The Federal Environment Agency¡¯s (UBA) proposal to raise the reduced VAT on animal products has no chance of enforcement due to widespread opposition, but is principally a reasonable means for climate protection, writes Georg Ehring in an opinion piece ...
Ottmar Edenhofer, German economist and Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), accused federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel of bowing to lobby interests in the negotiations about the country¡¯s climate ...
The Energiewende¡¯s economic costs are high but its contribution to reducing climate change is moderate, according to the German Council of Economic Experts¡¯ Annual Report. ¡°Given the global effect of greenhouse gases, a global approach to climate policy ...
The German Green Party¡¯s new-found readiness to compromise on a coal exit and a ban on combustion engines by 2030 might give the impression that the party is caving in to pressure from its negotiating partners in the Jamaica coalition talks but this view ...
Germany¡¯s major parties say that they are committed to the Paris Climate Agreement, but climate protection measures specified in the election programmes of CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP and the Green Party are not enough to reach the goal of limiting global warming ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv Customs investigators in Bavaria have revealed the smuggling of solar modules from China sold at dumping prices in Germany worth at least 33 million euros. The customs office said it ...
Representatives of the G20 dialogue forums business (B20), civil society organisations (C20) and think tanks (T20) have together called on the Group of Twenty member countries to take the lead in implementing the Paris Climate Agreement. They demand a ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:37 The construction of new wind turbines in Germany picked up slightly again in the first six months of 2020, but expansion figures are still far too low to bolster an industry that suffered two years of steeply declining growth. As the ...
French President Emmanuel Macron¡¯s proposal to introduce a high price on CO? emissions in the European Union would give France an ¡°enormous competitive edge¡± over Germany, as his country¡¯s energy supply is based mostly on emission-free nuclear and hydro ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel tries to be factual and content-focussed in her clear criticism of US President Donald Trump¡¯s policies but she is unlikely to be successful in light of the ¡°cacophony of interests¡± at the G20 summit, writes Stefan ...
Almost two-thirds of German residents say the government is thwarting the country¡¯s energy transition in heating by not providing enough consumer incentives to switch from systems burning fossil fuel to those using renewable energy, according to the ...
In 2017, at least 5.4 billion euros were spent by the German government from the federal budget on the country¡¯s energy transition, up about 20 percent from the previous year, writes the German Taxpayers Federation in a study. Four billion euros were ...
09 Oct 2020, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Policy 91tv / dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German parliament has voted in favour of a higher starting price for the country¡¯s new CO2 reduction scheme in the heating and transport sectors, dpa ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:08 Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung New vehicles in Germany are getting greener: average CO2 emissions of cars registered in the first half of 2020 were 4.4 ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Gas Grid Hydrogen Technology 91tv Renewables-based gases such as hydrogen and synthetic methane will be increasingly important for Germany¡¯s to reach climate targets, say gas transmission grid operators ...
Germany can meet its energy sector climate goals with a CO 2-price floor between 50 and 75 euros, write Fabian Huneke, Carlos Perez Linkenheil and Simon G?? from the Berlin-based independent energy market specialist Energy Brainpool, in a contribution for ...
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The leaders of the leading industrialised and emerging economies will discuss ways to funnel capital into financing climate measures at the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 4 and 5, a German government official said on Tuesday. The Chinese ...
17 Feb 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Fossil fuels Security Handelsblatt / Deutsche Welle U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced one billion dollars in funding to support energy projects in Eastern and Central Europe as part of an effort to reduce ...
Free Democratic Party (FDP) head Christian Lindner sees ¡°high hurdles in energy policy¡± for a possible government coalition of conservatives (CDU/CSU), Free Democrats and the Green Party after the German general elections, he told FOCUS Magazin in an ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:49 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Gas International Handelsblatt Tumbling prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) due to the coronavirus pandemic are worsening conditions for planned gas import terminals in Germany, Klaus Stratmann ...
02 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
07 Dec 2017, 00:00 A coal exit is inevitable to reach Germany¡¯s climate targets, but the shift must not come at the expense of workers, according to SPD head Martin Schulz. In an address to a party convention in which delegates voted for holding coalition ...
Germany would have to discontinue coal-fired power production even without committing itself to climate protection goals, Oliver Krischer, vice-chairman of the Green Party¡¯s parliamentary group, said during a speech on his party¡¯s energy policy ambitions ...
04 Feb 2021, 13:12 CORRECTION: The headline of an earlier version of this article stated that the number of jobs in Germany's entire renewables sector has halved since 2011. However, this decrease only affected production and installation and not ...
The decarbonisation of supposed green pioneers like California and Germany is too slow to meet Paris climate targets, Eduardo Porter writes in the New York Times. Despite a substantial increase in German renewable capacity, generation barely rose last ...
The German environment ministry (BMUB) has called suggestions by U.S. energy secretary Rick Perry to renegotiate the Paris Climate Agreement ¡®absurd¡¯, report Joe Ryan and Brian Parkin for Bloomberg. The agreement already lets nations adjust their own ...
It is ¡°remarkable¡± that the G20 summit in Hamburg did not end up in scandal given that US President Donald Trump came across like a ¡°grizzly bear among a mountaineering rope team¡±, writes Stefan Ulrich in an opinion piece for S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°Above ...
24 Aug 2020, 12:29 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Construction and Climate Protection, State of ...
In 2016, the German government spent only 1.6 billion euros of its 2.4-billion-euro Energy and Climate Fund on projects to save energy, according to an unreleased finance ministry report, seen by Berliner Morgenpost. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð economy ministry simply let 800 ...
07 Jan 2016, 00:00 Record renewables growth in 2015 meant Germany exported more coal-generated electricity than ever before, hampering the country's efforts to protect the climate, according to energy policy think tank Agora Energiewende. The data ...
Heating systems in Germany will have to change substantially by 2030 if the country is to reach its climate targets for 2050, according to a study commissioned by energy think-tank Agora Energiewende*. While the share of natural gas used for heating will ...
Germany will assist Fiji in preparing the 23 rd UN climate conference, the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) has said in a press release. Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the environment ministry, met Fiji¡¯s Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe ...
29 Sep 2020, 13:04 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f¨¹r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Transport 91tv The coronavirus pandemic is causing public transport to lose ground to individual transport means, such as ...
Old coal-fired power plants can be made more flexible at reasonable expense, allowing countries with a high share of coal-based electricity to make a smooth transition to a climate-friendly energy system, according to a new study by think tank Agora ...
24 Apr 2015, 00:00 [Updates explanation of climate contribution] The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has signalled it might make changes to its climate levy to ease concerns over potential job losses, media report on Friday as supporters ...
The German government tried to bring climate and sustainable development into the mainstream of international politics at the G20 foreign affairs minister meeting in light of leadership changes in several member states, writes Irene Quaile for Deutsche ...
30 May 2018, 00:00 Germany struggles to get its highly anticipated coal exit task force on track. The government on Wednesday postponed at the last minute the official launch of the phase-out commission for the third time. The quarrels over the commission ...
As long as Donald Trump is president of the US, it is ¡°basically irrelevant¡± whether or not his country remains a party to the Paris Climate Agreement, development economist Stephan Klasen says on Zeit Online. Even if the US remained within the treaty, ...
According to German Solar Industry Association BSW, the industry¡¯s business climate has reached a seven-year high, reports Brian Parkin for Bloomberg. The association said it expects solar companies¡¯ order books to keep growing in the coming months thanks ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s role as host of the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg will not be easy should the US administration decide to pull out of the Paris Agreement, because other countries ¨C ¡°the eternal laggards¡± ¨C would ¡°relapse into old blockade ...
The transition away from combustion engines to electric ones will destroy many jobs in the German car industry, but also create new ones, Henrik Mortsiefer writes in Der Tagesspiegel. ¡°An electric car consists of about 200 parts, a car running with petrol ...
Policymakers and companies must urgently pay attention to the commodities required by a large-scale roll-out of electric mobility to avoid bottlenecks and secure a sustainable supply, according to mobility think tank Agora Verkehrswende*. ¡°Securing the ...
The parties negotiating a ¡®Jamaica coalition¡¯ in Germany had made a lot of progress on energy and climate policy, as well as on several other policy areas, before the pro-market FDP party pulled out of the talks, Cerstin Gammelin and Markus Balser report ...
A global surge of trade restrictions and protectionism could derail Germany¡¯s efforts in climate protection, Heinz J¨¹rgen Sch¨¹rmann writes in a commentary for Handelsblatt. ¡°Global interconnection is indispensable for a successful limitation of CO 2 ...
Economy minister Brigitte Zypries cautioned her Social Democrat colleague, environment minister Barbara Hendricks, not to agree to ¡°unreflected compromises¡± in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) reform negotiations, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
G20 president Germany will press the Group to reaffirm its commitment to fighting climate change when finance ministers meet next month for the first time since the election of Donald Trump, G20 sources said, report Noah Barkin and Jan Strupczewski for ...
The German car industry has stepped up its rhetoric against looming diesel car bans, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. ¡°Whoever wants to ban diesel is also against climate protection,¡± said the head of the German carmakers¡¯ association (VDA), ...
As a result of the diesel crisis, used car sales were down 1.9 percent in 2017, compared to the previous year, according to the German Association for Motor Trade and Repair (ZDK). ¡°Auto dealers are deeply unsettled,"?ZDK president J¨¹rgen Karpinski ...
Germany¡¯s supermarkets are to receive a climate-friendly makeover. Environment minister Barbara Hendricks, together with the association of German retailers (HDE), has started a 1.3 million euro promotion campaign aimed at identifying energy saving ...
In a bid to avoid EU fines for excessive air pollution, the German government is considering plans to make public transport free of charge to improve air quality in cities. Transport experts welcomed the proposed measures designed to lure more people onto ...
After the TV debate between conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel and her social-democratic challenger Martin Schulz in the run-up to the German election on 24 September, Merkel was largely seen as more convincing, the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung reports.? In a ...
Germany¡¯s coal commission is a ¡°societal innovation¡± and shows how the exit from the dirty fossil fuel can be organised responsibly, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. ¡°If we manage it, it will become an example for many, many nations and ...
18 May 2020, 14:13 Edgar Meza Cars Business & Jobs Der Spiegel The German government is weighing an 11,000 euro subsidy for electric cars in a bid to help the country¡¯s hard-hit auto industry in the coronavirus crisis, even though the sector is having ...
22 Mar 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities The Guardian In a long article, British newspaper The Guardian explores the history of the dieselgate scandal, which involved most German carmakers. Author Beth Gardiner argues that the companies worked ...
Protesting for global climate protection efforts and against the US decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, Greenpeace Germany has projected a heart-shaped map of the world and the words ¡°Planet Earth first¡± onto the Elbphilharmonie building, the ...
Germany¡¯s Green Party has rejected an offer tabled by its aspiring coalition partners to reduce the country¡¯s coal power capacity by up to 5 gigawatt (GW), news agency Reuters reports. Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro ...
Most member companies of German oil traders group Avia will only sell ¡°climate-²Ô±ð³Ü³Ù°ù²¹±ô¡± heating oil in the future, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The group invests in climate protection projects around the globe to save almost the ...
German farmers show a willingness to put more effort into protecting the climate and resources in a position paper by German Farmer¡¯s Association (DBV), writes Henrike Ro?bach for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ¡°Cultivation must not lead to harm¡± to the ...
The Moorburg coal power plant in Hamburg wastes the energy equivalent of 36 tonnes of hard coal per hour during normal operation because environmental organisations and citizen initiatives prevent it from? using waste heat for district heating, Olaf Preu? ...
Think tank Agora Energiewende has launched a new publication series in English that is taking a closer look at the fundamental issues of transforming energy systems toward a low-carbon paradigm. The publications draw on the German experience, but also ...
Strong demand for heavy sports utility vehicles (SUVs) means German carmarker Daimler has failed to reduce average emissions from its vehicle fleet for the first time since 2007, Handelsblatt Online reports. For the second year in a row, emissions stood ...
EU negotiators have reached a provisional deal to overhaul the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), bolster carbon prices and adjust the system to more ambitious climate goals, Ewa Krukowska reports for Bloomberg. The deal follows more than two years of ...
Renewable energy sources are booming in Germany as much as anywhere else but the country¡¯s simultaneous rise in coal use and carbon emissions nevertheless make it ¡°a dangerous role model¡± for countries setting out to emulate the German energy transition, ...
11 Aug 2020, 11:42 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany¡¯s new CO? price on transport and heating fuels, which goes into effect on 1 January 2021, could mean some companies initially pay twice for their emissions, ...
Germany¡¯s greenhouse gas emissions rose to 906 million tonnes in 2016 (from 902 million tonnes in 2015), making it unlikely that the country will reach its 2020 emission reduction target, according to preliminary data by the Federal Environment Agency ...
24 Feb 2020, 13:42 Rachel Waldholz Coal Transport Zeit Online The state-owned German railway Deutsche Bahn has tried to distinguish its service in recent years as a climate-friendly form of transit, highlighting its reliance on renewable power. But a 2007 ...
01 Apr 2019, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society 91tv No other country in Europe is as sceptical of the success of e-mobility as Germany, an international survey commissioned by energy company E.ON has found. About one third of respondents ...
Last year¡¯s increase in CO 2? emissions makes it increasingly unlikely that Germany will reach its 2020 climate target, according to a short analysis by Arepo Consult for the Green Party. Emissions would have to drop by 40 million tonnes per year until ...
Fiscal instruments should complement Energiewende efforts to fight populist criticism that climate protection was a luxury at the expense of the regular citizen, writes Bernhard P?tter in an opinion piece for tageszeitung (taz). ¡°If citizens received a ...
12 May 2020, 13:07 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Wind In?an effort?to reduce ...
Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks did well not to rush approval for the watered-down climate plan before the COP22, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. ¡°It may be embarrassing to arrive at the summit in Marrakesh empty ...
Germany will release a G20 plan on addressing climate change next week, which will outline how member states can lead by example to implement the Paris Agreement, report Joe Ryan and Brian Parkin for Bloomberg. Germany was ¡°taking cautious steps ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:55 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewables Freja Eriksen Gas ...
The world climate conference 2017 may be hosted by Germany, the news agency Reuters reports. Delegates at the COP22 in Marrakesh will vote on a proposition to hold the COP23 in the city of Bonn, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change¡¯s seat, ...
After an expected clash over climate and energy policy last week, Germany¡¯s aspiring coalition partners of the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the pro-business FDP and the environmentalist Green Party also failed to find a first official agreement on ...
Germany aims to use a large international energy conference in Berlin to inject fresh momentum and ideas into the G20 process in the run up to the Hamburg summit in July. "We want to use our G20 presidency this year to find a common position for all ...
In a draft for a call-to-vote, the Green Party writes that it is willing to negotiate with all parties except the AfD after the elections on 24 September, but ¡°distances itself as far as possible from the FDP¡± (Free Democratic Party), writes Stefan Braun ...
Low water levels in the Rhine river after a prolonged drought have disrupted fuel and chemical supplies on the vital European trade route, sparking concern over potential economic impact and raising questions about how climate change will hit Europe¡¯s ...
Germany's ambitious greenhouse gas reduction plans are facing a major obstacle: an apparent addiction to coal, reports Irene Banos Ruiz for Deutsche Welle. Mining company RWE is planning the expansion of some of Europe's biggest coal mines, ...
The environment ministry¡¯s new Climate Protection Report showed that the 2020 emissions reduction target of 40 percent could only be reached if the German economy collapsed, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°In theory, the German climate ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:15 Finance International 91tv Economists at Sparkasse, Germany¡¯s largest public bank, have criticised a planned carbon border tax, saying that a study of potential effects on the European economy¡¯s openness and fiscal ...
Special national targets for climate protection are ¡°counterproductive¡± and should be abolished, writes the Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in a concept paper on the EU energy market. The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) should ...
17 Sep 2018, 10:30 A report about a proposal by one of Germany¡¯s coal commission co-heads for a coal exit by 2038 has caused irritation. Some commission members were quick to reject the report and warned that the commission's work was in peril should ...
16 Nov 2020, 13:35 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Solar dpa / Focus Online Germany's solar industry ...
Greenpeace Germany has published a study proposing ¡°ambitious measures¡± to decarbonise German transport by 2035, carried out by Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. To succeed, the scenario demands ¡°a comprehensive paradigm shift in ...
Germany¡¯s environment minister Barbara Hendricks says the EU environment council¡¯s proposal for a reform of the Union¡¯s emissions trading system (ETS) is a success for climate protection and the industry alike. In a press release by the environment ...
Germany risks missing its climate targets in the building sector ¡°unless something drastic is done,¡± Joachim Wille writes in Frankfurter Rundschau. An energy-efficient upgrading of the country¡¯s building stock on average could increase energy savings by ...
The growth of solar energy has been grossly underestimated in the results of the models of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), writes Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in a press release. A new MCC ...
Germany will help Iran? implememt its national climate protection targets, the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) says in a press release. During a visit to Teheran, German state secretary Jochen Flasbarth also aims ?to strengthen cooperation on ...
Environmental organisations NABU and WWF have urged Germany¡¯s parties, currently negotiating to form a government, to stop the natural gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2, a joint press release by the two organisations says. In an open letter to party ...
28 Nov 2018, 16:14 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society Elections & Politics New York Times As a turn towards conservative and right-wing politics appears to dominate the political agenda in Germany and elsewhere in the ...
04 Jan 2019, 13:26 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Renewables S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Despite a record renewables share in 2018, carbon-intensive lignite is still the country¡¯s single most important electricity source, which shows that CO? allowances ...
Germany will reach a deal by the end of the year on a deadline and way to exit coal-fired power generation, according to mining union IG BCE, reports Nathan Witkop for Montel. Union head Michael Vassiliadis told an industry association conference he was ...
Aldi S¨¹d will become Germany's first major climate-neutral food retailer from January 2017, the company announced in a press release. Aldi S¨¹d uses up to 80 percent of electricity from its solar PV facilities and will acquire the remaining power ...
Frank Appel, director of Germany¡¯s postal service Deutsche Post AG, says the country is unlikely to achieve its aim of shifting a considerable share of its freight transports from road to railroad ?to reduce emissions, Alfons Frese writes for Der ...
Retrofitting older diesel cars to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions could be financed ¡°fully or for the largest part possible¡± through a support mechanism, a group of government advisors writes in a draft report, Markus Balser and Michael Bauchm¨¹ller ...
The FDP¡¯s decision to let talks for a ¡®Jamaica coalition¡¯ government collapse after four weeks spared Germany a ¡°government rife with contradictions¡±, Heike G?bel writes in a commentary for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ¡°No labour market flexibility ...
Climate protection is part of the Green Party¡¯s ¡°core profile¡±, which makes it a prime campaign topic in the upcoming ?federal elections, scheduled for autumn, Winfried Kretschmann, state premier of Baden Wurttemberg told Berliner Zeitung. ¡°I don¡¯t see ...
The election programme drafts by the Green Party and Free Democrats (FDP) indicate areas of agreement- which would open up federal coalition possibilities ¨C but there are considerable differences in energy and climate policy, writes Stefan Braun in ...
21 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
German experts say the global carbon floor price proposed by government advisors in a paper for the German economy ministry is unlikely to be agreed, Dagmar Dehmer writes in Tagesspiegel. ¡°Implementing a sufficiently high floor price seems unrealistic in ...
It is surprising how long it takes for the subject of ¡°negative emission¡± to make its way from scientific models into climate policy mainstream, write Oliver Geden from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) and Stefan Sch?fer ...
The German Green Party has criticised the Social Democrat candidate for chancellor, Martin Schulz, for not having taken a clear stance on climate protection yet, news agency dpa reports. The Green¡¯s parliamentary group chairman Anton Hofreiter told dpa ...
16 Jan 2019, 13:16 The German government has pledged long-term payments to lignite mining regions, removing a major hurdle to reaching a compromise over the country¡¯s coal exit. After a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Olaf ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:59 S?ren Amelang Coal Bild Germany¡¯s Chancellor Angela Merkel has privately warned that the country¡¯s coal exit will fail without ¡°enormous effort,¡± Ralf Schuler reports for tabloid Bild. ¡°We have to really want this,¡± Merkel said at a ...
The new governing coalition of conservative CDU and economic liberal FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is set to undermine the country¡¯s climate protection goals, environmental organisation WWF says in a press release. The CDU-FDP coalition agreement ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:12 Freja Eriksen Coal 91tv/ Welt Online The European Commission has allocated a potential 877 million euros of its Just Transition Fund to support structural change in German coal mining regions, reports? Welt Online. ...
Germany can teach Ireland many lessons about how to transition to a low-carbon energy system, writes Margaret Ward in an article in The Irish Times. Its citizen-owned renewable energy projects have created innovative business models and increased support ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:07 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Die Welt The ...
Germany¡¯s rail operator Deutsche Bahn has stepped up its green energy ambitions. The company announced its intention to increase the share of renewable power in its total electricity consumption to 80 percent by 2030, reports the newswire dpa. One year ...
Germany¡¯s environment minister Barbara Hendricks regards the new US administration¡¯s sceptical view of climate protection as a? monition for Germany and Europe to foster international efforts to curb global emissions, Dana Heide writes in Handelsblatt. ...
Aspiration and ambitious targets are needed to make the transition to a low-carbon economy, but the German federal government has done too little, according to emissions data by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in an ...
02 Jun 2020, 13:23 Expert ICCT- International Council on Clean Transportation Transport Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Cars ...
The cap of solar PV and wind power development established with the? reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) ?passed in parliament last week could endanger Germany¡¯s climate targets, said Maria Krautzberger, president of the Federal Environment Agency ...
Switching to less resource-intensive consumption patterns is part of the solution to cutting carbon emissions, Felix Ekardt writes in a guest article for Zeit Online. Germany can only achieve its climate targets if people are willing to reduce their ...
28 May 2020, 12:29 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv A coordinated European green hydrogen production infrastructure is a ...
Germany needs to lower emissions in the heating sector by one fifth by 2020 in order to meet the government¡¯s climate goals, Hartmut Netz writes in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°To comply with the plan, twice as many buildings would need efficient retrofitting ...
The federal government should reform its tax code to achieve the necessary rate at which residences are renovated to be made more energy-efficient in order to meet its goal of a nearly climate-neutral building stock by mid-century, the German Economic ...
04 Jan 2019, 13:33 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars dpa / Focus Germany¡¯s business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) have warned against a one-sided bet on electric mobility in the country¡¯s climate and transport policy. The head of the opposition ...
Coalition talks between CDU, CSU, FDP and Green Party will be about the parties¡¯ ability ¡°to make something constructive of the differences¡±, said chancellery chief and Christian Democrat Peter Altmaier in an interview with German public broadcaster ARD ...
06 Jul 2020, 12:22 Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Germans still get a relatively good deal on gas prices, and will continue to do so even after the introduction of a CO2 price in transport and buildings next year, a report by price comparison ...
The future of the internal combustion engine and car manufacturing in Germany will be central topics at the International Motor Show (IAA) 2017 in September, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her annual summer press conference in Berlin. ¡°How do ...
The General German Automobile Club (ADAC) says it has proof that the mechanical retrofitting of older diesel cars in order to cut air pollution ¡°is not only possible but also highly effective.¡± The influential car club says that tests carried out by its ...
Ill-advised legislation and an alienation of citizens from renewable investments put the success of Germany¡¯s energy transition in jeopardy, Hans-Josef Fell writes for EurActiv. The country continued to be internationally celebrated for its Energiewende, ...
The German hydrogen electrolysis sector must become a ¡°gigawatt industry¡± for Germany to reach its climate targets, according to a new study by Fraunhofer ISE, Fraunhofer IPA and E4tech, commissioned by the federal transport ministry (BMVI). The ...
The EU must make clear to the new US administration that ¡°transatlantic security discussions need to always include the fight against climate ³¦³ó²¹²Ô²µ±ð¡±, at this weekend¡¯s Munich Security Conference, writes Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director of Greenpeace ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry accounts for about one third of the country's total industry emissions, meaning that becoming carbon-neutral by 2050 comes with particular challenges to the ...
A ¡°failed government policy that puts the brakes on the Energiewende¡± is the real reason that CO? emissions in the energy sector continue to rise, writes Kurt Stenger in an opinion piece in Neues Deutschland. The federal government should renew its ...
The fraction of Germany¡¯s budget generated by taxing economic activities harmful to the environment and the climate is declining, according to calculations by NGO Green Budget Germany (F?S). Just 4.3 percent of the public budget- less than the EU-average ...
Annual climate protection efforts must be quadrupled compared to the average over the past ten years in order for Germany to reach its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, according to members of the Green Party parliamentary ...
Germany¡¯s lignite power stations, which are particularly harmful to the climate, currently do not earn enough money to recuperate investment costs, or to invest in the maintenance and extension of connected mines, says a study conducted by the Institute ...
The grand government coalition in Germany failed to recognise that the economy was ¡°the central actor of the new climate movement,¡± writes German investor Jochen Wermuth in a guest article for German weekly Die Zeit. He calls for more divestment, a hold ...
30 Sep 2019, 13:41 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The last two of a group of eight lignite power plant units are entering Germany¡¯s security standby, reports news agency dpa. RWE¡¯s unit C at ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:43 Freja Eriksen Cars Tagesspiegel / dpa The German district near Berlin that e-carmaker Tesla has chosen as the location for its first European gigafactory is awaiting the paperwork from the US company to go ahead with necessary ...
The Paris Climate Agreement means transport has to be re-invented and cycling offers large untapped potential for climate protection, write Green Party parliamentary group¡¯s vice-chair Kerstin Andreae and the party¡¯s transport expert Matthias Gastel in a ...
Governments around the world have committed to the ¡°historic¡± Paris Climate Agreement ¨C and now it is time for businesses to follow suit, writes R¨¹diger Grube, chairman of the board of Deutsche Bahn (DB) in a guest commentary in Handelsblatt. German rail ...
German truckmakers are outraged about the more ambitious emission limits for heavy duty vehicles adopted by the European Parliament, report Till Hoppe and Franz Hubik in the Handelsblatt. Industry association VDA said it was ¡°unworkable¡± to reduce ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:39 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy 91tv Parts of the ...
German statesecretary Rainer Baake has called for?¡°consistency on European climate and energy targets¡± and capacity markets not to undermine emission trading. Speaking during consultation between EU energy ministers' following the release of the ...
Climate change is a threat to financial markets not just because of potential natural disasters, but also due to a tightening of climate protection measures, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung, citing a report prepared for the German ...
The German government is preparing the launch of a commission tasked with finding measures to make buildings more energy efficient and bring down carbon emissions in the heating sector, Susanne Ehlerding writes in the energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:48 Corrects third sentence: Energy use for cooling went up 30 percent, not for heating. S?ren Amelang Efficiency Heating 91tv German households used less energy for heating and lighting in 2018 than 10 years earlier, but more ...
Energy and climate policy is likely to play a minor role in the 2017 election campaign programme of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The party leadership on Monday decided on the ...
Onshore wind power in Germany grew by about 1,700 turbines, with a total capacity of roughly 5,300 megawatts (MW) in 2017, a gross increase of 15 percent compared to the previous year, according to the German Wind Energy Association (BWE). In a press ...
For the first time, union leaders from Germany's mining unions met with representatives from the annual ¡°climate camp¡± and local environmentalists in the Rhenish lignite coal mining region, reports Leonie Sontheimer in taz. While all agreed that ...
Three quarters of German companies have invested in climate protection in the past three years, according to a survey by utility E.ON. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð most important steps taken by every other company involved the renovation of heating systems and installation of ...
The effect of think tank Agora Energiewende¡¯s* proposal for an ecologic tax reform on Germany¡¯s major political parties will be limited, Hannes Koch writes in a commentary for tageszeitung (taz). Agora Energiewende suggests lowering fees on electricity ...
Germany will not be able to reach its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target of 40 percent, compared to 1990, according to a draft of the federal environment ministry¡¯s Climate Protection Report 2016, seen by Tagesspiegel. The targets set for the transport ...
Back in December 2015, the Paris Climate Agreement was hailed as a ¡°historic¡± achievement- 17 months later it rather looks like international diplomacy has incurred an on-the-job accident of historic proportions, Andreas Mihm writes in Frankfurter ...
11 Jan 2019, 10:27 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Renewables Security The global energy transition and the shift to renewables from fossil fuels is likely to reduce energy-related conflicts, says a report published by the Global Commission on the ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:28 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Industry 91tv Germany's largest energy company RWE, together with oil company BP, chemicals producer Evonik and gas ...
If the goal is to limit global greenhouse gas emissions, it is inefficient to break this down into individual national targets, writes Christoph M. Schmidt of?Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen) in a guest commentary in Die ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:09 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business ...
15 Jun 2020, 15:11 Expert Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Bundesanstalt f¨¹r Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Climate & CO2 Resources & Recycling Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Heating Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / ...
12 Dec 2018, 14:11 Bavarian state premier Markus S?der called for a national exit from coal-fired power generation but rejected the current financial demands from coal-mining states to cushion the phase-out. In a speech on his new government¡¯s priorities, ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars ARD The German transport minister, Andreas Scheuer, has proposed the introduction of a road toll for passenger cars in the whole European Union, public broadcaster ARD reports in its daily news programme ...
Germany¡¯s ¡°enormously expensive Energiewende¡± green energy transformation is sputtering and the country is falling behind other European countries, writes Kalina Oroschakoff in an article for Politico.? Read the article in English here. For background, ...
France and Germany should work together on some challenges on the way to a clean energy future- despite differences in the two countries¡¯ energy mixes, write German think tanks Agora Energiewende, Agora Verkehrswende* and French Institute for Sustainable ...
A recent study by Agora Energiewende * shows that Germany can achieve its climate goals in the heating sector by increasing efficiency and by rolling out millions of heat pumps to replace oil-fired heating systems, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. But it ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:21 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Deutsche Welle / Quartz Coal mining workers in the Rhineland have mixed feelings about the pending coal exit, Gero Rueter reports in a feature for Deutsche Welle. The ...
The federal government thinks Germany will increasingly be vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, writes Spiegel Online. Trade would be especially affected, according to the economy ministry¡¯s reply to a parliamentary enquiry by the Green group ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:34 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Rachel Waldholz Nuclear phase-out taz / 91tv Critics are denouncing plans to build a new interim storage facility for ...
The whole of the transport sector must switch to renewable energy by 2035 at the latest to reach the Paris Climate Agreement 1.5C target, Greenpeace¡¯s transport expert Daniel Moser told news agency dpa. Moser also warns that Germany would ¡°lose its ...
Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) addresses the global coal phase-out in a new, short, overview policy brief. The main measures to help phase out coal are the abolishment of fossil-fuel subsidies, the introduction of ...
The European Emissions Trading System (ETS) amendment proposal passed in the European Parliament only partly recognises the threat to the competitiveness of the continent¡¯s industry, writes Hendrik Kafsack in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
A coalition of German industry associations, together with the federal economy ministry (BMWi), is demanding changes in the European Commission¡¯s plans to reform the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). The group wants to ¡°find the balance between the two ...
The Green Party plans to base its campaign for the autumn federal elections on the core topics of environment and climate protection, announced Green parliamentary group head Katrin G?ring-Eckhardt, writes Stefan Braun in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. She said her ...
The G20 meeting in Hamburg is meant to address some of the most pressing global problems but many of the heads of state present at this year¡¯s summit have a very poor record of defending human rights in their own countries, Christian Grefe writes in a ...
09 Jun 2020, 12:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv The volume of financial investments classified as sustainable increased by nearly one quarter in Germany last year, according to the latest figures published by the financial industry ...
23 Apr 2020, 13:46 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S?ren Amelang Cars Hydrogen Technology ntv / electrek Daimler subsidiary ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Energiewende International HSBC Germany is very well-placed for the low-carbon transition, given its particularly large cleantech industry and strong policies, writes British multinational financial services company ...
The Association of Local Utilities (VKU) said the support for combined heat and power plants in the grid fee agreement was a ¡°strong signal for the value of decentral generation¡± and created planning security. ¡°Municipal utilities can now work intensively ...
29 May 2017, 00:00 Germany¡¯s energy transition is a vast national project that is reshaping the entire country. But it is happening on a local level, too. Here, the 91tv looks at the path that one eastern German city is taking towards ...
21 Oct 2015
21 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Environment State Secretary Flasbarth (BMUB) Germany must exit coal in the next 25-30 years A well-organised exit from coal which considers social aspects is needed in the next 25 to 30 years if ...
EU Member States must together reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent by 2030 compared to 2005 for the transport, buildings, agriculture, waste, land-use and forestry sectors, according to a proposal by the European Commission. The Effort ...
The European Union would lose a strong voice for ambitious climate protection policy if the UK leaves following last week¡¯s referendum, writes Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in a guest commentary for Capital. A ...
01 Jun 2015
01 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Interview with Chancellor on Climate Summit In an interview with the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung, Germany¡¯s Chancellor Angela Merkel said that preparing for the climate summit in Paris ...
Carmaker VW will consider plans to convert its factories in Emden and Hanover to build electric cars at a strategy review on November 16, report Stefan Menzel and Martin Murphy in business daily Handelsblatt. The company¡¯s plant in Emden near the North ...
Environmental protection and conservativism are two defining traits of German society but a corresponding political coalition of the Green Party and the CDU seems as distant as always days before this week¡¯s parliamentary election, Fabian Federl writes on ...
The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has? told news agency dpa ?that people should reduce long-haul flights and instead spend their free time locally or on bike and hiking holidays in order to save greenhouse gas emissions. The government should reduce ...
A German exit from coal-fired power generation ¡°must really happen very, very fast ¨C maybe by 2025, 2030¡± if the country wants to be a pioneer in international climate protection, Niklas H?hne of think tank NewClimate Institute said in an interview with ...
In 2015 and 2016, Germany¡¯s government-owned KfW bank issued nine ¡® green bonds ¡¯ worth a total of 6.5 billion euros to finance renewable energies, KfW said in its report on the environmental and social impacts of these bonds. With a market share of 61 ...
Germany¡¯s rising consumption of oil, gas and lignite in the first half of 2017 indicates that the country of the Energiewende will see another increase in emissions in 2017 after a rise in 2016, said Agora Energiewende * head Patrick Graichen. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð data ...
German chancellor Angela Merkel has defended diesel cars as environmentally friendly, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. ¡°Diesel cars are as good for climate protection today as they were yesterday and the day before yesterday,¡± Merkel said ...
Czech investor EPH¡¯s acquisition of Vattenfall¡¯s German lignite operations could be ¡°a high stakes game¡± because lignite is ¡°front and centre among risks facing investors from global efforts to slow climate ³¦³ó²¹²Ô²µ±ð¡±, writes Gerard Wynn on the Energy & ...
Job security should be valued higher than environmental protection, according to a motion for the federal party conference of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) in December, writes Thomas Vitzthum in Die Welt. The motion calls for an impact assessment ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:53 S?ren Amelang Coal Financial Times Environmental NGOs have criticised the German Coal Commission¡¯s proposal to phase out coal use by 2038 as too slow, but the process could happen a lot faster than that, Nick Butler says in a op-ed for ...
16 Sep 2020, 12:49 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport 91tv Germany'smunicipalities, as well as its states and federal ...
12 Oct 2018, 16:30 The surge of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a strong showing of the Green Party look set to end the absolute majority of conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavarian state elections on 14 October. The CSU is a ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:55 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S?ren Amelang Digitalisation Clean ...
A majority of Germans (53 percent) think their country should do more to remain a pioneer in climate protection, according to a YouGov survey commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The representative survey with 2105 participants was carried out ...
German climate and energy policy should be combined to overcome bitter fights between the environment ministry and the economics ministry after next year¡¯s parliamentary election, argues sustainability expert Reinhard Loske from the University Witten ...
A rule of thumb in international environmental policy so far has been that it will move forward as long as the US and China agree ¨C ¡°but this rule seems to have become obsolete¡±, Jan Heidtmann writes in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. At the latest G7 summit, as ...
Germany should specify its mid-century climate ambitions soon, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel. ¡°From my point of view, this must be decided at the start of the next legislative period,¡± she said at a conference by local utility association VKU. ...
With anti-coal protests in the state of Saxony, environmental NGO Greenpeace says that the German government¡¯s policy on coal fuels weather extremes. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð current heat wave is a taste of what awaits us if the CO? emissions are not decreased fast,¡± said ...
Utility Vattenfall wants to sell its Hamburg coal power plant Moorburg, according to a report by daily tageszeitung. Vattenfall CEO Magnus Hall did not rule out a sale within five years, as the company did not need Moorburg in the long term. A Vattenfall ...
Low prices of Chinese products, the reform of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), as well as levies connected to the Energiewende in Germany, all put a heavy burden on the German steel industry, writes Ulrich Grillo, president of the Federation of ...
02 Jul 2018, 15:13 The production of renewable energy in Germany dashes to a new record output, providing more than 40 percent of the country's power supply in the first half of 2018. Yet, the good news for proponents of Germany's trademark ...
Germany is making haste in ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement partly over fears that Donald Trump will pull out of the deal before it comes into force if he becomes US president, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°Time is pressing, and ...
There is a ¡°creeping revolution¡± causing financial market actors to re-think their approaches, incorporating climate protection and sustainability as profitable investment strategies, write Green politicians Reinhard B¨¹tikofer and Anton Hofreiter in a ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists that she expects talks to discuss the possibilities for a new government coalition to last several weeks before actual negotiations begin, news agency Reuters reports. The lengthy talks were down to the ...
The European Commission¡¯s proposal to raise the EU¡¯s 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target from 40 percent to 45 percent relative to 1990 levels is misguided, Federation of German Industries (BDI) Deputy Director Holger L?sch says in a statement. ...
18 Dec 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Wind Capital The wind power industry in Germany is facing challenges similar to those the country's solar power companies were having a few years ago and it could wane into insignificance if the current ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:27 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport 91tv Germany¡¯s? transport task force ?has postponed the deadline for presenting its highly anticipated proposals on how to lower emissions in the sector to meet the official ...
28 Jan 2019, 12:48 Kerstine Appunn Solar 91tv Germany has the fourth largest solar PV capacity in the world (46 gigawatt [GW]), German Solar Association (BSW) has said in a press release. But the former front runner has in recent years been ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:45 Freja Eriksen Coal Society 91tv Forty-one mayors from Germany, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Montenegro and Slovakia have signed a declaration calling on the European Union for more ...
Just 20,000 people in Germany are still employed in the once-mighty coal sector but their influence on energy policy is far greater than their number would suggest, Felix Heilmann writes for Climate Home. Coal workers are well-organised and good at ...
Gas made by electrolysis using renewable electricity could become cheaper than natural gas in the 2030s, according to an analysis by consultancy Energy Brainpool commissioned by Greenpeace Energy. This would require investments to push costs down, cheap ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:52 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Storage Lausitzer Rundschau Eastern German lignite mine operator Leag, a subsidiary of Czech energy company EPH, plans to build a large-scale battery near its power station in Schwarze ...
The Association of German Cities warns of driving bans in inner cities if nothing is done about the air pollution caused by diesel vehicles, writes Kerstin Schwenn in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). ¡°°Õ³ó±ð targets of the UN climate conference in ...
The direct physical effects of climate change ¡°very likely do not constitute a risk¡± for the stability of European financial markets until 2030, according to preliminary results of an upcoming report by the Federal Ministry of Finance. ¡°How likely ...
11 Dec 2019, 13:11 Freja Eriksen Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine / Stuttgarter Nachrichten The German car industry sees itself threatened by stricter CO2 limits planned by the European Commission, Volkmar Denner, head of German car part supplier Bosch, has ...
31 Aug 2015
31 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ¡°EU considers penalties for excessive CO2 emissions¡± The EU Commission is considering the introduction of binding regional climate targets for the development of ...
27 Apr 2015, 00:00 The environment ministry has rebuffed utilities¡¯ criticism of the planned levy for coal-fired power plants and maintains the sector shoulder its share of cutting CO2 emissions. Government and researchers stress the need for efficiency ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Die Welt The production stops and far-reaching sales collapse in the automotive industry is hitting Germany's major carmakers at a crucial time of transition, Florian Gehm writes in Die Welt. Car sales are ...
The Green Party¡¯s plan for phasing out coal in Germany makes sense and is overdue, writes energy expert Claudia Kemfert, from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in a commentary for Hamburger Abendblatt. ¡°We have a massive power oversupply, ...
03 Feb 2020, 13:47 Freja Eriksen Nuclear phase-out Spiegel Online The committee for economics, jobs and taxes of chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has proposed that Germany participates more intensively in the European ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:03 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Society dpa / WirtschaftsWoche / 91tv The COVID-19 pandemic is leading German companies to rethink the need for business trips and promote video conferencing instead, according to a report by ...
09 Dec 2019, 13:08 Rose-Anne Clermont Cars 91tv Electric passenger cars are being given too much focus as a way of reducing carbon emissions, analysts at Deutsche Bank Research said in a paper, titled ' E-mobility: Without subsidies ...
In an interview with Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche, Daniela Jacob, head of Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), said Germany¡¯s phase out of nuclear energy would result in a short-term increase in carbon emissions because coal cannot be substituted ...
Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland and UN special envoy on climate change and El Ni?o, has condemned the UK and Germany for introducing new support schemes for the fossil fuel industry that betray the Paris climate deal, Adam Vaughan writes in ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:59 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv / Spiegel Online CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article, the authors's name was misspelled as "Heckling". The correct name is " ...
06 Dec 2019, 15:18 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
Electric cars can significantly reduce CO 2 emissions and air pollutants in Europe, but only if they are powered predominantly by renewable ¨C rather than fossil-fuelled ¨C electricity, according to a study by the Institute of Applied Ecology (?ko-Institut) ...
The German energy transition does not serve as a role model, as the cost for ¡°early renewables¡± is a heavy burden for consumers while the country was unable to significantly lower emissions and did not cut back on using coal, British economist Dieter Helm ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:55 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The new EU car fleet emission limits will likely push carmakers to the limit, argues Hendrik Kafsack in an editorial for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung entitled ...
Climate protection targets should play a ¡°significantly bigger role¡± in federal transport minister Alexander Dobrindt¡¯s transport infrastructure plan 2030, Maria Krautzberger, president of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), said in an interview with ...
Industrial companies in Germany have invested 8.4 billion euros in 2016 in more sustainable technology that reduces, avoids or removes emission from environment, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) says in a press release. The figure equals about ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:20 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Coal dpa / Spiegel / 91tv Eastern German lignite mine and power plant operator LEAG has rejected ...
07 Jan 2016
07 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau ¡°No climate protection without an energy transition in transport¡± Transport is absolutely crucial to decarbonising the economy and Germany should embrace a leading role, but ...
An abrupt end to coal-fired power generation in Germany would damage the steel industry¡¯s competitiveness by pushing up electricity prices, the head of the country¡¯s steel association, Hans J¨¹rgen Kerkhoff, said at the National Steel Summit, Reuters ...
Diesel cars will continue to be necessary to reach climate protection targets, said Matthias Wissmann, president of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) in an interview with Handelsblatt. ¡°°Õ³ó±ðy use 25 percent less fuel than petrol ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:09 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security 91tv The far-reaching measures taken in Germany and across ...
29 Nov 2019, 13:58 Expert Enercon GmbH Wind turbine manufacturer Wind Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Germany's leading wind turbine producer Enercon says the first major crisis in the company& ...
Environment organisations are disappointed with the government¡¯s proposal for a German sustainability strategy 2016 because targets for a higher market share of climate friendly rail transport have been deleted, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:28 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Wholesale electricity ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a ¡°huge mistake¡° when she argues that the question of ending coal-fired power generation should only be dealt with after ensuring the economic future of the affected workers, Green Party co-head Annalena Baerbock told ...
A broad alliance of actors that includes environmental NGOs, trade unions, and the efficiency industry has urged the German government to honour its coalition pledge to support measures to lower the energy consumption of buildings. The alliance says it is ...
Blogger and author Craig Morris is leaving the "Energy Transition: The Global Energiewende" blog to work for the Renewables Grid Initiative *. Morris has been the Energy Transition blog¡¯s main blogger and the lead author of its annually updated ...
Of all meat and dairy corporations, German companies Deutsches Milchkontor and T?nnies Lebensmittel are among the top 25 contributors to climate change, according to a new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and the non ...
A energy transition working group of the CSU, the Bavarian sister party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU party, has published a paper saying that the effects of an end to coal-fired power production in Germany ¡°are far less damaging ...
EU energy ministers are attending an informal meeting in Bratislava this week?to discuss steering and monitoring mechanisms for the European? Energy Union, sustainable financing structures for low-carbon technologies, energy prices and energy supply ...
Environment minister Svenja Schulze finds herself in conflict with four fellow ministers on many issues, such as phasing out lignite and conserving water, writes Bernhard P?tter in tageszeitung (taz). But Schulze has signalled her willingness to ...
The cabinet of the government today passed the Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 with a total volume of 269.6 billion euros. The largest part of 132.8 billion euros are marked for Germany¡¯s roads, 112.3 billion euros for rail transport and 24.5 billion ...
The German government is paying more attention to its internal coalition agreement from 2013 than to the Paris Climate Agreement, Dagmar Dehmer writes in an op-ed for the Tagesspiegel. This is why the reformed Renewable Energy Act could does not support ...
The economic council of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) wants Germany to turn away from its current targets ?to lower the country¡¯s primary energy consumption, writes Martin Kessler in RP Online. These targets- a? 20 percent reduction by 2020 and 50 ...
12 Jul 2019, 13:07 Sven Egenter Transport Die Welt The environment minister of the city state of Hamburg has called for the introduction of a tax on airplane fuels and said that domestic flights should ultimately be banned, the newspaper? Die Welt reports ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:13 Expert bne- Association of Energy Market Innovators Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft Electricity market Grid Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 91tv Solar parks can have a positive effect on plant and animal life ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:28 Expert BVG- German Geothermal Association Bundesverband Geothermie e.V. Renewables Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Renewables 91tv Germany needs a masterplan for deep geothermal energy in order to reap the technology' ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:24 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Clean ...
21 Apr 2020, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Cars Green stimulus dpa / Handelsblatt / taz / FAZ / WirtschaftsWoche Several German newspapers have run commentaries critical of a proposed buyer¡¯s premium on cars. The premium would support the car industry in dealing ...
20 Jan 2016, 00:00 Germany needs a pathway for exiting coal by 2050 at the very latest, according to Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks. She welcomed Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel's announcement of a round table on the thorny issue, and said a ...
Transitioning to efficient and zero-emissions road freight transport will significantly reduce European spending and dependence on oil imports and spur economic growth, the European Climate Foundation and Cambridge Econometrics say in a report backed by ...
The quarrels in Germany¡¯s coal exit commission over a proposed end date for coal-fired power production in 2038 will continue to weigh on the country¡¯s reputation as a progressive energy transition advocate, Thorsten Preuschgas, CEO at solar power project ...
02 Mar 2020, 13:34 Rachel Waldholz Cars Handelsblatt / Der Spiegel VW has decided not to develop new natural gas vehicles, just two years after predicting that cars fueled by compressed natural gas (CNG) could eventually account for up to 10 percent of ...
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 2 at the UN climate conference: Negotiators begin their day-to-day work / Finance pledges for forests and renewables / New guidelines for climate compatible investment rules Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature ...
Germany¡¯s Energiewende might not be an export hit but it helps other countries questioning their own energy policy, Giorgio V. M¨¹ller writes in Swiss newspaper Neue Z¨¹rcher Zeitung (NZZ). According to? figures from the World Energy Council, a majority of ...
¡°Support for strengthening the EU ETS through unilateral measures by member states appears to have grown within the German government, according to a new draft climate plan,¡± Carbon Pulse writes. Find the article (behind paywall) in English here. ...
German utilities that are focusing on conventional power generation, i.e. RWE and Uniper, are exposed to ¡° decarbonisation risks,¡± rating agency Moody¡¯s has said. The country is likely to accelerate coal plant closures and implement other low-carbon ...
14 Oct 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices 91tv The German coal exit could lead to a ¡°strong increase¡± in wholesale power prices, unless the framework conditions in the energy sector are adapted quickly, said consultancy ...
German chancellor Angela Merkel said during a visit to Poland in February that she hoped the neighbouring country would ¡° cooperate in terms of climate protection ¡±, Ulrich Kr?kel writes in Rheinische Post. But neither Poland¡¯s current national ...
Car buyers around the world are ¡°in love with SUVs,¡± J¨¹rgen Stackmann, member of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand, told the news agency dpa. By 2025, every second car sold by VW would be an SUV. According to Stackmann, the ...
Intensified cross border connections and the increased transfer between European electricity markets could help reach EU climate targets, according to a study by Fraunhofer ISE and the National Technical University of Athens. With the cooperative project ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:12 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:18 Rachel Waldholz Cars Hydrogen 91tv The number of electric cars on German roads increased significantly last year, while major markets like the U.S. and China recorded slower growth. That's according to? a survey by the ...
Germany¡¯s manufacturing industry and the services sector earned 70 billion euros in 2016 in sales of goods, construction material, and services related to environmental protection, according to a press release issued by the Federal Statistical Office ...
The German Green Party is determined to make climate protection and ¡°ecologic modernisation¡± a central issue of their election campaign. ¡°Climate and environment policy also are a question of fairness,¡± the Greens stated in a preliminary draft of the ...
Germany could flunk yet another climate target if it doesn¡¯t increase energy efficiency, Susanne Ehlerding writes for Tagesspiegel Background. Germany¡¯s efficiency target ¨C like the EU¡¯s ¨C is to reduce primary energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020 ...
12 Dec 2018, 13:21 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Utilities ARD The roll-out of renewable energies has increased profits at Germany¡¯s fifth-largest utility MVV Energie, according to a report by public broadcaster ARD. Operative profits at the ...
08 Nov 2019, 14:09 S?ren Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv The number of permits issued for onshore wind turbines in Germany has dropped by more than 70 percent within three years, says German utility association BDEW. "Whereas three years ...
The German government has published its 2016 version of the country¡¯s sustainability strategy. ¡°With the strategy, the federal government lays the groundwork for Germany to become one of the world¡¯s most efficient and environmental-friendly economies by ...
Germany will have to consider installing small new gas power plants in the 2020s to ensure power supply security as the country¡¯s coal exit progresses, Patrick Graichen, head of the think tank Agora Energiewende*, told Georg Ehring in an interview with ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:27 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Solar 91tv The roll-out of solar thermal installations in Germany slowed down in 2018 despite an ongoing construction boom. The number of new installations dropped to 71,000 from 78,000 ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:00 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel / dpa German finance minister Olaf Scholz said it is ¡°perfectly clear¡± that the German government will have to invest much more money ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs manager magazin The dieselgate scandal in which carmakers from Germany and other countries manipulated the engines of their vehicles to cheat on emissions tests has severely damaged the ...
01 Dec 2015
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv RWE / Handelsblatt Utility RWE follows E.ON example, to split in two One of Germany¡¯s largest utilities RWE will split in two, the company announced on Tuesday. Renewables, grids and retail activities in Germany ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:40 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Government 91tv Germany¡¯s coal commission can conclude its work soon if the country¡¯s finance minister puts enough money on the table, the head of the ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:21 Expert Forschungszentrum J¨¹lich Research institute for energy, climate and nuclear sciences Nuclear phase-out Technology Expert RWTH Aachen University Technology Rachel Waldholz Storage 91tv Battery storage systems have ...
06 Apr 2020, 13:58 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:10 Rachel Waldholz Nuclear phase-out dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau / Neues Deutschland Environmentalists are raising concerns about the planned transport of reprocessed nuclear waste from England back to Germany, newswire dpa reports. Last ...
The federal government has published its National Reform Programme 2018, a report to be sent to the European Commission, in which Germany explains its policy reform plans. The section on energy and climate largely contains the provisions that Angela ...
Increasing the admissible maximum weight of freight trucks from 40 to 44 tonnes could save ¡°millions of truck rides¡± and reduce carbon emissions in Germany¡¯s transport sector, the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI) says in a press release. ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables dpa / Focus Online Solar power systems and wind turbines in Germany fed 39.3 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity into the public grid from June to August, a 10 percent increase compared to the same ...
With more and more renewables needed, the conflict between climate and nature protection grows ?- and simply ¡°saving energy¡± will not be sufficient, writes Ralf Nestler in an opinion piece for Tagesspiegel. ¡°Already, the limit of what can be asked of the ...
The largely state-owned German energy company EnBW says it has achieved ¡°a financial turnaround¡± in 2017, posting a profit of 2.1 billion euros in the fiscal year. At EnBW¡¯s general meeting, CEO Frank Mastiaux said the turnaround was ¡°a key milestone in ...
30 Oct 2019, 13:47 S?ren Amelang Electricity Renewables energate Germany's government expects the country will use less electricity in 2030, even though renewable power is meant to replace fossil fuels in many sectors from transport to heating,? ...
The German environment ministry has called for much more ambitious EU targets to lower car emissions than those proposed by the EU Commission. In a position paper seen by the 91tv, the ministry says car emissions must be halved between 2021 ...
The German government has agreed to implement a decision by the European Commission on emission limits for power plants and industry facilities by 2021, meaning that many coal plants will have to undergo costly retrofitting, Jakob Schlandt writes in ...
Germany¡¯s largest mining trade union has called on the next federal government to assign the tasks related to energy, transport, and housing policies to a ¡®ministry of energy transition¡¯. This would help the country avoid the current ¡°uncoordinated ...
German newspaper editorials focus on Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s shock move to prepare for departure. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð Merkel era draws to a close,¡± comments S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð CDU¡¯s renewal and reformation may begin [¡] This injects a new dynamism into German ...
While electric cars continue to face low sales despite government incentives, state premiums in Berlin for electric cargo bicycles triggered a flood of applications, Spiegel Online reports. The unexpected high demand for the increasingly popular utility ...
A ban on combustion engines in the EU is likely to do more damage than good toward the goal of reducing emissions while maintaining industrial competitiveness, writes Matthias Wissmann, chairman of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:13 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Wirtschaftswoche Inhabitants of Germany¡¯s rural areas are more interested in buying an electric car than city dwellers, reports Thomas St?lzel in Wirtschaftswoche Online. According to data from ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:15 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Wind Tageszeitung (taz) The German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) has warned that new ...
22 Dec 2014
22 Dec 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Welt ¡°Climate Change; The smarter way to produce energy¡± It is time to find a smarter way for preventing climate change, and not a model that defies countries¡¯ economic interests, writes the head of the ...
The Energiewende¡¯s costs cannot be entirely levied on power customers if Germany¡¯s energy transition is going to succeed, Robert Busch, managing director of the Association of Energy Market Innovators (BNE), writes in a guest commentary for Handelsblatt. ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:39 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Storage Technology 91tv The German Engineering Federation (VDMA) says power-to-x technologies are a ¡°key element in reaching Germany¡¯s and Europe¡¯s energy policy goals,¡± but need ...
After the British vote to leave the European Union, the EU¡¯s energy union plans are at risk of being ¡°put on the back-burner until more pressing issues are worked out,¡± writes Sara Stefanini for Politico. In light of the UK¡¯s presidency of the Council of ...
07 Feb 2018, 00:00 Agreeing on climate and energy policy was one of the simpler tasks during Germany's coalition negotiations, says Social Democratic (SPD) energy spokesman Bernd Westphal. However, he concedes that the challenges awaiting the country ...
Two-thirds of employees in the German lignite sector are older than 45 years (2015 data), according to a report published by the Institute for Applied Ecology (?koinstitut) for the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Therefore, 63 percent of the employees ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:25 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Renewables Handelsblatt / Wuppertal Institut As members of the coal exit commission debate a concrete timetable for ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Electricity market Renewables 91tv Demand for green electricity contracts in Germany is on the rise again after several years of shrinking interest, according to the price comparison website Verivox. In June ...
German energy company RWE may be legally entitled to proceed with the expansion of its lignite mine near the Hambach Forest and to have police remove protesters, but the conditions that led to RWE¡¯s license for expansion ¡°have changed dramatically,¡± ...
10 Jul 2018, 15:01 Wind and solar power, together with other renewable sources, have overtaken coal as Germany¡¯s most important power source, figures released by the industry group BDEW show. But this milestone in the history of the country¡¯s energy ...
22 Oct 2014, 00:00 Germany is to push for a triad of targets for 2030 at the EU climate summit on 23-24 October with broad backing from the public, and some concerns on the part of industry. Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der ...
Despite many setbacks, a number of achievements towards greater environmental protection in the past decade is cause for optimism, Achim Steiner, former executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, tells Bernhard P?tter in an interview ...
It is true that Russia is Germany¡¯s biggest energy supplier but German consumers are not ¡°captives¡±, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ¡°To the dismay of climate politicians, an abundancy of oil, gas and coal is ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:27 Rachel Waldholz Cars Society The Verge German car companies have announced major initiatives to promote electric vehicles, but not everyone is convinced, reports US tech site The Verge. Protests in some cities- modelled after the French ...
Germany will need the well-directed use of power-based synthetic fuels in connection with a phase-out of oil and natural gas to reach its long-term climate targets, the think tanks Agora Energiewende and Agora Verkehrswende* write in a joint analysis. ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:45 Rachel Waldholz Gas Grid Hydrogen 91tv Producing hydrogen from renewable energy is already cost-competitive in niche markets and likely to be competitive in industrial-scale applications within a decade, according to a ...
23 Jun 2017, 00:00 The leading candidates of the two smaller yet influential German political parties sparred at a utilities conference in Berlin over major energy policy issues, such as the exit from coal-fired power generation and a national versus a ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:33 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Renewables Solar 91tv / pv magazine Germany's ...
Several European civil society organisations, including Friends of the Earth (BUND) and Climate-Alliance Germany, have launched a collective campaign ¡°to catalyse and hasten the move away from coal and towards clean renewable energy¡±. Several maps and ...
Europe¡¯s largest insurer Allianz has stopped selling policies to coal companies in an effort to fight climate change, report Oliver Ralph and Olaf Storbeck in the Financial Times. The company said it would immediately pull its coverage from single coal ...
Johannes Teyssen, the chief executive of energy company E.ON, said Germany is running the risk of losing the overarching plot of its Energiewende. He warned that the current government is focusing again too much on side-aspects such as the exact date and ...
Diesel engines will have ¡° a renaissance in the foreseeable future ¡± and shed its currently-tarnished image as a particularly polluting technology, VW head Michael M¨¹ller said at the important trade fair Geneva International Motor Show, the Frankfurter ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:12 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Electricity ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:52 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables 91tv German energy consumption has decreased three percent in the first three months of 2019, ...
23 Feb 2016
23 Feb 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt ¡°Nuclear giants buy their way out for 18 billion¡± The expert commission on financing the nuclear clean-up will suggest to the government that utilities transfer their ...
If the Paris Agreement¡¯s targets are to be met, future CO? emissions must be kept within a finite budget, and the more this budget is overrun, the more relevant carbon dioxide removal technologies will become ¨C and those come with great uncertainties,¡± ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:49 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Julian Wettengel ...
19 Feb 2016
19 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche ¡°Expert commission re-calculates nuclear provisions¡± The expert commission on financing the nuclear clean-up has commissioned consultancy Warth & Klein to calculate the ...
03 Mar 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Transport Society 91tv A growing majority of German travelers say they are taking climate change and sustainability into account when planning vacations, according to a YouGov survey. 60 percent of German ...
Germany¡¯s ruling conservative CDU party says its coalition partner Social Democrats (SPD) have to acknowledge that the expansion of Germany¡¯s renewable energy capacity will be more difficult than initially thought, Focus Online reports. So far, the SPD ...
Lowering energy costs is one of the most important goals for Germans in the Energiewende, according to the ¡°Stiebel Eltron Energie-Trendmonitor 2018¡± report, seen by the 91tv. Seventy-two percent of the respondents in the representative ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Cars Spiegel Online The German government has invited major domestic car manufacturers and suppliers to Angela Merkel¡¯s chancellery to discuss the technological challenges of the transition to renewable mobility, and ...
23 Nov 2015
23 Nov 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) / Green Budget Germany (F?S) ¡°Energiewende in transport a long time coming¡± Fundamental political steps to relocate and avoid traffic and push alternative fuels and engines are ...
15 Jun 2015
15 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ¡°Merkel¡¯s expensive targets¡± ¡°Climate chancellor¡± Angela Merkel¡¯s promise to put 1 million e-cars on German roads by 2020 might cost taxpayers dearly, writes Holger ...
The German federal government must implement the promised additional tenders for offshore wind energy without delay and must also rapidly increase the expansion paths for all renewable energy sources, the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) ...
In a wide-ranging acceptance speech to members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) after his nomination as Chancellor candidate, former President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz also spoke about environment and climate protection. Schulz said ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:58 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities S?ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Germany should not focus exclusively on "green hydrogen" made with renewable electricity in its highly anticipated strategy for creating a ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:47 Rachel Waldholz Coal Reuters / pv magazine The French utility Engie will sell four coal-fired power plants in Germany and the Netherlands as part of the utility¡¯s strategy to focus on its renewable energy business, Catherine Rollett ...
Germany may have ¡°led the way in rhetoric on energy in the European Union [¡] but has not managed to match deeds to words¡±, Nick Butler, visiting professor and chair of the Kings Policy Institute at Kings College London writes in an op-ed for the ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:00 S?ren Amelang Grid Renewables Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany¡¯s federal states have decided on a joint approach in climate policy, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. State premiers agreed to push ahead with the ...
15 Jul 2015
15 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°A fight for survival¡± Due to recent government decisions to mothball some lignite plants, utility RWE will cut 900 to 1000 jobs in the western German lignite industry, which ...
German energy policy will not serve as a global energy policy blueprint, but as inspiration, according to the World Energy Council (WEC) Germany. In a survey, 60 percent of energy experts from 42 countries said the Energiewende could not serve as a global ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:58 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Financial Times Germany¡¯s last hard coal mine in the Ruhr area will officially close on Friday 21 December and with it the era of a ¡°fuel that propelled the nation¡¯s economic and political expansion ¨C for ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:16 Sven Egenter Cars S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung German drivers do not want electric cars because these do not offer the same range as any gasoline car at a competitive price, e-mobility pioneer G¨¹nther Schuh says in an interview with S¨¹ddeutsche ...
Train driver assistance systems could make passenger and freight rail even more environmentally friendly, cutting energy use by 15 percent, according to a study by the Pro-Rail Alliance lobby group. ¡°Driver assistance systems for rail transport are an ...
An alliance of climate activists and renewable proponents has published an advert in business daily Handelsblatt urging politicians to stop the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) in parliament in order to ¡°save the Energiewende¡±. ¡°Anybody who wants ...
By 2050, an electricity supply based on renewable energies could be either approximately as expensive as or even cheaper than a fossil-based electricity system, if the cost of a tonne of CO? is 50 euros or more, according to a scenario comparison by the ...
In a parliamentary debate, representatives of the centre-left SPD and Greens again called on Peter Altmaier, the federal minister for economic affairs and energy, to set a date for the promised special auctions for a combined 4 gigawatts of solar ...
Federal employment minister Hubertus Heil has put forward a six-point plan to soften the effect of a coal phase-out in the three lignite (brown coal) mining districts in Germany. There should be a special plan for road, rail, and digital infrastructure ...
For the time being, economy minister Peter Altmaier will not specify a date for the launch of additional auctions for wind and solar energies, according to an article in the Handelsblatt. In their coalition treaty, the parties that make up the current ...
Unconventional fracking, the gas drilling by means of chemicals, is a chance not only for supply security, but also for the climate, Michael Theurer, deputy leader of the Free Democrats (FDP) parliamentary group, told Der Spiegel. Using more natural gas ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:31 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Wind Hydrogen 91tv Engineering conglomerate Siemens, oil giant Shell and German grid operator TenneT have called for stepping up the country¡¯s plans to roll out offshore wind, in ...
No matter which parties will eventually form a coalition, Germany¡¯s next government will continue with an agenda of ecological modernisation, writes Arne Jungjohann, energy analyst and a consultant for the German Green Party, in a guest commentary on ...
Costs stemming from differences in regulation in individual countries have the potential to distort an otherwise competitive level playing field in cross-border renewable energy auctions in Northwestern Europe, writes energy think tank Agora Energiewende* ...
17 Jun 2020, 15:16 S?ren Amelang Cars 91tv German carmakers BMW, Mercedes, and Audi have recorded above-average sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles this year, according to a report by the Center of Automotive Management (CAM). While these ...
The political feasibility of carbon pricing depends more on public acceptance than on issues related to cost efficiency and economic benefits, a new study published by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change has found. In an ...
Tackling carbon emissions in the transport sector is the necessary and logical next step for Germany following from its energy transition, said the former head of the UN environment programme (UNEP) Achim Steiner at the launch event of the Agora ...
The Energiewende is a mammoth project and includes a number of risks. News agency dpa, in an article carried by Wirtschaftswoche, runs a ¡°fact check¡± of common claims regarding the energy transition, namely 1) the energy transition increases power costs, ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:57 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 91tv Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in Germany's inner cities is declining, but many urban ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal International Tagesspiegel The gradual phase-out of coal power in Germany over the next two decades does not at all guarantee a parallel drop in European greenhouse gas emissions, as the so-called waterbed effect ...
Efforts to improve the fuel efficiency of new cars sold in the European Union (EU) stalled in 2017 compared to 2016, according to provisional data published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA). At 118.5 grammes (g) of carbon dioxide (CO2) per ...
Germany¡¯s new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, has indicated support for a national price on carbon emissions. ¡°I find the idea very plausible,¡± the Social Democrat told the daily energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel Background. She said that a ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Coal RP Online The German state is not liable to compensate coal plant operators over the coal phase out, Birgit Marschall says in an article for RP Online. The federal parliament¡¯s research service concludes that while ...
16 Jan 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency 91tv A support programme by Germany¡¯s energy and economy ministry will save some 1.4 million tonnes in CO 2 per year as of 2020, the ministry said in a press release. By initiating 1,300 projects ...
28 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Renewables Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Federation of German Industries ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:27 S?ren Amelang Wind Reuters A German court approved an application for insolvency from wind turbine manufacturer Senvion, which has more than a billion euros of debt,? report Alexander H¨¹bner and Michelle Martin for Reuters. Senvion has ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze will argue for limiting CO 2 car emission cuts to 30 percent by 2030 at today¡¯s decisive meeting with her EU counterparts, despite believing the proposal by the EU commission falls far short of what¡¯s necessary ...
28 Oct 2019, 13:50 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv Carmaker Daimler plans to end the use of diesel engines in heavy duty vehicles over the next two decades, promising "CO2 ...
The German town Saerbeck¡¯s citizens¡¯ energy project ¡®Climate Community¡¯ shows that local, small-scale ownership could be the key to a successful energy transition, writes Audrea Lim for National Observer. With a large community?described as PIMBYs ( ...
09 Apr 2019, 12:44 Kerstine Appunn Transport Cars Tagesspiegel German transport minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) doesn¡¯t want a decision for ¡°transport technology of the future¡± to be made prematurely, Henrik Mortsiefer writes in Tagesspiegel. ¡°To only ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have vowed to work together closely at the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg to further shared goals and overcome diplomatic difficulties with third countries. During a visit in Berlin, Xi said ...
The financial contribution German carmakers BMW, Daimler and VW will make to the ¡°clean air emergency programme¡± has been secured, acting transport minister Christian Schmidt has said in a press release. ¡°°Õ³ó±ð German manufacturers will pay the share of 250 ...
The German environment ministry (BMU) has launched an app that is meant to contribute to the climate friendly behaviour of football fans watching the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia on public screens, the ministry has said in a press release. The app shows ...
04 Feb 2020, 13:45 Freja Eriksen Elections & Politics 91tv / MDR Th¨¹ringen [UPDATE note: In a surprise result, Thuringia¡¯s parliament on 5 February 2020 elected Thomas Kemmerich from the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP) as ...
Any date for abandoning coal agreed by Germany¡¯s coal exit commission must be linked to specific conditions- and these must be fulfilled to actually implement the agreement, the state premier of Germany¡¯s most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia ...
03 Feb 2020, 13:46 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:09 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Policy Handelsblatt / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The stagnation in Germany¡¯s task force on a coal exit is mainly due to neglect or even obstruction by policymakers,? writes Klaus Stratmann in a ...
Synthetic fuels generated with electricity are a viable option to improve the climate record of Germany¡¯s transport sector but the government has so far failed to come up with a clear position on e-fuels, Klaus Stratmann writes in the Handelsblatt. ...
08 Dec 2015
08 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv DENA "Only one third of households know their electricity bills exactly" Only about one third of German households know the exact amount they pay for electricity, a survey by the German ...
17 Jul 2019, 12:47 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert WindGuard Deutsche WindGuard Renewables Julian Wettengel Wind Deutsche WindGuard / VDMA German offshore ...
Biogas production in Germany has a lot of untapped potential for contributing to the country¡¯s climate targets and needs a proper long-term strategy to make sure it is put to the best possible use, lobby group Fachverband Biogas says in a press release. ...
Germany¡¯s last lignite-fired power plant will go off-line by 2040, the Social Democratic energy politician Bernd Westphal said at an event of innogy, the renewables spin-off of utility RWE, which owns many of the country¡¯s lignite plants. But the move ...
01 Oct 2015
01 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW)/Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) ¡°Wind power generation 2015 already exceeds last year¡¯s level¡± Thanks to strong winds and the addition ...
05 Jul 2018, 13:29 The climate advantage of natural gas can contribute to immediate CO? reduction by replacing coal and oil in the power sector and in heating, says J¨¹rgen Fuhlrott, Head of Business Development at Germany¡¯s biggest gas transmission grid ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:31 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal International Project Syndicate A German commitment to phase out coal by 2038 could have ripple effects far beyond the nation¡¯s borders, Johan Rockstr?m and Owen Gaffney of?the Potsdam ...
German steel company thyssenkrupp has started production of the synthetic fuel methanol from CO? and other emissions in steel production, the company says in a press release. The fuel production from side products of steel smelting is part of the so ...
02 May 2019, 13:33 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency 91tv The economy ministers of Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia have written to federal economy minister Peter Altmaier and finance minister Olaf Scholz to demand tax breaks for home owners who ...
25 Nov 2020, 12:19 Battery-electric trucks are set to take over heavy duty road freight because they are much cheaper to run than other low-emission technologies, says green vehicle expert Auke Hoekstra, a researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology. ...
25 Nov 2015
25 Nov 2015, 00:00 Spiegel Online/Urgewald ¡°German banks still put billions into brown coal¡± A study by environmental NGO Urgewald shows that German banks continue to finance climate-damaging brown coal, reports Spiegel Online. Deutsche Bank alone has ...
In an international ranking compiled by the US non-profit organisation ACEEE, Germany and Italy came first for being the most energy efficient countries among the world¡¯s 25 largest energy consumers. While ¡°no country came close to a perfect score¡± of 100 ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:12 Kerstine Appunn Transport 91tv Germany¡¯s federal council of state governments (Bundesrat), the second legislative chamber, today debates the use of e-scooters on pavements and cycle lanes. While federal transport minister ...
Germany needs to rapidly and decisively reduce its coal-fired power generation capacity by roughly 50 percent to meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, writes the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) in a letter addressed to economy minister Peter ...
Doctors in Germany should do more to promote the end of coal and oil in order to improve public health, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, head of the German Medical Association (?rztekammer), says in an interview with movum magazine. ¡°Climate change is real, it is ...
20 Jan 2020, 13:23 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background Critics of Germany's roadmap for phasing out lignite-fired power plants have ...
04 Feb 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Policy Welt am Sonntag The parliamentary group leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative party CDU, Ralph Brinkhaus, told newspaper Welt am Sonntag in an interview that the German ...
04 Mar 2020, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende 91tv Germany must move quickly to get its renewables expansion back on track if the country wants to avoid a "green power gap," forcing it to rely on power imports or fossil reserve ...
The market for green bonds is still comparably small, but ecologically sustainable bonds become more significant as climate protection is increasingly important for the population, writes Markus Fr¨¹hauf in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Green Bonds ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Energiewende Wall Street Journal Germany is set to have the ¡°world¡¯s dumbest energy policy¡± after the coal exit commission recommended to end coal-fired power generation by 2038, writes the ...
Key IT projects necessary for the digitalisation of the German energy transition are making no headway, endangering the ¡°ambitious large-scale project¡±, journalist Peter Welchering told German radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk. These projects included ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:28 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal International The hard coal exit in Europe gathers pace as renewables increasingly displaced the fossil fuel in Germany and France in 2018, but a phase-out of lignite has barely begun, according ...
The Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) calls for an end of Germany¡¯s Renewable Energy Act (EEG), which is aimed at supporting the expansion of renewable energy sources financially. In a press release on its ¡°Agenda for Germany¡± for the year 2030, the vbw ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:49 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Elections & Politics ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:34 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 ...
German carmakers are the main culprits behind the problems with emissions, writes Nikolaus Doll in an opinion piece for Die Welt. ¡°Not all, but important companies have lied, deceived and in the end will not manage to comply with the future limit,¡± Doll ...
Germany¡¯s energy supply security must not depend on the support of other countries, Thomas Bareiss, state secretary in the economy and energy ministry (BMWi), said at a conference on energy and climate policy organised by newspaper Die Zeit in Berlin. ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:23 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Gas Reuters Norway, one of Germany¡¯s top three gas suppliers with Russia and the Netherlands, could make further inroads into the German market as the country phases out coal, a top executive ...
While the coal exit commission meets in Rhenish mining district in the state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), thousands of coal workers protested for their jobs not far from the symbolic Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut down to make way ...
To make meaningful progress on climate change, fossil fuel money had to be taken out of politics to make it a non-partisan issue, German political scientist Arne Jungjohann said at a clean energy discussion in Ottawa, writes Elizabeth McSheffrey in ...
Germany can reach its target of increasing the share of renewable energy to 65 percent of power consumption by 2030 from the current 36 percent at moderate costs,?according to energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. Agora proposes a series of measures to ...
The share of diesel cars in Germany's new vehicle registrations was down 25.4 percent in March 2018, compared to a year before, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). Total new car registrations stood at 347,433 vehicles, 31.4 ...
The roll-out of renewable energies in Germany is key to reaching the country¡¯s climate targets, according to the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). In a publication on the impact of green energies on emissions, the agency says that renewables increasingly ...
The ¡°market slump¡± in the German wind power sector, which continues to lead to job cuts at manufacturers and suppliers, is caused by government regulation, writes the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) in a press release. ¡°°¿²Ô the one hand, the federal ...
The German energy industry is optimistic and sees itself well prepared for the future, financial services company KPMG said in its Future Readiness Index 2018. While its future readiness is "solid", it is currently facing only the beginning of a ...
04 Dec 2018, 15:34 Federal Association of Offshore Wind Farm Operators The association of Germany¡¯s offshore wind farm operators (BWO) has welcomed a government proposal to increase the country¡¯s offshore wind power capacity from 15 to 20 gigawatt (GW) by ...
09 Dec 2015, 00:00 [Updates party statments to new draft text] Issues of differentiation, finance, loss and damage remain / High ambition coalition seeks attention and new partners / "Preparing for long nights" says German environment minister ...
The EU could significantly reduce the financing costs of developing its renewable energy potential by setting up a guarantee programme,?according to a study by energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. ¡°°¿²Ôe euro of public funding would leverage 50 euros of ...
By the end of 2017, renewables expansion in Germany exceeded targets by a considerable margin, but the country still lags behind on several other energy transition indicators, writes Hubertus Bardt for the industry-sponsored research institute IW K?ln in ...
A massive expansion of France¡¯s renewable power capacity could lead to a wave of cheap nuclear power flooding the energy markets of Germany and other European countries, Markus Becker writes on Spiegel Online. The French ¡°transition ¨¦nerg¨¦tique¡± could ...
A new study published by the World Energy Council Germany (WEC) on the climate impact of the country¡¯s transport sector says that policymakers fail to base their decisions on a ¡°coherent big picture.¡± ¡°°Õ³ó±ð current regulatory framework is tied to the ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:10 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche St?dte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 ...
Falling emissions from the energy sector mean Germany¡¯s overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell slightly in 2015, compared to 2014, according to revised data published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). 901.9 million tonnes CO? equivalents were ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:28 Rachel Waldholz Business & Jobs International The Hill / Bloomberg Opinion Opinion writers are invoking Germany¡¯s Energiewende in their arguments over US proposals for a Green New Deal (GND). Germany¡¯s experience proves the Green ...
Germany¡¯s energy transition from nuclear and fossil energy to renewables has many sceptics and requires a lot of hard work, but shows that ¡°it can be done,¡± Judith Lavoie writes on Desmog Canada. Manfred Fischedick of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate ...
The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) says the country¡¯s coal exit plan should be accompanied by a plan to achieve 100 percent renewable energy supply. ¡°°¿²Ôly planning security for industry can lay the foundations for investments¡± and prevent ...
A fairer procurement of resources needed to manufacture renewable energy facilities would help the energy transition ¡°make a real contribution to more global justice and climate protection,¡± says catholic relief organisation Misereor in a press release. ...
The federal government wants to soften the blow of phasing out coal by investing in large battery factories, or Gigafactories, according to an article in Die Welt. In coal-mining areas around the country, these manufacturing facilities could provide a new ...
The parties currently in talks to form Germany¡¯s next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the blueprint agreement ...
28 Mar 2019, 09:15 S?ren Amelang Start-ups Business & Jobs Technology 91tv One in four startups in Germany contributes to environmental and climate protection, according to a report by the Borderstep Institute for Innovation and ...
After several hours of negotiations on diesel emissions and immigration, the federal government coalition also agreed that it would decide to implement special renewables auctions ¡°to contribute to closing the gap in the 2020 climate ³Ù²¹°ù²µ±ð³Ù¡± in a cabinet ...
The European Commission has given up plans to tighten the European emissions reduction goal for 2030 ahead of the UN climate conference COP24 in Katowice as member states did not voice sufficient support for the ambitious target to reduce CO 2 levels by ...
The energy consumption level of buildings in Germany was stagnant between 2010 and 2016, a report prepared by the German Energy Agency (dena) reveals. The trend of improving energy efficiency, which saw energy consumption drop by 20 percent between 2002 ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:01 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The expected dismantling of thousands of old wind turbines in Germany could overburden ...
Environmentally friendly technologies have become an important pillar of the German economy, the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) says in a press release. According to the environment ministry¡¯s new ¡°GreenTech Atlas,¡± the sector accounted for 15 percent ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:44 S?ren Amelang Cars 91tv More than 30,000 people have put in a reservation for Volkswagen's first purpose-built electric car ID.3, which will be unveiled at next week's Frankfurt Motor Show and is a litmus test for ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The western German federal state of Saarland has claimed greater financial support from the federal government for cushioning the effects of the state¡¯s phase ...
02 Jul 2015, 00:00 Germany will not impose an additional climate levy on old and dirty power plants. In late-night negotiations, the ruling government coalition buried a levy proposal, choosing instead to mothball and later decommission some lignite power ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:22 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities Reuters Municipal shareholders in RWE have called on Germany¡¯s biggest power producer to drive a hard bargain in ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:40 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f¨¹r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Freja Eriksen Coal 91tv The German Aerospace Center (DLR) will establish an institute dedicated to decarbonising industrial ...
Germany needs the new Russian-German natural gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 because ambitious climate targets make gas ¡°an even more important energy source¡± and reserves in Germany and the Netherlands are decreasing, write Christian Democratic (CDU) ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:33 Edgar Meza Transport Cities 91tv Electric scooters can contribute to sustainable urban mobility, but their integration in urban traffic must be coordinated jointly by municipalities and e-scooter providers, according to a ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:40 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Energiewende Financial Times Agreeing on a phase-out plan for German coal was hard, implementing it will be harder still, writes Tobias Buck in an article for the Financial Times. Buck uses the ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:55 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Wind 91tv The Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) has ...
France, the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany announced at the One Planet Summit in Paris on Tuesday that they would ¡°examine or introduce¡± an effective CO 2 price in "relevant sectors," according to a ?press release from the German ...
Deutsche Bank will no longer grant new financing for thermal coal mining or new coal-fired power plants, Germany¡¯s largest bank said in a press release. The bank will also ¡°reduce its existing exposure to the thermal coal mining sector,¡± it said. Deutsche ...
The EU needs much higher 2030 renewable energy and energy efficiency targets than are currently on the table, Radostina Primova and Rebecca Bertram from Green political foundation Heinrich B?ll-Stiftung said in an interview with EURACTIV. In negotiations ...
A broad alliance of German business associations wants the incoming government to give building insulation a boost with tax relief in order to cut emissions. The associations said corresponding measures should be included in the coalition treaty, and be ...
The European auto industry is questioning existing and future EU car fleet CO? emission limits, reports news agency dpa in an article carried by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ¡°Our industry is worrying about whether we¡¯ll be able to reach the 2021 target ...
Germany¡¯s government has fallen behind in the transformation of the energy industry triggered by the energy transition, and must now speed up its policy making processes to support the sector in reaching emissions reduction goals, the managing director of ...
Incoming environment minister Svenja Schulze will keep Jochen Flasbarth on as state secretary, Flasbarth confirmed to the tageszeitung (taz). The 55-year old Social Democrat is ¡°central to German environment policy¡±, well-connected in the EU and UN, and ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:46 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Energiewende 91tv German industrial trade ...
The EU emissions trading system (ETS) is not sufficient for ensuring that Germany meets either its CO 2 emissions reduction goals or the other targets of its energy transition, the German government says in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Left ...
French President Emmanuel Macron¡¯s suggestion of introducing a CO 2 tax leading to a minimum price of 25-30 euros per tonne of CO 2 is entering the debate between possible coalition partners in a new German government, writes Joachim Wille in the ...
