06 Nov 2015
06 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Fraunhofer ISE “What does the Energiewende cost?” The costs of a climate-friendly transformation of the German energy system from now until 2050- when the country wants to emit 80 percent less ...
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 Europe’s power grids are supposed to become increasingly integrated – but right now the opposite seems to be happening. Germany’s eastern neighbours complain that the country’s renewable power production is putting a strain on their ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: Wind power became Germany's single most important power source in 2019 and appears well under way to fulfill its role as the central technology of the country's energy transition. Nevertheless, the wind industry ...
The conservative alliance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sister party CSU has pledged to stick to the country’s national climate targets, including the long fought-over Climate Action Plan 2050. The two parties’ joint programme ...
The conservative alliance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sister party CSU has pledged to stick to the country’s national climate targets, including the long fought-over Climate Action Plan 2050. The two parties’ joint programme ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:48 The first auction for the decommissioning of hard coal plants in Germany has been hailed as a success both by coal plant operators and climate activists, as it ensures that plants with a capacity of almost 5 gigawatts will be off the ...
16 Sep 2016, 00:00 To decarbonise Germany’s economy, small amounts of renewable electricity will have to replace large amounts of fossil fuel. The policies to make this Energiewende happen must be decided now, the economy ministry says in a new discussion ...
04 Oct 2018, 14:48 Germany’s shift from fossil fuelled and nuclear power will only succeed if the infrastructure is there to support a very different kind of energy system. But the country’s grid is just not up to the job of making proper use of all the ...
22 Sep 2015
22 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) “The VW scandal” It is a mystery why VW decided to take the risk of manipulating emission results with rather limited benefits, writes Holger Appel in FAZ. Why ...
20 Aug 2020, 14:54 Greta Thunberg and fellow activists have met German Chancellor Angela Merkel to exchange views on the fight against climate change. The campaigners said the 90 minute meeting's atmosphere was friendly, but also added that " we ...
04 Jan 2022, 08:37 German ministers have criticised EU plans to label nuclear energy as a sustainable investment, but the government coalition is split on also including fossil gas in the taxonomy. Finance minister Christian Lindner of the pro-business ...
23 Jan 2019, 17:36 Developed countries have the responsibility to establish “technologies from which others can benefit”, such as forms of renewable energy production, after they emitted a lot of CO₂ during the industrialisation, German Chancellor Angela ...
21 Aug 2018, 15:33 The projected rise in CO2 prices in Europe could see coal-fired power plants being replaced by gas plants in Germany, thereby saving millions of tonnes in greenhouse gas emissions and helping the country to achieve its energy transition ...
29 Jun 2016, 00:00 The energy industry and transport sector may escape specific greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to a new draft version of Germany's Climate Action Plan 2050. The proposal also omits an end date for power production from ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:15 10 years after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima that prompted Germany to confirm its prior nuclear phase-out decision, the environment ministry has published further steps necessary to reduce nuclear risk, including the use of nuclear ...
27 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany’s future energy and climate policy has proven the expected difficult issue in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s effort to form a government coalition of her conservatives, the Free Democrats, and the Green Party. According to media ...
15 May 2015
15 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt “RWE fights for brown coal” Power company RWE is toughening its stance on energy minister Sigmar Gabriel’s proposal for a climate levy on old coal ...
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 ...
26 Apr 2019, 16:50 Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung / Spiegel Online Germany’s liberal, pro-business Free ...
09 Jul 2019, 11:57 CORRECTION: This article previously stated that Gerd Müller is Germany's environment minister. That was a mistake. He is Germany's development minister. Planting huge amounts of trees across the globe could be an effective way ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn 91tv ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 The German government has conceded that the country is on course to widely miss its 2020 climate target. The economic boom, the pressure of immigration, and high emissions in transport mean that the energy transition pioneer is headed ...
13 Jan 2020, 17:00 Preview 2020: Green and sustainable finance has made a steep ascent in Germany last year and established itself as a key element of climate policy. Government plans to become a leading location for green financial products, intensifying ...
16 Jul 2021, 15:30 The EU’s proposed new climate and energy legislation will effectively bring forward Germany’s coal exit date to 2030, and rising prices in the Emissions Trading System (ETS) mean coal will become unprofitable in most of Europe, said ...
15 Nov 2021, 13:56 Negotiators in Glasgow reached a breakthrough on the rules for global carbon emission reduction trade. After five years of unsuccessful deliberations since the Paris Agreement laid down the framework for a new market where states and ...
18 Jun 2019, 08:43 Germany will join a growing group of EU countries to support the pledge to aim for carbon neutrality by 2050, increasing the likelihood EU leaders will agree to the goal at a meeting this week (20-21 June), several media outlets report. ...
29 Jun 2020, 13:05 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Climate & CO2 EU tageszeitung (taz) ...
02 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 3 at the UN climate conference: Today's official theme is resilience, with divestment and renewables featuring in others of the many side events / Germany insists on strong monitoring mechanism in agreement / ambitious pace for ...
19 Mar 2021, 13:43 The lobbying scandal engulfing Angela Merkel's Conservatives has derailed important talks about Germany's plans for rolling out renewables. The affair also dampens the Conservatives' hopes of an unchallenged victory in ...
04 Mar 2022, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Security Energate messenger / 91tv The reduction of hard coal imports from Russia to Germany has pushed up prices significantly, the German coal import association VDKI told ...
12 Nov 2020, 14:18 Germany’s highest court has ruled that the compensation clauses in the country’s nuclear exit law are unconstitutional. The decision forces the government to make changes to the law yet again, after the original legislation had to be ...
15 Jan 2015
15 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters "Merkel dashes loss-making power plants' aid hopes" Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was sceptical about capacity markets that would give extensive support to old coal fired ...
17 Mar 2023, 13:31 Supermarket shelves have increasingly been flooded with products featuring green claims like “climate neutral” or “packaging reusable,” but a lack of regulation means many of these can be vague, misleading or even factually wrong – ...
24 Feb 2016
24 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt “Energy transition in the basement cancelled” Three quarters of the energy consumption of German households is used for heating and hot water, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. Climate ...
17 Oct 2014
17 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Die Welt “ Energy transition: think-tank proposes new green power surcharge” Green electricity is priced so cheaply that these renewable facilities will have to be paid a “capacity premium” in the future to ensure ...
01 Mar 2022, 14:31 Germany’s government has initiated the first steps of a wide-ranging renewables reform that should make the country’s power supply almost 100 percent renewable by 2035. In a draft paper seen by 91tv, the economy and climate ...
19 Jul 2019, 13:52 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Security BNetzA / Handelsblatt The German Federal Network ...
18 Jan 2021, 13:57 Armin Laschet has been elected the new leader of Germany's largest party, the Christian Democrats (CDU), clearing a major hurdle on what could be his way to becoming next German Chancellor. The premier of Germany's largest ...
28 Jan 2021, 13:48 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 Nuclear phase-out EU RND / ...
23 Apr 2018, 00:00 Germany’s new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, has indicated support for a national price on carbon emissions. The Social Democrat said in an interview the idea that Germany improves its emissions reduction by putting a price tag ...
19 Jan 2016, 00:00 Germany’s energy minister Sigmar Gabriel wants to establish a round table on the future of coal in the country of the Energiewende this year. He said only factual discussions, rather than emotional debates, could provide the long-term ...
22 Mar 2022, 14:29 The Saarland state election on 27 March is the first major public vote since Germany’s new federal government assumed power at the end of last year. The election in the small state is therefore partly seen as an indicator on how voters ...
12 Nov 2021, 17:20 With only hours officially left to conclude talks in Glasgow, the details of how future carbon markets can help to increase climate mitigation ambition are being formed at the hands of government ministers while NGOs warn that current ...
09 Nov 2017, 00:00 German state secretary for environment says ETS reform shows EU can work together on climate policy / Negotiators progress on technical details of Paris rulebook / COP president Fiji was world's third most climate-impacted country ...
10 Oct 2018, 17:18 Two days after the UN's latest IPCC report on global warming urged greater international efforts against climate change, the German parliament saw a heated debate about the implications for Germany. While the Green Party, which had ...
07 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations about a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:11 The German environmental organisations DUH and Greenpeace have launched legal action against major carmakers VW, BMW and Mercedes Benz, as well as oil and gas company Wintershall Dea over their impact on climate change. The NGOs are ...
08 Jul 2019, 12:08 Financial markets can be a great accelerator for developments in the economy, but without a clear political roadmap for emissions reduction, they are unable to unleash their supporting abilities, Gerhard Schick, founder of the German ...
27 Aug 2019, 16:42 Addressing climate change and the pros and cons of renewable power have dominated German public debate for almost two decades, but the role of the finance sector in emissions reduction has taken a back seat. Many countries have already ...
06 Nov 2017, 00:00 German-Turkish relations might be at a low-point in many respects but when it comes to climate politics, Germany will try to keep the country on side during the COP23 summit in Bonn. Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, ...
17 Sep 2021, 10:05 Never before in German history has climate policy played a role as big as it does in 2021. Even after one and a half years of a turbulent pandemic, credible climate policies remain the yardstick many voters plan to base their decision ...
09 Aug 2016, 00:00 A study identifying potential risks for the energy transition in Germany finds the project to be overall “robust and resilient”. However, falling fossil fuel prices could pose a serious threat to the decarbonisation of Germany’s economy ...
24 Apr 2019, 13:41 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Rachel Waldholz Gas Security Reuters Manfred Weber, a leading candidate to become the next president of the European Commission, told ...
15 Nov 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor calls on world to walk the talk, fails to deliver strong statement on German coal / Representatives from science, climate and environmental NGOs, and vulnerable small island states appealed to Merkel to meet the ...
06 Jul 2015
06 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt Global Edition “Power provider’s new playbook” German utility RWE is planning a major reorganisation in response to the rising tide of renewable energies in the German power market, much like rival ...
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 ...
27 Sep 2021, 14:05 The Social Democrats (SPD) under chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz have narrowly won Germany's federal elections. According to preliminary final results, the SPD received 25.7 percent of votes, while the conservatives (CDU/CSU) ...
24 Jan 2020, 12:12 Pressure is rising fast on industry to join the great decarbonisation race. Many energy-intensive German companies, like chemical giant BASF or steelmaker thyssenkrupp, already have detailed plans for drastic emission cuts, but lack ...
13 Feb 2019, 10:15 Representatives of European Union member states endorsed a last-ditch German and French proposal to amend some of the language of the new rules on how to regulate pipeline projects such as Nord Stream 2. The deal would introduce tougher ...
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 ...
05 May 2015
05 May 2015, 00:00 PV Magazine “Accepted photovoltaic projects between 8.48 and 9.43 cents per kilowatt-hour” Solar array bids accepted in Germany’s recent auction were between 8.48 and 9.43 cents per kilowatt-hour, averaging out at 9.17 cents, according ...
26 Mar 2015
26 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue Ministers and energy experts meet at international energy conference in Berlin Under the slogan “towards a global Energiewende” the first Energy Transition ...
17 Feb 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Fossil fuels Security Handelsblatt / Deutsche Welle U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced one billion dollars in funding to support energy projects in Eastern and Central Europe as part of an effort to reduce ...
08 Feb 2019, 14:10 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The contentious Russian-German gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is a political issue – contrary to what some German industry representatives say – and ...
29 Oct 2019, 17:41 Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp drop in coal consumption is driving a decline of the country’s overall energy use in 2019. If this trend continues, the ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:43 If the European Union doesn't include stricter rules for climate friendly farming in its main subsidy scheme (CAP), the farming sector will not achieve any emission reductions in the next ten years, a new report finds. Expert ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:48 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 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:51 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy ...
16 Jan 2019, 13:26 Kerstine Appunn Gas Security Handelsblatt Rainer Seele, chairman of Austrian oil and gas company OMV, has criticised the US ambassador to Germany’s letter to contractors of Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 as a “completely ...
05 Oct 2020, 10:45 Stepping up the 2030 EU climate target to an emission reduction of at least 55 percent as proposed by the European Commission would very likely require the bloc to phase out coal almost entirely by that date, according to experts. The ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:02 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Security Bloomberg / Handelsblatt Global Support within German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition for the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea gas pipeline is slipping as frustration with the Kremlin’s ...
10 Jun 2015
10 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Great aim, little deed” When it comes to decarbonising the economy, Germany is nowhere near as ambitious as the government likes to say, writes Silke Kersting in a commentary for the ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:45 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Kerstine Appunn Agriculture EU 91tv The final meeting before the decision on the next funding period for farmers under the EU’s Common ...
17 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germans will elect a new federal government in autumn 2017. Security, economic stability and refugees are likely to dominate election campaigns, but keeping the Energiewende on a steady course and fulfilling Germany’s international ...
08 Dec 2022, 08:58 Climate activists must strike a careful balance between conciliatory offers for discussion and constructive provocation, argues political scientist Jérémie Gagné from More in Common, an international non-profit initiative studying ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:41 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Gas Security The Guardian The head of Germany’s parliamentary foreign affairs committee, Norbert Röttgen of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party, has urged the government to ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Security Handelsblatt Germany must be careful to “not overstep the mark” on supply security when deciding on the process of phasing out coal-fired power production, Boris Schucht, CEO of ...
04 Dec 2018, 15:31 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Politics COP24 Die Welt Germany’s development minister Gerd Müller has proposed a biennial rhythm for the yearly COP climate summits to make the talks more efficient, report Philipp Fritz and Daniel ...
18 Dec 2018, 09:35 The role of gas – both in its natural form and as a CO2-neutral variety made with renewable power – will be one of the hottest topics on Germany's 2019 energy transition agenda, according to Carsten Rolle, secretary of the World ...
15 Mar 2018, 00:00 Germany's new environment minister Svenja Schulze is a new face in Chancellor Angela Merkel's fourth cabinet. But the Social Democrat inherits a range of well-known challenges- from coal emissions to air pollution by diesel ...
17 Dec 2015, 00:00 [UPDATES with comments from VKU] German politicians, climate activists, scientists and media celebrated the "historic" Paris climate agreement. Some business associations as well as activists pointed to flaws of the deal, and ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:32 The German government has agreed to install a “climate cabinet” to coordinate emissions reduction efforts across various ministries to reach the country's 2030 climate targets. Environment minister Svenja Schulze said the climate ...
03 Feb 2021, 09:23 Germany won't reach its 2030 energy and climate targets at the current energy transition pace, a top government advisor has warned. A higher EU 2030 climate target means Germany will likely have to raise its national greenhouse gas ...
15 Sep 2021, 17:52 In the run up to the German federal election, a group of young people have entered a third week of a hunger strike to call for more climate action- with one of the protesters being temporarily admitted to hospital. The group, which ...
27 May 2021, 14:00 As climate protection has become a mainstream issue in German politics, taking up centre-stage in the election programmes of most parties, youth climate activists are broadening the scope of their activism. The Fridays for Future school ...
10 May 2016
10 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “The country, a wind industry park” "Rapeseed, maize, and wind monocultures" in the German countryside reveal what the solar age looks like, ...
21 Jan 2015, 00:00 Environment minister Barbara Hendricks looks forward to the UN climate summit and the role of Germany's climate action programme, hails the global contribution made by German renewable technology and doubts the economic sense of ...
07 Dec 2020, 09:46 Germans should not expect a lot of climate policy decisions next year, as the debates will be firmly in the grip of the national and state election campaigns, says Brigitte Knopf, secretary general of the Mercator Research Institute on ...
08 Dec 2015, 00:00 EU and African-Caribbean-Pacific group join forces / Review, finance, ambition – differentiation is key / Germany with “moderate” ranking in climate index Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear ...
20 Mar 2015
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 Clear and sunny weather, a solar eclipse and no blackout- Germany's power system has passed an important test. The eclipse was a taste of the future, as the rise in renewables will make fluctuations of this magnitude regular events ...
04 Jan 2019, 11:00 German climate and energy policy must urgently become more proactive in 2019 to increase companies’ planning and investment security, says Mario Ohoven, president of the German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW). ...
27 Jul 2018, 13:55 Germany's coal mines seen from space, the talk on electric cars and Chinese-German battery production cooperation- 91tv's 2018 visiting cartoonist Mwelwa Musonko presents his view of the Energiewende and its many big and small ...
30 Nov 2021, 10:50 The three "traffic light coalition" parties have agreed to form Germany's next government and tabled a coalition treaty that they promise will put the country on a path compatible with Paris Climate Agreement 's ...
20 Oct 2014
20 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Süddeutsche Zeitung "Don't follow the path of the dreamer" In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the head of the trade union for Mining, Chemicals and Energy (IG-BCE) expresses concerns over the ...
15 May 2020, 14:17 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Security 91tv Several German parliamentarians have criticised government plans to set up a domestic ...
07 May 2021, 12:03 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Elections & Politics Security 91tv The co-leader of the German Greens, Annalena Baerbock, emphasised possibilities ...
04 Dec 2015
04 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Federal Network Agency / TenneT New law on underground cables in the transmission grid German parliament has passed a law detailing that new direct current transmission lines will be put underground – this will be ...
11 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Hydrogen WirtschaftsWoche " Utilities could buy their way out of nuclear responsibilities for 49 billion euros” WirtschaftsWoche reports on a study from the German Nuclear Power Commission proposing two ...
27 Jun 2018, 17:29 As the energy transition touches more and more aspects of everday life, public acceptance will become a key question for the project's future, economist Andreas Löschel says. In the 91tv interview, the academic who heads the ...
07 Dec 2015
07 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Still up in the air” There are still many hurdles to an agreement in Paris and there is a real danger of disappointment, writes Klaus Stratmann in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. ...
15 Jan 2021, 10:19 While our roads are increasingly abuzz with electric cars and scooters, low-emission trucks are conspicuous by their absence. But this is about to change as new climate targets force sharp emission cuts in heavy duty transport. The ...
27 Apr 2021, 13:45 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Nuclear phase-out Finance ...
16 Nov 2015
16 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Grid Agency: About 350,000 households had their power cut off” The number of power cut-offs in Germany rose by two percent to a new record in 2014, reports Spiegel Online. According ...
28 Sep 2018, 12:24 Germany still lacks an overview of the total cost of the Energiewende and the government must improve cost transparency, efficiency and coordination of the energy transition in order to keep citizens’ trust, the Federal Court of ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:55 Julian Wettengel Gas Nuclear phase-out Finance EU 91tv More than 100 NGOs from across Europe have called on Germany's aspiring chancellor Olaf Scholz to do everything in his power as current finance minister and ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:49 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Security 91tv Europe’s entire energy system from availability to consumption is potentially vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events, according to the European Environment ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:34 On its planned path to climate-neutrality by the middle of the century, Germany could achieve complete decarbonisation of its power sector already by 2040 – and EU climate targets might even compel the country to greatly speed up the ...
04 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 5 at the UN climate conference: Negotiatons are not "leaping forward" / 1.5°C should be mentioned in agreement / German climate action in the spotlight at home Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature ...
05 Dec 2015, 00:00 UPDATE (adds NGO statement on climate finance pledge) Agreement on a draft agreement – with lots of options / Climate funding pledges reach $94 billion / Climate risk insurance can help dealing with loss and damages / Climate blind ...
12 Dec 2015, 00:00 Countries have agreed to a new global deal to limit global warming and address climate change impacts / “Paris will forever be connected to this historic watershed,” says Chancellor Merkel / “Climate neutrality” still in the text, just ...
03 Dec 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty have kicked off in Paris. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The 91tv ...
11 Jan 2021, 12:51 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country’s 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in autumn. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
10 Nov 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 ...
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 2 at the UN climate conference: Negotiators begin their day-to-day work / Finance pledges for forests and renewables / New guidelines for climate compatible investment rules Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature ...
03 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 4 at the UN climate conference: EU and G77 + China clash over differentiated responsibilities / A 2°C slogan translates into a 1.5°C target / Government compensation for CO2 emissions in transport Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for ...
09 Dec 2015, 00:00 [Updates party statments to new draft text] Issues of differentiation, finance, loss and damage remain / High ambition coalition seeks attention and new partners / "Preparing for long nights" says German environment minister ...
14 Sep 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government 91tv The proposal for a " historic consensus " in German society on the need for climate action and the goal of greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 by economy ...
21 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 ...
02 Jun 2015
02 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Bad atmosphere in the power sector” One of Germany’s four largest utilities, EnBW, has come out in favour of the government’s proposal for an additional levy on old coal-fired ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:34 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn Industry Cost & Prices EU 91tv A carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) ...
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 ...
11 Dec 2015, 00:00 Agreement text expected Saturday morning / Germany, EU reiterate push for ambitious deal/ Leaders get on the phone/ Scientists fear weak deal Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate ...
10 Dec 2015, 00:00 [Updates new draft release] Shorter draft with less brackets and clarity on long-term target / EU fights for differentiation and sees red lines on ratcheting up ambition crossed / Saudi Arabia as the symbol for "self-destruction ...
07 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 7/8 at the UN climate conference: Environment state secretary Flasbarth becomes facilitator / EU fights for new differentiation / Germany plans decarbonisation by 2050 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy ...
30 Nov 2015, 00:00 Day 1 at the UN climate conference: Paris must deliver an ambitious, comprehensive, fair and binding agreement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the climate conference in Paris / Germany's Environment Minister called for ...
US President Donald Trump has lambasted the German reliance on Russian energy resources, saying the country is “totally controlled by” and “captive of” the fossil fuel exporting giant, according to international media reports. “Germany is totally ...
22 Oct 2020, 13:09 One year ago, the German government decided that the country should become climate-neutral by the middle of the century. What was lacking so far, however, was a plan how to achieve this. In order to fill this gap, three think tanks ...
07 Nov 2017, 00:00 Conference off to a reassuring start, final agenda passed / Developing nations want to talk about pre2020 climate action by industrialised states / German companies call for a coal exit path and climate friendly regulation / Emission ...
17 Oct 2016, 00:00 Germany’s consumer surcharge to fund renewable electricity will rise less than expected in 2017. Still, discussions about the cost of the country’s Energiewende project and ways to reform the renewables support dominated the public ...
19 Jul 2021, 13:46 Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany has to increase its climate protection efforts after catastrophic floods killed over 150 people in the country. The disaster has brought climate change to the centre of the election campaign. After ...
14 Dec 2015
14 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “For humanity” The Paris treaty is a “terrific day for humanity” and spells out clearly that the fossil era is coming to an end, writes Michael Bauchmüller in a commentary for ...
17 Jul 2021, 10:30 Catastrophic floods have killed more than 130 people in Germany in one of the worst natural disasters in the country's post-war history. The torrential rains have been widely linked to climate change, swinging the issue into focus ...
08 Dec 2015
08 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv DENA "Only one third of households know their electricity bills exactly" Only about one third of German households know the exact amount they pay for electricity, a survey by the German ...
15 Nov 2017, 00:00 The German coalition talks on climate and energy policy stumble over a dispute over the reduction of coal fired power production. Just days before exploratory talks are scheduled to finish, the Green Party and its negotiating partners ...
14 Dec 2018, 13:35 Germany abstained from a call by nine other European countries for a stronger and extended role of carbon pricing at the COP climate conference in Katowice. The German environment ministry said it did not want to pre-empt the country’s ...
26 Sep 2018, 13:14 The German Football Association (DFB) has included a sustainability concept in its bid to host the 2024 European Football Championship. UEFA is set to select the host country this week. The DFB says it wants the tournament to contribute ...
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 ...
07 Jan 2019, 09:30 The impending phase-out plan for coal power in Germany will have a profound impact on the country's entire energy policy, says Antje von Broock of environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). The NGO is a member ...
14 Jan 2019, 13:29 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Security Reuters The United States has warned German companies involved in the Russian-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline they could face sanctions, reports news agency Reuters. US ...
29 Jul 2016, 00:00 The surcharge that German consumers pay through their power bills to fund renewable power looks set to rise again in 2017, think tank Agora Energiewende* has predicted. If power suppliers calculate bills fairly, this won’t necessarily ...
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 ...
22 Oct 2018, 16:34 Eating and producing less meat is one way to curb emissions from the agriculture sector, but giving up sausages and schnitzel is a tough sell in Germany – not just for consumers but also for farmers and the government. There are a lot ...
24 Jun 2016, 00:00 Germany’s first roadmap for decarbonisation by the middle of the century has been delayed amid industry fears that tough climate targets would endanger the country’s economic competitiveness and growth. The Environment Ministry in ...
21 Dec 2018, 11:58 The German government has said it will use its two-year term as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council to spotlight the security implications of climate change. After the recent shift in climate policy by some permanent ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Government COP24 Zeit Online Energy minister Peter Altmaier correctly said that Germany needs a new approach to climate action by the government and businesses, but it is now up to him and ...
01 Aug 2018, 17:31 With a national “diesel summit” in early August 2017, the German government tried to curb the fallout of the country’s emissions fraud scandal and avoid being sued by the European Commission over excessive air pollution. One year on, ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:31 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Security Zeit Online New tensions between Russia and the Ukraine have reinvigorated critics of the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, linking Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea, ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:33 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Hydrogen EU Leopoldina / Acatech / Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities In a joint statement, leading German scientific institutions, including the German National Academy of Sciences ...
25 Apr 2016
25 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv PV-magazine “EEG reform: state chamber wants exemptions for citizens’ energy” Germany’s second parliamentary chamber, which represents the 16 states, has passed a resolution ...
10 Feb 2021, 13:05 The material demands of a transition towards a low-carbon energy system are immense, meaning countries like Germany that expand renewable power generation will have to greatly expand imports of many different raw materials over the next ...
27 Sep 2021, 09:30 Germany is heading towards a three-party federal government with a significant climate action focus as the Social Democrats scored a thin victory in the federal elections following an unexpected comeback, and the long-ruling ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:10 Boasting about “climate neutral” products or vague plans to become “net zero” is turning into a legal risk for companies, as activists drag firms into courts over deceiving consumers with questionable climate pledges. A raft of landmark ...
06 Nov 2019, 09:11 Energy and climate policy observers grade Angela Merkel's government 3.7 points out of 10 for climate efforts in a mid-term review. Industry experts, researchers and lobbyists say plans for a CO2 price in transport and heating ...
16 May 2019, 08:45 Germany is set to widely miss its greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2020 and 2030 unless significant steps such as the proposed coal exit are taken. The environment ministry’s new emissions forecast shows that the country must ...
19 May 2017, 00:00 The dominance of citizens’ energy projects among the successful bids in Germany’s first onshore wind power auctions comes as a big surprise for industry observers. Not only did citizen cooperatives account for the bulk of accepted ...
10 Mar 2015, 11:02 Since the energy transition took off in 2000, millions of Germans have become energy producers, investing in solar panels on their houses and buying shares in wind parks. Citizens' engagement is one reason that support for the ...
15 Dec 2014
15 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Electricity crime story” Wherever they can afford it, German towns and municipalities have been buying back power grids and gas supply networks and are beginning to generate ...
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 ...
25 Sep 2015
25 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Exhaust affair: VW tricks increase doubts about climate calculations” Car manufacturers are not only using tricks to stay under nitrogen oxide thresholds in tests but also to reduce ...
23 Feb 2016, 00:00 A reformed energy-only market and interconnections with electrical neighbours are Germany's visions for a future European power system, energy state secretary Baake says. Utility industry head Kempmann warns against splitting power ...
20 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche “Gabriel’s energy concept will cost Germany dearly” Energy minister Sigmar Gabriel has called his energy concept a “historic pact for new prosperity” but what he didn’t say was ...
04 Aug 2015
04 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “With greetings to Paris” The German environment ministry and several NGOs welcomed President Obama’s clean power deal as increasing the chances of achieving an effective ...
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 ...
26 Jun 2015
26 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Berliner Morgenpost /dpa “Vattenfall stops resettlement plans near lignite mine in Nochten” Energy utility Vattenfall has stopped plans to resettle around 1700 people near its open cast lignite ...
08 Oct 2018, 16:58 Anti-coal activists in Germany and beyond experienced a sudden change in fortune on 5 October, when a court ruling boosted their cause and provisionally stopped plans of energy company RWE to cut down the embattled Hambach Forest in ...
14 May 2019, 16:28 Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said that her new climate cabinet will debate how Germany could reach climate neutrality by mid-century. Should the ministers find a “sound” way to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, ...
09 Jun 2015
09 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “A new world economy” “Whoever thought international climate policy was a temporary phenomenon, like a heavy thunderstorm with dark clouds, should quickly rethink,” ...
02 Nov 2017, 00:00 After an expected clash over climate and energy policy last week, Germany’s aspiring coalition partners of the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the pro-business FDP and the environmentalist Green Party also failed to agree on transport ...
07 Jan 2015
07 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Dow Jones Newswires “E-Mobility project: Municipal utilities are looking for a common business model” A new federal research project called “econnect Germany” aims to demonstrate the opportunities ...
14 Mar 2017, 00:00 The Chief of the Federal Chancellery, Peter Altmaier, threw his weight behind Germany's self-imposed plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, after calling national climate targets the "wrong path" last week. Germany will ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:30 Germany's environment ministry has warned that climate-neutral fuels made with renewables must not become an excuse for neglecting the domestic roll-out of renewables, increasing efficiency and other efforts to cut emissions. " ...
12 Feb 2019, 18:04 Against the backdrop of escalating tensions over the Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, Germany and the US aim to boost industry cooperation on liquefied natural gas (LNG). German economy minister Peter Altmaier invited US ...
03 Dec 2021, 11:39 Many environmentalists have already written off sharp transport emission cuts under the next German government after the coalition agreed a treaty that is weak on mobility, and put the pro-business Free Democrats in charge of the ...
24 Oct 2014, 00:00 The framework for energy policy until 2030 failed to meet all Germany’s ambitions but government says the agreement is in line with the energy transition. Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der ...
19 Sep 2018, 15:20 The German government has launched a new advisory panel to reduce transport emissions in line with national climate targets. The task force will broaden the focus of an earlier panel concentrated on electric cars, to discuss the entire ...
18 Sep 2018, 18:50 The country’s coal exit commission said there were no predetermined decisions regarding a date for the end to coal-fired power generation. Following irritation about reports of a supposed compromise on a 2038 end date, economy minister ...
20 Sep 2019, 10:12 Today, the grand coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) aim to agree on a major policy package to bring Germany back on track to reaching the international ...
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 ...
22 May 2018, 00:00 Energy transition pioneer Germany is about to launch a highly anticipated task force on phasing out coal power, the most prominent blemish on the country’s climate record. The government will likely nominate the coal exit commission on ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:15 The German government is playing down US threats against companies involved in the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project connecting Germany to Russia. Energy minister Peter Altmaier said the government was “not impressed” by ...
06 May 2021, 12:12 The German government has presented its strategy to make the country a global leader in sustainable finance and help mobilise money for greening the economy. The Sustainable Finance Strategy proposes a “traffic light” system to identify ...
24 Oct 2016, 00:00 Plans for a new climate department in Germany’s transport ministry could signal the issue will receive greater policy attention after years of neglect by the ministry, according to activists. But they also warn a new department alone is ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:32 Three men compete to take the lead of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Germany's largest party, and to possibly follow in the footsteps of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who leaves office after 16 years in September amid a global ...
Parliamentary elections held Sunday resulted in a major setback for Germany’s two largest parties, the conservative union of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU as well as the Social Democrats (SPD), German media say after both parties suffered heavy ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:28 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Digitalisation Government Security Handelsblatt The Association of Energy Market Innovators (BNE), a lobby group of grid-independent energy suppliers in Germany, has criticised the German ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:04 The spread of unregulated company publicity involving “net zero” or “climate neutral” claims has become a systemic barrier to achieving climate targets, argues ClientEarth, an NGO focussing on using laws to advance environmental ...
26 Oct 2018, 10:47 As Germany’s federal government parties, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU camp and the Social Democrats (SPD), suffer from voter flight due to the coalition’s constant quarrels, the Green Party emerges as one of the big ...
16 Jul 2019, 13:08 German defence minister and European Commission candidate Ursula von der Leyen told Members of the European Parliament that if elected, she would introduce a "Green Deal" for Europe in her first 100 days in office, including a ...
01 Mar 2022, 13:29 The world is already facing “unequivocal" consequences of climate change and damages will increase rapidly with rising temperatures, the United Nation’s climate science body IPCC is warning in its new landmark report. The paper on ...
24 Nov 2015
24 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris 91tv 91tv ZDF / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Allianz “Allianz quits coal financing” German insurance company Allianz will no longer invest in companies that get more than 30 percent of their revenue ...
09 Jan 2019, 10:45 Energy and climate policy has played a notable role in recent elections in Germany, where public opinion is split over the course of the country's coal exit and diesel emissions in inner cities, says Michael Schäfer, head of ...
29 May 2015, 00:00 Germany and its neighbouring countries have agreed to let the market determine wholesale power prices even if this means soaring prices at times of high demand, Germany's state secretary for energy Rainer Baake said. He also ...
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 ...
05 Jun 2020, 15:13 The German government coalition has decided to reboot Europe's largest economy with a 130 billion euros stimulus package that contains many steps to further the country's landmark energy transition. The 91tv ...
08 Jun 2015, 00:00 G7 leaders made a commitment to limit global warming to 2 degrees at their meeting in southern Germany. In order to achieve this goal, the group of seven industrialised countries said they would push for a decarbonisation of the global ...
08 Jan 2018, 00:00 The negotiation partners in Germany's ongoing coalition talks have agreed to postpone the country's 2020 emissions reduction target until "the early 2020s". Party negotiators also agreed on introducing a climate ...
03 Jan 2019, 11:30 Despite encountering many difficulties, Germany's so-called coal exit commission will manage to sketch a pathway out of coal-fired power production that is acceptable for everyone involved, says Peter Röttgen of renewable energy ...
06 Nov 2014
06 Nov 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv SolarServer “Survey: Energiewende little known in neighbouring countries, but support for goals” Public awareness of the Energiewende – or energy transition – among some of Germany’s immediate neighbours is low, ...
01 Sep 2015
01 Sep 2015, 00:00 Institute of Renewable Energy Industry (IWR) “Additions of new solar arrays speeds up in July – Total capacity exceeds threshold of 39,000 MW” The addition of new PV-systems has increased significantly in July compared to June, but not ...
17 Sep 2015
17 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Bloomberg “Why Germany’s nuclear power exit is causing havoc for utilities” Financing the nuclear phase-out is the biggest challenge yet for Germany’s large utilities, which explains this week’s ...
20 Nov 2017, 00:00 After almost five weeks of deliberations, the pro-business Free Democratic Party has pulled the plug on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s efforts to form a coalition government made up of her conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the Greens and the ...
17 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
18 Apr 2019, 15:15 Germany must make “enormous efforts” to reach its climate and energy targets in the transport and buildings sectors, according to a draft of the government’s 2019 progress report on the energy transition. The leaked paper includes new ...
26 Sep 2017, 00:00 Germans have handed Chancellor Angela Merkel a fourth term in the country’s federal election. Most likely, Merkel will have to start talks with the Free Democrats (FDP) and the Green Party to form a so-called "Jamaica coalition, ...
02 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
29 Dec 2015
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Sven Egenter Spiegel Online “Hendricks criticises massive rise in electricity exports” Germany’s environment minister Barbara Hendricks is concerned about the country’s CO2 emissions, writes Stefan Schultz at Spiegel Online ...
05 Apr 2019, 11:37 The head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservatives has criticised a key proposal for reaching Germany's 2030 climate targets, signalling major negotiations are still needed before the highly anticipated Climate Action Law ...
18 Dec 2015, 00:00 Second parliament chamber passes laws for combined heat and power support and new power cables / Progress in grid expansion and more money for efficient power stations will advance energy transition and national climate targets, says ...
11 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
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 ...
03 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
20 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
13 Mar 2019, 11:10 The Hambach Forest in western Germany has become a symbol for climate activists, who are seeking to prevent energy company RWE from razing it to expand a nearby coal mine. A lawsuit by the environmental NGO BUND last year temporarily ...
31 Jul 2017, 00:00 Environment minister Barbara Hendricks has been at the helm of Germany's climate protection efforts for the past four years. During her tenure, the country has contributed substantially to brokering the Paris Agreement and put ...
31 Jul 2018, 14:06 Germany’s energy consumption fell by one percent in the first half of 2018 as warm weather in the spring reduced the need for heating. A rise in renewable energy generation that pushed out coal in the power sector also helped to cut ...
03 Dec 2014
03 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) / NPE “Extraordinary write-downs for electric cars demanded” The National Platform for Electromobility (NPE) suggested in a progress report that achieving scale in the ...
18 Aug 2015
18 Aug 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “The Goliath in open-cast mining” The illegal protests against open-cast mining in Western Germany over the weekend are strongly reminiscent of the violent demonstrations in the country against ...
15 Jun 2020, 10:30 A mainly fossil energy guzzler, heating in Germany has taken a back seat to the Energiewende's poster child, the power sector. But the “Wärmewende”, or heating transition, has significant potential to curb emissions and is ...
22 May 2019, 13:45 Voters across the EU will head to the polls between 23 and 26 May to elect a new European Parliament. It’s one of three major European institutions — along with the European Commission and Council — due for elections or leadership ...
14 Jan 2020, 10:06 Germany's shift to electric mobility looks set to get underway in earnest in 2020, and the country's mighty carmakers look ahead with trepidation to what promises to be a tremendous effort for the industry. Against the ...
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 ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:12 Expert Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector, State of Baden-Württemberg Ministerium für Umwelt, Klima und Energiewirtschaft, Baden-Württemberg Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel ...
18 Mar 2022, 14:48 The new German three-party coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz had started its term at the end of last year with optimism to launch a vigorous climate action programme after two difficult years in a pandemic. But the “traffic light ...
19 May 2015, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande have thrown their weight behind an ambitious and urgent push to make the Paris climate summit a success. The international community must start work now in order to ...
13 Nov 2017, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel calls on developed nations to advance technology and make investments to combat climate change / Protesters interrupt US event on "cleaner fossil fuels" / Peruvian farmer effected by climate change ...
23 Feb 2015
23 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Tagesspiegel “Distribute radioactive legacy throughout the country” Because only two German states have volunteered to store nuclear waste returning from processing plants abroad, the radioactive ...
21 Oct 2020, 12:22 The average air temperature in Germany has risen by about 1.6°C from pre-industrial times and the effects of global warming are becoming increasingly felt in the central European country. The government’s progress report on its climate ...
02 Nov 2018, 14:40 Germany’s CO2 emissions are on course for their largest drop since the 2009 recession this year after remaining virtually unchanged for four consecutive years, according to first estimates by energy market research group AG ...
10 Nov 2017, 00:00 Tough talks- but not yet reason to worry / EU remains steadfast on pre-2020 action and inflexible on Adaptation Fund / "No jobs on a dead planet"- trade unions / Climate-smart agriculture / Effects of climate change in Germany ...
06 Nov 2017, 00:00 Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said vulnerable countries must be put centre-stage and kicked off the conference with a pledge to raise Germany's contribution to the climate change adaptation fund by 50 million euros. ...
14 Dec 2017, 00:00 The energy transition has profound implications for Germany's preparations for an "unlikely but possible" large-scale power blackout, civil protection experts say. While renewable energy sources could replace fuel depots ...
08 Feb 2018, 00:00 After weeks of intensive negotiations, Germany's would-be government partners have agreed on a coalition draft treaty. The 91tv presents first reactions to texts on transport, climate and energy. [UPDATE adds VDA, VDMA ...
06 Jan 2015
06 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Wirtschaftswoche "Wind power breaks one record after another" Between 3400 and 3700 megawatts of new wind power capacity have been built in Germany in 2014, Mario Brück writes in the ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:01 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Gas Security Federal Network Agency / Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs & Energy German authorities want to test the country’s resilience to a severe natural gas shortage ...
17 Nov 2017, 00:00 The Bonn climate summit of 2017, a short way from Germany’s largest coal mining district, is almost over. But the COP will reconvene next year, 1,050 kilometres away from Bonn in Katowice, another traditional coal mining area located in ...
25 Mar 2019, 14:51 After months of negotiations, the commission tasked with proposing measures to cut emissions from Germany’s transport sector has come together for its final meeting. So far, the task force has made headlines mainly for fierce dispute ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:22 The new 'climate cabinet' consisting of ministers responsible for Germany's emissions reduction record will help to make sure that the country introduces its much-awaited Climate Action Law still in 2019, Chancellor ...
17 Sep 2018, 10:30 A report about a proposal by one of Germany’s coal commission co-heads for a coal exit by 2038 has caused irritation. Some commission members were quick to reject the report and warned that the commission's work was in peril should ...
30 Dec 2014, 00:00 After an eventful 2014 – marked by the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), a new climate action package and the first fall in CO2 emissions for two years – German energy policy is primed for action in 2015. Expert AGEB- AG ...
31 Oct 2017, 00:00 Ahead of the climate summit in Bonn, Professor Mojib Latif, a leading climate scientist from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, tells the 91tv about his distrust in emission data, the unfortunate ...
28 Jan 2019, 11:36 The agreement by Germany's coal exit commission to end the fossil power source's use by 2038 the latest is welcomed by the country's climate activists and energy industry representatives alike. They praise the final ...
04 Mar 2019, 12:01 The school student protests for rapid climate action make headlines in Germany as well as in other countries, putting pressure on politicians to take a stance. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said this weekend she “strongly welcomes” ...
18 Sep 2017, 00:00 With Germans about to cast their votes in the federal election, Chancellor Angela Merkel is virtually certain to retain power. But the make-up of the next coalition will be key to how the new government tackles a host of energy and ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:28 After shying away from the debate for a long time, Germany's political leaders are finally considering putting a price on CO2 to help reach the country's climate targets. Chancellor Angela Merkel and her " climate cabinet ...
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty have kicked off in Paris. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The 91tv ...
28 Jul 2017, 00:00 [CORRECTION, due to mistake in transcription: in reply to 4th question, diesel cars have "always been allowed to emit more NOx than petrol cars", not CO2] On 2 August, the CEOs of Germany’s major car manufacturers will meet ...
25 Jan 2019, 11:58 Germany’s coal exit commission has begun what could be its decisive meeting on Friday. In crucial last-minute talks, the commission must agree on a timetable to phase out the climate-damaging fossil fuel for electricity production ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:31 Germany’s parties are hastening to put together proposals on how the country can reach its national and international climate targets as pressure from recent election results, ongoing climate protests and an early heat wave continues to ...
29 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 ...
25 Nov 2015
25 Nov 2015, 00:00 Spiegel Online/Urgewald “German banks still put billions into brown coal” A study by environmental NGO Urgewald shows that German banks continue to finance climate-damaging brown coal, reports Spiegel Online. Deutsche Bank alone has ...
19 Dec 2018, 14:19 Diesel driving bans in numerous German cities are a major blow to many car drivers, the country’s carmakers, and its leading politicians. Now, the NGO that set the ball rolling on the bans is eyeing legal steps to end the world-famous ...
08 Jan 2015
08 Jan 2015, 00:00 Proving Energiewende critics wrong or only a minor step in the right direction? Recent data indicated that Germany has started substituting power from hard coal with renewable electricity while lower power consumption has contributed to ...
19 Dec 2019, 13:19 The use of gas from all sources will become more important as Germany seeks to decarbonise its economy and phase out nuclear power, the new head of Germany's largest energy industry lobby group, BDEW, has said. The Energiewende& ...
10 Dec 2015, 12:00 The question is no longer whether Germany’s future will be nuclear-free – or even when, since the government is committed to completing the phase-out by 2022. But the logistics of pulling the plug on what was until recently one of the ...
18 Nov 2014, 00:00 The Energiewende is gradually transforming German homes – not just towards greater energy efficiency but to become producers as well as consumers of energy. Expert Institute for Housing and Environment Institut Wohnen und Umwelt ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:03 Hydrogen production with renewable power is seen by many countries as an essential tool to decarbonise the economy. The UK and Germany, the world’s two leading offshore wind power nations, have started to sound out how they could ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:39 The German government, its coal mining states and several major utilities have agreed on a roadmap for shutting down the country's lignite-fired power plants and on compensation payments for operators. Many analysts and ...
30 Apr 2021, 14:41 Germany’s constitutional court verdict that the government's climate policies are insufficient because they endanger future generations' freedoms is the “most far-reaching ruling in the world to date” on climate protection, ...
05 Feb 2019, 14:23 Germany's four transmission grid operators have published their proposal for the 2030 electricity grid, including some 1,600 kilometres of new power lines and updating another 2,900 km. This comes with a price tag of 52 billion ...
03 Mar 2015
03 Mar 2015, 00:00 Correction: Corrects spelling of Marijn Dekkers, CEO of Bayer and President of the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI). Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Greetings from the Stone Age” The new Moorburg ...
17 Sep 2021, 11:37 Three candidates vie to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor in the most unpredictable federal election in decades that will determine the next steps Europe's largest economy takes on the path to climate neutrality. A recent ...
21 Apr 2021, 12:37 Germany’s conservatives have chosen Armin Laschet as their leading candidate for the national election in September, signalling continuity with the era of Chancellor Angela Merkel and ending a days-long power struggle with top rival ...
09 Jan 2015
09 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) "A year full of superlatives for ecologic power" German consumers paid almost 23 billion euros for renewable electricity in 2014, the FAZ writes, ...
30 Mar 2016
30 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Reuters/SMA Solar “SMA Solar returns to profit on foreign demand” SMA Solar, Germany’s largest solar group, posted its first operating profit in three years thanks to strong foreign ...
27 Mar 2019, 11:14 91tv is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we have launched a series on start-ups that ...
18 Nov 2014
18 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “State premier Kraft fights for lignite” North Rhine-Westphalia’s state premier Hannelore Kraft (Social Democrats) advocates the preservation of coal power in her state, since a ...
24 Oct 2014
24 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Agreement at EU summit: Merkel’s rotten climate deal” The German government wanted ambitious climate targets but only partially succeeded in pushing them through, says Gregor Peter ...
25 Jan 2016
25 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Support for wind power in windless locations” Current proposals for the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) from Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel ...
29 Oct 2019, 08:40 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how Germany's energy transition is transforming the commercial landscape. To showcase these big changes in the world’s fourth largest economy, this new series ...
31 Aug 2018, 13:36 With its vast amounts of hydro energy, many would like Norway to become Europe’s “green battery”, supplying neighbours with steady power when there is little wind or sun. An extreme heat wave and dry weather in the first half of 2018 ...
03 Dec 2015
03 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Energy Transition/Fraunhofer ISE “Wind power #1 electricity source in November” Stormy weather pushed Germany’s wind power production to a new record in November, covering a full quarter of domestic demand. It ...
04 Nov 2015
04 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) “Gabriel: The basis for the power market of the future is established” The German government has approved wide-reaching reforms of the power market ...
13 Jul 2019, 13:04 Germany should introduce a price on carbon emissions for sectors such as transport and buildings currently not covered by the EU Emissions Trading System, the government’s top economic advisors have proposed. This would work as an ...
09 Oct 2015
09 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Nuclear Energy? Never Again!” The history of nuclear energy in Germany is a total fiasco, write Jürgen Flauger and Klaus Stratmann in a “closing balance sheet” in business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
02 Aug 2017
02 Aug 2017, 00:00 German carmakers have pledged to update the software in some 5 million diesel cars to lower emissions at the so-called "diesel summit", where leaders of the industry met with federal ministers and heads of federal states. ...
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 ...
04 Nov 2021, 14:09 Finding sources of funding for climate action and ensuring a fair distribution of benefits and costs among different groups in society look set to become the main challenges for negotiators of a new German government coalition. While ...
15 May 2020, 16:34 The U.S. administration is aggressively promoting the country’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) to European partners, portraying it both as a supply that would help them diversify away from Russian gas and as a way to reduce greenhouse gas ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:11 Current polls suggest Germany's elections on 26 September will be followed by complicated coalition talks, but the Green Party refuses to reveal what they consider red lines during the negotiations. The party's climate policy ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:12 Germany must rapidly step up its national climate and energy targets to bring efforts in line with new EU-wide goals, said the independent expert commission in charge of monitoring the country’s energy transition. While details still ...
21 Aug 2019, 16:00 Moment of truth for German climate policy: Right in time for the UN Climate Action Summit, chancellor Angela Merkel's government is due to present a raft of measures to drastically cut emissions. The eagerly awaited announcements ...
25 Nov 2014
25 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Dow Jones Newswires "Gabriel's coal proposal: utilities keep calm" German utilities are prepared to shut down some power stations, reports Dow Jones Newswires. They agreed to Economy ...
20 Oct 2021, 10:40 From large car manufacturers to globally operating logistics companies – the number of businesses pursuing net-zero targets and wanting to reduce their carbon footprint is growing. As many of the companies cannot or do not want to ...
10 Jul 2018, 15:01 Wind and solar power, together with other renewable sources, have overtaken coal as Germany’s most important power source, figures released by the industry group BDEW show. But this milestone in the history of the country’s energy ...
13 Jan 2016, 00:00 A think tank proposal on how Germany should exit coal has pushed the debate on the Energiewende's future into full swing, exposing deep fault lines. The environment ministry and Greens backed the plan for a phase-out of coal power ...
24 Apr 2017, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans to go beyond a rational take on the Energiewende and develop “a certain passion and joy” for the country’s generational project. Speaking at an event by her conservative CDU/CSU group in the ...
07 May 2015, 00:00 Superfluous emission allowances will be put into a market stability reserve from 2019 onwards, EU institutions agreed. The German government’s core demands have been included in the reform. But the chemicals industry fears for its ...
11 Dec 2017, 00:00 A round of fresh ‘green’ finance pledges by companies and investors marks the kickoff on 12 December in Paris of a climate finance summit initiated by French President Emmanuel Macron. However, NGOs say that the developments so far have ...
15 Apr 2015
15 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv The Guardian “German backlash grows against coal power clampdown“ The proposed levy on old coal-fired power stations is fast becoming a test of the German government’s commitment to decarbonise its ...
05 Nov 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 ...
01 Jul 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel can still hope to achieve substantial progress in climate protection as she enters difficult talks with the leaders of the world’s largest economies at this week’s G20 summit in Hamburg, John J. Kirton ...
25 Mar 2015, 00:00 The protests against government proposals for a carbon emissions levy for older power plants are gaining momentum in Germany’s coal mining regions. Unions warn the plans put tens of thousands of jobs at risk because they will make ...
17 Feb 2015
17 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Worries about solar eclipse” On March 20, a solar eclipse will cover up to 80 percent of the sun in Germany and grid operators are concerned that massively ...
27 Sep 2021, 15:30 Germany is set to vote for a new government on 26 September. After 16 years at the helm of Europe's largest economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel will make room for a successor who will shape the country's energy and climate ...
31 May 2019, 12:16 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
14 Jan 2015
14 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Dow Jones Newswires "Gabriel’s three building sites for the Energiewende" In an analysis piece for Dow Jones Newswires, Christian Grimm gives an overview of the three biggest issues of ...
08 Sep 2017, 00:00 Dieselgate, looming driving bans in German cities, an election debate on phasing out combustion engines, and the rapid ascent of e-car rival Tesla – this year’s Frankfurt car show (IAA) comes at an awkward time for German carmakers. The ...
13 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
31 Aug 2021, 08:44 Tighter emission targets and mounting signs of climate change have once again turned Germany's coal exit into a hotly debated election campaign issue. The country agreed last year to phase out coal by 2038 at the latest, but many ...
12 May 2015, 00:00 G7 energy ministers agree on increasing efficiency as a no-regret measure to achieve energy security and greenhouse gas reductions. Joint action planned on cybersecurity for the electricity sector and a transparent gas market. Expert ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 [UPDATE with new details on 2025 renewable target in paragraph 3, ads News Digest items] German Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers will meet on Tuesday to work out a compromise on reforming the core piece of legislation behind ...
09 Nov 2015
09 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Grid fees push up power price” An internal analysis by the federal grid agency reveals that the systemic costs of the Energiewende will push up grid fees, reports ...
10 Oct 2016, 00:00 German federal states want to ensure that the sale of new diesel and petrol cars in the European Union ends by 2030, in order to protect the climate. The surprising cross-party initiative in the upper house of parliament (Bundesrat), ...
22 Oct 2015
22 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) “The energy transition in Europe: initial lessons from Germany, the UK and France” The experience of Germany, the UK and France shows that the transition to a ...
22 Apr 2016
22 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv UBA Record high CO2 measurements in Germany Germany’s Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has measured the highest annual CO2 concentrations ever in 2015. In its research stations on ...
29 Jan 2020, 14:32 The German government has officially approved the end of coal-fired power production in Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet adopted a law detailing plant shutdowns and compensation payments for coal companies, confirming a ...
26 Oct 2021, 17:29 High gas, petrol and power prices are set to play a part in the ongoing negotiations to form the next German government coalition, which will shape the country’s energy transition policy for years. The election winner Social Democrats, ...
16 Oct 2017, 00:00 Not far from Germany's largest brown coal mine, the United Nations’ 23rd COP climate summit will take place in Bonn. While implementing the Paris Agreement will take centre stage under the presidency of Fiji, the host country ...
26 Jun 2018, 17:32 Germany has provided inspiring visionary leadership on energy and climate change for many years, but is now at risk of being left behind, former US Vice President Al Gore said on the first working day of the country’s coal exit ...
01 Jul 2015
01 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Dirty deal” At a high-level meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel tonight, the German government looks set to abandon plans for an additional levy on old coal-fired plants and instead adopt ...
12 Jun 2015
12 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Simply carry on” G7 politicians want to rid the world of fossil fuels but German industry will demand support for the decarbonisation, Karl-Heinz Büschemann writes in the ...
17 Dec 2019, 13:35 German lawmakers have reached a preliminary agreement to raise the planned CO₂ price for the buildings and transport sectors. The starting price of the mechanism contained in the country's so-called climate package is to be ...
07 May 2020, 09:31 Slumping power demand due to the coronavirus crisis combined with April’s strong wind and solar power production have revealed that Germany's fossil and renewable electricity generation, as well as electricity demand, need to ...
22 Sep 2021, 15:08 The conservative CDU has been heading Germany's government since 2005- and used its time in power to lay the groundwork for making the country the first climate-neutral industrialised nation before the middle of the century, says ...
10 Apr 2018, 00:00 The current legislative period has to be used to significantly advance the mobility transition in Germany, ensuring that the country remains a technology leader, said economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier at a mobility conference ...
04 Jul 2017, 00:00 At the Hamburg summit, the G20 leaders must go beyond mere lip services and present concrete proposals on how they will implement the Paris Climate Agreement, Christoph Bals, policy director of environmental NGO Germanwatch, tells Clean ...
15 Jan 2018, 00:00 The parties currently in talks to form Germany’s next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the ...
30 Jun 2017, 00:00 One week ahead of the Hamburg G20 summit, the ambitious climate and energy action plan the German presidency was pushing hangs in the balance. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she is determined to make the meeting a success on ...
08 May 2019, 13:31 German industry heavyweights including chemical maker BASF, HeidelbergCement, gas supplier Linde and steelmaker Salzgitter say they are prepared for profound emissions cuts, but still lack the necessary market signal from policymakers. ...
18 Mar 2016, 00:00 Renewable energy sources already play a key role in keeping Germany's carbon emissions in check, the country's environment minster told an international conference on Friday in Berlin. However, completing the energy transition ...
12 Mar 2018, 00:00 In a deal that could drastically re-shape Germany's power sector, RWE and E.ON have agreed to split RWE subsidiary innogy and focus each on different parts of the business. E.ON will largely be in charge of distribution grids while ...
10 Feb 2016
10 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Internal market analysis: EU member states’ nuclear provisions more than 100 billion euros short” An EU analysis has revealed that the member states are not well prepared for the ...
07 Dec 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty are underway in Paris. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The 91tv ...
03 Feb 2015
03 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Bavaria does not need two grid extensions” The southern German state of Bavaria, one of the country’s industrial powerhouses, has completed a three-month “Energy Dialogue” ...
01 Nov 2019, 15:35 Green and sustainable finance in Germany is not thinkable without the country's state-owned development bank KfW. The bank installed after the Second World War to finance reconstruction in Germany has become a major funder of ...
29 Jun 2017, 00:00 European Union leaders have underscored their commitment to work towards a joint solution on climate issues at the G20 summit in Hamburg. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would not be easy regarding questions such as climate ...
23 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germany’s industry should work with the government to reach the goals in the country’s newly adopted Climate Action Plan 2050 rather than criticise the plan or individual measures, energy state secretary Rainer Baake told a conference ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:26 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
10 Dec 2014
10 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/dpa “Economy minister Gabriel has still hopes for gas pipeline South Stream” “It would be better for Europe if the project still had a chance,” Germany’s Minister for ...
27 Mar 2019, 15:42 The German commission charged with proposing emissions cuts for the nation's transport sector has failed to agree on enough steps to reach the country’s climate targets. During what was billed as the decisive meeting, members could ...
07 Oct 2019, 16:41 The German government has presented a draft of Germany’s first-ever major Climate Action Law, which assigns flexible annual greenhouse gas budgets to economic sectors for the years 2020-2030, but does not make long-term climate targets ...
04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
07 May 2021, 13:45 Electric cars have long been touted as key to a more sustainable future, but their contribution is clouded by the climate impact of making and disposing of them. As part of an industry-wide bid to roll out entirely CO2-neutral vehicles, ...
25 Sep 2016, 00:00 In a move to fast-track the full ratification of the 2015 UN climate treaty (Paris Agreement), the German parliament has unanimously approved the terms of the treaty, helping to pave the way for it to enter into force before the end of ...
08 Dec 2021, 15:00 The September 2021 election result has left Germany with several options for a new government coalition. Agreeing it will involve lengthy negotiations to overcome major discrepancies between party programmes, and agreeing on a ...
30 Apr 2021, 14:04 Germany's highest court has ruled in a landmark decision that the government's climate policies are insufficient because they lack detailed emission reduction targets beyond 2030. The court said the country's Climate ...
24 Sep 2015, 00:00 UPDATE 24 Sept | The European grid regulator has recommended that the Austrian-German electricity trading zone should be partially disconnected. Countries including Poland and the Czech Republic have called for the split, to prevent ...
14 Aug 2015
14 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Network Agency / German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) 33 successful bids in second PV auction round Germany’s second-ever photovoltaic tendering round has resulted in 33 successful bids ...
09 Feb 2021, 14:40 The energy transition marks the single largest effort in history to reduce industrial waste by pursuing the goal of burning zero fossil resources and replacing them with renewables- but it does not come without waste on its own. Germany ...
31 Jul 2015
31 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) Government launches suggestions for new auction design for renewables The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has launched the ...
07 Apr 2021, 08:47 Germany’s ruling conservatives and the Greens are about to kick off the 2021 national election race in earnest by naming their respective leading candidates to take over the helm of Europe’s biggest economy in autumn. While the country ...
10 Oct 2017, 00:00 One week before the start of exploratory talks on forming a government coalition, aspiring German government alliance partners CDU and the Green Party agree that the country will have to phase out coal-fired power production. Yet, two ...
30 Jul 2019, 10:30 Markus Söder, Bavaria’s conservative state premier, has called for climate action to be enshrined in Germany’s Basic Law, according to German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. Söder has thus embraced a long-standing demand by the Green Party, ...
24 Sep 2017, 00:00 Despite heavy losses in Germany's parliamentary elections, Angela Merkel is poised to stay chancellor for another four years. The voters’ decision sets her conservative CDU/CSU party alliance on course for coalition talks with the ...
06 Jun 2015
06 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Oxfam / E3G “Let them eat coal” Five of the G7 countries are burning more coal now than before the Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009, while the G7 coal plants together emit ...
03 May 2016
03 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv BDEW “Energiewende continues to be major topic for population” 93 percent of Germans believe the Energiewende is important or very important, according to a survey by ...
27 Nov 2018, 12:01 Germany risks showing up empty-handed at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Poland in December as the country’s coal exit commission has decided to extend its work beyond the original end-of-2018 deadline. The task force has set ...
12 May 2015
12 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung / Die Welt “Energiewende show on the high seas” Germany’s energy minister Sigmar Gabriel invited his G7 counterparts to visit a new offshore wind converter platform in the North ...
16 Mar 2021, 12:00 Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped nearly nine percent in 2020- the largest annual fall since 1990- as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic pushed down the use of fossil fuels and added to the effects of the shift to renewable ...
12 Mar 2021, 14:30 Youth climate activists agree on one thing: Germany needs to adopt radical climate policies in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. How best to push this agenda is a different question entirely. In this German “super election ...
20 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Metal vs coal” Unions are deeply split on the issue of the proposed coal levy, according to an article by Michael Bauchmüller in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Germany's IG ...
09 Mar 2021, 09:00 A regional vote in the south-western German state of Baden-Württemberg on 14 March kicks off a busy election year in Germany that will conclude with the general elections in September and the selection of a new chancellor. While the ...
07 Dec 2016, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party left energy and climate policy on the sidelines at the Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) conference in Essen. The centre-right party laid the groundwork on Tuesday for its 2017 federal election ...
12 Jan 2018, 00:00 The parties currently in talks to form Germany’s next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the ...
14 Nov 2016, 00:00 Banning combustion engines in new cars by 2030 and exiting coal-fired power production as early as 2025 are likely to be two key Green Party demands in the general elections in autumn 2017, the party decided at its convention. But ...
09 Nov 2016, 00:00 Disagreements over the future of coal in Germany have blocked adoption of a long-awaited government roadmap for making the country almost greenhouse gas neutral by 2050. In a surprise move capping several days of uncertainty about the ...
14 Mar 2018, 00:00 The 2017 September election results have led to unprecedented difficulties in forming a new government in Germany. After the longest government building process in modern Germany, Angela Merkel was re-elected as chancellor of a renewed ...
13 Jan 2015
13 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt/Süddeutsche Zeitung “’Elon’ und ‘Felix’ cost consumers millions”/ “Stormy times on the power market” Heavy winds from two low pressure systems created an enormous oversupply of wind power ...
17 Dec 2014
17 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Nuclear power companies should pay 17 billion euros into fund” The German government plans to establish a fund for the costs of dismantling and disposal of nuclear power ...
02 Dec 2015
02 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Late, perhaps too late” RWE’s plans are radical and effectively split Germany’s second largest utility in two, writes Caspar Busse in a commentary for Süddeutsche Zeitung. “The decision is ...
13 Nov 2015
13 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv EnBW “Stable development and progress with restructuring” Germany’s third largest utility EnBW has achieved revenue of around 15.3 billion euros and an operating result (adjusted EBITDA) of around ...
