09 Apr 2021, 12:18 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Heating 91tv Climate targets in the ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Süddeutsche Zeitung A large green hydrogen production project currently planned in the southern African state of Namibia aimed at supplying Germany’s industry with the fuel has led the German ...
31 Oct 2022, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Solar 91tv Regional officials in eastern German Cottbus have given the green light for the country's largest floating solar power plant to be built on the man-made Cottbus Ostsee lake, a former open ...
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, ...
04 Oct 2021, 13:40 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Mobility Hydrogen Clean ...
04 Apr 2022, 14:04 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Tenants living in well-insulated homes in Germany will have to shoulder the lion’s share of their CO2 costs for heating, while landlords must cover most of the bill in ...
28 May 2021, 12:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Solar 91tv The German Association ...
22 May 2019, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture Spiegel Online Drained moorland is considered a major climate issue in agriculture which causes at least as much CO₂ emissions as livestock farming, writes Susanne Götze in an article for ...
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 ...
16 Feb 2022, 12:05 Paul Gordon Cost & Prices Zeit / AFP The German government coalition has agreed on key points to create a tiered model for the distribution of CO₂ costs for heating between tenants and landlords, reports Zeit. The price breakdown ...
26 May 2021, 13:25 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv Germany will need some 60 terawatt-hours of hydrogen by 2030 and domestic production can only cover a third of that demand, according to a paper by Berlin-based think tank Climate Neutrality ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:28 Edgar Meza Utilities 91tv The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to have major repercussions for Germany’s energy sector, leading to growing concerns about increasing prices and limited liquidity. The German Association ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:14 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv Together with French manufacturer Alstom, German railway company Deutsche Bahn is going to start trial runs with the country’s first battery-powered passenger train. Test operation of the so ...
06 Oct 2022, 13:48 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Heating RND The drastic gas price increase has pushed the sale of heating systems burning oil in Germany. "From the beginning of January to the end of July, twelve percent more oil heaters were delivered by ...
26 May 2021, 13:27 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility 91tv The aviation sector requires a very high fleet-wide blending rate sustainable fuels in order to reverse the trend of rising CO2 emissions as the sector continues to grow, says the German ...
09 Jul 2021, 12:46 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics 91tv Despite all the changes that are necessary to protect the ...
03 Mar 2022, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Renewables International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German renewables stocks have surged amid prospects of an accelerated energy transition after the government emphasised plans to speed up renewables expansion as a ...
30 Jun 2020, 13:41 Expert Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition Office Franco-Allemand pour la Transition Énergétique / Deutsch-Französisches Büro für die Energiewende Renewables Energiewende 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International ...
24 Mar 2022, 14:15 Sören Amelang Heating 91tv The Ukraine war has sharply increased demand for renewable heating systems, such as heat pumps, according to manufacturers. "We feel a huge surge in demand for renewable solutions," said ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:21 Expert DIE- German Development Institute Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Climate commitments made by cities, regions and businesses could push some of the world' ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:30 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Die Zeit The candidate for chancellor of Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance, ...
06 Jan 2021, 13:19 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 EU Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland The new US ...
08 Nov 2022, 14:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv The southern German state of Bavaria is set to invest 500 million euros in renewable energy and hydrogen production projects, the state’s economy minister, Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters), ...
28 Feb 2022, 13:46 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Policy International Security The German government will push the construction of what would be the country’s first two liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals as part of ...
23 Jun 2021, 13:28 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv As Germany ramps up development of hydrogen technologies, it should focus entirely on the production of green hydrogen using wind and solar energy, the German Advisory Council on the Environment ...
19 Nov 2021, 13:10 Expert PwC Electricity market Transport Cars Business & Jobs Efficiency Heating Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport Freight 91tv Many German shipping companies are reluctant to implement emissions reduction ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs RND The German car industry heavily benefits from the country’s company car tax breaks, media alliance Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) reports. More than a third of all newly registered ...
18 Oct 2022, 14:10 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Germany’s economy will take a bigger hit from the energy crisis compared to other European countries, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), business ...
16 Nov 2021, 16:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics The parties negotiating Germany’s next government coalition plan to table a coalition treaty and propose new government ministers next week. In a joint statement by the Social Democrats (SPD ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:03 Julian Wettengel Cities 91tv Germany’s municipalities and the federal environment ministries have agreed that municipalities will receive better counsel and support for efforts to adapt to a changing climate. The government ...
30 Jun 2021, 13:50 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Resources & Recycling Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung In order to secure stable access to critical raw materials, Germany could financially support companies competing on global markets for ...
23 Dec 2020, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Cars Stuttgarter Nachrichten German car supplier Bosch’s supervisory board head Franz Fehrenbach has criticised the EU for what he calls its preferential treatment of electric cars, saying this is to the detriment of ...
22 Apr 2021, 12:58 Germany's utilities say the delay to the EU decision on whether natural gas projects count as a sustainable investment imperils the country's supply security and climate targets. They argue that the exclusion of gas from the ...
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 ...
04 Apr 2019, 14:37 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Germany reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 4.5 percent between 2017 and 2018, according to corrected estimates by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). This means the ...
26 Mar 2021, 13:44 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility 91tv New internal combustion engine vehicles should be taxed exclusively according to their CO2 emissions to accelerate the switch to electric mobility, the Climate Neutrality Foundation writes in ...
02 Sep 2021, 14:00 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s CO2 price on fuels, introduced in January, is an additional burden for low-income households, according to a report commissioned by the Federation of German Consumer Organisations ...
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. ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:31 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Die Zeit Germany needs more consistent and ambitious climate policies, including a higher ...
04 Sep 2018, 09:02 Germany commissioned its 100,000th home storage battery last week – and the boom is far from over, says Detlef Neuhaus, CEO of German solar PV module and residential battery storage system maker Solarwatt. Neuhaus warns that Germany is ...
27 Mar 2019, 11:14 91tv is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we have launched a series on start-ups that ...
29 Nov 2021, 13:24 Charlotte Nijhuis Business Sustainability is becoming increasingly important for German companies, according to a survey conducted by the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Peer School for Sustainable Development and the Chair for Sustainable ...
22 Dec 2020, 13:05 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Policy 91tv A large majority of Germans are prepared to make significant lifestyle changes to help ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Gas International 91tv / Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed two contracts that are set to supply Germany with liquefied natural gas (LNG) for a duration of at least 15 ...
17 Jun 2021, 13:04 Edgar Meza Resources & Recycling 91tv A circular economy is vital in achieving a climate-neutral and competitive industrialised country, according to a new report by the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:42 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv The condensation trails forming behind airplanes at high altitudes do more damage to the climate than their CO2 emissions and the climate-harmful effects will triple by 2050, according ...
23 Aug 2022, 13:34 Edgar Meza Industry Heating 91tv German companies use the vast majority of their entire water consumption for cooling, according to statistical office Destatis. Companies used a total of 15.3 billion cubic metres of fresh ...
17 Dec 2020, 13:51 German energy consumption was at a “historic low” in 2020, largely due to the effects of the Covid19 pandemic, said energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) based on preliminary data. The researchers also said energy ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:06 Expert BTU- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg Renewables Hydrogen Technology Efficiency Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Die Welt By supporting the call for climate neutrality in the EU by 2050, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has practically also tightened national climate goals, writes Daniel Wetzel in an opinion piece ...
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 ...
09 Feb 2022, 13:20 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Handelsblatt The slur of programmes and initiatives aimed at boosting Germany’s emissions ...
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11 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Exhausted” RWE boss Peter Terium has announced the complete overhaul of his company, says Markus Balser in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He is cutting out an immense bureaucracy of ...
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 ...
04 Dec 2018, 15:33 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business International Handelsblatt Germany's industry should not be worried about the European commission's proposal for a climate-neutral Europe by 2050, according to EU ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas n-tv Power production with natural gas increased in Germany in May and July despite political pledges to minimise the fossil fuel’s use amid the supply crunch caused by Russia’s war on Ukraine, news ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:24 Sören Amelang Transport Freight Technology 91tv The association of German engineers (VDI) and technology organisation VDE insist on the large-scale deployment of hydrogen trucks for long-range road transport to reach the EU ...
07 Nov 2022, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Resources & Recycling BR The great reliance on hardware supply from China is causing concern among Germany’s solar power industry, public broadcaster BR reports. About 95 percent of the solar cells installed ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:11 Expert Borderstep Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability Start-ups Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Digitalisation Data centres will consume 16 billion kWh of electricity in Germany this year, according ...
17 Mar 2022, 13:55 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen International 91tv / Spiegel Germany and Norway will consider building a hydrogen pipeline between the two countries in a bid to reduce Europe's dependence on Russian fossil gas. Norway wants ...
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 Nov 2020, 14:21 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry 91tv / Handelsblatt The German cement industry (VDZ) has presented plans for the decarbonisation of cement and concrete in a study outlining its effort to become climate-neutral by 2050. "We ...
18 Oct 2022, 14:17 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics Die Welt / 91tv After a long period of stagnation, the far-right political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is regaining popularity, as rising costs resulting from the ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Wind Handelsblatt Meteorological institutes forecast mild weather in their new winter prognostics for Europe, concluding that less heating gas could be used but also that wind power production might decline as a ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:33 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 Cost & Prices Clean ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:50 Expert Federal Foreign Office Auswärtiges Amt International Security Climate & CO2 Security dpa / n-tv The United States has, for the moment, put a halt to Germany’s ambitions to set up a system to monitor climate change-related ...
28 May 2021, 12:48 Edgar Meza Mobility Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Wirtschaftswoche Nearly one in four Germans support a ban of short-haul flights, according to a YouGov survey commissioned by news agency dpa, Handelsblatt reports. One in ...
09 Aug 2021, 12:15 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Industry 91tv Germany finds it unexpectedly hard to translate its landmark energy transition into an export ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv A quarter more electric cars were registered in Germany in the first half of 2022 than in the same period last year, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). That brought the ...
15 Mar 2021, 13:35 Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Finance 91tv Insurance companies must end their support for liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure and companies in Europe, German environmental and human rights organisation Urgewald says in a ...
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. " ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:37 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s local utilities ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:20 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Business Handelsblatt German industrial giant Siemens regards industrial companies' responsibility to become more environmentally friendly as a defining task of the future and ...
10 Oct 2022, 14:09 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics 91tv / Frankfurter Rundschau The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has won the regional parliamentary election in Lower Saxony, Germany’s biggest wind power producer, with 34 percent ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Some countries are likely to wait and see whether U.S. President Donald Trump wins another four years in office in November before committing to stepping up their ...
05 Aug 2021, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv On the path to making industry climate neutral, corporate decision-makers in Germany call for allowing the use of “blue” hydrogen made from natural gas where the CO2 is captured and stored – ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:03 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv Germany’s leading car rental company Sixt has announced plans to increase the share of its electric vehicles in its global fleet to between 70 and 90 percent by 2030. That share is expected to reach 12 ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:49 Edgar Meza Renewables Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The new CEO of Germany's largest energy company RWE, Markus Krebber, expressed hope that Germany’s next government will quickly clear hurdles currently ...
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 Germany’s biggest concerns regarding the European Commission’s energy policy proposals are potential impact on its own transition to renewables power, as well as power market reform. Kerstine Appunn International Renewable Energy Act | ...
01 Dec 2021, 14:02 Expert Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Most of the money put into so-called sustainable funds in Germany is not invested in projects that differ significantly from ...
07 Oct 2022, 14:55 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Gas Cost & Prices 91tv There ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:37 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Energy-related CO2 emissions in Germany are estimated to be ...
12 May 2021, 13:48 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Heating 91tv Germany’s current climate protection measures do not go far enough to reach its existing CO2 reduction targets in the building sector by 2050, but there is nevertheless great ...
27 Oct 2020, 13:31 Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Germany’s Court of Auditors (Bundesrechnungshof) is warning of the potentially high costs to the federal budget of moving too slowly to reach climate goals, Malte Kreutzfeldt writes in taz. The report ...
15 Jan 2021, 12:50 Charlotte Nijhuis Finance 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung / dpa Germany’s largest insurance company Allianz has set a new interim target for the restructuring of 800 billion euros in investments, the company announced in a press ...
08 Dec 2021, 14:40 Jessica Bateman Carbon market Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A more flexible CO2 price would be beneficial for consumers and also make it harder for oil-exporting countries to undermine it, a former German government advisor has ...
24 Aug 2022, 13:32 Edgar Meza Cars Spiegel / Automobilwoche The Volkswagen group’s future CEO, Oliver Blume, who is set to take the reins at the German carmaker on 1 September, has again expressed his support for electrofuels, also known as e-fuels and ...
24 Apr 2019, 13:24 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background After exceptionally dry weather in 2018, the soil in many ...
05 Jun 2019, 12:31 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Die Welt Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has launched a verbal ...
28 Oct 2020, 14:52 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Technology Handelsblatt Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is set to increase funding to convert carbon dioxide emissions in heavy industry into useful chemical products, Barbara ...
14 Sep 2022, 13:50 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German Council of Economic Experts is calling for the country’s last nuclear power plants to remain in use until the current energy crisis is definitely over. The ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:47 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv / AFP Germany stepped up the fight against climate change at the start of ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:39 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Sören Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv German power company EnBW has committed to becoming climate-neutral within 15 years. "The ...
03 Nov 2020, 12:53 Energy consumption and related CO2 emissions in Germany are set to fall significantly in Germany in 2020, data by energy market research group AGEB shows. The drop in CO2 output to a large extent is caused by the coronavirus pandemic ...
22 Nov 2021, 13:13 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics Tageszeitung (taz) Leaders of the three parties currently negotiating the coalition treaty for the next German government are confident that they will reach an agreement early this week. For the ...
12 Sep 2022, 13:37 Sören Amelang Transport Freight Hydrogen 91tv Germany’s national railway operator Deutsche Bahn plans to transport large amounts of green hydrogen on trains, offering an alternative to transport through non-existent ...
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 ...
05 May 2021, 12:37 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 Edgar Meza Energiewende Clean Energy ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:17 Expert Bundesverband Bioenergie Federal Association for Bioenergy Bioenergy Renewables Expert Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe Expert agency for renewable raw materials Bioenergy Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e ...
29 Sep 2022, 14:02 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Transport Cost & Prices 91tv German railway group Deutsche Bahn (DB) has announced an increase in average fares for long-distant ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:33 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Business 91tv German companies make up a high share of the dynamically growing green technologies market, a report ...
13 Jul 2022, 11:48 Hannah Naylor Gas EU Security 91tv Climate ministers Robert Habeck and Leonore Gewessler of Germany and Austria, respectively, said European solidarity is “more important than ever” amid the ongoing gas crisis in Europe, ...
21 May 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv Using residues from industry production in the making of cement can substantially reduce the basic material’s carbon footprint, a group of researchers from the University of Halle ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:23 Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 91tv Eastern German lignite power plants that are scheduled to ...
15 May 2019, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Chancellor Angela Merkel’s announcement to have the climate cabinet debate ways towards climate neutrality by 2050 is first and foremost “a nod to Paris”, writes Andreas Mihm in an ...
27 Sep 2022, 13:27 Expert ZEW- Centre for European Economic Research Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung The politically sensitive idea of splitting Germany into ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:36 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Münchner Merkur Europe's largest car brand Volkswagen will end the sale of combustion engine cars in the region by the middle of the next decade, branch manager Klaus ...
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 ...
24 Jun 2020, 14:20 Expert World Energy Council Germany Weltenergierat Electricity market Fossil fuels Kerstine Appunn Technology EU 91tv More and more countries and businesses have set the goal of becoming climate neutral but few of them have ...
05 Oct 2020, 13:57 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars Elections & Politics Süddeutsche Zeitung / Guardian One year before Germany's general election, the country's Green Party is calling for a radical rethink of transport policy by putting a ...
07 May 2019, 13:32 Expert Ottmar Edenhofer Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC, Director of MCC, Deputy Director and Chief Economist of PIK Climate & CO2 Energiewende Technology Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate ...
20 Jul 2022, 14:02 Hannah Naylor Coal Transport n-tv Low river levels across Germany, including on the Rhine, are threatening the supply of shipped materials such as coal, chemicals and gravel, reports n-tv. The drought comes at a time when demand is ...
09 Nov 2021, 12:54 Edgar Meza Wind dpa / Zeit Online / IWR A row over wind power expansion and wildlife protection in western German state North Rhine-Westphalia has led the state’s renewable energy association LEE to organize a demonstration against ...
30 Oct 2020, 10:42 91tv 91tv Mobility 91tv Germany’s federal states are lagging behind on many sustainable transport targets, particularly on climate protection goals, according to a study commissioned by German transport and ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:10 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 dpa Germany’s main conservative party (CDU) will present its own concept for a CO2 pricing scheme ...
30 Jul 2021, 11:23 Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s largest parties call for the abolishment of the EEG surcharge – the levy power consumers pay with their electricity bills to help finance ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:38 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Government International 91tv ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:42 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv April 2019 is the 13th consecutive month with warmer than average weather in ...
16 Apr 2021, 13:46 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Mobility Transport dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany must ramp up its transition to low-emission buses, transport minister Andreas Scheuer has said. "In order to achieve our climate targets in ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:33 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 Industry Frankfurter ...
23 Jan 2020, 13:29 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 International 91tv / Deutsche Welle The German government has expressed disagreement with a ruling by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which states that countries may not deport ...
21 Mar 2022, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv / ARD Germany’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has launched an energy partnership with the Emir of Qatar which includes both the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and ...
19 Aug 2021, 13:35 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Manager magazine The German government has created a one billion euro fund to support the car industry's shift to low-emission mobility. A "future fund" earmarked for this purpose ...
08 Aug 2022, 12:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The southern German state of Bavaria continues to lead the field in solar power expansion in the country, increasing its capacity by more than 1 gigawatt (GW) in the first half of 2022 alone. ...
Germany’s coal exit commission faces a huge task, but progress is slow, write Horand Knaup and Max Haerder in business magazine Wirtschaftswoche. “Participants lament that a lot of time and energy is wasted on questions of organisation and discussions ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Handelsblatt The economy and climate ministry is pondering a new power market design for Germany that decouples electricity prices from gas prices in response to the current turmoil on energy markets ...
01 Jul 2021, 12:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Electricity Industry 91tv As ...
19 Apr 2022, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Gas Elections & Politics 91tv / FAZ / Welt am Sonntag / t-online Leading German politicians have called for a probe into the role played by Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's state premier Manuela ...
22 Sep 2020, 14:00 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:45 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Kerstine Appunn Agriculture EU 91tv The final meeting before the decision on the next funding period for farmers under the EU’s Common ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:39 Expert Ottmar Edenhofer Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC, Director of MCC, Deputy Director and Chief Economist of PIK Climate & CO2 Energiewende Technology Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:36 Edgar Meza Gas Cost & Prices Der Spiegel Dutch economic affairs minister, Stef Blok, has expressed concern about Germany’s large appetite for natural gas sourced from the Netherlands’ northern Groningen province, where its continued ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:32 Edgar Meza Utilities 91tv German energy and telecommunications group EWE has said it plans to become climate-neutral by 2035. In order to achieve its target, the company is exiting coal-fired power generation and investing ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:58 Hannah Naylor Transport Hydrogen 91tv / Der Spiegel Germany saw the commencement of the world’s first regular operation of hydrogen-powered trains this week, making "railway history," operator company EVB said. ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Policy 91tv The German government has approved a range of energy saving measures for businesses and households in a bid to prepare the country for expected energy supply bottlenecks. The regulation ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Cars 91tv Germany is to accelerate the expansion of its electromobility charging network to facilitate the switch to electric vehicles, transport minister Volker Wissing (FDP) announced after ...
02 Aug 2022, 14:20 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Edgar Meza Renewables Solar pv magazine Photovoltaic systems in Germany generated a new record level of electricity in the month July 2022, the pv ...
23 Aug 2022, 13:29 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv Investors have shown only limited interest in Germany’s most recent call for solar installations on buildings and noise protection walls, further dampening hopes of speeding up the roll ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Implementing Germany’s planned electricity and gas price brakes is “unmanageable” in the desired timeframe, energy associations have said following a cabinet meeting on the ...
02 Jun 2021, 13:21 Voters in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt will head to the ballot box on 6 June to elect a new state government. Home to one of Germany’s three main coal mining regions, the state is dealing with the transition away from lignite ...
29 Jul 2022, 12:22 Hannah Naylor Coal Electricity market Freight WirtschaftsWoche In an attempt to maintain electricity production whilst gas deliveries continue to tighten, transport capacities in Germany, particularly rail, are struggling to keep up ...
21 Jun 2022, 12:22 Edgar Meza Coal Utilities ARD, Rheinische Post RWE, Germany’s largest energy company, has halted early retirement of employees in reaction to the government’s decision to increase the use of coal-fired power while gas supplies are low, ...
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 ...
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 ...
It is futile to hope that the German government will officially propose the introduction of a “climate passport” at the upcoming UN climate conference COP24 in Katowice, Poland, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. In a ...
25 Jul 2022, 14:35 Hannah Naylor Gas inFranken.de / Süddeutsche Zeitung Bavarian breweries concerned about possible gas shortages are developing contingency plans to avoid a complete halt of beer production, reports regional news website inFranken.de. ...
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 ...
25 Jul 2022, 13:29 Sören Amelang Gas Bild / Tagesspiegel Background / Rheinische Post The German government is considering financial aid to protect households that can’t afford rising gas bills, reports tabloid Bild. Coalition sources told the paper that ...
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 ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:39 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market ...
31 Mar 2023, 11:38 The era of nuclear power in Germany will end on 15 April as planned, the country’s environment minister has said. Minister Steffi Lemke stressed that the phase-out would not endanger the power supply security in Germany or other ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:43 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Bloomberg Researchers say low water levels on Germany’s Rhine river after 2018’s long summer drought could occur more frequently as a result of climate change, William Wilkes, ...
02 Sep 2022, 12:46 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv The German government has chartered a fifth floating import terminal (FSRU) for liquefied natural gas (LNG) to help the country wean itself off Russian pipeline gas and ensure supply security, the ...
21 Sep 2022, 13:23 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Wholesale electricity prices in Germany will be significantly higher in the next few years than they were during the 2019-2020 period due to the country’s energy mix and their continued dependence on gas ...
21 Jul 2022, 14:12 Edgar Meza Gas EU 91tv German policymakers and utilities have welcomed a European Commission proposal asking EU member states to adopt voluntary measures to reduce gas consumption amid fears of Russia cutting off ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Transport Cars 91tv More than half of all newly registered trucks in Europe, the US and China will be electric by 2035, according to a new study by McKinsey & Company presented at this year’s German car show ...
16 May 2022, 13:08 Julian Wettengel Renewables Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s federal and state governments will meet on 2 June to forge a “pact to speed up planning, permitting and implementation” for infrastructure projects, many of which are central ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:23 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The steel industry needs a clear and reliable framework for its decarbonisation, said Heinz Jörg Fuhrmann, CEO of the Salzgitter Group, at the presentation of the company’s ...
19 Jul 2022, 14:21 Hannah Naylor Transport Cost & Prices dpa / ARD Due to the success of the current 9-euro public transport ticket, German transport minister Volker Wissing is willing to consider an ongoing alternative, though not before the end of ...
09 Sep 2020, 14:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Julian Wettengel Industry EU 91tv / Handelsblatt / EurActiv The expected call by the EU Commission for an increased 2030 emissions reduction target has been welcomed by German environment minister Svenja ...
03 Nov 2021, 14:30 Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv / dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s most populated state and home to some of the largest still operating lignite mines and coal power stations could phase-out the fossil fuel as early as 2030, ...
08 Oct 2021, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv European Union states will produce about half of the hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels it needs by 2050, with the other half imported from partner countries, said a report by the World ...
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 ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Süddeutsche Zeitung The German government has said it will carry out a second assessment of the benefits of extending the runtime of the country’s remaining nuclear plants beyond their ...
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 ...
09 Aug 2022, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv / ZDF Germany is facing severe gas supply shortages in the coming winter if it fails to introduce the right measures, according to scenarios mapped out by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). The ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:35 Jessica Bateman Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Reuters The German government is considering taking a minority stake in the Baden-Württemberg transmission grid operator TransnetBW via state-owned development bank KfW, according to ...
16 Sep 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Transport To cut the number of short-haul flights in Europe, a group of German Green Party politicians has presented proposals for an expansion of train services, in particular night trains, in Europe. The new night ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:17 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 ...
07 Jun 2022, 13:08 Kerstine Appunn Wind 91tv The May tender for building new onshore wind capacity in Germany has attracted fewer bidders than expected, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. After two rounds of oversubscribed auctions ...
26 Aug 2022, 14:12 Julian Wettengel Transport Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s 9 euro nationwide public transport ticket, which will end next week, affected mobility behaviours as much as the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:50 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport 91tv Global aviation is responsible for 3.5 percent of human-made climate ...
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 ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:06 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
29 Sep 2022, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government 91tv The Free Democrats (FDP) in Germany’s government coalition have criticised the decision by Green Party economy and climate minister Robert Habeck to transfer two of the ...
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14 Jun 2021, 13:03 Edgar Meza 91tv, Reuters The German and Australian governments have signed a letter of intent on sustainable hydrogen production, according to the German ministries of economic affairs and energy and education and research. ...
26 Feb 2021, 12:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables EU 91tv A largely CO2-free German and European power supply by 2050 with renewable energy as ...
30 Apr 2020, 12:36 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Green stimulus 91tv The European Green Deal presents an ideal foundation for the economic recovery after the coronavirus ...
29 Oct 2020, 17:50 The German car industry has committed to climate-neutral mobility by 2050 for the first time, but continues to reject a sole focus on electric mobility. Following a fierce quarrel within the lobby group, industry association VDA said ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:35 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Germany's should not jeopardise its national climate goals by committing to green hydrogen on a long-term technology path today, as it is still out in the open how innovations and ...
31 Jul 2020, 12:20 Expert GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel Climate & CO2 Technology Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Climate & CO2 Gas 91tv Large amounts of methane, a major greenhouse ...
23 Feb 2021, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv / Spiegel Renewables expansion in Germany and across the world is insufficient to help keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C, a key goal of the Paris Climate ...
22 Sep 2021, 13:48 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Wind 91tv Germany could install offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of more than 60 gigawatts (GW), says a study by wind power consultancy WindGuard. According to the ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:05 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Rheinische ...
23 Jul 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Politics International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit Green party co-leader and chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock has criticised the Nord Stream 2 agreement with the U.S. government. On 21 July, Berlin ...
28 Mar 2022, 12:50 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Heating costs for a single-family house using a heat pump are considerably lower this winter than in homes using natural gas heating systems. The electricity costs for heat ...
11 May 2021, 13:27 Edgar Meza Resources & Recycling 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Circular business models can make a significant contribution to meeting Germany’s climate targets, according to a report issued by Germany’s education and ...
17 Aug 2022, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Security Handelsblatt / Bild-Zeitung Russia’s government is actively trying to exploit Germany’s current energy supply crisis by sowing division and spreading disinformation, security agencies in Germany have ...
27 Jul 2022, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv / ARD The German government has decided to reduce support for e-cars and increasingly limit it to fully electric cars, ending subsidies for plug-in hybrids, said the economy ministry. E-mobility ...
The 2030 emissions reduction target defines the duty and objectives of the commission tasked with planning Germany’s coal exit, climate economist Barbara Praetorius said in an interview with Der Tagesspiegel. “The 2030 climate targets are set, they ...
27 Apr 2022, 11:40 Sören Amelang Edgar Meza Transport Berliner Zeitung Berlin's Kreuzberg district plans to ban car parking in a neighborhood with 20,000 people, repurposing the space for children to play on the street, Berliner Zeitung reports. The ...
16 Feb 2021, 14:03 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 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, ...
15 Sep 2021, 12:33 Jessica Bateman Hydrogen The number of hydrogen partnerships around the world is increasing and is likely to grow even further, data from the World Energy Council suggests. In a press release, the organisation counts 41 import-export ...
16 Aug 2022, 13:48 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Hannah Naylor Gas 91tv Germany consumed 14.7 ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Transport Agriculture 91tv Germany, Finland, France and Portugal’s National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) drafts include ambitious goals but “lack details and concrete measures” to ensure ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:34 Energy exports to western Europe are one of the pillars a future Ukrainian economy could rest on, Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a conference in Berlin on the war-torn country’s ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:29 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:53 Kerstine Appunn Heating 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany should include hydrogen for heating houses in its energy transition to successfully decarbonise the heating sector, gas grid operator umbrella organisation FNB ...
07 Oct 2022, 14:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables dpa / Die Welt / 91tv The state premier of Brandenburg, Germany's second largest coal mining region, has rejected calls to bring the end of coal use forward to 2030, becoming the ...
29 Jul 2021, 13:31 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Julian Wettengel Coal Solar dpa / 91tv German lignite operator Leag seeks to take advantage of the country's coal phase-out and ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:32 Expert BASE- Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management Bundesamt für die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung Nuclear phase-out Edgar Meza Nuclear phase-out EU Handelsblatt / dpa / Die Zeit Germany’s Federal Office for ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:05 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cars dpa / Focus Online Carmaker VW says an earlier German coal exit is necessary for the company to ensure its electric car fleet receives the clean power it needs to ...
07 May 2021, 13:45 Electric cars have long been touted as key to a more sustainable future, but their contribution is clouded by the climate impact of making and disposing of them. As part of an industry-wide bid to roll out entirely CO2-neutral vehicles, ...
06 May 2021, 13:06 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Sectors of German industry are struggling with rising carbon prices and demanding help from the government, which has made CO2 pricing a key part of its climate protection ...
03 Jun 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance International WirtschaftsWoche A plan by the U.S. securities markets control authority SEC to tighten the rules for labelling financial products as sustainable could bring further trouble to German asset ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:17 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Kerstine Appunn Business & Jobs 91tv Companies in Germany generated 78.9 billion euros in turnover with goods, construction and services ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:13 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Government International 91tv ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:33 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Hydrogen EU Leopoldina / Acatech / Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities In a joint statement, leading German scientific institutions, including the German National Academy of Sciences ...
06 Jul 2021, 12:53 Kerstine Appunn Transport 91tv / Welt online Europe’s three leading truck manufacturers-- Daimler Truck, the TRATON Group and the Volvo Group-- have joined forces to create a network of fast-charging stations for battery ...
28 Mar 2022, 10:56 A complete disruption of energy trading between Russia and the rest of Europe would have grave consequences for the economies of Germany and other EU countries, says energy and security policy expert Kirsten Westphal. If the flow of gas ...
01 Sep 2022, 13:42 Energy policy links between the UK and the European Union have remained strong since the UK officially left the bloc in January 2020, in contrast to complications in many other policy areas. A new renewable power interconnector project ...
15 Jun 2021, 10:53 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background The conservative CDU/CSU union of outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel aims for an earlier switch from fixed prices to market-based prices in ...
20 Dec 2018, 15:02 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 2018 has been the warmest year in Germany since measurements began in 1881, the German National Meteorological Service (DWD) said in a press release. The average temperature in 2018 was 10.4°C and thus ...
26 Jan 2021, 12:06 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt Industrialist Sanjeev Gupta, the only bidder for German conglomerate Thyssen-Krupp's loss-making steel business, plans to convert the mills to produce green steel if he’s successful, reports German ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Security Tagesspiegel / Der Spiegel Russia’s Gazprom bank has for the first time refused to accept a payment in euros from a German gas trader. Trading company and former Gazprom subsidiary Gazprom Marketing & ...
09 Jul 2018, 15:15 Natural gas is needed to complement renewable energies today and will increasingly be replaced by ‘green gases’, enabling the continued use of existing infrastructure, says Timm Kehler, head of the gas industry initiative Zukunft ERDGAS ...
27 Sep 2022, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv High energy prices and supply chain challenges affecting large parts of the industry are paving the way for Germany to enter a recession, an analysis by private ...
07 Jun 2021, 13:53 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Elections & Politics 91tv Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives won a surprisingly clear victory in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, in a boost for the bloc's ...
29 Jun 2021, 14:19 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cities 91tv / HR German railway operator Deutsche Bahn is planning one of the largest infrastrucuture projects of the ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:23 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv / Reuters Germany’s aviation industry has presented a joint master plan to bring air transport more in line with climate protection. Presented by leading industry groups, including the German ...
19 Jan 2021, 12:21 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Charlotte Nijhuis Cars 91tv Structural challenges pose a threat to the competitiveness of Germany as a business ...
01 Aug 2022, 13:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security dpa / Zeit Online The first retired hard coal ...
10 Feb 2021, 13:00 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy ...
04 Mar 2021, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv German lobby group Rail Alliance has called for a quick ramp-up of cross-border European express and night train services as a way to replace flights and thus combat the transport sector’s ...
12 Apr 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Technology 91tv German energy provider EWE has completed the first stage of a test project to see whether the safe storage of green hydrogen in underground caverns is possible. The ...
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21 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Coalition doesn’t get together in coal politics” A meeting between Chancellor Angela Merkel and energy minister Sigmar Gabriel on the additional levy on old coal ...
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, ...
02 Feb 2021, 14:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Finance Green stimulus Frankfurter Rundschau The German sustainable bank GLS has grown in 2020, defying challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic and spurring calls for a social-ecological restructuring of the ...
04 Jul 2022, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices ARD The German government will not introduce a general speed limit on motorways to reduce the transport sector’s energy consumption amid the crisis fuelled by Russia’s war on Ukraine, Chancellor ...
16 May 2022, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv The number of buses with emission-free, electrified drives on Germany's roads doubled from 2020 to 2021, heralding the “decade of the e-bus,” said consultancy and accounting firm PwC. ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:14 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Freja Eriksen Agriculture 91tv / Tageszeitung (taz) Up to 10,000 farmers and 700 tractors are expected to be present at protests against German ...
15 Jan 2021, 10:19 While our roads are increasingly abuzz with electric cars and scooters, low-emission trucks are conspicuous by their absence. But this is about to change as new climate targets force sharp emission cuts in heavy duty transport. The ...
05 May 2020, 13:35 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert SPD- Social Democratic ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government Bild / Der Spiegel The dispute over delaying the completion of Germany’s nuclear phase-out drags on within the country’s coalition government. A meeting between chancellor Olaf Scholz from ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:41 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza Agriculture In a global analysis of the potential of local food production to feed hungry cities in the present and in future, researchers from ...
20 Jan 2022, 13:27 Jessica Bateman Business & Jobs 91tv Record levels of investment were made by German energy companies in 2021, said the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). Investments totalling 20.5 billion euros ...
07 Jun 2022, 13:25 Jessica Bateman Gas Security 91tv EU tariffs on energy imports from Russia would be supported by a majority of economists, a survey has found. According to the survey by Ifo Institute and German newspaper Frankfurter ...
15 Dec 2021, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Gas EU Security 91tv The contentious Russian-German pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is not a suitable instrument to penalise Russia in case it attempts to invade neighbouring Ukraine, said German government ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:13 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Julian Wettengel Finance 91tv German state-owned KfW Development Bank has for the first time reported on possible risks its ...
20 Jul 2022, 12:58 Sören Amelang Gas 91tv Germany will use a fifth floating liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal in its drive to wean itself off Russian gas imports at a pace “never seen before” in the country. A private consortium will ...
09 May 2022, 14:15 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Heating 91tv A large-scale switch to heat pumps, solar energy, and better demand-side management in the heating sector ...
04 Dec 2020, 10:43 The use of hydrogen in transport, climate-damaging subsidies and new motorway constructions will be among the most important clean mobility topics in the run up to Germany's general elections in 2021, says Jens Hilgenberg, who ...
30 Oct 2020, 11:42 Mobility 91tv Europe’s transport sector needs a comprehensive overhaul if the continent is to meet its climate targets, a group of German environmental organisations said on Friday. The transport sector is currently ...
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26 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue Ministers and energy experts meet at international energy conference in Berlin Under the slogan “towards a global Energiewende” the first Energy Transition ...
03 Jun 2022, 13:56 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Kerstine Appunn Renewables Heating 91tv More than two-thirds (70.7%) of the residential buildings completed in Germany in 2021 are heated ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:25 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv Germany will not be able to import enough renewable hydrogen to reach the targets laid out in its national hydrogen strategy, according to an analysis conducted by the ...
21 Apr 2016, 00:00 On 26 April 1986 a nuclear meltdown at a Soviet reactor in today’s Ukraine sent radioactive particles across Europe and shockwaves through the political debate over nuclear safety. 30 years on from the Chernobyl accident, Germany is in ...
25 Mar 2021, 14:04 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv The European Energy Exchange (EEX) in Leipzig has been mandated to sell ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:54 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv Raising the EU climate target will lead to job losses in the German car industry, the world's largest industry supplier Bosch and rival Schaeffler have warned. "In order to achieve the ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:50 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cities Süddeutsche Zeitung The Bavarian capital Munich has declared a “climate emergency”, joining more than 60 other German municipalities to have done so over the course of 2019, reports Süddeutsche ...
09 Mar 2022, 13:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Security 91tv The pivot away from Russian energy imports will require Germany to double down on its energy transition efforts and apply a speed similar to that of Tesla with its new ...
02 Aug 2021, 12:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out International Die Welt Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power means that it must replace the energy source with climate-harmful coal and gas, the executive director of state-owned French ...
05 May 2021, 12:35 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Background Many European Union member states are rejecting calls to expand emissions trading to the heating and transport sectors in the bloc in order to more ...
28 Jul 2021, 12:13 Jessica Bateman Elections & Politics EU 91tv A post-Merkel coalition government is likely to help drive forward the EU’s climate targets, an analysis by Deutsche Bank has concluded. In a paper, analysts for the bank ...
11 Jul 2022, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv / Dlf Russian natural gas supplier Gazprom halted flows almost entirely through Nord Stream on Monday morning (11 July) as about ten days of planned maintenance work began, with the German ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:36 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 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen International ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:39 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Elections & Politics Süddeutsche Zeitung / Die Zeit The Green Party wants to promote the purchase of cargo bicycles with subsidies totalling up to one billion euros in the next legislative period, ...
16 Aug 2022, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International 91tv / AFP / n-tv Norway has agreed to continue to export as much natural gas as it can to Germany in order to help reduce fossil fuel dependence on Russia, the two countries' ...
25 Mar 2022, 15:02 Germany is making considerable progress in weaning itself off fossil fuel imports from Russia and could become virtually independent of the country’s coal and oil by the end of this year, said economy and climate minister Robert Habeck ...
05 Nov 2021, 12:23 Edgar Meza Transport Freight Elections & Politics Spiegel / Süddeutsche Zeitung The Greens and pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP), which look set to join the Social Democrats (SPD) in Germany’s next coalition government, ...
The draft of a coalition treaty agreed by Germany’s negotiating parties suggests that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) have found common ground on energy and climate policy, mirroring several aspects ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:19 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 International Bild The collapse of the climate system is resulting in refugees that Europe “of course” has to take in, German Sea-Watch captain Carola Rackete said in an interview with BILD. Rackete was ...
04 Dec 2020, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cities 91tv / Tagesspiegel A new subway line in the centre of Berlin has drawn criticism for its climate impact due to an expert report finding that new subway projects in the German capital on ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:13 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars ...
22 Mar 2022, 14:29 The Saarland state election on 27 March is the first major public vote since Germany’s new federal government assumed power at the end of last year. The election in the small state is therefore partly seen as an indicator on how voters ...
06 Jul 2022, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Tagesspiegel Background The reactivation of mothballed coal plants in Germany- in response to the energy crisis fuelled by Russia’s war on Ukraine- could include old lignite-fired power stations which do ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv Germany’s 2030 emissions targets can only be achieved if the country "substantially" changes track and carries out "enormous efforts" to electrify its ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:52 Kerstine Appunn Wind Die Welt Shipping, fisheries, offshore wind power, raw material extraction and nature conservation all have been assigned their space in the German waters in the latest plan of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic ...
27 May 2020, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Green stimulus 91tv Dealing with the coronavirus crisis will be the main priority of the German EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020, chancellor Angela Merkel told leaders of the European ...
13 Jun 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz has assured the country’s eastern states that they will receive support in dealing with the fallout of an embargo on Russian oil supplies. ...
23 Aug 2019, 13:23 Sören Amelang Electricity Climate & CO2 91tv Droughts caused by climate change pose a growing risk to the power supply in Germany and around the globe, according to a report by WWF Germany. 90 percent of global ...
18 May 2022, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Southern German state Bavaria aims to double power production from renewable sources to reach a share of 80 percent by 2030 as part of its government’s new energy strategy. “The main drivers ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:50 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Utilities 91tv Undecided political issues are by far the greatest ...
25 Nov 2020, 14:24 Sören Amelang Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation can induce almost half of the emissions reduction Germany needs to reach its 2030 climate targets, according to the country's digital industry association Bitkom. A ...
22 Dec 2020, 13:07 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Charlotte Nijhuis Policy 91tv Reducing the environmental damages caused by greenhouse gases, nitrogen emissions, other ...
09 Oct 2020, 13:43 Sören Amelang Industry Hamburger Abendblatt Swiss-based building materials company Holcim is registering rising demand for climate-neutral concrete. "We register big interest from many companies in climate-neutral construction who ...
12 May 2022, 13:57 Edgar Meza Cars Business & Jobs 91tv Germany’s economy and climate ministry has approved a grant of 155.4 million euros for Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt, which is planning to set up a large battery cell ...
19 Jun 2019, 16:33 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv European leaders will ultimately agree on the goal of climate neutrality by 2050 for the European Union – if not at the European Council in Brussels this week then at ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Hydrogen Clean ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Edgar Meza Solar Elections & Politics Welt am Sonntag Armin Laschet, North Rhine-Westphalia’s state premier and chancellor ...
24 Feb 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Industry AFP / RP Online / taz German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp was one of several companies that funded influential Dutch climate change sceptic Frits Böttcher, according to a major new ...
30 Jun 2021, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany's states are demanding substantial support payments from the federal government to fund the expansion of public transport systems in a bid to reduce the ...
31 May 2022, 14:14 Edgar Meza Industry Heating Handelsblatt As Germany reorients its energy policy in the wake of the Ukraine war and seeks to increase gas imports from other sources than Russia, it should also promote greater energy efficiency and make ...
28 Jul 2021, 12:17 Expert Ember Climate & energy think tank Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Coal EU 91tv The European Union’s electricity demand was back to pre-pandemic levels in the first half of 2021, but thanks ...
28 Jul 2020, 12:21 Edgar Meza Coal Finance 91tv Environmental groups and campaigners have welcomed Deutsche Bank’s move to end its global business activities in coal mining by 2025 at the latest, and while some see a positive signal heralding ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU 91tv The German chemical industry says the European Commission’s proposals to fight the energy price crisis in Europe may be sufficient to fight energy poverty but are not likely to help ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:11 Germany produced more than half of its electricity with renewable power in the first three months of 2020, the first full quarter in which renewables covered the majority of the country’s electricity needs. The numbers were driven by ...
25 Mar 2020, 14:16 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Technology 91tv German researchers are trying to ...
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- ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:48 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Industry Handelsblatt / Der Spiegel Carbon emissions and air pollution are expected to decline in Germany and worldwide because of the coronavirus pandemic, but experts warn the decrease could be ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:51 Edgar Meza Mobility Cars Handelsblatt Electric cars will need to account for most new registrations in Germany in just four years and the end of new combustion engine cars will have to begin in 2030, says a report by the National ...
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 Stricken energy giant RWE revealed on Tuesday it plans to spin off a company focused on renewables and grids to raise capital, while retaining fossil and nuclear energy generation. Germany's leading energy company E.ON had ...
07 Jun 2021, 13:43 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Digitalisation Technology Resources & Recycling 91tv A rising number of manufacturing companies in Germany use artificial intelligence to optimise product development and production, ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel needs to put “her own house in order” on climate policy because the world needs her leadership on the issue since US President Donald Trump decided to take the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate, the ...
17 Jun 2020, 15:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Handelsblatt The economic downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic has had little effect on many German companies' plans to invest in emissions reduction measures so far, Steffen Ermisch writes in ...
11 Nov 2019, 08:07 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv No G20 country has a climate strategy in line with the Paris Agreement’s ambitious end of its main target- to limit global warming to 1.5°C- although most are technically capable and have ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:25 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
23 Mar 2020, 13:53 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 Industry Clean Energy ...
20 May 2022, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Policy Der Spiegel / 91tv The German parliament and the Council of Federal States (Bundesrat) have given the go-ahead to several measures proposed by the government to reduce ...
15 Jun 2021, 10:52 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The German economy ministry will support building up a market for green hydrogen with 900 million euros through the H2 Global Foundation, newly-set up by German industry players such as ...
There is a large gap between the standards in climate protection that German Chancellor Angela Merkel proclaims on an international stage and the actual results of her policies at home, according to a Greenpeace Germany paper. The NGO charts Merkel’s ...
13 Feb 2020, 13:26 Sören Amelang International 91tv The EU must commit to new climate targets this spring in order to increase the chances of success at this year's crucial climate conference COP26, an alliance of German environmental ...
29 Mar 2022, 12:06 Edgar Meza Coal Der Spiegel A state court in North Rhine-Westphalia has ruled in favour of German utility RWE in a land dispute linked to the expansion of its Garzweiler lignite opencast mine located in the western German hamlet of ...
08 Sep 2022, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security 91tv / BR Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has reacted with irritation to a German nuclear plant operator’s objection to his plans for putting two of the remaining ...
19 May 2022, 12:07 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark have agreed to expand offshore wind power generation capacity in the North Sea tenfold to at least 150 gigawatts (GW) by 2050. The countries are also set to ...
It will be easier for CDU, CSU, FDP and the Green Party to find an agreement on migration and asylum than on climate policy, the CDU’s Armin Laschet, state premier of Germany’s industrial heartland North Rhine-Westphalia, told Rheinische Post in an ...
Germany’s biggest power consumer, Deutsche Bahn (DB), has set itself new climate protection targets ahead of the COP23 UN climate conference in Bonn next month, Henrik Mortsiefer reports for the Tagesspiegel. The company – including its global logistics ...
30 Jun 2020, 13:44 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Clean ...
19 Oct 2021, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Focus Online / Börsen-Zeitung Plans by Germany’s future government coalition to bring forward the coal exit to 2030 have elicited criticism from state politicians in the country’s coal mining regions, Focus Online ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:47 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Climate & CO2 Zeit Online / Der Spiegel / 91tv Environmental activists occupied part of the ...
24 Mar 2022, 12:07 Jessica Bateman Gas Der Spiegel The energy minister of Lower Saxony has called on the German federal government to provide partial funding for four liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals in his state, Der Spiegel reports. In a letter to ...
15 Sep 2020, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG energate messenger / Tagesspiegel Background The latest version of amendments to Germany’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) includes a tougher climate goal for the electricity sector, which should ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:50 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel The German state-owned railway Deutsche Bahn has no plans to bring back sleeper cars despite their potential to provide a climate-friendly alternative to flying, the newspaper ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:34 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Sören Amelang Cars 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Wall Street Journal The German car industry has criticised California's decision to ban ...
22 Mar 2022, 13:00 Jessica Bateman Gas Security Zeit / Tagesspiegel / Handelsblatt Germany’s opinion writers have weighed in on the government’s liquid natural gas (LNG) deal with Qatar, concluding that the country has little choice but to accept an ...
25 May 2020, 12:41 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 DIW- German Institute for Economic ...
20 Feb 2020, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Cars Die Welt German drivers are choosing cars with more and more horsepower, which poses a challenge for carmakers who must comply with EU emissions regulations, Olaf Preuß writes in the newspaper Die ...
10 Dec 2020, 13:47 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Efficiency Heating 91tv Germany has reached a milestone in its quest for more climate-friendly heating by installing more than one million heat pumps, according to price comparison ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:41 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Wind Energiewende 91tv German coal and natural gas use increased in the first three months of 2021, compared ...
13 Oct 2021, 13:23 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv The tax cuts for company cars in Germany are undermining the country’s efforts to get a ...
13 Oct 2021, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The announcement by French President Emmanuel Macron to ramp up the country’s hydrogen production capacity and invest in the development of small modular nuclear ...
03 Mar 2021, 12:20 Expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer Professor and Director, Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany should double the price for diesel and petrol fuel ...
14 Feb 2020, 13:14 Sören Amelang International 91tv Eight European nations have agreed on a programme to make the river Rhine and its tributaries more climate-resilient. Germany, France, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The lack of ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:30 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 Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour ...
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 ...
23 Nov 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German government wants to help the steel and chemical industry become ...
31 May 2022, 14:21 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs 91tv A record number of vacancies in the engineering and IT sectors is threatening ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:44 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
02 Mar 2022, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices 91tv / Strom Report Energy costs for the average German household are 52 percent higher than a year ago, according to energy contract sales website Check24. In a press release, the company ...
10 Oct 2022, 13:41 The German state should support households and businesses with about 90 billion euros by early 2024 to lower gas bills, said an expert commission charged by the government with drawing up a plan to relieve gas consumers affected by ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:37 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv The establishment of U.S. carmaker Tesla will likely lead to the emergence of an electromobility cluster in Germany’s Berlin-Brandenburg region that could benefit from the numerous small and medium ...
13 Aug 2015
13 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv RWE RWE operating result down by 11 percent / increased earnings from renewables Germany’s second biggest energy utility RWE reported a reduced operating result and EBITDA for the first six months ...
17 Dec 2020, 10:40 Battery-electric trucks will hit Europe's roads in large numbers soon, but catenary systems could also play an important role in the decarbonisation of heavy-duty freight transport if governments now push the technology by building ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government 91tv German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ruled out an extension of the runtime of the country’s three remaining nuclear plants as a way to stabilise the energy system amid an ...
05 May 2022, 13:48 Edgar Meza Solar Wind 91tv Renewable energy sources accounted for 50 percent of electricity consumption in Germany in the first quarter of 2022 – around nine percentage points more than in the same period last year, ...
12 Jul 2021, 12:20 Germany's upcoming general election adds fuel to the debate about whether combustion engines have a future in the birth country of the automobile and whether a general speed limit should be introduced on its famed autobahns. Given ...
07 Oct 2015
07 Oct 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Bloomberg Business, Greenpeace, Süddeutsche Zeitung “Greenpeace says can find cash to buy Vattenfall coal assets” Bloomberg Business reports that Greenpeace has registered its interest in buying ...
18 Nov 2014, 00:00 The Energiewende is gradually transforming German homes – not just towards greater energy efficiency but to become producers as well as consumers of energy. Expert Institute for Housing and Environment Institut Wohnen und Umwelt ...
25 May 2022, 13:39 Sören Amelang Wind Tagesspiegel Background Bidders offering to implement offshore wind power projects with the lowest CO2 footpring could have an advantage in Germany’s future renewable power auctions that determine who gets to install ...
02 May 2022, 13:38 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels International Security 91tv Germany has said it will support an embargo on Russian oil imports if the EU member states agree on it. Foreign minister Annalena Baerbock has confirmed that ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:20 Paul Gordon Solar 91tv The war in Ukraine and the associated energy crisis are pushing homeowners in record numbers to install solar power systems and batteries, the German Solar Industry Association (BSW) has said. ...
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 ...
09 May 2019, 13:53 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 International 91tv The CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion decreased by 2.5 percent in the European Union in 2018 compared to the year before, partly driven by a decrease of 5.4 percent ...
18 May 2021, 13:35 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Cars 91tv The number of electric cars is growing dynamically, mainly driven by members of younger, high-income ...
26 Nov 2021, 13:16 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Handelsblatt Germany’s future coalition government is planning the implementation of a “coal foundation” to ensure an earlier coal phase-out. “The establishment of a foundation or company that organises the ...
11 Mar 2022, 14:33 The rollout of solar panels and wind turbines is unlikely to be hampered by supply problems caused by the war in Ukraine, but the production of electric cars could take a hit, German business associations told 91tv. The ...
14 Sep 2020, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics WDR The conservative CDU has emerged as the strongest party in municipal elections in Germany's most populous federal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), public broadcaster WDR reports. ...
10 Mar 2021, 13:25 Expert BASE- Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management Bundesamt für die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung Nuclear phase-out Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 ...
27 May 2020, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Transport Green stimulus 91tv While some media commentators welcome the deal to rescue Germany’s national airline Lufthansa and say a lack of concrete sustainability criteria is justified, others write that ...
06 Aug 2021, 13:21 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Tagesschau The regional list of Germany’s Green Party will be excluded from the ballot in the state of Saarland during the national election, the federal election committee announced on 5 ...
30 Mar 2021, 13:37 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 91tv Green hydrogen technology can help reduce emissions from industry, transport and heating in ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:06 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU 91tv A tightening of the EU's 2030 climate target would come ...
27 Nov 2019, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs The emissions reduction targets of several major German companies would violate the Paris Climate Agreement 's goal of keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, a ...
13 Jan 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Efficiency Heating RND Although the building sector is considered a key part of Germany's energy transition, the share of renewable energies used for heating and cooling buildings has stagnated at a low level for ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:03 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices t-online Companies in certain parts of ...
25 Apr 2022, 12:44 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Efficiency Capital Economist and government advisor Andreas Loechel has said the German government’s plan to provide guarantees and sureties for companies hit by high energy prices offers the wrong ...
19 May 2022, 12:00 Germany has reacted largely positively to EU plans for ending dependence on Russian fossil fuel imports. Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the European Commission’s RePowerEU Plan an “important initiative” that could give fresh impetus to ...
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 ...
04 Jun 2021, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Germany’s industry, transport and heating sectors will need significantly more hydrogen to help reach future climate targets than the government currently expects, said the head of the ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:10 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Sören Amelang Transport Technology 91tv Germany wants to extend its landmark energy transition (Energiewende) to the skies ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:48 91tv 91tv Digitalisation Handelsblatt Germany’s government wants to make server farms climate neutral by 2030, sparking concern in the industry, Handelsblatt reports. Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze said she ...
28 Aug 2020, 13:22 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv ...
27 Jul 2022, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Nuclear phase-out 91tv / RTL Germany should rethink its approach towards domestic fossil fuels and nuclear energy as prices rise and the country is facing potential shortages, fuelled by the ...
28 Jan 2021, 13:48 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out EU RND / ...
22 Feb 2022, 13:06 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Utilities 91tv The current price hikes on electricity and gas markets creates a real danger of market manipulation, the German Monopolies Commission – a permanent expert committee advising ...
26 Sep 2019, 13:59 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) are prepared to ...
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, ...
02 Feb 2016
02 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “The government, the e-car and the subsidy trap” Chancellor Angela Merkel would be well advised not to adopt a buyer’s premium for electric cars after her meeting with industry ...
20 Jan 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Grid Handelsblatt Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), in charge of regulating the power grid and overseeing the country’s grid expansion planning, will reportedly get the prominent head of the Federal Consumer ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Utilities 91tv Energy company RWE plans to build an ammonia terminal at the site of the planned import harbour for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the northern German city of Brunsbüttel to ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:25 Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Grid operator TenneT has started using 17 wind farms in the North Sea to prevent grid bottlenecks, the company that runs a large section of the German transmission grid ranging from the coast to ...
21 Jun 2021, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv NGOs have called on the German government to immediately start the process of phasing out fossil gas use and set an end date for 2040 to ensure a transformation in line with the Paris Agreement ...
