17 Oct 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs SWR / 91tv / dpa Germany is debating a range of ideas to boost sales of electric vehicles (EV) and support the transition of one of the country’s most important industries. The ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:15 Germany's government has removed the last hurdles to finalising the country's much-anticipated coal exit law, clearing the way for a passage of the bill in parliament at the end of the week. The draft agreement grants ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:40 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess is calling for a faster increase in the CO2 price, an earlier coal phaseout and a greater expansion of renewables. The day after the September 26 ...
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13 Feb 2025, 13:49 91tv Team Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)- Little potential for "climate plantations" within planetary boundaries Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is being discussed as a way to remove ...
The German coalition government loves to talk about sustainability, but has shifted all responsibility for the nitty-gritty of climate action onto a commission tasked with managing the country’s coal phaseout, Michael Bauchmüller writes in the Süddeutsche ...
The EU needs to take a leadership role in addressing fossil fuel subsidies and the G20 platform is “an obvious way for EU leaders and ministers to showcase their efforts and actions to eliminate” them, writes Maeve McLynn, finance and subsidies policy ...
08 Apr 2024, 14:08 Sören Amelang Citizens' energy Solar dpa The number of households in Germany operating solar panels on their balcony continued to rise rapidly since the start of the year. More than 50,000 mini plug-in PV systems usually consisting ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv / Die Zeit / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany is introducing a nationwide monthly 49-euro public transport ticket which will allow users to use any regional buses or trains across the country, ...
06 Apr 2023, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Industry Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv Four leading German economic institutes have warned against industry subsidies like cushioning high power prices or efforts to re-establish ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv The cost of buying and running a new gas boiler in Germany is predicted to be twice as high as a heat pump over a 20-year period, according to a report by non-profit ...
16 Jan 2023, 14:01 Sören Amelang Politics 91tv Germany’s economic output stagnated at the end of 2022 but grew 1.9 percent over the whole year, fanning hopes it will avoid a winter recession. “Economic development in Germany proved to be ...
30 May 2023, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Heating Elections & Politics 91tv / ARD / Spiegel Ahead of talks with MPs from Germany’s ruling coalition today (30 May), economy minister Robert Habeck said that a draft heating law which would impose ...
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27 Mar 2025, 12:11 91tv Team Bloomberg: Trump unveils 25% auto tariff, threatens new levies on allies The new tariffs, which will hit German automakers in particular, will take effect on 3 April — one day after a broader range of so-called reciprocal ...
The German gas industry believes gas is being “discriminated against” in Energiewende policies. In heating, renewable gas was being treated as a fossil fuel, and CO 2-savings by gas-powered cars were not counted as decarbonisation measures, said Timm ...
17 Feb 2022, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s government should soon introduce a so-called climate premium (“Klimageld”) to return the revenues from the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to citizens, ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Utilities Tagesspiegel / Die Welt German energy company RWE has shut down its first lignite unit as part of the country's coal phase-out, ...
25 Sep 2018, 14:33 Europe needs a common standard for sustainable finance and investment regulation to ensure that the financial sector contributes to the transition to a low-carbon economy, financial industry representatives said at a green finance ...
The German Climate Action Plan 2050 shines a light on the German position during the EU Emisions Trading System (ETS) revision for the market’s rulebook after 2020, according to a blog post by Ecofys consultants Marcus Ferdinand and Moritz Schäfer. “It ...
16 Sep 2019, 14:08 Edgar Meza Cars Deutsche Welle / Der Tagesspiegel Tens of thousands of protesters descended on the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt on Saturday demanding more ambitious climate action and an overhaul of transport policy, ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Politics Society Tagesspiegel As the political debate over immigration in Germany is becoming less heated in line with the decreasing number of migrants seeking access to the country, the party that ...
The decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw his country’s support from the Paris Climate Agreement in June 2017 had outraged many commentators around the world, but the reality in many nations one year later is that they too do not seem ...
We are welcoming Mwelwa Musonko (@MwelxTax) as our visiting cartoonist at 91tv. Mwelwa is a Zambian comic book artist and founder of Foresight Comics who is in Germany for the summer after winning the Horst-Köhler-Journalism-Grant of the International ...
14 Nov 2022, 12:12 Edgar Meza Finance Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv / Politico Parliamentarians from Germany's ruling parties SPD, FDP and the Greens have announced an agreement for the country to leave the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:41 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Edgar Meza Technology Society 91tv Despite the impact of the coronavirus crisis, 92 percent of German households continue to see ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:39 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Süddeutsche Zeitung German transport minister Volker Wissing has triggered a fresh debate over the government decision to switch off the country’s remaining nuclear plants ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU Handelsblatt / Zeit Online / FAZ German media commentators have cautiously welcomed the announcement by Chinese President Xi Jinping that his country aims for carbon neutrality by 2060. China’s ...
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02 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Greenpeace “Greenpeace excluded from Vattenfall bidding process” Citigroup has excluded Greenpeace from the sale process of Swedish utility Vattenfall’s German lignite operations. The bank said the ...
20 May 2025, 13:11 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A key plan by Germany’s new government to introduce a subsidised electricity price for industry and revive the sector could be prevented by European Union law, business daily ...
04 Apr 2022, 14:01 Sören Amelang Cars Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A group of Volkswagen shareholders pushes Europe's largest carmaker to reveal its emissions regulation lobbying, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Seven institutional ...
16 Jun 2022, 13:20 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry EU 91tv Despite high CO2 prices, emissions from coal-fired power stations in Germany have nearly reached pre-pandemic levels, according to a report published by the German Emissions ...
Bavarian state interior minister Joachim Hermann calls for the electrification of old train tracks in light of pollution from diesel emissions, reports news agency dpa in an article carried by Süddeutsche Zeitung. “I want us to talk about a special ...
25 Jun 2021, 13:43 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv The Citizens' Assembly on Climate, formed earlier this year and made up of 160 randomly selected German citizens, has published a list of guiding principles and recommendations on how ...
05 May 2022, 13:32 Germany is rapidly pushing several infrastructure projects for the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in order to wean itself off Russian natural gas. Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck visited the kick-off ceremony for the ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:14 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Sören Amelang Company climate claims Society 91tv Products advertised as “climate neutral” mislead consumers ...
14 Nov 2017, 00:00 Technical negotiations at COP23 in Bonn are approaching the final stage; it's important that they will be open to amendments throughout 2018, says German negotiator / Ministers arriving in Bonn will focus on finance, loss and ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating 91tv The vast potential of geothermal energy generation for heating has so far been under-utilised in Germany, but a new exploration process launched by the economy and climate ministry ...
28 Mar 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background, 91tv With the development of green hydrogen forming a key part of Germany’s energy transition, leading research institutions have thrown their support behind the idea of ...
14 Nov 2021, 12:40 A Glasgow Climate Pact, including the notion that climate action needs to be accelerated within this decade to keep global temperature from rising more than 1.5°C as well as a historic reference to the phase-out of climate damaging ...
A determined transition to carbon-free energy production in Germany is crucial for the Paris Agreement to become a success, according to the environmental NGO Germanwatch. Signatories would have to make sure that the agreement is swiftly implemented- with ...
The German car industry has warned against banning new conventional car registrations in 2030, claiming it would block vital innovations to make combustion engines more efficient, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Major industry suppliers ZF ...
24 Jul 2020, 10:40 The rivalry between Europe and China in emission-free hydrogen technologies could become one of the defining business stories in the global effort to stop climate change. Scarred by its painful experience in solar PV manufacturing, ...
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05 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv dpa/Frankfurter Rundschau “Growth of wind power sluggish in 2015” 2015 will enter the history of German renewables as a year of disillusionment, according to a report by press agency dpa. ...
A quarter century after Germany published its first Climate Action Report in 1993, environmental groups give the country bad marks on its efforts to follow through on the promises made in the seminal document, news agency dpa reports in an article carried ...
05 Nov 2019, 13:52 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 ...
Service sector trade union ver.di’s has said that a fair coal exit in Germany is possible and can be financed, a statement that could alter the course of the current discussion among Social Democrats, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in an opinion piece in ...
27 Jan 2022, 13:04 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Finance International 91tv The new German finance minister, Christian Lindner, has said climate action and sustainable finance will be two core topics during the country’s G7 ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:41 Jennifer Collins Fossil fuels 91tv The G7 group of industrialised nations failed on a 2016 pledge to phase out "inefficient fossil fuel subsidies" by 2025, according to a report commissioned by NGO Greenpeace ...
Germany’s last lignite-fired power plant will go off-line by 2040, the Social Democratic energy politician Bernd Westphal said at an event of innogy, the renewables spin-off of utility RWE, which owns many of the country’s lignite plants. But the move ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:26 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 The progress made so far by the world’s largest industrialised and emerging countries is far too miniscule to adhere to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree temperature ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:41 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Sören Amelang Efficiency Heating 91tv German government buildings are much too inefficient to contribute to the country's climate ...
04 Oct 2022, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society n-tv / Der Spiegel Hospitals and other public health institutions in Germany will receive financial support from the state to cope with rising energy prices, health minister Karl Lauterbach ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry 91tv A new " steel strategy " for establishing low-carbon ...
Social Democrat leader Martin Schulz’s assurances that the party will not abandon the country’s 2020 emissions reduction goal ring hollow, as the paper resulting from exploratory talks with Merkel’s CDU shows lack of ambition to reach it, Malte ...
12 Oct 2018, 16:30 The surge of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a strong showing of the Green Party look set to end the absolute majority of conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavarian state elections on 14 October. The CSU is a ...
06 Jul 2021, 12:54 Edgar Meza Agriculture Environmental Action Germany (DUH) is calling for the German government to campaign for a strong EU supply chain law and tough EU legislation against what it describes as “imported deforestation” with regard to ...
Ending coal mining and coal-fired power production in Germany would mean that the country’s most populopus federal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), alone would need tens of billions of euros to cope with structural economic changes, the state’s ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:04 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The leader of the Germany's governing ...
13 Aug 2019, 13:43 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:25 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Agriculture Frankfurter Rundschau Any serious discussion on climate action ...
26 Jul 2022, 11:54 Hannah Naylor Efficiency Heating 91tv Modernising the most energy-inefficient homes will not only help the climate, but also shield those most prone to energy poverty, according to a report by the Institute for Applied ...
14 Sep 2022, 13:52 Sören Amelang Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Readying retired German coal plants for use during the winter in case of gas shortfalls is not economically viable for the sector, Germany’s coal industry has said. The lifetime ...
18 Nov 2020, 13:43 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Green stimulus 91tv Corona stimulus packages in G20 countries are set to delay climate action, according to a report published by Climate Transparency, an international partnership ...
03 Nov 2021, 12:35 Edgar Meza International COP26 91tv A new survey highlighting one of the main topics at the ongoing COP26 climate conference in Glasgow shows that 91 percent of Germans are in favor of industrialised nations supporting ...
15 Mar 2019, 18:19 Tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of students poured into the streets in cities across Germany to demand more action on climate change. It’s one of the biggest showings for the "Fridays for Future" movement, which has ...
19 Jan 2022, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen G20 & G7 Germany will use its presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) major economies this year to turn the group into “a nucleus of an international climate club,” said German chancellor Olaf Scholz at the ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs 91tv / Handelsblatt A shortage of more than 200,000 skilled workers threatens to slow down Germany’s energy transition, according to a report by the Institute of the German Economy (IW) ...
Fossil power plant operator Uniper is axing around 2,000 jobs, or 14 percent of its workforce, as part of its cost-cutting programme, the company’s finance chief told the daily Rheinische Post. Uniper was spun off from E.ON in 2016, and said at the time ...
04 Sep 2019, 10:53 This year's Frankfurt Motor Show steals the limelight for unusual reasons. Thousands of people will flock to the bi-annual industry fair – but many of them not to admire horsepower-proud vehicles, but instead to call for their ...
17 Dec 2021, 12:23 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Digitalisation Handelsblatt If German industry is to remain competitive and become more sustainable, the process of digitalisation needs to be much faster, writes Thomas Saueressig, executive board member of ...
31 Mar 2017, 00:00 LEAG, the owner of one of Germany’s largest lignite-mining operations, has scrapped plans by former owner Vattenfall to expand one of its lignite mines. The company is also downsizing or putting on hold development of two other mines. ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:31 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Handelsblatt / Wirtschaftswoche Online German car manufacturer Volkswagen plans to build six battery cell factories in Europe by 2030, the carmaker announced on Monday, ...
17 Jan 2025, 13:12 Sören Amelang Transport Elections & Politics 91tv The next German government must ensure that aviation can become climate-neutral within 20 years, which will require a plethora of policy initiatives, an alliance of ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv The German State Secretaries’ Committee for Sustainable Development says the country should become a leading location for sustainable finance and promote its principles both to other ...
26 Aug 2021, 13:39 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Germans doubt that climate protection and economic growth can ...
15 Nov 2023, 11:44 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv The German government is supporting the construction of a 9,700-kilometre-long pipeline network to transport hydrogen across the country and to its neighbours, the economy ministry said in ...
15 Apr 2020, 15:13 Sören Amelang Cars Green stimulus Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Focus Online Three German states with a strong car industry presence have called for additional support for the sector in order to help it survive the corona crisis. ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:45 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Wind power has become Germany’s most important electricity source again in the first quarter of 2023, ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:55 The German Green Party unveiled Annalena Baerbock as their candidate for chancellor, touted as the party's first ever serious contender to lead the government in Europe's largest economy. In her nomination speech as the only ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:03 Wars, climate change and competition for land increase worldwide hunger, so Germany must ensure the EU directive on a sustainable food system "becomes a sharp sword" for resilience in the coming year, Reinhild Benning, ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:25 Expert Association of German Banks Bundesverband der deutschen Banken Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv The vast majority of banks in Germany expect climate change and the political reactions to slow it will have a ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:35 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Investigate Europe / Tagesspiegel Background While the EU aims to tackle the climate crisis with its Green Deal, member states, including Germany, continue to subsidise fossil fuels to the tune ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:10 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Sören Amelang Transport Technology 91tv Germany wants to extend its landmark energy transition (Energiewende) to the skies ...
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21 Feb 2025, 12:18 91tv Team E3G: German election – What’s at stake? Next government must develop joint EU strategy for competitiveness and decarbonisation. DW: German election: Parties face off over Ukraine, NATO, Trump Top German politicians traded ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels G20 & G7 91tv The question of how to replace natural gas supply from Russia will play an “enormous role” at upcoming leaders’ summits of the European Union, the G7 and NATO, said a German ...
27 Jan 2021, 13:30 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Mobility 91tv The German transport ministry (BMVI) has commissioned the German Aerospace ...
A group of trade unionists, regional economics and energy ministers and industry leaders has called for Germany to increase its offshore capacity to at least 20 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, and at least 30 GW by 2035, Craig Richard reports for Windpower ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Hamburger Morgenpost / Tagesspiegel / Die Zeit / Merkur / Radio Hamburg Just one week after their defeat at Germany’s snap election, the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf ...
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 The EU Commission has published its strategy paper on the creation of a European Energy Union. 91tv presents a brief summary of reactions out of Germany to the proposals. Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv International Policy See the ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:24 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv Converting hydrogen to ammonia will be "the dominant transport technology" in order to ship the fuel to Germany, according to a report commissioned by the World Energy Council ...
German industry has sharply criticised that support for thermal building insulation is not included in the environment ministry’s current budget. “By omitting this instrument, the government is negligent. If building renovations are not sped up, the 2030 ...
14 Nov 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Finance International 91tv / Deutsche Welle The G7’s strong economies have launched a scheme to quickly provide financial support to countries most vulnerable to climate risks in case of a disaster – the ...
20 Oct 2022, 14:48 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv Germany can implement ambitious climate action and at the same time strive for long-term energy sovereignty as it attempts to find a way out of the current energy crisis, said researchers ...
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28 Apr 2025, 13:45 91tv Team Euronews: Spain, Portugal and parts of France hit by massive power outage A nationwide power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, leaving millions without electricity. Reports indicate issues with the European electric ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:44 Edgar Meza Industry Policy EU 91tv Expectations among industrial players and environmental NGOs are high for the EU’s highly anticipated Clean Industrial Deal, a follow-up to the European Green Deal that aims to build on ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:59 Expert Allensbach Institute The Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach (IfD Allensbach) Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility Cars 91tv Decarbonisation in the mobility sector is the most important area for ...
23 Sep 2019, 13:49 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Edgar Meza Coal Utilities 91tv Government auctions aimed at shutting down Germany ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:50 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean ...
03 Nov 2014, 00:00 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Carel Mohn 91tv 91tv Climate ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:46 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Gas International 91tv An alliance of civil society organisations including Fridays for Future, Germanwatch and Misereor has called on the government to abandon plans to support natural gas ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:43 The EU is struggling to decarbonise its buildings, most of which are heated by fossil fuels that spew planet-heating gasses. But it has the technologies to go green. The bigger problem, experts say, is overcoming the barriers to rolling ...
Germany is reconsidering its position on underground CO2 reservoirs, in order to help reach emissions reduction targets agreed in the Paris climate agreement, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt, citing the latest version of the Climate Action Plan 2050, ...
High-ranking members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) want to prevent a commission to plan a coal phase-out in Germany proposed in the environment ministry’s Climate Action Plan 2050, reports Reuters. Michael Fuchs and ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv Natural disasters worldwide caused losses of 320 billion U.S. dollars in 2024, up from an inflation-adjusted 268 billion in 2023, of which around 140 ...
17 Nov 2022, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Finance International 91tv / Reuters Germany hopes to start a partnership with the new Brazilian government that addresses the socio-ecological transformation of the country’s national economy as a whole, ...
06 May 2024, 12:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The number of electric vehicles (EVs) exported from Germany rose sharply in 2023, meaning that EVs accounted for about one quarter of all car exports that year, the country’s ...
Environment minister Barbara Hendricks receives respect abroad for Germany’s reputation as a defender of climate protection – but encounters problems at home when she tries to live up to that role, writes Michael Bauchmüller in an opinion piece for ...
24 Oct 2023, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU Spiegel / 91tv German government coalition member and pro-business party FDP (Free Democratic Party) has criticised a proposal agreed by EU member state governments last week to make so-called ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:34 Edgar Meza Mobility Freight 91tv Economic experts in Germany and France are calling for the two countries to coordinate strategies in the decarbonisation of road freight transport. In a joint statement, the Franco-German ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the country’s renewable reform is a profound paradigm shift. “We can’t feel it yet […] but it will change the landscape considerably,” Merkel said with reference to the transition from pre-fixed feed-in tariffs to ...
Brown coal is causing a rift between the Social Democrat and Left Party coalition in the state of Brandenburg, Germany’s second biggest lignite mining region, according to a dpa report carried by Die Welt. Thomas Domres, head of the Left Party’s ...
22 Nov 2022, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Homeowners with gas heaters in Germany on average will be paying about 1,000 euros more for heating energy this year, even after state measures to reduce bills have been ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:44 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz ...
Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) seem to “avoid every impression they regard coal as a phase-out model”, Jörg Staude writes in socialist newspaper Neues Deutschland. While the party stated in its election programme that it wanted to strengthen regional ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:44 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Cars Clean Energy ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars dpa / WirtschaftsWoche The serial use of synthetic fuels in passenger vehicles could become a reality in about ten years' time, Porsche CEO Oliver Blume has said. At an industry meeting near Stuttgart, Blume ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society 91tv The introduction of a so-called climate premium (“Klimageld”) to return the revenues from Germany's national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to citizens will ...
29 Aug 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The short-term wind power expansion targets in Germany are unlikely to be met, given that project implementation of licensed wind farms is taking longer than expected, according to an ...
Germany is quickly reducing its conventional power capacities, risking a lack of secure capacity by 2023 at the latest, says the energy industry association BDEW in an analysis of the country’s power plants. Germany currently has power overcapacities. The ...
19 Jan 2021, 09:30 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country’s 16 federal states and the federal parliamentary elections in September. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and ...
13 Feb 2025, 13:45 Sören Amelang Mobility Transport 91tv Germany’s government has agreed on the country’s first ever pedestrian transport strategy that aims to strengthen walking as a sustainable and healthy way of getting around. Transport ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / Der Spiegel A proposed subsidised electricity price for heavy industry would not be effective for the economy as a whole, according to a report by the German Institute for ...
09 Feb 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Coal 91tv The ‘intensive use’ of German coal power plants lead to additional emissions of 15.8 million tonnes of CO2 in 2022, according to a report by consultancy Energy Brainpool commissioned by Green ...
03 May 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv Approval rates for the construction of new wind turbines in the vicinity of people's homes in Germany can rise significantly if local electricity prices would drop as a result, ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze has called on the country’s energy-intensive industries to present plans to reduce their carbon emissions, Handelsblatt reports. At a meeting in early July, the Social Democrat (SPD) will meet representatives of ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:47 Edgar Meza Society 91tv Families could serve as particularly important "change agents" in tackling the climate crisis and not taking them on board neglects a huge opportunity, according to an analysis by the ...
14 Nov 2022, 12:19 Edgar Meza Politics International 91tv Germany is seeking to diversify supply chains and increase international cooperation on climate protection with Asian countries, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a visit to Vietnam ...
10 Jun 2022, 13:49 The German government and a broad alliance of business and civil society groups are calling on citizens to save energy with an advertising campaign aimed at reducing dependence on Russian imports while also accelerating the country’s ...
21 Jun 2019, 13:27 Just days after the German government signalled it was ready to ramp up climate action at home and across Europe, the European Council dealt a blow to greater climate ambitions by failing to agree on the goal of net-zero emissions in ...
14 Dec 2021, 13:07 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:54 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Die Zeit Climate action and the European Green Deal are at the "top of the list" of the Federal ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel Applications for heat pump subsidies in Germany dropped by roughly half in the first six months of 2023 following a subsidy cut, newspaper Der Spiegel reported. According to ...
08 Nov 2017, 00:00 Following intense lobbying by German carmakers, the EU has proposed car emission targets that will be insufficient to meet the country’s climate targets in the transport sector, according to environmental organisations. Critics said the ...
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13 Mar 2025, 12:02 91tv Team Reuters: German parliament debates borrowing bonanza as clock ticks down Germany's outgoing lower house of parliament began a special session on Thursday (13 March) to debate a 500 billion euro fund for infrastructure and ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:51 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv With an annual mean temperature of 10.4 degrees Celsius, 2020 is the second ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv The number of air passengers in Germany is set to decline in 2020, as carriers are projected to reduce the number of available seats by 1.8 percent in the first nine months of the year, the ...
16 May 2022, 13:07 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv Foreign ministers of the seven leading western industrialised states (G7) have committed to supporting emerging and developing countries in their endeavour to transition towards climate ...
11 Aug 2020, 12:22 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Elections & Politics 91tv The German Social Democrats (SPD) will make the ...
10 Feb 2022, 09:25 Germany aims to strengthen its climate foreign policy with the appointment of Greenpeace International head Jennifer Morgan as special envoy. The new “face of Germany’s international climate policy” will expand partnerships with other ...
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22 Jan 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Reuters: Europe extends hand to US, warns of 'race to bottom' German chancellor Scholz voices cautious optimism after first contact with Trump administration. Politico: EU’s Clean Industrial Deal to cover 6 themes ...
31 Mar 2025, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Merkur An election promise by German conservative alliance of the Christian Democrat Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) to abolish parts ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background A draft update of the German government’s 2020 national hydrogen strategy assumes a higher demand for the fuel than three years ago, when the country launched its first national strategy ...
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on citizens to make better use of existing financial support programmes to replace old heating systems in her weekly video podcast. She said households were crucial for increasing efficiency and the success of ...
23 Nov 2022, 13:53 Sören Amelang Storage Hydrogen International EU 91tv France and Germany plan to intensify cooperation on strategically important energy transition technologies, including battery cell production and green hydrogen. ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:45 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Society Elections & Politics 91tv Activists from student climate movement Fridays for Future plan to take to the streets worldwide and in over 350 German cities for a global ...
19 Oct 2020, 12:56 The three candidates for future leadership of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) – party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, have all called for rigorous efforts to protect the climate at a debate organised by the party’s ...
21 Feb 2025, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Carbon removal EU 91tv EU scientific advisors have called for a rapid scale-up of methods to take CO2 out of the atmosphere. Both nature-based carbon removal solutions, such as plants, and modern ...
The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has called on the government to get the costs of the country’s energy transition under control. “The brake on costs promised by the economics ministry has turned out to be no more than wishful thinking,” said BDI ...
03 Mar 2021, 12:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The new supply chain law introduced by the German government to improve corporate compliance with social and environmental standards in sourcing and ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:47 Jack McGovan Solar Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau Germany’s most recent push to boost the rollout of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the country, which is set to be agreed upon in parliament on Friday (26 April), could result in ...
07 Nov 2017, 00:00 As Germany’s Jamaica coalition talks are approaching a critical point, the Green Party appears to soften core climate policy demands in an attempt to achieve similar concessions from its negotiating partners. Party leaders say that ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:24 Norway now provides about half of the fossil gas flows to Germany, putting a spotlight on energy security. Industry experts warn that Europe's biggest economy is not prepared for a disruption of supply, for example due to sabotage ...
Germany’s transport ministry aims to spend an additional 250 million euros until 2019 to kick-start the market for hydrogen and fuel cells in the transport sector. Fuel cell vehicles in public transport and company fleets are the focus of the new ...
22 Dec 2021, 13:50 Germany’s new government coalition is set to markedly strengthen the country’s European and international climate policy efforts and use the presidency of the G7 next year to advance the establishment of a global “climate club” and new ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency 91tv Responding to the cancellation of Germany’s buildings commission, the governing Social Democrats (SPD) are calling on their coalition partner, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:51 Julian Wettengel Solar Business & Jobs MDR Swiss photovoltaics manufacturer Meyer Burger has sealed the closure of its solar module plant in eastern German state Saxony, following news that the federal government is unlikely to ...
26 Nov 2021, 13:16 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Handelsblatt Germany’s future coalition government is planning the implementation of a “coal foundation” to ensure an earlier coal phase-out. “The establishment of a foundation or company that organises the ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:49 Sören Amelang Grid Wind 91tv Germany and other European countries offer important lessons for the development of offshore wind in New York, according to the US state's Power Authority (NYPA). “We see great value in ...
14 Aug 2018, 14:31 Technical fixes, better communication and smoother planning procedures are to accelerate Germany’s grid expansion, the energy minister has proposed in a new plan. Heading off on a visit to contested power line building sites in western ...
13 Oct 2015
13 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv (Modifies headline to clearify sourcing) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “The VW scandal calls Brussels into action” Even after the VW emissions cheating scandal, it appears the German government is trying to ...
21 Apr 2022, 13:45 Edgar Meza Society International 91tv People in Germany are less concerned about the impacts of climate change than the citizens of many other countries across the globe, according to a survey by Paris-based market research ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv A system to trade CO₂ emission allowances, rather than a carbon tax, is the better way to steer Germany towards climate neutrality in the long run, Chancellor Angela ...
Germany could become the number one incubator for cleantech startups, Marius Buchmann writes on his energy business blog, enerquire. He cites three factors: Large German utilities have changed strategy over the past two years and are now investing heavily ...
27 Jun 2022, 19:30 The leaders’ meeting at Schloss Elmau in the German Alps is set to be a “historic” G7 summit, says political analyst John Kirton. Never before has a summit of the G7 summit faced such a simultaneously unfolding and severe set of ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices dpa / Stern Protecting Germany’s North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts is expected to cost billions of euros in the coming years, government members of coastal states have warned and called for ...
06 Jul 2021, 12:53 Kerstine Appunn Transport 91tv / Welt online Europe’s three leading truck manufacturers-- Daimler Truck, the TRATON Group and the Volvo Group-- have joined forces to create a network of fast-charging stations for battery ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Unabated and strong climate change could make the whole of Germany “a hotspot for climate change risks” by the end of the century, said the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) based on ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:40 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv The German parliament has let a deadline for implementing higher renewable energy capacity targets pass, causing both energy industry stakeholders and climate ...
The federal government’s “Climate Action Plan 2050" will influence next year’s general election campaign, writes German weekly Der Spiegel. The Green Party would like to speed up the plan, and any other party that might want them as a coalition ...
21 Dec 2018, 13:29 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
31 May 2022, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government 91tv / Die Welt Prominent German youth climate activist Luisa Neubauer has accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz of comparing “climate activists to Nazis”, thereby trivializing the National ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Germany’s governing CDU party has become embroiled in a high-level dispute over the right approach to its future climate and energy policy. Calls by ...
25 Mar 2021, 13:57 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 91tv Germany should use hydrogen ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:38 Unusually low wind power output has caused another 'Dunkelflaute' period in Germany with significantly reduced renewable power production and extreme price hikes in short-term electricity trading. Most customers are shielded ...
28 Jul 2021, 12:09 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A larger number of German voters have listed climate change as a top priority following the devastating floods in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, ...
03 Dec 2019, 13:40 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited representatives of the country's agricultural sector to a ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:53 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
Since the energy transition fundamentally changes the German energy industry, the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) will introduce a new advanced training regulation for “certified energy industry business administrators”, ...
09 Mar 2022, 13:32 Sören Amelang Coal Gas International General-Anzeiger Europe could manage to stop Russian energy imports by using more coal for power production in the short term, said the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...
19 Feb 2021, 13:59 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 91tv Sea levels on the German coast have risen by around 15 to 20 centimeters in the last hundred years, according to Sea Level Monitor data from the research ...
German energy company E.ON said it would increase its dividend next year after a huge government refund on nuclear-fuel tax allowed it to reduce debt by nearly 5 billion euros, writes Guy Chazan for Financial Times. “By continuing to systematically ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv A quarter more electric cars were registered in Germany in the first half of 2022 than in the same period last year, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). That brought the ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende Cost & Prices 91tv Germany could achieve climate neutrality by 2045 at a much lower cost through a combination of energy efficiency measures and a slower expansion of power generation and ...
11 Oct 2021, 14:02 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv The next German government must get a great deal of ambitious policy underway very quickly to put Germany on a path towards climate neutrality by 2045 right ...
22 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:20 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv Achieving the 2030 and 2050 climate targets will benefit Germany’s economy, according to a multi-institute study commissioned by the environment ministry. ...
01 Apr 2025
01 Apr 2025, 11:22 91tv Team Politico: EU exploring weaker 2040 climate goal The European Commission wants to keep a 90 percent emissions-cutting target but to change how countries calculate their progress. Eurelectric: Solar breaks historical record in ...
16 May 2022, 13:08 Julian Wettengel Renewables Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s federal and state governments will meet on 2 June to forge a “pact to speed up planning, permitting and implementation” for infrastructure projects, many of which are central ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany should not push for more ambitious EU car fleet emission limits. “I think the [European] Commission’s proposal forms a reasonable basis” for the upcoming negotiations, Merkel said at an event hosted by the ...
21 Sep 2020, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Billions of euros in German taxpayers' money are still flowing into stock transactions that contribute to a global warming trajectory far above that agreed on in the Paris Climate ...
27 Feb 2023, 13:48 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind dpa / Der Spiegel The expansion of onshore wind power in ...
30 Sep 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt The steel industry needs financial support of 13 to 35 billion euros to make the shift to climate-friendly steel production, according to an analysis conducted by think tank Agora Energiewende and ...
25 Apr 2022, 12:52 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & ...
A plan for an exit from coal-fired power generation in Germany will not necessarily be the result of the structural commission agreed by the current government in the country’s climate action plan 2050. That was the claim made by Michael Vassiliadis, head ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:53 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Germany ...
03 Apr 2025
03 Apr 2025, 10:35 91tv Team Reuters: Deutsche Bank-owned asset manager DWS fined €25 million for greenwashing German prosecutors have fined asset manager DWS 25 million euros after a lengthy probe found the firm guilty of greenwashing, or making ...
24 Feb 2022, 13:17 Edgar Meza Industry Hydrogen 91tv Stakeholders are in broad agreement on the necessary drivers and obstacles for Germany's hydrogen market ramp-up, a poll by the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) ...
10 Apr 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Heating Focus Online The eastern German city of Cottbus in coal mining region Lusatia plans to use an artificial lake in a former open pit mine for the installation of a large heat pump that could cover up to 40 ...
25 Oct 2021
25 Oct 2021, 14:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv 91tv Germany lags far behind other European countries in the electrification of its railway network, according to railway lobby group Allianz pro Schiene. With only 61 percent of its ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv / Rheinische Post Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called the sluggish rollout of wind power in the south of the country "depressing" and warned that the three southern states – Hesse, Baden ...
Germany’s largest carmaker still has to invest a lot of effort in the US to regain the trust that it lost after it was revealed in 2015 that the company cheated on emissions tests on a large scale, Jack Ewing writes in the New York Times. A report ...
06 Jan 2017, 00:00 Germany’s Energiewende – the country’s double shift to a low-carbon and nuclear-free economy – yielded mixed results in the past year, according to an analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende. Thanks to a partial switch from ...
26 Apr 2022, 12:40 Edgar Meza Coal Tagesspiegel Long-term plans to transform Germany’s brown coal (lignite) mining regions are taking shape, with investments being prepared for the establishment of two scientific research centres that could focus on ...
18 Feb 2025
18 Feb 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany set to scale down climate ambitions- Billions in climate subsidies have been frozen for months- Main parties focusing on security, migration before election CNBC: Wind energy just had a record year in ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:27 Expert German Advisory Council on the Environment Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv In ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Some of Germany’s partner countries are currently charging irrationally high prices for supplying natural gas to the country since Russia has ceased to be an import source, ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:05 The cheapest way to make the most of a growing renewable electricity supply is to ensure demand follows power generation, and not the other way around – which is still the case today. Dynamic electricity tariffs, which reward households ...
29 Sep 2022, 10:46 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Gas 91tv Leaking methane from the damaged Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines is likely to lead to “significant climate damage”, Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has said. ...
In a parliamentary inquiry, the Left Party asks the federal government for information on its contact with fossil and renewable energy interest groups. The party is worried that the voices of representatives of the fossil sector were heard more, which ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:40 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The majority of German consumers support a faster transition from ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Italy and Germany are pushing for the construction of a new natural gas and hydrogen pipeline via Austria to strengthen inter-European energy trade- the “ SoutH2 Corridor “ project. “The ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:22 Expert FÖS- Green Budget Germany Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Jessica Bateman ...
12 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
08 Dec 2021, 14:48 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics 91tv Two and a half months after the general elections, Germany officially has a new government. Olaf Scholz was elected chancellor by parliament with 395 out of 707 votes, making ...
A clear majority of voters in Switzerland have opted for a new energy law that aims to promote renewable energy, bans construction of new nuclear plants and fosters greater energy efficiency, Urs Geiser writes on swissinfo.ch. About 58 percent of Swiss ...
06 Feb 2024, 13:22 Jack McGovan Solar 91tv / Handelsblatt Solar power is set to lead renewable power expansion both in terms of capacity and generation in Europe in 2024, with Germany set to install more solar capacity than any other country, ...
02 Jul 2021, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Der Spiegel The German conservative CDU/CSU alliance has stabilised its position as the country's most popular party again, relegating the Green Party firmly to the second place, according ...
The German government excels in setting climate goals and demonstrating goodwill internationally, but gets nothing done at home, Joachim Wille says in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Rundschau. “Ex-climate pioneer Germany keeps heating up the planet and ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:07 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 In a moving message to his future grandchildren, German ISS commander Alexander Gerst appealed to humanity to finally get its act together on climate change. “Right now, it looks like we – my generation – ...
17 Jan 2025, 13:14 Sören Amelang Heating 91tv Germany must systematically collect building efficiency data like all other EU countries, which would boost its lagging efforts to make its housing stock climate-neutral, according to the ...
The energy transition is one of the world’s largest modernisation and investment projects, and intensive research will remain key to the endeavour, writes Germany’s economy and energy minister Brigitte Zypries in a guest commentary in newspaper ...
The coalition talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Conservatives and the Social Democrats have revealed that Germany has problems with implementing the energy transition, writes Aleksandra Gawlikowska-Fyk in the Bulletin of the Polish Institute of ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:37 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Deutsche Welle Urging the German chancellor to declare a climate emergency, campaigners from the global Extinction Rebellion movement chained themselves to the fence of Angela Merkel’ chancellery in ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:25 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Elections & Politics 91tv German industry association BDI has called on the next government to focus on lowering energy prices at both the national and European level. In its recommendations for ...
08 Jan 2025
08 Jan 2025, 10:14 91tv Team Reuters: Automakers to pool CO2 emissions with Tesla, Polestar to meet EU 2025 rules Automakers facing tougher European Union 2025 emissions rules are planning to buy carbon credits from electric vehicle companies including ...
25 Jan 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Climate action policies and the ability of the economy to cope with them will become a defining factor for the financial system’s stability, the German central bank Bundesbank has said in a ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Elections & Politics 91tv Solar and heating industry associations have appealed to politicians at the federal and state levels to show clear policy commitments to the energy transition after ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU Die Welt Concerns about climate and the environment have climbed significantly on the agenda of German companies over the last year, a survey conducted by consultancy EY and the Wuppertal ...
Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel has never really been a “climate chancellor,” the head of the Marine Meteorology Research Unit at Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Mojib Latif, said in an interview with Die Welt. “Whenever the ...
30 Jul 2021, 11:35 Expert BAFA- Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle Fossil fuels Renewables Jessica Bateman Heating 91tv The German federal government has approved over 2.7 ...
03 Dec 2024, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Spiegel Germany’s government had aimed to reform several laws to improve flood protection in the country, but environment minister Steffi Lemke told news magazine Spiegel that the reform is no longer possible ...
05 Jan 2021, 12:58 Julian Wettengel EU Tagesspiegel Background Future energy relations between the European Union and the UK remain somewhat uncertain after the post-Brexit trade agreement reached over the holidays delegated many decisions to expert ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:53 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Sören ...
13 Oct 2022, 10:52 Climate activist Greta Thunberg has backed the continued use of nuclear power plants that are still in operation in Germany, fuelling a heated debate over runtime extensions as the government struggles to find a unified position on the ...
09 May 2025, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Government EU ARD / Tagesspiegel / 91tv The new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has called for a “restart” of Franco-German relations at his first international trip on Wednesday (7 May), after his ...
06 May 2025, 13:18 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society 91tv The new German government should push ahead with income-based financial support for key energy transition technologies to allow low- and medium-income households to transition ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:26 Edgar Meza Electricity Solar 91tv Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has simplified the registration of plug-in balcony solar photovoltaic (PV) units or 'balcony power plants' as of 1 April. "People ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Tagesspiegel The ministries responsible for implementing climate policy in Germany get bad marks from newspaper Tagesspiegel in an analysis of their first year in office after the ...
12 May 2022, 13:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics ARD / DW Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance of current chancellor Angela Merkel has reached a record low in the well-known Deutschlandtrend survey by infratest dimap, commissioned by public ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: The fate of coal-fired power production in Germany has been sealed with the agreement of a government-appointed commission to phase-out the fossil fuel no later than 2038. But the proposal so far has not been translated ...
The German natural gas sector is demanding changes to the government’s forthcoming Climate Action Plan 2050, saying the current draft fails to recognise the potential of natural gas on the way to decarbonise Germany’s economy. A ‘natural gas exit’ would ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Business Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany’s leading business executives are taking climate and environmental protection increasingly serious, according to a survey presented at the COP26 climate ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:15 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Grid Renewables Hydrogen Policy 91tv The separate planning procedures for electricity, gas, and hydrogen infrastructure must be combined to pave the way towards a low-carbon economy, ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:39 Sören Amelang Transport Cost & Prices Elections & Politics dpa / Der Spiegel / DVZ Germany’s railway operator Deutsche Bahn has laid claims to almost one third of the entire 500-billion-euro infrastructure fund planned by the ...
26 Oct 2021, 12:43 The booming voluntary market for CO2 emission offsets is facing a hairy double counting issue that could stop further growth in its tracks. While high-aiming businesspeople are preparing a new standard to scale the market and make it ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
25 May 2022, 13:41 Sören Amelang Digitalisation Handelsblatt The installation of smart electricity meters in German households is set to take longer than planned, reports business daily Handelsblatt. The country’s Federal Office for Information Security ...
26 Jan 2021, 13:28 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs 91tv About 650,000 people could lose their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2021 and 2020, but the building sector could absorb almost a quarter of these workers with new jobs, ...
A new 300 million euro government subsidy programme designed to promote electric car charging stations in Germany is bearing fruit, according to Handelsblatt. Several utilities are preparing to install several thousand charging stations, whose number ...
Germany’s agriculture ministry plans to boost sustainable forestry and sees the need for more climate-friendly livestock farming in order to achieve the agricultural sector’s emission reduction targets, federal agriculture minister Julia Klöckner (CDU) ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Resources & Recycling Der Tagesspiegel / Tagesschau German development cooperation minister Gerd Müller said lobby groups prevent the strengthening of sustainability and climate action chapters ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:27 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics International 91tv In the context of the formation of Germany’s new government, former environment minister Svenja Schulze moves on to lead the country’s development ministry (BMZ) ...
30 Mar 2021, 13:40 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv There have been few positive developments in the state of the German environment in 2020, ...
22 Jan 2019, 17:31 Germany and France have signed an update to their landmark 1963 post-war Élysée friendship treaty, showcasing their commitment to European cooperation in the face of Brexit and growing nationalism in several member states. The treaty ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Energiewende 91tv The advanced stage of Germany’s energy transition has led the country to understand that a broader change of economic structures is necessary to complete the ...
Price comparison website verivox has looked at Germany’s parties’ election programmes and examined the different proposals on how electricity is to be kept affordable in the future, the company said in a press release. It is striking that “especially the ...
02 Mar 2022, 13:31 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Renewables Security 91tv Ensuring energy supply security can take priority over climate action, Germany’s economy and climate minister has said. Speaking to Deutschlandfunk (Dlf) radio, Robert ...
15 Feb 2023, 13:02 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt The expansion targets for renewable power in ...
The city of Berlin will double the support paid to entrepreneurs that decide to buy an electric car, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The so-called buyer’s premium for commercial vehicles will be raised from 4,000 euros, paid for by the federal ...
The agreement by the EU member states’ energy ministers on the Union’s future energy policy is “not commensurate with the challenges of climate protection”, writes Detlef Drewes in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter Neue Presse. With the current ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Agriculture 91tv German stakeholders in agriculture support calls for an EU-wide benchmarking system, arguing that this could help reward sustainable practices in the sector. Such a system has been proposed ...
03 Dec 2018, 11:28 Politicians across party lines, environmental and industry groups and researchers alike are in favour of a price on carbon emissions in all sectors. There is debate on details such as the pros and cons of a carbon tax versus a trading ...
21 Apr 2020, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Cars Green stimulus dpa / Handelsblatt / taz / FAZ / WirtschaftsWoche Several German newspapers have run commentaries critical of a proposed buyer’s premium on cars. The premium would support the car industry in dealing ...
21 Jan 2025
21 Jan 2025, 11:00 91tv Team AP: Trump signs executive order directing US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement — again Move is blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies. Ursula von ...
23 Aug 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland The German government is pushing for the establishment of an international climate alliance aimed at accelerating the implementation of the Paris Agreement, ...
15 Jul 2015, 00:00 The European Commission has launched its proposals for an Energy Union, including reform of the emissions trading scheme, a redesign of the European power market, updated efficiency labelling and consumer empowerment. 91tv has compiled ...
13 Jul 2022, 12:57 Jessica Bateman Wind 91tv The German government’s ambitious offshore wind power expansion targets triggered a construction increase in the first half of 2022, although no turbines were built. According to a press release ...
04 Mar 2022, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Society International ARD A majority of Germans support the measures governments are taking against Russia even if they lead to problems with energy supply, a survey by infratest dimap commissioned by public broadcaster ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:13 Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Germany's environment minister Svenja Schulze has proposed to speed up the large-scale use of renewable hydrogen with a quota for aeroplane fuels and tenders for production. "For me it is ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:17 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Wind Hydrogen Clean ...
18 Nov 2022, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann International 91tv Poland and Germany have agreed to intensify their cooperation on energy policy through joint projects on energy efficiency, renewables, infrastructure and the energy market design. “The ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:26 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Reducing greenhouse gas ...
21 Apr 2021, 13:12 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Sören Amelang Transport 91tv Germany's government has adopted a ...
13 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025, 11:50 91tv Team Science Direct: CO2-tax on emission-intensive agricultural goods could cut German agricultural emissions by 22.5% The CO2-tax could generate over 8.2 billion euros in annual revenue, analysis finds. Bloomberg: Europe threatens ...
06 Oct 2021, 14:11 Edgar Meza Renewables Elections & Politics 91tv Renewable energy industry groups have laid out a series of proposals for the incoming federal government to accelerate the expansion of green power sources. "From an ...
The Rhenish lignite mining district plans to present in the coming weeks its programme for adjusting structurally to a phase-out of coal, according to a dpa article carried by Die Welt. The coal-exit commission, established by the federal government, has ...
01 Feb 2021, 13:50 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Most Germans are willing to pay higher prices and taxes to fight climate change, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) reports citing the ...
11 Jun 2021, 14:14 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Heating 91tv Agora Energiewende * and the Climate Neutrality Foundation have unveiled a roadmap aimed at facilitating the necessary heating transition to make the building sector ...
03 Feb 2023, 13:36 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv Solar PV expansion in Germany jumped ...
21 Nov 2022, 13:59 Sören Amelang Renewables Policy The lack of cooperation between authorities, supply chain problems, rising costs, a lack of skilled workers and legal issues are the main culprits for Germany’s failure to massively speed up the ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost & Prices 91tv Germany will provide up to 3.53 billion euros in the period 2027 to 2036 to procure hydrogen and hydrogen-based derivatives from different regions, said the economy ministry ...
22 Oct 2014, 00:00 Germany is to push for a triad of targets for 2030 at the EU climate summit on 23-24 October with broad backing from the public, and some concerns on the part of industry. Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der ...
27 Oct 2015
27 Oct 2015, 00:00 CORRECTION- Vattenfall's underlying operating profit was 3,388 million SEK in the third quarter of 2015, not 3,388 billion. Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Vattenfall 3rd quarter results / Two 500 MW lignite units will be ...
13 Oct 2022, 13:35 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs 91tv The German government has approved a new skilled labour strategy that includes measures to help companies and businesses attract and retain skilled workers in view of growing challenges ...
27 May 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt German industry leaders expressed concerns that Germany will lose out when it comes to building a hydrogen economy, Handelsblatt reports. "It is five to twelve," Martin Brudermüller, CEO ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Government Bild Zeitung In a bid to achieve the high renewable power expansion targets for the end of the decade, German chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to make the buildout a priority and hold talks with the 16 ...
24 Mar 2021, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal Carbon Pulse German companies are among the top buyers of discredited, decade-old offsets in the voluntary carbon market, reports Carbon Pulse. Nearly 2.6 million Emissions Reduction ...
A German exit from coal-fired power generation “must really happen very, very fast – maybe by 2025, 2030” if the country wants to be a pioneer in international climate protection, Niklas Höhne of think tank NewClimate Institute said in an interview with ...
Instead of pushing for a coal phase-out, Germany should reduce its carbon emissions from transport and housing, Saxony-Anhalt State Premier Reiner Haseloff said, according to a dpa article carried by Berliner Morgenpost. An observer in the recently formed ...
30 Sep 2021, 13:12 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Business & Jobs Elections & Politics 91tv German businesses want to see ...
As expected, Germany’s future energy and climate policy has emerged as the main stumbling block in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s effort to form a government coalition of her conservatives, the Free Democrats, and the Green Party. According to media reports, ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:19 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Finance dpa / Focus Online Germany’s Climate Action Law planned for 2019 must include a price for ...
German foreign minister Heiko Maas and his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono said they would aim to carry out the Paris Climate Agreement, from which the United States withdrew last year, promote free trade, and seek to address issues through multilateral ...
On the occasion of World Health Day on 7 April, medical doctors and climate protection proponents called for a coal exit in Germany by 2030. "We are firmly opposed to an economy that causes and tolerates illness," reads a declaration issued by ...
01 Dec 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Germany's electricity market design needs a fundamental overhaul more urgently than ever before to make the economic value of supply security visible, the country's energy ...
"Many election manifesto pledges concerning the German energy transition project appear to be based on wishful thinking and contain little information about the measures required or the expected costs," writes Deutsche Bank Research in a paper ...
“Little will change on the European continent due to the decision of the British people, including when it comes to the climate and energy agency,” writes Sabrina Schulz in the blog of climate and energy think tank E3G. In Germany, the fight over the ...
17 Jun 2024, 12:15 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv / AP Government members and NGOs from Germany have welcomed the adoption of the EU nature restoration law by member states following months of delay. Member states on Monday gave their final ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv The natural resources humans can consume sustainably this year will be used up by Monday 29 July, according to calculations by the Global Footprint Network. If all the world’s population ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The construction of hydrogen storage facilities beyond the existing caverns is crucial for the energy system of the future, especially as a basis for solar photovoltaics (PV) ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv The European Union has given Germany and six other EU countries the green light to provide a total of 6.9 billion euros in state support to companies for 33 projects along the hydrogen ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:40 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:59 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics 91tv / Spiegel Online Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has reelected Manuela Schwesig as premier of the northeastern coastal state, which is aiming for climate neutrality by 2040. A member ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:27 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics dpa, ZEIT Online Climate protection plans need a stronger focus on social equality, Reiner Hoffman, head of the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB), has said. The EU Green Deal, a ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:13 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Gas International 91tv The environmental group Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says it is suing to stop the controversial Nord ...
Gas made by electrolysis using renewable electricity could become cheaper than natural gas in the 2030s, according to an analysis by consultancy Energy Brainpool commissioned by Greenpeace Energy. This would require investments to push costs down, cheap ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:30 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Global warming is making white Christmas a thing of the past in Germany, ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:25 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv In 2019, Germany experienced its third-warmest year since the beginning of regular ...
07 Nov 2022, 13:35 Sören Amelang Renewables Industry 91tv Excessive red tape hinders Germany’s shift to a low-emission economy, according to a report by industry association BDI. Planning and approval procedures are not only becoming ...
06 Jul 2022, 12:03 Russia’s war against Ukraine pushes governments across Europe to overhaul their plans for gas infrastructure such as pipelines or import terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG). Substituting only half of Russian gas imports forces ...
15 Sep 2022, 13:44 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv Calculations by the ifo Institute for Economic Research suggest that postponing the decommissioning of Germany’s three remaining nuclear power plants would not help the ...
24 Sep 2021, 13:38 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv International The fight against climate change must be top of Germany’s agenda when it takes over the 2022 G7 presidency in three months, writes conservative chancellor candidate Armin Laschet in ...
30 May 2024, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity International 91tv France and Germany will strengthen bilateral cooperation to unlock the potential of flexibility in the electricity system, government representatives agreed on the margins of ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:20 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Business Handelsblatt German industrial giant Siemens regards industrial companies' responsibility to become more environmentally friendly as a defining task of the future and ...
25 Jan 2021, 12:39 Charlotte Nijhuis Transport 91tv Bringing aviation in line with climate protection is a realistic goal, but a regulatory framework and technological innovations are needed, according to the Roadmap Climate Neutral Flying, ...
25 Apr 2025, 09:00 European and UK leaders have pledged to cooperate closely to strengthen energy supply security, and said bringing down fossil fuel imports and ramping up domestic clean sources is the only way to do so. At an energy security summit in ...
04 Oct 2018, 17:11 Germany’s government has decided to reduce emissions from diesel cars in polluted cities by swapping old models for new ones and retrofitting some older cars. Transport minister Andreas Scheuer and environment minister Svenja Schulze ...
10 Oct 2024, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Increasing heatwaves and droughts in recent years have led to regional water scarcity and associated conflicts in Germany and the situation is set to intensify as climate change ...
13 Jul 2017, 00:00 Germany should implement a national tax on carbon emissions in order to meet its own emission reduction targets in the an efficient and straight forward way, the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) proposed based on a study by ...
13 Jan 2025, 13:45 Sören Amelang Technology Heating dpa A growing number of towns on the shores of Lake Constance are planning to use the water’s thermal energy to switch to carbon-neutral heating, reports newswire dpa. “Lake thermal energy offers ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Hydrogen 91tv The number of biogas plants installed in Germany is ...
19 May 2021, 13:36 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics International RND German federal finance minister Olaf Scholz has proposed the creation of an international organisation of countries to lead the way in climate protection, Andreas Niesmann writes for ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:02 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany will not leave developing countries alone in dealing with climate protection and adaptation to climate change, said German environment ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:46 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany’s national weather service has said that the country should prepare for ...
More than 30 foundations from eight countries have initiated the Foundations Platform (F20) “to further shape the political discourse on future sustainability measures before, during and after the G20 summit” on 7-8 July in Hamburg. The goal is to ...
25 Nov 2021, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Gas International dpa The European Commission is planning measures against methane emissions from the oil and gas industry in the EU, according to a draft law proposal seen by German news agency ...
28 Oct 2022, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv Long approval procedures and insufficient land designation mean the expansion of wind power capacity across Germany is too slow to meet climate targets, a report by the federal and state ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:35 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv NGO Germanwatch has welcomed the Franco-German statements on climate action after the two government cabinets met virtually on Monday (31 May), but called for greater speed of cooperation. “We are ...
04 Feb 2025
04 Feb 2025, 12:00 91tv Team EEA: EU maritime transport: progress made but environmental, sustainability challenges persist Europe’s maritime sector is making progress towards greater sustainability but will need to increase its efforts over the coming ...
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12 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Reuters “Germany says firms set aside enough nuclear decommissioning funds” According to the government, stress tests show that nuclear power plant operators have set aside enough funds to pay for decommissioning ...
The German coal industry would remain important for the energy sector as long as there was not a way to store renewable energy at an “industrial scale”, Albrecht Gerber (SPD), energy and economy minister in the German state of Brandenburg told Der ...
14 Apr 2022, 12:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Government Handelsblatt Business leaders in Germany are reacting with relief that the country’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck from the Green Party is putting economic stability in the ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars 91tv Hybrid cars can make an important contribution to CO2 savings and also facilitate the switch from combustion engines to electric vehicles, German transport minister Volker Wissing said ...
07 Oct 2021, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv / Dlf Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock has called for speedy coalition talks with election winner SPD and the pro-business FDP to make the next German government a ...
27 Jan 2020, 13:46 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities dpa / Donaukurier Authorities in four German cities with active driving bans for diesel cars have registered over 15 ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:09 Sören Amelang Heating Elections & Politics 91tv Electrical and IT companies in Germany have called on Germany's parties to not discredit the energy transition in the federal election campaign leading up to the vote ...
15 Sep 2020, 14:34 Coal Die Zeit Coal workers in the mining region of Lusatia in eastern Germany are preparing for an uncertain future as the country’s coal exit moves forward, writes Anna Saraste in Die Zeit. With a variety of operations in the area, ...
The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) plans to initiate its own programme to measure emissions from diesel vehicles in real-life conditions, setting up parallel structures to those of the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA), reports Süddeutsche Zeitung ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:05 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs 91tv Investments in the former coal mining region in the western German state of ...
20 May 2019, 13:12 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Policy Hamburger Abendblatt / 91tv The idea by socialist EU Commission ...
The German federal government wants to support electric vehicle adoption in the trucking industry, reports Markus Balser in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. “From 1 January 2019, electric trucks will be exempt from the motorway toll for trucks. This is a big ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:16 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv In its latest auction for onshore wind turbines, Germany failed to secure enough investment deals to ensure the rollout of the technology proceeds with sufficient speed to reach renewable ...
EU environment ministers want to find a compromise on future car emission limits today, but car giant and Energiewende pioneer Germany creates confusion instead of playing a leading role in the negotiations, write Markus Becker and Gerald Traufetter on ...
Federal transport minister Alexander Dobrindt’s transport infrastructure plan 2030 is harmful to the climate, several members of the Green group in the Bundestag have told Chancellor Angela Merkel, reports Süddeutsche Zeitung. “The transport minister’s ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:02 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Agriculture 91tv Germany's forests currently contain 2.6 billion tonnes of carbon in living biomass, ...
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14 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Economist: Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany? Bombshell fiscal package—currently under negotiation—represents more than just the start of deficit spending on defence. It is the beginning of a new European growth ...
06 May 2021, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Zeit Online / SZ / General-Anzeiger German media commentaries largely welcome the government’s agreement to increase the country’s climate targets, but caution that the goals must now be underpinned ...
20 Jul 2022, 14:02 Hannah Naylor Coal Transport n-tv Low river levels across Germany, including on the Rhine, are threatening the supply of shipped materials such as coal, chemicals and gravel, reports n-tv. The drought comes at a time when demand is ...
15 May 2019, 12:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Most nations in the world have subscribed to the goal of limiting global warming and reining in climate change but the financial long-term strategy often does not match this ambition yet, a ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:20 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Handelsblatt The German government is concerned about the country’s oil refineries, which are facing the most serious crisis in decades caused by the rising cost of emissions, cheap fuel imports, weak demand ...
01 Nov 2019, 13:22 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv A court in Germany has rejected a lawsuit filed against the German government for not doing enough to avert ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:53 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 dpa Climate ...
The energy transition and climate protection are not among the new government’s priorities, and it would be more honest to give up on Germany’s climate targets altogether, writes Daniel Wetzel in a commentary in Die Welt. The energy transition urgently ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:43 Kerstine Appunn COP26 91tv New pledges made at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow mean that wealthy nations will almost deliver on their promise to provide 100 billion US dollars per year in climate finance to ...
28 Jul 2017, 00:00 On 2 August, the CEOs of Germany’s major car manufacturers will meet with federal and state government representatives to discuss ways to reduce pollution from diesel cars. Recent cartel allegations shed a new light on the meeting’s ...
German car manufacturers are working to sell ever more diesel vehicles in a bid to comply with stricter EU CO 2 emission limits, risking “disaster”, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. Diesel-fuelled cars produce less ...
24 Jan 2022, 12:51 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Die Welt Investors plan to build an import terminal for synthetic methane made in the Middle East on Germany's North Sea coast, reports newspaper Die Welt. The company Tree Energy ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society CORRECTIV / Frontal21 Conservative US policy think tank The Heartland Institute supports climate science deniers from Germany and other European countries, write German non-profit investigative ...
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24 Mar 2025, 12:30 91tv Team IEA: Growth in global energy demand surged in 2024 to almost twice its recent average IEA’s Global Energy Review is the first global assessment of 2024 trends across the energy sector. Based on the most recent data, it covers ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:30 Germany takes first tentative steps towards a change away from area-based farming subsidies to payments made depending on the environmental performance of farmers. The government cabinet has agreed on how to implement European rules ...
02 Jul 2021, 14:15 Charlotte Nijhuis Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv The German activist group Climate List (Klimaliste) has announced the establishment of a national political party, but will not yet run in the upcoming ...
04 May 2020, 13:51 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) ...
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17 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Der Tagesspiegel / Vattenfall “Around 3,000 participants end blockade” As part of the worldwide protests “Break free from fossil fuels” around 3,000 demonstrators from all over ...
More than two million customers used car sharing services of 165 companies in Germany by the start of 2018, writes the Federal German Car Sharing Association (bcs) in a press release. “Car sharing is still a small market in regards to the total number of ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:21 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry, which is central to Europe’s plans to establish a green hydrogen economy, is calling for postponing existing deadlines for using the climate-neutral gas, reported business ...
15 May 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics NDR / Weser Kurier The Social Democrats (SPD) have emerged as the clear winner of the state election in Bremen, Germany’s smallest state, while the Green Party suffered its worst result in the ...
07 Nov 2023, 12:25 With a wide range of measures to cut red tape and ease licensing procedures, Germany’s federal and state governments want to speed up investments in and construction of renewable power installations, transmission lines, hydrogen ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:54 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Edgar Meza Agriculture Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German Farmers’ Association (DBV) is demanding a surcharge on domestic agricultural products to be ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International KPMG Germany is one of seven European countries in the top ten of international auditor KPMG’s “ Change Readiness Index 2019 ”, assessing countries’ ability to manage change and build a ...
04 Oct 2021, 13:40 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Mobility Hydrogen Clean ...
28 May 2020, 12:34 German industry and energy sector associations have welcomed the coronavirus recovery proposal presented by the European Commission. Lobby group BDI said the funds should focus on sustainability not only in regard to climate and ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars ARD The German transport minister, Andreas Scheuer, has proposed the introduction of a road toll for passenger cars in the whole European Union, public broadcaster ARD reports in its daily news programme ...
02 Oct 2023, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Policy EU 91tv Solar PV companies and several German states have agreed on a 10-point action plan to protect and strengthen the country’s solar power industry in order to ensure the planned large ...
23 Apr 2020, 13:51 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business ...
09 Dec 2024, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The state premier of southern German Baden-Wurttemberg, Green Party politician Winfried Kretschmann, has called for the suspension of possible EU climate ...
Germany’s environment minister Barbara Hendricks has asked the EU Commission for more time to implement binding legislation for ensuring better air quality in inner cities, Zeit Online reports. At a meeting in Brussels, Hendricks said Germany would ...
26 Oct 2021, 13:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv The German economy could suffer climate change-related damage totalling 730 billion euros in the next 50 years if countermeasures are not taken early enough, a new ...
14 Apr 2023, 10:18 Nuclear power production in Germany comes to an end on 15 April 2023, marking a milestone in the long and controversial process of the technology's phase-out in the country. Europe’s energy crisis, fuelled by the fallout of Russia ...
24 Oct 2023, 13:35 Jack McGovan Grid Wind Tagesspiegel Background Onshore grid bottlenecks in northwest Germany have led to a quarter of offshore wind power generation being curtailed in the first three months of 2023, reports Tagesspiegel Background ...
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17 Dec 2024, 12:28 91tv Team Reuters: Europe's carmakers discount EVs, hike petrol car prices as new emissions rules loom The European Union will drastically lower its cap on automotive carbon dioxide emissions from Jan. 1, meaning at least one-fifth ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:10 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 91tv Germany’s government coalition parties have locked horns over the envisaged 65 percent share of renewables in Germany’s gross power ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Construction Handelsblatt / 91tv With a new label for low-carbon cement, Germany's industry aims to ramp up production and sales of the climate friendlier construction material, business ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:31 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Start-ups Finance 91tv Twenty-odd venture capital providers active in Germany have teamed up to introduce a sustainability clause in new ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:47 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU 91tv Germany’s prospective next government coalition will likely support EU plans to introduce a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), said Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the ...
12 Jul 2021, 12:20 Germany's upcoming general election adds fuel to the debate about whether combustion engines have a future in the birth country of the automobile and whether a general speed limit should be introduced on its famed autobahns. Given ...
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23 Jan 2025, 12:28 91tv Team Ember: Record 47% of the European Union’s electricity now comes from solar and other renewables Another year of coal and gas decline cut EU power sector emissions to below half their 2007 peak and reduced reliance on imported ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:13 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv The beginning of serial production of Volkswagen's e-car flagship model ID.3 in a factory in Zwickau marks a "system change" for Germany's ...
13 May 2019, 14:14 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv Two weeks before the European Parliament elections, German voters have said that climate and environment protection are the biggest challenges for the future of the European Union, a ...
In an interview with German public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, Michael Vassiliadis, head of IG BCE, the German trade union for mining, chemicals and energy industries, says the Green Party’s insistence on a coal exit in the ongoing coalition talks is ...
The increase in public transport passengers in Germany shows the potential for further growth of the system, which in turn could make it “problem solver #1” in reducing transport sector emissions in cities and metropolitan areas, said Jürgen Fenske, ...
29 Oct 2021, 13:35 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Sören Amelang ...
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21 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: German energy transition could be 300 billion euros cheaper with more efficiency, finds report BCG & BDI industry association say investments currently planned in renewables, power grids and hydrogen far exceed ...
10 Jun 2020, 12:15 Extreme droughts and prolonged heat waves have significantly raised awareness of climate change dangers in Germany in the past years. And the changing weather patterns are also having a huge impact on the country's environment, as ...
04 Nov 2024, 13:48 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 International 91tv The UN biodiversity conference in the Colombian city of Cali achieved real progress by improving coordination between climate and environmental protection, according to ...
There will be no need to extend Germany’s open pit lignite mines if the country sticks to its climate protection targets, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) writes in a press release. Lignite reserves in already-approved mines were ...
The Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA) has received 46,897 applications for the e-car buyer’s premium since its official launch in 2016, according to a BAFA press release. A total of 21,616 applications came from private buyers. ...
Germany will only be able to reach its 2030 climate targets with the help of ambitious EU car emission rules, writes Christian Hochfeld, head of mobility think tank Agora Verkehrswende*, in a guest article for Zeit Online. The current EU Commission ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv A new start in German-African relations is needed to diversify raw material providers and reduce dependencies, a report by the Federation of German Industries (BDI) ...
Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler is accelerating its electric car programme, after it failed to cut fleet emissions in Europe for the first time since 2007 last year, Ilona Wissenbach and Edward Taylor report for Reuters. “In the coming years, the company will ...
20 Dec 2021, 13:57 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Wind Süddeutsche Zeitung New German environment minister Steffi Lemke plans to focus on reconciling climate protection and nature conservation during the impending massive rollout of windpower. Speaking ...
Germany, host of this year’s UN climate summit, is a bad example when it comes to climate action, writes Petra Pinzler in an opinion piece on Zeit Online. The country of “Climate Chancellor” Angela Merkel is not adhering to its promised CO 2 reductions, ...
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24 Jan 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: German power grids need higher earnings to fund energy transition, TSO says Grid operator Amprion argues regulator should raise the cap on returns on infrastructure spending. Germany Trade&Invest: Germany Earns ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:21 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Politics Handelsblatt German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party is exploring options to rein in ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann International EU Handelsblatt France and Germany are preparing a relaunch of their cooperation on energy policy, competitiveness, and technology for when conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz has formed his ...
16 Sep 2024, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation 91tv Extreme rainfall in Central Europe has led to large scale flooding, damaged homes and infrastructure, and resulted in the evacuation of hundreds of homes. While Czechia, ...
28 Mar 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling International 91tv Africa could become Europe's most important partner for the development of the energy transition, provided the right kinds of investments are made at ...
Former US Vice President and environmentalist Al Gore has called on Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU union and the Social Democrats (SPD) to agree on a coal phase-out by 2030 during their ongoing coalition negotiations. In two messages, Gore said that ...
The European Commission is launching a Platform on Coal Regions in Transition to “help regions with coal mining activities identify, develop and implement projects with the potential to kick-start a viable economic and technological transformation”. There ...
16 Dec 2024, 14:02 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society Süddeutsche Zeitung Many people in Germany associate climate policy with state control and the fear of being financially overburdened due to decisions made by the departing coalition government, ...
21 Dec 2021, 12:31 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Transport Freight 91tv Despite increasingly ambitious climate targets, truck traffic in Germany reached a record level last year, according to pro-rail group Allianz pro Schiene. The market ...
27 Sep 2024, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv High temperatures pose an increasing health risk in Germany as climate change progresses and younger children are more likely to suffer, said a report by German health insurance ...
The German government denies a report by news website Spiegel Online that the country's coal exit commission will propose to initiate the fossil fuel's phase-out in the west of the country and favours to finish it by 2035. Germany’s economy and ...
This summer's heatwave show that Germany must exit coal quickly, according to Greenpeace. The NGO said 10 of their activists ascended a glacier on Germany’s highest mountain, the Zugspitze, to unfold a banner saying “Summer 2018: heat, drought, ...
13 Feb 2023, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Policy 91tv The German states have signalled their readiness to expand onshore wind power in the country “in almost unknown unity”, economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said. His ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:41 The opening of a new offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea gives Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel an opportunity to show her climate policy credentials and welcome the German-Norwegian project as a milestone for the energy ...
The Green Party’s parliamentary group in the Bundestag (federal parliament) has decided on a programme for an “ecological modernisation of the economy” that would overturn the current economic order in Germany, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:25 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Transport 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche / ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:09 Members of Germany’s governing coalition have agreed on new rules to ensure a significant increase in the country’s renewable power production. However, exact targets of the much-anticipated reform of the country's landmark ...
09 Mar 2022, 12:55 Sören Amelang Industry International EU Handelsblatt The German government must urgently take position on the future design of the EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) and should support the proposal for an unbureaucratic ...
23 Nov 2020, 14:00 Germany's Greens have backed a more ambitious climate target in a bid to defuse growing tensions with more radical activists. At a virtual convention designed to showcase the party's ability to govern Europe's largest ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:13 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars dpa / Focus Online Germany needs 10 million electric cars on the road by 2030 to reach its climate targets, according to transport minister Andreas Scheuer. He told newswire dpa in an article ...
30 Sep 2024, 12:00 The late summer months brought bad energy and climate news for Croatians. August – a traditionally low activity month during the holiday season – saw record-breaking heat, with temperatures exceeding long-term averages by almost 5°C in ...
15 Mar 2024, 13:30 Jack McGovan Storage 91tv With a turnover of over 15.7 billion euros, and a 46 percent growth increase in comparison to 2022, the energy storage sector’s expansion in Germany continues at a fast pace, according to industry ...
Foreign minister Heiko Maas said that Germany would be dedicated to dealing with climate change-related conflict risks should the country be elected as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2019/2020, reports the AFP news ...
16 Jan 2025, 13:09 Sören Amelang Technology Heating NDR The northern German city of Flensburg has commissioned one of the world’s largest seawater heat pumps to supply climate-neutral heat through its district heating system, reports regional public ...
08 Dec 2021, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Tageszeitung (taz) / Der Tagesspiegel The novel climate and economy ministry in the new German government has the potential to become a “super ministry” that combines two crucial ...
13 Jul 2023, 13:40 Oil majors BP and TotalEnergies pledged to pay a combined 12.6 billion euros for the right to build wind farms in the North and Baltic seas in the world’s largest ever offshore wind auction. Environmentalists hailed the result as a ...
05 Dec 2018, 14:00 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics International Social Europe German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision not to run for re-election will create a vacuum in international negotiations on global warming, ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has urged delegates at the UN climate conference COP24 in Poland to ensure progress is made in ...
Germany's climate protection efforts are proving insufficient to achieve its climate protection targets for 2020 as well as for the period from 2021 to 2030 in the areas of transport, buildings and agriculture, according to a joint report by sister ...
03 Dec 2018, 14:40 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 COP24 Die Welt “Without a doubt”, Germany – once a role model in international climate protection – is a “total failure” at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Poland, ...
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06 Jan 2025, 10:43 91tv Team HydrogenInsight: German chancellor calls on EU to shelve 'excessively strict' green hydrogen definition Scholz argues that planned projects cannot compete based on what the European Commission will accept is a ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv / Frankfurter Rundschau A German business initiative called "Entrepreneurs for Future" will join the global climate strike on 20 September and call for a ...
16 Dec 2021, 12:26 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv German politicians, NGOs and industry representatives have generally welcomed the second part of the European Commission’s “Fit for 55” package of energy and climate legislation, but criticised ...
The European Union will have to prohibit new petrol and diesel cars by 2030 to ensure that the continent meets its emissions reduction obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement, a study commissioned by Greenpeace and conducted by the German Aerospace ...
Germany will be able to fulfil its Paris Climate Agreement obligations as well as the EU’s 2030 climate targets with a continued use of coal-fired power production, trade union IG BCE’s head Michael Vassiliadis said in an interview with Dresdner Neueste ...
Germany’s rail operator Deutsche Bahn has stepped up its green energy ambitions. The company announced its intention to increase the share of renewable power in its total electricity consumption to 80 percent by 2030, reports the newswire dpa. One year ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:02 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society RP Online In many western industrialised countries, environmental policy is widening the gap between wealthy elites and poorer people, as the latter suffer most from ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:21 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv German agriculture minister Julia Klöckner has plans for large-scale reforestation projects to improve the "grave state" of German forests, she announced at a ...
03 Sep 2019, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy ...
04 Dec 2018, 15:29 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics COP24 Federal Environment Ministry For the start of the UN climate change conference in Poland, German astronaut Alexander Gerst has called for increased action to protect ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Society 91tv The German government should protect poorer households against incurring higher costs from the rising national carbon price, researchers at the Mercator Research ...
22 Sep 2021, 13:44 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Cars Spiegel Online The German city of Tübingen has announced SUV drivers will soon need to pay six times the current parking fees. According to an article in Spiegel Online, local Green mayor ...
11 May 2020, 13:46 Freja Eriksen Electricity market Grid Tagesspiegel Background Germany's single power price zone could come under threat as the coronavirus has practically slowed power grid expansion to a standstill, reports Steven Hanke in the ...
22 Nov 2022, 13:56 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv / Reuters Germany is examining the introduction of state guarantees for investments in wind and solar power to improve the country’s industrial potential, economy minister Robert Habeck has ...
11 Aug 2022, 14:03 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Hannah Naylor Business & Jobs Heating Handelsblatt Deliveries of heat pumps are up 25 percent in the first half of this year compared with the same period ...
10 Mar 2023, 13:29 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv A new solar PV strategy tabled by the ...
18 Nov 2019, 13:30 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Julian ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:46 The EU member states' agreement on reforming the bloc's electricity market has been hailed as a success from ministers in France and Germany, whose dispute over the role of nuclear power in European climate action has ...
The German government tried to bring climate and sustainable development into the mainstream of international politics at the G20 foreign affairs minister meeting in light of leadership changes in several member states, writes Irene Quaile for Deutsche ...
