A series of interviews conducted by the European Commission among over 27,900 Europeans in March reveals that Germany’s strong support for climate action is no longer “a unique feature” of the country compared to its European neighbours, Dagmar Dehmer ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv Technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are not yet technically mature enough to contribute to climate action, the German government has said in an answer to a ...
Mining Union IG BCE has rejected the Green Party’s proposal for a lignite phase-out, report Silke Kersting and Frank Specht in Handelsblatt. It did not do justice to the topic to “simply view it from the perspective of campaign planning for the upcoming ...
Germany’s reset of its search for a final nuclear repository, with a new law approved in March 2017, is inhibiting the development of geothermal energy projects and is thus “blocking the way for the heating transition and climate protection”, writes Erwin ...
27 Jun 2023, 09:42 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling EU 91tv / Bloomberg Ministers from France, Italy and Germany have agreed on closer cooperation on the extraction, processing and recycling of critical raw materials needed for ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:21 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Coal Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German coal industry is looking to hydrogen production as an alternative in light of the ...
23 Oct 2020, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Handelsblatt The German government’s draft update of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) is not ambitious enough, as it fails to take into account developments that increase the need for renewable ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Energiewende Security 91tv Germany will have to build new gas-fired power plants and introduce additional measures to avoid electricity supply shortages during peak demand periods as the ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:17 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:53 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv In addition to electrification and a massive ramp-up of renewables, a greater use of diverse technologies such as seasonal heat storage or feed additives that reduce methane emissions from ...
Sea level rise is a major consequence of climate change that will continue long after emissions of greenhouse gases have stopped, and today’s mitigation action is important to limit long-term risks, according to a study conducted by the Potsdam Institute ...
10 Jul 2019, 12:58 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv In a broad alliance, industry associations and workers’ unions have developed joint “Guidelines for CO₂ pricing” in Germany. In a position paper, energy industry ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:12 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
The passing of a new law on the “Digitalisation of the Energiewende” in the second house of the German parliament, the Bundesrat, has been overshadowed by the vote on the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), according to an article in pv magazine. ...
24 Oct 2022, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Finance Company climate claims 91tv Sixty percent of the top 20 DAX companies – major German businesses trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange – have set themselves net-zero greenhouse gas emission ...
The German energy industry is utterly unsatisfied with the government’s energy policy track record after the first six months in office, Michael Bauchmüller writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. “We’re lacking someone to set the pace in policymaking,” says ...
15 Dec 2022, 11:57 Germany urgently needs an overarching plan to reduce transport emissions in the new year, given that the government didn’t make any headway during its first year in office, Wiebke Zimmer, deputy executive director of clean mobility ...
07 Dec 2021, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Elections & Politics 91tv Designated German climate and economy minister Robeck Habeck has said that faster construction of new wind turbines and solar panels will be a “core task” for his ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:29 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Gas 91tv The German government will hold the first round of tenders for hydrogen-ready gas fired power plants by the end of 2024 or beginning of 2025, the economy ministry (BMWK) has ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Construction 91tv Germany's first database of materials for the country's entire building stock could provide an important foundation for increasing the rate of reuse and recycling of ...
12 Dec 2019, 13:30 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Freja Eriksen Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine The volume Germany's green bond will be in the region of ten billion euros, the country's ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Tageszeitung (taz) The introduction of a uniform system for recycling the vast volumes of construction waste is not making headway even after 15 years of negotiations between Germany's 16 states, Heike ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Business & Jobs Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung French energy company TotalEnergies says it plans to stay on its expansion course in Germany, welcoming the CDU/CSU and SDP coalition deal that will continue ...
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23 May 2025, 11:00 91tv Team Financial Times: Merz backs Nord Stream ban to prevent US and Russia restarting gas link German chancellor is worried about reigniting domestic row over Russian gas imports. Reuters: German Q1 GDP upgraded as orders rush to ...
30 May 2017, 00:00 Germany’s energy transition is a vast national project that is reshaping the entire country- but it is not happening at an equal pace everywhere in the country. 91tv takes a look at the county Marburg-Biedenkopf in the central German ...
01 Jul 2022, 13:08 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Transmission grid operator Amprion has announced that it will cut CO2 emissions in its operations by a minimum of 63 percent by 2032. ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:27 Julian Wettengel Finance Süddeutsche Zeitung / Reuters The 25-million-euro greenwashing fine for Deutsche Bank-owned asset manager DWS is a clear sign that deception regarding sustainable funds will be penalised, wrote journalist Meike ...
23 Nov 2022, 14:07 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Policy Society 91tv An alliance of environmental NGOs and an industry union have called on the German government to launch an investment initiative to the tune of 100 billion euros per year ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:31 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Freja Eriksen Grid Spiegel Online / dpa Five ...
Germany’s energy ministry is drafting a law to accelerate the development of the country’s electricity network, Michael Bauchmüller reports in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The draft, seen by the paper, will include streamlining the planning procedure, ...
16 Feb 2021, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Handelsblatt The German car industry is headed for a "tragedy" if it does not succeed in becoming a lead market for electric mobility, entrepreneur Bill Gates has told business weekly Handelsblatt. The ...
04 Oct 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices EU Handelsblatt Some of Germany’s biggest CO2 emitters have taken advantage of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to ensure their own emissions remain low-priced, according to a Handelsblatt report by ...
18 Dec 2024, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 91tv Temperatures in Germany will this year be the hottest since records began for the third consecutive year, the country’s weather service DWD said. "Never since the end of the ...
03 Sep 2019, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Spiegel Online / 91tv Germany's Vice Chancellor, finance minister and top candidate to become leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Olaf Scholz, has ...
22 Jun 2021, 12:56 The manifesto of Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance for the upcoming national election remains vague on climate and energy, leaving plenty of leeway for possible government coalition negotiations with competitors like the Green ...
10 May 2023, 12:23 Sören Amelang Resources & Recycling Security 91tv Germany should make its landmark energy transition more crisis-resilient by increasing independence from raw materials that are needed for climate-friendly technologies ...
18 Dec 2024, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv Primary energy consumption in Germany dropped to a new low in 2024 amid warmer weather, a continued weakness of the country’s economy, and ongoing efficiency gains, the Federation of ...
Bavarian conservative parties Christian Socialist Union (CSU) and Free Voters have signed a coalition treaty for the coming five years in Germany’s southern economic power house and largest federal state. The alliance aims to make climate protection a ...
While the Green Party has steered clear of proposing certain impositions on the population– such as higher fuel prices – during the current election campaign, such actions by the government are ultimately indispensable to protect the climate, writes ...
The decision of 48 poorer countries to terminate coal-fired power production has sparked calls for Germany to envisage a speedy coal exit as well, the Rheinische Post newspaper reports. The announcement of the Climate Vulnerable Forum’s countries at the ...
Germany must “significantly increase” its goals for renewables expansion to supply all sectors with electricity in the future and reach its own climate targets, writes the Social Democratic parliamentary group in the Bundestag (SPD) in a new position ...
04 Feb 2015
04 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Tageszeitung "Wind turbines that can float" The Dresden-based Gicon group is producing a prototype for a floating wind turbine (see picture above), Bernward Janzig from the taz reports. ...
16 May 2025, 13:10 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices ...
21 Aug 2023, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Policy Der Spiegel The government of Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, looks set to abolish a controversial minimum distance rule for wind turbines, news magazine Der Spiegel reported. ...
15 Sep 2021, 17:52 In the run up to the German federal election, a group of young people have entered a third week of a hunger strike to call for more climate action- with one of the protesters being temporarily admitted to hospital. The group, which ...
21 Apr 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Solar International 91tv Germany has joined an international alliance of 75 countries to further the expansion of solar energy generation, the ministries for energy and development announced after a cabinet ...
22 Apr 2015
22 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online Resistance among Christian Democrats against power market law Four senior members of Angela Merkel’s ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) have send a letter to all members of the CDU-CSU ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Grid Renewables 91tv Dividing Germany’s single power price zone into several individual regions could reduce final electricity prices for consumers across the country, said a report by ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv More people in Germany say they want the government to invest CO2 price revenues in renewable energy sources and to lower grid fees, than compensating citizens through an ...
03 Jun 2025, 12:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost & Prices 91tv Importing shipped green hydrogen from Africa could be more expensive for Germany than previously thought, according to a joint study by TU Munich, Oxford University and ETH ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Tageszeitung There’s a “silent consensus” surrounding the international climate action negotiations that “capitalism has to stop the climate catastrophe,” ...
06 Apr 2022, 13:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Government 91tv The German Court of Auditors has criticised a lack of overview over energy research expenditures, arguing that about 500 million euros per year are being disbursed “blindfolded.” ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:49 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Policy Handelsblatt / dpa The German government wants to ensure by law that the planned elimination of the country's renewables levy exclusively benefits consumers and not power providers, saying it ...
22 May 2019, 13:21 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation 91tv The German government has said its new digitalisation strategy will help in the fight against the climate crisis and in efforts to transform the economy. Environmental data and ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen 91tv Norway has said it can supply industry customers in northern Germany with so-called blue hydrogen to push the ramp-up of hydrogen infrastructure in Germany, Norwegian government ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Society Table.Media The protests against the razing of the village of Lützerath in order to expand the brown coal mining operations of energy giant RWE are damaging Germany’s image and standing in international climate ...
08 Jul 2017, 00:00 Nineteen members of the G20 group of leading industrialised and emerging economies underscored their commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, leaving the United States isolated. The US also was the only country to opt-out of a first ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:09 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
A worldwide coal exit will be difficult as coal remains the easiest and often cheapest source of base power and many jobs still depend on the fossil fuel, writes Eduardo Porter in a column in New York Times. In Germany, “only about 63,000 jobs are ...
06 Jun 2023, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling dpa / Der Stern The lack of mineral resources could become a challenge for the planned ramp-up of hydrogen industry in Germany, Europe and worldwide, news agency dpa writes in an ...
25 Jan 2022, 13:24 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative ...
27 Aug 2021, 13:33 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv Heavy rainfall in Germany will become more frequent and more intense due to rising ...
04 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas EU 91tv The European Union can cut its fossil gas use in half by 2030 and fully exit the fuel by 2050 while maintaining supply security and industrial production at today’s levels without disruptive ...
15 Jun 2023, 12:36 Jessica Bateman Business & Jobs Manager Magazin Germany needs to recruit an additional 100,000 workers to meet the country’s solar expansion targets, according to the German Solar Industry Association (BSW). Speaking at industry ...
29 Nov 2018, 12:35 The rise of populism and unilateralists like US President Donald Trump increasingly challenge the rules-based international order and put global climate action as pledged in the Paris Agreement at risk. Still, a changing mind-set in ...
The German coalition government loves to talk about sustainability, but has shifted all responsibility for the nitty-gritty of climate action onto a commission tasked with managing the country’s coal phaseout, Michael Bauchmüller writes in the Süddeutsche ...
The EU needs to take a leadership role in addressing fossil fuel subsidies and the G20 platform is “an obvious way for EU leaders and ministers to showcase their efforts and actions to eliminate” them, writes Maeve McLynn, finance and subsidies policy ...
09 Feb 2022, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Government 91tv The federal government in Germany has to rethink its role in supporting public transport systems and change its approach from pouring money into new projects to instead creating ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:11 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Mobility Cars 91tv A broad-based coalition of environmental groups and police representatives is calling for Germany’s next government to impose a general speed limit on the country’s ...
A rise in electric heat pump sales suggests the energy transition has finally reached the heating sector, Daniel Wetzel writes for Die Welt. According to the German Heating Industry Association (BDH), sales of oil-fired heating sharply declined in 2017 ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv / Die Zeit / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany is introducing a nationwide monthly 49-euro public transport ticket which will allow users to use any regional buses or trains across the country, ...
The German gas industry believes gas is being “discriminated against” in Energiewende policies. In heating, renewable gas was being treated as a fossil fuel, and CO 2-savings by gas-powered cars were not counted as decarbonisation measures, said Timm ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background Climate policy plays an important role in the upcoming German state elections in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate on 14 March, Tagesspiegel Background writes. ...
06 Apr 2023, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Industry Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv Four leading German economic institutes have warned against industry subsidies like cushioning high power prices or efforts to re-establish ...
25 Sep 2018, 14:33 Europe needs a common standard for sustainable finance and investment regulation to ensure that the financial sector contributes to the transition to a low-carbon economy, financial industry representatives said at a green finance ...
17 Feb 2022, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s government should soon introduce a so-called climate premium (“Klimageld”) to return the revenues from the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to citizens, ...
21 Jan 2021, 14:14 Government officials from the European Union and Germany have welcomed the inauguration of U.S. president Joe Biden as the start of a new phase of transatlantic cooperation and an opportunity to tackle global challenges such as climate ...
The German system of taxes and levies needs a comprehensive reform to allow for the introduction of an effective carbon price without creating a major burden for power customers, think tank Agora Energiewende has found in an analysis. The think tank says ...
03 Jun 2025, 13:07 Expert Eurelectric European electricity industry interest group Electricity market EU Julian Wettengel Electricity Business & Jobs 91tv Increased production and use of electricity across all sectors is key for the ...
16 Sep 2019, 14:08 Edgar Meza Cars Deutsche Welle / Der Tagesspiegel Tens of thousands of protesters descended on the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt on Saturday demanding more ambitious climate action and an overhaul of transport policy, ...
The German Climate Action Plan 2050 shines a light on the German position during the EU Emisions Trading System (ETS) revision for the market’s rulebook after 2020, according to a blog post by Ecofys consultants Marcus Ferdinand and Moritz Schäfer. “It ...
10 Jul 2023, 12:16 James Jackson Cost & Prices Efficiency Heating Spiegel Increasing awareness of energy efficiency is affecting Germany’s housing market, with poorly insulated houses proving harder to sell, according to the news magazine Der Spiegel. ...
10 Sep 2021, 15:01 Kerstine Appunn Coal Cities 91tv The City of Hanover has finalised plans to shut down the combined heat-and-power hard coal station in Stöcken by 2026, operator enercity said in a press release.The agreement between the ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Politics Society Tagesspiegel As the political debate over immigration in Germany is becoming less heated in line with the decreasing number of migrants seeking access to the country, the party that ...
17 Apr 2025
17 Apr 2025, 11:28 91tv Team Euronews: "The West as we knew it no longer exists," von der Leyen argues amid Trump tensions "We don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules," European Commission head says in interview. Bloomberg: ...
The decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw his country’s support from the Paris Climate Agreement in June 2017 had outraged many commentators around the world, but the reality in many nations one year later is that they too do not seem ...
16 May 2022, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Rheinische Post / ARD / 91tv The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) have won the elections in Germany’s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia by a wide margin, meaning ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:41 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Edgar Meza Technology Society 91tv Despite the impact of the coronavirus crisis, 92 percent of German households continue to see ...
14 Nov 2022, 12:12 Edgar Meza Finance Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv / Politico Parliamentarians from Germany's ruling parties SPD, FDP and the Greens have announced an agreement for the country to leave the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU Handelsblatt / Zeit Online / FAZ German media commentators have cautiously welcomed the announcement by Chinese President Xi Jinping that his country aims for carbon neutrality by 2060. China’s ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv The cost of buying and running a new gas boiler in Germany is predicted to be twice as high as a heat pump over a 20-year period, according to a report by non-profit ...
06 May 2021, 12:12 The German government has presented its strategy to make the country a global leader in sustainable finance and help mobilise money for greening the economy. The Sustainable Finance Strategy proposes a “traffic light” system to identify ...
04 Jan 2022, 08:37 German ministers have criticised EU plans to label nuclear energy as a sustainable investment, but the government coalition is split on also including fossil gas in the taxonomy. Finance minister Christian Lindner of the pro-business ...
14 Nov 2017, 00:00 Technical negotiations at COP23 in Bonn are approaching the final stage; it's important that they will be open to amendments throughout 2018, says German negotiator / Ministers arriving in Bonn will focus on finance, loss and ...
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27 Mar 2025, 12:11 91tv Team Bloomberg: Trump unveils 25% auto tariff, threatens new levies on allies The new tariffs, which will hit German automakers in particular, will take effect on 3 April — one day after a broader range of so-called reciprocal ...
A determined transition to carbon-free energy production in Germany is crucial for the Paris Agreement to become a success, according to the environmental NGO Germanwatch. Signatories would have to make sure that the agreement is swiftly implemented- with ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:14 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Sören Amelang Company climate claims Society 91tv Products advertised as “climate neutral” mislead consumers ...
14 Nov 2021, 12:40 A Glasgow Climate Pact, including the notion that climate action needs to be accelerated within this decade to keep global temperature from rising more than 1.5°C as well as a historic reference to the phase-out of climate damaging ...
06 Feb 2024, 09:42 Germany is set to hold auctions to support the construction of new gas-fired power plants in the short term, which would then be converted to run on hydrogen in the mid-to-late 2030s, the ruling coalition said. The plants are considered ...
05 Nov 2019, 13:52 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:24 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities Handelsblatt The coronavirus crisis is accelerating investments in sustainability rather than pushing aside climate change as a ...
A quarter century after Germany published its first Climate Action Report in 1993, environmental groups give the country bad marks on its efforts to follow through on the promises made in the seminal document, news agency dpa reports in an article carried ...
20 Oct 2021, 13:15 Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Funke-Mediengruppe German Green party co-leader Annalena Baerbock has said that the controversial Russian-German natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 should only be granted its operating permit if it adheres to ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:58 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:13 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Mobility 91tv A broad alliance of labour unions, environmental and social organisations, as well as the protestant church, has called on the German government to speed up the transition ...
22 Nov 2019, 12:04 Expert Ottmar Edenhofer Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC, Director of MCC, Deputy Director and Chief Economist of PIK Climate & CO2 Energiewende Technology Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...
Service sector trade union ver.di’s has said that a fair coal exit in Germany is possible and can be financed, a statement that could alter the course of the current discussion among Social Democrats, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in an opinion piece in ...
The German federal cabinet has decided on a draft law to restrict marine geoengineering, technology involving large-scale technical measures to artificially reduce the atmosphere’s CO 2 concentration, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature ...
27 Jan 2022, 13:04 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Finance International 91tv The new German finance minister, Christian Lindner, has said climate action and sustainable finance will be two core topics during the country’s G7 ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:26 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 The progress made so far by the world’s largest industrialised and emerging countries is far too miniscule to adhere to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree temperature ...
Germany’s federal parliament has approved a controversial revamp of the country’s energy transition. The government coalition of economy minister Sigmar Gabriel’s Social Democrats and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Conservatives secured a majority vote for ...
Social Democrat leader Martin Schulz’s assurances that the party will not abandon the country’s 2020 emissions reduction goal ring hollow, as the paper resulting from exploratory talks with Merkel’s CDU shows lack of ambition to reach it, Malte ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry 91tv A new " steel strategy " for establishing low-carbon ...
16 Feb 2021, 14:16 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Cities Clean ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:25 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Agriculture Frankfurter Rundschau Any serious discussion on climate action ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:04 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The leader of the Germany's governing ...
13 Aug 2019, 13:43 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & ...
The German government defended its handling of the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal, after the European Commission opened infringement proceedings against Germany and six other countries over how they have dealt with such polluters, according to a ...
26 Jul 2022, 11:54 Hannah Naylor Efficiency Heating 91tv Modernising the most energy-inefficient homes will not only help the climate, but also shield those most prone to energy poverty, according to a report by the Institute for Applied ...
03 Nov 2021, 12:35 Edgar Meza International COP26 91tv A new survey highlighting one of the main topics at the ongoing COP26 climate conference in Glasgow shows that 91 percent of Germans are in favor of industrialised nations supporting ...
19 Jan 2022, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen G20 & G7 Germany will use its presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) major economies this year to turn the group into “a nucleus of an international climate club,” said German chancellor Olaf Scholz at the ...
08 Sep 2022, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv The German government will expand state support for businesses faced with rising energy prices ahead of the coming winter, economy and climate minister Robert ...
08 May 2019, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Leading politicians from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance call for European or international solutions for climate action, but this ...
At their special congress held on 21 January, 56 percent of SPD delegates voted to enter formal negotiations to renew Germany’s grand coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU block, reports Reuters. SPD leaders vowed to ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:13 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:41 Jennifer Collins Fossil fuels 91tv The G7 group of industrialised nations failed on a 2016 pledge to phase out "inefficient fossil fuel subsidies" by 2025, according to a report commissioned by NGO Greenpeace ...
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 Europe's ageing buildings are particularly vulnerable to the damaging effects of climate change, with homes increasingly threatened by floods or at risk of becoming unbearably hot to live in. The job of adapting the spaces where ...
09 Jul 2019, 12:45 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics International tageszeitung (taz) / 91tv The German members of the Green group in the European Parliament (EP) said they would only support German defence minister Ursula von der ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:42 Sören Amelang Electricity market Gas Tagesspiegel Background U.S. gas turbine manufacturer GE Vernova has expressed doubts about the plans by Germany’s prospective next government to connect 20 gigawatts of gas-fired power plants to the ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:57 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables Cost & Prices Die Welt / dpa / ARD The head of Europe’s largest energy network operator E.ON has suggested that Germany could ...
26 Jul 2017, 00:00 The SPD, Germany's oldest party, has been a junior partner to Angela Merkel's conservative union in the grand coalition since 2013. The Social Democrats have traditionally been the country's "labour party" and ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv The German State Secretaries’ Committee for Sustainable Development says the country should become a leading location for sustainable finance and promote its principles both to other ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:29 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Die Welt Germany's residential heating sector saw a massive shift towards low-carbon technologies in 2020, spurring hopes ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:55 The German Green Party unveiled Annalena Baerbock as their candidate for chancellor, touted as the party's first ever serious contender to lead the government in Europe's largest economy. In her nomination speech as the only ...
01 Jul 2015
01 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Dirty deal” At a high-level meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel tonight, the German government looks set to abandon plans for an additional levy on old coal-fired plants and instead adopt ...
25 May 2021, 13:20 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Welt am Sonntag Audi boss Markus Duesmann is calling for a clear political commitment to electric cars from German politicians, Welt am Sonntag reports. Instead of building a hydrogen infrastructure and ...
15 Dec 2023, 11:31 Industry and grid investments must be at the heart of the follow-up to the landmark European Green Deal policy package after the 2024 EU elections, says Bas Eickhout, member of the European Parliament. The results of the vote will shape ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:25 Expert Association of German Banks Bundesverband der deutschen Banken Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv The vast majority of banks in Germany expect climate change and the political reactions to slow it will have a ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:35 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Investigate Europe / Tagesspiegel Background While the EU aims to tackle the climate crisis with its Green Deal, member states, including Germany, continue to subsidise fossil fuels to the tune ...
17 Jan 2025, 13:12 Sören Amelang Transport Elections & Politics 91tv The next German government must ensure that aviation can become climate-neutral within 20 years, which will require a plethora of policy initiatives, an alliance of ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:01 The Social Democrats- emerging from a legislative period with a “great deal of dissent” in energy policy with its conservative coalition partner- are hoping to find new partners and new ways to drive forward the expansion of renewable ...
10 Dec 2015, 12:00 The question is no longer whether Germany’s future will be nuclear-free – or even when, since the government is committed to completing the phase-out by 2022. But the logistics of pulling the plug on what was until recently one of the ...
12 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025, 10:57 91tv Team Reuters: RWE, TotalEnergies agree long-term green hydrogen supply deal Germany's top utility agrees to supply French oil major with around 30,000 t of green hydrogen a year from 2030, in one of the sector's biggest ...
20 Oct 2022, 14:48 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv Germany can implement ambitious climate action and at the same time strive for long-term energy sovereignty as it attempts to find a way out of the current energy crisis, said researchers ...
14 Nov 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Finance International 91tv / Deutsche Welle The G7’s strong economies have launched a scheme to quickly provide financial support to countries most vulnerable to climate risks in case of a disaster – the ...
03 May 2022, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Hydrogen 91tv Germany and India have signed a declaration of intent on a "Partnership for Green and Sustainable Development" which will include German support for reforestation in India ...
02 May 2025, 09:30 The European Union should strive for a well-connected energy system designed in a way that allows different national strengths to complement each other, says Nikos Tsafos, deputy energy minister of Greece. The country is expected to ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:50 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:59 Expert Allensbach Institute The Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach (IfD Allensbach) Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility Cars 91tv Decarbonisation in the mobility sector is the most important area for ...
03 Nov 2014, 00:00 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Carel Mohn 91tv 91tv Climate ...
The German government could introduce a speedy coal exit without having to pay compensation to power plant operators, think tank Agora Energiewende* writes in a press release. Law firm BeckerBüttnerHeld (BBH) analysed last year’s nuclear phase-out ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:46 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Gas International 91tv An alliance of civil society organisations including Fridays for Future, Germanwatch and Misereor has called on the government to abandon plans to support natural gas ...
Germany is reconsidering its position on underground CO2 reservoirs, in order to help reach emissions reduction targets agreed in the Paris climate agreement, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt, citing the latest version of the Climate Action Plan 2050, ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:30 Industrialised countries are taking pains to convince developing nations at the 13th Petersberg Climate Dialogue that they will live up to their emission reduction and climate finance commitments despite the fallout from the Russian war ...
High-ranking members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) want to prevent a commission to plan a coal phase-out in Germany proposed in the environment ministry’s Climate Action Plan 2050, reports Reuters. Michael Fuchs and ...
06 Mar 2019, 11:26 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Transport 91tv Missing its 2030 climate targets for the transport sector could cost Germany billions of euros, according to a report by the NewClimate Institute ...
22 Feb 2023, 13:47 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Carolina Kyllmann Coal Zeit Online / Frankfurter Allgemeine Regional representatives of the eastern German coal region Lusatia renewed their ...
21 Feb 2025
21 Feb 2025, 12:18 91tv Team E3G: German election – What’s at stake? Next government must develop joint EU strategy for competitiveness and decarbonisation. DW: German election: Parties face off over Ukraine, NATO, Trump Top German politicians traded ...
26 Nov 2014, 00:00 The German government looks set to approve plans to force the power sector to reduce carbon emissions by an additional 22 million tons by 2020. Environmentalists worry the plans don't go far enough and are calling for more coal ...
Environment minister Barbara Hendricks receives respect abroad for Germany’s reputation as a defender of climate protection – but encounters problems at home when she tries to live up to that role, writes Michael Bauchmüller in an opinion piece for ...
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Germany’s North-Eastern region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania said the government’s stance on climate protection was “way too hesitant”, Dow Jones Newswire reports. “If we as a party want to be taken seriously as far ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:22 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind Süddeutsche Zeitung Bavaria is making up lost ground in the rollout of wind power following the recent easing of strict distance rules, and also aims to become a European solar power leader, its ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Hamburger Morgenpost / Tagesspiegel / Die Zeit / Merkur / Radio Hamburg Just one week after their defeat at Germany’s snap election, the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the country’s renewable reform is a profound paradigm shift. “We can’t feel it yet […] but it will change the landscape considerably,” Merkel said with reference to the transition from pre-fixed feed-in tariffs to ...
17 Nov 2022, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Finance International 91tv / Reuters Germany hopes to start a partnership with the new Brazilian government that addresses the socio-ecological transformation of the country’s national economy as a whole, ...
27 Jan 2021, 13:29 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:44 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:44 Edgar Meza Industry Policy EU 91tv Expectations among industrial players and environmental NGOs are high for the EU’s highly anticipated Clean Industrial Deal, a follow-up to the European Green Deal that aims to build on ...
24 Oct 2023, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU Spiegel / 91tv German government coalition member and pro-business party FDP (Free Democratic Party) has criticised a proposal agreed by EU member state governments last week to make so-called ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s proposal to change the law to prevent diesel driving bans in several German cities is a “cheap argument and an all-too transparent attempt to please voters ahead of the state elections in Hesse” this Sunday, writes Lutz Reiche ...
23 Sep 2021, 12:45 “Achieving net-zero” emissions by the middle of the century is a goal that few would fault. But when it comes to reaching a balance of greenhouse gases and carbon removal – as not all emissions from food and industrial production can be ...
28 Apr 2025
28 Apr 2025, 13:45 91tv Team Euronews: Spain, Portugal and parts of France hit by massive power outage A nationwide power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, leaving millions without electricity. Reports indicate issues with the European electric ...
16 Jan 2020, 13:14 Freja Eriksen Energiewende 91tv Only a mix of centralised and decentralised technologies can make German energy supply "climate-friendly, secure and affordable," say researchers from three of the country's ...
The federal government has today paved the way for implementing changes to the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). The modifications will take effect in 2021. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet has decided on a draft law – which will have to be ...
German utility RWE has contested a court’s evidence order from November 2017 which says that a consultant shall assess whether greenhouse gas emissions caused by the country’s largest coal user have contributed to the melting of a glacier in Peru, which ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society 91tv The introduction of a so-called climate premium (“Klimageld”) to return the revenues from Germany's national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to citizens will ...
10 Jan 2020, 11:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv Only one out of ten onshore wind turbines in Germany is built in woodlands and the effect of the renewable energy technology on the country's forests is "small and locally limited," ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv Natural disasters worldwide caused losses of 320 billion U.S. dollars in 2024, up from an inflation-adjusted 268 billion in 2023, of which around 140 ...
12 Dec 2018, 17:52 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
22 May 2018, 00:00 Energy transition pioneer Germany is about to launch a highly anticipated task force on phasing out coal power, the most prominent blemish on the country’s climate record. The government will likely nominate the coal exit commission on ...
28 Aug 2020, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv Germany has made decisive steps in regards to the climate challenge in past years, but efforts have to increase, Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists ...
18 May 2017
In its “Future Pact Energiewende Industrial Policy”, think tank Agora Energiewende and consultancy Roland Berger have presented proposals on how to reconcile the competitiveness of the country’s industry with Germany’s energy transition after the federal ...
09 Feb 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Coal 91tv The ‘intensive use’ of German coal power plants lead to additional emissions of 15.8 million tonnes of CO2 in 2022, according to a report by consultancy Energy Brainpool commissioned by Green ...
04 Mar 2021, 12:28 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 91tv The favourable effects of the coronavirus pandemic on many of Germany’s energy transition targets in 2020 are only temporary, consultancy McKinsey found in its bi-annual Energiewende Index ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:54 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Die Zeit Climate action and the European Green Deal are at the "top of the list" of the Federal ...
21 Jun 2019, 13:27 Just days after the German government signalled it was ready to ramp up climate action at home and across Europe, the European Council dealt a blow to greater climate ambitions by failing to agree on the goal of net-zero emissions in ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:47 Edgar Meza Society 91tv Families could serve as particularly important "change agents" in tackling the climate crisis and not taking them on board neglects a huge opportunity, according to an analysis by the ...
14 Nov 2022, 12:19 Edgar Meza Politics International 91tv Germany is seeking to diversify supply chains and increase international cooperation on climate protection with Asian countries, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a visit to Vietnam ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Heating 91tv Research institute Fraunhofer IGE is setting up a research laboratory for geothermal energy generation in western German North Rhine-Westphalia, the country’s most populous state. ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv / Reuters The investments in emission reductions by Germany's government need a "restart" that ends the current approach of "small measures" based on ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:51 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv With an annual mean temperature of 10.4 degrees Celsius, 2020 is the second ...
20 Nov 2020, 13:20 Leading members of Germany's Green Party have called on climate activists to cooperate in the country's general elections next year. They warn that more radical climate platforms competing in elections could harm the fight ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:34 Edgar Meza Mobility Freight 91tv Economic experts in Germany and France are calling for the two countries to coordinate strategies in the decarbonisation of road freight transport. In a joint statement, the Franco-German ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv The number of air passengers in Germany is set to decline in 2020, as carriers are projected to reduce the number of available seats by 1.8 percent in the first nine months of the year, the ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband ...
17 Aug 2022, 14:53 Hannah Naylor Efficiency Resources & Recycling Süddeutsche Zeitung As solar panels, thermal insulation and heat pumps are increasingly becoming a standard in the tens of thousands of new houses that are built each year in the ...
16 May 2022, 13:07 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv Foreign ministers of the seven leading western industrialised states (G7) have committed to supporting emerging and developing countries in their endeavour to transition towards climate ...
Germany is the world's number one market for investing in smart energy, a new industry survey by law firm Pinsent Masons finds. “The opportunities for deploying energy infrastructure in greenfield sites, the level of existing technological innovation ...
The German government’s Climate Action Programme 2020, started in 2014 to help the country reach its goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, could in fact be called a stimulus package, according to federal environment minister ...
10 Feb 2022, 09:25 Germany aims to strengthen its climate foreign policy with the appointment of Greenpeace International head Jennifer Morgan as special envoy. The new “face of Germany’s international climate policy” will expand partnerships with other ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:51 Sören Amelang Policy International 91tv The EU Commission has warned EU countries including Germany that draft national plans for the coming decade are insufficient to achieve the bloc’s 2030 energy and climate targets. ...
06 Sep 2021, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling Der Spiegel / 91tv German raw material company Aurubis has ended cooperation with Norwegian mining firm Nussir ASA on the world’s first carbon neutral copper mine after resistance ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:45 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Society Elections & Politics 91tv Activists from student climate movement Fridays for Future plan to take to the streets worldwide and in over 350 German cities for a global ...
23 Nov 2022, 13:53 Sören Amelang Storage Hydrogen International EU 91tv France and Germany plan to intensify cooperation on strategically important energy transition technologies, including battery cell production and green hydrogen. ...
The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has called on the government to get the costs of the country’s energy transition under control. “The brake on costs promised by the economics ministry has turned out to be no more than wishful thinking,” said BDI ...
The law for automated driving is not detailed enough and creates legal insecurity for drivers, according to critics. Green party transport expert Stephan Kühn told Spiegel Online that it lacks a definition of what drivers are allowed to do while their car ...
23 May 2019, 12:22 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Coal Climate & CO2 ...
13 Mar 2025
13 Mar 2025, 12:02 91tv Team Reuters: German parliament debates borrowing bonanza as clock ticks down Germany's outgoing lower house of parliament began a special session on Thursday (13 March) to debate a 500 billion euro fund for infrastructure and ...
27 Mar 2018
27 Mar 2018, 00:00 Germany saw its greenhouse gas emissions dip slightly in 2017, as wind power continued to replace coal-fired electricity generation and hard coal power plants were shut down, new estimates released by the Federal Environment Agency show ...
The Federal Association for Brown Coal (DEBRIV) says a legal opinion stating that a coal exit would be constitutional is superficial and draws the wrong conclusions. Law firm BeckerBüttnerHeld (BBH) and think tank Agora Energiewende* said on Monday that ...
The planned Russian-German natural gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 “is a raw example of how Berlin captures the EU machinery,” writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in an article for The Telegraph. “Brussels set aside EU law on Nord Stream, yet enforced it on ...
22 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Reuters: Europe extends hand to US, warns of 'race to bottom' German chancellor Scholz voices cautious optimism after first contact with Trump administration. Politico: EU’s Clean Industrial Deal to cover 6 themes ...
The energy ministers of Germany’s 16 federal states have agreed to strengthen their focus on the separation of key energy policy decisions from party politics, and to improve coordination between the individual state ministries, the Environment and Energy ...
21 Feb 2025, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Carbon removal EU 91tv EU scientific advisors have called for a rapid scale-up of methods to take CO2 out of the atmosphere. Both nature-based carbon removal solutions, such as plants, and modern ...
27 Jan 2016, 00:00 The centrepiece of Germany's Energiewende in the power sector is to undergo a profound revision this year. The government has tabled a draft law for the reform of the Renewable Energy Act, which has stirred a heated debate. The ...
01 Jul 2022, 13:10 Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out 91tv Germany’s future power system will function in a reliable and cost-efficient way if the country sticks to its end-2022 nuclear phase-out date, a meta-analysis of several energy ...
22 Sep 2021, 13:41 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Cars Manager Magazin/ Handelsblatt An NGO has filed lawsuits to try and force BMW and Mercedes to stop producing internal combustion engines by 2030 at the latest. Environmental organisation ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv A system to trade CO₂ emission allowances, rather than a carbon tax, is the better way to steer Germany towards climate neutrality in the long run, Chancellor Angela ...
21 Apr 2022, 13:45 Edgar Meza Society International 91tv People in Germany are less concerned about the impacts of climate change than the citizens of many other countries across the globe, according to a survey by Paris-based market research ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:36 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Sören Amelang Transport Cars 91tv The trend towards heavy and fuel-guzzling sports utility vehicles ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:24 Norway now provides about half of the fossil gas flows to Germany, putting a spotlight on energy security. Industry experts warn that Europe's biggest economy is not prepared for a disruption of supply, for example due to sabotage ...
14 Jun 2022, 08:55 Russia’s war against Ukraine will throw the agenda of the upcoming G7 summit off course, but it will not derail the climate focus host country Germany has set, political analyst Ella Kokotsis told 91tv. As a leading ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Unabated and strong climate change could make the whole of Germany “a hotspot for climate change risks” by the end of the century, said the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) based on ...
28 Apr 2020, 18:30 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she welcomes the proposal by the European Commission to raise the bloc’s greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 to between 50 and 55 percent. In her speech at the 11th Petersberg Climate ...
31 Jan 2022, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / 91tv Germany’s three-party government coalition is pressing ahead with plans to quickly end the support to renewable energy operators directly via consumers’ power ...
02 May 2023, 13:34 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Jessica Bateman Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background An analysis of solar power ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid Utilities 91tv Germany should restart its transition away from fossil fuel-based energy with a larger focus on cost-efficiency, said local utility association VKU. Among the proposals for the country’s ...
The federal government’s “Climate Action Plan 2050" will influence next year’s general election campaign, writes German weekly Der Spiegel. The Green Party would like to speed up the plan, and any other party that might want them as a coalition ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:43 If the European Union doesn't include stricter rules for climate friendly farming in its main subsidy scheme (CAP), the farming sector will not achieve any emission reductions in the next ten years, a new report finds. Expert ...
17 Sep 2021, 12:40 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Kerstine Appunn Cars dpa The government’s new eligibility requirements will make it harder for people to access a government subsidy on the purchase of a plug-in hybrid ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Germany’s governing CDU party has become embroiled in a high-level dispute over the right approach to its future climate and energy policy. Calls by ...
31 May 2022, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government 91tv / Die Welt Prominent German youth climate activist Luisa Neubauer has accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz of comparing “climate activists to Nazis”, thereby trivializing the National ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The German government is open to partnering with African countries on fossil gas projects, as well as blue hydrogen production (made from fossil gas, ...
08 May 2019, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv / ARD Germany's Manfred Weber and the Netherlands' Frans Timmermans – the two most likely candidates succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission President – ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Society EU 91tv A majority of European Union citizens (66%) say that the war against Ukraine and its impact on the price of oil and gas should lead the bloc to speed up the green transition by reducing the ...
09 Nov 2021, 18:30 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. 91tv tracks the ...
03 Dec 2019, 13:40 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited representatives of the country's agricultural sector to a ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:36 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture 91tv The German ministries of environment and agriculture, which have so far often pulled in different directions, are now planning to jointly reform the country’s farming policies to ensure the ...
26 May 2025, 12:04 Germany’s plans for the ramp-up of a green hydrogen economy has run into significant uncertainties, including over the fuel’s future price, regulation, and the necessary infrastructure development, said an energy industry report. ...
19 Feb 2021, 13:59 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 91tv Sea levels on the German coast have risen by around 15 to 20 centimeters in the last hundred years, according to Sea Level Monitor data from the research ...
21 Sep 2018, 16:19 Germany will miss its climate targets for the building sector if it continues to neglect efficiency because of the increasingly tight housing market, environmental NGOs and efficiency associations warn. The climate action proponents ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices dpa / Stern Protecting Germany’s North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts is expected to cost billions of euros in the coming years, government members of coastal states have warned and called for ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:39 The German government, its coal mining states and several major utilities have agreed on a roadmap for shutting down the country's lignite-fired power plants and on compensation payments for operators. Many analysts and ...
27 May 2019, 13:49 Rose-Anne Clermont Gas Renewables Hydrogen Die Welt As the need for energy transition across all sectors is made more urgent by the fight against climate change, Germany's leading heating and air conditioning manufacturer Vaillant ...
The law aimed at facilitating the use of solar panels in inner cities by allowing tenants to consume electricity generated on their roofs fails to bring about the desired effects, the industry lobby group BSW Solar says in a press release. The effectivity ...
Bavaria is the only German state that made use of a law to set its own minimum distance for wind turbines from residential buildings, the German government has said in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Free Democrats (FDP). The government says ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:01 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Government International 91tv Germany will attempt to move towards a "social-ecological" market economy model that puts great emphasis on diplomacy to advance the global fight ...
15 Nov 2018
Germany’s government cabinet has decided on an amendment of the federal imissions law to prevent diesel driving bans in cities where nitrogen oxide limits are exceeded by 25 percent (50 micrograms NO 2 per cubic meter air instead of 40 micrograms). Under ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has announced the government will extend the current e-car buyer’s premium programme to the end of 2022, as promised in the coalition treaty. From ...
24 Feb 2023, 11:00 One year after Russia started its devastating war on Ukraine, the energy policy landscape of Germany and most of Europe has changed radically. European states to a large extent lowered or even completely cut their reliance on Russian ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany will be able to procure the volumes of hydrogen imports needed by 2030 if it quickly sets the right infrastructural, legal and entrepreneurial course, a team of researchers ...
21 Sep 2020, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Billions of euros in German taxpayers' money are still flowing into stock transactions that contribute to a global warming trajectory far above that agreed on in the Paris Climate ...
The German government cabinet has decided a collection of energy law amendments, which include the introduction of additional renewables auctions in 2019-2021, the economy ministry (BMWi) said in a press release. The press release – while not giving many ...
07 Oct 2016, 00:00 Only in a best case scenario will Germany be able to reach its goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, the latest projections from the environment ministry show according to analysts. The opposition in parliament and ...
31 Jan 2020, 14:01 Sören Amelang Mobility Wirtschaftswoche / 91tv Europe's largest coach service, FlixBus, has said it will discontinue many rural connections because the government only supports train travel with tax cuts, reports ...
01 Apr 2015, 00:00 Fracking is to be banned in all protected areas and near aquifers in Germany, a government draft law proposes. Unconventional fracking in upper rock layers is only permitted for scientific purposes or in individual cases. Environmental ...
04 Mar 2020, 13:46 Rachel Waldholz Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Austria’s new government has set ambitious climate targets that will require massive new investments in renewable energy – and it is looking to Germany, and ...
A plan for an exit from coal-fired power generation in Germany will not necessarily be the result of the structural commission agreed by the current government in the country’s climate action plan 2050. That was the claim made by Michael Vassiliadis, head ...
25 Apr 2022, 12:52 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & ...
24 Mar 2021, 13:08 Expert RAG German Coal RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG Coal Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal 91tv The controversial resettlement of five ...
A legal opinion commissioned by coal power plant operator RWE argues a coal exit by policy decree would be unconstitutional, reports Klaus Stratmann in business daily Handelsblatt. The “renowned” energy law firm Posser Spieth Wolfers & Partners argues ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:40 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Ecologic Institute ...
25 Oct 2021
25 Oct 2021, 14:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv 91tv Germany lags far behind other European countries in the electrification of its railway network, according to railway lobby group Allianz pro Schiene. With only 61 percent of its ...
26 Apr 2022, 12:40 Edgar Meza Coal Tagesspiegel Long-term plans to transform Germany’s brown coal (lignite) mining regions are taking shape, with investments being prepared for the establishment of two scientific research centres that could focus on ...
Seventy-five percent of Germans say the country’s new government should introduce a law for a gradual coal exit without delay, according to an in-depth online survey and analysis by the University St. Gallen, commissioned by Greenpeace. But only 43 ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:58 The global growth of renewable power sources is an encouraging trend for climate action but needs to be better coordinated to ensure international targets are met, according to Germany’s economy and foreign affairs ministers. ...
29 Jun 2022, 12:51 Kerstine Appunn Cars Cost & Prices EU 91tv EU member states have approved the end of fossil fuelled passenger cars in 2035 and found compromises on emissions trading and a “Social Climate Fund”. The fund will be used ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende Cost & Prices 91tv Germany could achieve climate neutrality by 2045 at a much lower cost through a combination of energy efficiency measures and a slower expansion of power generation and ...
29 Sep 2022, 10:46 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Gas 91tv Leaking methane from the damaged Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines is likely to lead to “significant climate damage”, Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has said. ...
In a parliamentary inquiry, the Left Party asks the federal government for information on its contact with fossil and renewable energy interest groups. The party is worried that the voices of representatives of the fossil sector were heard more, which ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:40 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The majority of German consumers support a faster transition from ...
The German Green Party has requested special wind power auctions to ensure enough new renewable power capacity. In a draft law to amend the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), the Greens propose auctioning off an additional 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of onshore wind ...
17 May 2019, 12:58 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut) / Tagesspiegel Background As ...
08 Dec 2021, 14:48 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics 91tv Two and a half months after the general elections, Germany officially has a new government. Olaf Scholz was elected chancellor by parliament with 395 out of 707 votes, making ...
01 Apr 2025
01 Apr 2025, 11:22 91tv Team Politico: EU exploring weaker 2040 climate goal The European Commission wants to keep a 90 percent emissions-cutting target but to change how countries calculate their progress. Eurelectric: Solar breaks historical record in ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Italy and Germany are pushing for the construction of a new natural gas and hydrogen pipeline via Austria to strengthen inter-European energy trade- the “ SoutH2 Corridor “ project. “The ...
06 Dec 2019, 15:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv The German government will meet with state representatives in January to discuss how to expand renewable energy installations at a pace that will raise the share of renewables in ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:07 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 In a moving message to his future grandchildren, German ISS commander Alexander Gerst appealed to humanity to finally get its act together on climate change. “Right now, it looks like we – my generation – ...
03 Mar 2025
03 Mar 2025, 12:15 91tv Team DW: Social Democrats lead Hamburg state election: early results The Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens look set to be able to continue their coalition in the northern city state of Hamburg following a regional election ...
The German government excels in setting climate goals and demonstrating goodwill internationally, but gets nothing done at home, Joachim Wille says in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Rundschau. “Ex-climate pioneer Germany keeps heating up the planet and ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv The exceptionally large wildfires in the Amazon region in South America have led German government members to criticise Brazil's government under President Jair ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:37 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Deutsche Welle Urging the German chancellor to declare a climate emergency, campaigners from the global Extinction Rebellion movement chained themselves to the fence of Angela Merkel’ chancellery in ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:05 The cheapest way to make the most of a growing renewable electricity supply is to ensure demand follows power generation, and not the other way around – which is still the case today. Dynamic electricity tariffs, which reward households ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:44 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Freja Eriksen Heating 91tv German energy efficiency ...
23 Mar 2023, 13:34 Sören Amelang Mobility Heating Elections & Politics 91tv / Reuters Germany’s three-way government coalition is waging a public battle over pending climate policy decisions, only days before Sunday’s key government ...
03 Apr 2025
03 Apr 2025, 10:35 91tv Team Reuters: Deutsche Bank-owned asset manager DWS fined €25 million for greenwashing German prosecutors have fined asset manager DWS 25 million euros after a lengthy probe found the firm guilty of greenwashing, or making ...
18 Feb 2025
18 Feb 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany set to scale down climate ambitions- Billions in climate subsidies have been frozen for months- Main parties focusing on security, migration before election CNBC: Wind energy just had a record year in ...
01 Mar 2021, 14:00 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Elections & Politics 91tv / Handelsblatt The Social Democratic Party (SPD) ...
Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel has never really been a “climate chancellor,” the head of the Marine Meteorology Research Unit at Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Mojib Latif, said in an interview with Die Welt. “Whenever the ...
Germany lacks an overarching general concept that includes all sectors for contributing to emissions reduction, energy economist Marc Bettzüge writes in a guest commentary for Handelsblatt. “ There is no integrated incentive and refinancing mechanism ” to ...
25 Jan 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Climate action policies and the ability of the economy to cope with them will become a defining factor for the financial system’s stability, the German central bank Bundesbank has said in a ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU Die Welt Concerns about climate and the environment have climbed significantly on the agenda of German companies over the last year, a survey conducted by consultancy EY and the Wuppertal ...
The tenant electricity draft law introduced by Germany’s economy ministry (BMWi) is an “utterly wrong” policy approach that turns the principle of “competition instead of allocation” upside down, Andreas Mihm writes in an opinion piece for Frankfurter ...
18 Jun 2020, 12:00 A joint push by the EU and China remains the best hope to drive global climate action and build momentum ahead of next year’s UN climate talks, researchers and NGOs say. The coronavirus pandemic has shifted national priorities, raised ...
23 Jan 2019, 11:04 Germany’s coal exit commission will propose to protect companies and private households from rising electricity prices resulting from a state-driven phase-out of the fossil fuel, Reuters news agency says citing a draft report [shorter ...
30 Jul 2021, 11:35 Expert BAFA- Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle Fossil fuels Renewables Jessica Bateman Heating 91tv The German federal government has approved over 2.7 ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover – Germany's largest Protestant state church body – has called on its employees and members to join the planned global climate strike ...
19 Dec 2019, 13:12 Freja Eriksen Heating Tagesspiegel Background Following years of failed attempts, Germany will from January 2020 provide homeowners with tax incentives for energy efficient renovations, allowing them to deduct 20 percent of the costs ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:23 Kerstine Appunn Coal TAG24 / 91tv A lignite (brown coal) power station in the eastern German town of Chemnitz is going to be shut down by 2023, instead of the last unit running until 2029, the management of plant operator ...
07 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 7/8 at the UN climate conference: Environment state secretary Flasbarth becomes facilitator / EU fights for new differentiation / Germany plans decarbonisation by 2050 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy ...
Greater energy efficiency, sector coupling and digitalisation are going to be core areas in energy policy that Germany’s next government will likely have to focus on, according to federal economy ministry state secretary Rainer Baake. During a speech at a ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics ARD / DW Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance of current chancellor Angela Merkel has reached a record low in the well-known Deutschlandtrend survey by infratest dimap, commissioned by public ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Grid Spiegel / 91tv As electricity needs in all economic sectors increase with efforts to make them more climate-friendly, Germany’s transmission grid operators see an increased need for major new power ...
04 Dec 2019, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy 91tv The energy ministers of Germany's federal states have criticised the government's climate package for being full of "gaps and shortcomings" and called for measures to ensure ...
The German natural gas sector is demanding changes to the government’s forthcoming Climate Action Plan 2050, saying the current draft fails to recognise the potential of natural gas on the way to decarbonise Germany’s economy. A ‘natural gas exit’ would ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany’s economy ministry has proposed to extend current regulation to the extent to which gas storage facilities have to be filled at certain times of the year, said the economy ministry in a ...
28 Feb 2022, 13:58 The outbreak of war in eastern Europe is sending shockwaves through Germany’s political class and is reshaping the energy transition debate, as the country’s most important energy trading partner Russia increasingly turns into a ...
26 Oct 2021, 12:43 The booming voluntary market for CO2 emission offsets is facing a hairy double counting issue that could stop further growth in its tracks. While high-aiming businesspeople are preparing a new standard to scale the market and make it ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Business Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany’s leading business executives are taking climate and environmental protection increasingly serious, according to a survey presented at the COP26 climate ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:25 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Elections & Politics 91tv German industry association BDI has called on the next government to focus on lowering energy prices at both the national and European level. In its recommendations for ...
08 Jan 2025
08 Jan 2025, 10:14 91tv Team Reuters: Automakers to pool CO2 emissions with Tesla, Polestar to meet EU 2025 rules Automakers facing tougher European Union 2025 emissions rules are planning to buy carbon credits from electric vehicle companies including ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background While heat pump sales increased more than 50 percent in 2022, oil and gas boilers continued to dominate the German heating market, according to the annual heating ...
26 Jan 2021, 13:28 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs 91tv About 650,000 people could lose their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2021 and 2020, but the building sector could absorb almost a quarter of these workers with new jobs, ...
22 Sep 2022, 13:52 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv The German industry plans to stick to existing ...
25 May 2022, 13:41 Sören Amelang Digitalisation Handelsblatt The installation of smart electricity meters in German households is set to take longer than planned, reports business daily Handelsblatt. The country’s Federal Office for Information Security ...
30 Mar 2021, 13:40 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv There have been few positive developments in the state of the German environment in 2020, ...
22 Jan 2019, 17:31 Germany and France have signed an update to their landmark 1963 post-war Élysée friendship treaty, showcasing their commitment to European cooperation in the face of Brexit and growing nationalism in several member states. The treaty ...
20 Feb 2025
20 Feb 2025, 10:16 91tv Team Carbon Brief: Profile: Germany The nation with both the most renewable power and the highest emissions in Europe. Agora Energiewende: Update FAQ on Germany's Energiewende An interactive dashboard with data and FAQs on the ...
Energy experts in Germany’s most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have slammed plans by the state government to tighten regulations for the construction of new onshore wind power installations, Dow Jones Newswires reports. The plan ...
10 Jan 2022, 12:20 Without the anti-nuclear movement, the energy transition in Germany would likely look different. But despite a strong focus on fighting nuclear power, the civil society movement that marked the rise of the Green Party has always had the ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:54 Rachel Waldholz Solar Cities Tagesspiegel Berlin is in the midst of a school construction boom, but so far none of those new schools will have solar power systems, Christoph Stollowsky reports in Der Tagesspiegel. That’s despite the ...
13 Sep 2019, 13:24 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics International 91tv In the context of the formation of Germany’s new government, former environment minister Svenja Schulze moves on to lead the country’s development ministry (BMZ) ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: Wind power became Germany's single most important power source in 2019 and appears well under way to fulfill its role as the central technology of the country's energy transition. Nevertheless, the wind industry ...
02 Mar 2022, 13:31 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Renewables Security 91tv Ensuring energy supply security can take priority over climate action, Germany’s economy and climate minister has said. Speaking to Deutschlandfunk (Dlf) radio, Robert ...
06 May 2025, 13:18 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society 91tv The new German government should push ahead with income-based financial support for key energy transition technologies to allow low- and medium-income households to transition ...
09 May 2025, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Government EU ARD / Tagesspiegel / 91tv The new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has called for a “restart” of Franco-German relations at his first international trip on Wednesday (7 May), after his ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:11 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in relatively new diesel cars are still much higher ...
04 Jun 2020, 14:06 The German government coalition has decided to reboot Europe's largest economy with a 130 billion euros stimulus package that contains steps to further the country's landmark energy transition. Aside from comprehensive actions ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:40 Higher energy efficiency, a "paradigm shift" in the circular economy, innovative production processes, as well as carbon capture and usage or storage could make Germany's industry CO2-neutral by 2050, but the government& ...
23 Aug 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland The German government is pushing for the establishment of an international climate alliance aimed at accelerating the implementation of the Paris Agreement, ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:39 Sören Amelang Transport Cost & Prices Elections & Politics dpa / Der Spiegel / DVZ Germany’s railway operator Deutsche Bahn has laid claims to almost one third of the entire 500-billion-euro infrastructure fund planned by the ...
The need for reform in German energy policy is “piling up” under the current grand coalition government, said Oliver Krischer, deputy leader of the Greens parliamentary group in a plenary debate on the economy and energy budget for 2019. Economy minister ...
04 Mar 2022, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Society International ARD A majority of Germans support the measures governments are taking against Russia even if they lead to problems with energy supply, a survey by infratest dimap commissioned by public broadcaster ...
09 Dec 2014
09 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv EurActiv “Global comparison reveals Germany's 'Energiewende dilemma'” Germany scored average results (place 22 of 61) in the global climate protection index, compiled by the NGO ...
20 Jan 2021, 13:29 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Agriculture EU 91tv Germany’s agriculture ministry is pushing for a carbon adjustment mechanism at EU ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The premiers of Germany's five northern coastal states demand a renegotiation of the controversial 1,000-metre minimum distance rule from residential areas for onshore wind turbines included ...
21 Jan 2022, 18:40 The German government wants to use this year’s presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialised nations and democracies to improve the coordination of global efforts to combat climate change. “We want to achieve that no ...
18 Nov 2022, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann International 91tv Poland and Germany have agreed to intensify their cooperation on energy policy through joint projects on energy efficiency, renewables, infrastructure and the energy market design. “The ...
01 Feb 2021, 13:50 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Most Germans are willing to pay higher prices and taxes to fight climate change, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) reports citing the ...
04 Mar 2025
04 Mar 2025, 11:39 91tv Team Euractiv: Von der Leyen proposes more relaxed CO2 target compliance for new cars European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced she will propose a more relaxed three-year timeframe for the automotive industry ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Utilities Tagesspiegel / Die Welt German energy company RWE has shut down its first lignite unit as part of the country's coal phase-out, ...
05 Jan 2022, 13:47 Edgar Meza Carbon market Cost & Prices 91tv The German government raked in a record 12.5 billion euros from European and national emissions trading programmes in 2021, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) reported. ...
06 Oct 2021, 14:11 Edgar Meza Renewables Elections & Politics 91tv Renewable energy industry groups have laid out a series of proposals for the incoming federal government to accelerate the expansion of green power sources. "From an ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background New military exclusion zones could lead to the loss of up to a third of federal land for wind power generation in Germany, Tagesspiegel Background reported. The German Wind Energy Association (BWE ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Agriculture 91tv German stakeholders in agriculture support calls for an EU-wide benchmarking system, arguing that this could help reward sustainable practices in the sector. Such a system has been proposed ...
04 Jun 2025, 11:00 Nuclear fusion technology presents a huge chance for European industry, which the continent must pursue without delaying the rollout of renewable energies, says Markus Roth, co-founder of nuclear fusion startup Focused Energy. “It’s not ...
24 Mar 2021, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal Carbon Pulse German companies are among the top buyers of discredited, decade-old offsets in the voluntary carbon market, reports Carbon Pulse. Nearly 2.6 million Emissions Reduction ...
13 Oct 2022, 13:35 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs 91tv The German government has approved a new skilled labour strategy that includes measures to help companies and businesses attract and retain skilled workers in view of growing challenges ...
03 Jun 2021, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Germany’s government coalition of chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) is aiming for higher renewables expansion targets for 2030 as part of ...
29 Jan 2025, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Society 91tv The energy transition is placing an uneven financial burden on Germany‘s poorest households – and transition costs related to heating are impacting these citizens ...
30 Sep 2021, 13:12 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Business & Jobs Elections & Politics 91tv German businesses want to see ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Efficiency 91tv German primary energy consumption was down a “considerable” seven percent in the first six months of 2023 (compared to the same period last year), due to high energy prices and weak economic ...
06 May 2022, 14:04 The effects of the war in Ukraine will have a major impact on Germany’s most important state election this year, making next week’s vote in heavy industry heartland North-Rhine Westphalia another gauge of the public’s view of the ...
German foreign minister Heiko Maas and his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono said they would aim to carry out the Paris Climate Agreement, from which the United States withdrew last year, promote free trade, and seek to address issues through multilateral ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv The natural resources humans can consume sustainably this year will be used up by Monday 29 July, according to calculations by the Global Footprint Network. If all the world’s population ...
13 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025, 11:50 91tv Team Science Direct: CO2-tax on emission-intensive agricultural goods could cut German agricultural emissions by 22.5% The CO2-tax could generate over 8.2 billion euros in annual revenue, analysis finds. Bloomberg: Europe threatens ...
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) is working on draft amendments to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), the Combined Heat and Power Act (CHP), and other energy laws, writes Hendrik Köstens for Tagesspiegel Background. The ...
The government of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein wants a fairer distribution of grid fees in Germany and will introduce a draft law in the council of federal state governments (Bundesrat). “The draft is to enable the federal government to bring ...
19 May 2021, 13:34 Edgar Meza International dpa John Kerry, the U.S. presidential envoy for climate, called for greater global efforts in the fight against climate change during his visit to Berlin on Tuesday, German news agency dpa reports. Global ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:13 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Gas International 91tv The environmental group Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says it is suing to stop the controversial Nord ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:25 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv In 2019, Germany experienced its third-warmest year since the beginning of regular ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:30 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Global warming is making white Christmas a thing of the past in Germany, ...
16 Feb 2021, 14:23 Charlotte Nijhuis Cars EU Handelsblatt Volkswagen will raise the prices of its cars on the basis of the models’ CO2 emissions, Stefan Menzel writes in business daily Handelsblatt. The Wolfsburg-based car company increases its prices ...
10 May 2022, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The business confidence index for Germany’s solar power industry has reached a new all-time high, as solar PV installations become more and more popular among house owners and the government’s ...
06 Jul 2022, 12:03 Russia’s war against Ukraine pushes governments across Europe to overhaul their plans for gas infrastructure such as pipelines or import terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG). Substituting only half of Russian gas imports forces ...
15 Oct 2021, 11:34 Thanks to more and more businesses publicly making “carbon neutrality” or “net-zero” commitments, the voluntary market for carbon emission offsets is booming both globally and in Germany. Critics, however, consider buying into projects ...
24 Sep 2021, 13:38 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv International The fight against climate change must be top of Germany’s agenda when it takes over the 2022 G7 presidency in three months, writes conservative chancellor candidate Armin Laschet in ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:46 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Freja Eriksen Citizens' energy Renewables Cars 91tv Most households in Germany "not only support the energy transition ...
18 Nov 2019, 13:33 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende 91tv The amount of packaging waste accruing in Germany has reached a new record high, the Federal ...
28 Apr 2020, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Osnabrücker Zeitung / taz / RND The coronavirus crisis recovery programmes being worked out all over the world present a “great opportunity” to push climate action, the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung's Uwe ...
02 Apr 2024, 10:30 “Reuse and recycle” is a catchphrase most people associate with plastic bags or bottles. But our homes, schools and offices are also made with materials that are far too valuable and carbon-intensive for single use: They shouldn’t ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:02 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany will not leave developing countries alone in dealing with climate protection and adaptation to climate change, said German environment ...
17 Jan 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt / 91tv Following the attacks of the Nord Stream pipelines in September, the German government wants to expand the requirement for operators of so-called critical infrastructure (kritis) ...
30 May 2024, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity International 91tv France and Germany will strengthen bilateral cooperation to unlock the potential of flexibility in the electricity system, government representatives agreed on the margins of ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:46 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany’s national weather service has said that the country should prepare for ...
08 Sep 2022, 12:00 Current "climate neutral" product claims may be flawed, but they are a clear sign that companies realise that consumers want climate action, argues Jens Burchardt, the Boston Consulting Group's global expert on climate ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:35 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv NGO Germanwatch has welcomed the Franco-German statements on climate action after the two government cabinets met virtually on Monday (31 May), but called for greater speed of cooperation. “We are ...
14 Apr 2022, 12:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Government Handelsblatt Business leaders in Germany are reacting with relief that the country’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck from the Green Party is putting economic stability in the ...
05 Mar 2015
05 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt /McKinsey Germany “McKinsey: Energiewende indices improve“ The McKinsey Energiewende Index, a bi-annually published analysis of how well Germany is achieving its energy transition targets, ...
19 Jun 2015
19 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) “The environment encyclical is a historic event” The Pope’s environment encyclical “ Laudato si ” could have a big climate impact on climate politics in Poland, ...
17 Feb 2022, 12:01 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv In a scathing report, Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has said billions of euros in federal subsidies intended for climate protection measures in the building sector have instead been used for new ...
10 Oct 2024, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Increasing heatwaves and droughts in recent years have led to regional water scarcity and associated conflicts in Germany and the situation is set to intensify as climate change ...
18 Oct 2024, 10:56 The new government of prime minister Michel Barnier was announced on 21 September, with the 2025 budget following on 10 October. To reduce the public deficit to 5 percent of the country's economy by 2025, and to 3 percent by 2027, ...
07 Oct 2021, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv / Dlf Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock has called for speedy coalition talks with election winner SPD and the pro-business FDP to make the next German government a ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:11 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Politics 91tv The opposition Green parliamentary group has called on the federal government to introduce concrete proposals to implement the coal exit commission 's recent ...
14 Aug 2020, 14:12 Heating While renewables now account for a significant portion of electricity consumption in Germany, energy used for heating and cooling is lagging far behind, Kathrin Witsch writes in Handelsblatt. About half of total energy consumed ...
20 May 2019, 13:12 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Policy Hamburger Abendblatt / 91tv The idea by socialist EU Commission ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:42 Expert Energy Brainpool Energy consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Expert Wuppertal ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:02 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Agriculture 91tv Germany's forests currently contain 2.6 billion tonnes of carbon in living biomass, ...
14 Jun 2018
Germany’s new commission to define a path and an end-date for an exit from coal-fired power generation should also help close the gap in emission reductions to reach the country’s 2020 climate goal, environment minister Svenja Schulze told the utility ...
21 Apr 2022, 13:42 Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Efficiency Heating 91tv The German government’s 1-billion-euro subsidy programme for new energy-efficient buildings was depleted just hours after its 20 April start, according to the economy and ...
27 Nov 2020, 14:20 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Cars 91tv Germany still has a long way to go in making mobility more environmentally and ...
The high number of citizens’ energy projects among successful bids in the second round of wind power auctions- which can be attributed to a single project developer, UKA – has led to renewed criticism of the current auction regulations, writes Jörg Staude ...
30 Jun 2021, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics dpa / Zeit Online German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has cautioned that tackling climate change will require "giant steps" by governments and citizens around the world if global ...
15 May 2019, 12:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Most nations in the world have subscribed to the goal of limiting global warming and reining in climate change but the financial long-term strategy often does not match this ambition yet, a ...
25 Apr 2025, 09:00 European and UK leaders have pledged to cooperate closely to strengthen energy supply security, and said bringing down fossil fuel imports and ramping up domestic clean sources is the only way to do so. At an energy security summit in ...
13 Jan 2025, 13:45 Sören Amelang Technology Heating dpa A growing number of towns on the shores of Lake Constance are planning to use the water’s thermal energy to switch to carbon-neutral heating, reports newswire dpa. “Lake thermal energy offers ...
01 Nov 2019, 13:22 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv A court in Germany has rejected a lawsuit filed against the German government for not doing enough to avert ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:53 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 dpa Climate ...
16 Sep 2021, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 EU 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung While climate policy is one of the top issues in the September federal election campaign, climate and energy policy on a European level hardly features at all, ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:28 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Society 91tv Three in four houseowners in Germany wish ...
07 Apr 2025, 13:13 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv Following a rapid rise in household solar panel installations, Germany’s total number of PV arrays has passed the five million “milestone,” according to industry association BSW-Solar. ...
04 Feb 2025
04 Feb 2025, 12:00 91tv Team EEA: EU maritime transport: progress made but environmental, sustainability challenges persist Europe’s maritime sector is making progress towards greater sustainability but will need to increase its efforts over the coming ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:43 Kerstine Appunn COP26 91tv New pledges made at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow mean that wealthy nations will almost deliver on their promise to provide 100 billion US dollars per year in climate finance to ...
07 Jan 2020, 14:00 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche Städte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cities 91tv A more rapid and determined climate and energy transition policy is ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv The upcoming snap election in Germany will bring a “choice of direction” for the country’s energy transition, as energy and climate policy positions vary among the different ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society CORRECTIV / Frontal21 Conservative US policy think tank The Heartland Institute supports climate science deniers from Germany and other European countries, write German non-profit investigative ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:29 Future nuclear fusion power plants will not be able to complement wind and solar electricity production because they will likely need to run around the clock for economic and technical reasons, a German parliamentary report concludes. ...
14 Mar 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Zeit Online Germany’s buildings minister has promised social cushioning, sensible transition periods and technology openness on the path towards the decarbonisation of the heating sector. The law should allow ...
17 May 2016
17 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Der Tagesspiegel / Vattenfall “Around 3,000 participants end blockade” As part of the worldwide protests “Break free from fossil fuels” around 3,000 demonstrators from all over ...
02 Jul 2021, 14:15 Charlotte Nijhuis Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv The German activist group Climate List (Klimaliste) has announced the establishment of a national political party, but will not yet run in the upcoming ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International KPMG Germany is one of seven European countries in the top ten of international auditor KPMG’s “ Change Readiness Index 2019 ”, assessing countries’ ability to manage change and build a ...
16 Jan 2019, 14:18 Berlin aims to slash carbon emissions by 60 percent by 2030 and become carbon-neutral by 2050. For a city growing at a rate of 50,000 inhabitants a year, that’s no mean feat. But Ramona Pop, Berlin’s Senator (minister) for Economy, ...
18 May 2020, 14:02 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition Office Franco-Allemand pour la Transition Énergétique / ...
The Social Democrat-led Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of the eastern German state of Brandenburg has called for abolishing the country’s core law on financing the roll-out of renewables, the Renewable Energy Act (EEG). The law is unfair ...
28 May 2020, 12:34 German industry and energy sector associations have welcomed the coronavirus recovery proposal presented by the European Commission. Lobby group BDI said the funds should focus on sustainability not only in regard to climate and ...
14 Mar 2025
14 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Economist: Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany? Bombshell fiscal package—currently under negotiation—represents more than just the start of deficit spending on defence. It is the beginning of a new European growth ...
25 Oct 2021, 13:37 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Coal dpa / Stern Germany's mining labour union and the premier of a lignite mining state have warned against speeding up the country's coal exit under a new government. In their current ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:45 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv High energy prices are hitting companies unevenly across Germany’s 16 ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:20 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Handelsblatt The German government is concerned about the country’s oil refineries, which are facing the most serious crisis in decades caused by the rising cost of emissions, cheap fuel imports, weak demand ...
30 Nov 2020, 15:22 Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Security Focus Online / Reuters The completion of the controversial natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 between Russia and Germany is facing ever more hurdles. After the United States government threatened to impose ...
06 Apr 2023, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Wind Business & Jobs dpa / 91tv Germany needs to increase its workforce in the windpower industry for the planned doubling of installed wind power capacity by 2030, industry association BWE told news ...
02 Oct 2023, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Policy EU 91tv Solar PV companies and several German states have agreed on a 10-point action plan to protect and strengthen the country’s solar power industry in order to ensure the planned large ...
16 Aug 2023, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Gas 91tv The plans for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the German island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea face more opposition by local interest groups who fear that the large ...
25 Oct 2022, 14:03 Kiprotich Koros Digitalisation 91tv A successful transition to renewables will only be achieved if there is a comprehensive digitalisation of the whole energy sector, a report by research institute Fraunhofer IEE has ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:31 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Start-ups Finance 91tv Twenty-odd venture capital providers active in Germany have teamed up to introduce a sustainability clause in new ...
13 May 2019, 14:14 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv Two weeks before the European Parliament elections, German voters have said that climate and environment protection are the biggest challenges for the future of the European Union, a ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:47 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU 91tv Germany’s prospective next government coalition will likely support EU plans to introduce a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), said Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the ...
24 Mar 2025
24 Mar 2025, 12:30 91tv Team IEA: Growth in global energy demand surged in 2024 to almost twice its recent average IEA’s Global Energy Review is the first global assessment of 2024 trends across the energy sector. Based on the most recent data, it covers ...
10 Jun 2020, 12:15 Extreme droughts and prolonged heat waves have significantly raised awareness of climate change dangers in Germany in the past years. And the changing weather patterns are also having a huge impact on the country's environment, as ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:21 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry, which is central to Europe’s plans to establish a green hydrogen economy, is calling for postponing existing deadlines for using the climate-neutral gas, reported business ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:24 Sören Amelang Coal dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung East German coal mine operator LEAG has said it expects to extract lignite from its opencast pits past 2030, even though the government hopes to exit coal by that date. “We are very ...
10 Jun 2016
10 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Reuters “Gabriel hints at changes to environment minister’s climate action plan” Based on statements by Germany’s economy minister Sigmar Gabriel, Reuters reports there could be ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:24 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International WWF / Greenpeace / DUH / BNE / VCI / BDI The European Commission’s plan to make the EU CO2-neutral by 2050 has been largely appreciated by environmental NGOs as ...
26 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: Vattenfall to build Germany's largest offshore wind farm Swedish power utility Vattenfall said it has made a final investment decision for two wind farm projects in the German North Sea, Nordlicht 1 and 2, the ...
08 Sep 2017, 00:00 As the current legislative period draws to a close, The 91tv asked key stakeholders to review the last four years of German energy and climate policy – and tell us what they would like to see from the next government. ...
05 Jun 2020, 15:13 The German government coalition has decided to reboot Europe's largest economy with a 130 billion euros stimulus package that contains many steps to further the country's landmark energy transition. The 91tv ...
05 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany's energy minister Peter Altmaier said there won't be any changes to fees on power and heat during his term, refuting the idea of a price for CO2 emissions floated by coalition partner SPD and the environment ministry. ...
09 Dec 2024, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The state premier of southern German Baden-Wurttemberg, Green Party politician Winfried Kretschmann, has called for the suspension of possible EU climate ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv A new start in German-African relations is needed to diversify raw material providers and reduce dependencies, a report by the Federation of German Industries (BDI) ...
20 Dec 2021, 13:57 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Wind Süddeutsche Zeitung New German environment minister Steffi Lemke plans to focus on reconciling climate protection and nature conservation during the impending massive rollout of windpower. Speaking ...
Germany, host of this year’s UN climate summit, is a bad example when it comes to climate action, writes Petra Pinzler in an opinion piece on Zeit Online. The country of “Climate Chancellor” Angela Merkel is not adhering to its promised CO 2 reductions, ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:21 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Politics Handelsblatt German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party is exploring options to rein in ...
17 Dec 2024
17 Dec 2024, 12:28 91tv Team Reuters: Europe's carmakers discount EVs, hike petrol car prices as new emissions rules loom The European Union will drastically lower its cap on automotive carbon dioxide emissions from Jan. 1, meaning at least one-fifth ...
