03 Aug 2020, 13:46 Edgar Meza Transport Government Welt am Sonntag German government employees last year took 27,216 more individual flights than in 2018, with a particular increase in short inland flights that are considered to be particularly harmful to ...
08 Nov 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The rising price for emissions allowances in the EU's trading system ETS is increasing the price of cement, giving German building material giant ...
11 Sep 2019, 14:03 S枚ren Amelang Cars Xinhua Continental, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 second largest car industry supplier, is planning to be CO2-neutral "in all of its production processes" by 2040, company CEO Elmar Degenhart announced at the International ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:18 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid Solar 91tv German transmission grid operators (TSO) are preparing for the partial solar eclipse on Thursday, 10 June but are confident that ...
15 Oct 2021, 12:32 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables levy will decrease to its lowest level in ten years as high wholesale power prices and support from the federal budget lower the need for payments from electricity consumers. This is good news for the economy and ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:52 Julian Wettengel Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt With their products and skills, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 car supplier companies will be able to benefit greatly from the shift to e-mobility, despite the competition from other world markets, ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:08 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Transport Freight 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 shipbuilding and offshore supply industry is an " ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:05 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv The German states home to carmakers ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:43 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
The coal commission delay is 鈥渆mbarrassing for the former climate pioneer鈥� Germany, because the government will not be able to demonstrate it is serious about climate ambitions at the UN climate summit in Poland in early December, writes Joachim Wille in ...
The coal commission鈥檚 mandate is 鈥渘owhere near enough,鈥� according to Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock. 鈥淭丑别 commission now has the difficult task of outgrowing this mandate. Neither the climate, nor the regions鈥� affected residents can afford a ...
07 Jul 2021, 13:27 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Kerstine Appunn Resources & Recycling The use of regrowing biotic raw materials such as cereals and wood accounted for 16 percent, or 224 million ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:39 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Freja Eriksen Transport 91tv The German transport ministry (BMVI) will ...
24 May 2019, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Reuters The investment fund subsidiary of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Deutsche Bank, DWS, wants to increase the share of sustainable investments, with a greater focus on the so-called ESG criteria for asset selection, which ...
06 Feb 2019, 14:10 Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices An ambitious and ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:34 Kerstine Appunn Energiewende International 91tv The European Commission has published its fourth report on the state of the Energy Union, the EU鈥檚 framework to overhaul its energy and climate policy to ensure a secure, ...
05 Jun 2020, 13:06 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv [CORRECTION: Greenpeace corrected its press release clarifying that currently available plug-in hybrids in Germany have the average ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:49 Government help for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 green start-ups is vital to overcome the economic crisis while also fighting climate change, a new survey of the lively sector showed. Current policies do not do enough to honour the "double dividend ...
08 Jun 2018, 00:00 The German environment ministry has called for much more ambitious EU targets to lower car emissions than those proposed by the European Commission. In a position paper seen by the 91tv, the ministry says car emissions must ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:15 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Industry The use of new low-emission technology across all ...
The German Football Association (DFB) has published a sustainability concept for its bid to host the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship (UEFA Euro 2024), which includes a 100 percent renewable electricity goal, as well as the plan to develop ...
02 Jun 2020, 13:26 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Industry Handelsblatt The German industry federation for metal-processing companies, WVMetalle, is calling for an ...
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28 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv E.ON E.ON to move headquarters, founds "Uniper" 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 top utility E.ON announced details of its planned split into two companies, one focused on renewables, power grids and energy ...
09 Jul 2020, 13:25 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Transport Freight 91tv In Germany, 238 railway connections with a total length of 4,016 kilometres could be reactivated, the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) and the Pro ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government is creating a 鈥�climate chaos,鈥� the tabloid newspaper Bild writes in a page two article. Despite the high costs of renewable power, the targets of the energy transition are far from being reached, the article says. Another point of ...
25 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany is hosting this year鈥檚 international climate summit (COP23) in Bonn. The conference will be about establishing the trust in mutually agreed rules on climate protection, says Carsten Rolle, head of the energy and climate policy ...
The vast scale at which 鈥榥egative emissions technologies鈥� that suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere would need to be implemented raises ethical concerns, writes a group of researchers from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate ...
31 Oct 2017, 00:00 Ahead of the climate summit in Bonn, Professor Mojib Latif, a leading climate scientist from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, tells the 91tv about his distrust in emission data, the unfortunate ...
Germany is constantly worried that it might lose its image of climate protection pioneer, which appears to be a legitimate fear due to its stalling performance in CO 2 emissions reduction and sluggish renewable energy expansion, Axel Bojanowski writes in ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:01 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency 91tv / Welt Online / Handelsblatt German housing companies have invested over 340 billion euros in energy modernisation since 2010 but household energy consumption is stagnating regardless, the ...
Germany will have to actively lobby to make climate change and its security policy implications a key feature of its two-year term as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, Susanne Dr枚ge writes in a commentary for the German Institute for ...
Eleven days of climate negotiations in the city of Bonn have failed to deliver a draft text for the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement implementation guidelines. While the different text proposals had become more concrete and short, and the process of creating ...
Contrary to the German government鈥檚 promise to close the gap towards reaching the country鈥檚 2020 climate target as much as possible and take steps towards reaching the 2030 target, it 鈥� is doing nothing," Malte Kreutzfeldt writes in an opinion piece ...
Households in Germany spent almost seven percent less on heating in 2017 due to lower energy prices, but there was no progress in climate protection because energy consumption remained unchanged, according to a study conducted by the German Institute for ...
20 Feb 2020, 13:35 Rachel Waldholz Electricity Coal 91tv Eighty-five percent of Germans believe the country鈥檚 coal exit will lead to significantly higher electricity prices, according to a survey of 500 households conducted by the Bonn-based ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:39 Charlotte Nijhuis Transport 91tv The sales of bicycles and e-bikes in Germany increased by 16.9 percent in 2020 compared to the year before, amounting to 6.44 billion euros, the German bicycle industry association (ZIV) ...
14 May 2021, 14:16 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities Reuters German energy company Uniper has agreed to consider an earlier than planned shutdown of its controversial coal-fired power plant Datteln 4, Reuters reports. "Should future ...
In an interview with Silke Kersting and Klaus Stratmann of financial daily Handelsblatt, German environment minister Svenja Schulze warns that the country is facing an uphill battle to achieve its climate protection goals. 鈥淲e have already lost too much ...
03 May 2019, 13:23 S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv Climate activists called for a swift end to coal-fired power generation at power plant operator RWE鈥檚 annual general meeting. Members of the Fridays for Future student protest movement ...
Buildings cause a third of German emissions, but the government continues to 鈥渟hamefully neglect鈥� this problem, writes Bernhard P枚tter in a commentary for tageszeitung. 鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 really bother anyone that all climate targets are missed in this sector, ...
24 Mar 2022, 14:07 Vladimir Putin鈥檚 announcement to only accept payment in roubles for gas deliveries to Europe has rattled 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy industry and sent natural gas prices soaring. Economy minister Robert Habeck called Russia鈥檚 move a 鈥渂reach of ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 politicians and companies are squandering the country鈥檚 leading role in climate protection even though the energy transition can benefit the economy, according to a ten-page special report in business daily Handelsblatt by Silke Kersting and ...
15 Jun 2021, 12:50 Edgar Meza Digitalisation 91tv The digitalisation of the energy transition process again made noticeable progress last year, but long-awaited regulations are still pending, according to the latest study commissioned by the ...
06 Nov 2017, 00:00 German-Turkish relations might be at a low-point in many respects but when it comes to climate politics, Germany will try to keep the country on side during the COP23 summit in Bonn. Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, ...
18 Aug 2021, 13:35 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Business & Jobs 91tv / Handelsblatt A large majority of German car industry suppliers have initiated the ...
Global warming is shifting climate zones throughout Europe, Ernst Rauch, climate expert at Munich Reinsurance Company, said in an interview with Tagesspiegel. Germany will have vegetation similar to that found in Northern Italy by the end of the century ...
15 Jun 2021, 12:33 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest onshore wind tender has resulted in 240 new planned wind turbines with a combined capacity of 1,110 megawatt (MW), just under the total offered volume of 1,243 MW, the Federal Network ...
03 Nov 2020, 13:44 Edgar Meza Storage Cars 91tv The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has warned against what it sees as the narrow focus of the German government and parts of the country鈥檚 industry聽 on electric vehicles as a major ...
Environmental NGO Greenpeace is calling on anti-coal protesters to gather in 54 German cities on 17 November to demand a resolute phase-out of coal-fired power production in the country. 鈥淓nd the dirty age of coal,鈥� will be the protests鈥� central message, ...
18 Sep 2018, 18:50 The country鈥檚 coal exit commission said there were no predetermined decisions regarding a date for the end to coal-fired power generation. Following irritation about reports of a supposed compromise on a 2038 end date, economy minister ...
26 Jun 2018, 17:32 Germany has provided inspiring visionary leadership on energy and climate change for many years, but is now at risk of being left behind, former US Vice President Al Gore said on the first working day of the country鈥檚 coal exit ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Gas 91tv / Bizz Energy A group of environmental NGOs in Germany has intensified its resistance to the construction of the country鈥檚 first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, ...
15 Jul 2021, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt The rapid increase in e-car purchases in Germany and other countries could thwart existing calculations for the industry supply of lithium, a key raw material for the ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:26 Kerstine Appunn Wind Hydrogen Germany's energy ministry (BMWi) has proposed a set of rules to determine which concepts are eligible for areas for the construction of new renewable energy projects in the offshore sector in the North ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:27 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Utilities S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German coal plant and lignite mine operator RWE has seen its share price increase by almost 40 percent since ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv The German environment ministry (BMU) says it will open a research centre focused on reducing emmissions in energy-intensive industries in the eastern German ...
14 Dec 2018, 13:35 Germany abstained from a call by nine other European countries for a stronger and extended role of carbon pricing at the COP climate conference in Katowice. The German environment ministry said it did not want to pre-empt the country鈥檚 ...
11 Apr 2019, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Finance International ICIJ / Urgewald The World Bank is touting investments in solar parks and other climate-friendly projects 聽but has continued to finance oil and gas exploration, pipelines and refineries that ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:13 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Renewables Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's "green fairy tale is in danger" as wind power expansion in the country has almost come to a "complete standstill,"聽 writes Michael ...
07 Sep 2021, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv / Die Welt The operator of the controversial gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 has announced that the project is almost complete. The last pipe segments connecting Germany and Russia through the ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:52 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Hydrogen Die Welt German car industry heavyweights Volkswagen and Bosch are at odds over the use of hydrogen in mobility, with the world's largest carmaker clinging to a ...
04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:06 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
The plenary debate in the German Parliament about 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2019 budget for environmental policy on 12 September centred on the country鈥檚 coal exit. Referring to the current situation in the embattled Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut ...
A broad combination of policies ranging from straightforward CO鈧� pricing to regulation of water and forest protection, as well as lifestyle changes such as eating less meat, may be the best way to meet climate-stabilisation targets alongside most of the ...
12 Aug 2019, 12:27 S枚ren Amelang Coal 91tv Germany's coal phase-out and the continued rollout of renewables will only have "very little" impact on electricity prices, according to a study by energy think tank Agora Energiewende ...
09 Apr 2019, 13:29 The speed of energy transition innovations led by start-ups around the world continues to exceed expectations and is our biggest hope in the fight against climate change, according to Christoph Frei, secretary general and CEO of the ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:54 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Cars Politics Spiegel Online The rise in emissions from passenger cars in Germany shows that 鈥渢he diesel strategy has been pointless for the climate,鈥� Spiegel Online reports. ...
The stagnation in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 CO 2 emissions in 2017 suggested by AGEB data implies that Germany has lost another year in the fight against climate change, according to Greenpeace. 鈥淭丑别 disastrous record underlines what has been evident for so long: Without ...
19 Feb 2021, 13:55 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Transport Following the pandemic, one third of business trips in Germany could be replaced by video conferences, a survey 聽conducted by the Borderstep Institute on behalf of the Ecological ...
07 May 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The heads of government of eastern German lignite states Brandenburg, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt have called for EU support to cope with the transition away from coal, news agency dpa reports in an article ...
21 Apr 2021, 13:17 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Technology Clean Energy ...
Producing gas using renewable power is crucial for the success of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition if the country decides to pursue ambitious climate targets, according to a meta-analysis by energy management consultancy enervis commissioned by Leipzig natural ...
The German Green Party should not overlook the concerns of workers in the steel or car industry when it debates the decarbonisation of the country鈥檚 economy, metalworker union IG Metall head J枚rg Hofmann said as a guest speaker at the Greens鈥� annual party ...
According to environment ministry calculations, Germany would have to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 62 percent by 2030, compared to 1990 levels, to meet the requirements laid out by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
02 Jul 2020, 12:57 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
This summer鈥檚 record-breaking temperatures and forest fires have demonstrated to the public the enormous threat climate change poses to humanity, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and co-author ...
14 Apr 2020, 14:24 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Freja Eriksen Cars dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German carmaker BMW has proposed that the German government introduce an " ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars dpa / Focus Online Germany needs 10 million electric cars on the road by 2030 to reach its climate targets, according to transport minister Andreas Scheuer. He聽 told newswire dpa in an article ...
Extreme weather events like the heat wave currently gripping Germany are expected to become more frequent in the future, necessitating both meaningful climate protection and adaptation to the inevitable consequences of global warming, federal environment ...
20 May 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society Rheinische Post A church in the town of Kerpen-Manheim, in the western German Rhenish coal mining region, has been prepared for demolition to expand a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. About ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:55 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Gas Hydrogen Frankfurter ...
The German Social Democrats (SPD) have made climate policy one of the key topics during a special conference ("debate camp") following defeats in two state elections in which the federal government coalition party suffered major voter losses, ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Renewables 91tv For the first time since December 2020, an onshore wind power auction was oversubscribed in Germany. Developers submitted 210 bids totalling 1,824megawatt (MW) for the tender volume of 1,492 ...
12 Apr 2021, 14:11 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Storage Cars The German government has assured US automaker Tesla that it will make financial support available for battery production at its new factory near Berlin, Dietmar Neuerer聽 reports 聽in ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:43 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Fossil fuels International 91tv A majority of ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:37 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Kerstine Appunn Renewables Society 91tv Many Germans are starting the new year with 鈥�climate resolutions鈥� 鈥� around 24 percent of them want to ...
Better insulation for existing buildings to make them more energy efficient is the cheapest and most promising way to reach 2030 climate targets in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 building sector, according to a study by energy think tank Agora Energiewende* and the European ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:08 Rachel Waldholz Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 increased subsidy for electric vehicles goes into effect today (Wednesday, Feb. 19), FAZ.net reports. The increase in the e-car buyer鈥檚 premium was first announced in ...
Germany needs to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2030 to meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement and help limit global warming to 1.5掳 Celsius, according to a report by Berlin-based non-profit climate science and policy institute Climate ...
The coalition treaty agreed by Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) is filled with promises and vaguely worded provisions on climate, energy and transport and it remains to be seen if 2030 climate targets will ...
The German Green Party wants to write climate protection into the country鈥檚 constitution, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. At a Green campaign event in the central German federal state of Hesse, where state elections will take place on 28 ...
There鈥檚 a big discrepancy between Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 call for other countries to decarbonise their economies and the grand coalition鈥檚 climate policy at home, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in an opinion piece for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Merkel was able ...
01 Jun 2017, 00:00 According to several US media reports, the Trump administration has decided to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. The US President said on Twitter he would announce his decision on Thursday. The USA would be the first country to ...
07 May 2019, 12:33 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Transport Freight Clean ...
Germany has lost its role as a pioneer in the global fight against climate change, environment minister Svenja Schulze said in an interview with Deutsche Welle. The intra-parliamentary fight over immigration has also distracted attention from other issues ...
Germany is able to live up to its obligations in international climate protection and should not give up the pioneer role it has played in areas such as renewable energies and environmental technologies, said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at ...
16 Jun 2020, 15:03 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Transport 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Cars Hundreds of radio masts in several German states will be equipped with fuel cell technology to serve as a聽 backup system for emergency services 聽in case of a power blackout, the industry association Clean ...
16 Jul 2019, 13:08 Siemens is planning a hydrogen research laboratory and innovation campus in the east German city of G枚rlitz, where the company鈥檚 turbine plant was previously due to be shut down. Chancellor Angela Merkel called the plans a 鈥渕ilestone鈥� ...
28 Oct 2021, 13:37 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas 91tv / EurActiv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor-in-waiting Olaf Scholz (SPD) has re-iterated that the country must build new gas-fired power plants to complement renewables and guarantee ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 reputation as a climate protection leader is slipping following reports that a coalition government between the CDU/CSU and SPD would postpone the country鈥檚 2020 emissions target, Megan Darby writes in Climate Home News. 鈥淓xperts described a ...
Germany and China reiterated their calls on the US administration to commit to international climate protection efforts and stay in the Paris Agreement at a climate conference in Berlin. Germany is currently trying 鈥渙n all levels鈥� to persuade the US ...
06 May 2020, 13:36 S枚ren Amelang Cars Hydrogen Green stimulus Handelsblatt A stimulus package for the German car industry looks highly likely following a conference call between Chancellor Angela Merkel and industry executives, but details will remain ...
23 Mar 2020, 14:06 Expert ifeu- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Freja Eriksen Cars Freight 91tv A 3,200-kilometre network of overhead power lines (catenary) for hybrid trucks would cut ...
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Patricia Espinosa sees a more active role for China and the EU in climate diplomacy and technological development in the renewables sector after US President Donald ...
10 Feb 2020, 14:42 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv German chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 anointed successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has announced she will step down as conservative party (CDU) head at the end of 2020 and not run ...
New Zealand鈥檚 Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called on European political decisionmakers to support her country in fighting climate change in a guest commentary in Tagesspiegel. Climate change is not just theory, but a reality that manifests itself, for ...
Energy transition pioneer Germany is about to launch a highly anticipated task force on phasing out coal power, the most prominent blemish on the country鈥檚 climate record. The government will likely nominate the coal exit commission next Tuesday. There ...
23 May 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised to try and convince 鈥渄oubters鈥� of the urgent need to mitigate climate change. But environmental organisations said her credibility as 鈥�Climate Chancellor鈥� was severely damaged because Germany had ...
20 Aug 2020, 13:28 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Mobility German commuters are slowly returning to public transport following the coronavirus lockdown. The Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) said the positive trend is evident in the ...
09 Jun 2020, 12:48 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
03 Dec 2018, 14:39 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 COP24 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The international community is failing badly to cooperate as needed to counter the rise in global temperature, writes Andreas Mihm in an ...
12 Jul 2021, 13:23 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Wind 91tv Researchers in Germany are ...
18 Mar 2020, 13:45 Freja Eriksen Utilities 91tv / taz Eight European financial institutions have criticised the Finnish state-owned utility Fortum for聽endorsing the opening of the German coal-fired Datteln 4 power plant, set to be the last ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel want to intensify bilateral cooperation on climate and environmental protection, the German government said in a press release. The Indo-German alliance for climate protection and ...
At the next UN climate conference in Poland, the German government can credibly call on the international community to put more effort into climate protection only if it successfully manages its own coal exit, write Ottmar Edenhofer and Hans Joachim ...
04 May 2021, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Security Handelsblatt / 91tv German politicians have said that Ukraine could have 鈥渁 key role鈥� in Europe鈥檚 future supply with hydrogen,聽 reports business daily Handelsblatt. Germany and Europe had ...
11 Aug 2020, 12:22 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Elections & Politics 91tv The German Social Democrats (SPD) will make the ...
Rapid greenhouse-gas emissions reductions are needed to keep in check both the costs of the transition towards climate stabilisation and the amount of CO2 that will have to be removed from the atmosphere, write researchers from the Potsdam Institute for ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Gas Freight 91tv A maritime energy transition in line with the Paris Climate Agreement is only possible with the help of liquefied natural gas (LNG), says the Maritime LNG Platform in a press release. LNG ...
Germany, which is 鈥渄eservedly famous鈥� for its Energiewende, has so far failed in honouring its commitment to the EU鈥檚 short-term climate targets, but this does not mean that the country has strayed from the EU鈥檚, or its own, climate agenda, writes ...
Hurricanes such as Irma and Harvey are a 鈥渨ake-up call for resolute climate 辫辞濒颈肠测鈥� and it is alarming that climate is playing no role in the current German federal election campaign, writes environmental and development NGO Germanwatch in a press release ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:43 Rachel Waldholz Transport Freight Hydrogen 91tv Germany must support 鈥減ower-to-x鈥� technologies as a key part of the energy transition, says German engineering association VDMA in a press release (in English). The federation ...
Ahead of COP23 in Bonn in November, klimafakten.de has published a detailed infographic (see above) that explains processes, content and actors at a UN climate conference, and presents a timeline of past COPs. The graph is a translation from the Clean ...
15 May 2019, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv There is so far little evidence that German companies whose CO鈧� emissions are limited by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) are responding by setting up ...
Climate change adaptation has played a big role at the G7 environment ministers鈥� meeting, said German environment minister Svenja Schulze in a telephone press briefing after the first day of the meeting in Halifax, Canada. 鈥淚t is important to discuss this ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chief climate diplomat Karsten Sach has stressed the need for China and Germany to show joint 鈥減ragmatic鈥� leadership in climate protection in light of new disorder in international climate diplomacy following the decision of US President Donald ...
27 Nov 2019, 13:30 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Former energy industry lobbyist Hildegard M眉ller will become the next head of the influential lobby group German ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv Germany can remain a leading market and innovator in mobility and car production also after the shift to electric vehicles 鈥� but this will be a 鈥渉erculean task鈥� and corresponding policies ...
24 Jan 2019, 12:07 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Following the leak of a working paper from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 sustainable mobility commission, the debate about speed limits on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Autobahn system continues unabated ...
25 Jan 2019, 11:58 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission has begun what could be its decisive meeting on Friday. In crucial last-minute talks, the commission must agree on a timetable to phase out the climate-damaging fossil fuel for electricity production ...
31 May 2021, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Handelsblatt Industry representatives have criticised that little has happened since the German government decided its hydrogen strategy one year ago, reports Marcus ...
26 Apr 2021, 13:29 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity market Hydrogen Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The German Green Party wants to restructure the electricity market to ...
03 Nov 2020, 13:40 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen 91tv ...
German industry fears the next government coalition could make 鈥渞otten compromises鈥� on energy and climate policy, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. While the Greens are adamant on climate protection and shutting down coal plants, its potential ...
The speedy start of the coal exit is more important than finding a final end date, writes the Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU), an expert advisory panel to the government focussing on environmental protection, in a statement. 鈥淔or the climate, ...
15 Jan 2019, 11:57 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Technology Handelsblatt Germany must take responsibility for fighting climate change by continuing research into nuclear fusion, Julian Olk writes in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. ...
The announcement by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 would-be grand coalition partners CDU/CSU and SPD to water down the country鈥檚 national 2020 climate target 鈥渉as shocked many climate activists in the Philippines鈥�, Philippine Senator Loren Legarda writes in a guest article ...
Germans like to think their country is a climate protection pioneer, but other countries like China and France have more clearly understood what the Paris Agreement means for the economy, and have taken the bull by the horns, writes Carola von Schmettow, ...
01 Jul 2019, 13:51 Sven Egenter Grid Digitalisation Tagesspiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid operators are working on their defenses against hacker attacks on their critical infrastructure, Christian Schaudwet writes for energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:44 Expert B眉rgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Edgar Meza Nuclear phase-out Finance 91tv / Reuters An overwhelming majority of Germans see no place for nuclear power in sustainable investments, according to ...
13 Dec 2018, 17:40 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
30 Mar 2022, 14:45 Germany must decide which companies are considered crucial enough to receive gas in case of a shortage caused by Russian supply cuts, Kerstin Andreae, head of energy industry association BDEW told 91tv. Andreae welcomed ...
07 Dec 2018, 13:29 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics Elections & Politics 91tv German chancellor Angela ...
This summer鈥檚 heatwave should finally make people feel the meaning of global warming and understand that we urgently need to fight it, writes Maike Br眉lls in a commentary in taz newspaper. 鈥淟et鈥檚 see the summer 2018 as an opportunity. Let鈥檚 keep cool ...
Large-scale installations used for storing renewable power as gas (power-to-gas) would be an interesting prospect for the east German lignite mining region of Lusatia, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. Speaking at an event organised by the ...
15 Apr 2019, 12:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Grid Agora Energiewende With the new offshore grid fee ...
25 Jun 2021, 13:45 Edgar Meza Technology Business Insider Five green sector startups have joined forces to lobby for an 鈥渆nergy transition premium鈥� of 500 euros per household for smart home devices, Business Insider鈥檚 startup news site Gr眉nderszene ...
The new delay of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 official coal exit commission launch shows that large parts of the new government do not care about climate protection, writes Malte Kreutzfeld in a commentary for Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淭丑别 fresh delay does not bear witness to ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:13 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv The beginning of serial production of Volkswagen's e-car flagship model ID.3 in a factory in Zwickau marks a "system change" for Germany's ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:33 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Technology Handelsblatt German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp plans to phase out CO鈧�-intensive coke-based steel production and replace it with a hydrogen-based process by 2050, ...
21 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
A price on CO鈧� in Germany would bring a push in innovation from which German companies could profit in international competition, Ottmar Edenhofer, designated director of The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), told Spiegel in an ...
The COP23 climate conference in Bonn could be more important than ever for the 鈥� self-proclaimed climate champion 鈥� Germany, writes Petra Pinzler in a commentary for Die Zeit. Because the November summit will likely coincide with negotiations to form a ...
Climate protection is the main economic pillar of the environmental industry in Germany, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) says in a press release. Companies producing climate-friendly materials and products, as well as offering climate protection ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang Transport Cars 91tv Germany needs a profound shift to a renewable transport system to improve local air quality instead of ineffective diesel driving bans, according to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 National Academy of Sciences ...
The EU should quickly introduce a minimum price to the Emissions Trading System (ETS), because the current prices do not create the necessary incentives for low-carbon assets, according to a policy paper published jointly by the Mercator Research ...
28 Oct 2014, 00:00 The rise in renewable energy production and a mild winter have probably led to a decline in carbon emissions in Germany this year, energy research group AG Energiebilanzen said. Overall, German energy use dropped to the lowest level ...
Exiting coal-fired power production will be the litmus test of German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 climate policy record, write Bloomberg鈥檚 Brian Parkin and William Wilkes. 鈥淢erkel will want a credible end date for coal to burnish her reputation as a ...
17 Aug 2021, 13:29 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv The German transport ministry (BMVI ...
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10 Aug 2015, 00:00 Germany's second-largest utility announces it is consolidating its operations under one roof and shaking up its management structure. Spinning off the conventional power business was kept as an option but not planned, CEO Peter ...
National climate policy, in addition to international emissions trading schemes, only produces costs and does not lead to fewer emissions overall, writes economist Joachim Weimann in a guest commentary in German weekly Die Zeit. This is because excess ...
Representatives of hundreds of cities from around the world meet in Bonn in the framework of the UN Climate Change Conference in the former German capital to discuss mitigation measures against global warming and other policies necessary to reduce ...
Germany must immediately cut its lignite power capacity if it wants to achieve its 2020 climate target of reducing emissions by 40 percent compared to 1990 levels, climate scientist Mojib Latif says in an article on Spiegel Online. 鈥淏ut what is lacking ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:27 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 ...
At an event held by the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) on 27 June, parliamentarians from the Free Democratic Party (FDP), the Greens, and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) called the government鈥檚 climate and energy policy measures misguided. ...
The term 鈥渏ust transition鈥� was used at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue to mean limiting the economic consequences of decarbonisation in regions of industrial countries 鈥� a reasonable demand, Bernhard P枚tter writes in an opinion piece for tageszeitung (taz ...
The Green Party and environmental NGOs have strongly criticised the government鈥檚 choice of leadership for the coal exit commission, Thorsten Knuf reports for Frankfurter Rundschau. The nomination of the former mining state premiers Matthias Platzeck, a ...
The avalanche of press reports on the 2015 Paris Climate Summit reached the majority of the German public, but didn鈥檛 trigger any changes in their attitude towards climate change, a study by Michael Br眉ggemann et al from the University of Hamburg has ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars ARD The outcry from German carmakers over new EU fleet emission targets are a bitter disappointment, argues Karin Dohr in a commentary for public broadcaster ARD. 鈥淐ar bosses seem to ignore the ...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a global organisation of 35 developed and emerging countries, has urged Germany to adopt further measures to reach its climate targets.聽鈥淎dditional policies are needed to meet even the ...
19 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:34 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Politics Focus Online The commission tasked with planning the end of coal-fired power production in Germany may be imperilled by internal differences that hinder compromise, climate ...
30 Jul 2019, 13:43 Primary energy use in Germany decreased almost two percent in the first half of 2019 due to a large drop in coal consumption, according to first estimates. This is likely to result in a further substantial fall in the country鈥檚 CO2 ...
The G20 summits will continue to play an important role for climate protection, because 鈥渨ithout the pressure on the political level, implementing and monitoring climate targets would hardly be possible in some countries鈥�, write Susanne Dr枚ge and Felix ...
06 Apr 2021, 12:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Wind 91tv State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn and utility RWE extend their renewable energy contract with an additional 190 gigawatt hours (GWh) of offshore wind power annually, the railway ...
German industry has sharply criticised that support for thermal building insulation is not included in the environment ministry鈥檚 current budget. 鈥淏y omitting this instrument, the government is negligent. If building renovations are not sped up, the 2030 ...
11 May 2021, 13:30 Edgar Meza Industry 91tv The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has opened a new research facility in the eastern state of Brandenburg that will focus on alternatives to fossil fuels as part of its efforts to decarbonise ...
The extreme summer of 2018 in Germany and most of Europe has prompted climate change deniers to hastily announce that the exceptional heat and drought are merely normal weather phenomena and do not testify to the human effect on the global climate, ...
09 Jul 2021, 12:25 Expert Leuphana University of L眉neburg Energiewende Business & Jobs Society Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Citizens' energy Renewables pv magazine, ...
The proposal by the European Parliament鈥檚 Committee on the Environment to tighten emissions limits for new vehicles begs for a clarification by the German government 鈥渨hether it wants to protect the climate or the car industry,鈥� environmental NGO VCD says ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:50 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's gas industry plans to establish a pipeline network measuring 5,900 kilometres to enable the large-scale use of hydrogen in the country. According to a plan seen by business daily ...
01 Apr 2021, 13:52 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility 91tv The German government must take into account the heterogeneity of requirements in electric commercial transport when developing charging infrastructure, the Fraunhofer Institute for ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:14 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚聽Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union聽(NABU) has blasted聽 German government plans 聽to expand areas of the Baltic and North Seas for聽 offshore wind power ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv The number of flights taken in Germany to domestic as well as international destinations continues to rise, the Destatis national statistical office has found. In the first half of 2019, the ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Germany shutting down the last of its nuclear power plants by 2022 could force the country to use more coal power- temporarily pushing up emissions- even ...
19 Feb 2021, 14:08 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv ...
Diesel technology can in theory help protect the climate, but the average diesel car in Germany hardly emits less CO鈧� than the average petrol car, Federal Environment Agency (UBA) president Maria Krautzberger told S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Efficiency gains ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:42 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:48 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Handelsblatt Carmaker VW is planning the climate-neutral production of its upcoming electric model ID Neo, which is the successor to the company鈥檚 best ...
28 May 2021, 13:29 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 push to replace conventional power with renewables like wind and solar PV has not only altered its energy system and shaken up established energy utility giants, it has also turned millions of Germans into electricity ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:30 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 ...
As expected, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 future energy and climate policy has emerged as the main stumbling block in Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 effort to form a government coalition of her conservatives, the Free Democrats, and the Green Party. According to media reports, ...
03 May 2021, 12:55 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest onshore ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 role as a host of this year鈥檚 UN climate conference 鈥渓eft a question mark for many diplomats鈥� at the COP23 in Bonn, J眉rgen Polzin writes in an op-ed for the Hamburger Abendblatt. That Germany is still ruled by a provisional government and ...
Due to climate change, droughts in Europe will last longer, affect greater areas, and have an impact on more people, according to an article published in Nature Climate Change by an international team of scientists coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for ...
鈥淥nce upon a time鈥�, Germany used to be a 鈥渨orld champion in climate 辫谤辞迟别肠迟颈辞苍鈥� but it risks losing this title as the country鈥檚 negotiating government coalition parties mull dropping the 2020 climate target, Joachim Wille writes in a commentary for ...
Five major companies from Germany are among the world鈥檚 35 most active anti-climate policy lobbying enterprises, British think tank InfluenceMap says. In a study that examines the companies most influential in shaping climate and energy policy around the ...
German and European truck makers like to forget their climate problem while celebrating strong industry growth at the commercial vehicle show in Hanover (IAA), according to environmental NGO Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (Nabu). 鈥淏ehind ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Augsburger Allgemeine The end of nuclear power production in Germany in 2022 will not compromise the electricity supply of southern economic powerhouse state Bavaria, the state's ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:53 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut f眉r Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy S枚ren ...
The German Federal Ministry of Environment suggests a new 鈥渟ocial contract鈥� to align the agricultural sector with the country鈥檚 environment and climate protection targets. This would include linking subsidies to farmers鈥� contributions to climate change ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:26 Coal Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Bloomberg 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Rhine River could be impassable to ships again this summer if Europe has another drought,聽 reports William Wilkes for Bloomberg. German and Swiss scientists say that heavy ...
Diesel engines no longer qualify as being more climate-friendly and are more expensive than other engine technologies like hybrid or petrol, meaning that their falling market share is no bad news for the climate, the International Council on Clean ...
30 Mar 2022, 13:49 Germany has triggered the first stage of its national gas supply emergency plan over fears that Russia might soon cut supplies if it doesn't receive payments from foreign buyers in roubles. The government called on all consumers to ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security The contenders from Germany's governing parties to become Germany's next chancellor have both signalled their readiness to shutter the contentious Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if the Russian ...
Implementing the Paris Climate Agreement must be a priority in the upcoming coalition talks, according to German economic cooperation and development minister Gerd M眉ller (CSU). M眉ller set out a 5-point plan for climate protection in Bild am Sonntag. He ...
13 May 2020, 13:21 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices International 91tv Germany's ranking in the World Economic Forum's聽 Energy Transition Index 聽has slid to 20th聽this year from 17th聽last year. "It ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government sits on a big budget surplus, money it should spend on the energy transition and climate protection but it does not, writes Petra Pinzler in a commentary on Zeit Online. The government could use the money to push climate-friendly ...
11 May 2020, 13:44 Edgar Meza Gas Hydrogen Technology Handelsblatt/Energate Messenger German research minister Anja Karliczek, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU party, is pushing for a prompt government decision on a national ...
The climate change campaign group聽 350.org 聽has launched an international petition demanding an immediate stop to coal expansion and a rapid coal phase-out in Germany. 鈥淭his petition is being launched ahead of a highly anticipated coal phase-out proposal ...
The focus on climate protection by activists and politicians could overshadow necessary efforts in environmental protection, Ferdinan Knau脽 writes in the business weekly WirtschaftsWoche. 鈥淭丑别 preservation of biological diversity, of natural habitats and ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 forests could take in three times the amount of CO鈧� from the atmosphere by the end of the century if they are better protected and used more ecologically than is the case today, says Greenpeace Germany, based on a study conducted by the ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:31 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Handelsblatt / Wirtschaftswoche Online German car manufacturer Volkswagen plans to build six battery cell factories in Europe by 2030, the carmaker announced on Monday, ...
25 Sep 2019, 14:02 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Digitalisation 91tv While three quarters of German energy companies expect artificial ...
China is ready to fill the void left in international climate diplomacy left by a parting USA, former World Bank vice president and current board member of the European Climate Foundation* (ECF), Caio Koch-Weser writes in a guest commentary for ...
The parliamentary group of German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU party has welcomed the first session of the commission tasked with planning the country鈥檚 coal exit, but stressed that 鈥渢horoughness must come before speed鈥� in the group鈥檚 ...
As global CO 2 emissions are predicted to reach a historic high in 2018, 鈥渢here is a growing and worrying disconnect between climate targets and what is happening in the real energy markets,鈥� said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency. ...
With their protest slogan 鈥淣o good climate without good work鈥澛犫�� used to demand job protection as Germany plans a coal phase-out聽鈥� coal workers are making a valid point, Joachim Wille writes in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Rundschau. But despite ...
The United Nation鈥檚 warning about a 鈥渨orrying鈥� gap between climate pledges and emissions cuts needed ahead of the climate conference in Bonn could provide the Green Party with tailwind in the ongoing talks to form a new government coalition, writes ...
A climate survey published by the European Investment Bank (EIB) shows a north-south divide in EU citizens鈥� sentiment towards global warming. Southern Europeans are more concerned and see it as a more immediate threat compared to northern Europeans, who ...
Reducing emissions across all sectors in Germany and gearing the energy system towards renewables and greater efficiency will be a 鈥渓ong-distance run that you can hardly practise for鈥�, Anton Berger writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in a ...
Environment minister and Social Democrat (SPD) Svenja Schulze called on her party to become more vocal in environmental and climate protection policy, reports newspaper Merkur. The Social Democrats have "for a long time not been decisive and ...
23 Mar 2020, 13:57 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Expert VZBV- ...
01 Aug 2019, 09:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 fleet of lignite power stations has likely lost more than 600 million euros in the first half of 2019, as profits 鈥渃ollapsed鈥� and fixed costs could not be covered, according to modelling by Sandbag. The climate change think ...
The decisions to be taken by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission 鈥渃ould have ripple effects around the world,鈥� writes Brad Plumer in the New York Times newsletter 鈥�Climate FWD:鈥�. 鈥淚t鈥檚 the biggest climate story no one is talking about,鈥� said Justin Guay, ...
The rapid spread of diesel engines in Europe over the past two decades thanks to subsidies has not lowered CO 2 emissions, according to a study by the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Trier University, and the International Council on ...
07 Sep 2020, 13:58 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cars t-online / Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / dpa / 91tv Labour unions and political parties in ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Cars 91tv The influential lobby group Federation of German Industries (BDI) has said that a 鈥渂lockade mentality鈥� by environmental NGOs has prevented a compromise within Germany ...
German politicians might appear more concerned with halting global climate change than the current US administration, but in reality they have done little in recent years to actually improve their country鈥檚 climate record, Philip Bethge writes in Der ...
The long-time rival of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former parliamentary group leader of the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, Friedrich Merz, 聽provided the first details on his candidacy to become chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in ...
25 Mar 2019, 14:51 After months of negotiations, the commission tasked with proposing measures to cut emissions from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport sector has come together for its final meeting. So far, the task force has made headlines mainly for fierce dispute ...
11 Dec 2020, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Efficiency 91tv Germany is supporting research into making the storage and distribution of a new coronavirus vaccine more climate-friendly. The economy ministry (BMWi) said it would ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:42 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 Renewables Policy Clean ...
German energy think tank Agora Energiewende*, together with the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut), has published a new analysis of the recent reforms to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). After remaining in the single digits for years, the ...
Governments need to raise carbon prices much faster if they are to meet their commitments on cutting emissions and slowing the pace of climate change under the Paris Agreement, according to a OECD report. In a separate press statement, Lukas K枚hler, ...
An alliance of investors, led by the Church of England Pensions Board and the Swedish Pension Fund AP7, has written a joint letter to 55 high-carbon companies in Europe, including German carmaker VW, urging them to better align their lobbying stance with ...
09 Oct 2017, 00:00 Leading Green politicians in Germany are optimistic an agreement to improve the country鈥檚 patchy climate record is possible in likely coalition talks with Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservatives and the free-market FDP. Despite major ideological ...
In an interview with public TV station ZDF, head of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alexander Gauland said he wasn鈥檛 denying climate change but didn鈥檛 think mankind carried much responsibility.聽 He also said he doubted we could prevent ...
The environment ministry wants to promote the restoration of moorlands in Germany, a press release said. Ninety percent of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 moors are drained, making them into a source instead of a sink for CO 2. 鈥淥nly a wet moor is a good moor,鈥� environment ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment ministry has launched the European Climate Initiative (EUKI) to strengthen internal European cooperation on climate protection, the ministry announced in a press release. The initiative will initially supply funding for 22 projects ...
09 Apr 2021, 09:39 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv [CLARIFICATION: Agora Energiewende said Q1 developments in the power market show greenhouse gas emissions could rise in 2021. Drops reference to 2020 target.] 聽 Unfavourable weather ...
Employing power-to-gas technologies (PtG) help to achieve 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2050 climate targets in the most cost-efficient way, writes the German Association of Gas and Water (DVGW) in a press release. The association commissioned a meta-analysis by consultancy ...
Germany should invest more money in climate protection in other parts of the world by, for example, buying rain forests, Christian Lindner, head of the economic liberal Free Democrats, told the news site t-online.de, according to an article in the ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:01 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende S枚ren Amelang Heating Cities 91tv Two thirds of new residential buildings completed in 2018 in Germany are heated with renewable energies. ...
A gradual reduction of coal-fired power production and the parallel expansion of renewable energy sources to 65 percent of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2030 power mix would reduce electricity costs and emissions and allow the country to reach its climate target in the ...
22 May 2020, 14:02 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs Clean ...
17 Apr 2019, 13:27 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv German millennials' attitudes towards cars are less sceptical than generally assumed, according to a survey by business advisory Duff & Phelps. The use of cars is more prevalent among ...
The finance sector 鈥渃ertainly underestimates鈥澛� risks associated with climate change and the transition to a green economy, Andreas Dombret, executive board member of the Deutsche Bundesbank (German central bank) said at an event at the National University ...
The pro-business party FDP stands out at the ongoing Jamaica coalition talks for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next federal government with its 鈥渁stonishing claims on climate and energy鈥�, Malte Kreutzfeldt writes in left-wing newspaper Die Tageszeitung (taz). Remarks by FDP ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Electricity market Climate Home News The end of coal-fired power production in Germany can be achieved much more quickly than proposed by the country鈥檚 coal exit commission if the government ...
Climate change is largely kept out of the election campaign in Germany for allegedly being too abstract and distant, but that is a flawed notion and points at a grave failure of both the media and politics, Maximilian Probst and Daniel Pelletier write in ...
There is mounting evidence that the German government will oppose stricter car fleet emission limits at EU level in exchange for carmakers鈥� consent to cover the hardware retrofitting costs in certain types of diesel vehicles, reports the Frankfurter ...
The German government鈥檚 鈥楥ommission on Growth, Structural Economic Change and Employment鈥� 鈥渕ust not become a coal exit commission, nor an uncritical trailblazer for a national climate protection act,鈥� according to the Federal German Association for Brown ...
15 Apr 2020, 15:13 S枚ren Amelang Cars Green stimulus Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Focus Online Three German states with a strong car industry presence have called for additional support for the sector in order to help it survive the corona crisis. ...
Germany can save nearly 28 billion euros a year if it stops mining and using lignite, a study by Green Budget Germany (F脰S) commissioned by green power provider Greenpeace Energy has found. Apart from the costs of energy generation with lignite, which is ...
Germany faces fines to the tune of two billion euros by 2020 for failing to meet emissions reduction targets in sectors not covered by the European Emissions Trading System (ETS), Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The German ...
The city of Hamburg, host of this week鈥檚 G20 summit, has joined the international network Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, according to a press release. 鈥淐ities and communities are key to reaching international climate targets. Especially after ...
12 Oct 2018
Unless Germany quickly phases out coal-fired power generation, diesel cars will continue to be better for the climate than e-cars, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess told the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung in an interview. For this reason, Germany will need diesel cars ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has published the English version of its position paper Coal-fired power generation and climate protection until 2030, a discussion contribution for achieving climate targets in Germany, first published in ...
Germany can reach its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target with a delay of three years by taking 9 gigawatts (GW) of lignite-fired power plant capacity offline by 2023 without endangering power supply security, according to a study by Aurora Energy ...
Courts in Germany and other European Union countries are posing a growing challenge to governments and business interests regarding climate change in recent months, reports Rick Noack in The Washington Post. Examples include an appeals court in the ...
17 Oct 2019, 13:38 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Deutsche Post Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Storage Transport Freight 91tv Renewable ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:40 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv The German parliament has let a deadline for implementing higher renewable energy capacity targets pass, causing both energy industry stakeholders and climate ...
The Left Party in the state of Brandenburg has joined its government coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), in abandoning the ambitious climate targets which they had agreed on in 2014, dealing a new blow to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate policy, report ...
01 Dec 2016, 00:00 Calls for Germany to take on a leadership role in international climate protection grow louder as the country鈥檚 government is set to take over the G20 presidency from China on 1 December. Commentators and politicians see the ...
The next federal government should put a high priority on introducing a higher price on CO鈧� across all economic sectors and a fundamental reform of energy-related taxes and levies in Germany, if climate targets are to be taken seriously, according to a ...
15 Oct 2019, 12:24 Expert F脰S- Green Budget Germany Forum 脰kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables ...
The price for emitting one tonne of CO 2 聽under the EU鈥檚 Emissions Trading System (ETS) has been frozen at five euros for years because 鈥渢he EU reaches its climate targets either way鈥�, Hendrik Kafsack writes in a commentary for Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:17 S枚ren Amelang Cars International Die Welt At the Las Vegas consumer electronics show CES, technology "made in Germany" only plays聽a supporting role, while real progress happens elsewhere, report Stefan Beutelsbacher and Thomas ...
28 Feb 2019, 10:36 A survey of economics professors that found widespread scepticism about the climate impact of Germany's landmark coal exit deal accidentally revealed that many economists have only a patchy grasp on key details of the plan. More ...
A court in Germany has agreed to hear Peruvian farmer and mountain guide Sa煤l Luciano Lliuya鈥檚 case against RWE, over the German utility鈥檚 contribution to climate change, NGO Germanwatch said in a press release. 鈥淚t is the first time a court has ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:30 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Private households in Germany could save 9 billion euros and 18 million tonnes of CO 2 each year by following electricity saving advice, according to a survey ...
A quick end of coal-fired power production in Germany and a parallel expansion of wind and solar power capacities would reduce carbon emissions sufficiently to meet the 2020 and 2030 climate target in line with the Paris Agreement, a study by research ...
28 Jun 2018, 16:17 The German government鈥檚 Energiewende advisors say the country must put much greater emphasis on the project鈥檚 European dimension to achieve the shift to renewables and the necessary emissions reduction during the next decade. The group ...
02 Aug 2017, 00:00 German carmakers VW, Daimler and BMW 鈥� under pressure to act after the diesel emissions scandal 鈥� pledged to install emissions control software updates in about 5 million diesel passenger cars, offer buyer鈥檚 premiums for customers ...
Hurricane Irma's devastation in the Caribbean will fuel small island nations' demand for support from the world鈥檚 large greenhouse-gas-emitting countries for damages attributable to climate change at the UN climate conference in Bonn in November ...
27 Nov 2019, 14:08 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Renewable Energies Agency ...
German industry spent 3.3 billion euros on climate protection in 2016, according to the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This expenditure equalled 10.5 percent of the total sum businesses (excluding construction) spent on environmental ...
25 Mar 2021, 13:57 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 91tv Germany should use hydrogen ...
The government should cut power taxes and levies to boost the energy transition and climate protection, argues Stefan Kapferer, head of utility association BDEW, in an op-ed in the business daily Handelsblatt. Kapferer argues that electricity must become ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 acting Finance Minister Peter Altmaier said that green finance should receive support at EU level to stimulate the growth of a business model of the future, the news agency dpa reports in an article carried by eu-info.de. Investments that ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:44 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Storage Hydrogen Efficiency Clean ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Germany's environment minister Svenja Schulze has proposed to speed up the large-scale use of renewable hydrogen with a quota for aeroplane fuels and tenders for production.聽 "For me it is ...
02 Jul 2018, 16:12 鈥� A Reporter鈥檚 Guide to the Energiewende 鈥� offers journalists covering energy and climate policy an overview of key stories, experts/decision-makers and facts on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 landmark effort to mitigate climate change. Click on the link to ...
The European Union will have to prohibit new petrol and diesel cars by 2030 to ensure that the continent meets its emissions reduction obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement, a study commissioned by Greenpeace and conducted by the German Aerospace ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:49 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:44 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Renewables Solar 91tv The expansion of renewable power generation in Germany's urban areas has ...
The energy industry in Germany are the 鈥済ood guys鈥� of the energy transition, as it is probably the only sector on track to do its part to meet the country鈥檚 target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, Johannes Kempmann, president of ...
The German Green Party has strengthened its focus on ecology and economic transformation as core topics for its election campaign. Following the Green鈥檚 convention last weekend, the party published a set of amendments to its draft election campaign ...
Germany is likely to miss its 2020 emissions reduction target by nearly 120 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent- a far greater margin than previously thought, think tank Agora Energiewende* said in a new study. The country should quickly implement an ...
21 Apr 2021, 13:12 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport S枚ren Amelang Transport 91tv Germany's government has adopted a ...
A new study by WWF Germany and Foundation 2掳 examines the effects of a 鈥渂elow two degrees climate path鈥� on economic risks and opportunities for companies in the automobile and chemical industries. Businesses must include climate and energy targets in ...
15 Feb 2019, 13:49 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv ...
The German government praises diesel technology as an important component of climate protection in the transport sector- but this claim is more and more contested by transport and climate researchers, Bernhard P枚tter writes in Tageszeitung (taz). Claiming ...
EU environment ministers want to find a compromise on future car emission limits today, but car giant and Energiewende pioneer Germany creates confusion instead of playing a leading role in the negotiations, write Markus Becker and Gerald Traufetter on ...
The German economy and energy ministry (BMWi) has commissioned a study of the country鈥檚 options for capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions to lower its carbon footprint, Manuel Berkel writes on Spiegel Online. According to the article, energy ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest industry federation, BDI, warns that high power prices could lead to an exodus of companies to cheaper production locations abroad, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Spiegel Online. BDI head Dieter Kempf said Germany had ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:50 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Cost & Prices Tagesschau / 91tv The modern coal plant Moorbug owned by Swedish energy company Vattenfall had turned into a liability ...
04 Feb 2021, 13:29 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv Many Germans remain deeply sceptical about electric cars. Thirty-nine ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the country鈥檚 鈥渃oal commission鈥� tasked with finding a phase-out compromise should be headed by the ministry for economics and energy. After a cabinet meeting, she also said in addition to economy minister Peter ...
Against the backdrop of the COP23 climate conference in Bonn, 91tv invited journalists, journalism and media networks, communication scientists, policymakers and journalism funders to discuss what global energy transition reporting should ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:41 Julian Wettengel Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels International 91tv While it remains unclear whether the coal exit commission will present parts of its plan for the fossil fuel鈥檚 phase-out ahead of the UN climate change ...
The leader of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 junior government coalition partner SPD, Andrea Nahles, has attacked the Green Party, in parliamentary opposition, for pursuing a climate policy 鈥渢hat does not care about people in coal regions,鈥� Veit Medick writes on Spiegel ...
Germany can only reach its 2030 climate targets for the transport sector with ambitious EU car emission limits and a host of additional measures, according to a study by the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) and the International Council on ...
The joint communiqu茅 from July鈥檚 G20 summit in Hamburg was a 鈥渕ajor success鈥� for multilateralism, German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 economic advisor and G20 sherpa Lars-Henrik R枚ller said at an event on the sidelines of the UN climate conference in Bonn. ...
10 Jan 2018
Speaking to Die Welt, Claudia Kemfert, climate policy expert at the German Institute for Economic Research, says the prospective coalition partners鈥� giving up on 鈥渢heir own climate targets鈥� is a 鈥渄eclaration of bankruptcy鈥�. This not only damages ...
The rail company Deutsche Bahn (DB) is affected by the effects of climate change 鈥渓ike no other large company in Germany,鈥� and needs to prepare for more frequent extreme weather events, DB said in a press release, based on a study conducted by the Potsdam ...
Police forces in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have moved into the embattled Hambach Forest that energy company RWE wants to cut down to make room for a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. On Twitter, police said they ...
The German Green Party is at risk of becoming the weakest parliamentary group after this week鈥檚 elections, although extreme weather patterns in the Caribbean and the dieselgate scandal at home have shifted the political focus to the environmentalist party ...
With federal elections coming up in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel 鈥渘eeds some sort of win on climate change at the G20鈥�, Andrew Light, a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute (WRI) told the Washington Post. Things will 鈥済et interesting鈥� at ...
Parliamentarians from the German opposition Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens took aim at the government鈥檚 policies pertaining to energy and the climate, and to the international context of the country鈥檚 energy transition, the Energiewende. At a ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:21 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Transport Cars Frankfurter ...
The chief of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 chancellery, Peter Altmaier, has said that while Germany is intent on meeting its 2020 emissions-reduction goals, it was not clear it would succeed. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 know if we鈥檒l make it,鈥� Altmaier said at the debate ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:50 Freja Eriksen Transport Elections & Politics Rheinische Post Ahead of the climate cabinet鈥檚 next meeting, German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze is calling for 鈥渁 fair CO2 price for air travel鈥�, the Rheinische Post reports. She ...
The states of Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia are pushing for stricter rules on minimum wind turbine distances near settlements and for curbing planning privileges that enable wind parks to be planned and built in less time. The Bundesrat, Germany ...
Former US Vice President and environmentalist Al Gore has called on Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU union and the Social Democrats (SPD) to agree on a coal phase-out by 2030 during their ongoing coalition negotiations. In two messages, Gore said that ...
17 Dec 2020, 13:53 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen ...
A draft of conclusions to the G20 summit in Hamburg contains a compromise on climate protection between the US and other member states, news agency Reuters reports. The document, dated 3 July, acknowledged Washington鈥檚 鈥渋solation in opposing the Paris ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said that current amendment plans for the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) do not yet include 鈥渟pecial auctions鈥� for onshore wind and solar PV, which were agreed in the grand coalition treaty, reports ...
With just one exception, all cruise ships operating in Europe are powered by heavy fuel oil, 鈥渢he dirtiest of all fuels,鈥� according to a new ranking from Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), the organisation writes in a press release. Newly ...
The German government is still a long way from finding a common position on future EU car fleet emission limits, report Till Hoppe and Silke Kersting in the business daily Handelsblatt. German car makers鈥� works councils and the top brass of metalworkers鈥� ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 failure to reach its 2020 climate targets 鈥渋s an ominous signal for other nations struggling to reach their own targets,鈥� write William Wilkes, Heyley Warren and Brian Parkin in an article for Bloomberg. 鈥淥ther nations are looking at how Germany ...
Andreas Pinkwart, Free Democratic (FDP) state energy minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, welcomed several energy and climate provisions of the draft coalition treaty between the conservatives (CDU/CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD). Admitting that the ...
22 Nov 2018, 15:06 The German government wants to postpone the deadline for the conclusion of the country鈥檚 coal exit commission. Sources told the 91tv the commission may have to extend its work on the phase out of the fossil fuel until ...
19 Nov 2017, 00:00 Germany's aspiring coalition partners continued talks past a second deadline on Sunday, 19. November, after having made little headway in key climate and energy issues in exploratory talks that had already gone past the first self ...
The dangers of our planet sliding into a 鈥渉othouse Earth鈥� state are speculative but real, argues Georg Ehring in a commentary carried by the public radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, referencing a scientific paper published by a team of scientists, ...
In response to an inquiry from the Green Party, the governing coalition has expressed its opposition to geoengineering, according to an article in the Tagesspiegel. Geoengineering refers to the controversial intervention in the Earth鈥檚 climate system, ...
This summer's heatwave show that Germany must exit coal quickly, according to Greenpeace. The NGO said 10 of their activists ascended a glacier on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 highest mountain, the Zugspitze, to unfold a banner saying 鈥淪ummer 2018: heat, drought, ...
26 Oct 2020, 13:48 S枚ren Amelang Transport Technology Welt am Sonntag German researchers and companies are about to test the world's first emission-free pusher towboat on the rivers and canals between Hamburg and the capital Berlin, reports Stefan ...
A 2-billion-euro fund should be created to assist German cities in the adaptation to climate change, Annalena Baerbock, chairwoman of the Green Party, says in an interview with the Neue Ruhr Zeitung. This money could be used not only to make agriculture ...
06 May 2021, 13:11 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S枚ren ...
Sixty-eight percent of respondents to a survey for ZDF-Politbarometer believe the hot weather this summer was a result of climate change. The figure is up from 48 percent who replied to the same question in 2015. In 2018, 28 percent believed the hot ...
The German federal parliament, the Bundestag, has elected Chancellor Angela Merkel to a fourth term in office. Merkel, who will head a renewed grand coalition between her conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), was elected ...
21 Jan 2021, 14:25 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Tagesspiegel Background An Eastern German city is attempting to stop an opencast lignite mine in neighbouring Poland, reports newsletter Tagesspiegel Background. The city of Zittau, located聽very ...
It is impossible to predict the climate policy results of the G20 summit in July after the US decision to leave the Paris Agreement, said German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert in an interview with public radio broadcaster NDR 90,3. But it is ...
In the face of one of the hottest and driest summers ever recorded in Germany, the Green Party is calling for an aid fund worth at least two billion euros to provide financial resources for climate change mitigation across the country, the party says in a ...
German environment minister Barbara Hendricks will travel to Washington from May 15-17 to meet her US counterpart, EPA head Scott Pruit, and talk about climate and environmental protection, the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) said in a press ...
A majority of Germans (64 percent) are in favour of closing coal power plants in order to reach 2020 climate targets, even if this move would cost jobs or push up electricity prices, according to a poll by public broadcaster ZDF. In contrast, 31 percent ...
06 Feb 2020, 14:10 Thomas Kemmerich of the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) has been elected state premier by the Thuringia state parliament with support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), in what many politicians see as breaking a taboo. ...
Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will make the world increasingly dependent on technologies that extract CO 2 from the atmosphere, according to new studies published by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change ...
In light of fears that the country will miss its 2020 climate targets by a wider margin than previously anticipated, climate protection has become a key issue in the ongoing coalition talks to form the next German government, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in ...
The EU鈥檚 2050 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal cannot be achieved without liquid fuels, the German Petroleum Industry Association (MWV) says in its annual report. The petrol industry lobby group says petrol companies want to contribute to a more ...
10 Oct 2017, 00:00 One week before the start of exploratory talks on forming a government coalition, aspiring German government alliance partners CDU and the Green Party agree that the country will have to phase out coal-fired power production. Yet, two ...
24 Sep 2015, 00:00 UPDATE 24 Sept | The European grid regulator has recommended that the Austrian-German electricity trading zone should be partially disconnected. Countries including Poland and the Czech Republic have called for the split, to prevent ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Welt Online The boom of SUVs continues unabated in Germany, topping one million newly registered vehicles in a single year for the first time in 2019, Philipp Vetter聽 writes 聽for the Welt Online. The Center for ...
Gas-fired power plants could replace their coal-fired counterparts without endangering the power supply, according to a new study commissioned by RWTH Aachen University on behalf of the German natural gas industry, Die Welt reports. According to the study ...
The European Union agreeing on a more ambitious renewables target than the German government had pushed for shows that the Energiewende country is increasingly struggling when it comes to climate protection, writes Thorsten Knuf in an opinion piece in ...
15 Jan 2021, 12:55 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Charlotte Nijhuis Cars 91tv The transport sector will not automatically become more sustainable through the adoption ...
04 May 2020, 13:51 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) ...
Giving in to eastern German coal states by delaying a coal commission agreement would bury hopes of 聽a reasonable phase-out compromise, writes Bernhard P枚tter in a commentary for the Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淭his is why environmental聽 NGOs, participating ...
23 Jul 2019, 13:53 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 dpa / Handelsblatt Online 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:20 Freja Eriksen Renewables Hydrogen International 91tv The German city of Hamburg and Japanese prefecture of Fukushima want to strengthen their cooperation within the development and use of renewable energies. Hamburg hopes ...
The new federal government has to work out a comprehensive concept to secure the German industry鈥檚 competitiveness, write Christoph Schmidt and Steffen Elstner of the Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen) in a guest commentary ...
The commission tasked with planning the phase-out of coal-fired power production in Germany will get a climate expert as its fourth co-leader, Malte Kreutzfeldt reports in the Tageszeitung (taz). The climate and energy economist Barbara Praetorius is said ...
09 Oct 2019, 10:40 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Gas Utilities Heating 91tv Most ...
Devising a plan for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit through a commission is a tough job with many 聽pitfalls for policymakers, Cecile Boutelet reports for Le Monde. Coal region Lusatia in eastern Germany is one example of a place 鈥渨here the contradictory narratives of ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv A group of five major companies has called on the German government to do more to promote electric vehicles (EVs). In a joint initiative under the umbrella of global business ...
The transition to a climate-friendly transport sector can deliver a net economic benefit for Germany in some scenarios, but only if the country invests heavily in charging and grid infrastructure as well as workforce adjustments, according to a study by ...
The German government expects difficult negotiations in climate and trade policy with US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, reports Henrike Ro脽bach in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淚n terms of trade and climate, the communiqu茅 ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition is expensive and ineffective, writes economist Joachim Weimann of the University of Magdeburg in a guest commentary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Despite high financial support for green energies and high electricity ...
The proposed goal by EU ministers to cut the average CO鈧� emissions of new passenger cars by 35 percent by 2030 is 鈥渘ot mature,鈥� the head of the metal industry union IG Metall J枚rg Hofmann told Alfons Frese in an interview with the Tagesspiegel. 鈥淚 can& ...
Unveiling its Climate Strategy 2.0, the German Farmers鈥� Association (DBV) said climate change posed an enormous challenge for German farmers. 鈥淟ike no other economic sector, agriculture and forestry are directly affected, as extreme weather events in the ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:14 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit盲t zu K枚ln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Freja Eriksen Renewables ...
It is surprising that climate protection is not a big election campaign topic in Germany, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The government will not be able to avoid 鈥渉arsh interventions with expensive ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 manufacturing companies spent 3.3 billion euros on climate protection measures in 2016, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) says in a press release. In total, the sector (excluding construction) generated 31.8 billion euros in current ...
08 May 2015, 00:00 Feed-in tariffs set by government or parliament have supported rapid expansion of renewable power production, along with falling costs. Now the government wants to move to a more market-based approach. With this is mind, the 2014 ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is determined to lead the climate negotiations at the G20 summit in Hamburg 鈥渋n a way that they serve the content and goal of the Paris Agreement鈥�, she said in a government declaration before the federal parliament. After ...
27 Nov 2020, 14:22 Charlotte Nijhuis Cars EU Handelsblatt / WirtschaftsWoche German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against excessively strict exhaust regulations for the European car industry, Handelsblatt writes. Europe shouldn鈥檛 say it won鈥檛 ban the ...
15 Jul 2021, 17:19 Updates with original proposal for reducing equity interest rates for investments in the electricity and gas grids by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der ...
The significant increase of investments into renewables in G20 countries is insufficient to meet the Paris Climate Agreement鈥檚 pledge to keep global warming well below two degrees Celsius, Klaus Stratmann and Silke Kersting write in Handelsblatt Global. ...
Once a leader on climate protection, Germany is now falling behind, former US Vice President Al Gore said in an interview with Politico Europe. Its continued reliance on coal to power its economy endangers not only its international reputation but also ...
The next German government 鈥� possibly a Jamaica coalition of CDU/CSU, FDP and Green Party 鈥� must get 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate policy back on track, writes Holger Dambeck in an opinion piece for Spiegel Online. 鈥淎bove all, the future government parties must dare ...
The city of Berlin has set out concrete steps to achieve its goal of drastically reducing its CO2 emissions by 2050, the city council said in a press release. Its new Energy and Climate Protection Programme 2030 (BEK 2030) contains around 100 efficiency ...
25 Nov 2020, 14:25 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv The use of energy in Germany has become increasingly efficient since the 1990s, but not at the ...
The current dry period in Germany will cause complete crop failures for some farmers, particularly in the north and east of the country, Bernhard Kr眉sken, general secretary of the German Farmers鈥� Association (DBV), told Friederike Meier in an interview ...
Due to its inner unity, reliability and common interests like free trade and climate protection, China has become the most important G20 ally for Germany, besides other EU states, writes Finn Mayer-Kuckuk for Frankfurter Rundschau. Major topics of dispute ...
23 Apr 2020, 13:51 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Hydrogen 91tv State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn plans to test a hydrogen-powered train in an effort to ...
The 鈥渃haotic鈥� internal strife in the German government's conservative camp over immigration means that no progress of any kind can be expected in the country's energy and climate policymaking for some time, writes Tagesspiegel Background in an ...
The industrialised world has created the problem of climate change and now must work to solve it, Johannes Teyssen, CEO of electric utility E.ON, writes in a guest commentary in the Handelsblatt. Mitigating global warming would not only improve the lives ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:40 Rachel Waldholz Elections & Politics New York Times German politics are undergoing a realignment, and the environment will be a key flashpoint in the future, argues Alexander G枚rlach of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in ...
19 May 2021, 13:38 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Heating 91tv / dpa Conservative parliamentarians and members of the Bundesrat have announced their opposition to government plans for tenants and landlords to share the burden of extra ...
In a televised town hall campaign event, Chancellor Angela Merkel promised voters that Germany would find ways to meet its ambitious target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020. One young first-time voter asked about shutting down coal ...
18 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
28 Oct 2020, 14:31 Edgar Meza Coal Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / Frankfurter Rundschau / Deutsche Welle Denouncing wasteful public spending, the German Taxpayers聽Federation has taken issue with what it perceives to be the country鈥檚 overly costly coal ...
Environmental organisations have warned Chancellor Angela Merkel and her negotiating partners at the ongoing Jamaica coalition talks for a new German government of risking a 鈥�climate policy blackout鈥�. Merkel had to make 鈥渁 clear commitment鈥� to the ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv Curbing CO2 through the EU鈥檚 Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has not hurt the profitability of companies or jobs in Europe between 2005 and ...
The European Energy Exchange in Leipzig on Friday auctioned a total of 4.36 million emission allowances for the German government that brought in 64.7 million euros, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The success of the auction marks a new ...
A premature phase-out of the lignite industry doesn鈥檛 make 鈥�climate policy sense,鈥� it is 鈥渉umbug,鈥� writes 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 former economy and employment minister Wolfgang Clement in an opinion piece in the Handelsblatt. He argues that the legal end date for ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel might enjoy global respect as 鈥渓eader of the free world鈥� but her current standing also warranted 鈥渁 more nuanced assessment鈥� of what her country 鈥渉as done and can do鈥�, Michael Br枚ning writes in an opinion piece for Politico ...
06 Nov 2019, 13:32 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Clean ...
German chancellor Angela Merkel has described the climate talks at the G7 meeting in Italy as 鈥渧ery unsatisfying鈥�. The US鈥檚 reluctance to say whether it will remain in or leave the international Paris Agreement on climate protection had created a 鈥渟ix ...
Germany and other EU member states should strengthen聽 cooperation on climate protection, in light of the upcoming US administration's likely reversal of climate legislation, writes Susanne Dr枚ge in an commentary for the German Institute for ...
27 Nov 2018, 14:00 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs The exceptionally dry weather that has gripped Germany over ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 right-wing national conservative party Alternative for Germany (AfD) calls the human effect on global warming into question and wants to scrap efforts to cut carbon emissions, Maria Fiedler writes in Tagesspiegel. 鈥淭丑别re have been cold and warm ...
New German environment minister Svenja Schulze has asked relevant ministers for proposals on how each sector can do its part to reach the country鈥檚 greenhouse gas reduction targets. 鈥淲e鈥檝e agreed on firm climate targets together, so everybody must ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:04 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels International 91tv Despite the extension of the work of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission, the country鈥檚 delegation will not go to Katowice empty-handed, said environment ...
In an interview with German public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, Michael Vassiliadis, head of IG BCE, the German trade union for mining, chemicals and energy industries, says the Green Party鈥檚 insistence on a coal exit in the ongoing coalition talks is ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:52 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase ...
The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is likely to have already met its 2020 emissions reduction target of 25 percent compared to 1990 levels, the state鈥檚 environment agency (LANUV) says in a press release. Almost one third of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
German climate policy often overlooks the important principle of keeping costs at a minimum, economists Hubertus Bardt and Thilo Schaefer write in a guest commentary for the Handelsblatt. 鈥淥f course, there might be good reasons to diverge from this ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:25 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Handelsblatt When presenting the European Commission鈥檚 plans for a carbon-neutral EU in 2050, energy commissioner Miguel Arias Canete鈥檚聽 remark that certain ...
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has warned the global community against the anti-climate course of the United States and urged leaders to stick to the Paris climate agreement in an interview on the environmental magazine movum.info. 鈥淔or the US ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:47 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal International Sydney Morning Herald Australia faces similar challenges to Germany when it comes to phasing out coal and might want to follow 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 example by setting up a commission to work ...
By 28 March Germany had already used up its annual CO鈧� budget for 2018, one week earlier than last year, according to the natural gas industry initiative Zukunft Erdgas. 鈥淭丑别 reason for this is the climate strategy of the government, where the measures ...
Germany will only be able to reach its 2030 climate targets with the help of ambitious EU car emission rules, writes Christian Hochfeld, head of mobility think tank Agora Verkehrswende*, in a guest article for Zeit Online. The current EU Commission ...
Climate policy should be integrated with the G20 finance ministers鈥� agenda in order to stay below the 2 degrees Celsius guardrail set in the Paris Agreement, a team of authors including Ottmar Edenhofer, director of Mercator Research Institute on Global ...
