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 ...
09 Apr 2024, 14:00 German environmental NGOs have welcomed a landmark climate victory by an association of women in Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights as a breakthrough for climate action. The court found that the European Convention on ...
04 Oct 2022, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society n-tv / Der Spiegel Hospitals and other public health institutions in Germany will receive financial support from the state to cope with rising energy prices, health minister Karl Lauterbach ...
11 Sep 2020, 14:36 One year before Germany's next general election, economy minister Peter Altmaier calls for a "historic consensus" between all democratic parties, businesses and civil society to ensure that climate action and the ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Cities 91tv A broad alliance of German trade unions and environmental associations has launched a joint call to the federal government for a legal reform to guarantee more financial support to implement ...
22 Dec 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Society Government Süddeutsche Zeitung German Green Party co-leader Ricarda Lang has welcomed criticism from climate activists about the government coalition's climate policies in its first year in office, saying their ...
01 Nov 2024, 16:30 As the world heads to the international climate summit COP29, the European Union is in a tricky position. The Brussels machine is still getting back up and running after the June elections, with the European Commission chiefs yet to be ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:38 Expert Forschungsgruppe Wahlen e.V. Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Germany is currently the country most concerned about climate change out of the 28 surveyed for the August update ...
The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) demands a governmentally-carried public debate among politicians, the industry and unions on a future energy concept for Germany to ensure a “basic consensus” in the society. In a press release, the BWE criticises ...
US business magazine Fortune published a long article by Jeffrey Ball on the generational project German Energiewende, society’s costs for the expansion of renewables, the benefits of the transition and the possibilities for other states to follow Germany ...
10 Feb 2022, 09:25 Germany aims to strengthen its climate foreign policy with the appointment of Greenpeace International head Jennifer Morgan as special envoy. The new “face of Germany’s international climate policy” will expand partnerships with other ...
22 Sep 2021, 13:46 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Society 91tv Seventy percent of Germans would support a ban on short haul flights in order to better protect the climate, a survey has found. A poll carried out by YouGov on behalf ...
15 Sep 2021, 12:29 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Jessica Bateman Fossil fuels The German government has issued export credit guarantees to 12 billion euros’ worth of fossil fuel projects over the ...
22 Dec 2022, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Edgar Meza Agriculture Government 91tv / Welt Reducing the environmental impact of food is one of the key priorities of the German government's upcoming nutritional strategy, presented by the ...
17 May 2022, 12:49 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Climate protests organised by the Fridays for Future movement directly helped the Green Party in German elections between 2019 and 2021 – in part due to the influence of children on ...
19 May 2022, 12:11 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Society 91tv Some 66 percent of German households are in favour of raising the top tax rate to finance climate action, according to a survey conducted by the ifo Institute in cooperation with ...
08 Jan 2024, 13:54 Workers from agricultural companies across Germany have launched a week of authorised protests in the country by blocking roads and motorways with their tractors. They are demonstrating against cuts to tax breaks for diesel fuel widely ...
13 Sep 2024, 15:00 The fate of France’s green transition remains on hold despite President Emmanuel Macron finally appointing a new prime minister in Michel Barnier. The decision to name a new prime minister had been a long time coming, following the ...
10 Jun 2024, 13:44 German businesses, researchers and civil society have welcomed that democratic and pro-EU parties continue to have a large majority after the 2024 EU elections, but warned that wins for the populist and far-right camp means that it ...
18 Oct 2024, 10:56 The new government of prime minister Michel Barnier was announced on 21 September, with the 2025 budget following on 10 October. To reduce the public deficit to 5 percent of the country's economy by 2025, and to 3 percent by 2027, ...
Representatives of industry, civil society and science call for an internationally coordinated price system for CO₂ emissions in a guest commentary in Die Zeit. The Federation of German Industries (BDI), environmental NGO Germanwatch and the Mercator ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation 91tv The German government has said its new digitalisation strategy will help in the fight against the climate crisis and in efforts to transform the economy. Environmental data and ...
09 Dec 2024, 14:00 The break-up of Germany's coalition government could further undermine public acceptance of the energy transition's costs, warns Brigitte Knopf, head of the think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial, which focuses on climate policy' ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:21 Hannah Naylor Gas Society dpa Berlin’s parliamentarians and tourists alike will soon feel the impact of Germany’s drive to save energy, in response to looming gas shortages. The Reichstag parliament building is in the process of ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society WirtschaftsWoche The renewed push for renewable energy expansion in Germany leaves no more room for the NIMBY (not in my backyard) mentality that has long stalled the buildout of wind turbines, solar ...
22 Dec 2023, 08:48 Germany made dealing with the consequences of climate change more binding in 2023, and it must now use this momentum to step up implementation, says Christian Kind, adaptation head of programme at think tank adelphi. Spreading the costs ...
20 Mar 2023, 12:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society ZDF / 91tv Several German cities are considering, or are already brokering, deals with climate activists from the group Last Generation to end their disruptive protests in ...
30 Mar 2022, 14:07 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Die Welt Climate activists from student protest movement Fridays for Future (FfF) have said they will resist the planned ...
19 Apr 2024, 14:30 Democratic parties across Europe should treat climate policies as a matter of social justice to combat the increasing threat of far-right populist politicians who oppose strong climate action, says Linus Westheuser, sociologist at the ...
12 Aug 2022, 11:58 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon market Company climate claims WirtschaftsWoche The German supermarket chain Rewe has said that it will ...
17 Feb 2022, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s government should soon introduce a so-called climate premium (“Klimageld”) to return the revenues from the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to citizens, ...
04 Aug 2022, 14:05 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Hannah Naylor EU Security RND / Deutschlandfunk / 91tv NGOs ...
28 Apr 2021, 13:17 Charlotte Nijhuis Society 91tv Most young Germans are in favour of the energy transition, according to a survey conducted by the German environment ministry (BMU) and the federal agency for nature conservation (BfN). Two ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:16 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Expert Verdi ver.di Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Society taz / DLF / Süddeutsche Zeitung German service sector labour union Verdi has come ...
04 Oct 2022, 12:14 Edgar Meza Coal Society 91tv The town of Lützerath that has become a symbolic battle ground for climate activsits in Germany will be demolished to make room for a nearby coal mine, the state government of North-Rhine ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:28 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Society 91tv Three in four houseowners in Germany wish ...
23 Aug 2024, 15:00 The summer holiday peak has arrived across Europe and most parliaments on the continent have gone into recess. But while federal politics won’t fully resume in Germany before 8 September, politicians and their observers have already ...
Representatives of the G20 dialogue forums business (B20), civil society organisations (C20) and think tanks (T20) have together called on the Group of Twenty member countries to take the lead in implementing the Paris Climate Agreement. They demand a ...
10 Jun 2021, 14:00 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Society Die Welt German climate protection NGOs are gearing up for full-scale legal attack on what they describe as climate offenders in the wake of a court ruling in the Netherlands last month ordering ...
German municipalities see energy supply and mobility management as important topics in 2030, according to a survey by the Society of Automotive and Traffic Systems Technologies of the Association of German Engineers (VDI). 68.3 percent of the surveyed ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:19 Edgar Meza Coal Society rbb Germany’s eastern states are set to greatly benefit from the country’s energy transition due to the high number of future-oriented companies based there and to the coal exit compromise, which will see the ...
Religious groups and organisations are becoming increasingly influential in international climate policy, according to research presented at the University of Münster (WWU). “They have established themselves as non-governmental actors at the UN climate ...
Many countries in Latin America have started their own energy transition plans but they should incorporate lessons, such as citizens’ participation, from the German Energiewende, writes Emilio Godoy for Inter Press Service (IPS). “Germany’s transition ...
22 Nov 2024, 09:30 The collapse of Germany’s coalition government has thrown climate policymaking in Europe’s largest economy into disarray, and added many question marks to the progress of its landmark energy transition. The sacking of finance minister ...
Nearly 100 civil society organisations from across the world – including Greenpeace International, Banktrack, 250.org, Climate Action Network and E3G – have sent a joint letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, urging her to intervene in the escalating ...
15 Feb 2022, 13:24 Expert Federal Foreign Office Auswärtiges Amt International Security Paul Gordon Transport Government 91tv / RTL German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Green Party) wants to use regular scheduled flights more frequently ...
10 May 2022, 13:30 Edgar Meza Cities Society 91tv City leaders in Germany have for the first time named the climate as the most pressing issue they are currently facing, according to a survey by the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu). ...
14 Feb 2022, 13:35 Paul Gordon Industry Policy 91tv A company alliance has called for closer cooperation on the capture, storage and transport of CO2 between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In a joint letter, the signatories – among ...
01 Apr 2019, 14:09 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Politics Society Deutsche Welle / Spiegel Online / taz / dpa Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg continued to make waves in German media over the weekend, after she spoke to a crowd of thousands at ...
10 Jun 2022, 13:10 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Kerstine Appunn Wind Der Spiegel / 91tv The German government’s push for ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:58 Sören Amelang Renewables International G20 & G7 91tv The German government and NGOs have welcomed the first G7 commitment to concrete targets for the rollout of renewables, but environmentalists also warned that the ...
Grid operator Amprion’s statement that Germany’s power grid was at its limits last winter shows that the energy transition is not on track, because supply security was endangered, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
03 May 2024, 15:35 With the sudden arrival of summer weather, Germans stream back into street cafes and beer gardens with a collective sigh of relief. On the way, they are greeted by EU election campaign posters, which have sprung up across the country ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:04 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels International 91tv Despite the extension of the work of Germany’s coal exit commission, the country’s delegation will not go to Katowice empty-handed, said environment ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:56 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv The hasty buildout of Germany’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) import infrastructure is turning into a ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:15 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Grid Renewables Hydrogen Policy 91tv The separate planning procedures for electricity, gas, and hydrogen infrastructure must be combined to pave the way towards a low-carbon economy, ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:37 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Kerstine Appunn Renewables Society 91tv Many Germans are starting the new year with “climate resolutions” – around 24 percent of them want to ...
Fulfilling the EU’s climate protection standards in agriculture cost German farmers about 310 million euros every year, the German Farmers’ Association (DBV) says in a press release. Total costs for complying with “the high national and European” ...
01 Aug 2022, 13:28 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv / euronews / dpa Regional heat records in northern Germany, drought in many ...
Germany scores poorly in a new ranking of EU member states’ ambition and progress on slowing global warming, according to a press release from Climate Action Network Europe, an umbrella organisation of European civil society groups working to fight ...
Green politician Hans-Josef Fell criticises the federal government for proposing in its recently published " Concept for Civil Defence ” only “old, unfit concepts” such as military and police protection to deal with consequences of attacks or ...
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02 Aug 2024, 14:20 Six months after the new ruling coalition in Poland came to power, there are still no significant changes to the country’s energy policy. The government of Donald Tusk, however, is finally getting back to work on key laws for the energy ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:40 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Society Der Spiegel German consumer advocates are calling for a fair distribution of the energy transition's costs after the next government announced more ambitious climate plans. "If ...
The US states, cities, companies, and civil society actors that have confirmed their unwavering support for international climate action despite the US administration’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement “gives courage” to everyone adhering to ...
20 Sep 2021, 13:25 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices Society 91tv Over half of Germans would support a higher CO2 price in transport and heating if the revenue was redistributed to consumers rather than kept by the ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:16 Policy Society 91tv The Covid-19 pandemic can offer insights into how to cope with the climate change crisis in terms of risk management and policy reaction, a Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) study says ...
12 Jan 2023, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Society 91tv / ZDF German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has said he has “great respect” for climate protesters but sees the village Lützerath — which is due to be demolished and replaced ...
The new bill on the responsibility for the disposal of nuclear waste, passed by the German Bundestag on Thursday, is a “step of historic proportions” for the federal government, writes lawyer and expert in energy law Olaf Däuper in a guest commentary in ...
Big cities around the world have a special and urgent responsibility to press ahead in the fight against global warming, Berlin’s Green energy senator Ramona Pop says in a guest article for the Berliner Zeitung. If the federal government fails to give the ...
21 Apr 2022, 13:45 Edgar Meza Society International 91tv People in Germany are less concerned about the impacts of climate change than the citizens of many other countries across the globe, according to a survey by Paris-based market research ...
11 Oct 2021, 13:26 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche Städte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The Association of German Towns and Municipalities (DStGB) ...
09 May 2023, 12:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport 91tv The German government must address structural obstacles to faster and more comprehensively reduce emissions across the country’s economy in order to achieve international ...
More than 30 foundations from eight countries have initiated the Foundations Platform (F20) “to further shape the political discourse on future sustainability measures before, during and after the G20 summit” on 7-8 July in Hamburg. The goal is to ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv A need for energy supply security has increased acceptance in the German population towards the expansion of renewables, a survey by the Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) found. ...
The Energiewende in Germany is an ambitious political and social project which requires an effective dialogue between all societal actors – political, civil society, economics, science, etc, writes Jonas Kaiser on the HIIG Blog. But a hyperlink network ...
22 Jan 2019, 12:46 The top brass from energy companies, regulators, ministries and political parties gather in Berlin to discuss the challenges of the energy transition at the Handelsblatt energy conference, the traditional annual kick-off for the sector. ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv The bulk of external costs caused by transport in Germany is due to road traffic, which accounts for 95 percent of total costs, NGO Allianz pro Schiene (Pro Rail Alliance) said. The NGO ...
28 Nov 2018, 16:14 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society Elections & Politics New York Times As a turn towards conservative and right-wing politics appears to dominate the political agenda in Germany and elsewhere in the ...
The planned Russian-German natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, currently under construction in the Baltic Sea, can contribute to German power supply security during the country’s coal exit, said coal commission co-head Ronald Pofalla during a speech at ...
06 Jan 2023, 11:03 Germany and the EU must focus on reducing their dependence on raw materials that are critical for key energy transition technologies this year, says economist and government advisor Veronika Grimm. “We are [faced] with the task of more ...
09 Oct 2023, 13:49 The parties of Germany’s government coalition suffered heavy losses in two state elections in economically strong Hesse and Bavaria in western and southern Germany, while populist parties including the far-right AfD celebrated ...
24 Mar 2022, 12:26 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 91tv Germany's environment ministry has launched a plan for immediate action on climate change adaptation. In a press release, the ministry said it will be supporting municipalities ...
09 Dec 2020, 15:14 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Society 91tv A large majority of Germans think addressing climate change must be part of the post-COVID-19 economic recovery. In a large-scale, international survey of 30,000 ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:51 Edgar Meza Renewables Tageszeitung / 91tv Germany’s hydropower sector is up in arms over the federal government’s plan to stop the subsidisation of small hydroelectric power plants due to nature conservation concerns, ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:43 The new chapter of the 6th report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focuses on mitigating climate change effects. Commentators from Germany regard the report as “a clear call to society and policymakers for ...
Important shifts in power relations within the energy sector occur in the course of Germany’s energy transition, according to a new research publication by Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS). “The reality is that power over certain ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:41 Julian Wettengel International Security 91tv The climate crisis and its effects on people’s lives around the world will be at the heart of the National Security Strategy being developed by the German government, said ...
23 Nov 2022, 14:07 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Policy Society 91tv An alliance of environmental NGOs and an industry union have called on the German government to launch an investment initiative to the tune of 100 billion euros per year ...
26 Nov 2019, 17:36 The effects of global warming are becoming increasingly felt in Germany, shows a government report on climate change adaptation. The average air temperature in the country rose by 1.5°C from 1881 until 2018, and more frequent heat waves ...
The United States' “short-sighted and irresponsible” withdrawal from the Paris Agreement has prompted the G20 engagement groups to call on the remaining G19 member states to “convincingly show their willingness to implement the deal” at the upcoming ...
11 Mar 2022, 14:26 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Security Clean Energy ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:31 To help the world get on a path that ensures the global temperature rise is limited to 1.5°C, Germany has presented a new strategy to coordinate its climate foreign policy efforts across all ministries. The government unveiled the long ...
17 Nov 2020, 14:02 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Society 91tv The majority of Germans are willing to adopt a more sustainable ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:41 Julian Wettengel Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels International 91tv While it remains unclear whether the coal exit commission will present parts of its plan for the fossil fuel’s phase-out ahead of the UN climate change ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:36 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Efficiency Society Spiegel Online Germany’s largest residential property company, Vonovia, has said it will reduce its investments in building modernisation by 40 percent, citing a “dramatic ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:59 Sören Amelang Cars Handelsblatt German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ‘car summit’ this week was too narrowly focussed on electric mobility and industry interests, writes Dieter Fockenbrock in a commentary for the business daily ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:33 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Policy Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The so-called ‘yellow vests’ protest against higher taxes on fuel and heating oil in France are a major disappointment for all who advocate a tax on ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:45 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Society Elections & Politics 91tv Activists from student climate movement Fridays for Future plan to take to the streets worldwide and in over 350 German cities for a global ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:51 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society Tagesspiegel Germany plays a central role at the UN climate summit COP24 because it wants to show that ambitious climate protection offers big opportunities for new and ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Society Der Spiegel / 91tv Climate activists occupying the western German town of Lützerath to prevent it from being destroyed to make way for a nearby coal mine are to be evicted from January next ...
04 Oct 2023, 10:11 Against the backdrop of a faltering economy and heated national debates about climate policies, two of Germany's key economic regions, Bavaria and Hesse, head to the polls in the first week of October. A change of government is not ...
Supporters of solar power are seeking to head off a proposed legal constraint on small modules that can be easily plugged into wall sockets, writes Bernward Janzing in taz. The German section of the International Solar Energy Society (DGS) wants to see a ...
27 Oct 2020, 13:21 Kerstine Appunn Society 91tv Spiegel Online, one of Germany’s most important news websites, has decided to make climate change a more permanent part of its reporting by giving it its own section on the site as well as ...
The hidden costs of electricity generated with coal, nuclear power, and gas mean consumers would have to pay a “conventional energy surcharge” of up to 10.8 cents per kilowatt-hour next year, according to a study by Green Budget Germany (FÖS) commissioned ...
26 Oct 2020, 13:57 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Sören Amelang Society 91tv People in Germany believe that politicians and consumers share equal blame for slow progress in climate action. In a survey ...
10 Jun 2022, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Investments in sustainable financial products grew by over 50 percent in Germany in 2021, the latest market report by financial industry association Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen (FNG) has ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:13 Sören Amelang Society 91tv Older people in Germany are more likely to consider climate and environmental protection an important topic than younger adults, a poll by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) has revealed. " ...
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 ...
The real lesson of the German Energiewende is not that the transition to renewables is very expensive. Quite the contrary: it is affordable in highly industrialised countries, writes Tomas Unnerstall in an article in the journal Energy, Sustainability and ...
17 Sep 2020, 13:08 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Society 91tv Germans have particularly strong aspirations for their country to become more environmentally friendly when compared to people in many other countries, a survey by the ...
14 Sep 2020, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Society dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Climate change is having a hard impact on many people's mental health, Sabine Maur, president of the German Psychotherapist Association (DPtV) in federal state Rhineland ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:45 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 91tv NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) is filing lawsuits against five German states on behalf ...
09 Sep 2020, 14:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Society 91tv Campaigners in Germany are calling for a regular prime-time show about climate change on public television, in order to draw more attention to the topic and educate the public on the necessity ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:40 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The majority of German consumers support a faster transition from ...
16 May 2022, 13:11 Expert UFZ- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung- UFZ Climate & CO2 Renewables Society Julian Wettengel Agriculture 91tv / dpa / Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland Germany's ...
The French government’s decision to increase the price of diesel fuel has sparked heavy protests across the entire country, but more such “unreasonable demands” are necessary in France and elsewhere if Europe wants to succeed in drastically reducing its ...
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Patricia Espinosa sees a more active role for China and the EU in climate diplomacy and technological development in the renewables sector after US President Donald ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Society EU 91tv A majority of European Union citizens (66%) say that the war against Ukraine and its impact on the price of oil and gas should lead the bloc to speed up the green transition by reducing the ...
28 Jul 2021, 12:09 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A larger number of German voters have listed climate change as a top priority following the devastating floods in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, ...
The hidden costs of conventional energy sources in Germany amount to 38 billion euros, compared to the 24.5 billion euros worth of EEG surcharge, which is paid directly by consumers with their power bill to support renewable energy generation. Researchers ...
Big financial investors, such as banks, insurance companies, investment trusts or pension funds, have long ignored the climate crisis as a field of action. But by now they have become one of the biggest drivers of change in the approach of industrial ...
19 Aug 2020, 13:52 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv 91tv Society 91tv Climate change is still perceived as the top problem facing humanity, a survey carried out in seven European ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society CORRECTIV / Frontal21 Conservative US policy think tank The Heartland Institute supports climate science deniers from Germany and other European countries, write German non-profit investigative ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 After months of internal dispute, Germany's government has agreed on a draft law for reforming corporate responsibility for sustainable supply chains. Large companies that rely on imported resources and workers in source countries, ...
Germany will have to make a collective effort to expand the country’s power grid in the coming years, said Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 8th Energy Policy Dialogue by CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag. “I predict that we will need to ...
11 Oct 2024, 16:39 In Italian, the expression “hot autumn“ describes what happens when, after the long summer lull, political and social conflict cyclically rises again. For the energy transition, this is going to be a hot autumn indeed. Three of Italy’s ...
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 ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Resources & Recycling 91tv To succeed in the energy transition, Germany will focus on warranting secure supply chains and reliable production capacities required for renewable ...
Stefan Kapferer, managing director of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), has called on the German government to show “a clear commitment to gas” in the country’s energy supply system, writes Dagmar Dehmer in Tagesspiegel. The ...
Germany is able to live up to its obligations in international climate protection and should not give up the pioneer role it has played in areas such as renewable energies and environmental technologies, said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:57 Germany will continue to aim to provide 6 billion euros annually in funds to developing countries for climate mitigation and adaptation by 2025, foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said. The government would do so despite a recent ...
Climate policy must take into account all the affected people, empower them, hold those responsible for climate change accountable, and create both global and national prospects for the future, according to the German Advisory Council on Global Change ...
09 Jan 2019, 12:18 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Society Tageszeitung German police are preparing a new round of evictions from tree houses built in protest against lignite mining in Hambach forest, reports Anett Selle in the ...
04 Aug 2021, 13:55 Charlotte Nijhuis Freight 91tv Electricity-based synthetic fuels – so-called power-to-x fuels (PtX) – are a “central building block” in making maritime and air transport climate-friendly, environment minister Svenja Schulze ...
Germany’s foreign minister and former SPD head Sigmar Gabriel says his party should focus less on environmental and climate protection and instead emphasise topics that concern its traditional voting bloc, such as industrial job security and upholding ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy Süddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung On the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear desaster, a majority of media commentators in ...
14 Mar 2022, 13:44 Paul Gordon Fossil fuels Society 91tv A majority of Germans is in favour of stopping oil and gas imports from Russia even if an embargo would lead to supply problems in the country. In a survey by public broadcaster ZDF, 55 ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Society 91tv Amid the coronavirus crisis, German Fridays for Future student climate activists are focusing on online activities for the announced Global Climate Strike on 24 April. The protesters are ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Kerstine Appunn Society 91tv The government must make ...
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26 Jul 2024, 11:43 German ministers and lawmakers, just like most of their peers across the European Union, are heading into the parliaments’ summer 2024 recess and some time off. However, there are exceptions: three eastern German federal states will ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:46 Sören Amelang Company climate claims Society 91tv Food product labels such as “climate neutral,” “CO2-neutral” or “climate positive” do not indicate that these are climate-friendly at all and should be banned, consumer NGO ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:52 Sören Amelang Coal Society 91tv Anti-coal activists and the student protest movement Fridays for Future are planning a series of demonstrations in Western Germany in the coming days. On Friday 21 June, Fridays For Future ...
10 Dec 2018, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society ARD The UN is unlikely to find a solution to the world’s climate crisis, most Germans believe according to a survey commissioned by the public broadcaster ARD. In the ...
Germany needs an end date for coal-fired power production and for internal combustion engines in cars to make progress in emissions reduction and ensure that its industries do not fall behind others in developing technologies of the future, Michael Nelles ...
Bringing down emission levels in the transport sector is set to become the German “society’s next major conflict,” Thorsten Knuf writes in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter Rundschau. A recent study conducted by the think tank Agora Verkehrswende* ...
The fact that a major figure from Germany's car industry, Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche, was invited to the Green Party convention shows that the Greens are a force to be reckoned with, writes Holger Möhle in a commentary in the General-Anzeiger. The ...
The squabbling in the German government over its Climate Action Plan 2050 is a result of the seriousness with which the topic is being treated, writes Bernhard Pötter in a commentary for Deutschlandfunk’s website. “Most other countries come up with some ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:25 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Agriculture Frankfurter Rundschau Any serious discussion on climate action ...
10 Aug 2023, 14:20 Nearly halfway through its four-year term, Germany’s government faces increasing public discontent over its switch from two years of energy crisis management to controversial climate policies. The coalition government of the Social ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:32 Sören Amelang Society Government 91tv / Der Tagesspiegel Climate activists' repeated blockages of motorways in Berlin and other German cities have sparked a debate among government parties about the legitimacy of these ...
14 May 2021, 14:14 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Society Agriculture Tofu sausages, veggie burgers and other plant-based alternatives to meat are quickly becoming more popular in Germany, but their share remains tiny when compared to animal products. ...
China is ready to fill the void left in international climate diplomacy left by a parting USA, former World Bank vice president and current board member of the European Climate Foundation* (ECF), Caio Koch-Weser writes in a guest commentary for ...
21 Jun 2022, 12:49 Sören Amelang Transport Technology 91tv The German government has launched a new push to make the country an international leader in sustainable aviation. “With a joint effort by industry, science, politics and society, ...
11 May 2020, 13:48 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Freja Eriksen Society 91tv Almost 60 percent of Germans said the climate crisis will have larger long-term effects than the coronavirus in a ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:00 A string of landmark rulings forcing governments to step up emission cuts have turned the courts into a new and powerful line of defence in the fight against climate change. An increasing number of judges now consider global warming a ...
15 Jun 2021, 12:51 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv Taking issue with efforts by the German government to tighten climate targets in its decision to amend the Climate Action Law, which is set to be voted on in parliament on 24 June, ...
01 Oct 2021, 11:34 After Spain hosted the COP25 in 2019 and many Spanish cities declared a climate emergency, the country's climate movement has grown – especially among young people. But the coronavirus pandemic slowed down this newfound momentum ...
09 Sep 2022, 14:06 Edgar Meza Transport Technology 91tv Synthetic jet fuel, known as e-kerosene, made from green hydrogen and sustainable CO2 could make the aviation industry fossil-free by 2050, according to a report by the German Energy ...
11 Jun 2021, 14:09 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 91tv Temperatures in Germany could be 0.5 to 1.0 degrees higher in the ...
01 Jul 2021, 13:26 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der ...
Like many countries around the world, the Philippines could benefit from adopting certain German Energiewende policies, Laurence Delina writes in a commentary on inquirer.net. “Germany is obviously politically, economically and socially different” from ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:18 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Society 91tv Independence from oil and gas imports is an important goal of the energy transition, according 86 percent of Germans responding to a recent representative survey ...
22 Oct 2021, 13:11 Charlotte Nijhuis Business & Jobs 91tv More ambitious climate protection can strengthen the German economy and create jobs, according to an analysis by the Society for Economic Structural Research (GWS) commissioned by ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:27 Rachel Waldholz Cars Society The Verge German car companies have announced major initiatives to promote electric vehicles, but not everyone is convinced, reports US tech site The Verge. Protests in some cities- modelled after the French ...
21 May 2021, 13:13 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Business International 91tv A majority of consumers would like to see a strong supply chain law ...
07 Jan 2021, 13:56 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende Society 91tv An overwhelming but slightly shrinking majority of people ...
06 Aug 2019, 14:12 Sören Amelang Society International 91tv Germans consider "the environment, climate and energy" the most important issue facing the country at the moment, according to a EU poll. 36 percent of respondents named it ...
Scientists have discussed the possibility of geo-engineering to curb the warming of the earth's atmosphere, Christoph Schrader writes on Spiegel Online. At a conference in Berlin, researchers debated measures such as reforestation, extracting CO 2 ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:19 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv The poorest households in Germany pay the highest share of their available income for energy, ...
Many companies in Germany have understood that a more sustainable way of making business will dominate the economy of the future, Green politician Julia Verlinden writes in a guest commentarty in the Frankfurter Rundschau. But some of the country’s ...
22 Jul 2019, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society 91tv Increased regulation threatens German citizens’ energy cooperatives, according to a survey by the national cooperative association DGRV. The cooperatives, which allow independent ...
15 Jan 2019, 11:55 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Society Die Welt Activists’ elevation of the Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut down to expand ...
28 May 2019, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende Elections & Politics 91tv The results of the European elections, in which the Greens surged driven by concerns over global climate change, mean that energy companies must ...
“Some climate protection advocates rhetorically resemble religious fanatics,” Michael Fabricius writes in a commentary for Die Welt Online. If two major energy agencies demand a sevenfold increase in CO 2-emissions reduction “without explaining how that ...
11 May 2022, 13:10 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche ...
21 Apr 2021, 13:17 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Technology Clean Energy ...
09 May 2022, 14:02 Expert UFZ- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung- UFZ Climate & CO2 Renewables Society Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Agriculture Die Welt Eastern Germany is grappling with the ...
The most important political decisions in Germany cannot be made by directives but must be earned by reconciling antagonist factions in society trough compromise and consideration, Thorsten Knuf writes in a commentary for the Frankfurter Rundschau. “This ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:14 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Sören Amelang Company climate claims Society 91tv Products advertised as “climate neutral” mislead consumers ...
Excitement over technological innovations and the digitalisation of the energy system are “only one side of the coin” of Germany’s energy transition, Daniel Wetzel writes in weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag. “The other side is that planners and architects ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:20 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Welt am Sonntag Miners will present the last piece of hard coal mined in Germany to the country’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in ...
The switch to renewable energies will make oil and gas “increasingly less important trump cards” in geopolitical conflicts and lessen energy’s significance “as one of the strategic causes of geopolitical conflicts,” writes German utility E.ON’s CEO ...
Germany still has a long way to go before “the aim of a post-fossil society” is reached, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. “The share of renewables in primary energy consumptions so far stands at only 14 percent,” he explains. The 30 percent share ...
25 Feb 2021, 13:14 Expert FÖS- Green Budget Germany Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Cost & Prices Society 91tv If ...
20 Dec 2024, 08:44 Germany’s next government will inherit a major policy predicament: How can it finally initiate serious transport emission cuts against a backdrop of tight finances, a struggling car industry, and a crumbling transport infrastructure? ...
04 Jul 2022, 14:02 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv The escalating energy crisis in Europe threatens to push German middle class ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:30 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Global warming is making white Christmas a thing of the past in Germany, ...
08 Dec 2021, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Society 91tv A slight majority of respondents from Germany in a survey on the future of nuclear power in climate policy conducted by pollster YouGov in several European countries, have ...
26 Apr 2022, 13:07 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Security 91tv Germany’s federal government has sharpened the tools to fight the escalating crisis on the energy markets by updating the 1975 Energy Security Act. The amended law will allow the ...
05 Feb 2021, 14:02 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Society 91tv The majority of people living near the central German coal mining region are in favour of the country's coal phase-out and as well as accompanying structural changes to local job ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Germany needs a “national master plan” to save its forests as carbon sinks and the federal government should provide 800 million euros over the coming four years to states ...
18 Mar 2020, 15:03 Rachel Waldholz Cost & Prices Society Focus Online German households are choosing green energy sources at the highest rate in years, Focus Online reports, citing figures from the rate comparison site Verivox. So far this year, 65 ...
The eastern German coal mining region of Lusatia should receive 100 million euros in public funds per year from 2019 on to facilitate the “structural development” of the local economy that is currently centred on lignite production, think tank Agora ...
A resident from the German coal mining state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) demands 80 billion euros for a piece of land that energy company RWE needs for lignite mining, arguing that the sum equals the revenues the company intends to make with the local ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:42 Edgar Meza Cars Society 91tv A majority of Germans oppose the EU’s planned 2035 ban of combustion engine cars, according to a survey by research institute forsa for UNITI, the German association of small and medium-sized ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:21 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Politics Handelsblatt German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party is exploring options to rein in ...
24 Mar 2023, 13:44 Sören Amelang Cities 91tv With only a few days to go before the referendum to make Germany’s capital climate neutral by 2030, the debate over the ambitious initiative intensified among policymakers, experts, and in the ...
16 Jan 2023, 14:08 The Green Party's leadership has faced broad criticism from the climate movement for agreeing to the demolition of the village of Lützerath to expand a neighbouring mine as part of a larger deal to exit coal in western Germany by ...
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 ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:26 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society Washington Post Tens of thousands of teenagers across Europe have skipped school since the beginning of the year, joining protests demanding action on climate change, Luisa Beck reports in the ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:59 Poland is emerging from a long election cycle- from parliamentary elections last October that brought a change of government to local ballots in April, and finally the European Parliament elections earlier this month. All these bring ...
25 Jan 2021, 10:48 Germany is facing a packed election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country’s 16 states and federal parliamentary elections in September. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of parties ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:13 Italy has just taken over the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) large democratic economies, but its positions on climate policy often remain ambiguous, says Luca Bergamaschi, co-founder of the think tank Ecco Climate. He ...
21 Aug 2020, 14:29 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Heating Society ntv German restaurant and bar owners fear customers may avoid indoor dining due to the pandemic as warm weather turns to cold and call for a return of climate-damaging outdoor heaters, ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:48 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Society Germany hit its highest temperature ever on July 24, when the town of Geilenkirchen in the state North Rhine-Westphalia recorded 40.5 degrees Celsius, yet the record may stand of only one day as ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:37 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Energiewende Society Spiegel Online The switch from fossil ...
30 Jun 2021, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics dpa / Zeit Online German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has cautioned that tackling climate change will require "giant steps" by governments and citizens around the world if global ...
12 Nov 2021, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's prospective new government coalition has signaled it will provide financial relief to households hit by the spike in ...
20 May 2021, 12:28 Edgar Meza Society Agriculture 91tv The eating habits of German consumers are increasingly favouring greater climate protection, sustainability and less waste, according to a new survey published Wednesday by the Federal ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:31 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Freja Eriksen Grid Spiegel Online / dpa Five ...
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 ...
More than 300 civil society organisations call on “the remaining 19 members of the G20 to reaffirm their unfaltering commitment” to the implementation of The Paris Agreement after the US decision to leave the accord. The G20 engagement group Civil20 (C20) ...
A broad alliance of trade unions, consumer, renewable, and industry associations has called on the future German government to use the federal budget to finance “at least parts of the Energiewende costs”. “We need a new financing system for the cost ...
27 Nov 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv More than 500 German cities will see protests for more ambitious climate action on Friday, 29 November, the activist movement Fridays for Future Germany has announced. The ...
Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND), WWF Germany and other environmental and development NGOs in the umbrella organisation DNR have presented a proposal for Germany to reach its 2020 goals. The emergency climate protection programme includes concrete ...
A socially acceptable coal exit in Germany is possible and could be financed through the CO₂-emissions trading earnings, according to a report by enervis energy advisors GmbH, commissioned by the German service sector trade union ver.di. “Our proposal ...
21 Oct 2021, 13:28 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 EU 91tv Germany should think ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:41 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Edgar Meza Technology Society 91tv Despite the impact of the coronavirus crisis, 92 percent of German households continue to see ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:30 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics Society Süddeutsche Zeitung French President Emmanuel Macron might have made several mistakes when introducing a new tax on petrol and heating oil but “he shows a level ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:27 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The ...
19 Apr 2024, 15:00 A series of politically turbulent months for Croatia culminated with early parliamentary elections on 17 April. The short campaign didn’t leave much space for discussions on energy policy, but when asked, all the biggest parties claimed ...
17 Aug 2021, 13:33 Expert German Trade Union Association Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Bundesvorstand Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics dpa / Zeit Online Climate change and the energy transition should ...
30 Apr 2024, 14:44 The surge of populist parties that oppose ambitious climate policies has left its mark on Germany’s national debate as it did in many other European countries ahead of the upcoming EU elections. Fearful of the backlash against the costs ...
The “ill-prepared” ‘diesel summits’ organised by the federal government are not the right platform for dealing with the “dynamic” developments of the car emissions fraud scandal, Baden-Wuerttemberg’s Green state premier Winfried Kretschmann told the ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:13 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Edgar Meza Cars Government 91tv Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has taken Germany’s leading political leaders to task for ...
24 May 2019, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Reuters The investment fund subsidiary of Germany’s Deutsche Bank, DWS, wants to increase the share of sustainable investments, with a greater focus on the so-called ESG criteria for asset selection, which ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:34 Edgar Meza Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt The mobility transition will have a positive effect on employment in Germany, particularly in three regions, Handelsblatt reports, citing a report by the Institute for Employment Research ...
The G20 meeting in Hamburg is meant to address some of the most pressing global problems but many of the heads of state present at this year’s summit have a very poor record of defending human rights in their own countries, Christian Grefe writes in a ...
01 Oct 2020, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Carbon removal Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s energy and economy ministry will launch a new round of debates on using carbon capture and storage (CCS), an idea that was deemed dead after a 2012 law ...
About 100 members of coal miner labour union IG BCE held a demonstration in front of the private home of anti-coal mining acitivist Antje Grothus, who also is a member of Germany’s coal exit commission, newspaper Die Welt reports. Grothus, who heads a ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:10 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The role of global warming and climate action in German media has grown ...
03 May 2019, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Society ARD A large majority of Germans (81%) see a great need for action to protect the climate and say that climate change cannot be stopped without restrictions on people’s lives, according to a representative ...
19 Nov 2021, 13:17 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Society Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background A new climate movement has ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:01 Expert DHL Express Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Freight 91tv German postal service Deutsche Post DHL is investing seven billion euros in climate-neutral logistics until 2030, the company ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:42 The decade-long debate about the the role of nuclear power in Germany flared up for a last time before the remaining three reactors are shut down on Saturday 15 April. Politicians from government coalition party FDP and the opposition ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:11 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Agriculture Spiegel Online Germany’s environment minister Svenja Schulze has proposed rewarding forest owners who gear their forests towards nature and climate protection instead of timber production, ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:24 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Resources & Recycling 91tv German solar power and recycling companies have released a joint proposal for ...
12 Mar 2020, 13:59 Sören Amelang Technology Society Die Welt Researchers in Bavaria have invented a new method to slash the carbon emissions of smaller breweries, reports Norbert Lossau in die Welt. An innovative technology developed at the University of ...
Germany’s environment minister, Svenja Schulze, has weighed in on the dispute between environmental groups and energy company RWE over the expansion of a lignite mine and the clearing of a nearby forest, tagesschau.de reports. “If we want to achieve a ...
30 Aug 2022, 13:11 Edgar Meza Transport Cost & Prices 91tv The popularity of Germany’s temporary 9-euro public transport ticket has not only shown that people are willing to embrace public transport and stop using their cars if such ...
14 Mar 2022, 13:56 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Gas Tagesspiegel Germany's coalition government ponders the possibility of new drilling for gas and oil in the North Sea as a step ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:45 Freja Eriksen Coal Society 91tv Forty-one mayors from Germany, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Montenegro and Slovakia have signed a declaration calling on the European Union for more ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:46 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society Government WDR A group of German citizens and NGOs has filed a lawsuit with the country’s constitutional court to oblige the government to pursue a more rigorous climate ...
19 Jul 2021, 13:35 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Germany should refurbish its ...
07 Mar 2022, 13:52 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & ...
03 May 2019, 13:25 Sören Amelang Policy Society Deutsche Welle The southern German city of Constance has become the first in the nation to pass a resolution declaring a climate emergency, according to a Deutsche Welle report. The resolution, which was ...
08 Oct 2019, 13:59 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy ...
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 Europe's ageing buildings are particularly vulnerable to the damaging effects of climate change, with homes increasingly threatened by floods or at risk of becoming unbearably hot to live in. The job of adapting the spaces where ...
09 Dec 2020, 15:17 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Society International 91tv Around 77 percent of Germans say the EU should raise its 2030 climate target. In a survey commissioned by the country's utility association BDEW, only ...
This year’s G20 summit in Germany will be “a test for governments, civil society, and companies to stick to” the goals of the Paris Agreement, France’s former climate change ambassador Laurence Tubiana said, Ed King writes on Climate Home. While US ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:39 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Society 91tv Through climate change, air pollution, plastic waste and other environmental effects, the German economy creates external costs at the level of 13-19 percent ...
03 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 ...
14 May 2021, 14:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Finance Society 91tv The youth climate activists from Fridays for Future are for the first time specifically targeting banks and other financial services companies for their involvement in ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:55 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Business Society 91tv Purchase decisions for durable products and their long-term use contribute ...
10 Jul 2020, 12:41 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / n-tv online Halting coal mining at the embattled Hambach Forest would cost operator RWE more than a billion euros, the company said in an article by news agency dpa carried by website n-tv online. ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Cars Cost & Prices Agora Verkehrswende A transition of the German transport sector towards carbon-neutral mobility will not be possible without a comprehensive and “socially ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Tageszeitung The coming petition by hundreds of German scientists who openly support the school student movement Fridays for Future that calls for more rapid climate action is a laudable ...
More than 60 civil society groups under the umbrella organisation Climate Alliance are calling for an ambitious phase-out of coal-fired power generation, a higher goal for renewables expansion, and a CO₂ floor price in the power sector. The alliance has ...
02 May 2019, 13:33 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency 91tv The economy ministers of Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia have written to federal economy minister Peter Altmaier and finance minister Olaf Scholz to demand tax breaks for home owners who ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:24 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 Digitalisation Clean ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:09 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv Climate policy could be a ...
13 Dec 2023, 13:47 German and European politicians, scientists, businesses and civil society have overwhelmingly welcomed the key message of this year’s UN climate change conference COP28 in Dubai: the agreement to "transition away" from fossil ...
18 May 2020, 14:06 Edgar Meza Renewables Security Germany boasts the highest energy security level in the world, due in large part to the wide spread use of renewable energy sources in the country, according to a study by Abdelrahman Azzuni and Christian ...
14 Dec 2018, 10:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The Association for the German Language (GfdS) has made the term “Heißzeit” (hot age) its Word of the Year 2018, saying it neatly conveys a topic that ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society rbb24 / 91tv Tesla's planned e-car factory near Berlin continues to draw criticism from local residents who take issue with the fact that work already began despite pending licenses, ...
02 Sep 2022, 12:53 Rising energy and food prices and climate change top the list of main worries in Germany, several surveys show. Investing in renewables by a wide margin is seen as the best way to achieve energy independence from Russia by respondents ...
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 ...
10 Sep 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Society International 91tv A clear majority of people in major European countries are in favour of halting talks over the Mercosur agreement between the EU and South American states if it contributes to a ...
10 Sep 2020, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society 91tv A group of villagers that reject a resettlement due to the expansion of the Garzweiler lignite mine in German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia have said they filed a constitutional ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:00 The European Parliament elections this week (6-9 June) are unlikely to cause a big rollback of existing EU Green Deal legislation, but a projected shift to right-wing – and often climate action sceptic – parties could lower ambition ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:22 Julian Wettengel Coal Society 91tv The European Union “will not leave the people of Lusatia behind”, as structural economic change brought on by the transition to a low-carbon world is a “European challenge”, said European ...
14 Dec 2021, 13:07 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:17 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv / FAZ Extreme weather events in Germany have hit the forestry sector hard, resulting in damages of 13 billion euros over the past three years, according to a new report by the German ...
16 Aug 2022, 13:09 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Hamburger Abendblatt / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Rheinische Post German rivers are suffering ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:55 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewables Freja Eriksen Gas ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:19 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Cars Automobilwoche / dpa /Handelsblatt The Daimler works council has warned the carmaker against focusing solely on electric mobility. "Electric mobility is ...
10 Aug 2020, 13:25 Coal Society n-tv Climate activists demanding an end to coal power occupied two German coal-fired powered stations over the weekend, news website n-tv reports. Around 20 members of Direkte Aktion Berlin, which campaigns for an end to ...
12 Mar 2019, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Aachener Nachrichten A court in the western German city of Cologne has started to hear a case by NGO Friends of the Earth (BUND) against the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest, news agency dpa ...
Germany is prepared as much as any other country to steer its own and the global community’s development onto a more sustainable path, but it has to increase its ambitions and efforts to tap into this potential, government advisors affiliated with the ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:06 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society dpa / Tagesspiegel / 91tv Students are expected to walk out of school in more than 1,000 cities around the world on Friday, as part of a global strike to demand action on climate ...
15 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv Leading members of the German government have renewed calls for perseverance and willingness to make sacrifices to beat the energy crisis, with the upcoming heating season set to drive up ...
20 Apr 2015, 00:00 German chancellor wants to push for commitment for ambitious climate targets from G7 as climate activists call for strong leadership. Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv International Security Climate & CO2 Ambitious climate ...
The next federal government should put a high priority on introducing a higher price on CO₂ across all economic sectors and a fundamental reform of energy-related taxes and levies in Germany, if climate targets are to be taken seriously, according to a ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The extreme weather events Germany experienced in recent years have served as a “wake-up call” for many people in the country to ramp up their individual emissions reduction ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society WDR A slim majority of 51 percent of citizens in Germany’s largest coal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), say the 2038 deadline to give up all coal-fired power production in the country is “too late”, ...
Environmental protection and conservativism are two defining traits of German society but a corresponding political coalition of the Green Party and the CDU seems as distant as always days before this week’s parliamentary election, Fabian Federl writes on ...
03 Dec 2019, 13:54 Sören Amelang Transport Society dpa / Focus Online German carbon offsetting nonprofit organisations atmosfair and Arktik are reporting rising demand in the wake of the Fridays for Future protest movement, according to a report by ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Supporters of different climate action organisations have protested in Frankfurt against the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policy during the coronavirus ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:20 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Society Security 91tv The top risks perceived by German respondents in the Munich Security Index 2021 survey by the Munich Security Conference (MSC) are climate change, the ...
22 Jul 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Society 91tv Construction of more than 2,000 onshore wind turbines in Germany-- with a combined capacity of nearly 10 gigawatts (GW)-- is on hold due to bureaucratic hurdles and delays in ...
24 Feb 2022, 12:59 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:17 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Rising temperatures in Germany due to climate change are having a direct impact on the health of people, particularly the elderly, according to a new report ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Three out of four Germans say it is right for scientists to get involved in the climate policy debate if political decision-making does not take into account their research ...
15 Nov 2019, 13:50 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Society 91tv German doctors have called for a national plan to deal with the damaging health effects of climate change. Heat waves will become more frequent, more intense, and last longer, ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs ...
05 Jul 2021, 14:50 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Climate & CO2 91tv Environmental NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) has issued five new legal cases on ...
07 Jan 2020, 14:00 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche Städte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cities 91tv A more rapid and determined climate and energy transition policy is ...
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 Jan 2019, 13:39 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Wind Cost & Prices ...
26 Oct 2021, 13:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv The German economy could suffer climate change-related damage totalling 730 billion euros in the next 50 years if countermeasures are not taken early enough, a new ...
20 May 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society Rheinische Post A church in the town of Kerpen-Manheim, in the western German Rhenish coal mining region, has been prepared for demolition to expand a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. About ...
The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has published a Green Paper on energy efficiency and today starts the consultation process to find solutions for the long term reduction of energy consumption in Germany. The ministry wants to discuss ...
German energy company RWE has rejected calls for a moratorium on forest clearing as part of lignite mining during its negotiations with the country’s coal exit commission, and said it would continue mining operations at the controversial Hambach mine, the ...
08 Jul 2022, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv Both the federal parliament (Bundestag) and the council of state governments (Bundesrat) have passed this year’s first major batch of energy ...
07 Jan 2021, 13:59 Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Charlotte Nijhuis Cars 91tv [Update adds December 2020 data and graph] The number of newly registered electric cars in Germany tripled in 2020 ...
05 Jan 2021, 12:53 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Utilities manager magazin / Handelsblatt Stocks of German wind and solar park operators had a successful start to 2021 as ...
05 Jan 2021, 12:50 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Transport 91tv German households that are impacted by traffic are more likely to support specific measures that ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:00 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The proportion of peole in Germany who consider climate change to be "the single most serious problem facing the world" has doubled since 2017 to 30 percent, the latest ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:59 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Society 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Debates about the causes of climate change, which dominated discussions on German language social media at the start of the millennium, have now ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:01 Expert RNE- German Council for Sustainable Development Rat für nachhaltige Entwicklung Society Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen 91tv Germany’s government and industry should enter into a "hydrogen pact" to make the gas ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cities 91tv The Association of German Cities (Deutscher Städtetag) has called on the federal government to adopt a price on CO2 emissions as “an appropriate and necessary approach for ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:17 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society Deutsche Welle / Bild am Sonntag The weekly “Fridays for Future” school strikes have prompted a fierce debate in Germany over whether students should be ...
09 Dec 2020, 15:21 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Elections & Politics 91tv German government advisors have launched an urgent call on the country's political parties to make climate action a central topic in their programmes ...
06 Aug 2019, 13:53 Sören Amelang Society Elections & Politics 91tv Germany’s service sector labour union Verdi has called on its 2 million members to join the global Fridays for Future climate strike on 20 September. “We can only protect ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society dpa / Tagesspiegel The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg says Germany’s school strikes for climate action give her “a lot of hope,” news agency dpa reports in an article in the ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Politics Society 91tv The German far-right nationalist party AfD is among the most climate-sceptical of European populist parties, explicitly denying that humans impact the global climate ...
12 Jul 2024, 15:00 The European elections are over and, as was widely expected, centre-right conservatives finished on top, leaving everybody else in the European Parliament the duty to find common ground with the biggest group and form an alliance. ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:38 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices 91tv German financial aid in the fields of environment and energy is "rising ...
31 May 2024, 15:00 As the European elections approach and the political parties in Italy engage in divisive campaigns over European policies and the management of various international contexts, the country is preparing to host the summit of G7 countries ...
10 May 2024, 15:00 Poland saw a change in power last autumn when a pro-EU coalition led by former European Council president Donald Tusk took over after eight years of rule by the right-wing populist Law and Justice party (PiS). Since then, however, the ...
16 Sep 2020, 12:58 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Society EU Der Spiegel A large majority of Germans harbours little hope that the EU can reach its target of becoming the globe's first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Only 17 percent of ...
12 Jul 2021, 13:20 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Society Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s political parties should combine climate protection ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:15 Rachel Waldholz Society Elections & Politics 91tv / Der Spiegel Germany’s Fridays for Future climate strikes expanded over the course of 2019 as older protesters joined what began as a younger – and majority female- ...
20 May 2022, 13:44 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg ...
03 Aug 2021, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv / Die Welt The earnings from selling allowances in the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for the German state look set to reach a new record level in 2021 ...
22 Mar 2021, 12:16 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU The European Union should create a “climate club” with other large emitters instead of ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Some six months after Germany’s coal exit commission tabled its proposal to phase out the fuel by 2038, commission members have criticised the government’s lack of progress on implementing the plan. ...
10 Aug 2020, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society dpa / n-tv / Tageszeitung An intense heat wave and lack of rain is causing severe water shortages in German municipalities that could foreshadow global warming's impact on the country as ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:29 Expert Mojib Latif Head of the Research Division: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sports federations like the German Football Association ...
28 Jun 2024, 16:00 French citizens are awaiting the upcoming snap election brought about by the dissolution of parliament following president Emmanuel Macron’s loss to the far-right in this June’s EU elections. The vote could have a profound impact on the ...
20 Jul 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German politicians are calling for investments in urban planning to better prepare cities for extreme weather events, such as the ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:25 The German government has been urged to quickly devise a plan on how to regulate and manage the start of the European Union carbon emissions trading system for transport and heating fuels in 2027. Measures need to be put in place to ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics The only state premier from the Green Party in Germany, Winfried Kretschmann from Baden-Wurttemberg, says the state's conservative CDU party has largely adopted his own party's stance ...
02 Apr 2019, 14:08 Rachel Waldholz Wind Society Hakai Magazine Two German towns in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein present a case study in how to build local support for the energy transition- or how to lose it, writes Paul Hockenos in a feature ...
14 Jul 2022, 13:15 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Transport Heating 91tv The government action programmes for bringing the high-emitting transport and buildings sectors back on their emission reduction trajectories, has been criticised for ...
09 Jul 2021, 12:25 Expert Leuphana University of Lüneburg Energiewende Business & Jobs Society Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Citizens' energy Renewables pv magazine, ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The increasing risk of prolonged droughts in central Europe warrants a "paradigm shift" in Germany's water management in order to avoid supply bottlenecks, the ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Society 91tv / Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung Leading German climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber has called for a substantial shift in strategy for the tourism industry to make sure that ...
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 ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The use of nuclear power in Germany will come to an end by the end of 2022 as planned, operators of the country’s remaining nuclear plants have told the ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Digitalisation Security Digitalisation offers an opportunity to make power grids more resilient during transition to renewable power sources but may also make the energy system more vulnerable, researchers of the tech ...
27 Jan 2020, 13:46 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities dpa / Donaukurier Authorities in four German cities with active driving bans for diesel cars have registered over 15 ...
20 Aug 2020, 13:01 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv / Focus Online The relatively high costs of renewable electricity in Germany prevent innovative projects green hydrogen in the country, according to hydrogen start-up ...
09 May 2019, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance AFP / Handelsblatt Allianz, Germany’s leading insurer, aims to make its investments completely climate-neutral by the middle of the century, company CEO OIiver Bäte told shareholders, news agency AFP reports. ...
08 May 2019, 13:46 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation has immense negative effects on the environment, but – steered in the right direction – it can create new opportunities for climate action and the global ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:30 A number of key issues relating to France’s ecological transition have been put on hold after the rise of the far-right Rassemblement National party in June’s European elections caused president Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:10 With its third energy cost relief package since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the German government hopes to alleviate concerns over skyrocketing prices for heating and electricity in the coming winter. The large package worth ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:13 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Gas International 91tv The environmental group Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says it is suing to stop the controversial Nord ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:23 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas Heating 91tv Germany should immediately increase its national carbon price and better support renewables to initiate the phase-out of fossil gas in buildings heating, said think ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:22 Expert UFZ- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung- UFZ Climate & CO2 Renewables Society Climate & CO2 Focus Online / Rheinische Post Despite recent increases in rainfall, Germany is ...
07 Oct 2022, 13:32 The state election in Lower Saxony on 9 October is the first major vote in the country since the energy crisis fueled by Russia's war has started to take a toll on the German economy. The ballot in the state that hosts most of ...
07 Oct 2021, 12:17 Germany can reach its target of climate neutrality by 2045 but enormous tasks such as the massive expansion of renewable energy and transformation of whole industries have to be initiated as quickly as possible by the country’s next ...
12 Oct 2022, 14:48 The European energy crisis is set to push Germany into a recession in 2023, as rising energy prices put a damper on industrial production and inflation means citizens will buy less, said the economy ministry in its autumn projection for ...
04 Oct 2019, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The climate activist movement Extinction Rebellion plans several road blockades and other activities in Germany’s capital Berlin starting on 7 October, saying they want to use ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:38 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Heinrich Böll Foundation Green policy think tank Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Society ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:32 Charlotte Nijhuis Efficiency 91tv In order to reduce emissions in the building sector, the German trade union IG BAU is calling on the federal, state and local governments to do more for the energy refurbishment of public ...
The federal cabinet today decided on draft legislation for a nuclear clean-up pact that would rid utilities of the responsibility for storing Germany’s radioactive waste. Germany’s four nuclear power station operators, RWE, E.ON, EnBW and Vattenfall, are ...
23 Jun 2020, 13:52 EU 91tv A group of non-governmental organisations warns in a report that corporate interests could push for and achieve climate-damaging EU legislation during the country’s upcoming EU Council presidency. Lobbycontrol and ...
06 May 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv / SWR The Green Party and the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have concluded a new coalition agreement in the southern German state of Baden ...
The US negotiating team is “working hard to water down” climate texts for the upcoming G20 summit at the preceding negotiations, said International Executive Director at Greenpeace Jennifer Morgan at the Global Solidarity Summit in Hamburg. It is ...
09 Sep 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Many people in Germany are worried that rising global temperatures will have a "dramatic" impact on human life. In a long-term study by insurance company R+V, 41 ...
11 Jun 2020, 14:20 Expert UFZ- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung- UFZ Climate & CO2 Renewables Society Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel Following two extremely hot and ...
31 Jan 2019, 11:58 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars VW wants to establish its newly developed underlying platform for electric cars as an industry standard by licensing it to competitors. “We want our Modular ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society 91tv / Tagesspiegel Activists of the environmental action group Extinction Rebellion (XR) occupied the headquarters of Germany's lignite mining industry association, DEBRIV, in Berlin in ...
24 May 2024, 15:00 The curtain is coming down on five years of EU energy and environment legislative drama. Since the 2019 “green wave” that helped put the spotlight on sustainable policy, dozens of laws have passed through the complex process of EU ...
23 Mar 2020, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Süddeutsche Zeitung The outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Germany and the rest of Europe means that the weekly Fridays for Future (FfF) protests for greater climate action need to be ...
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 ...
23 Dec 2022, 10:24 After the shock of the energy crisis in 2022, the German government must tackle a range of issues that have been relegated to the back burner due to Russia’s war on Ukraine, says Brigitte Knopf, secretary general at the Mercator ...
02 Sep 2020, 13:05 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Sören Amelang Policy Society 91tv The economic effects of the corona pandemic could slow the energy transition in Germany as ...
28 Jun 2022, 15:11 Civil society groups and others have largely reacted with criticism of the German presidency's role in furthering climate action within the G7 group of influential economies. With the energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion ...
The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to help solve pressing environmental challenges needs to be better understood and exploited, panellists agreed at a debate on AI and the environment organised by Microsoft in Berlin. “AI is going to change the ...
06 Oct 2020, 13:09 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv Support payments for electric mobility are part of " ...
16 Aug 2019, 13:19 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert ...
26 Mar 2020, 14:03 Expert Heinrich Böll Foundation Green policy think tank Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Society Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv Climate action tops the wish list of German citizens for their government ...
The IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, released today, shows the urgent need for ambitious climate action, according to the German government. In a press release, environment minister Svenja Schulze said the key message of the report is that ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Most people in Germany are ready to implement changes to their lifestyle in order to reduce their individual impact on the climate, a survey commissioned by the European ...
25 Jun 2021, 13:41 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv / Tagesspiegel A majority of Germans want to see more government regulation when it comes to climate protection, according to a new survey of more than 2,000 people conducted by the Kantar ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:41 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert ZEW- Centre for European Economic Research Zentrum für ...
22 Jun 2021, 13:45 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Leading experts and representatives from civil society, environmental NGOs and industry sharply criticized the planned amendment to the German federal Climate Action Law during a public ...
09 Feb 2021, 13:21 Expert Economic Council- CDU Wirtschaftsrat Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) of Germany Business & Jobs Society Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Heating 91tv Government measures to create a climate ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:16 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare ...
30 Mar 2022, 13:52 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association ...
01 Feb 2021, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Süddeutsche Zeitung Environmental groups in Bavaria fear that the latest reform of Germany's Renewable Energy Act (EEG) could lead to a wave of new small hydro power plants in the state, with ...
26 Jan 2021, 13:28 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs 91tv About 650,000 people could lose their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2021 and 2020, but the building sector could absorb almost a quarter of these workers with new jobs, ...
15 Jan 2021, 13:06 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert DUH- Environmental Action ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics Tageszeitung (taz) Chancellor Angela Merkel’s support for the climate school strike movement Fridays for Future is “hypocritical” because it pretends that the government has nothing to ...
12 Jan 2021, 13:52 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Heinrich Böll Foundation Green policy think tank Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Society Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 ...
21 May 2021, 12:20 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Politics Society Tagesspiegel As the political debate over immigration in Germany is becoming less heated in line with the decreasing number of migrants seeking access to the country, the party that ...
16 Dec 2021, 11:11 Discussions about climate action tend to centre around the need for mitigation – reducing greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global warming. But even if we get on track to limiting warming to 1.5C, scientific projections show ...
22 May 2020, 14:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Germany ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:22 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv Austria’s new government coalition of designated conservative chancellor Sebastian Kurz and the Green Party could serve as a role model for Germany, say several commentaries in ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:59 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Society Die Zeit / Der Spiegel The fight against a planned resettlement of five villages due to expansion of a lignite mine in West Germany continues, writes newspaper die Zeit. In a state parliament hearing, the ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Sven Egenter Solar Society 91tv An overwhelming majority of people in Germany continue to support the expansion ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:42 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Cars Society 91tv A large majority of Germans say that public transportation services should be offered free of charge, ...
15 Apr 2019, 12:07 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars ...
06 Jan 2021, 18:13 A German state government attempts to circumvent looming U.S. sanctions on the contentious natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 with the help of a “climate” foundation. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where the pipeline will land, ...
11 Apr 2019, 12:59 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Agriculture Climate-Alliance ...
13 Dec 2019, 13:11 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Freja Eriksen Heating 91tv Consumption of oil and natural gas for heating Germany's residential buildings rose by 1.1 and 1.5 ...
21 Aug 2019, 17:10 Angela Merkel's grand coalition government may survive yet another election debacle in the upcoming East German state votes – despite ongoing leadership problems, says political scientist Gero Neugebauer. The Social Democratic ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Society Süddeutsche Zeitung The outdoor heater industry in Germany is almost being overwhelmed by a surge in demand due to restaurant and bar owners scrambling to find ways of continuing their business ...
19 Sep 2019, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Voters in Germany would have supported a coal phase-out much earlier than 2038, the date proposed by the country's coal exit commission earlier this year, according to a ...
12 Oct 2021, 13:09 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Energiewende 91tv The advanced stage of Germany’s energy transition has led the country to understand that a broader change of economic structures is necessary to complete the ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv The German State Secretaries’ Committee for Sustainable Development says the country should become a leading location for sustainable finance and promote its principles both to other ...
29 Oct 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Society Berliner Zeitung / 91tv Activists calling for a halt of a highway project have occupied the Green Party's headquarters in Berlin, arguing that the environmentalist party is complicit ...
23 Mar 2020, 13:57 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Expert VZBV- ...
03 Mar 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Transport Society 91tv A growing majority of German travelers say they are taking climate change and sustainability into account when planning vacations, according to a YouGov survey. 60 percent of German ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:13 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv Germany's hydrogen council has said the country must urgently make up its mind whether to use hydrogen made with fossil fuels in its market ramp-up of the technology deemed key to reach ...
17 Aug 2020, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Society 91tv A clear majority of people in Germany say that the environment must not be damaged in order to increase economic growth, a major survey by the country's ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv Germany can remain a leading market and innovator in mobility and car production also after the shift to electric vehicles – but this will be a “herculean task” and corresponding policies ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:41 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Sören Amelang Efficiency Heating 91tv German government buildings are much too inefficient to contribute to the country's climate ...
01 Mar 2021, 14:33 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Cities 91tv Climate activists have protested at a coal-fired heating plant in Hamburg that could be converted to use imported wood as a fuel due to the coal-phase out plans of Germany's second ...
10 Sep 2019, 13:43 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Alliance for Climate and Economy Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Efficiency 91tv The draft law aimed ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:53 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Sören ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:23 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Rheinische Post / 91tv A group of villagers living in towns threatened by coal mine expansion in western Germany plan ...
06 May 2025, 13:00 Germans cast their vote in the country's federal election on 23 February. Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz is set to become the next chancellor and will now lead the formal coalition negotiations with the Social Democrats ...
21 Sep 2020, 14:00 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Sören Amelang Cars Cost & Prices Welt am Sonntag Diesel must become more expensive to allow a faster transformation of the car industry to comply with more ambitious climate targets proposed by ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:06 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Society Handelsblatt / WirtschaftsWoche / Focus Online The row over German industrial heavyweight Siemens's involvement in the controversial Adani coal mine project in ...
08 Sep 2020, 14:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Süddeutsche Zeitung The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Germany could soon enter an energy partnership that would see the central African country provide hydropower capacity to produce ...
06 Mar 2020, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Germany's banks say the country should push for EU-wide rules on sustainable finance, instead of creating its own "counterproductive" framework. In reaction to the first interim ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:45 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate ...
10 May 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society YouGov / ZDF Attitudes toward a tax on carbon emissions in Germany strongly depend on age, with older people in general being much more sceptical of such a policy, a survey by pollster YouGov ...
13 Jan 2021, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Germany’s farmers will have to make greater efforts to contribute to the country’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, environment Minister Svenja Schulze has said at her ministry’s annual Agriculture ...
02 Apr 2019, 13:52 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Politics Society 91tv Germany should strive to find consensus on the ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:35 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Freja Eriksen Heating Welt Online / 91tv Tenants in Germany will be placed under further economic pressure by the new climate action ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:04 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The leader of the Germany's governing ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Finance 91tv The new advisory council on sustainable finance established by Germany’s government has held its first meeting to debate how the country’s financial sector can better ...
23 May 2019, 12:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv The impact of global climate change in Germany will be felt less ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:10 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche Städte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 ...
02 Oct 2024, 13:00 Germany’s three-party coalition government is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in several elections, casting a shadow over the progress of the country’s energy transition. Energy industry and ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:19 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Society Lausitzer Rundschau A 200-inhabitant German village will be demolished to make way for a lignite coal mine, after many years of uncertainty related to the future of coal power in ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:22 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Gas International 91tv The EU ...
