable if they produce green hydrogen to send to the mainland by pipeline as well as having a direct electricity connection, ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility 91tv Many German cities have improved their cycling infrastructure in recent years, but the majority of cyclists in the country continue to consider road traffic to be unsafe for them, according ...
13 Jan 2020, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Transport 91tv A new "competence centre" for climate action in the aviation sector has been launched at Germany's most important airport in Frankfurt am Main to facilitate progress in ...
09 Feb 2021, 13:33 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Transport 91tv The ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Security Nature Intensifying climate change will increase the future risk of violent armed conflict within countries, according to a study published in the journal Nature co-authored by an ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:54 S?ren Amelang Cars 91tv Raising the EU climate target will lead to job losses in the German car industry, the world's largest industry supplier Bosch and rival Schaeffler have warned. "In order to achieve the ...
23 Jun 2023, 11:00 The role of nuclear power within Europe¡¯s energy transition is a clear point of contention between Paris and Berlin. However, there is much more agreement between the EU¡¯s two largest powers on major strategic priorities, including the ...
29 May 2019, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The Energiewende (energy transition) is the linchpin of German climate policy, but the governing parties do little to deal with opposition, explain the ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:29 S?ren Amelang Transport dpa / 91tv German industry groups and other car lobby organisations have said the European Parliament¡¯s decision to back a ban of new combustion engine cars in 2035 is a blow to climate protection ...
16 Feb 2022, 13:35 S?ren Amelang Cars EU Handelsblatt / Reuters / Spiegel The German government has settled its dispute over future CO2 rules for cars and will not call for more stringent EU fleet emission limits than currently proposed by the European ...
China and the USA ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement?shortly before the start of the G20 summit in China proves that both countries now see more chances than risks in climate protection, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. The move will ...
19 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport Cars 91tv A ban on sales of new combustion engines by ...
17 Nov 2020, 15:33 Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Cars 91tv The goal of the German government to get ten million electric cars on the road by 2030 is unrealistic, according to a study conducted by the consulting firm Deloitte. Under the current ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:37 Julian Wettengel Cars Tagesspiegel / The Driven U.S. e-car company Tesla has criticised that slow approval processes for German industry and infrastructure projects stand in the way of urgent climate action efforts, as the carmaker ...
17 Aug 2020, 13:40 91tv 91tv Society dpa / die Welt / taz ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with climate activists including Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer on Thursday (20 August) to discuss climate policy,? dpa reports in an ...
09 Sep 2020, 14:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities rbb24 The government coalition in the City of Berlin has failed to reach an agreement on a new climate action package that would include a ban on cars with fossil-fuelled combustion engines within the next ...
09 Jun 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating International 91tv The French city of Strasbourg and the German town of Kehl, which are located on opposite sides of the river Rhine, are planning to connect their heating systems in a cross-border ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:47 Edgar Meza Renewables 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) has called for a revision of long-term renewable power scenarios detailed in an analysis by the economy ministry (BMWK). The ...
The German Greens have signalled their readiness to make concessions on core policy demands in the field of climate protection for the sake of advancing the stagnant coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro ...
12 Nov 2021, 13:39 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs 91tv A large number of German companies are?pursuing sustainability strategies and have ambitious climate protection goals to reduce their carbon footprint, according to ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said that the country will reach its 2030 climate targets if it starts to work towards them without delay. Addressing a joint press conference with North Rhine-Westphalia¡¯s (NRW) state premier Armin ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:28 Edgar Meza Finance EU Spiegel / 91tv The German government has joined environmentalists in condemning the European Parliament¡¯s decision to support the inclusion of nuclear and gas power plants in the list of ...
27 Oct 2021, 13:33 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport 91tv Germany's new government must agree on a wide variety of policy instruments to achieve the 2030 climate target in the transport sector, a? report ?by consultancy ...
20 Oct 2022, 14:27 The German government has said it increased public climate finance for developing and emerging countries to 5.34 billion euros last year, meaning the country is on track towards reaching its target of 6 billion euros by 2025. Together ...
06 Aug 2021, 13:21 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Tagesschau The regional list of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Green Party will be excluded from the ballot in the state of Saarland during the national election, the federal election committee announced on 5 ...
22 Sep 2022, 14:02 Jessica Bateman Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Prices for firewood and wood pellets are almost double what they were the same time last year, figures from ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal statistics office (Destatis) have shown. In August ...
18 Aug 2021, 13:32 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal dpa / rbb / Spiegel Online Social Democrat (SPD) chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz has said Germany should stick to its existing timetable for exiting coal no later than 2038. "We have made ...
22 Jun 2023, 13:58 Carolina Kyllmann Technology 91tv Timber is set to displace other emission-intensive building materials like cement and steel as Germany looks to decarbonise its construction sector, according to a? government strategy. ...
17 Jan 2022, 12:13 Jessica Bateman Agriculture Tagesspiegel Background ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new agriculture minister Cem ?zdemir has used his maiden speech in parliament to outline an ambitious climate protection plan, Tagesspiegel Background reports. As well as ...
05 Nov 2020, 14:17 Expert DBV- German Farmers¡® Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture 91tv German farmers have understood the need for making agriculture more sustainable and integrate food production in ...
Delays in approving the Climate Action Plan 2050 ?are the reason projects for structural change in eastern ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ lignite mining regions aren't yet receiving funding, writes Kurt Stenger in the socialist newspaper Neues Deutschland. The 2016 ...
Large-scale installations used for storing renewable power as gas (power-to-gas) would be an interesting prospect for the east German lignite mining region of Lusatia, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. Speaking at an event organised by the ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:11 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables Resources & Recycling Rising metal prices could slow the shift towards a low-emission energy system, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) said in a? report. "If we ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:16 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Handelsblatt The German government¡¯s budget crisis could be largely solved by cancelling ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:26 S?ren Amelang Industry EU 91tv The EU¡¯s proposed strategy for scaling up energy transition technologies would soften environmental standards across the board, is too broad in scope, and also lacks the necessary funding,? ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling 91tv The German government wants to strengthen the role of recycled raw materials in the country's industry in a bid to increase supply security of metals and industrial ...
Two-thirds of employees in the German lignite sector are older than 45 years (2015 data), according to a report published by the Institute for Applied Ecology (?koinstitut) for the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Therefore, 63 percent of the employees ...
