25 Mar 2025, 13:30 Edgar Meza Adaptation Society 91tv Germany's major aid organisations are urging the future government to increase civil protections in light of " the disasters resulting from rapidly increasing global warming and ...
12 May 2025, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Die Zeit Most people in Germany say they do not think that the country is going to meet is national climate target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, a survey commissioned by ...
11 Apr 2025, 12:30 Climate will play a smaller role under Germany’s next government and greater ambition will be mostly pushed by the opposition, says Johannes Hillje, a political communication advisor who has worked with several German ministries. The ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Society 91tv Anchoring health, climate and environment in all government departments and ministries is one of the recommendations put forward by Germany's health and resilience expert council, an ...
20 May 2025, 13:09 Edgar Meza International 91tv Germanwatch is calling for greater support for Africa’s energy transition as the continent continues to provide raw materials for Europe’s green transformation. An upcoming meeting between ...
29 Jan 2025, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Society 91tv The energy transition is placing an uneven financial burden on Germany‘s poorest households – and transition costs related to heating are impacting these citizens ...
25 Apr 2025, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Heating Society 91tv People in Germany would like to see more factual information around policies to make heating and transport more climate-friendly, such as carbon pricing, and they attach great ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv The costs and other burdens of climate action must be spread in a fair and balanced way across society to ensure social cohesion and avoid individual hardship, the German ...
21 May 2025
21 May 2025, 12:50 91tv Team Bloomberg: EU likely to propose quota to ban Russia gas imports by end 2027 The European Union is likely to propose a quota as the mechanism to enforce a bloc-wide import ban on Russian gas by the end of 2027, which officials ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 91tv The next German government must restructure climate policy to make sure the whole population can participate in the transition, the Climate Neutrality Foundation ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 91tv A majority of people in Germany (53%) agree that the next government should do more for climate protection, according to a survey commissioned by environmental NGO ...
28 May 2025
28 May 2025, 11:29 91tv Team WMO: Global climate predictions show temperatures expected to remain at or near record levels in coming 5 years Global climate predictions show temperatures are expected to continue at or near record levels in the next five ...
26 Mar 2025, 13:43 Bennet Ribbeck Society 91tv Human rights organisation Amnesty International and other NGOs have criticised official charges against members of the German Last Generation climate movement because of “suspicion of forming a ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Government 91tv A ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:32 Sören Amelang Society 91tv Austria’s branch of the “Last Generation” (Letzte Generation) climate action group has announced its dissolution, arguing its direct action protests cannot be successful. In an open letter ...
06 Dec 2024, 12:56 Sören Amelang Society Elections & Politics 91tv Climate action has dropped in German voters’ priorities vs economic growth over the course of the past five years, according to a survey conducted by the Konrad Adenauer ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:41 Sören Amelang Adaptation Society Die Welt / Main Post One of Germany’s final traditional wooden sled manufacturers is halting production because of climate change, report ed daily paper Die Welt. “The fact that there is virtually no ...
11 Jan 2024, 13:49 Jennifer Collins Agriculture Society Tagesspiegel Germany risks becoming as polarised as the U.S. as farmers have blocked roads with tractors in massive protests over cuts to diesel subsidies, agriculture minister Cem Özdemir said, ...
06 May 2025, 14:00 Germany’s designated next environment minister Carsten Schneider may not have much background in climate policy, but his experience in navigating political divide in the country’s east and its population’s fatigue of constant changes ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:21 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Society EU 91tv / Spiegel The European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has reduced the emission of hazardous air pollutants like sulphur dioxide, particulate matter, and nitrogen oxides, ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government 91tv Most citizens surveyed by Germany’s civil servant union (DBB) believe the state is overburdened and incapable of achieving effective results in key policy areas. Climate action ...
12 May 2025, 13:47 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Most people in Germany continue to be very concerned about the impact of global ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:45 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Business & Jobs Society 91tv More attractive conditions are needed to make people join civil protection and disaster relief volunteer units as Germany faces more frequent extreme weather ...
12 Apr 2024, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government 91tv Most people in Germany want the government to take on new debt to invest in areas that are important for security and prosperity in the future, rather than complying with strict ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Society Spiegel / 91tv The “Last Generation” (Letzte Generation) climate activist group has said it is dropping its name and will change its tactics by focusing on social issues related to climate change. ...
14 May 2025, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Society 91tv / Handelsblatt / Ludwigshafen 24 / TAZ The mild winter and low rainwater levels could have severe consequences for Germany's agriculture, shipping industry ...
27 Jun 2024, 14:07 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society More than two thirds of Germans say they would “rather not” or “definitely not” make financial sacrifices and lower their personal standard of living for the benefit of the climate, according to a ...
24 May 2024, 14:31 Julian Wettengel Citizens' energy Society 91tv Germans continue to widely support the country’s energy transition but policymakers should put more focus on building trust with the population, foster its ownership ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Concern about the impact of climate change is rising, while fewer people feel individual action is needed to combat the problem, according to a survey in 32 countries on ...
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 ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv The majority of employees in German companies are satisfied with the speed with which their employer is promoting sustainability efforts and say it is increasingly gearing its business ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:16 Jack McGovan Adaptation Cities 91tv Areas destroyed by floods in western Germany in 2021 should not only be restored, but be rebuilt in a way that makes them more sustainable and resilient against future flood events, said ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 91tv Thousands of scientists from a broad section of fields have come together to urge Germany's next government to prioritise climate policy. "We are very ...
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 ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Society 91tv An overwhelming majority of Germans want the country to ramp up its climate adaptation efforts and better prepare the country's infrastructure against increasingly regular ...
24 Nov 2024, 15:30 Politicians and civil society from Germany have said that the agreement on future climate finance at the UN climate change conference COP29 shows that international cooperation has prevailed even in a challenging geopolitical context. ...
16 May 2025, 13:20 Expert BMUKN- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Bundesminister für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Policy Government ...
02 May 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv EU member states’ national climate plans insufficiently address just transition issues, a crucial deficiency ahead of the introduction of a carbon price on ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Germany’s ambitious goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 can only be achieved through a comprehensive and multi-layered approach that includes ...
24 Oct 2022, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society dpa / 91tv Several thousand people took to the streets across Germany on 22 October to demand solidarity and redistribution in the energy crisis, news agency dpa reported. With the ...
02 May 2025, 14:40 Against the backdrop of the major blackout on the Iberian Peninsula in late April, which also affected parts of France, the country is heading for controversial discussions about its energy strategy for the coming decade. A focus will ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:20 Edgar Meza Grid Society 91tv Berlin-based think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial has called for alternative methods to finance electricity grid expansion in Germany. The current financing of electricity grid expansion via grid fees ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Climate-friendly heating technologies may now be predominant in new builds in Germany but the country’s existing buildings continue to rely on fossil fuels, shows a report by the German Energy ...
23 Jan 2025, 14:07 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Almost three years after the peak of Europe’s energy crisis in 2022, many people in Germany are ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:25 Sören Amelang Policy Security Tagesspiegel Background The German government has agreed to hand extra power to the country’s grid agency to improve the protection of critical energy infrastructure. The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:27 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Some 70 percent of respondents from several European countries see the energy transition as everyone's responsibility and believe all citizens should be actively involved, ...
11 Jan 2024, 13:53 Jennifer Collins Policy Society Table.Media A new German think tank is set to focus on the impacts of climate change and climate policy on society, according to Table.Media. Founded by Brigitte Knopf, a member of Germany’s Council of ...
14 Jun 2024, 12:53 Sören Amelang Society EUElections2024 EU 91tv A broad alliance of German environmental NGOs, unions, consumer, and church groups has called for a “European Green and Social Deal” to be implemented in the next EU legislature ...
14 Feb 2025, 13:20 Bennet Ribbeck Society Elections & Politics 91tv A climate strike in Berlin by the youth movement Fridays for Future (FfF) ahead of Germany’s snap election at the end of next week ended up attracting far fewer ...
14 Aug 2023, 13:00 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Society Watson / Rheinische Post Germany’s Fridays for Future youth climate movement has renounced the more radical tactics (such ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:23 Sören Amelang Technology International 91tv Europe is heavily reliant on China in realising its green ambitions and must be prepared to pay more for the shift to climate neutrality if it wants to increase independence, ...
31 Jan 2025, 11:50 Joey Grostern Wind Society SWR A group of about 6,660 people are behind a slew of over 440,000 letters objecting to plans for wind farm developments in 40 areas in the Neckar-Alb region of Baden-Württemberg, according to reporting from ...
27 Feb 2025, 13:51 The European Commission unveiled a series of plans to make the bloc's industry more competitive, reduce energy costs and cut red tape. Germany's industry associations called the proposals an important first step in the right ...
14 Jun 2022, 12:11 Kerstine Appunn Industry Business & Jobs 91tv The German government has set up a new “Transformation Alliance” between the chancellery, several ministries and representatives from businesses and trade unions, research ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Cities 91tv Municipalities in Germany warn that they could be running out of money soon and are struggling to implement a wide range of their tasks, including guaranteeing a reliable ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity 91tv German companies and public authorities should use a mix of renewables, battery storage, fuel cells and microgrids in the event of a power cut, the Federal Office of Civil Protection and ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Society EU 91tv Security and affordability is the top priority for the future young Europeans want, followed by a liveable planet and social justice, according to the Next Generations Study 2023 survey by ...
08 Nov 2024, 13:41 Sören Amelang Society Elections & Politics 91tv All Germans want significantly more climate action from the party they would vote for in the upcoming federal election, with the exception of those who support the far ...
12 Nov 2024, 14:05 Jack McGovan Electricity Society Süddeutsche Zeitung Environmental groups from Germany and Austria have come out in opposition to two proposed hydropower projects in the Alps, emphasising their negative impacts on biodiversity, ...
17 Sep 2024, 13:54 Jack McGovan Policy Society 91tv / Handelsblatt Greenpeace and Germanwatch filed a new constitutional complaint against the German government’s “inadequate” climate policy, especially when it comes to the transport sector, ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Society 91tv A large majority of Germans are worried that the ongoing rise in everyday costs will erode their standard of living, according to a survey by insurer R+V. "People feel their ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:35 Jack McGovan Society Der Spiegel / Augsburger Allgemeinen An activist from the German climate activist group Last Generation (Letzte Generation) has been sentenced to eight months in prison without parole for taking part in a street ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv More people in Germany say they want the government to invest CO2 price revenues in renewable energy sources and to lower grid fees, than compensating citizens through an ...
11 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv An alliance of civil society groups has issued an appeal to the German government to not implement planned cuts in the 2025 budget and avoid damage “to the economic, ecological, and social stability ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:09 Sören Amelang Carbon market Cost & Prices Society 91tv A broad alliance of environmental organisations and NGOs has launched an online campaign calling on the German government to pass on revenue from its national ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:13 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Elections & Politics dts Significant parts of the population in Germany are not sufficiently prepared for the expected cost increases in fossil heating and mobility due to carbon pricing, said Dirk ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:44 Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's revenue from carbon pricing rose to a record 18.5 billion euros in 2024, up around 100 million euros from the previous year, said the country's Federal Environment ...
19 Aug 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt / dpa Germany's cabinet will discuss a draft law to better protect so-called critical infrastructure against physical damage "shortly after the summer break", dpa reported in an ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:36 Jennifer Collins Society 91tv Europeans aged over 30 show a better grasp of the causes and consequences of climate change than younger generations- but awareness of solutions is lacking across age groups, found a survey by ...
20 Jun 2023, 12:18 Jessica Bateman Society Focus Online German climate activists from the Last Generation ('Letzte Generation') group are turning their attention to the “super-rich” with a number of actions on the North Sea island of Sylt. ...
25 Nov 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Society 91tv A third of people in Germany say they do not feel well connected by bus or train near their home, and are not satisfied with the number of departures at their nearest stop, according ...
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, ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:22 Jack McGovan Nuclear phase-out 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Many nuclear waste storage facilities in Germany are not up to safety standards with issues like rusting drums and interim sites being used without permits, ...
13 Sep 2024, 13:01 Jack McGovan Technology Society 91tv A total of 12.9 million households in Germany- almost one in three- use at least one energy transition technology like solar panels, a heat pump, or an electric car, according to a ...
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 ...
22 May 2024, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Society 91tv About one in five teenagers in Germany say they have never heard of climate change or the climate crisis, according to a survey conducted by the International Central Institute for Youth and ...
30 Oct 2023, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv About a fifth (22%) of people in Germany know their personal "carbon footprint", with younger people more likely to engage with the topic than older ones, shows an ...
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 ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:55 Ruby Russel Renewables 91tv [UPDATE adds FA Wind survey] The vast majority (80%) of people in Germany support the country's ongoing transition to renewable energy, a survey commissioned by the German Renewable Energy ...
14 May 2024, 13:27 Jack McGovan Society 91tv Climate change is a great concern for middle-aged and older people in Germany, according to a survey published by the German Centre of Gerontology. People over the age of 43, which is defined as ...
09 Jan 2024, 13:41 Edgar Meza Society Elections & Politics 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Die Welt / Dlf Former German Left Party politician Sahra Wagenknecht on 8 January officially launched her much-anticipated political party, the " ...
21 Jan 2025, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Elections & Politics Die Welt The mayor of Hamburg has warned against burdening citizens with too ambitious climate targets, as Germany’s second largest city might be headed for a referendum on its emissions ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:24 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Climate change is still young Germans’ biggest concern, but they would rather politicians act on the topic than drastically change their own lifestyles, a survey ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:05 The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) – the second strongest polling party ahead of Germany's snap elections on 23 February – is the only major party to outright reject the scientific consensus behind human-induced climate ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Society Government 91tv Public opinion on climate action in Germany is highly polarised, with a large part of society (56%) wishing for more climate action and around a quarter (24%) denying human-caused ...
01 Mar 2024, 14:06 At the height of its popularity just a few years ago, the climate protest movement Fridays for Future brought over a million people to the streets in Germany and across the world. Yet the movement now fights against losing relevance in ...
21 Jan 2025, 13:01 The beginning of reelected U.S. president Donald Trump’s second term in office has prompted calls from German government representatives, researchers and civil society actors to strengthen European efforts to uphold global efforts to ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Construction dpa / Spiegel Bad insulation and the use of gas- or oil-based heating systems increasingly eat into the market value of residential property in Germany, according to a report by ...
16 Aug 2023, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government 91tv Only about one in four people in Germany believe that the state is able to fulfil its tasks and implement effective policies to tackle the important topics of migration, education, ...
04 Nov 2024, 13:53 Sören Amelang Electricity market Society 91tv Half of German households have never heard of dynamic power pricing, only months before it will be introduced in the country. In a survey by consumer organisations federation ...
20 Sep 2024, 12:14 Edgar Meza Adaptation 91tv Case studies on climate adaptation from around the world do not yet demonstrate truly sustainable strategies, yet sustainable climate adaptation is key for measures to be successful in the long ...
07 Nov 2024, 10:29 Following the break-up of Germany's governing coalition, the country's energy industry urged rapid snap elections to give companies much-needed investment security in uncertain times. Youth climate movement Fridays for Future ...
04 May 2022, 13:59 Sören Amelang Society Zeit Online / Focus Online The war in Ukraine has overtaken climate change to become the most important issue for young people in Germany, according to a survey. Around 70 percent of respondents aged 14 to 29 said ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:38 Aniket Narawad Climate & CO2 Society Only 47 percent of people in Germany agree that high-income countries should take the lead on compensating low-income countries for climate change-led economic losses, one of the lowest support ...
10 Sep 2024, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture 91tv The agriculture and forestry sector could play an important role in the EU's goal to achieve climate neutrality by mid-century, while at the same time improving biodiversity ...
02 Jul 2024
02 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Brussels urges EU countries to submit climate plans ‘as soon as possible’ On 30 June, EU countries were legally obliged to submit their national energy and climate plans until 2030 (NECPs). These are key ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Government 91tv The German government has approved its climate adaptation strategy to better prepare the country for dealing with extreme weather events, such as heat waves, droughts, heavy ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society dpa / ZfK Optimism that Germany can achieve its national energy transition targets is moderately growing in Germany, a survey by consultancy EY has found. The share of respondents saying that the ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:55 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Companies in the German manufacturing and service sectors generated 107.5 billion euros in revenue from output that ...
25 Oct 2024, 13:02 Jennifer Collins Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv / Table.Media Damage caused by natural hazards like flooding cost German insurers 5.6 billion euros in 2023, up from four billion euros the previous year, after the country ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society The climate protest group Last Generation (Letzte Generation) has announced that in the coming weeks its protest activities will target “the rich” and “symbols of modern wealth” in order to ...
06 Aug 2024, 13:27 Jack McGovan Gas Society 91tv / Handelsblatt / NDR As a gas drilling project off the German North Sea island of Borkum advances, environmental organisations have renewed calls to shutter the new extraction site. Groups ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Germans' support for the climate movement has halved following the rise of highly controversial street blockades by more radical activists, shows a survey by More in ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:44 Jack McGovan Transport 91tv / Spiegel Air taxis and other electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) are not useful mass transport technologies for the energy transition, according to a report by the Leibniz ...
23 May 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Acceptance of the energy transition in Germany would greatly improve with the introduction of a compensation mechanism for citizens to counter cost increases caused by CO2 ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:30 Sören Amelang Heating 91tv Public uncertainty about the government’s new policies to decarbonise heating have led to a collapse in heat pump sales in Germany, according to the country’s heating industry association BDH. ...
06 Mar 2024, 10:00 UEFA is reining in the climate impact of the Euro 2024 football tournament by funding subsidised rail travel for fans, and initiatives to make Germany’s amateur football scene greener. But critics argue that for long-term sustainability ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv A monitoring system for the expansion of renewable energy sources and better planning tools for companies are needed to ensure a reliable transformation of Germany’s economy, ...
25 Sep 2024, 13:31 Sören Amelang Efficiency Heating Society 91tv The rate of energy-efficient housing renovations in Germany improved slightly in the last couple of years, but remains far below the levels needed to reach the country’s climate ...
15 Oct 2019, 12:24 Expert FÖS- Green Budget Germany Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables ...
14 Nov 2024, 13:16 The expansion and maintenance of Germany’s rail and road network should be financed by a special fund outside of the regular budget, according to the government’s council of economic advisors. Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & ...
28 Sep 2023, 14:17 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The Paris Climate Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees ...
26 Sep 2024, 13:00 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Policy 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Industry representatives have largely welcomed Germany's plans to ramp up the hydrogen market, but called for amendments to a draft law to broaden ...
21 Aug 2024, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Germany's national price on CO2 emissions of fuels used in the transport and heating sectors lacks acceptance among the population, shows a survey by the Hans Böckler ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics Süddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party’s current high results in German polls can be attributed to mainstream political parties ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:13 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) has found that high-income households emit more greenhouse gases than poorer citizens due primarily to their travel habits. ...
25 Sep 2024, 13:28 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind Technology Society Heise online / mdr Work has begun on the construction of the world’s highest wind turbine in the eastern German lignite region Lusatia, reports technology website heise online. The ...
16 May 2025, 14:30 As Croatia goes to the polls for local elections on 18 May the green transition has been relatively absent in political campaigns. Citizen participation in the transition has picked up with the opening of the first large-scale solar ...
30 Aug 2024, 12:47 Joey Grostern Coal Society Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger / 91tv Bürgewald, an empty village on the edge of the Hambach open-cast coal mine in the western German state of North Rhine Westphalia, has been bought back by the local ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:51 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv The cost hikes and uncertainties triggered by the energy crisis have not shaken German citizens’ belief that the energy transition must have a high priority, according to a survey. Sixty-nine ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society 91tv The majority of people in Germany view renewable energies favourably, but many worry about costs associated with the energy transition and there are clear differences between the ...
22 May 2025, 10:46 Carbon capture is set to play a key role in decarbonising the cement and concrete industry, says Jan Theulen, Group Lead Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) at Heidelberg Materials, one of the world's largest cement ...
22 Feb 2023, 13:52 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Cities Society 91tv The initiators of an upcoming referendum on committing the German capital Berlin to 2030 climate neutrality have expressed confidence the vote will be successful, ...
20 Sep 2024, 15:02 The worst floods in at least a decade hit southern Poland and neigbouring regions in mid-September due to extreme rainfall, which scientists said was likely more intense due to climate change. The situation has received wide political ...
13 Apr 2023, 12:59 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government dpa / Der Spiegel / 91tv Ahead of a major protest in Berlin announced by the climate activist group Last ...
21 Mar 2024, 13:53 Sören Amelang Jess Smee Agriculture Society Spiegel Online / 91tv Increasingly “rancid” or “muddy” tasting olive oil appears to be the first prominent example of climate change blighting what people eat in Germany, the ...
09 Oct 2024
09 Oct 2024, 10:29 91tv Team IEA: Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match entire power capacity of major economies today With solar leading their rapid deployment, renewables are on course to meet almost half of global electricity ...
24 Feb 2025, 11:00 German businesses, researchers and civil society have called for speedy coalition negotiations following the country's snap elections on 23 February. Planning security and clarity are essential in view of the stagnating economy and ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:49 Edgar Meza Society EU 91tv People in Germany would like to see more European cooperation in energy and climate policy, according to a survey conducted by market research institute Prolytics on behalf of the German ...
13 Nov 2024, 13:39 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Elections & Politics ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:38 Sören Amelang Adaptation Society 91tv Citizens expect the German government to take decisive action against the consequences of climate change, and are calling for the greening of inner cities to counter increasing heat, as ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:58 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv A working group made up of government officials and industry representatives focusing on climate-neutral aviation is calling for clear commitment by political leaders and industry to the market ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Households in East Germany on average pay nearly a quarter more for energy than those in the West if adjusted for purchasing power, an analysis by price comparison website ...
20 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024, 14:57 Dave Keating *** Our weekly Dispatches provide an overview of the most relevant recent and upcoming developments for the shift to climate neutrality i n selected European countries, from policy and diplomacy to society and industry. For ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:46 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Adaptation The first cranes are returning to Germany already in January 2024 from their wintering grounds further south as they migrate to north-eastern Europe to breed, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv People in Germany are increasingly doubtful that the country will achieve its 2030 climate targets, from the expansion of renewable energy to the growth of electric vehicles on the country& ...
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, ...
22 Mar 2024, 13:12 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Finance Society 91tv Clients and financing partners both increasingly demand more climate action from German companies, which respond with a growing emission reduction engagement, according ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv / RBB / NDR A court in Germany has imposed a nearly two-year sentence for a road block climate protest by the activist group Last Generation (Letzte Generation). The local ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:15 Ruby Russel Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wite / ARD Climate activist group Last Generation, whose members are famous for gluing themselves to roads to halt traffic, have announced that they will no longer use this ...
16 Oct 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv A consistent policy mix promoting decarbonisation and climate neutrality can significantly reduce energy imports and electricity costs for Germany in the next ...
18 Oct 2022, 14:17 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics Die Welt / 91tv After a long period of stagnation, the far-right political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is regaining popularity, as rising costs resulting from the ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Policy Society The majority (79%) of homeowners in Germany are in favour of replacing fossil heating systems with climate-friendly alternatives, but uncertainty reigns as to how this heating transition will be ...
30 Aug 2024, 12:42 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Joey Grostern Adaptation Cities 91tv Campaigners from the NGOs German Environmental Aid (DUH) and German Children’s Aid (DKHW) have ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:54 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Edgar Meza Gas International 91tv The highest Dutch court has put a halt to gas drilling off the German North Sea island of Borkum. The ...
17 Aug 2022, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Security Handelsblatt / Bild-Zeitung Russia’s government is actively trying to exploit Germany’s current energy supply crisis by sowing division and spreading disinformation, security agencies in Germany have ...
05 Aug 2022, 14:00 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cities 91tv Traffic regulations in Germany need a comprehensive reform to make the ...
24 May 2024, 14:08 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Clean Energy ...
20 Feb 2024, 14:08 Jack McGovan Wind Society 91tv More than three-quarters of the German population (81%) think the use and expansion of onshore wind energy is important or very important, according to a new analysis published today by the ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Society 91tv Meat consumption in Germany in 2023 fell to its lowest levels since records began in 1991, according to preliminary data from the Federal Information Centre for Agriculture (BZL). ...
08 Aug 2024, 14:03 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Society dpa / 91tv A German court has temporarily banned the construction of an electricity connection needed to power a planned gas drilling platform in the Wadden Sea, a World Heritage Site in ...
03 Apr 2024, 13:30 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Society 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche A private energy transition for individual households could be both ecologically and economically worthwhile, according to a report by the consulting subsidiary ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices ARD / 91tv A higher tax on meat products is needed to reduce the food sector’s impact on the environment and increase the well-being of animals, Germany’s government-appointed ...
07 Apr 2025, 09:39 Croatia is making moves on renewable energy reform, including new rules for self-supply, storage, and energy communities, but long-standing challenges persist. Grid bottlenecks continue to slow solar expansion, and major energy ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society The Fridays for Future student climate protest movement will leave its mark on society, independent of its eventual duration, according to a working paper by the Institute for Social Movement ...
02 Aug 2024, 12:34 The upcoming elections in three Eastern German states in September have put the region at the centre of attention of the country’s political landscape in 2024, especially due to the expected success of populist parties which could shake ...
12 Feb 2024, 13:30 Franca Quecke Carbon market Cost & Prices Society dpa / Zeit Online The planned climate bonus (“Klimageld”) payment to return state revenues from carbon pricing to citizens as compensation for rising CO2 prices is an “excellent idea ...
30 May 2025, 15:00 Italy is facing a delay in the phase-out of coal, as the future of a major coal-fired power plant near Rome remains unclear, despite plans for its closure by the end of the year. The uncertainty is partly fuelled by industry concerns ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:32 Ruby Russel Cost & Prices Society 91tv More than half of Germans say they are “very” or “extremely” concerned about climate change, but there is also widespread concern over the costs of the energy transition, with 55 ...
16 Apr 2020, 12:55 Expert 100% erneuerbar Stiftung Foundation for the promotion of decentralised, renewable energy Electricity market Renewables Energiewende Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:40 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv The need for a raw material supply ...
21 Feb 2025, 15:00 Croatia is exploring the possibility of constructing small modular nuclear reactors, a technology not yet commercially available. The economy ministry has set up a taskforce to investigate possibilities and locations, as well as ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Society Table.Media The protests against the razing of the village of Lützerath in order to expand the brown coal mining operations of energy giant RWE are damaging Germany’s image and standing in international climate ...
09 Aug 2021, 12:08 Expert BGE- Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung Nuclear phase-out Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Kerstine Appunn ...
31 Jan 2025, 14:00 Poland’s energy transition is lagging and set to rely on natural gas as a bridge fuel and nuclear energy for baseload capacity. A far-right party is pushing against new renewable investment with a referendum on a pending new wind farm ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:08 Germany and Europe must urgently strengthen their competitiveness and defence capabilities, government, businesses and NGOs said in first reactions the U.S. presidential election win by Donald Trump. Industry association BDI warned that ...
15 Jan 2024, 13:27 Sören Amelang Company climate claims Society 91tv A citizens’ assembly on improving nutrition in Germany has called for a mandatory government food label that includes information on the product’s climate impact, as well ...
24 Jun 2024, 14:12 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Government ARD / Handelsblatt As Germany’s coalition government struggles to agree on the country’s tightening 2025 budget, chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended planned austerity measures that would see major ...
23 Mar 2022, 12:35 Paul Gordon Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Climate activist group Fridays for Future (FfF) will stage its next global climate strike on Friday (25 March), calling not only for more action to prevent global warming but also ...
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 ...
14 Oct 2024, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Die Zeit / ntv / ARD / Politico Germany’s parties are gearing up for their election campaigns with around a year to go before the country’s next scheduled national vote. Chancellor ...
10 May 2024, 15:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society rbb / Die Welt Activists protesting against the expansion of the Tesla factory in Grünheide have tried to enter the factory's premises, leading to clashes with police and arrests made on the US ...
18 Jan 2024, 13:21 Sören Amelang Business Society 91tv Much of today’s business reporting still ignores the dramatic impact the climate crisis has on companies, making it vulnerable to greenwashing and lagging behind institutional investors, ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International 91tv Representatives of the Nama people in Namibia are preparing an appeal to the German government to consider its colonial past in its plans to make the southern African country a ...
14 Jun 2024, 12:57 Sören Amelang Technology Resources & Recycling 91tv Extending the average lifespan of smartphones to between five and seven years could reduce Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions from such devices by around half, ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:02 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv There is high acceptance for ambitious climate policy in Germany, although many citizens are dissatisfied with the political implementation of the energy and transport transitions, the largest ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:14 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv People in Germany rank security as their top priority when it comes to energy supply, according to a survey by consultancy EY. The majority (61%) of those surveyed ranked energy supply ...
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 ...
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 ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Policy Society Bild Three quarters of Germans worry about their future in regards to climate change, and many citizens say the government is not taking action rapidly enough, a survey by pollster INSA, commissioned by ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:47 Controversial plans by the German government to reform the country’s key legislation for reaching climate targets faces legal challenges by NGOs and an opposition lawmaker ahead of a parliamentary vote scheduled for Friday. ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:42 Edgar Meza Society 91tv / Tageszeitung (taz) The Scientists for Future organisation and the Bürgerbegehren Klimaschutz (BBK) climate action group have launched a citizen's climate council. The NGOs have assembled a ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:31 Sören Amelang Adaptation dpa Climate change has particularly severe impacts on mountains across the globe, as glaciers disappear, dangerous rockslides and avalanches become more likely, and biodiversity decreases, Swiss researchers have ...
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 ...
30 Aug 2024, 14:17 As Europe’s most intense heatwave in recent years finally comes to an end, following at least 35 days of well-above average temperatures, life in Italy has slowed into the summer break. In mid-August, the entire country grinds to a halt ...
28 Sep 2023, 13:55 Sören Amelang Adaptation Society 91tv More than 40 percent of young Germans say that climate change has negative effects on their mental and physical health, according to a survey by health insurance company vivida bkk. Of ...
26 May 2023, 13:40 Sören Amelang Society dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The UN has highlighted the importance of climate activists and their right to hold demonstrations following a crackdown on a street-blocking group in Germany. "Climate ...
22 May 2023, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Society Welt German universities are attracting foreign students with energy transition subjects, the number of which has grown steadily year on year, newspaper Welt reports. Public and private universities in the ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:28 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Governments around the world should factor into their planning more catastrophic trajectories ...
11 Feb 2022, 13:44 Sören Amelang Society 91tv The German Fridays for Future climate protest movement has said the new German government is nowhere near to implementing the policies necessary to address the climate emergency. "It's ...
10 May 2023, 12:20 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv Germany should introduce a ‘climate passport’ for people displaced by the effects of climate change, an independent government advisory panel has proposed in its annual report. The Expert ...
11 Apr 2025, 15:30 The biggest hurdles to building Germany's next government have fallen: a historic spending package has laid the groundwork for coalition negotiations between the conservative CDU/CSU alliance – winner of February’s snap election – ...
06 Jun 2024, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung / 91tv / Rheinische Post A nationwide mandatory insurance against natural hazards will be “an important topic” at an upcoming meeting between Germany’s ...
21 Mar 2025, 15:30 French prime minister Francois Bayrou may have fended off a vote of no-confidence in parliament for the adoption of the 2025 finance bill, but the nation still has a long way to go to recover from the political turmoil brought by last ...
05 Jul 2024, 15:25 Following Croatia’s inconclusive elections in April, the country’s parliament finally approved the new coalition government on 16 May. The centre-right HDZ, which won the most seats, formed a coalition with the right-wing Homeland ...
12 Feb 2024, 13:33 Franca Quecke Cost & Prices Society 91tv / Science Media Center Over two thirds (69%) of the world's population are willing to contribute "1% of [their] household income every month to fight global warming, ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:16 Expert Difu- German Institute of Urban Affairs Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik Cities Society Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Society 91tv German citizens would like to see their municipalities act more on climate ...
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 ...
23 May 2025, 15:20 Germany finally has a new government, ending months of political uncertainty at a time when multiple global crises require a safe pair of hands at the steering wheel of the EU’s most populous member state and largest economy. Friedrich ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv An alliance of civil society groups has called on the German government to better anticipate possible carbon price jumps at the time of the introduction of the EU ...
12 Mar 2024, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government Die Zeit / n-tv A public debate between Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck and Saxony’s state premier Michael Kretschmer in Berlin has showcased many of the problems the country is currently ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:07 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Several citizens in two German states have filed lawsuits against their state ...
10 Jan 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv / Die Welt At Germany’s first mobility summit under Olaf Scholz on 10 January, the German chancellor aims to renew efforts to tackle the country’s lagging emissions reduction in the ...
The new law for finding a permanent nuclear repository in Germany aims “ to offer proof that an enlightened society can find a place for the waste that nobody wants to have,” Michael Bauchmüller writes in a commentary for Süddeutsche Zeitung. But for this ...
22 Dec 2022, 09:12 Hungary’s climate movement is struggling to build on the earlier success of the country's Fridays for Future student protests to make their voices heard. Nonetheless, many activists believe that spectacular acts of civil ...
07 May 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Society EUElections2024 91tv A majority of EU citizens want the union to play a leading role in global efforts to counter climate change, a survey ahead of the European elections by More in Common has ...
14 Jun 2024, 16:07 Poor results in the EU elections mean that governing is set to be anything but smooth sailing for Germany's ruling coalition. Pressure is mounting on all three partners – chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD, the Green Party and the ...
01 Feb 2024, 13:45 Jack McGovan Policy Tagesspiegel Background Energy sector groups have called for improvements to a German interior ministry draft law set to regulate the resilience and physical safety of critical infrastructure, reports Tagesspiegel ...
16 Jan 2024, 13:36 Franca Quecke Transport Society Berliner Morgenpost Following the heat, drought and forest fires in southern Europe in 2023, tourists are increasingly looking to northern Europe in 2024, the holiday home platform Fewo-direkt has found. ...
29 Jan 2024, 13:58 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International 91tv The U.S. government’s decision to put a halt to licensing new liquefied natural gas (LNG) ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society 91tv / Reuters / dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau This week a campaign addressing the “true” environmental cost of food products by German supermarket chain Penny is set to receive ...
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28 Mar 2025, 12:00 As the European Union’s focus shifts away from climate action and towards increasing security and competitiveness, the question whether it will set a 90 percent emissions reduction target for 2040 has become central. Dave Keating *** ...
30 Aug 2024, 12:42 Three eastern German states will elect a new government in September 2024, marking a potentially pivotal moment in the post-reunification history of the country and for the future of its climate and energy transition policies. The ...
02 Feb 2022, 13:43 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Heating Society 91tv The German government has agreed to review applications by home builders under a controversial funding programme set up by the previous administration. Its aim is to pacify ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel International 91tv Germany, Denmark, the UK and the EU will provide 100 million euros for climate change mitigation projects in developing countries, economy minister Robert Habeck said at the Global NDC ...
03 Aug 2021, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Hamburger Abendblatt The cooperative bank Sparda in Germany's second largest city Hamburg is trying out a new "climate credit" scheme that is supposed to help clients finance more climate ...
17 Jun 2020, 15:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility 91tv The external costs caused by traffic and other mobility activities in Germany are in the range of 149 billion euros per year, transport NGO Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) has stated in a ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:30 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv A package of measures to boost the use of solar energy in Germany by removing red tape, approved by parliament on Friday (26 April), will significantly accelerate the rollout of the ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The climate activist movement Fridays for Future (FfF) has announced a new "global climate action day" on 25 September on which it will hold protest events in ...
While the Green Party has steered clear of proposing certain impositions on the population– such as higher fuel prices – during the current election campaign, such actions by the government are ultimately indispensable to protect the climate, writes ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:49 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Jack McGovan Resources & ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Heating Society 91tv The share of homeowners who say they don’t have the money to install climate-friendly technologies has increased significantly in Germany. 41 percent of property owners ...
18 Mar 2024, 13:03 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv An alliance of social and environmental NGOs has called on the German government to include concrete and binding sustainability and justice standards in its hydrogen import strategy ...
24 Jan 2025, 15:30 Germany has fully switched into election campaign mode ahead of the national vote on 23 February. Parties have presented their manifestos, with key energy transition issues including the future of industry, boosting investments, energy ...
07 May 2024, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Company climate claims Society 91tv Commercials that promote climate-damaging products are in violation of Germany’s State Treaty for Media, the labour union-affiliated Otto-Brenner-Foundation said. The ...
07 Feb 2024, 13:54 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Most citizens want Germany to play a leading role in climate protection, but they are divided over how to achieve this, slowing down climate policy efforts, said the ifo Institute ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:27 Milou Dirkx Society EU 91tv Action against climate change ranks among the topics people in Germany want the European Parliament to prioritise, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey. Climate action and EU defence are ...
07 Jun 2024, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Agriculture Der Spiegel / ARD Severe floods like those affecting large parts of southern Germany in June are no longer a “once-in-a-century” event, but rather “a new reality” that the country must come to ...
10 Apr 2024, 13:39 Expert DEBRIV- Federal German Association for Brown Coal Bundesverband Braunkohle Fossil fuels Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Coal Clean Energy ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Society 91tv The amount of meat being eaten in Germany per year is dropping and people think more about what impact their dietary choices have on the environment and climate, according to the ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv A group of experts largely rejected calls for tougher penalties for climate activists who stage acts of civil disobedience like motorway blockades or artwork attacks. In response to a motion ...
14 Jun 2023, 13:06 Jessica Bateman Adaptation Society Tagesspiegel Germany is drafting its first-ever nationwide plan to prevent heat-related deaths as heatwaves have become more severe as a result of climate change, health minister Karl Lauterbach said. ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:41 Edgar Meza Society 91tv A large majority of German households have lowered indoor temperatures this winter amid soaring energy costs, according to a report by indoor climate management company Tado. With nearly 80 percent ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv / Berliner Morgenpost In 2022, 5.5 million people in Germany felt they were financially unable to keep their home adequately warm, according to figures by statistical office ...
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14 Feb 2025, 13:57 Administrative "simplification" will be a key focus of the European Commission's 2025 work programme, trade and economic security commissioner Maroš Šefčovič told MEPs during the European Parliament’s plenary session in ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling 91tv The German government wants to strengthen the role of recycled raw materials in the country's industry in a bid to increase supply security of metals and industrial ...
25 Mar 2020, 13:56 Expert RNE- German Council for Sustainable Development Rat für nachhaltige Entwicklung Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Electronic devices turned into standby-mode cost German households about 448 ...
16 Jan 2024, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices 91tv / Augsburger Allgemeine In a parliamentary hearing, economists have largely backed the German government’s insistence on gradually phasing out subsidies for diesel fuel ...
27 Mar 2023, 13:57 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany has annual greenhouse gas reduction targets for individual economic sectors, but the country lacks “long-term, strategic considerations” how to reach these targets and become ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:15 Edgar Meza Storage Technology Policy 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche A research and development alliance representing Germany’s battery industry has blasted government plans to slash research and development funding for the field, ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Politics Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung / 91tv / dpa The vice president of the parliamentary group of the Social Democrats (SPD), part of Germany's ruling coalition, has spoken out against ...
05 Jan 2024, 11:43 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Cost & Prices Society Government 91tv / Spiegel / Table.Media Following a noisy backlash from farmers, the German government coalition has decided to backtrack on planned cuts to climate ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:50 The criminalisation of climate protesters is intensifying all over Europe, with multiple countries considering harsh new laws. While human rights activists express concern at the crackdown, experts are divided over the impact on the ...
10 Jan 2025, 09:59 Croatian citizens ended 2024 with a first round of presidential elections, marking the finale of a super election year. In terms of the climate, it was yet another year of above-average warmth, accompanied by numerous extreme weather ...
15 May 2019, 12:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics The Guardian Climate change denial has become a key topic of Germany’s far-right populist party AfD ahead of the EU parliamentary elections and the party particularly focuses ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:29 Future nuclear fusion power plants will not be able to complement wind and solar electricity production because they will likely need to run around the clock for economic and technical reasons, a German parliamentary report concludes. ...
05 Dec 2022, 09:35 With motorway and airport blockades as well as attacks on artworks, climate activists have caused a stir in Germany. The actions have provoked mainly negative reactions from politicians, the media and the general public, following ...
18 Jul 2023, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Society RND Public health officers in Germany have proposed to introduce a midday break akin to the Spanish ‘siesta’ to protect workers during the hottest hours of the day, media network RND reported. “We ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:15 Germany made significant progress in the area of climate adaptation in the past legislative period, said Andrea Fischer-Hotzel from the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu). From the national to the municipal level, there is now ...
16 Apr 2024, 13:27 After months of delay, lawmakers from Germany's coalition government have agreed to a reform of the country's climate action law, which would weaken the responsibility of ministries to ensure targets in their sectors are met. ...
10 Apr 2024, 12:10 Europe is set to face a climate backlash caused by the divide between urban and rural views, with populists increasingly capitalising on rural resistance against policies seen as elitist, argues Daphne Halikiopoulou, Chair of ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Adaptation Cities Table.Media The German government has called for municipalities to prepare risk analyses on the expected impacts of climate change throughout Germany. In an interview with Table.Media, environment minister ...
17 Nov 2022, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv The “Climate and Psyche” taskforce of the German Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Association (DGPPN) has called for better political support for mental health care through the climate crisis. In ...
14 Feb 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Security 91tv [Adds paragraph on related study about climate policy perception by science platform WPKS] The “increasingly tangible” threat of climate change and other risks at a global scale, such as the ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Society Elections & Politics EU 91tv For people in France, Denmark and Switzerland, climate change is the most important of five major crises which Europeans say have changed the way they look at the ...
21 Feb 2019, 14:36 The vast majority (90%) of Germans are supportive of the country's energy transition. However, more and more are losing faith in the government’s ability to pursue this landmark project in a socially just way, a new survey finds. ...
01 Nov 2022, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised the actions of climate activists targeting artworks and blocking traffic by gluing themselves to streets. “There are other ways in which people can ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:07 Chinsisi Moyo Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Extreme weather events such as heatwaves and river floods are known to hit the economy- but the damages could be significantly worse if economic output is already low, ...
30 Mar 2021, 13:43 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv The Aloys Wobben Foundation (AWS), the sole shareholder of wind turbine company Enercon, and German utility EWE AG have launched the 50-50 joint venture Alterric to develop and operate onshore wind ...
22 Dec 2020, 13:07 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Charlotte Nijhuis Policy 91tv Reducing the environmental damages caused by greenhouse gases, nitrogen emissions, other ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv 73 percent of participants in a German online survey said they are dissatisfied with the progress of the country's landmark energy transition. Most (77%) see too much ...
27 Mar 2025, 12:57 Germany's prospective next government is stepping back from its predecessor's ambition to speed up the country’s coal exit to 2030, sticking instead to the original 2038 deadline. Leaked negotiation documents reveal that many ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 91tv A broad alliance of more than 40 civil society associations and organisations has called on the German government to step-up climate measures as the country is projected to miss its ...
21 Jul 2023, 11:27 Switching to climate-friendly heating to keep homes warm requires both subsidies for clean technologies and restrictions on dirty ones, says Duncan Gibb, senior advisor at climate think tank Regulatory Assistance Project and founder of ...
07 Jun 2023, 11:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv It is unclear whether and to what extent conventional fracking – a controversial gas extraction method currently banned in Germany – could make a contribution to supply security in the ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:15 Sören Amelang Coal Policy Tageszeitung / 91tv The German government does not intend to introduce a law to pull forward the country’s coal power phase-out from the officially agreed 2038 exit date to 2030. "A legal ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:13 Municipalities of all sizes are at the forefront of the transformation of cities, infrastructure and Europe’s energy system, and should therefore lead this change actively, the German Institute for Urban Affairs (Difu) said. Enabling ...
09 May 2023, 12:54 Julian Wettengel Society EU 91tv European governments must ensure that no one is left behind during the move towards a climate-neutral future, said German chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech in the European Parliament, ...
12 Jul 2023, 13:37 Sören Amelang Adaptation Society 91tv / Handelsblatt German homeowners remain underinsured against extreme weather events like floods, which are ever more likely as a result of climate change. Two years after devastating ...
23 May 2023, 13:44 Carolina Kyllmann Politics Society Tagesspiegel / 91tv Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz labelled the protest actions from climate activist group Last Generation, who glue themselves to artwork or roads, as “completely nutty ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Society 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background More than 700 scientists from German-speaking countries have signed a petition that explicitly backs students’ strikes demanding rapid climate action by the ...
13 Feb 2023, 14:05 Milou Dirkx Climate & CO2 Society Coverage of climate change on German public television has increased over the past years but still lags behind other topics such as business news, leaving “a lot of room for improvement”, a report ...
27 Apr 2023, 12:57 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv Energy ...
07 Dec 2021, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Elections & Politics 91tv Designated German climate and economy minister Robeck Habeck has said that faster construction of new wind turbines and solar panels will be a “core task” for his ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Der Spiegel A draft report commissioned by the German government shows that the country’s current and planned climate policies are not enough to reach the official target of net-zero ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:16 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
21 Apr 2023, 13:27 Sören Amelang Gas Policy Society dpa German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and economy and climate minister Robert Habeck (Greens) have defended controversial government plans for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the ...
10 Oct 2023, 12:38 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices Society ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:05 Sören Amelang Company climate claims Society dpa / 91tv The largest beer tents at Munich’s famous Oktoberfest are to become "climate-neutral" within five years at the latest, reports newswire dpa. The ...
02 Jan 2024, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Policy Society Rheinische Post The German government must quickly make good on its promise to introduce the ‘climate bonus’ (Klimageld in German) support payments to citizens as it increases the ...
17 Aug 2020, 13:40 91tv 91tv Society dpa / die Welt / taz Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with climate activists including Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer on Thursday (20 August) to discuss climate policy, dpa reports in an ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:25 Sören Amelang Society Tagesspiegel Background Far-right extremists in Germany have started to mobilise for a “hot autumn” of protests against soaring energy prices on social media, reports energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
10 Jan 2024, 13:19 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv / dpa / MDR A planned cut to Germany’s natural climate and ocean protection ...
08 May 2024, 12:34 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels 91tv Northern German state Schleswig-Holstein will end the extraction of oil in the marine national park ...
29 Nov 2024, 11:00 Military and energy security are key priorities for Poland as it prepares to assume the EU’s rotating presidency in January 2025. The country plans to achieve these targets by pushing for nuclear energy, sanctions on Russia, and EU ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Wind 91tv Wind power in Germany largely contributes about as much electricity to the national power mix as can be expected given the country’s meteorological conditions, the research ...
12 Oct 2023, 11:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & Recycling 91tv Making greater use of old electric vehicle (EV) batteries could greatly help reduce waste and stabilise the power grid in the shift towards renewable power, the ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Society EU 91tv Two-thirds of the people in Europe (66%) support stricter government measures to change people’s individual behaviour to tackle climate change, according to the second part of the European ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:58 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Business manager magazin Germany’s state-owned energy supplier Uniper will continue to have a stake in nuclear plants abroad even after the end of the technology’s ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Society 91tv German health minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) aims to halve the number of excess deaths due to heat this year compared to 2022 with a nationwide heat protection plan. Lauterbach, who ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 EUElections2024 91tv The re-election of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has largely been welcomed by Germany’s government, observers in the energy industry and by civil ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv Improving circular economy principles for the use of steel, cement and plastics could help Germany’s energy-intensive industries reduce their greenhouse gas ...
07 Feb 2025, 14:40 The fallout triggered by the dissolution of the French National Assembly last June continues to afflict political decisionmaking in France. The collapse of the Barnier government in December, and the resulting ministerial reshuffle, ...
02 Apr 2025, 10:05 They may rail against immigration and climate action on stage but behind the scenes, far-right leaders across Europe welcome labour migrants who are needed for the continent’s energy transition. To fill its rapidly widening skill gaps, ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:39 Aniket Narawad Policy Society 91tv Climate activists in Germany have accused the government of watering down a key law to ensure emissions reductions during the global climate strike organised by the Fridays for Future ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:29 Jennifer Collins International 91tv / Die Zeit Germany is planning to end export guarantees for oil and coal projects and will bolster support for green technology exports in an effort to align the country’s foreign trade ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:30 Jessica Bateman Cars Society 91tv Only 52 percent of Germans say they would consider purchasing a hybrid or electric car – a figure 15 percentage points behind the European average. According to the European Investment Bank ...
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 ...
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 ...
08 Nov 2024, 13:46 After an exhaustingly hot summer, the end of September and beginning of October ushered in extreme rainfall events and flooding in several Croatian cities along the coast and in the hinterland. At the start of November, higher ...
03 Jan 2024, 13:37 Maximising the use and potential of the existing building stock are key levers to respond to Germany's housing shortage and drive forth the decarbonisation of the buildings sector, say Sibyl Steuwer and Lisa Graaf from think tank ...
19 Jul 2024, 15:00 Every year in August, Italy and its political scene grind to an almost complete halt for the summer holidays. The debate around the country’s energy transition has almost entirely narrowed down to a single topic: whether to return to ...
08 May 2023, 13:30 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche Städte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Municipalities in Germany expect the ...
Several European civil society organisations, including Friends of the Earth (BUND) and Climate-Alliance Germany, have launched a collective campaign “to catalyse and hasten the move away from coal and towards clean renewable energy”. Several maps and ...
20 Apr 2022, 13:33 Paul Gordon Society 91tv The majority of football clubs in the German Bundesliga have not yet set themselves a climate neutrality target with concrete steps for the 2021/2022 season, according to a survey from non-profit ...
25 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Carolina Kyllmann Politics Government 91tv Internal spats and external crises have caused the German ...
Federal environment minister Barbara Hendricks said that the government’s Climate Action Plan 2050 will show more precise goals than her ministry’s final version, which is now in the consultation process with other ministries. “We will have to put back ...
14 Feb 2022, 14:15 Jessica Bateman Society Süddeutsche Zeitung Film industry leaders and politicians in Germany have announced plans for climate standards in film production, Süddeutsche Zeitung Online reports. Speaking at a panel event during the ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:13 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Mobility 91tv A broad alliance of labour unions, environmental and social organisations, as well as the protestant church, has called on the German government to speed up the transition ...
10 Jan 2023, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv A jury of linguists and journalists has picked the expression ‘climate terrorists’ (Klimaterroristen) as Germany’s ‘non-word’ (Unwort) of the year 2022, the initiative ...
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 ...
22 Mar 2023, 13:30 Sören Amelang Society Elections & Politics Die Welt German climate activist group “Last Generation,” known for its controversial forms of protest, such as road blockages and attacks on artworks, is considering the establishment of a ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:53 Jessica Bateman Gas Society Süddeutsche Zeitung Local activists in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein are protesting the government’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure construction plans, newspaper Süddeutsche ...
25 Oct 2024, 16:00 Poland’s new government has updated the country’s energy strategy, which it says is more ambitious, but implementation remains uncertain as it depends on how coal miner unions react. In its push to increase nuclear power generation, the ...
15 Mar 2023, 13:21 Sören Amelang Renewables Society 91tv The German government can count on very broad popular support for its plans to accelerate the rollout of renewable energies, a survey has revealed. “The population is ready for a ...
16 Aug 2024, 12:00 Croatia is feeling the consequences of climate change this summer. The country experienced long heat waves and record temperatures were recorded in the Adriatic Sea. This has led to more media attention on the topic of climate change, ...
19 May 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Politics Society 91tv / Zeit Online The island of Rügen on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast is to be included into law as a location for floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals despite local ...
15 May 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv The majority of citizens in the German state of Bavaria would accept wind turbines in their vicinity under certain circumstances, a survey commissioned by the Initiative Climate ...
11 Jan 2023, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Germany must restore 50,000 hectares of moorland annually – and the whole of the EU 500,000 hectares – for the world to reach the Paris Agreement target of limiting global ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:55 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Cities Society 91tv Public support for climate protection measures such as the introduction of speed limits or the building of wind turbines, is split markedly between rural and urban ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Society EU 91tv Policies on migration and combating climate change are the most polarising topics for people surveyed in several European countries, a report by the Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy ...
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10 Sep 2024, 13:44 With the summer break coming to an end, lawmakers in Brussels are back to school. After the newly elected European Parliament started its legislative term last July, all eyes are now on the formation of the next European Commission. ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv The future of the energy system in economic powerhouse state Texas will be a key feature during an upcoming trip of German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock to the United ...
08 Aug 2017, 00:00 Since Germany’s Energiewende shifted into gear in the early 2000s, the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors have created over a million jobs, many of them in technical branches, such as renewable energy production, power ...
02 Jan 2023, 13:10 Sören Amelang Gas Bild am Sonntag Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner has renewed his call for allowing the controversial fracking technology to increase gas supplies. “The ban should be lifted,” the head of the Free Democrats ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:42 The German government’s target of sourcing 80 percent of the country’s electricity from renewable sources by 2030 is very much achievable for Germany if current positive trends persist, economy minister Robert Habeck has said at a ...
27 Jan 2022, 12:50 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Society 91tv Young Germans supported by an environmental NGO have filed a new lawsuit with the country's highest court to force the government to further step up its climate ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Residents in eastern German states are generally critical of the federal government’s energy and climate policies, while at the same time endorsing measures to reduce ...
21 Jun 2023, 13:19 Sören Amelang Coal Society 91tv A broad coalition of climate activist groups have said they will stage a protest at an opencast lignite mine in East Germany and call for a rapid end to coal this Sunday (25 June). “It is ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:40 Sören Amelang Wind Society 91tv Onshore wind power has become more popular than ever among people living in Germany as a result of the war in Ukraine, a poll has found. One in three respondents said Russia's war and ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Society 91tv German rail company Deutsche Bahn has signed a partnership agreement with the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship to transport teams and fans across the country in a climate ...
15 Nov 2024, 15:00 Large parts of northern Italy were devastated by the country’s fourth floods within a year, triggered by intense rainfall on 19 and 20 October. Parts of Sicily, in the south, were also severely impacted. The floods came as Italy’s ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:42 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany must improve precautionary and adaptation measures against the negative impacts of climate change in order to fulfil its human rights obligations, said the German Institute ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Gas Business & Jobs Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s economy faces a “severe crisis” should fossil gas supplies from Russia come to a complete stop, the president of the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI), ...
13 Apr 2023, 11:38 Even 15 years after its first climate adaptation strategy, and despite deadly floods and droughts, Germany is still failing to integrate climate adaptation into everyday decision-making at all levels. Insurers have sounded the alarm ...
03 Aug 2023, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society 91tv While the vast majority (91%) of Germans support a climate and environmentally-friendly economic transformation, many worry that it could lead to social injustice and threaten ...
23 Dec 2021, 12:49 Charlotte Nijhuis Society Tagesspiegel Background The new German government plans to develop a legal framework for climate adaptation measures that could be a first in Europe, Kristina Thomas reports in Tagesspiegel Background. The ...
07 Oct 2024, 09:30 We are almost exactly one year away from the next German federal elections. Or are we? The three-party coalition government led by chancellor Olaf Scholz is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in ...
21 Dec 2021, 12:45 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Society 91tv Domestic tourism in Germany caused 24.6 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents in 2019, accounting for 2.6 percent of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions that year, according to a ...
03 May 2024, 10:42 Making buildings more sustainable hinges on being able to measure what sustainability actually means. Definitions and standards vary widely across Europe, making it hard to compare projects and assess progress. Certifications can ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:00 Germany’s prospective coalition government has agreed to continue the country’s landmark energy transition without major adjustments, and stick to existing climate targets. In their coalition treaty, conservatives and Social Democrats ...
14 Dec 2021, 11:31 Edgar Meza Society 91tv A large majority of people in Germany continue to support the expansion of renewable energy, but the percentage of those who see it as very or extremely important has declined, according to the ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:42 Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz’ conservatives have won Germany’s snap election, while the current government parties booked significant losses, indicating a reduced focus on climate policies in a future government. But it remained ...
20 Feb 2023, 16:47 On the path to a climate neutral electricity system that is largely covered by renewable sources, Germany is planning a reform to its electricity market. Inaugurating the ‘Climate Neutral Electricity System Platform’, the economy and ...
The German government is preparing the launch of a commission tasked with finding measures to make buildings more energy efficient and bring down carbon emissions in the heating sector, Susanne Ehlerding writes in the energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
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 ...
12 May 2022, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Society G20 & G7 91tv / Die Zeit Several major environmental groups have urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to step up the country’s climate action efforts and make the topic a priority of the G7 ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:03 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit Humankind cannot continue living and economising the way it has, ...
25 Jan 2023, 13:03 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv Germany wants to promote the development of a climate and environmentally-friendly economy in Africa, the development ministry (BMZ) announced in its “ Africa strategy ”. “Africa is ...
