13 Dec 2023, 14:38 Germany will earmark billions of euros less for climate and transformation projects every year until 2027 in order to make the government budget comply with constitutionally enshrined limits on borrowing. One month after a seminal ...
06 Jun 2015
06 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Oxfam / E3G ¡°Let them eat coal¡± Five of the G7 countries are burning more coal now than before the Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009, while the G7 coal plants together emit ...
08 May 2024, 12:34 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels 91tv Northern German state Schleswig-Holstein will end the extraction of oil in the marine national park ...
29 Nov 2024, 11:00 Military and energy security are key priorities for Poland as it prepares to assume the EU¡¯s rotating presidency in January 2025. The country plans to achieve these targets by pushing for nuclear energy, sanctions on Russia, and EU ...
02 Aug 2019, 12:18 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 ARD A majority of Germans (72 %) say incentives are a better way of persuading the population to adopt more climate-conscious behaviour, while just 15 percent said bans were most effective, according to a ...
09 Sep 2019, 12:00 Citizens have been a crucial driver of Germany's energy transition and many regard sustainability and especially environmental action a crucial feature of sound investments. Yet, the vast majority of savings in the country are not ...
10 Feb 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Government Handelsblatt The new German government¡¯s promise to grant companies so-called ¡°super write-offs¡± for investments in climate-friendly projects could be obstructed by a lack of clear definitions and ...
18 Mar 2024, 12:57 S?ren Amelang Policy Security 91tv / Table.Media / The Guardian ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ defence ministry expects climate change to have a profound impact on security issues and has presented a plan to prepare its military for the new ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:51 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Rachel Waldholz Nuclear phase-out 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The environmental group Friends of the Earth Germany ...
08 Mar 2022, 13:33 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Government Clean Energy ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:30 A number of key issues relating to France¡¯s ecological transition have been put on hold after the rise of the far-right Rassemblement National party in June¡¯s European elections caused president Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National ...
On a visit to communities affected by new grid development, German energy minister Peter Altmaier said the transition to an energy system based largely on renewables was a project for the whole community that couldn't be implemented by going over ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:28 Edgar Meza Government Tagesspiegel Background ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Climate and Transformation Fund (CTF), a multi-year federal budget set up to finance climate and energy transition policy measures, again fell significantly short of spending ...
05 Jan 2024, 10:00 The German government must stop relying too much on giving out subsidies for climate action from 2024, and instead tackle the country¡¯s system of fossil fuel taxes, says energy analyst Andreas Schr?der from commodity intelligence ...
26 Jan 2023, 12:56 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims Die Zeit German health and beauty products retailer Rossmann said it will remove ¡°climate neutral¡± labels from its own-branded products following a joint investigation by newspapers the Guardian ...
17 Jan 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Business Finance 91tv Around three quarters (76 %) of businesses in Germany increased investments in sustainability measures in 2022 despite high economic uncertainty, a survey by consulting firm Deloitte ...
26 Jul 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Tagesspiegel / t-online U.S. car manufacturer Tesla will have to revise its plans to expand its gigafactory for electric cars in the German state of Brandenburg over concerns the new buildings would be partly ...
07 May 2024, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Company climate claims Society 91tv Commercials that promote climate-damaging products are in violation of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ State Treaty for Media, the labour union-affiliated Otto-Brenner-Foundation said. The ...
27 Aug 2021, 13:32 Edgar Meza Coal 91tv / Der Spiegel A German court has ruled against the country¡¯s newest coal plant, finding that building permission for the facility was granted illegally. The ruling removes one of two legal foundations ...
12 Nov 2024, 13:25 A cross-party effort in Germany is necessary to avoid that key policy proposals needed to achieve national climate and energy targets fall victim to the government coalition¡¯s break-up, economy minister Robert Habeck has warned. ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:18 High energy prices continue to keep ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new government busy, and the coalition parties are debating ways to ease the burden on struggling consumers. A possible short-term remedy could be an earlier end to the country¡¯s renewable ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The climate activist movement Fridays for Future (FfF) has announced a new "global climate action day" on 25 September on which it will hold protest events in ...
20 Apr 2016
20 Apr 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv BMUB / Deutsche Welle ¡°Germany asks Belgium to hit the switch on disputed Tihange and Doel nuclear reactors¡± Environment minister Barbara Hendricks submitted an ...
17 Dec 2020, 14:20 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv The German parliament has passed the? latest reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG),?which specifies a timeline of tenders for renewable power installation additions until ...
05 Feb 2025, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Handelsblatt The German government and industry players are considering using parts of the contentious Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea for hydrogen deliveries ...
A group of scientists including Hans Joachim Schellnhuber of ?the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) are proposing a ¡°carbon law¡± to halve anthropogenic CO? emissions every decade, aimed at achieving zero net emissions by mid-century. In ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind Policy 91tv Germany's federal states need to band together and devise a coherent strategy to ensure that the expansion of renewable energy sources can proceed in line with the ...
27 May 2022, 13:54 S?ren Amelang International G20 & G7 91tv Germany and the United States have launched an energy partnership focused on accelerating climate action, speeding up the energy transition with new technologies, and promoting ...
09 Sep 2015, 00:00 The government is sticking to a controversial plan to pay power operators for keeping old coal plants in reserve in case wind and solar power are not available to meet demand, details of a draft electricity market law show. Clean Energy ...
09 May 2023, 12:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport 91tv The German government must address structural obstacles to faster and more comprehensively reduce emissions across the country¡¯s economy in order to achieve international ...
08 Aug 2024, 14:03 S?ren Amelang Fossil fuels Society dpa / 91tv A German court has temporarily banned the construction of an electricity connection needed to power a planned gas drilling platform in the Wadden Sea, a World Heritage Site in ...
21 Apr 2016
21 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv WWF Germany ¡°Germans want more climate action¡± German citizens would like to see more engagement in the fight against climate change, environment organisation WWF Germany says, ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:13 Italy has just taken over the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) large democratic economies, but its positions on climate policy often remain ambiguous, says Luca Bergamaschi, co-founder of the think tank Ecco Climate. He ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:21 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv Renewable ...
26 Nov 2024
26 Nov 2024, 11:15 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's Scholz: disagree with EU fines for carmakers who miss CO2 limits German chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday there should be no fines in the European Union for car companies that do not comply with ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:16 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Expert Verdi ver.di Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Society taz / DLF / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung German service sector labour union Verdi has come ...
17 Oct 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv The implementation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is happening "too slowly", German environment ministry state secretary Rita Schwarzel¨¹hr-Sutter said ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:25 S?ren Amelang Mobility Cars Tagesschau German chancellor Olaf Scholz used his opening address at the IAA mobility show in Munich to unveil a push to increase the number of rapid charging points in the country, reports Tagesschau. ...
04 Oct 2022, 15:05 Germany's western coal mining and heavy industry state North Rhine-Westphalia aims to complete the phase-out of coal-fired power production no later than 2030, eight years earlier than agreed in German coal exit law. However, two ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:24 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Elections & Politics 91tv A CO2 price as a surcharge on the fuel price, with the entire revenue flowing into a uniform per capita refund, is by far the fairest form ...
27 Feb 2023, 14:08 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Carolina Kyllmann Solar Business & Jobs 91tv Targeted immigration of ...
02 Nov 2022, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Politics Tagesspiegel Background The northwestern German state of Lower Saxony plans to become climate neutral by 2040. Following a regional parliamentary election in October, the ruling Social ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:22 Milou Dirkx Citizens' energy Renewables 91tv The German government is under increasing time pressure to legislate energy sharing opportunities and meet EU requirements originally set for mid-2021,? said ?the German ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:28 Franca Quecke Transport Freight electrive The German government has terminated two subsidy schemes for electric trucks and buses, the transport ministry (BMDV) told specialist publication electrive. The cancellation applies to two ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:43 The new chapter of the 6th report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focuses on mitigating climate change effects. Commentators from Germany regard the report as ¡°a clear call to society and policymakers for ...
18 Jan 2024, 13:21 S?ren Amelang Business Society 91tv Much of today¡¯s business reporting still ignores the dramatic impact the climate crisis has on companies, making it vulnerable to greenwashing and lagging behind institutional investors, ...
27 Sep 2021, 09:30 Germany is heading towards a three-party federal government with a significant climate action focus as the Social Democrats scored a thin victory in the federal elections following an unexpected comeback, and the long-ruling ...
01 Jun 2017, 00:00 A large share of the emissions from towns and cities comes from traffic. If Germany is to reach its Energiewende goals, each will have to do their bit to reduce the number of vehicles on their roads, and steer citizens towards greener ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:10 Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv High incomes in Germany should be taxed more to generate funds for ...
22 Feb 2024, 14:30 The climate impact of construction has mostly remained an afterthought in Europe's efforts to make its buildings climate-friendly, which has largely focused on heating emissions. Yet, as homes and offices become more energy ...
23 Sep 2019, 09:41 The German government coalition has reached an agreement on the country's climate action strategy, including a pricing system for carbon emissions in all major sectors. The 91tv presents reactions to the deal. S?ren ...
27 Jan 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Government Handelsblatt / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung No agreement was reached at a meeting by the German government coalition leadership convened to settle disputes over climate protection and the construction of ...
04 Aug 2021, 13:06 Germany's energy use in the first half of this year exceeded 2020 levels, as the economy recovers from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, figures by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) show. However, total ...
18 Nov 2015, 00:00 Days before the UN climate conference in Paris, Germany is taking stock of its national climate protection efforts. The government says the country is making ¡°good progress¡± with its energy transition, but independent experts warn that ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Die Zeit The possible earlier coal phase-out in eastern Germany continues to lead to clashes between the federal government and state governments in the east, with views differing on how a coal exit in ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:32 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 Expert Federal Network Agency for ...
11 Jan 2024, 13:49 Jennifer Collins Agriculture Society Tagesspiegel Germany risks becoming as polarised as the U.S. as farmers have blocked roads with tractors in massive protests over cuts to diesel subsidies, agriculture minister Cem ?zdemir said, ...
13 Apr 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Resources & Recycling Rheinische Post / 91tv Agriculture ministers in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ states have called to make the use of wood in new housing projects easier in a bid to increase the sector¡¯s ...
11 Nov 2024, 13:52 Several days of little sunshine and wind have pushed down renewable electricity production in Germany in early November, causing an increase of fossil fuel use and high power prices. However, energy analysts said such conditions are ...
04 Dec 2020, 13:01 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Tagesspiegel Background Germany will fail to achieve its 2030 target of a 65 percent renewables share in power consumption, even with added ambition in the latest draft for the ...
13 Sep 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv Many companies in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ vast "Mittelstand" sector of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) still place high importance on sustainability, despite ...
20 Jan 2021, 13:27 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 91tv 91tv ...
15 Jun 2022, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv For a ¡°fair and adequate¡± German contribution to efforts to reach the international climate target of keeping the global temperature rise below 1.5¡ãC, the country may emit no more ...
23 Jun 2020, 14:00 Helping European Union member states find a compromise on a coronavirus recovery package in July will be a first test for the German EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020, says Sophie Pornschlegel, senior policy analyst at ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:20 Jessica Bateman Business & Jobs 91tv Germany should respond with more and faster climate action to the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia¡¯s war against Ukraine, said the German CEO Alliance for Climate and Economy ...
22 Feb 2023, 13:52 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Cities Society 91tv The initiators of an upcoming referendum on committing the German capital Berlin to 2030 climate neutrality have expressed confidence the vote will be successful, ...
12 Jul 2023, 13:28 James Jackson Gas Heating Rheinische Post Following a government decision to postpone a ban on new oil and gas boilers, German consumer protection groups have warned people against installing fossil-fuel based heating systems. Consumers ...
16 Aug 2019, 12:14 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 UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
26 Nov 2015
26 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau ¡°Germany plans the exit¡± A spectacular change in German energy policy is taking shape a few days before the start of the climate summit in Paris, ?writes Thorsten Knuf in ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:50 India and a group of countries including the U.S. and Germany will not agree on a so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), a key international deal that was meant to promote the South Asian nation¡¯s climate-friendly ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Die Welt / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has called on the country¡¯s states to massively ramp up their onshore wind power efforts, newspaper Die Welt reports. ...
02 Oct 2019, 10:07 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung [UPDATE adds media report on climate action cost estimate of 150 billion euros by 2030] The German ...
13 Aug 2020, 13:48 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government has set out to accelerate planning procedures for infrastructure projects linked to the energy transition with a focus on speeding up onshore wind power expansion in particular. Utilities welcomed the streamlining ...
31 Jan 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government 91tv Several NGOs and industry trade union IG BCE have called on the government to make fundamental changes to how the state uses its financial powers to push the transition to ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv A monitoring system for the expansion of renewable energy sources and better planning tools for companies are needed to ensure a reliable transformation of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy, ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs EU Handelblatt / 91tv The opposition by the German co-governing Free Democratic Party (FDP) could prevent the planned adoption of sustainability and human rights rules for the EU's ...
08 Jul 2022, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv Both the federal parliament (Bundestag) and the council of state governments (Bundesrat) have passed this year¡¯s first major batch of energy ...
05 Dec 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Wind Freight Handelsblatt / 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Federal Association of Offshore Wind Energy (BWO) is calling for greater capacity for the country¡¯s ports in order to expand turbine installations at sea. Offshore wind ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:46 Onshore wind power is a key element of Germany's energy transition and a leading force of the country's renewables industry. But after years of rapid growth, the sector's expansion has almost come to a standstill in the ...
28 Nov 2023, 14:36 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Business Finance 91tv German industry is increasingly investing in climate protection measures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28 ...
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) wants to develop a national climate protection law and introduce a CO? floor price, the party says in a first draft for the federal election campaign programme. "We will continue to develop European emissions trading ...
29 Mar 2021, 13:47 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility 91tv The future German government needs to implement a federal mobility law to ensure the transition to a climate-friendly transport sector, says transport and environmental association ...
06 May 2022, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Finance 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ designated climate action budget ¨C the Energy and Climate Fund (KTF) ¨C isn¡¯t big enough to fully cover the necessary climate-friendly transformation costs, ...
28 Jan 2022, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government 91tv / Tagesspiegel The new German government¡¯s supplementary budget that includes the rededication of about 60 billion euros of credit authorisations from the country¡¯s ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government 91tv / Die Zeit ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government has formally adopted the country¡¯s draft budget for 2025 and amended the 2024 budget, which had become a difficult task after a court ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:48 After four days of negotiations, the EU member states have agreed on an unprecedented funding package to cushion the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and secure the bloc's budget until 2027. The 27 governments greenlighted a ...
23 Feb 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Finance Correctiv Leading German insurance companies continue to provide cover to liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure, even as they often make sustainability a key corporate goal, investigative news outlet ...
04 Oct 2021, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background German parties shared a few details only on the ongoing exploratory coalition talks after the national election, but said that climate action, ...
19 Jul 2019, 13:52 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Security BNetzA / Handelsblatt The German Federal Network ...
11 Sep 2024, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Wind Handelsblatt Offshore wind parks located far away from ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coast would be more profitable if they produce green hydrogen to send to the mainland by pipeline as well as having a direct electricity connection, ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:33 Ruby Russel Gas Zeit Online Construction of Germany's first onshore liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal has begun at Stade in the state of Lower Saxony, close to the northern port city Hamburg. Expected to be operational by 2027, ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze backs? Chancellor Angela Merkel position on the European Commission¡¯s proposal to raise the 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target. ¡°We have set goals for 2020, which we will not reach. To then say ¡®we will set ...
14 May 2024, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Finance 91tv Germany should invest an additional 213 billion euros compared to current budget plans over the next ten years in public services and infrastructure to decarbonise its economy ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:13 Municipalities of all sizes are at the forefront of the transformation of cities, infrastructure and Europe¡¯s energy system, and should therefore lead this change actively, the?German Institute for Urban Affairs (Difu) said. Enabling ...
18 Nov 2017, 00:00 Bonn had delivered what was necessary to be on schedule for the decisions needed at COP24 in Katowice, the Germany delegation said / Negotiations finished in the early hours of 18 November / Last contentious issues still debated through ...
12 May 2023, 13:48 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating 91tv New oil and gas heating systems are seeing a sales boom in Germany ahead of a planned law that could ban the ...
25 Sep 2019, 13:57 Expert Oxfam Germany Climate & CO2 COP21 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv German environmental NGOs have used the publication of the ...
The federal government, regional states, and municipalities will have to invest in energy efficiency in new building projects, according to a draft law, reports Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. The economic and environmental ministries¡¯ proposal for a law ...
10 Nov 2020, 13:47 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 Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Renewables ...
28 Oct 2022, 13:17 Julian Wettengel International COP27 91tv The German government aims to continue efforts to regain the trust of the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, while at the same time strengthening ...
22 Jun 2022, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU 91tv Germany's finance minister has said the country will not back EU plans that amount to a ban on the sale of new combustion engine cars from 2035, arguing such a move would shut the door ...
17 Feb 2023, 12:55 S?ren Amelang Carbon market Coal Table.Media ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy and climate ministry (BMWK) wants to take all CO? certificates from the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) that will be freed up by the country¡¯s coal exit off the market. ...
09 Nov 2022, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann International dpa / Handelsblatt / 91tv Politicians and business representatives from France and Germany have stressed the need for a sound and extensive cooperation of the two key EU members to maintain ...
02 Jun 2021, 12:09 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv German agriculture minister Julia Kl?ckner has presented a model for financially rewarding ...
20 Aug 2024, 13:26 The transport sector receives by far the biggest share out of all of Germany's government subsidies that are harmful to the climate, according to a report commissioned by the economy ministry. In their coalition agreement, the ...
17 Aug 2021, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling EU Handelsblatt European states have to seriously explore possibilities to source key raw materials for more climate-friendly technologies domestically instead of relying on imports from ...
30 Aug 2024, 14:17 As Europe¡¯s most intense heatwave in recent years finally comes to an end, following at least 35 days of well-above average temperatures, life in Italy has slowed into the summer break. In mid-August, the entire country grinds to a halt ...
19 May 2022, 12:05 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv A German NGO specialising in environmental litigation has launched legal action against Nivea maker Beiersdorf, oil majors BP, Shell, TotalEnergies and other ...
17 Jun 2021, 12:00 As the German election campaign kicks into its next gear, the chancellor candidates of the country¡¯s major parties met face to face on Wednesday to discuss climate and energy issues at an event organised by energy industry association ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Carbon removal EU 91tv An agreement by the majority of EU member states on a draft for an EU wide standardised and voluntary certification framework for CO2 removal and carbon farming marks an important step ...
23 Nov 2020, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn International G20 & G7 91tv The heads of state and government from the G20 (Group of Twenty) major economies have formally confirmed their cooperation on climate protection. Despite the United States ...
27 Jul 2022, 12:42 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv The government has decided to adapt support schemes for energy efficiency in buildings and puts the focus on renovating the existing stock. ¡°The vast majority of people live in older houses. ...
12 May 2022, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Society G20 & G7 91tv / Die Zeit Several major environmental groups have urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to step up the country¡¯s climate action efforts and make the topic a priority of the G7 ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:34 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 tageszeitung (taz) [UPDATE adds Left Party quote] The German government has declined to specify the amount of greenhouse ...
04 Jun 2025, 13:23 s.amelang Adaptation 91tv Around 3,000 people have died due to high temperatures during each of the past two summers in Germany, said both the country¡¯s environment agency (UBA) and its disease control authority, the Robert ...
21 Oct 2020, 12:22 The average air temperature in Germany has risen by about 1.6¡ãC from pre-industrial times and the effects of global warming are becoming increasingly felt in the central European country. The government¡¯s progress report on its climate ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:46 S?ren Amelang Company climate claims Society 91tv Food product labels such as ¡°climate neutral,¡± ¡°CO2-neutral¡± or ¡°climate positive¡± do not indicate that these are climate-friendly at all and should be banned, consumer NGO ...
16 Mar 2023, 12:59 Carolina Kyllmann Cities Politics Tagesspiegel At least five billion euros are to be earmarked for climate protection in the city of Berlin, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Cristian Democrats (CDU) decided, newspaper Tagesspiegel ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv / Reuters ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ special envoy for international climate action Jennifer Morgan welcomed the climate and energy diplomacy priorities adopted by the EU Council ...
16 Dec 2019, 10:24 Germany will miss its climate targets without leaps in technological innovation, even taking into account the recently agreed climate package, says Georg N¨¹?lein, deputy parliamentary group head of chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s ...
02 Jun 2025, 13:11 S?ren Amelang Adaptation 91tv / Zeit Heavy rainfall and flooding caused insured damages worth 2.6 billion euros in Germany last year, around one billion euros more than the long-term average, industry association GDV? said. ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:59 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Society Die Zeit / Der Spiegel The fight against a planned resettlement of five villages due to expansion of a lignite mine in West Germany continues, writes newspaper die Zeit. In a state parliament hearing, the ...
25 Aug 2021, 11:25 As ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal election in September draws closer, climate activists put pressure on all parties to back the 1.5¡ãC global warming limit outlined in the Paris Climate Agreement. After a year of continuous protests in 2019, the ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his government would pave the way for prolonging the runtime of all three of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ remaining reactors until April 2023. The German leader thus intervened to settle a dispute about the delayed end of ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Policy n-tv / Die Welt The new support mechanism for accelerating the roll-out of electric vehicles in Germany through increased tax write-offs for company cars has been received well by the automotive industry, ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:23 Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Grid operators TenneT and TransnetBW have presented their detailed plans for the route of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ large north-south electricity line ¡°SuedLink¡±, running from windy Schleswig-Holstein down to ...
03 Nov 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany is currently heavily dependent on imports of raw materials key for energy transition technologies, but the government is only in the early stages of ...
28 Oct 2019, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel / dpa The German parliament's council of elders has decided that CO2 emissions of duty travel of MPs will have to be compensated through a "climate levy", news ...
11 Oct 2022, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv Germany aims to keep the Paris Climate Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5¡ãC within reach, even as the energy crisis in Europe puts a focus on fossil fuels in the short term, ...
24 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024, 11:31 Julian Wettengel IRENA: Record growth drives cost advantage of renewable power Eighty-one percent of renewable additions in 2023 were cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives, offering countries a compelling business and investment case to ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:29 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Elections & ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:00 German industry association BDI has said that the country¡¯s industrial success in the future depends on businesses doing well on green technologies such as modern power grids, wind energy, green hydrogen production, electric mobility, ...
16 May 2024, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Transport Freight 91tv To decarbonise freight transport more quickly, government action should prioritise the expansion of the charging infrastructure for electric trucks, said the German Council of ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Adaptation dpa / Bild Germany's health minister Karl Lauterbach is set to present first proposals for a national heat protection plan to better help the population in case of heat waves, reported news agency dpa. ...
30 Oct 2023, 13:55 Carolina Kyllmann Finance 91tv Additional political efforts are needed to close the public "financing gap" for measures needed to meet Germany's 2030 climate targets, according to a Green Budget Germany (F?S) ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:55 Eastern German coal mining regions have welcomed draft legislation to support the states most affected by plans to phase out the fossil fuel by 2038 at the latest. The economy ministry presented an "investment law for coal regions ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:16 Policy Society 91tv The Covid-19 pandemic can offer insights into how to cope with the climate change crisis in terms of risk management and policy reaction,? a Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) study says ...
06 Aug 2024, 13:15 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Efficiency 91tv / M¨¹nchner Merkur The number of applications for state support to pay for counselling on how to improve energy efficiency in residential buildings reached a new high of 80,000 ...
01 Feb 2021, 13:47 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt The German industry is confident that the goal of achieving ...
07 May 2025, 11:40 91tv Team Climate & CO2 Bloomberg: Orsted cancels major UK offshore wind farm as costs jump The move is a significant blow to UK plans to boost the clean energy source in the coming years, and also a setback for the offshore wind ...
05 Apr 2019, 12:40 New legislation passed yesterday by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal parliament is to ensure the timely completion of crucial power grid connections that transport renewable electricity throughout the country. This law will bring the energy transition ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:42 The German government¡¯s target of sourcing 80 percent of the country¡¯s electricity from renewable sources by 2030 is very much achievable for Germany if current positive trends persist, economy minister Robert Habeck has said at a ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:12 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Plans by Germany's economy and climate ministry to lower industry power prices with ...
12 Oct 2021, 13:09 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Expert RWI ¨C Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI ¨C Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities Der Spiegel District heating could help to decarbonise up to 20 million of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ roughly 43 million households, if the government introduced the right subsidies and framework conditions, the industry ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Company climate claims 91tv Germans¡¯ holidays have become more sustainable, but the demand for offers with an eco-label, or for CO2?compensation is still at a low level,? said the ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Finance EU 91tv The European emissions trading system (EU ETS) and national carbon pricing brought Germany a record 13.2 billion euros from the sale of carbon dioxide pollution rights in 2022, the Federal ...
16 Aug 2024, 12:00 Croatia is feeling the consequences of climate change this summer. The country experienced long heat waves and record temperatures were recorded in the Adriatic Sea. This has led to more media attention on the topic of climate change, ...
24 Mar 2023, 13:47 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Policy 91tv A German strategy on carbon capture and use (CCU) or storage (CCS) ¨C the carbon management strategy which is currently being developed by the government with stakeholder input ¨C ...
21 Aug 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cities Tagesspiegel Berlin could use its two disused airfields to build wind turbines on, Christian Gr?ff, member of the Berlin House of Representatives with the ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), told ...
03 Mar 2021, 12:17 The European Commission has expressed doubts that Germany's planned compensation payments to operators of lignite-fired power plants in the context of the country's coal phase-out are in line with EU state aid rules, and ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:35 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government 91tv ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Society EU 91tv Security and affordability is the top priority for the future young Europeans want, followed by a liveable planet and social justice, according to the Next Generations Study 2023 survey by ...
23 Mar 2022, 12:38 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 G20 & G7 S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Germany has a key role to play when it comes to getting governments across the world on board for the transition away from fossil fuels, said the country¡¯s new state ...
12 Apr 2024, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government 91tv Most people in Germany want the government to take on new debt to invest in areas that are important for security and prosperity in the future, rather than complying with strict ...
09 Dec 2022, 13:52 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Table.Media / 91tv In a bid to achieve its climate targets, the German government aims to bet more strongly and more quickly than previously thought on the controversial technologies of ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Dlf / Spiegel / dpa The Paris Climate Agreement¡¯s aim to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius is ¡°politically basically no longer manageable,¡± Stefan Rahmstorf, climate ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:33 S?ren Amelang Cost & Prices Society 91tv A large majority of Germans are worried that the ongoing rise in everyday costs will erode their standard of living, according to a survey by insurer R+V. "People feel their ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:36 Edgar Meza Solar 91tv Rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) in the EU is thriving due to new strategies and regulatory changes adopted by the bloc since 2022, in large part because of Russia's war on Ukraine, according to a ...
02 May 2023, 13:39 Internationally agreed targets to expand renewable energies and increase energy efficiency are needed to put the global economy back on a path towards limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5¡ãC, Germany's foreign minister ...
23 Dec 2022, 10:24 After the shock of the energy crisis in 2022, the German government must tackle a range of issues that have been relegated to the back burner due to Russia¡¯s war on Ukraine, says Brigitte Knopf, secretary general at the Mercator ...
08 Oct 2024
08 Oct 2024, 10:30 91tv Team Reuters: EU backing for China EV tariffs shows Berlin's waning influence Germany was one of only five EU members to reject tariffs after months of pressure from its carmakers, which rely on China for almost a third of ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:25 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Freja Eriksen Efficiency 91tv "Practically all" of Germany's three-million non-residential building stock will have ...
06 Sep 2024, 13:20 Jennifer Collins Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany's federal government may have to pick up a one billion euro tab to dismantle a nuclear power plant that shut down in 1989 as the operating ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:17 S?ren Amelang Policy 91tv Contradictory tax incentives are a major hurdle for making the German economy more climate-friendly, according to an? analysis ?by Green Budget Germany (F?S) commissioned by the Bertelsmann ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:00 S?ren Amelang Resources & Recycling 91tv Reaching climate targets will only be possible with a new sufficiency approach, German government advisors? have said. "Ecological crises are progressing at an alarming rate ...
14 Jun 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 Science ministers of the G7 countries have agreed on a number of measures to promote greater climate change research, CO2 removal and protection of the ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus. A meeting in Frankfurt on ...
13 Feb 2023, 13:45 The ¡°net zero¡± climate plans of 24 of the world¡¯s largest companies add up to emissions reductions of only 36 percent, according to a? report ?by the NewClimate institute and non-profit Carbon Market Watch. The strategies of the self ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:38 Expert Forschungsgruppe Wahlen e.V. Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Germany is currently the country most concerned about climate change out of the 28 surveyed for the August update ...
11 Jun 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 YouGov / dpa A majority of Germans would refrain from short-haul flights (74 percent), eat ¡°significantly¡± less meat (63 percent) and move without their car in inner cities (56 percent), according to? ...
26 Sep 2024, 13:00 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Policy 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Industry representatives have largely welcomed Germany's plans to ramp up the hydrogen market, but called for amendments to a draft law to broaden ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 EUElections2024 91tv The re-election of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has largely been welcomed by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government, observers in the energy industry and by civil ...
28 Nov 2023, 13:47 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government 91tv / Table.Media Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz said his government would continue to pursue its green transition plans even in the face of a budget crisis resulting ...
12 Apr 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Hydrogen DENEFF / PwC ¡°10 percent turnover growth in the efficiency sector¡± Companies in the business of supplying energy efficiency solutions grow much faster than the rest of the economy, ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel EU G20 & G7 91tv Climate action tops the agenda of the German presidency of the G7 group of influential economies, which the new economy and climate ministry aims (BMWK) to use to improve greenhouse gas ...
06 Oct 2021, 12:15 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung, taz, Frankenpost The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences¡¯ decision to award this year¡¯s Nobel Prize in Physics to Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:44 Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal government has spent 16.3 billion euros supporting projects to help coal mining regions with the transition away from the fossil fuel industry, a first report by the federal ...
19 May 2025, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's federal government needs to provide additional funds for climate mitigation and adaptation measures, and make these easily available to its states ...
14 May 2025, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Society 91tv / Handelsblatt / Ludwigshafen 24 / TAZ The mild winter and low rainwater levels could have severe consequences for Germany's agriculture, shipping industry ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv Europe's wind power industry and the German government have agreed on a set of measures to tackle challenges regarding the sector¡¯s competitiveness, continued investments ...
09 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Der Spiegel Nuclear plant operators in Germany are unenthusiastic about the prospect of having to revise their long-prepared decommissioning plans despite growing calls for the extension of runtimes, ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:46 Julian Wettengel Gas International 91tv / Zeit Online / t-online The NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has called on economy minister Robert Habeck to follow the example of the U.S. government and declare a moratorium ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:03 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Efficiency Die Welt / 91tv Four industry associations and the German Energy Agency ...
21 Jan 2019, 12:26 An internal working paper by the task force responsible for proposals to cut emissions from ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ transport sector has stirred public controversy. Federal transport minister Andreas Scheuer, whose own ministry appointed the ...
02 Nov 2020, 13:59 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Cars Welt am Sonntag Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has imposed a fine of twelve million euros on ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Adaptation Cities Table.Media The German government has called for municipalities to prepare risk analyses on the expected impacts of climate change throughout Germany. In an interview with Table.Media, environment minister ...
27 May 2016, 00:00 Update 27 May 2016 [European Commission approves state aid for closure of lignite power plants] | The government has approved wide reaching power market reform, including a phase-out plan for some lignite plants. A "coal reserve ...
30 Apr 2021, 14:05 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 91tv The fight against climate change and environmental degradation continues to be a top concern for Germans even during the pandemic, according to a survey commissioned by the country' ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 91tv A major lignite (brown coal) mine in eastern Germany will have to halt regular operation on 1 September after a court ruled the mine's owners failed to prove its environmental safety. The ...
23 Dec 2021, 13:13 A new German government has started its work shortly before Christmas, kicking off its four-year term with a key promise to make the country ready for its ambitious bid to become climate neutral before the middle of the century. At a ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:55 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Cities Society 91tv Public support for climate protection measures such as the introduction of speed limits or the building of wind turbines, is split markedly between rural and urban ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:37 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv Germany must electrify its railway network eight times as fast as it does today to achieve its target for the sector, said the Pro-Rail Alliance, a lobby group consisting of non-profit ...
13 May 2022, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv With the current legal framework for energy and climate policy, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ building sector climate target would be missed by a wide margin, said energy industry association BDEW in a report. The ...
21 May 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit Parties which stand for election in the European Parliament vote this weekend may face a "historic opportunity" to set the continent on track for ambitious ...
07 May 2019, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Cars 91tv An increasing number of Germans say they have major worries about climate change (61 percent in 2019 compared to 37 percent in 2017) and many are calling for action in ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:24 Edgar Meza Finance EU Handelsblatt The European Central Bank's (ECB) test of the resilience of lenders to the financial and economic consequences of global warming have turned out to be far more benign than widely expected, ...
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has toned down its ambition regarding the introduction of a carbon floor price in its proposal for a party programme, to be decided at a federal party conference on?25 June. The party, which currently governs together ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:09 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Spiegel Online The remaining carbon budget available to Germany and indeed the whole world under the terms of the Paris ...
01 Nov 2022, 13:37 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv The draft climate action programme currently debated among German ministries is not enough to reach greenhouse gas reduction targets in the transport sector for 2030, and additional steps are to be ...
24 Sep 2020, 09:24 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 Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian ...
17 Dec 2015
17 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Zeit ¡°We can do it one more time¡± Germany needs nothing less than a second energy transition in order to achieve its climate target of reducing emissions by 80-95 percent by 2050, writes Petra ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 91tv A large majority of the German public continues to support the energy transition, but financial hardships as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could dampen households¡¯ willingness to ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry Business & Jobs 91tv The executives of companies worldwide are becoming increasingly concerned about climate change, but in Germany less so in global comparison, said ...
25 Jun 2021, 13:41 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv / Tagesspiegel A majority of Germans want to see more government regulation when it comes to climate protection, according to a new survey of more than 2,000 people conducted by the Kantar ...
10 Aug 2015
10 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel / Spiegel Online State premier criticises coal compromise Torsten Albig (Social Democrat), state premier of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, has criticised the capacity reserve ...
15 Mar 2023, 13:21 S?ren Amelang Renewables Society 91tv The German government can count on very broad popular support for its plans to accelerate the rollout of renewable energies, a survey has revealed. ¡°The population is ready for a ...
15 Feb 2022, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv Climate action and the protection of biodiversity need be more closely linked, according to a German scientist contributing to the UN¡¯s climate change report, which ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:23 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Rheinische Post / 91tv A group of villagers living in towns threatened by coal mine expansion in western Germany plan ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU 91tv German economy minister Robert Habeck has welcomed a deal among EU institutions to raise the target share of renewable energy in the bloc¡¯s overall energy consumption. ¡°Today's ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:22 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Expert KfW Bank KfW- government ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Data centres could provide excess heat to Frankfurt¡¯s district heating network, energy provider Mainova and data centre operator Interxion announced after signing a memorandum of understanding ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance International Handelsblatt The German business association CDU Economic Council, associated with Angela Merkel¡¯s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, opposes plans by the European Central Bank (ECB) to make ...
19 Dec 2023, 13:31 The German government must be on guard in 2024 to ensure it can meet its increasingly distant target of having 15 million electric cars on the road by 2030, says Wiebke Zimmer, deputy executive director of clean mobility think tank ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Government International 91tv The German government plans to support climate and environmental protection projects in Indonesia with credits worth 2.5 billion euros by 2025, the German development ...
06 Sep 2022, 13:50 Germany should keep two of its three remaining nuclear power plants on standby beyond the planned phase-out date at the end of the year to help secure power system stability in the coming winter if necessary, economy and climate ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:24 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Climate change is still young Germans¡¯ biggest concern, but they would rather politicians act on the topic than drastically change their own lifestyles, a survey ...
30 Mar 2022, 15:54 Renewable energy sources are the answer to both the climate crisis and the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia¡¯s war against Ukraine, said ministers at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue. Experts, politicians, business leaders and ...
11 Oct 2022, 14:16 Carolina Kyllmann Nuclear phase-out AFP The German coalition government hasn¡¯t been able to come to an agreement over the economy minister¡¯s proposed runtime extension scheme for two of the country¡¯s three remaining nuclear power plants ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Water levels at Lake Constance are nearing a historic low point following a lack of rain and reduced snow meltwater coming from the Alps, reported public broadcaster ARD. While low water ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Industry EU 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Institute for Economic Research (ifo) has urged the European Union to refrain from further debt-financed subsidies as a response to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). "The EU ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv The year 2023 was the windiest in Germany in more than 15 years, providing excellent conditions for wind electricity generation, said Germany's National Meteorological ...
23 Jun 2022, 13:05 Edgar Meza Policy EU Euronews, 91tv The European Parliament¡¯s approval on 23 June of a draft law overhauling the bloc¡¯s emissions trading system (EU ETS) has been met with widespread criticism from industry and ...
13 Mar 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv / Handelsblatt / dpa ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy and agriculture ministers seek to intensify strategic cooperation with Brazil and Colombia on trade and climate action, they said. Over a six-day ...
08 Dec 2021, 14:36 Jessica Bateman Elections & Politics Government S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new foreign minister, Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock, will head up international climate policy for the first time in the ministry¡¯s history, ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Government EU 91tv France and Germany, who have recently been at odds over the future role of nuclear and gas, will intensify their cooperation on climate action in Europe and work ...
14 Jun 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background / FAZ / 91tv German newspapers call the government¡¯s decision to cut energy taxes on fuels for three months to soften the impact of rising prices a ¡° ...
20 Dec 2018, 16:33 On 21. December 2018 the mining of hard coal officially comes to an end in Germany. The closing of the last mine in the Ruhr region marks the end of 200 years of mining the fossil fuel that made ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ industrialisation possible. The ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Policy EU Table.Media The consequences of Germany's current budget struggles will have implications on the European Union, but the extent of the impact will depend on decisions taken by the ruling coalition ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:46 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Agriculture 91tv Regions in Poland, Belarus and Ukraine are at a high risk of experiencing a drought in 2025, as an "extremely dry" winter could not regenerate ...
17 May 2019, 13:00 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The 18-year old student and Fridays ForFuture activist Ferdinand Klemm has ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:25 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal 91tv The sharp decline of coal use in Germany this ...
15 May 2024, 12:35 Jack McGovan Renewables 91tv Germany could meet 25 percent of its heat demand from deep geothermal energy and the government should therefore make better use of this energy source, says NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) in a ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture Deutschlandfunk / Die Welt As German forests continue to suffer from heat damage and bark-beetle infestation, the country¡¯s ¡°most important ally for climate action¡± is in danger, writes ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:10 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K?ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The role of global warming and climate action in German media has grown ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:14 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Finance Elections & Politics 91tv Germany's next federal government can finance the necessary climate protection measures despite?a?return to the?so-called ¡°debt brake¡±,- the ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Utilities dpa / n-tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ local utility association VKU has called for public support to finance the decommissioning of the country¡¯s natural gas grid and avoid high fees for customers, news agency dpa ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv People in Germany are increasingly doubtful that the country will achieve its 2030 climate targets, from the expansion of renewable energy to the growth of electric vehicles on the country& ...
16 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 91tv Germany has seen its driest February to mid-April months since 1931,? according to the country's meteorological service DWD. ?? DWD ?recorded about 40 litres of rain per square ...
14 Jan 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Government 91tv / Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland The ambitious energy transition plans by new German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck have drawn criticism from the opposition, ...
22 Nov 2022, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Finance 91tv Achieving a climate-friendly transition in the automotive sector will require better information disclosure by carmakers to make the sector fit for investments from financial actors ...
26 Oct 2022, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Industry 91tv Plans?by the German government to "retroactively or disproportionately" skim off windfall revenues of the photovoltaic (PV) industry could lead to a market collapse,? said the ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:22 Jack McGovan Gas Security 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The EU isn¡¯t prepared to properly deal with a future gas crisis like the one resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to a new report ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:25 Kerstine Appunn Heating 91tv Heat pumps are the best option for Germany to reach its climate targets in the buildings sector, researchers from the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:38 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The parliamentary groups of German government coalition partners CDU/CSU and SPD are calling for forest owners to be financially rewarded for their?contribution to ...
07 Feb 2023, 13:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility EU Die Zeit / Handelsblatt The planned EU car emissions target norm, Euro 7, has come under fire from the German car industry and the country¡¯s transport minister, who argue the regulation will threaten many ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv Propelled by a rapid transformation in the heating sector, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ demand for natural gas looks set to plummet by one third by 2030 and by another third in the following decade, consultancy ...
28 Apr 2021, 13:17 Charlotte Nijhuis Society 91tv Most young Germans are in favour of the energy transition, according to a survey conducted by the German environment ministry (BMU) and the federal agency for nature conservation (BfN). Two ...
12 Jan 2023, 13:53 Edgar Meza Transport Cars S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Unhappy with the pace of climate action at the German transport ministry, the Green Party parliamentary group has drawn up a list of draft resolutions to tighten climate policy, the ...
13 Sep 2019, 13:23 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
22 Nov 2023, 12:39 Jack McGovan Cars Spiegel German chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to meet with heads of the car industry this coming Monday to discuss electric vehicle targets as part of the country¡¯s plans to move away from fossil fuels, reports Spiegel. ...
06 Jun 2024, 14:00 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv ...
27 Jun 2022, 13:57 Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal parliament (Bundestag) has passed a first batch of energy legislation, designed to accelerate the expansion of the power grid and protect consumers from rising energy prices when ...
18 May 2020, 18:14 The German government has agreed to remove key hurdles to the rollout of renewable energies that had begun to slow the country's landmark energy transition. The deal between chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance ...
03 Nov 2020, 14:10 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 Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Agriculture Clean ...
14 Dec 2018, 11:00 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail to meet its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for ...
28 May 2025
28 May 2025, 11:29 91tv Team WMO: Global climate predictions show temperatures expected to remain at or near record levels in coming 5 years Global climate predictions show temperatures are expected to continue at or near record levels in the next five ...
07 May 2021, 15:54 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ chancellor Angela Merkel has stressed the need for action against global warming, and urged countries to not fall behind on climate protection measures and financing for developing countries despite the ¡°massive holes¡± in ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Finance 91tv With a new action programme containing financial incentives and support measures for its famed ¡°²Ñ¾±³Ù³Ù±ð±ô²õ³Ù²¹²Ô»å¡± sector of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), Germany ...
14 Jun 2023, 13:45 Exceeding the 1.5¡ãC temperature limit of the Paris Climate Agreement would jeopardise the prospect of living in security and prosperity in Germany and globally, says ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ first-ever National Security Strategy. In the document, the ...
14 Feb 2025, 10:00 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ snap elections on 23 February take place against the backdrop of massive changes in geopolitics, presenting the next government with the opportunity to reset its relationships with major European partners, says Rafael Loss, ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:15 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 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
11 Aug 2021, 13:49 Kerstine Appunn Finance 91tv One of the main objectives of this year¡¯s UN Climate summit in Glasgow (COP26) should be reworking the details of international climate finance and include more links to reciprocal efforts in ...
20 Nov 2017, 00:00 After almost five weeks of deliberations, the pro-business Free Democratic Party has pulled the plug on Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s efforts to form a coalition government made up of her conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the Greens and the ...
06 Jun 2025
06 Jun 2025, 11:37 91tv Team Financial Times: Hotter world will drive more wars, EU climate chief warns Military staff increasingly concerned about rising sea levels, droughts and floods, according to EU commissioner. Montel: French-German energy ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:03 Swedish activist Greta Thunberg visited Berlin on Friday, joining thousands of young people who took to the streets in the most recent "Fridays for Future" school strike demanding more action on climate change. Protesters ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:32 As?Germany strives for a renewable-driven power sector, regulators should enable a more flexible electricity demand, says Nicolas Leicht, energy market expert at Aurora Energy Research. Incentives such as locational price signals, as ...
26 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: German, French companies less hopeful over economic recovery Companies in the euro zone's two largest economies are growing more pessimistic, surveys showed on Thursday (26 July), raising concerns over ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cars Policy dpa / Reuters / BR Only one day after opening a state support programme for installing solar panels for charging electric vehicles (EVs), ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ national development bank KfW closed the application ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Bids from southern states for support in building new gas power plants will be given priority to ensure the projects are built where they are most needed, according to key ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society dpa / Tagesspiegel The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg says ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ school strikes for climate action give her ¡°a lot of hope,¡± news agency dpa reports in an article in the ...
04 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Europe must debate a framework to ramp-up a hydrogen economy on the continent as a key element of its move towards climate neutrality, said German energy industry association BDEW. ¡°There ...
21 Oct 2021, 13:32 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next government must act quickly, trigger large-scale investments and set the right framework to ensure the country transforms its economy to reach climate neutrality by 2045, said industry association BDI and Boston ...
13 Nov 2017, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel calls on developed nations to advance technology and make investments to combat climate change / Protesters interrupt US event on "cleaner fossil fuels" / Peruvian farmer effected by climate change ...
28 Jul 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Grid ARD / 91tv Germany should cut the time it takes to approve planned transmission and distribution grid expansions by half, economy minister Robert Habeck said in a report by public broadcaster ARD. ¡°We ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:49 Julian Wettengel Renewables G20 & G7 91tv Leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) influential economies? have agreed ?on the aim to triple of renewable energy capacity globally by 2030, but stopped short of calling for an ...
30 Mar 2020, 13:53 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 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 ...
09 Feb 2023, 15:22 The spread of corporate net zero targets is starting to make itself felt across the world ¨C not only among businesses, but also far beyond. An increasing number of companies have started to scan- and then reduce- the climate impact of ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:24 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Freja Eriksen Agriculture 91tv / Der Tagesspiegel Both climate action and adaptation to climate change must be given "higher priority" ...
12 Dec 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen Die Welt Steel producers in the western German state of Saarland have been granted 2.6 billion euros in state support to transform their production procedures towards climate neutrality. Economy and ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:31 Expert Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Climate activists have criticised new stock index rules introduced by Germany's stock exchange operator Deutsche B?rse for not ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Policy 91tv German consumers will no longer have to pay the renewables surcharge on the power price as of 1 July 2022. The German federal parliament (Bundestag) passed ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:28 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Elections & ...
The US states, cities, companies, and civil society actors that have confirmed their unwavering support for international climate action despite the US administration¡¯s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement ¡°gives courage¡± to everyone adhering to ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry EU 91tv Greening Europe¡¯s industrial base, ensuring resilient clean-tech value chains and setting up a new EU climate fund should be among the priorities of the next European ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:38 Aniket Narawad Climate & CO2 Society Only 47 percent of people in Germany agree that high-income countries should take the lead on compensating low-income countries for climate change-led economic losses, one of the lowest support ...
16 May 2023, 13:43 Jessica Bateman Grid Heating ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ electricity grid may struggle to cope with the millions of heat pumps planned for installation around the country, experts have warned. The government is aiming to connect 500,000 heat pumps to the ...
02 Jun 2025, 13:24 S?ren Amelang Cars 91tv The new German government could implement its planned support for electric car purchases in a socially fair manner without an additional burden on public coffers, argues a report commissioned by a ...
30 Sep 2019, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Welt am Sonntag ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has made its critique of policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to protect the global climate a ...
12 May 2025, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Die Zeit Most people in Germany say they do not think that the country is going to meet is national climate target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, a? survey ?commissioned by ...
04 Jun 2019, 13:50 German foreign minister Heiko Maas has said that climate action is the country¡¯s new foreign policy imperative, as the security implications of its effects can already be seen across the globe. Germany aims to play a leading role in the ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation Policy 91tv The proposed energy efficiency laws in Germany might place a too heavy burden on data centres and could drive them out of the country, digital association Bitkom said in a press ...
15 May 2025, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government 91tv / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new chancellor Friedrich Merz has announced a mixture of policy restarts and continuity in his first government declaration in parliament, ...
24 Nov 2021, 13:06 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture 91tv The European parliament has passed the rules for funding European farmers but German NGOs and farmers associations insist that the new German government has to make changes to its ...
22 Feb 2022, 16:45 Many German politicians, business associations, and environmental NGOs have welcomed the government's decisions to halt the contentious gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 following Russian aggression towards Ukraine. Against the backdrop ...
06 Aug 2021, 13:20 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv A new funding model should link payments for climate protection performance for forest owners with ambitious biodiversity standards, the federal environment ministry (BMU) has proposed ...
The German federal cabinet finally approved the government¡¯s Climate Action Plan 2050 as the basic framework on how Germany is to become largely greenhouse gas neutral in 2050. In a press release, environment minister Barbara Hendricks pointed out that ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Policy 91tv In a bid to shield households and businesses from the drastic increase in energy prices, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government has approved a draft law to cap the price of electricity and gas ...
01 Apr 2025, 12:50 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Germany is already experiencing the consequences of climate change and undergoing accelerated warming, according to a report by the country¡¯s National Meteorological Service (DWD). The DWD ...
16 May 2019, 16:50 Chancellor Angela Merkel has put carbon capture and storage (CCS) back on the table, saying the controversial technology was crucial for Germany to reach climate neutrality by mid-century. CCS has been met with a lot of public mistrust ...
26 Sep 2022, 13:00 91tv Team Company climate claims Supermarket shelves are awash with "climate neutral" product claims and one company after the next is signing up to a "net zero" target. But how watertight are their pledges? Are they ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv The German energy crisis has not ended yet, but has become ¡°manageable¡± to a point where the government is confident it could be overcome for good by 2024, economy and climate minister ...
19 Feb 2024, 15:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics EUElections2024 dpa / Reuters / Der Spiegel / Zeit Online / Politico / Tagesspiegel / Augsburger Allgemeine European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is seeking a second term at the ...
16 Nov 2017, 00:00 Germany ratifies Doha without joint EU move / ¡°If the talks continue this way, we will reach our negotiation targets¡± ¨C German negotiator / UK and Canada march ahead on coal exit, NGOs criticise Germany / ¡°Move away from fossils if you ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:59 Poland is emerging from a long election cycle- from parliamentary elections last October that brought a change of government to local ballots in April, and finally the European Parliament elections earlier this month. All these bring ...
01 Nov 2021, 12:45 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung In the runup to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, eight leading environmental organisations have called on ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next government ...
11 Jan 2016
11 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Agora Energiewende ¡°How the exit from coal power generation by 2040 can be managed¡± Germany can exit coal by 2040 without significant effects on power prices or supply security, and the government ...
14 Mar 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation Policy 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background There is still a long way to go to increase digitalisation and make planning procedures faster and more efficient, for example for site planning for ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:42 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs G20 & G7 Reuters / Passauer Neue Presse / Handelsblatt / 91tv ...
20 Sep 2019, 10:25 Germany's highly anticipated future climate strategy remained uncertain on Friday morning as government coalition talks that lasted throughout the night were still ongoing. Negotiations between Chancellor Angela Merkel's ...
05 Dec 2023, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv Brazil and Germany have agreed to intensify cooperation on a wide range of environmental and economic issues. The two countries vowed to work more closely on topics ...
19 Jun 2023, 13:12 S?ren Amelang Coal International 91tv / Tagesspiegel Germany has committed an additional 200 million euros to help Colombia reach its climate targets. During the Colombian President, Gustavo Petro¡¯s, visit to Germany, the ...
17 Sep 2020, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Elections & Politics 91tv The right-wing nationalist AfD party has called for an end to all major climate action efforts Germany has committed itself to and wants to? abandon ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:22 S?ren Amelang International EU The European Parliament and the EU member states must insist on improvements to the European Commission's insufficient plans for emission reduction to rapidly make the bloc more independent from ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Germany needs a ¡°national master plan¡± to save its forests as carbon sinks and the federal government should provide 800 million euros over the coming four years to states ...
23 May 2022, 13:14 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen International G20 & G7 91tv The burgeoning global trade in green hydrogen risks becoming an environmental and social burden in producing countries, and the G7 must take steps to ensure it will ...
01 Dec 2021, 13:54 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Efficiency Tagesspiegel Background Germany's funding programmes for environmental innovation and energy efficiency lack measurable targets that can quantify their effectiveness, the country' ...
24 Apr 2020, 13:40 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 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany will raise its federal budget contribution for international climate financing from the current four billion euros to six billion euros annually by 2025. The success of the ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:20 The European Union aims to take on a leadership role when the global community meets in Egypt for the annual UN climate change conference. But a unified European voice is difficult to maintain as member states are hampered by ...
15 May 2025, 13:43 Expert DGNB ¨C German Sustainable Building Council Deutsche Gesellschaft f¨¹r Nachhaltiges Bauen Climate & CO2 Efficiency Cities Construction Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Construction 91tv Climate-friendly homes ...
09 Nov 2020, 14:57 European leaders, researchers and media commentators breathed a collective sigh of relief following Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential elections and expressed hope for a new partnership on combating climate change. The news ...
12 Jul 2023, 13:22 James Jackson Transport Travel Talk Lufthansa, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest airline, wants to increase the number of domestic flights to compete with rail travel and video conferencing services, the company¡¯s sales manager, Frank Naeve, told ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:45 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Oxfam Germany Climate & CO2 COP21 Freja Eriksen Climate & ...
European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Ca?ete¡¯s proposal to raise the EU¡¯s 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target to 45 percent from 40 percent relative to 1990 levels would catalyse action on the part of other ...
25 Jan 2021, 12:35 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Grid Cars Tagesspiegel Background German energy company EnBW has said that planned legislation to support the expansion of e ...
16 Dec 2020, 10:18 The European Green Deal will move from words to action in 2021 and trigger a "tremendous wave of reforms" that are of key concern to German industry, says Carsten Rolle, who heads the climate and energy division at the ...
27 Aug 2021, 13:31 Kerstine Appunn EU 91tv The European Union¡¯s? forest strategy ?should ¡°meaningfully flank and complement¡± the forest policies of the member states but not replace them, the agriculture ministers of Germany and Austria have ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:23 S?ren Amelang Cars dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau / 91tv The expansion of Germany's charging network for electric vehicles is making fast progress. The network grew by 45,000 charging points to a total of nearly 146,000 ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:52 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 Expert STEAG Electricity generator ...
28 May 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Finance Company climate claims 91tv EU rules have pushed many investment funds to drop terms like ¡°sustainable¡± or ¡°climate¡± from their names if they could not live up to the promise, even though guidelines ...
19 May 2025
19 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team FT: Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France Berlin has signalled to Paris it will no longer block French efforts to ensure nuclear power is treated on par with renewable energy in EU legislation, ...
23 Aug 2022, 13:32 Edgar Meza Digitalisation Efficiency Tagesspiegel Background The German government plans a new digitalisation strategy? that could pave the way for greater energy efficiency in the electricty sector, industry, and buildings, reports ...
A coal phase-out for Germany is implied in the federal government¡¯s Climate Action Plan 2050, environment minister Barbara Hendricks told Susanne G?tze and Susanne Schwarz in an interview for klimaretter.info. ¡°If you read the Climate Action Plan ...
The dispute within ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal government over environment minister Barbara Hendricks¡¯ Climate Action Plan 2050 ¡°is becoming increasingly uncomfortable for Chancellor Angela Merkel,¡± writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°At the next UN ...
13 May 2025, 13:23 Jack McGovan Transport 91tv A number of environmental organisations, trade unions and others have called on ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new transport minister, Patrick Schnieder, to commit to sustainable local and regional transport in his ...
21 Nov 2023, 08:43 The debates over the fallout of last week¡¯s shock constitutional court ruling on ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ state budget borrowing rules are in full swing, as the government faces difficult decisions on how to fill a 60-billion-euro gap in its special ...
18 Dec 2020, 12:15 In the upcoming election year, the 20-year-old climate activist for Fridays for Future (FfF) Jakob Blasel will run for German parliament on a Green Party ticket. Blasel told 91tv his decision was based on the need to close ...
21 Aug 2015
21 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Network Agency / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Twelve minutes without power¡± The German power supply was more stable in 2014 than in any year since 2006, the Federal Network Agency said yesterday. ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Coal Policy Tagesspiegel Background German economy minister Peter Altmaier said the government plans to agree on a ¡°Hard Coal Exit Law¡± in autumn, and the decision on which plants are shut down first will be taken via ...
Large German environmental NGOs plan to boycott an upcoming hearing on the Climate Action Plan 2050, organised by the federal environment ministry, writes Der Spiegel. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) and Nature and Biodiversity ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology 91tv The German education and research ministry (BMBF), through a new support programme for nuclear fusion research, aims to lay the groundwork for building the country¡¯s first ...
18 Jul 2023, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Society RND Public health officers in Germany have proposed to introduce a midday break akin to the Spanish ¡®siesta¡¯ to protect workers during the hottest hours of the day, media network RND reported. ¡°We ...
16 Jan 2024, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices 91tv / Augsburger Allgemeine In a parliamentary hearing, economists have largely backed the German government¡¯s insistence on gradually phasing out subsidies for diesel fuel ...
13 Dec 2018, 18:20 The global community is closely watching ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ lagging domestic climate action, which certainly does not help the country¡¯s credibility in international negotiations, says Lisa Badum, climate policy spokesperson of the Greens' ...
16 May 2019, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Finance 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Chancellor Angela Merkel says the need for a reform of financial markets along sustainability criteria is one of the most pressing challenges the sector is facing. ...
04 Aug 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt / Zeit / FAZ German media commentators have taken a closer look at the Green Party¡¯s climate action emergency programme for the first 100 ...
31 Aug 2021, 11:38 Ahead of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ September federal election, almost all parties in parliament are calling for climate policies that quickly and lastingly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The country¡¯s plans to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 ...
The Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and WWF Germany have developed a new online platform that assesses the climate impact of financial regulations in Germany and the EU. The Finance Fit for Paris tracker reviews laws and current measures to ...
The Greens parliamentary group wants to re-introduce the nuclear fuel tax and use it to pay the compensation to nuclear power plant operators for losses after the government pulled forward its nuclear power exit in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Focus Online The premier of the eastern German state of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, has criticised the federal government's climate action package, arguing that it "discriminates ...
10 Jul 2024, 14:01 S?ren Amelang Grid Cost & Prices Policy 91tv Leading energy economists have called for splitting Germany into different electricity price zones to reflect regional differences in power availability, and to stop ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Airplanes in Germany will be made more environmentally friendly by supplying them with clean electricity during stops at the airport, the country¡¯s transport minister, Volker Wissing, has said. Airplanes ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society 91tv / Reuters / dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau This week a campaign addressing the ¡°true¡± environmental cost of food products by German supermarket chain Penny is set to receive ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:41 Expert RWI ¨C Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI ¨C Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert ZEW- Centre for European Economic Research Zentrum f¨¹r ...
15 Dec 2014
15 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°Electricity crime story¡± Wherever they can afford it, German towns and municipalities have been buying back power grids and gas supply networks and are beginning to generate ...
11 Mar 2022, 14:26 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Security Clean Energy ...
26 Oct 2015
26 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy ¡°Gabriel: Brown coal agreement is important contribution to reaching climate targets¡± Coal power plant operators will gradually transfer 2.7 ...
13 Feb 2023, 14:05 Milou Dirkx Climate & CO2 Society Coverage of climate change on German public television has increased over the past years but still lags behind other topics such as business news, leaving ¡°a lot of room for improvement¡±, a? report ...
11 Nov 2021, 16:01 After a week of political announcements, ministers this week join their negotiators to hash out the nitty-gritty of the Paris Agreement rulebook and eyes are on a possible solution for carbon markets under Article 6. Meanwhile in ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:41 Europeans will head to the polls one year from now to elect a new EU legislature that will shape the bloc¡¯s energy and climate policy in the years leading to the 2030 climate target deadline. With its Green Deal strategy to make Europe ...
17 Mar 2021, 12:59 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics 91tv Climate activists from the Fridays for Future movement across the world will take to the streets on Friday 19 March for their seventh Global Climate Strike. With the slogan ...
20 Jul 2022, 13:56 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business 91tv Customer protection association vzbv has filed a lawsuit against Tesla over ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:00 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 Elections & Politics ...
13 Nov 2020, 14:53 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG Government pv magazine / 91tv The German government this week rejected a range of changes to the draft reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), which had been proposed by the the ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Transport Dlf / 91tv The German government will present a ¡°modern public transport ticket¡± after the population has ¡°embraced¡± the 9-euro ticket the country introduced as part of a relief package in the ...
16 Aug 2019, 13:19 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Industry International 91tv Germany has signed agreements to intensify its cooperation on climate and energy with Chile and Uruguay, with strong focus on decarbonising emission-intensive industry. At the ...
The federal environment ministry (BMUB) will continue to use citizens¡¯ participation processes to develop climate policy in the future, the ministry said in a press release. ¡°What we learned in the stakeholder process helped us in developing the Climate ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Germany is set to produce a record 256 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity from renewable sources this year, but the amount is still insufficient to put it on track to its 2030 targets, ...
07 Dec 2021, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Bioenergy 91tv The potential of cannabis for climate action and sustainability should be included in the new German government coalition¡¯s plans, the German Cannabis Industry Association (BvCW) ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:53 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business & ...
17 May 2022, 12:36 Edgar Meza Agriculture Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Federal agriculture minister Cem ?zdemir has presented several proposals to protect ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ forests, including more funding to land owners to introduce climate ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:02 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv There is high acceptance for ambitious climate policy in Germany, although many citizens are dissatisfied with the political implementation of the energy and transport transitions, the largest ...
24 Feb 2021, 16:12 German forests have been damaged heavily by droughts, bark beetle infestations, storms and forest fires in recent years. In 2020, more surveyed trees died than in any year before, said the Forest Condition Report 2020 by the agriculture ...
27 Jul 2022, 15:02 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv The German government plans to spend 177.5 billion euros of the federal budget for climate action, and the transformation of the country¡¯s economy, from 2023 to 2026. The cabinet ...
13 May 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel EU Security 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new economy and energy minister, Katherina Reiche, has emphasised the value in working with European partners to ensure energy supply for the continent. ¡°Cooperation with European ...
16 Sep 2019, 14:03 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Rheinische Post / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The ideas the German government's climate cabinet members and government parties have put on the table so far "will hardly be ...
31 Jul 2024
31 Jul 2024, 14:15 Benjamin Wehrmann International Energy Agency: World adding 510 GW renewable capacity in 2023 means 50%-increase from a year before Under current policies & market trends, global renewable capacity is set to be 2.5 times higher by ...
More than two-thirds of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ lignite plants emit higher amounts of nitrogen oxides (NOx) than would be permitted under new EU standards (which have not been implemented into German law so far), a report published by Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:53 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
30 Nov 2023, 13:07 Edgar Meza Electricity Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ budget crisis has forced economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck to postpone his ministry¡¯s long-awaited power plant strategy, Handelsblatt reports. Ministry sources ...
27 Nov 2023, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Government 91tv The court ruling on the unconstitutional nature of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Climate and Transformation Fund (CTF) hits at the country¡¯s ¡°economic core¡± and urgently requires a resolute and joint response ...
Members of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) group in the Bundestag have strongly criticised the current draft of federal environment minister Barbara Hendricks¡¯ Climate Action Plan 2050, Silke Kersting and Klaus Stratmann write in ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Coal 91tv Lignite projects in Germany received around 1.7 billion euros worth of support throughout 2022, according to an analysis by think tank Green Budget Germany (F?S). Despite the country¡¯s ambition ...
04 Apr 2022, 14:01 S?ren Amelang Cars Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A group of Volkswagen shareholders pushes Europe's largest carmaker to reveal its emissions regulation lobbying, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Seven institutional ...
Successful and resolute climate action has a mixed record among European countries, but former trailblazer Germany today is known for trailing behind, Joachim Wille writes in the Frankfurter Rundschau. ¡°There are still EU countries that take climate ...
05 Aug 2019, 13:11 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
02 May 2025, 14:40 Against the backdrop of the major blackout on the Iberian Peninsula in late April, which also affected parts of France, the country is heading for controversial discussions about its energy strategy for the coming decade. A focus will ...
Elements of the Climate Action Programme 2020, which the German government approved in 2014 to close the gap between projected greenhouse gas emissions and the reduction target of 40 percent by 2020, have still not been put into action, Silke Kersting ...
04 Aug 2021, 12:26 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics ...
Germany? will likely have to buy emissions rights ?worth billions of euros for failing EU transport and agriculture climate targets in the 2020s, but parliament and finance ministry appear only dimly aware of this risk, writes Bernhard P?tter in ...
China and the USA ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement?shortly before the start of the G20 summit in China proves that both countries now see more chances than risks in climate protection, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. The move will ...
27 Oct 2020
27 Oct 2020, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn dpa Countries should use nuclear energy because ¡°every path to reaching the Paris Agreement¡¯s two degree warming limit would be near on impossible without it¡±, Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic ...
01 Mar 2024, 14:06 At the height of its popularity just a few years ago, the climate protest movement Fridays for Future brought over a million people to the streets in Germany and across the world. Yet the movement now fights against losing relevance in ...
31 Aug 2023, 10:00 Climate change is putting Europe¡¯s water resources under immense pressure. Scientists expect heavy rain and dry periods to happen more often, be more severe, and last longer, leading to floods and droughts. Without swift mitigation and ...
29 Apr 2025, 13:37 Germany is unlikely to face the kind of massive power outage which hit Spain and Portugal on 28 April, as the country¡¯s system is based on redundancies and many safeguard measures are in place, said grid agency BNetzA. The two countries ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:26 Jennifer Collins Cities Politics 91tv / Tagesspiegel / RBB Berlin¡¯s Senate has adopted a five-billion-euro climate protection fund to flow into mobility, energy efficiency in buildings, power supply and the economy. The ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:21 Joey Grostern Adaptation 91tv Topsoil across much of Germany is significantly drier than usual for the beginning of April which could impact crop yields, with some of the driest springtime conditions since records began, ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Society Der Spiegel / 91tv Climate activists occupying the western German town of L¨¹tzerath to prevent it from being destroyed to make way for a nearby coal mine are to be evicted from January next ...
12 Dec 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid 91tv With several years of delay, construction of a key piece of grid infrastructure in Germany has started in the southern state of Bavaria. The SuedOstLink connection built by grid operator TenneT ...
23 Jun 2023, 10:00 As the two largest economies in the European Union, France and Germany, for at least a decade have acted as the bloc¡¯s key drivers of more ambitious climate action. A glaring gap in the two countries¡¯ energy policy has been exposed in ...
30 May 2025, 12:41 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv Current planning for electricity grid development in Europe and Germany may underestimate infrastructure and flexibility needs as it uses simplified weather assumptions and idealised prosumer ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Gas Neue Osnabr¨¹cker Zeitung ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ...
28 May 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Homeowners in Germany installed more gas boilers than climate-friendly heat pumps when replacing their heating systems in 2024, though the gap is closing, found a report by the government ...
21 Sep 2021, 14:04 The German state secretary in the environment ministry, Jochen Flasbarth, has called on wealthy nations to do more on climate finance and come up with a plan to reach the target of mobilising 100 billion U.S. dollars per year for ...
23 May 2025, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Security Handelsblatt ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ leading arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is looking to convert a large part of its fuel supply to renewable energy-based e-fuels. At an industry summit hosted by business daily ...
07 Nov 2023, 13:05 Edgar Meza Hydrogen International 91tv The German government is supporting the establishment of Africa¡¯s first green ironworks with a grant of 13 million euros. A consortium consisting of three German companies, CO2Grab, TS ...
13 Jan 2020, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Transport 91tv A new "competence centre" for climate action in the aviation sector has been launched at Germany's most important airport in Frankfurt am Main to facilitate progress in ...
20 May 2025, 13:09 Edgar Meza International 91tv Germanwatch is calling for greater support for Africa¡¯s energy transition as the continent continues to provide raw materials for Europe¡¯s green transformation. An upcoming meeting between ...
25 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Carolina Kyllmann Politics Government 91tv Internal spats and external crises have caused the German ...
02 Dec 2014
02 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°The end of dinosaurs¡° In the end, the large dinosaurs who had ruled the world disappeared ¨C ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ big energy companies face a similar fate, writes Markus Balser in the ...
30 Apr 2025, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 91tv In the waters of the German North and Baltic Seas, the options for marine carbon dioxide removal and geological storage are limited to just a few approaches, said researchers from the ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables EU 91tv The European Commission¡¯s proposals for emergency measures to speed up the expansion of renewable energy would give Germany the opportunity to quickly implement a number of measures ...
01 Mar 2022, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Wind 91tv / Spiegel / Bloomberg The German government is set to introduce a law to prescribe minimum levels for the country¡¯s gas storages, according to economy and climate ministry plans seen by ...
31 Mar 2015
31 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv ? Federal Environment Agency (UBA) ¡°Trend reversal: Emissions decrease to lowest level since 2010¡± German greenhouse gas emissions have decreased in 2014 for the first time in three years, ...
04 Oct 2019, 13:42 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German steel industry should receive billions in ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:37 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government 91tv The German Climate Action Programme 2030 will only become ...
Delays in approving the Climate Action Plan 2050 ?are the reason projects for structural change in eastern ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ lignite mining regions aren't yet receiving funding, writes Kurt Stenger in the socialist newspaper Neues Deutschland. The 2016 ...
04 Nov 2021, 14:09 Finding sources of funding for climate action and ensuring a fair distribution of benefits and costs among different groups in society look set to become the main challenges for negotiators of a new German government coalition. While ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:44 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 EIB / YouGov US citizens are somewhat more optimistic than EU citizens about the economic benefits of measures to combat climate change, according to a survey by online pollster ...
09 Dec 2019, 12:55 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 Coal 91tv / ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Federal ...
16 Nov 2020, 14:15 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International Der Spiegel Germany's state environment ministers back the European Parliament's call for raising the bloc's 2030 emission target to a 60 percent ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:42 Edgar Meza Society 91tv / Tageszeitung (taz) The Scientists for Future organisation and the B¨¹rgerbegehren Klimaschutz (BBK) climate action group have launched a citizen's climate council. The NGOs have assembled a ...
10 Mar 2023, 11:27 Despite its reputation as a nation at the forefront of green technologies like wind power, Denmark has been slow to focus on climate adaptation. Since a cloudburst shocked the capital Copenhagen with massive flooding in 2011, some steps ...
16 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) plans to streamline planning and approval procedures for faster construction of wind turbines, rail projects and even houses, newspaper Handelsblatt? reports. The ...
04 Dec 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Government COP28 Der Spiegel / 91tv Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has called off a planned trip to the UN climate conference COP28, due to the ongoing budget crisis that has upset the climate ...
17 Aug 2020, 13:40 91tv 91tv Society dpa / die Welt / taz ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with climate activists including Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer on Thursday (20 August) to discuss climate policy,? dpa reports in an ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background Green parliamentary group head Katrin G?ring-Eckardt has called for an ecologic stimulus package as news of Germany's economy shrinking in the second ...
09 Sep 2020, 14:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities rbb24 The government coalition in the City of Berlin has failed to reach an agreement on a new climate action package that would include a ban on cars with fossil-fuelled combustion engines within the next ...
15 Apr 2019, 12:08 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Frankfurter ...
11 Feb 2022, 13:44 S?ren Amelang Society 91tv The German Fridays for Future climate protest movement has said the new German government is nowhere near to implementing the policies necessary to address the climate emergency. "It's ...
17 Nov 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Mobility Tagesspiegel The city of Berlin has approved a plan to expand its bicycle route network to a total of 3,000 kilometres, Tagesspiegel reports. "We will increase the proportion of ...
02 Apr 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Europe could reduce its spending on security and defence by cutting its reliance on fossil fuels ¨C thereby starving Russia of funds from oil exports which are critical ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ fracking law, which takes effect today, is a setback for climate protection, argues Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) climate expert Ann-Kathrin Schneider in a guest commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. ¡°To limit global warming to a maximum ...
07 Feb 2023, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background / ntv The ¡®neglected topic¡¯ of building renovations and an absence of energy consumption optimisation have cost Germany an "unnecessary" 50 billion euros ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Heating Cities 91tv The European ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:37 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Die Zeit The German Green Party's candidate for chancellor, Annalena Baerbock, has said her party would ...
27 May 2025
27 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team ECB: The European economy is not drought-proof ? The degradation of natural ecosystems slows growth and leads to financial instability. Water scarcity, natural flood protection and water quality are most critical. Euractiv: ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Renewables 91tv Renewables have increased their power output in Germany to 49 percent in the first half of 2022, according to first estimates published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). ...
29 Nov 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv Global climate action and environmental protection can only work with an active Russian engagement, Germany's development minister Gerd M¨¹ller said at the German ...
