The city of Berlin has urged 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission to work towards a quick end of coal mining and power production in Lusatia, Jakob Schlandt writes in energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel Background. In a letter to the commission鈥檚 leaders, ...
The coal commission delay is 鈥渆mbarrassing for the former climate pioneer鈥� Germany, because the government will not be able to demonstrate it is serious about climate ambitions at the UN climate summit in Poland in early December, writes Joachim Wille in ...
11 Dec 2018, 15:47 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Fossil fuels Policy 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission will hold its next full plenary meeting on 25 January, followed by the last meeting on 1 February, a commission source told Clean ...
Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) addresses the global coal phase-out in a new, short, overview policy brief. The main measures to help phase out coal are the abolishment of fossil-fuel subsidies, the introduction of ...
The decisions to be taken by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission 鈥渃ould have ripple effects around the world,鈥� writes Brad Plumer in the New York Times newsletter 鈥淐limate FWD:鈥�. 鈥淚t鈥檚 the biggest climate story no one is talking about,鈥� said Justin Guay, ...
The quarrels in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission over a proposed end date for coal-fired power production in 2038 will continue to weigh on the country鈥檚 reputation as a progressive energy transition advocate, Thorsten Preuschgas, CEO at solar power project ...
The coal commission delay shows that the government is taking the work of the commission seriously because 鈥渙therwise this spectacular intervention would have been unnecessary,鈥� writes Andreas Mihm in a commentary in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. But ...
The climate change campaign group聽 350.org 聽has launched an international petition demanding an immediate stop to coal expansion and a rapid coal phase-out in Germany. 鈥淭his petition is being launched ahead of a highly anticipated coal phase-out proposal ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal-exit commission could provide useful lessons for other countries and sectors seeking to both decarbonise and protect workers, Pieter de Pous writes in a blog post published by E3G, a climate-change think-tank. However, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 recently ...
The conflict over coal-mining expansion in the Hambach Forest, where police have started evicting anti-coal activists, is becoming an issue that could threaten the stability of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission, news website Spiegel Online writes. Commission ...
The apparent preparation of clearing operations in the Hambach Forest is a sad event for many environmentalists who have hoped to preserve the old trees for years, but they should keep their focus on making progress in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission, ...
With anti-coal protests in the state of Saxony, environmental NGO Greenpeace says that the German government鈥檚 policy on coal fuels weather extremes. 鈥淭he current heat wave is a taste of what awaits us if the CO鈧� emissions are not decreased fast,鈥� said ...
As members of the coal exit commission met in the central German mining district of Saxony-Anhalt with local employers, politicians, and NGO representatives, Saxony-Anhalt鈥檚 state premier, Reiner Haseloff (CDU), reminded the commission members that they ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission must deal with the question of new jobs for workers in the lignite regions before looking for an end date for coal, according to economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier. 鈥淲e need a restructuring plan for each lignite ...
Giving in to eastern German coal states by delaying a coal commission agreement would bury hopes of 聽a reasonable phase-out compromise, writes Bernhard P枚tter in a commentary for the Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淭his is why environmental聽 NGOs, participating ...
The 2030 emissions reduction target defines the duty and objectives of the commission tasked with planning 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit, climate economist Barbara Praetorius said in an interview with Der Tagesspiegel. 鈥淭he 2030 climate targets are set, they ...
Instead of pushing for a coal phase-out, Germany should reduce its carbon emissions from transport and housing, Saxony-Anhalt State Premier Reiner Haseloff said, according to a dpa article carried by Berliner Morgenpost. An observer in the recently formed ...
The business-friendly camp of Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 Conservatives (CDU) has warned the coal phase-out might result in a heavy burden on taxpayers, reports newswire dpa. 鈥淭he proposals must remain within the clearly delineated budget framework,鈥� said Joachim ...
Not cutting down the embattled Hambach Forest would cost four to five billion euros, Rolf Martin Schmitz, head of energy company RWE, which wants to clear the forest to expand a nearby lignite mine, said聽 in the political talk show Maybrit Illner on ...
The parliamentary group of German Chancellor Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 conservative CDU party has welcomed the first session of the commission tasked with planning the country鈥檚 coal exit, but stressed that 鈥渢horoughness must come before speed鈥� in the group鈥檚 ...
The German government has failed to report the carbon emissions savings achieved by putting several coal plants into a security stand-by mode reserved for supply bottlenecks, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. An assessment scheduled for the ...
When it comes to progress in phasing out carbon-intensive coal from the national power mix, Germany is the worst performing western country in the industrialised nations鈥� G7 club, only trailed by Japan but outperformed by the US and its pro-coal ...
The Rhenish lignite mining district plans to present in the coming weeks its programme for adjusting structurally to a phase-out of coal, according to a dpa article carried by Die Welt. The coal-exit commission, established by the federal government, has ...
Centuries-old villages across Germany are being bulldozed to make way for brown coal mines, Esme Nicholson reports for American broadcaster National Public Radio. Despite the country鈥檚 substantial investment in renewable energy deployment, coal still ...
After a first procedural session in June, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission meets today to 鈥渓ay the groundwork for joint understanding of the 24 experts and four heads鈥�, writes Andreas Mihm in an article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The commission 鈥� ...
The economy ministers of the German coal states Brandenburg, Saxony, and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have warned the country鈥檚 coal exit commission against coming up with 鈥渉asty鈥� scenarios for phasing out fossil power sources. In a press release issued ...
The government of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has stopped the clearing of anti-coal activist camps in Hambach Forest 鈥渦ntil further notice鈥� after a journalist fell to his death, writes Der Tagesspiegel. 鈥淲e cannot simply return to business ...
A report about a proposal by one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 聽 coal commission 聽 co-heads for a 聽 coal exit 聽 by 2038 has caused irritation. Co-chair Ronald 聽 Pofalla also proposed taking 5-7 gigawatts of coal capacity off-line and into a security reserve by 2020, and ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 recently-formed coal-exit commission must take into account the jobs of those employed in the coal sector, said Michael Vassiliadis, president of the mining, chemical, and energy industry union IC BGE, in an interview with Tagesspiegel ...
The premiers of the German coal mining states of Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have said they still plan coal mining activities to continue well into the 2040s. In a guest article published in the Handelsblatt on the day of the first meeting of ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:40 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Government 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission can conclude its work soon if the country鈥檚 finance minister puts enough money on the table, the head of the ...
Environmental organisations that are trying to set up a large-scale protest against the clearing of the Hambach Forest say up to 20,000 people could find their way to the small forest near Cologne, the Rheinische Post reports. Protest organiser Uwe Hiksch ...
The environmental NGOs participating in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission have proposed to take around 16 gigawatt (GW) of coal power capacity off grid by 2022, reports newswire dpa in an article carried by Die Welt. Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth Germany ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:38 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels 91tv The members of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission are 鈥渨illing to work together constructively to find solutions鈥�, but the conditions are 鈥渃haotic ...
German energy company RWE will breach the law if it continues to press ahead with the clearing of the Hambach Forest in western Germany to expand its nearby lignite mine, environmental NGO Greenpeace says in a press release. According to a legal opinion ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a 鈥渉uge mistake鈥� when she argues that the question of ending coal-fired power generation should only be dealt with after ensuring the economic future of the affected workers, Green Party co-head Annalena Baerbock told ...
In the row over the expansion of a lignite mine and the clearing of a nearby forest, German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said that 鈥渟olutions can only be found through negotiations and talks, and not in public debates,鈥� news agency Reuters ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission faces a huge task, but progress is slow, write Horand Knaup and Max Haerder in business magazine Wirtschaftswoche. 鈥淧articipants lament that a lot of time and energy is wasted on questions of organisation and discussions ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission is a 鈥渟ocietal innovation鈥� and shows how the exit from the dirty fossil fuel can be organised responsibly, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. 鈥淚f we manage it, it will become an example for many, many nations and ...
The head of German energy company RWE鈥檚 workers鈥� council, Harald Louis, says activists in the embattled Hambach Forest who are trying to prevent the expansion of a nearby coal mine are 鈥渂lackmailing鈥� the company by using the country鈥檚 coal exit commission ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:34 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Politics Focus Online The commission tasked with planning the end of coal-fired power production in Germany may be imperilled by internal differences that hinder compromise, climate ...
16 Jan 2019, 14:00 Kerstine Appunn Coal Fossil fuels 91tv While the German economy as a whole would hardly suffer from phasing out lignite, coal regions in the Rhineland, central Germany and especially Lusatia in the east of Germany, are ...
Several thousand people gathered over the weekend at the embattled Hambach Forest in western Germany to protest against the expansion of a nearby coal mine and the forest鈥檚 clearing, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reports. According to the organisers ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister, Svenja Schulze, has weighed in on the dispute between environmental groups and energy company RWE over the expansion of a lignite mine and the clearing of a nearby forest, tagesschau.de reports. 鈥淚f we want to achieve a ...
Devising a plan for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit through a commission is a tough job with many 聽pitfalls for policymakers, Cecile Boutelet reports for Le Monde. Coal region Lusatia in eastern Germany is one example of a place 鈥渨here the contradictory narratives of ...
09 Jan 2019, 12:06 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Elections & Politics Rheinische Post 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission will agree on a phase-out within around 20 years, according to Armin Laschet, premier of the western coal mining state ...
The Green Party in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is adamant about holding its party convention at the embattled Hambach Forest. 鈥淲e as Greens want to send a message and support the peaceful resistance鈥� against energy company RWE ...
German energy company RWE and environmental organisations have met to discuss the situation in the embattled Hambach Forest that energy company RWE wants to cut down to make room for a nearby coal mine, reports Spiegel Online. RWE head Rolf Martin Schmitz ...
Federal employment minister Hubertus Heil has put forward a six-point plan to soften the effect of a coal phase-out in the three lignite (brown coal) mining districts in Germany. There should be a special plan for road, rail, and digital infrastructure ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:00 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Fossil fuels Politics German Chancellor Angela Merkel will personally weigh in on the stagnating negotiations over the end of coal-fired power production in the country, news magazine Der ...
While the coal exit commission meets in Rhenish mining district in the state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), thousands of coal workers protested for their jobs not far from the symbolic Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut down to make way ...
The German government denies a report by news website Spiegel Online that the country's coal exit commission will propose to initiate the fossil fuel's phase-out in the west of the country and favours to finish it by 2035. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and ...
Any date for abandoning coal agreed by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission must be linked to specific conditions- and these must be fulfilled to actually implement the agreement, the state premier of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia ...
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 鈥渞enowned鈥� energy law firm Posser Spieth Wolfers & Partners argues ...
Due to its apparent lack of will to achieve a consensus, the mandate of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission should be annulled and the government itself should find a consensus on how to end coal-fired power production in the country, Angela Hennersdorf writes ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Svenja Schulze has reiterated her opposition to the clearing of Hambach Forest for the expansion of a nearby lignite mine while the country鈥檚 coal exit commission discusses the end of the fossil fuel in Germany, the ...
The electric utility of Frankfurt an der Oder, a city located on the German-Polish border and not to be confused with Germany's banking capital Frankfurt am Main, has joined its Cottbus counterpart and decided to replace its coal-fired cogeneration ...
The most important political decisions in Germany cannot be made by directives but must be earned by reconciling antagonist factions in society trough compromise and consideration, Thorsten Knuf writes in a commentary for the Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淭his ...
Coal-fired power generation does not have a future in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, write the environmental NGO WWF Germany and the green power provider LichtBlick in a joint report, seen by the 91tv. In their report 鈥淒ead end coal 鈥� Why coal ...
A state-managed fund for dealing with the financial legacy of lignite mining in Germany is the wrong way to ensure that the extraction鈥檚 long-term effects are dealt with properly, Antje H枚ning writes in a commentary for the General Anzeiger Bonn. Contrary ...
About 10,000 people gathered at the Hambach Forest over the past weekend to again protest against the forest鈥檚 clearing to make way for a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. At a protest event on Sunday, environment expert Peter Wohlleben told ...
Climate policy must take into account all the affected people, empower them, hold those responsible for climate change accountable, and create both global and national prospects for the future, according to the German Advisory Council on Global Change ...
The economy minister in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Andreas Pinkwart, has proposed to allocate coal power plants a certain amount of electricity they are allowed to produce before they have to shut down instead of deciding a set date for ...
A premature phase-out of the lignite industry doesn鈥檛 make 鈥渃limate policy sense,鈥� it is 鈥渉umbug,鈥� writes 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 former economy and employment minister Wolfgang Clement in an opinion piece in the Handelsblatt. He argues that the legal end date for ...
German reinsurance company Munich Re will no longer invest in companies that make more than 30 percent of their revenues from coal-based operations, CEO Joachim Wenning said in a guest article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淐limate change is a ...
A proposal by environmental NGOs working in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission to retire 16 gigawatt (GW) of coal capacity by 2022 has led to 鈥渉arsh disputes鈥� in the body tasked with devising a plan for the fossil fuel鈥檚 total phase-out, Malte Kreutzfeldt ...
Though Germany has championed the use of clean energy, the country is struggling with the phase-out of lignite, one of its most important energy sources to date, writes Michelle Hackman in an article in the Wall Street Journal. It is an energy source ...
In order for Germany to meet its 2030 emissions reduction target, a rapid phase-out of coal-fired electricity generation is needed across the country, but especially in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), according to a report published by ...
The speedy start of the coal exit is more important than finding a final end date, writes the Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU), an expert advisory panel to the government focussing on environmental protection, in a statement. 鈥淔or the climate, ...
Lignite is still of economic significance in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 brown coal regions, and the coal phase-out must be actively managed especially in the economically weak eastern German region of Lusatia, writes the Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic ...
Germany will reach a deal by the end of the year on a deadline and way to exit coal-fired power generation, according to mining union IG BCE, reports Nathan Witkop for Montel. Union head Michael Vassiliadis told an industry association conference he was ...
Germany has long ceased to be an 鈥渆xemplary student鈥� in climate protection and turned into a 鈥�coal-black sheep鈥� of the international community, writes Konrad Schuller in the Sunday edition of conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. An ambitious ...
The outcome of the struggle over the embattled Hambach Forest, which German energy company RWE wants to cut down to make way for the expansion of a lignite mine, will have 鈥減rofound significance for the future of energy in Germany, as well as for climate ...
Thousands of people have protested against coal use in Germany, some blocking a railway line leading to the Hambach lignite mine, others occupying an excavator there, reports Deutsche Welle. A court has recently ordered that clearing operations at the ...
Implementing pathways away from coal-fired power production in line with the Paris Climate Agreement is feasible in the major coal-using economies within 20 to 30 years, according to a comparative study on six countries, including Germany, Australia, ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:35 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Nuclear phase-out Politics ZDF The German economy and energy minister, Peter Altmaier, defended 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 continued reliance on coal, saying on public broadcaster ZDF it was the only ...
About 100 members of coal miner labour union IG BCE held a demonstration in front of the private home of anti-coal mining acitivist Antje Grothus, who also is a member of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission, newspaper Die Welt reports. Grothus, who heads a ...
German energy company RWE has rejected calls for a moratorium on forest clearing as part of lignite mining during its negotiations with the country鈥檚 coal exit commission, and said it would continue mining operations at the controversial Hambach mine, the ...
Environmental NGOs sandbag and Greenpeace have dubbed German utility RWE Europe's worst air polluter. 鈥淔our of the ten most toxic companies have their main coal plants in Germany:聽RWE, EPH, Uniper, and STEAG.聽This is no coincidence: Germany burns ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:49 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Elections & Politics ...
The lignite reserves already permitted for mining in Germany are enough to almost completely exhaust the remaining CO 2-budget of the country鈥檚 energy sector, environmental organisation WWF Germany says in a short report for the German coal exit ...
Several citizens鈥� and environmental groups in Germany have reiterated their call for a standstill agreement on lignite mine expansion until the speed and scope of the country鈥檚 coal phase-out has been determined, Ralph Jansen writes in the K枚lner Stadt ...
Forest protection has played an important role in the history of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende, or energy transition, and the current developments at the Hambach Forest, which is under threat by the expansion of a lignite mine, could end up as another example in ...
Police forces in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have moved into the embattled Hambach Forest that energy company RWE wants to cut down to make room for a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. On Twitter, police said they ...
Germany has provided inspiring and visionary leadership on energy and climate for many years, but is now at risk of being left behind, according to former US Vice President Al Gore. While stakeholders met for the first session of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit ...
This summer's heatwave show that Germany must exit coal quickly, according to Greenpeace. The NGO said 10 of their activists ascended a glacier on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 highest mountain, the Zugspitze, to unfold a banner saying 鈥淪ummer 2018: heat, drought, ...
09 Jan 2019, 12:18 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Society Tageszeitung German police are preparing a new round of evictions from tree houses built in protest against lignite mining in Hambach forest,聽 reports Anett Selle in the ...
Hundreds of coal workers in the eastern German region Lusatia welcomed the country鈥檚 coal exit commission during a trip to the region with protest banners saying, 鈥済ood jobs are being trampled on,鈥� Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze backs聽 Chancellor Angela Merkel position on the European Commission鈥檚 proposal to raise the 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target. 鈥淲e have set goals for 2020, which we will not reach. To then say 鈥榳e will set ...
Many investors increasingly doubt that further investments in fossil power plants make sense and ask for ever more detailed justifications, for example regarding the modernisation of old facilities, writes WirtschaftsWoche in a long article. This could ...
Energy company RWE plans to dig a ditch around the embattled Hambach Forest to prevent anti-coal protesters from entering the area, the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung writes. An RWE spokesperson said work on the ditch had already begun but added that it was not ...
The Economic Council of the CDU (CDU Wirtschaftsrat), a professional association of business actors associated with the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has come out against an official end date for coal-fired power generation in Germany, ...
The modernisation and decarbonisation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heating sector has enormous carbon emissions reduction potential that needs to be tapped more, the energy minister of the German coal state of Brandenburg, Albrecht Gerber, says in an article carried by ...
The start of evictions of anti-coal activists in the Hambach Forest 鈥渉as already done enormous damage to the image of [energy company] RWE鈥�, which could turn into a veritable 鈥渄isaster鈥� once the company starts cutting trees in October, J眉rgen Flauger, ...
Armin Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest federal state, is not willing to act as a mediator in the negotiations between environmental activists and the energy company RWE over the clearing of a forest near the Hambach ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Elections & Politics 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit should follow the Coal Exit Commission's final report as closely as possible, according to the commission鈥檚 co-chair ...
A quick end of coal-fired power production in Germany and a parallel expansion of wind and solar power capacities would reduce carbon emissions sufficiently to meet the 2020 and 2030 climate target in line with the Paris Agreement, a study by research ...
German police prepare the clearing of the last known tree-house holdout in the embattled Hambach Forest near Cologne to enable energy company RWE to continue expanding its nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. One activist was injured during a ...
More than a dozen villages are to be demolished and thousands of families relocated to make way for the expansion of Garzweiler opencast lignite mine, Stefanie Glinski reports for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Located in the German federal state of ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:21 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Deutsche Welle / Quartz Coal mining workers in the Rhineland have mixed feelings about the pending coal exit, Gero Rueter reports in a feature for Deutsche Welle. The ...
The German government is concerned that short-term coal plant closures might lead to expensive compensation claims by operators, reports Klaus Stratmann in business daily Handelsblatt in a double-page article. A utility source said 鈥渨e will see each other ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:30 In a bid to improve Germany's poor emission reduction record and to identify economic perspectives for people employed in the waning coal industry, the grand coalition government in 2018 set up a commission tasked with managing the ...
The phase-out of coal-fired power production in Germany must become a model case for other countries that want to reconcile economic prosperity with an effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) has ...
At a meeting in the Rhenish lignite mining region, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission debated first proposals on how to cushion the effects of an exit from coal-fired power generation in affected regions. A draft interim report, seen by the 91tv, ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International Tagesspiegel Background The German government has presented an incomplete National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) draft to the European Commission at the last minute ...
A Greenpeace-commissioned study conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology posits that Germany can still meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, provided that several brown-coal-fired power plants are ...
Germany needs to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2030 to meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement and help limit global warming to 1.5掳 Celsius, according to a report by Berlin-based non-profit climate science and policy institute Climate ...
Nearly 100 civil society organisations from across the world 鈥� including Greenpeace International, Banktrack, 250.org, Climate Action Network and E3G 鈥� have sent a joint letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, urging her to intervene in the escalating ...
Around 750,000 people have signed an online petition to protect Hambach Forest against plans by utility RWE to clear it for the expansion of a nearby lignite mine, reports the newswire dpa in an article carried by Focus. Over the past 14 days alone, 300 ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:07 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background While the government鈥檚 financial pledges for mining regions have paved the way for an agreement on structural support, ...
The plenary debate in the German Parliament about 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2019 budget for environmental policy on 12 September centred on the country鈥檚 coal exit. Referring to the current situation in the embattled Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut ...
25 Jan 2019, 13:51 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:11 S枚ren Amelang Fossil fuels Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit will have economic impacts well beyond the coal industry and regions, Andreas Mihm writes in a commentary in the ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:41 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel ...
German energy company RWE may be legally entitled to proceed with the expansion of its lignite mine near the Hambach Forest and to have police remove protesters, but the conditions that led to RWE鈥檚 license for expansion 鈥渉ave changed dramatically,鈥� ...
Germany can reach its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target with a delay of three years by taking 9 gigawatts (GW) of lignite-fired power plant capacity offline by 2023 without endangering power supply security, according to a study by Aurora Energy ...
The only way to enable 鈥淐hancellor [Angela] 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 next government to reach the 2020 climate target is to exit from coal-fired power generation,鈥� writes Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International in a guest commentary in the ...
Police in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have started clearing the anti-coal activist camp in the embattled Hambach Forest, the Rheinische Post reports in a live blog. Police set up a perimeter around the forest and started ...
The latest leaked drafts of the coalition treaty show that the possible future government partners CDU/CSU and SPD know where the difficulties lie in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system, but they shy away from making important decisions, writes Jakob Schlandt in an ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:00 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel / dpa German finance minister Olaf Scholz said it is 鈥減erfectly clear鈥� that the German government will have to invest much more money ...
According to environment ministry calculations, Germany would have to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 62 percent by 2030, compared to 1990 levels, to meet the requirements laid out by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has proposed quickly retiring five gigawatts of lignite power generation capacity with a view to the country鈥檚 ongoing talks about a coal phase-out, sources told the Rheinische Post. In addition, he suggested ...
The debate between politicians and scientists in one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most popular political talk shows 鈥� Anne Will 鈥� makes clear that this year鈥檚 heat wave and resulting draught is unlikely to fundamentally change 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate policy, writes Joachim ...
29 Jan 2020, 14:32 The German government has officially approved the end of coal-fired power production in Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet adopted a law detailing plant shutdowns and compensation payments for coal companies, confirming a ...
12 Oct 2018, 16:40 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission wants to ease the coal exit by granting lignite mining regions preferential treatment in infrastructure and innovation projects, according to a leaked draft report seen by the 91tv. The paper ...
26 Jan 2019, 16:45 Energy transition home country Germany eyes a phase-out of coal power by 2038 at the very latest, as the country tries to get back on track to create a climate-friendly economy. In its highly anticipated phase-out proposal, the country ...
The criticism of the Green Party鈥檚 climate policy by Andrea Nahles, leader of the聽 SPD, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 junior government coalition partner, has led to consternation and objections by the Greens and environmental groups. NGO Greenpeace said in a mailed ...
20 Nov 2018, 10:30 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission聽aims to propose a path for the country鈥檚 phase-out by the end of November. Agreeing a compromise on how to end the use of Germany's most important fossil fuel in such a short time will be difficult, ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said that the country will reach its 2030 climate targets if it starts to work towards them without delay. Addressing a joint press conference with North Rhine-Westphalia鈥檚 (NRW) state premier Armin ...
The IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5掳C, released today, shows the urgent need for ambitious climate action, according to the German government. In a press release, environment minister Svenja Schulze said the key message of the report is that ...
The parties negotiating a new grand coalition government in Berlin seem to prefer to delegate important climate policy decisions 鈥� such as finding a date for a coal exit 鈥� to a future commission, rather than taking on the responsibility themselves, writes ...
25 Jan 2019, 11:58 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission has begun what could be its decisive meeting on Friday. In crucial last-minute talks, the commission must agree on a timetable to phase out the climate-damaging fossil fuel for electricity production ...
16 Jan 2019, 13:16 The German government has pledged long-term payments to lignite mining regions, removing a major hurdle to reaching a compromise over the country鈥檚 coal exit. After a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Olaf ...
09 May 2025, 16:15 Three years on from the invasion of Ukraine, the European Union is still trying to wean itself off Russian energy supplies. The bloc has come a long way from the dependency it once had, yet certain EU countries still rely on Russia for ...
18 Jan 2019, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang Utilities 91tv German utility RWE wants to invest about 1.5 billion euros net per year in renewables after a complex transaction that will combine the green energy activities of E.ON and Innogy under the roof ...
19 Dec 2018, 10:10 Germany must face several fundamental energy and climate decisions in 2019 to save the country's Energiewende and its international standing, according to Greenpeace head Jennifer Morgan. Most importantly, the promised Climate ...
28 May 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Finance Company climate claims 91tv EU rules have pushed many investment funds to drop terms like 鈥渟ustainable鈥� or 鈥渃limate鈥� from their names if they could not live up to the promise, even though guidelines ...
24 May 2024, 15:00 The curtain is coming down on five years of EU energy and environment legislative drama. Since the 2019 鈥済reen wave鈥� that helped put the spotlight on sustainable policy, dozens of laws have passed through the complex process of EU ...
25 Oct 2024, 16:00 Poland鈥檚 new government has updated the country鈥檚 energy strategy, which it says is more ambitious, but implementation remains uncertain as it depends on how coal miner unions react. In its push to increase nuclear power generation, the ...
26 Jun 2018, 17:32 Germany has provided inspiring visionary leadership on energy and climate change for many years, but is now at risk of being left behind, former US Vice President Al Gore said on the first working day of the country鈥檚 coal exit ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Transport Agriculture 91tv Germany, Finland, France and Portugal鈥檚 National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) drafts include ambitious goals but 鈥渓ack details and concrete measures鈥� to ensure ...
01 Nov 2024, 16:30 As the world heads to the international climate summit COP29, the European Union is in a tricky position. The Brussels machine is still getting back up and running after the June elections, with the European Commission chiefs yet to be ...
23 Jan 2019, 18:16 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 detailed coal exit path and the end-date to coal-fired power generation remain unknown only days before a highly anticipated phase-out proposal is due to be published. A leaked draft of the final report of the country鈥檚 coal ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: The fate of coal-fired power production in Germany has been sealed with the agreement of a government-appointed commission to phase-out the fossil fuel no later than 2038. But the proposal so far has not been translated ...
24 Apr 2025, 17:08 Poland is driving European efforts to end the reliance on Russian fossil fuel imports and has announced an 鈥渆conomic nationalism鈥� policy in response to US tariffs, which could have an impact on energy and climate policy. In the meantime ...
02 Aug 2024
02 Aug 2024, 14:20 Six months after the new ruling coalition in Poland came to power, there are still no significant changes to the country鈥檚 energy policy. The government of Donald Tusk, however, is finally getting back to work on key laws for the energy ...
20 Dec 2021, 10:55 The start of Germany's new government makes 2022 a crucial year for the country's landmark energy transition. All eyes are on the three-way coalition's first steps towards implementing its ambitious climate plans, which ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:40 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert B眉rgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe ...
31 Jan 2025, 14:00 Poland鈥檚 energy transition is lagging and set to rely on natural gas as a bridge fuel and nuclear energy for baseload capacity. A far-right party is pushing against new renewable investment with a referendum on a pending new wind farm ...
28 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025, 12:00 As the European Union鈥檚 focus shifts away from climate action and towards increasing security and competitiveness, the question whether it will set a 90 percent emissions reduction target for 2040 has become central. Dave Keating *** ...
03 Apr 2025
03 Apr 2025, 10:35 91tv Team Reuters: Deutsche Bank-owned asset manager DWS fined 鈧�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 ...
05 Oct 2018, 17:00 Clearing operations at the embattled Hambach Forest to make way for a coal mine have to be halted to decide whether the forest is protected by EU environmental rules, a German court has decided. The judges said energy company RWE did ...
20 Nov 2014
20 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Zeit online "Billions for utilities" If coal fired power stations were retired, everybody could profit: the climate, consumers and utilities, writes Marlies Uken for Zeit online. The problem is, none of the ...
03 May 2024, 15:35 With the sudden arrival of summer weather, Germans stream back into street cafes and beer gardens with a collective sigh of relief. On the way, they are greeted by EU election campaign posters, which have sprung up across the country ...
10 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024, 13:44 With the summer break coming to an end, lawmakers in Brussels are back to school. After the newly elected European Parliament started its legislative term last July, all eyes are now on the formation of the next European Commission. ...
The future of coal-fired power generation is going to be one of the coalition talks鈥� most delicate matters, Michael Bauchm眉ller says in an article for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淎ll other energy policy issues pale in comparison to the coal question,鈥� he writes ...
07 May 2025, 11:40 91tv Team Climate & CO2 Bloomberg: Orsted cancels major UK offshore wind farm as costs jump The move is a significant blow to UK plans to boost the clean energy source in the coming years, and also a setback for the offshore wind ...
Should the next German government decide to seek a coal exit, it must also care for the workers' and mining regions鈥� future, said Michael Vassiliadis, head of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest mining trade union IG BCE and one of Germany's most prominent ...
14 Jun 2024, 16:07 Poor results in the EU elections mean that governing is set to be anything but smooth sailing for Germany's ruling coalition. Pressure is mounting on all three partners 鈥� chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD, the Green Party and the ...
Coalition talks between CDU, CSU, FDP and Green Party will be about the parties鈥� ability 鈥渢o make something constructive of the differences鈥�, said chancellery chief and Christian Democrat Peter Altmaier in an interview with German public broadcaster ARD ...
22 Apr 2021, 12:58 Germany's utilities say the delay to the EU decision on whether natural gas projects count as a sustainable investment imperils the country's supply security and climate targets. They argue that the exclusion of gas from the ...
06 Mar 2025
06 Mar 2025, 11:29 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's nuclear lobby says up to six reactors could restart Germany's nuclear engineering lobby said up to half a dozen nuclear power stations could, in theory, be reopened despite closing in 2023 as a ...
14 Feb 2025
14 Feb 2025, 13:57 Administrative "simplification" will be a key focus of the European Commission's 2025 work programme, trade and economic security聽 commissioner Maro拧 艩ef膷ovi膷 told MEPs during the European Parliament鈥檚 plenary session in ...
A quick phase-out of coal-fired power production would pose a threat to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy, the head of the pro-business party FDP, Christian Lindner, has said in an interview with national broadcaster ZDF, Montel News writes in an article. Closing coal ...
Chancellor Angel Merkel appears to have signalled the end of brown coal in Germany, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. In her traditional summer interview with broadcaster ARD, Merkel stated that working with affected regions to develop ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Renewables International 91tv Associations from the German and Ukrainian renewable energy industry have agreed to work together more closely to speed up the energy transition in both countries. The ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Fossil fuels 91tv Eastern German lignite mining and power plant company Leag has received the green light for up to 1.75 billion euros in state support to compensate for the implementation of the ...
The chief energy policy negotiator of German Chancellor Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 conservative CDU in the ongoing 鈥楯amaica coalition鈥� talks, North Rhine-Westphalia鈥檚 (NRW) State Premier Armin Laschet, said that Germany could give up coal-fired power production by ...
A German government formed of a so-called Jamaica coalition could be more than just an 鈥渆mergency solution鈥�, FDP chief negotiator Marco Buschmann said in an interview with Frankfurter Rundschau.聽 If the parties found a compromise on contested policy ...
20 Sep 2024, 15:02 The worst floods in at least a decade hit southern Poland and neigbouring regions in mid-September due to extreme rainfall, which scientists said was likely more intense due to climate change. The situation has received wide political ...
The state parliament of Berlin will decide on an act today that would enshrine into law the year 2030 as the city鈥檚 coal exit date- but new emissions limits in 2018 could lead to an earlier phase-out, writes Claudius Pr枚sser in tageszeitung (taz). By the ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:19 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 International Bild The collapse of the climate system is resulting in refugees that Europe 鈥渙f course鈥� has to take in, German Sea-Watch captain Carola Rackete said in an interview with BILD. Rackete was ...
24 Jan 2025, 15:30 Germany has fully switched into election campaign mode ahead of the national vote on 23 February. Parties have presented their manifestos, with key energy transition issues including the future of industry, boosting investments, energy ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:47 The public debate in Poland in recent weeks has been dominated by international security and the implications of the rift between the new US administration and Europe on Ukraine. Beyond the frontpage news, there has been progress on ...
Germany must start phasing out coal-fired power generation as the next step of its energy transition, and the matter was also on the agenda of the talks to form a new government coalition in Berlin, the state secretary in the economy and energy ministry, ...
Greenpeace Germany has proposed to the next German federal government an emergency programme for coal to 鈥渓argely reach鈥� the country鈥檚 2020 climate target. The proposal focuses on throttling or shutting down the 鈥渙ldest and dirtiest lignite power plants,鈥� ...
13 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024, 15:30 The coming year will show whether the EU can use a new strategy to clean its industry and continue the path laid out over the past five years in the European Green Deal, or whether increasing global competition and protectionist efforts ...
Environmental organisations have warned Chancellor Angela Merkel and her negotiating partners at the ongoing Jamaica coalition talks for a new German government of risking a 鈥渃limate policy blackout鈥�. Merkel had to make 鈥渁 clear commitment鈥� to the ...
The COP23 climate conference in Bonn could be more important than ever for the 鈥� self-proclaimed climate champion 鈥� Germany, writes Petra Pinzler in a commentary for Die Zeit. Because the November summit will likely coincide with negotiations to form a ...
The incoming German government must not agree to phase out coal-fired power production in exchange for concessions to diesel cars, Michael Vassiliadis, head of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest mining trade union,聽 IG BCE, said in an interview with the General-Anzeiger ...
28 Jan 2019, 11:36 The agreement by Germany's coal exit commission to end the fossil power source's use by 2038 the latest is welcomed by the country's climate activists and energy industry representatives alike. They praise the final ...
Differing views on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 future energy system are emerging as a major source of contention between the parties attempting to establish a new German federal government, Andreas Mihm writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The Greens want Germany ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 mining labour union IG BCE has called on the parties of the so-called grand coalition to pursue a 鈥渞easonable鈥� energy and climate policy, news agency dpa reports. IG BCE head Michael Vassiliadis said 鈥渕ore realism鈥� and a 鈥渕odernisation boost鈥� ...
In a televised town hall campaign event, Chancellor Angela Merkel promised voters that Germany would find ways to meet its ambitious target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020. One young first-time voter asked about shutting down coal ...
Deutsche Welle has published a video report showing how utility RWE continues to mine and use lignite for electricity production in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. 鈥淓nergy giant RWE has been relying on coal for too long now, and its ...
23 Aug 2024, 15:00 The summer holiday peak has arrived across Europe and most parliaments on the continent have gone into recess. But while federal politics won鈥檛 fully resume in Germany before 8 September, politicians and their observers have already ...
The Green parliamentary group in the German Bundestag (parliament) has introduced a motion calling on the government to give 鈥渢op priority鈥� to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, initiating a debate in the plenary. ...
20 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024, 14:57 Dave Keating *** Our weekly Dispatches provide an overview of the most relevant recent and upcoming developments for the shift to climate neutrality i n selected European countries, from policy and diplomacy to society and industry. For ...
The Social Democrats (SPD) have compiled a list of 11 topics to be addressed during talks with Chancellor Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 conservatives on renewing a grand coalition of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 two largest political camps. Talking point number 11 is entitled 鈥淔or ...
The parties negotiating a 鈥楯amaica coalition鈥� in Germany had made a lot of progress on energy and climate policy, as well as on several other policy areas, before the pro-market FDP party pulled out of the talks, Cerstin Gammelin and Markus Balser report ...
Each and every party involved in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥楯amaica coalition鈥� talks to form a new federal government should have an interest in securing 鈥渁 quick and orderly coal exit鈥�, as the alternatives 鈥渁re way too risky鈥�, Anna Pegels and Jonas Keil from the German ...
An internal federal government paper calls for an 鈥渉onest debate about possible consequences鈥� from learning that the country will likely miss its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target by a wide margin, report Klaus Stratmann and Thomas Sigmund in ...
The environment ministers of the EU member states have agreed to seek more ambitious CO鈧� car emission cuts by 2030 than both the European Commission and the German government had initially proposed. Average CO鈧� emissions of new passenger cars registered ...
The decisive message of the聽 German Industry Association鈥檚 (BDI) study 聽is that climate protection can be an economic success story, writes Ekkehard R眉ger in an editorial for the Westdeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭o hear this wake-up call not just from ...
23 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Reuters Nuclear commission wants utilities to supplement clean-up provisions The commission on payments for the nuclear clean-up insists that nuclear power station ...
24 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024, 11:31 Julian Wettengel IRENA: Record growth drives cost advantage of renewable power Eighty-one percent of renewable additions in 2023 were cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives, offering countries a compelling business and investment case to ...
06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Reuters: Year begins with warmest January despite shift towards cooling La Nina Last month was the world's warmest January on record, continuing a streak of extreme global temperatures despite a shift towards the cooling ...
Former US Vice President and environmentalist Al Gore has called on Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU union and the Social Democrats (SPD) to agree on a coal phase-out by 2030 during their ongoing coalition negotiations. In two messages, Gore said that ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2020 climate target is practically out of reach, and the country now needs an emergency programme to reach its 2030 targets, Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the German Energy Agency (dena), told the Frankfurter Rundschau. In their blueprint for ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:44 Expert B眉rgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Edgar Meza Nuclear phase-out Finance 91tv / Reuters An overwhelming majority of Germans see no place for nuclear power in sustainable investments, according to ...
12 Dec 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs Der Tagesspiegel Coal mining states in eastern Germany have called for clarity regarding the release of 1.75 billion euros in support funds from the federal government for the transition away ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest mining trade union has called on the next federal government to assign the tasks related to energy, transport, and housing policies to a 鈥榤inistry of energy transition鈥�. This would help the country avoid the current 鈥渦ncoordinated ...
Energy policy was a burden on the 2017 coalition talks because the Green Party, the conservatives (CDU/CSU) and the Free Democrats (FDP) narrowed the discussions down to a 鈥渟ymbolic political conflict鈥�, writes Jakob Schlandt in Tagesspiegel. The parties ...
21 Mar 2025, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Electricity market 91tv A projected increase in electricity demand and a reduction of power plant capacity able to supply electricity at any moment are set to represent concrete challenges for Germany' ...
19 May 2025, 17:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas Policy 91tv [UPDATE adds quotes by minister Reiche, Commissioner Ribera] The new German government should largely adopt the previous government's plans for building new gas power ...
24 Nov 2017, 00:00 For the first time in its post-war history, Germany struggles to form a stable government coalition two months after voters cast their ballot in September's elections. The so-called Jamaica coalition talks' collapse plunges ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas 91tv The switch from coal-fired power generation and oil-fired heating to natural gas increases the greenhouse effect of energy supply by around 40 percent due to methane emissions, ...
14 Mar 2018, 00:00 The 2017 September election results have led to unprecedented difficulties in forming a new government in Germany. After the longest government building process in modern Germany, Angela Merkel was re-elected as chancellor of a renewed ...
It will be easier for CDU, CSU, FDP and the Green Party to find an agreement on migration and asylum than on climate policy, the CDU鈥檚 Armin Laschet, state premier of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industrial heartland North Rhine-Westphalia, told Rheinische Post in an ...
In an interview with public broadcaster ARD, German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the proposal for a more ambitious EU greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 by Miguel Arias Ca帽ete, commissioner for climate action and energy. 鈥淚 am not so happy ...
The country needs a 鈥渟ustainable and binding鈥� CO鈧� price in all sectors, including transport and heating, to correct mistakes in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy tax and levy system, CEO of utility E.ON Johannes Teyssen told Die Welt in an interview. 鈥淲ith this, many ...
08 May 2023, 12:48 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Recent examples of investment decisions on climate-friendly technologies in Germany and Europe show that the continent is on the right track to respond to the U.S. Inflation ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Fossil fuels Cost & Prices RND / Tagesspiegel Background Germany is reducing its fossil fuel imports even as the cost of buying them has increased from 2021 to 2023, according to a report by the 脰ko-Institut ...
Negotiators in the ongoing talks to renew 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grand coalition of conservatives (CDU, CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) want to avoid inner city driving bans and consider hardware retrofitting for older diesel cars to bring down nitrogen oxide ...
Shares in E.ON fossil power spin-off Uniper started trading at just over 10 euros at its market debut, toward the upper end of a range between 5.50 and 13.00 euros given by analysts, reports Reuters. 鈥淭he closely watched listing, under which E.ON is ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Coal 91tv Lignite projects in Germany received around 1.7 billion euros worth of support throughout 2022, according to an analysis by think tank Green Budget Germany (F脰S). Despite the country鈥檚 ambition ...
03 Jun 2025, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Grid Zeit Online Amid the phase-out of coal power, Germany plans to install new gas-fired power plants as a backup for renewable energy sources. Economy minister Katherina Reiche announced at a party convention of ...
30 May 2022, 14:04 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Coal 91tv A landmark climate lawsuit by a Peruvian farmer and mountain guide against ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang Coal dpa / S眉ddeutsche 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. 鈥淲e are very ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas 91tv / Tagesspiegel / WDR The construction of new gas-fired power plants that are supposed to provide backup capacity for the German electricity system amid the transition to renewable power needs ...
The Green Party is 鈥渟till ready for talks鈥� on becoming part of a possible government coalition in Germany, the party鈥檚 parliamentary group co-leader Katrin G枚ring-Eckardt has said in an interview with Welt Online. She said that her party would be ready ...
A documentary by public television station Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) discusses the role of lignite mining and power production in the Lusatia region of eastern Germany. With 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 targets to limit greenhouse gas emissions, the country鈥檚 switch ...
30 May 2025, 15:00 Italy is facing a delay in the phase-out of coal, as the future of a major coal-fired power plant near Rome remains unclear, despite plans for its closure by the end of the year. The uncertainty is partly fuelled by industry concerns ...
21 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team AP: Ford, facing economic headwinds and weak EV sales, to cut 4,000 jobs in Europe Of the total, 2,900 jobs would be lost in Germany, 800 in Britain and 300 in other European Union countries. Reuters: Volkswagen enters third ...
The German Greens have signalled their readiness to make concessions on core policy demands in the field of climate protection for the sake of advancing the stagnant coalition talks with Chancellor Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro ...
14 Feb 2020, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang Coal Climate & CO2 91tv Germany must exit coal much quicker than planned to comply with the Paris Climate Agreement, according to a report by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). "A coal ...
06 Jan 2016
06 Jan 2016, 00:00 91tv 91tv Rheinische Post 鈥淕rand coalition plans buyers鈥� incentives for electric cars鈥� The German government plans to introduce new incentives for e-cars, transport minister Alexander Dobrindt told the Rheinische Post. 鈥淎 ...
31 Jan 2019, 14:15 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal 91tv ...
12 Dec 2019, 13:14 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 ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:46 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Coal 91tv / Spiegel Online Five ...
13 Dec 2018, 18:20 The global community is closely watching 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 lagging domestic climate action, which certainly does not help the country鈥檚 credibility in international negotiations, says Lisa Badum, climate policy spokesperson of the Greens' ...
25 May 2020, 14:58 Experts have criticised the German government's draft coal exit law for deviating from the compromise found by the coal commission in early 2019. At a parliamentary committee hearing, representatives from industry, research ...
07 Feb 2025, 14:40 The fallout triggered by the dissolution of the French National Assembly last June continues to afflict political decisionmaking in France. The collapse of the Barnier government 聽in December, and the resulting ministerial reshuffle, ...
07 Sep 2021, 14:01 Expert B眉rgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Better company reporting, more good examples set by ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:53 S枚ren Amelang Coal Financial Times Environmental NGOs have criticised the German Coal Commission鈥檚 proposal to phase out coal use by 2038 as too slow, but the process could happen a lot faster than that, Nick Butler says in a op-ed for ...
05 Mar 2025, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Fossil gas is set to continue to play a crucial role in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy supply throughout this decade, and consumption will fall slower than authorities currently plan, said consultancy McKinsey ...
20 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Austria submits 2030 climate plan late as Germany, Spain flout June deadline Just ten EU countries have submitted their long-term climate action plans to Brussels, with Austria being the most recent, as large ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government must implement the key recommendations given by its coal exit commission, but the proposal should not be followed to the letter to maintain necessary flexibility in ...
03 Mar 2021, 12:17 The European Commission has expressed doubts that Germany's planned compensation payments to operators of lignite-fired power plants in the context of the country's coal phase-out are in line with EU state aid rules, and ...
23 Aug 2018, 11:30 The German coal exit commission has set out on a tight schedule to devise a plan for phasing out the fossil power source 鈥� but shortly before its third official meeting federal states and opposition politicians have complained about a ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:12 Freja Eriksen Coal 91tv/ Welt Online The European Commission has allocated a potential 877 million euros of its Just Transition Fund to support structural change in German coal mining regions, reports聽 Welt Online. ...
17 Sep 2018, 10:30 A report about a proposal by one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission co-heads for a coal exit by 2038 has caused irritation. Some commission members were quick to reject the report and warned that the commission's work was in peril should ...
20 Apr 2021, 13:00 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG ...
18 Sep 2018, 18:50 The country鈥檚 coal exit commission said there were no predetermined decisions regarding a date for the end to coal-fired power generation. Following irritation about reports of a supposed compromise on a 2038 end date, economy minister ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:43 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Employing multi-stakeholder task forces like 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit ...
18 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Ursula von der Leyen: "We'll stay the course on the EU Green Deal and the goals we set for 2030 and 2050" " We will now focus on implementation & investment" and "put forward a Clean ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal EU Die Zeit The shut down of German coal plants in 2021 is set to have only a minor impact on European emissions reduction because the government might not report plant decommissionings to the European Commission, ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Some six months after 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission tabled its proposal to phase out the fuel by 2038, commission members have criticised the government鈥檚 lack of progress on implementing the plan. ...
25 Nov 2020, 15:04 Germany's phase-out plan for hard coal plants can largely be carried out as planned by inviting operators to submit compensation claims in tender procedures, the European Commission has decided. The German government welcomed the ...
22 Nov 2018, 15:06 The German government wants to postpone the deadline for the conclusion of the country鈥檚 coal exit commission. Sources told the 91tv the commission may have to extend its work on the phase out of the fossil fuel until ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:47 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal International Sydney Morning Herald Australia faces similar challenges to Germany when it comes to phasing out coal and might want to follow 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 example by setting up a commission to work ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:38 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Spiegel Online / ...
28 Jan 2019, 17:56 The German government is ready to quickly supply financial means for the country鈥檚 exit from coal, said economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier. It will now examine the details of the proposal agreed by the country鈥檚 coal exit ...
22 Jan 2020, 11:28 The German coal exit commission 's compromise reached in early 2019 was hailed as a breakthrough for cooperation between industry representatives, policymakers and environmental groups, as it outlined how to phase-out the fossil ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:16 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv The opposition Green Party has called on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government to rapidly implement the recommendations of the ...
Several German states are demanding that the federal government and the EU should protect the steel industry from stricter environmental regulations and rising electricity costs, reports S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. In a draft of the joint final statement for ...
23 Aug 2018, 18:15 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission will not give any recommendation regarding mining-owner RWE鈥檚 plans to continue clearing forest for the planned extension of the Hambach lignite mine in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The country's ...
16 Aug 2024, 12:00 Croatia is feeling the consequences of climate change this summer. The country experienced long heat waves and record temperatures were recorded in the Adriatic Sea. This has led to more media attention on the topic of climate change, ...
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16 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv VDMA / BWE Costs for wind power reduced Power from wind turbines in 2016/2017 will be 12 percent cheaper than in 2012/2013, according to a study commissioned by the German Engineering Federation ...
16 Nov 2018, 16:19 The German coal exit commission has debated a first draft that outlines how the country could start the phase-out the fossil power source in the coming years. According to a leaked draft plant operators could receive compensation ...
31 May 2024, 15:00 As the European elections approach and the political parties in Italy engage in divisive campaigns over European policies and the management of various international contexts, the country is preparing to host the summit of G7 countries ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen 91tv Achieving 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition and climate targets still requires a lot of political efforts to keep supply secure and affordable, the government-appointed expert commission ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:59 Poland is emerging from a long election cycle- from parliamentary elections last October that brought a change of government to local ballots in April, and finally the European Parliament elections earlier this month. All these bring ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:19 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Deutschlandfunk Coal state Saxony鈥檚 premier, Michael Kretschmer (CDU), expects decisions ...
30 Sep 2024, 12:00 The late summer months brought bad energy and climate news for Croatians. August 鈥� a traditionally low activity month during the holiday season 鈥� saw record-breaking heat, with temperatures exceeding long-term averages by almost 5掳C in ...
11 Jun 2019, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Coal Social Europe There is a wide gap between environmental rhetoric and climate action in Germany, as displayed by the 鈥渋nadequate compromise鈥� found by the coal exit commission, which 鈥渄oes not amount to a coherent ...
17 Mar 2022, 13:57 S枚ren Amelang Fossil fuels Cost & Prices 91tv The German government has instructed the country's cartel authorities to look into the recent spike of diesel and petrol prices and to take action on any indication of ...
30 May 2018, 00:00 Germany struggles to get its highly anticipated coal exit task force on track. The government on Wednesday postponed at the last minute the official launch of the phase-out commission for the third time. The quarrels over the commission ...
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鈥檚 coal phaseout, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in the S眉ddeutsche ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Coal Business & Jobs dpa / Rheinische Post German utility RWE estimates costs of 1.2 billion euros for each gigawatt (GW) of ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities 91tv Hambach Forest in western Germany could be saved following the German coal exit commission鈥檚 agreement, but only at great cost, RWE head Rolf Martin Schmitz said ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists that she expects talks to discuss the possibilities for a new government coalition to last several weeks before actual negotiations begin, news agency Reuters reports. The lengthy talks were down to the ...
The coal commission鈥檚 mandate is 鈥渘owhere near enough,鈥� according to Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock. 鈥淭he commission now has the difficult task of outgrowing this mandate. Neither the climate, nor the regions鈥� affected residents can afford a ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:50 Coal Die Zeit / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung More than one thousand climate protesters, including activists from the Fridays for Future movement, Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion, occupied the site of a planned opencast coal mine in western ...
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22 Oct 2024, 11:28 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's Scholz working with industry to boost growth German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised on Tuesday to work with industry to revive growth in Europe's biggest economy, which he said had been hit harder ...
13 Aug 2019, 13:40 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Coal Handelsblatt Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has come out against ...
06 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany has launched official talks on phasing out coal in power generation. The aim is to cut greenhouse gas emissions that have remained stubbornly high despite the country鈥檚 ongoing shift to renewable power. The government on ...
05 Oct 2020, 10:45 Stepping up the 2030 EU climate target to an emission reduction of at least 55 percent as proposed by the European Commission would very likely require the bloc to phase out coal almost entirely by that date, according to experts. The ...
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鈥檚 climate record. The government will likely nominate the coal exit commission on ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Rheinische Post The leader of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 governing Social Democrats (SPD), Andrea Nahles, has called for a quick implementation of the proposals made by the country鈥檚 coal exit commission, Jan Drebes ...
06 Dec 2024, 11:14 The appointment of Michel Barnier as France鈥檚 new prime minister in September sparked as many concerns as it ignited hopes for advocates of more ambitious climate action. But the former environment minister, who had laid some of the ...
27 Nov 2018, 12:01 Germany risks showing up empty-handed at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Poland in December as the country鈥檚 coal exit commission has decided to extend its work beyond the original end-of-2018 deadline. The task force has set ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:33 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG ...
24 Oct 2022, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Coal EU 91tv Four German coal regions are set to receive a total of 2.5 billion euros from the EU鈥檚 Just Transition Fund (JTF) to help them shift to a climate-friendly economy, the European Commission said ...
19 Sep 2019, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Voters in Germany would have supported a coal phase-out much earlier than 2038, the date proposed by the country's coal exit commission earlier this year, according to a ...
28 Aug 2018, 13:59 The expansion of a lignite mine that threatens a nearby forest has become a first touchstone of the German coal exit commission鈥檚 robustness. But despite fears that the row over the embattled Hambach Forest could gravely impede the ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:21 German utility and lignite mine operator RWE has agreed to refrain from clearing the embattled Hambach Forest in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) until autumn 2020, said state premier Armin Laschet in a parliamentary ...
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, ...
23 Jan 2019, 11:04 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 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,聽 Reuters news agency says citing a draft report [shorter ...
05 Apr 2019, 12:44 Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices Reuters / ZDF 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government and coal mining states have agreed on a programme worth 260 million euros to provide fast support to regions affected by the exit from coal-fired power ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:05 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The German coal commission鈥檚 agreement to gradually phase out coal power has left investors and ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 CarbonBrief If the German government adopts the commission recommendations for a coal exit by 2038, coal capacity would barely fall faster than a business-as-usual pathway over ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Electricity market Climate Home News The end of coal-fired power production in Germany can be achieved much more quickly than proposed by the country鈥檚 coal exit commission if the government ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt The European Commission (EC) has concerns over 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy ministry plans to create incentives for the construction of new聽gas-fired power plants with a combined capacity of about 25 gigawatt (GW) ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:50 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal MDR / 91tv The German coal exit law should be finalised quickly and get parliamentary approval before the summer break ...
The four major German coal states demand a 鈥渟tronger voice鈥� in the planned commission tasked with preparing the end of coal-fired power production in the country, Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In a letter to Chancellor Angela ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:11 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Politics 91tv The opposition Green parliamentary group has called on the federal government 聽to introduce concrete proposals to implement the coal exit commission 's recent ...
The commission tasked with planning 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit could extend its negotiations well into 2019, although it is scheduled to deliver ideas for quick emissions reduction and an end date for coal-fired power production by December this year. According ...
Solving a complex social problem like the phasing-out of coal- 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 traditional and still most important energy source 聽- is a 鈥渃ore task鈥� of policymakers, and to outsource this task to an external commission amounts to 鈥� cowardice and refusal to ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Coal ZDF The CO2 price will cause the coal exit in Germany to happen faster than agreed, said conservative chancellor candidate Armin Laschet in an interview with public broadcaster ZDF. 鈥淧ersonally, I believe the exit ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:59 S枚ren Amelang Coal Bild 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel has privately warned that the country鈥檚 coal exit will fail without 鈥渆normous effort,鈥� Ralf Schuler reports for tabloid Bild. 鈥淲e have to really want this,鈥� Merkel said at a ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:19 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Society Lausitzer Rundschau A 200-inhabitant German village will be demolished to make way for a lignite coal mine, after many years of uncertainty related to the future of coal power in ...
07 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany has launched official talks to phase out coal power in a bid to cut greenhouse gas emissions that have remained stubbornly high despite the country鈥檚 shift to renewable power. The 91tv collects reactions from ...
08 Nov 2024, 13:46 After an exhaustingly hot summer, the end of September and beginning of October ushered in extreme rainfall events and flooding in several Croatian cities along the coast and in the hinterland. At the start of November, higher ...
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18 Nov 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) Balance Sheet of Energiewende Germany has published an assessment of its national climate protection efforts. The government says Germany is making 鈥済ood ...
20 Dec 2018, 16:33 On 21. December 2018 the mining of hard coal officially comes to an end in Germany. The closing of the last mine in the Ruhr region marks the end of 200 years of mining the fossil fuel that made 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industrialisation possible. The ...
The planned commission that will prepare the end of coal-fired power production in Germany does not include enough representatives from eastern Germany, the Left Party was quoted as saying in an article written by the news agency dpa and carried by the ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Energiewende Wall Street Journal Germany is set to have the 鈥渨orld鈥檚 dumbest energy policy鈥� after the coal exit commission recommended to end coal-fired power generation by 2038, writes the ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:28 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal International The hard coal exit in Europe gathers pace as renewables increasingly displaced the fossil fuel in Germany and France in 2018, but a phase-out of lignite has barely begun, according ...
Members of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal-exit commission used their second plenary meeting on Friday, 13 July to hear presentations about the 鈥渢asks, framework conditions and structural policy challenges鈥� that are to form the basis for their decision-making in the ...
As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission prepares to convene for the first time on Tuesday, environmental groups are criticising the government鈥檚 slow action on combatting climate change, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt in the taz. Organised by environmental groups like ...
01 Feb 2019, 13:53 The initial relief in Germany over a coal exit deal has given way to fresh discussions over how to implement the hard-won compromise. Chancellor Angela Merkel and politicians from her grand coalition government praised the agreement by ...
The approval processes for coal plants and mine expansions will not be halted while the upcoming multi-stakeholder commission on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit 鈥� the so-called coal commission 鈥� discusses the country鈥檚 phase-out-path, indicates the economy ministry ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned 鈥�coal commission鈥� should focus primarily on finding economic perspectives for affected regions, rather than aiming to shut down as many coal plants as possible in the short-term, Klaus-Peter Schulze, a biologist and conservative ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:55 Ruby Russel Renewables 91tv [UPDATE adds FA Wind survey] The vast majority (80%) of people in Germany support the country's ongoing transition to renewable energy, a survey commissioned by the German Renewable Energy ...
06 Sep 2024, 12:30 Julian Wettengel Finance 91tv Greenwashing-related incidents have an overall negative effect on company stock prices, but only once financial supervisory bodies intervene, according to a report by finance NGO Finance Watch ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:21 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Government 91tv Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a candidate to succeed her at the helm of the ...
The commission tasked with planning the phase-out of coal-fired power production in Germany will get a climate expert as its fourth co-leader, Malte Kreutzfeldt reports in the Tageszeitung (taz). The climate and energy economist Barbara Praetorius is said ...
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31 Oct 2019, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Reuters / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel UPDATE- Former member of coal commission tells Tagesspiegel announcement could be "bluff"聽 German utility Uniper has been given the green light to start ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:57 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 International 91tv / ZDF A landmark court hearing initiated by a Peruvian farmer and ...
The upcoming commission tasked with the management of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit will prioritise jobs and economic stability over climate protection, a strategy paper seen by the 91tv suggests. 鈥淔ederal government policy aims to create full ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 upcoming coal phase-out commission must not be 鈥渄ominated鈥� by climate action and should instead focus on supply security and economic considerations in the affected regions, conservative (CDU) energy politician Joachim Pfeiffer told the news ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Focus Online Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has called the proposed 2038 deadline for ending coal-fired power production in Germany 鈥渁bsurd.鈥� The 16-year-old ...
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29 Aug 2024, 09:00 91tv Team IISD: Countries are underdelivering on fossil-to-clean energy finance pledge Germany, Italy, Switzerland and U.S. among countries not fully implementing pledges, the International Institute for Sustainable Development finds. ...
01 Dec 2021, 14:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics Der Spiegel Conservative (CDU) state premier Michael Kretschmer from Saxony, an Eastern German coal mining state, has encouraged labour unions to protest against plans by the prospective ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:26 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv / Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hard coal power plant operators criticise the ...
14 Nov 2018, 14:13 A new government report detailing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 failure to cut emissions increases pressure on the country鈥檚 coal commission to agree on a speedy phase-out plan. Work in the coal commission enters a critical stage for climate protection ...
24 Jan 2019, 12:05 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt The leaked final report of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission suggests it will not be ambitious enough when it comes to climate protection, argues J眉rgen Flauger in a ...
The German ministries for economic affairs and energy (BMWi) and environment (BMU) compete for taking the lead in the planned commission that is tasked with preparing the country鈥檚 coal exit 鈥� dubbed "coal commission" 鈥�, Reuters news agency ...
The list of members of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission is complete, Spiegel Online reports. Gerda Hasselfeldt, the former parliamentary group leader of the CSU, the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 conservative CDU, will reportedly join the ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The proposal by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission to gradually phase out the fossil fuel by 2038 is tantamount to a 鈥減lanned economy鈥� approach and does little to curb carbon emissions ...
08 Oct 2018, 16:58 Anti-coal activists in Germany and beyond experienced a sudden change in fortune on 5 October, when a court ruling boosted their cause and provisionally stopped plans of energy company RWE to cut down the embattled Hambach Forest in ...
26 Oct 2018, 08:41 Members of Germany's coal exit commission have unanimously adopted the first major policy recommendations for the country's lignite mining regions affected by a future coal power phase-out. At an on-site meeting in the Rhenish ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Welt Online The embattled Hambach Forest, which has become a symbolic place for anti-coal protesters in Germany, might not be cut down to make room for a nearby lignite mine, Rolf Martin ...
21 Jan 2021, 14:25 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Tagesspiegel Background An Eastern German city is attempting to stop an opencast lignite mine in neighbouring Poland, reports newsletter Tagesspiegel Background. The city of Zittau, located聽very ...
01 Feb 2019, 14:08 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Germany's grand coalition government is almost certain to accept the coal exit commission 's recommendation and transpose it into law, but if the first phase-out deadline of 2022 is ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 aspiring Jamaica coalition parties still disagree on a range of key policy fields one day before exploratory talks for a new government are scheduled to end, Gregor Waschinski writes for news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). 鈥淭here鈥檚 a ...
The governments of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 eastern coal mining states have criticised a draft proposal by the country鈥檚 coal exit commission for focusing too much on emissions reduction and too little on the economic prospects of people living in mining regions, the ...
01 Sep 2020, 12:48 Coal 91tv / dpa / Der Spiegel Coal company LEAG says it is dismantling buildings in the Sorbian town of M眉hlrose in the eastern Lausitz region as part of the plan to relocate the town鈥檚 residents. The town is slated for ...
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 ...
12 Apr 2019, 13:40 Expert Hans-Josef Fell Politician Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Energiewende Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Cost & Prices Energy Watch Group / LUT University A global energy system fully based on ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:46 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Utilities 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German utility RWE announced this week that it was cancelling plans to build a new ...
The German government鈥檚 鈥�Commission on Growth, Structural Economic Change and Employment鈥� 鈥渕ust not become a coal exit commission, nor an uncritical trailblazer for a national climate protection act,鈥� according to the Federal German Association for Brown ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:12 Expert Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector, State of Baden-W眉rttemberg Ministerium f眉r Umwelt, Klima und Energiewirtschaft, Baden-W眉rttemberg Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel ...
06 Feb 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 dpa / WirtschaftsWoche 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed ending coal-fired power production in the country by 2038 as聽 proposed by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Gas Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
12 Jul 2024, 15:00 The European elections are over and, as was widely expected, centre-right conservatives finished on top, leaving everybody else in the European Parliament the duty to find common ground with the biggest group and form an alliance. ...
28 Oct 2024, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Business Policy 91tv Support for Germany's energy policies varies starkly between employees backing populist parties compared to those supporting the centre left or centre right, according to a study ...
The German environment ministry (BMU) has launched an app that is meant to contribute to the climate friendly behaviour of football fans watching the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia on public screens, the ministry has said in a press release. The app shows ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:32 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Tagesspiegel / dpa The German federal government and ...
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04 Dec 2024, 11:44 91tv Team Argus: Germany's 2030 coal phase-out ambitions called into question Earlier phase-out target is being reassessed owing to likelihood of further delays to power plant security act, which is meant to secure back-up capacity ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas dpa / Zeit Online The German government must quickly present a strategy for the building of new gas-fired power plants to avoid missing the 2030 end date for coal-fired power production in western state North ...
Energy transition pioneer Germany is about to launch a highly anticipated task force on phasing out coal power, the most prominent blemish on the country鈥檚 climate record. The government will likely nominate the coal exit commission next Tuesday. There ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Germany shutting down the last of its nuclear power plants by 2022 could force the country to use more coal power- temporarily pushing up emissions- even ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Coal RP Online The German state is not liable to compensate coal plant operators over the coal phase out, Birgit Marschall says in an article for RP Online. The federal parliament鈥檚 research service concludes that while ...
A broad anti-coal alliance of local residents, church representatives, politicians, and doctors demand participation in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 upcoming coal exit commission, reports Thorsten Knuf in Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淎s residents of lignite mining areas in the ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:54 Julian Wettengel Coal Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The federal government has largely rejected calls by German states to make changes to the planned coal exit law, reports Nora Zaremba in energy and climate policy ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:47 Rachel Waldholz Coal Reuters / pv magazine The French utility Engie will sell four coal-fired power plants in Germany and the Netherlands as part of the utility鈥檚 strategy to focus on its renewable energy business, Catherine Rollett ...
10 Jan 2020, 11:50 Expert EPH- Energetick媒 a pr暖myslov媒 holding Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Rheinische Post / Reuters German energy company RWE could receive up to two billion euros ...
15 Nov 2024, 15:00 Large parts of northern Italy were devastated by the country鈥檚 fourth floods within a year, triggered by intense rainfall on 19 and 20 October. Parts of Sicily, in the south, were also severely impacted. The floods came as Italy鈥檚 ...
09 May 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 91tv The German coal exit will likely be completed before the 2038 end-date agreed on by the country鈥檚 coal exit commission, environment minister Svenja Schulze has said. 鈥淭his will happen much faster ...
07 Jul 2021, 11:50 With a revamped sustainable finance strategy that introduces a new green bond standard and support for smaller companies, the EU hopes to provide the financial market guidelines needed to achieve the bloc's ambitious climate ...
27 Nov 2019, 14:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Rheinische Post The German government must fast-track legislation for the country's coal power phase-out, Armin Laschet, state premier of Germany's most populous ...
01 Feb 2019, 12:26 S枚ren Amelang Coal Climate & CO2 Carbon Pulse Carbon market experts remain unsure about the impact of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plan to cancel CO2聽certificates in the EU鈥檚 Emissions Trading System (ETS) to ensure the pending coal exit will have the ...
24 Jun 2019, 13:50 A plea for an accelerated coal exit in Germany by the state premier of Bavaria, Markus S枚der, has caused a row within Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative alliance over how to deal with growing political pressure to improve the ...
The government has postponed at the last minute the official start of the phase-out commission for the third time. The official launch was removed from the聽cabinet agenda only hours before聽the meeting was due to start.聽The聽 coal commission 聽鈥� officially ...
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 ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the country鈥檚 鈥�coal commission鈥� tasked with finding a phase-out compromise should be headed by the ministry for economics and energy. After a cabinet meeting, she also said in addition to economy minister Peter ...
The commission tasked with 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal phase-out should avoid coming up with 鈥渜uick and symbolic鈥� scenarios to end the use of the fossil power source in the country, Dieter Kempf, president of the influential industry association BDI said in a guest ...
10 Jan 2019, 09:15 The German coal exit commission is set to deliver its final recommendations for the country鈥檚 coal exit in February 2019, but this report is likely to be only the beginning of a long and controversial policymaking process in the country ...
22 Jul 2019, 13:54 Freja Eriksen Coal Renewables Cost & Prices Reuters Coal importers鈥� group VDKi expects Germany to import 10 percent less hard coal this year than in 2018. VDKi聽 forecasts hard coal imports of between 39 million and 43 million tonnes ...
23 Jan 2019, 10:55 Power prices are less of a concern for some industry sectors and coal-heavyweight RWE has long been about 鈥渕uch more than coal鈥� 鈥� industry representatives offered an unusual take on the German coal exit debate in a panel discussion ...
11 Oct 2024, 16:39 In Italian, the expression 鈥渉ot autumn鈥� describes what happens when, after the long summer lull, political and social conflict cyclically rises again. For the energy transition, this is going to be a hot autumn indeed. Three of Italy鈥檚 ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:19 Expert Hans-Josef Fell Politician Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Energiewende Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Operators of innovative renewables systems that guarantee continuous energy supply day and night, ...
The commission tasked with managing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal power phase-out has softened its stance on reducing coal emissions, Silke Kersting and Klaus Stratmann write for Handelsblatt Online. An earlier version of the strategy paper said Germany must reduce coal ...
27 Aug 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage EU Die Welt Plans by the European Union to measure the carbon footprint of battery production based on the host country鈥檚 electricity mix are causing concerns among 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 automotive industry, which fears ...
The German coal exit commission will debate the impact of the rising price for EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) allowances in its upcoming meeting on 18 September, report Claus Hecking and Stefan Schultz in a lead story on Spiegel Online. Volatile prices ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:42 The German government鈥檚 target of sourcing 80 percent of the country鈥檚 electricity from renewable sources by 2030 is very much achievable for Germany if current positive trends persist, economy minister Robert Habeck has said at a ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal WDR The end of coal-fired power production in Germany is set to cause problems for the disposal of toxic waste 鈥� such as sewage sludge, used oil and refinery waste 鈥� which is often burned at coal plants, J眉rgen ...
09 Feb 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Coal 91tv The 鈥榠ntensive use鈥� 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 ...
24 Jun 2020, 17:30 Germany is one step closer to finalising legislation on the planned coal exit by 2038 at the latest, as the government approved a draft contract between the state and companies to flesh out the country鈥檚 farewell to lignite. Among other ...
28 May 2025
28 May 2025, 11:29 91tv Team WMO: Global climate predictions show temperatures expected to remain at or near record levels in coming 5 years Global climate predictions show temperatures are expected to continue at or near record levels in the next five ...
17 May 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy The German economy and energy ministry (BMWi) has presented its main fields of action for the economic restructuring of coal mining regions amid 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit, which a government-appointed commission ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:49 Freja Eriksen Coal Climate & CO2 91tv Power generation from coal was down 19 percent in Europe, and 22 percent in Germany, in the first six months 2019, according to analysis by climate change think tank Sandbag. 鈥�2019 ...
26 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024, 11:43 German ministers and lawmakers, just like most of their peers across the European Union, are heading into the parliaments鈥� summer 2024 recess and some time off. However, there are exceptions: three eastern German federal states will ...
09 Feb 2018, 00:00 The provisions on climate, energy, and transport in the coalition treaty agreed by Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) recognise the big challenges of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition project, but ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:02 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The government of the western German coal state and industrial ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government will have to ramp up efforts to advance the country鈥檚 transition to renewable energy sources in order to replace nuclear power and enable gradual decarbonisation, the Energy Watch Group think tank says. The 鈥渇ormer global leader鈥� ...
15 Jun 2020, 08:46 The independent expert commission in charge of monitoring Germany's energy transition says the European Green Deal requires the country to do more to fight climate change. The government advisors say a quicker-than-planned coal ...
22 Nov 2024, 09:30 The collapse of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government has thrown climate policymaking in Europe鈥檚 largest economy into disarray, and added many question marks to the progress of its landmark energy transition. The sacking of finance minister ...
German energy company Uniper is the first utility to put forward ideas for an eventual phase-out of coal-fired power generation following the launch of the coal-exit commission last month, Klaus Stratmann reports in Handelsblatt. Uniper CEO Klaus Sch盲fer ...
Several German environmental organisations say they want to have a range of assurances from the German government before they participate in the so-called coal commission meant to prepare the end of coal-fired power production in the country, the news ...
23 May 2025
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 ...
17 Jan 2025, 15:00 Energy prices are becoming increasingly expensive for Italian businesses and households due to delays in the development of renewables and increases in the cost of gas on international markets. The rise in energy costs will be, along ...
10 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024, 11:44 Julian Wettengel FT: Northvolt to cut jobs and sell off unit to survive EV chill Swedish battery maker has been grappling with factory problems and slow growth in European EV take-up. Bloomberg: Europe braces for last of Ukraine鈥檚 ...
29 May 2019, 15:11 Julian Wettengel Coal International 91tv [Update adds reaction by non-profit environmental law organisation ClientEarth.] Environmental NGOs Climate Action Network Europe (CAN) and Sandbag criticised some EU member states ...
Germany needs to rapidly and decisively reduce its coal-fired power generation capacity by roughly 50 percent to meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, writes the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) in a letter addressed to economy minister Peter ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:22 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit盲t zu K枚ln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Expert KfW Bank KfW- government ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new minister for the environment and nuclear safety will be Svenja Schulze from the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The 49-year old, from the country鈥檚 most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), will be 鈥渁n excellent minister鈥� who supports ...
The federal council of state governments (Bundesrat) has urged the government to include the financial aspects of a coal exit in the so-called coal commission talks. The house voted by a small minority to include a separate cost analysis and concept on ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Finance Handelsblatt The end of coal-fired power production comes with profound implications for German energy companies who have banked on the fossil fuel so far, but analysts say buying ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:19 Freja Eriksen Coal Solar 91tv Solar power could 鈥渇ully substitute鈥� coal-fired power generation in European coal regions in transition, according to a study by the European Commission鈥檚 Joint Research Centre. Researchers ...
26 May 2025
26 May 2025, 11:06 91tv Team Bloomberg: Trump extends deadline for 50% tariffs on EU goods to July 9 U.S. president Donald Trump said he would extend the deadline for the European Union to face 50 percent tariffs until July 9 after a phone call with ...
07 Jan 2019, 09:30 The impending phase-out plan for coal power in Germany will have a profound impact on the country's entire energy policy, says Antje von Broock of environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). The NGO is a member ...
12 Aug 2019, 12:27 S枚ren Amelang Coal 91tv Germany's coal phase-out and the continued rollout of renewables will only have "very little" impact on electricity prices, according to a study by energy think tank Agora Energiewende ...
13 Oct 2022, 10:52 Climate activist Greta Thunberg has backed the continued use of nuclear power plants that are still in operation in Germany, fuelling a heated debate over runtime extensions as the government struggles to find a unified position on the ...
The German government will have to decide in the coming days who will participate in the country鈥檚 coal exit commission because Chancellor Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 cabinet is due to approve the composition on 16 May, report Silke Kersting and Klaus Stratmann in ...
07 Jun 2023, 11:49 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Gas Tagesspiegel Background The government鈥檚 plan to introduce a tender system to ensure new gas-fired power plants are built 鈥� which the government considers necessary as a supplement to renewables ...
08 Feb 2018, 00:00 In their coalition treaty, negotiators from Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) have agreed to set up a special commission charged with managing the phase-out of coal-fired power generation in ...
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鈥檚 climate action plan 2050. That was the claim made by Michael Vassiliadis, head ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:30 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace ...
04 Feb 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Policy Welt am Sonntag The parliamentary group leader of Chancellor Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 conservative party CDU, Ralph Brinkhaus, told newspaper Welt am Sonntag in an interview that the German ...
The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) says the country鈥檚 coal exit plan should be accompanied by a plan to achieve 100 percent renewable energy supply. 鈥淥nly planning security for industry can lay the foundations for investments鈥� and prevent ...
The launch of the coal-exit commission has raised expectations that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥� and by extension, Europe鈥檚 鈥� commitment to a low-carbon future could shift from rhetoric to reality, Nick Butler writes in an opinion piece for the Financial Times. However, ...
20 May 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society Rheinische Post A church in the town of Kerpen-Manheim, in the western German Rhenish coal mining region, has been prepared for demolition to expand a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. About ...
26 Nov 2019, 12:58 S枚ren Amelang Coal 91tv Europe's mining regions call for EU support for "clean coal" technologies to ease their transition, but climate activists warned the coal exit must not be delayed by promoting " ...
Germany will not be able to phase out coal-fired power production by 2030, said Rolf Martin Schmitz, head of RWE, the country鈥檚 biggest power producer and Europe鈥檚 biggest private emitter of CO 2. In an interview with the Rheinische Post on the eve of the ...
Even before the highly anticipated official launch of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit task force, the government has given up on the commission鈥檚 timetable, Silke Kersting and Klaus Stratmann report for business daily Handelsblatt. During ongoing meetings on the ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Coal Policy Tagesspiegel Background German economy minister Peter Altmaier said the government plans to agree on a 鈥淗ard Coal Exit Law鈥� in autumn, and the decision on which plants are shut down first will be taken via ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Climate & CO2 MDR 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 eastern coal mining states have told the government that they do not intend to contribute to the financial liabilities associated with the country鈥檚 coal exit, public broadcaster ...
18 Jun 2018, 14:58 Social justice should be a guiding principle of modern climate policy, German environment minister Svenja Schulze said at the opening of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin. Samantha Smith of the International Trade Union ...
06 Jul 2021, 13:25 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare ...
High-ranking members of Chancellor Angela 惭别谤办别濒鈥檚 conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) want to prevent a commission to plan a coal phase-out in Germany proposed in the environment ministry鈥檚 Climate Action Plan 2050, reports Reuters. Michael Fuchs and ...
15 Apr 2019, 12:08 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Frankfurter ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:36 S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv Current market prices 鈥渕ake a mockery鈥� of compensation claims by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest utility RWE under the country鈥檚 coal phase-out plan, according to think-tank Institute for Energy ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:25 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal 91tv The sharp decline of coal use in Germany this ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Finance Handelsblatt The operators of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal plants should receive some compensation for closing facilities in line with the exit plan proposed by the country鈥檚 coal commission, but demands must be ...
01 Jul 2021, 13:26 Expert DBV- German Farmers鈥� Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der ...
02 May 2025, 14:40 Against the backdrop of the major blackout on the Iberian Peninsula in late April, which also affected parts of France, the country is heading for controversial discussions about its energy strategy for the coming decade. A focus will ...
20 Jan 2020, 13:23 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background Critics of Germany's roadmap for phasing out lignite-fired power plants have ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:45 Freja Eriksen Coal Society 91tv Forty-one mayors from Germany, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Montenegro and Slovakia have signed a declaration calling on the European Union for more ...
14 Oct 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices 91tv The German coal exit could lead to a 鈥渟trong increase鈥� in wholesale power prices, unless the framework conditions in the energy sector are adapted quickly, said consultancy ...
The Green Party and environmental NGOs have strongly criticised the government鈥檚 choice of leadership for the coal exit commission, Thorsten Knuf reports for Frankfurter Rundschau. The nomination of the former mining state premiers Matthias Platzeck, a ...
08 Apr 2022, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security 91tv / Bloomberg The embargo on Russian coal agreed by the EU will be 鈥渢emporarily unpleasant but tolerable鈥� for the German economy, Karen Pittel from the Institute for Economic Research (ifo ...
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 ...
22 May 2019, 13:19 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Coal Elections & ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:15 Germany's government has removed the last hurdles to finalising the country's much-anticipated coal exit law, clearing the way for a passage of the bill in parliament at the end of the week. The draft agreement grants ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:30 Kerstine Appunn Coal Utilities Rheinische Post / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Utility company Steag, which operates 5.5 gigawatt of hard coal power plants in North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland and abroad, and is owned by several western German ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:10 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal Welt / Tagesspiegel Background A legal opinion by the energy law firm Rosin ...
19 May 2022, 12:00 Germany has reacted largely positively to EU plans for ending dependence on Russian fossil fuel imports. Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the European Commission鈥檚 RePowerEU Plan an 鈥渋mportant initiative鈥� that could give fresh impetus to ...
24 Oct 2019, 12:06 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal 91tv Leading environmental NGOs have called on the government of western German mining region North Rhine-Westphalia to protect ...
16 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Bloomberg: Top polluter China鈥檚 shrinking emissions put carbon peak in play-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Use of coal for power generation tumbled in second quarter-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Nation鈥檚 emissions seen on track to begin decline ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:22 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities Reuters Municipal shareholders in RWE have called on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest power producer to drive a hard bargain in ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:04 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels International 91tv Despite the extension of the work of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission, the country鈥檚 delegation will not go to Katowice empty-handed, said environment ...
10 Jan 2025, 09:59 Croatian citizens ended 2024 with a first round of presidential elections, marking the finale of a super election year. In terms of the climate, it was yet another year of above-average warmth, accompanied by numerous extreme weather ...
24 Jan 2022, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas EU 91tv Utilities have welcomed the German government's pro-natural gas stance in its feedback to the European Commission鈥檚 sustainable finance taxonomy plans, but ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:24 Joey Grostern Gas dpa / 91tv State-owned liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals on the North Sea at Wilhelmshaven and Brunsb眉ttel handled the majority of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 imported LNG last year, and operated at 65 percent capacity, ...
09 Jul 2024, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Electricity market Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's government is planning a new levy for electricity consumers to fund the construction of the country's planned ...
14 May 2025
14 May 2025, 12:30 91tv Team Bloomberg: Merz risks coalition spat with call to scrap EU supply-chain law 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, reiterated a call for the European Union to scrap rules designed to make companies pursue sustainable ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:13 Freja Eriksen Coal Elections & Politics Spiegel Online / dpa / Tagesspiegel Background Federal finance minister Olaf Scholz has ignited doubts about where a promised 40 billion euros of support for German regions to phase out coal ...
09 Aug 2018, 14:07 Record-breaking temperatures and a prolonged drought have increased public pressure on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal-exit commission to make climate change mitigation its top priority. Countless media reports are invoking the extreme weather as a ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:41 Julian Wettengel Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels International 91tv While it remains unclear whether the coal exit commission will present parts of its plan for the fossil fuel鈥檚 phase-out ahead of the UN climate change ...
Federal Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel is against establishing a commission to set a date on the phase-out of coal in Germany. Gabriel objected to the proposed commission as it would not address the situation of coal sector workers, saying it was ...
The official launch of Germany's so-called coal exit commission has been postponed for a second time, a source told the 91tv. The issue will likely be dealt with at a cabinet meeting on 30 May, according to the source. Tageszeitung ...
18 Sep 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating 91tv Germany's industry could save up to 21 billion euros in energy costs annually if it generated heat more efficiently for the manufacture of products, according to a report ...
The importance of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥�coal commission鈥� means it must not be led by the economy ministry alone, Malte Kreutzfeldt writes in a commentary for the Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淚t鈥檚 a good sign that the new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, isn鈥檛 leaving ...
12 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025, 10:57 91tv Team Reuters: RWE, TotalEnergies agree long-term green hydrogen supply deal聽 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 ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal The state premier of Germany's most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Armin Laschet, has called for a "week of decisions" regarding the country's planned coal phase-out, ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:46 The EU member states' agreement on reforming the bloc's electricity market has been hailed as a success from ministers in France and Germany, whose dispute over the role of nuclear power in European climate action has ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:55 Julian Wettengel Coal Cost & Prices 91tv The largest part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government support to coal and coal-fired power production and consumption goes to measures focusing on the transition away from the fossil fuel, ...
05 Nov 2024, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Elections & Politics 91tv / dpa / Zeit Online Lawmakers of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest opposition party alliance have called for an expert assessment of whether recently decommissioned nuclear ...
In a second round of coalition talks, representatives from CDU, CSU, FDP and the Green Party agreed on 鈥渁 common working basis鈥� in the areas of budget, finances and taxes, Green leader Cem 脰zdemir said in a video message after the meeting. A paper ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:39 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv German power company EnBW has committed to becoming climate-neutral within 15 years. "The ...
10 May 2024, 15:00 Poland saw a change in power last autumn when a pro-EU coalition led by former European Council president Donald Tusk took over after eight years of rule by the right-wing populist Law and Justice party (PiS). Since then, however, the ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:43 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
13 Apr 2022, 13:55 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv Greenhouse gas emission intensity, i.e. carbon emissions in relation to gross domestic product (GDP), last year increased in Germany for the first time since 2013, the Expert Council ...
23 Sep 2019, 13:49 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Edgar Meza Coal Utilities 91tv Government auctions aimed at shutting down Germany ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society WDR A slim majority of 51 percent of citizens in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest coal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), say the 2038 deadline to give up all coal-fired power production in the country is 鈥渢oo late鈥�, ...
The embattled Hambach Forest has to be cut down to ensure a secure power supply for Germany, energy state secretary Thomas Barei脽 said at an event organised by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) in London, Adam Vaughan writes in The Guardian. Barei脽 said ...
11 Oct 2024, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen FAZ German energy company Uniper has postponed its target to invest eight billion euros in growth and the green transformation by 2030 also due to a lack of demand for green hydrogen, CEO Michael Lewis told ...
11 Apr 2025, 15:30 The biggest hurdles to building Germany's next government have fallen: a historic spending package has laid the groundwork for coalition negotiations between the conservative CDU/CSU alliance 鈥� winner of February鈥檚 snap election 鈥� ...
A report commissioned by RWE, one of Germany's largest owners of lignite mines and coal-fired power generation, says that a mandated German coal exit by 2040 would shift power generation and related CO鈧� emissions to neighbouring countries and lead to ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Industry Policy 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche The German government鈥檚 plans for a so-called capacity market, which would reward power plant operators for providing generation capacity rather ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:10 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Heating Government 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Environmental lobby group Friends of the ...
Germany can save nearly 28 billion euros a year if it stops mining and using lignite, a study by Green Budget Germany (F脰S) commissioned by green power provider Greenpeace Energy has found. Apart from the costs of energy generation with lignite, which is ...
06 Apr 2022, 13:07 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S枚ren Amelang Gas Industry 91tv German industry association BDI said it supports the European ...
09 Dec 2019, 12:55 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 91tv / ...
06 Dec 2021, 13:34 Jessica Bateman Coal Der Tagesspiegel Leaders from the east German coal-mining region of Lusatia have criticised the incoming coalition government鈥檚 plan to phase out the fossil fuel by 2030 instead of 2038, newspaper Der Tagesspiegel ...
