17 May 2022, 12:49 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Climate protests organised by the Fridays for Future movement directly helped the Green Party in German elections between 2019 and 2021 – in part due to the influence of children on ...
14 Aug 2023, 13:00 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Society Watson / Rheinische Post Germany’s Fridays for Future youth climate movement has renounced the more radical tactics (such ...
19 Mar 2021, 13:36 Climate activists from the Fridays for Future movement across the world took to the streets on Friday for their seventh Global Climate Strike. In a year of multiple state elections and a federal election for Germany, activists in over ...
17 Mar 2021, 12:59 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics 91tv Climate activists from the Fridays for Future movement across the world will take to the streets on Friday 19 March for their seventh Global Climate Strike. With the slogan ...
27 May 2021, 14:00 As climate protection has become a mainstream issue in German politics, taking up centre-stage in the election programmes of most parties, youth climate activists are broadening the scope of their activism. The Fridays for Future school ...
12 Jul 2021, 13:20 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Society Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s political parties should combine climate protection ...
14 Feb 2025, 13:20 Bennet Ribbeck Society Elections & Politics 91tv A climate strike in Berlin by the youth movement Fridays for Future (FfF) ahead of Germany’s snap election at the end of next week ended up attracting far fewer ...
13 Sep 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Activists from the Fridays for Future student group have called on the German government to set up a special fund for “massive” investments in climate action. “We ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Society 91tv Amid the coronavirus crisis, German Fridays for Future student climate activists are focusing on online activities for the announced Global Climate Strike on 24 April. The protesters are ...
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20 Sep 2019, 12:55 Hundreds of thousands of people demanded rapid climate action at Germany's Fridays for Future protests, keeping public pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel's government following the announcement of a broad action package to ...
11 Feb 2022, 13:44 Sören Amelang Society 91tv The German Fridays for Future climate protest movement has said the new German government is nowhere near to implementing the policies necessary to address the climate emergency. "It's ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:52 Sören Amelang Coal Society 91tv Anti-coal activists and the student protest movement Fridays for Future are planning a series of demonstrations in Western Germany in the coming days. On Friday 21 June, Fridays For Future ...
22 May 2019, 16:37 Ahead of the European Elections from the 23rd – 26th of May, organisers of the German Fridays for Futures see the election as a last chance to put climate at the top of the European Parliament’s agenda. “This election will have a ...
06 Aug 2024, 13:27 Jack McGovan Gas Society 91tv / Handelsblatt / NDR As a gas drilling project off the German North Sea island of Borkum advances, environmental organisations have renewed calls to shutter the new extraction site. Groups ...
14 May 2021, 14:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Finance Society 91tv The youth climate activists from Fridays for Future are for the first time specifically targeting banks and other financial services companies for their involvement in ...
06 Aug 2019, 13:53 Sören Amelang Society Elections & Politics 91tv Germany’s service sector labour union Verdi has called on its 2 million members to join the global Fridays for Future climate strike on 20 September. “We can only protect ...
24 Sep 2021, 13:13 Youth climate movement Fridays for Future called for a rapid transition to climate neutrality at its eighth global climate strike just two days before the German federal election. Protests took place in hundreds of German towns and ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:48 Laís Clemente Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv The student climate protest movement Fridays for Future (FfF) has announced to bring activists to the streets in 25 German cities on 18 June. As German COVID-19 ...
25 Sep 2020, 14:04 With numerous protests across Germany, the Fridays for Future youth movement has taken aim at pushing climate action to the very top of the political agenda in the run-up to the country's general elections next year. The activists ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:51 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics Die Zeit Since the start of the pandemic, climate activists from Fridays for Future have shied away from organising mass demonstrations and turned to soft lobbying instead, Nele Spandick ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Tageszeitung The coming petition by hundreds of German scientists who openly support the school student movement Fridays for Future that calls for more rapid climate action is a laudable ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv Twenty-seven youth organisations from the fields of climate, social affairs, trade unions, development, religion, civil protection, environment and sport have ...
26 Mar 2025, 13:43 Bennet Ribbeck Society 91tv Human rights organisation Amnesty International and other NGOs have criticised official charges against members of the German Last Generation climate movement because of “suspicion of forming a ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Society 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background More than 700 scientists from German-speaking countries have signed a petition that explicitly backs students’ strikes demanding rapid climate action by the ...
27 Nov 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv More than 500 German cities will see protests for more ambitious climate action on Friday, 29 November, the activist movement Fridays for Future Germany has announced. The ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:06 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society dpa / Tagesspiegel / 91tv Students are expected to walk out of school in more than 1,000 cities around the world on Friday, as part of a global strike to demand action on climate ...
20 Oct 2021, 13:32 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv Climate activists from Fridays for Future have presented a list of demands for the first 100 days of a new German government. The activists first and ...
17 May 2019, 13:00 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars Süddeutsche Zeitung The 18-year old student and Fridays ForFuture activist Ferdinand Klemm has ...
13 Apr 2023, 12:59 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government dpa / Der Spiegel / 91tv Ahead of a major protest in Berlin announced by the climate activist group Last ...
17 Aug 2020, 13:40 91tv 91tv Society dpa / die Welt / taz Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with climate activists including Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer on Thursday (20 August) to discuss climate policy, dpa reports in an ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:16 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Expert Verdi ver.di Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Society taz / DLF / Süddeutsche Zeitung German service sector labour union Verdi has come ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:48 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Organisers of the German section of the “Fridays For Future” student climate protests have called for net zero emissions by 2035, a coal exit in 2030 and 100 percent renewables by ...
01 Mar 2024, 14:06 At the height of its popularity just a few years ago, the climate protest movement Fridays for Future brought over a million people to the streets in Germany and across the world. Yet the movement now fights against losing relevance in ...
23 Mar 2022, 12:35 Paul Gordon Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Climate activist group Fridays for Future (FfF) will stage its next global climate strike on Friday (25 March), calling not only for more action to prevent global warming but also ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society The Fridays for Future student climate protest movement will leave its mark on society, independent of its eventual duration, according to a working paper by the Institute for Social Movement ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The climate activist movement Fridays for Future (FfF) has announced a new "global climate action day" on 25 September on which it will hold protest events in ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:39 Aniket Narawad Policy Society 91tv Climate activists in Germany have accused the government of watering down a key law to ensure emissions reductions during the global climate strike organised by the Fridays for Future ...
09 Jan 2020, 13:33 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Coal Industry 91tv Germany's Fridays for Future student climate protest movement has increased the pressure on engineering conglomerate Siemens for its involvement in ...
31 May 2022, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government 91tv / Die Welt Prominent German youth climate activist Luisa Neubauer has accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz of comparing “climate activists to Nazis”, thereby trivializing the National ...
15 Mar 2022, 10:46 More drastic forms of climate protest such as recent hunger strikes and motorway blockades risk widening the divisions within the German youth climate movement, says social movements researcher Dieter Rucht from the Berlin Social ...
29 Nov 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Fridays for Future and other climate activist groups are losing sympathy in German media, according to an analysis by Media Tenor, der Spiegel reports. The institute looked at coverage of climate ...
24 May 2019, 17:25 Young climate activists across Europe took to the streets Friday to demand more ambitious climate action from politicians two days ahead of the main day of the EU elections. In Germany, “Fridays For Future” students protested in more ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:15 Rachel Waldholz Society Elections & Politics 91tv / Der Spiegel Germany’s Fridays for Future climate strikes expanded over the course of 2019 as older protesters joined what began as a younger – and majority female- ...
21 Jan 2025, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Elections & Politics Die Welt The mayor of Hamburg has warned against burdening citizens with too ambitious climate targets, as Germany’s second largest city might be headed for a referendum on its emissions ...
22 Dec 2022, 09:12 Hungary’s climate movement is struggling to build on the earlier success of the country's Fridays for Future student protests to make their voices heard. Nonetheless, many activists believe that spectacular acts of civil ...
23 Jul 2021, 13:24 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv, Welt Activists are protesting for better climate protection measures after ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv / Frankfurter Rundschau A German business initiative called "Entrepreneurs for Future" will join the global climate strike on 20 September and call for a ...
23 Mar 2020, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Süddeutsche Zeitung The outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Germany and the rest of Europe means that the weekly Fridays for Future (FfF) protests for greater climate action need to be ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics Tageszeitung (taz) Chancellor Angela Merkel’s support for the climate school strike movement Fridays for Future is “hypocritical” because it pretends that the government has nothing to ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:15 Ruby Russel Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wite / ARD Climate activist group Last Generation, whose members are famous for gluing themselves to roads to halt traffic, have announced that they will no longer use this ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society dpa / Tagesspiegel The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg says Germany’s school strikes for climate action give her “a lot of hope,” news agency dpa reports in an article in the ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:24 Students in Germany and around the world are expected to walk out of school Friday for what is being billed as a “global strike” to demand action on climate change. Organisers hope it will be the largest demonstration yet in the series ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:03 Swedish activist Greta Thunberg visited Berlin on Friday, joining thousands of young people who took to the streets in the most recent "Fridays for Future" school strike demanding more action on climate change. Protesters ...
30 Mar 2022, 14:07 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Die Welt Climate activists from student protest movement Fridays for Future (FfF) have said they will resist the planned ...
03 May 2019, 13:25 Sören Amelang Policy Society Deutsche Welle The southern German city of Constance has become the first in the nation to pass a resolution declaring a climate emergency, according to a Deutsche Welle report. The resolution, which was ...
22 May 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv A group of more than 1,000 companies from Germany has joined the appeal by student protest movement Fridays for Future (FfF) for greater climate action efforts. Under the label ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:17 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society Deutsche Welle / Bild am Sonntag The weekly “Fridays for Future” school strikes have prompted a fierce debate in Germany over whether students should be ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:45 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Society Elections & Politics 91tv Activists from student climate movement Fridays for Future plan to take to the streets worldwide and in over 350 German cities for a global ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Three out of four Germans say it is right for scientists to get involved in the climate policy debate if political decision-making does not take into account their research ...
25 Aug 2021, 11:25 As Germany’s federal election in September draws closer, climate activists put pressure on all parties to back the 1.5°C global warming limit outlined in the Paris Climate Agreement. After a year of continuous protests in 2019, the ...
25 Aug 2020, 13:29 Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics taz/ Süddeutsche Zeitung Several members of Fridays for Future (FfF) Germany have declared their intention to run for federal parliament, exposing divisions within the non-partisan climate ...
16 Aug 2019, 12:14 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
10 Nov 2021, 17:04 With the goal to "keep 1.5° within reach", many see this year's COP26 in Glasgow as the most important UN climate change conference since the landmark 2015 Paris summit. 91tv tracks the latest views and comments from ...
20 Sep 2019, 10:25 Germany's highly anticipated future climate strategy remained uncertain on Friday morning as government coalition talks that lasted throughout the night were still ongoing. Negotiations between Chancellor Angela Merkel's ...
08 Aug 2024, 14:03 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Society dpa / 91tv A German court has temporarily banned the construction of an electricity connection needed to power a planned gas drilling platform in the Wadden Sea, a World Heritage Site in ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:47 Controversial plans by the German government to reform the country’s key legislation for reaching climate targets faces legal challenges by NGOs and an opposition lawmaker ahead of a parliamentary vote scheduled for Friday. ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars Hydrogen Reuters German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a radical shift in mobility to ensure the country reaches its 2030 climate targets, reports news agency Reuters. “We can only achieve this ...
01 Apr 2019, 14:09 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Politics Society Deutsche Welle / Spiegel Online / taz / dpa Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg continued to make waves in German media over the weekend, after she spoke to a crowd of thousands at ...
15 Mar 2019, 18:19 Tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of students poured into the streets in cities across Germany to demand more action on climate change. It’s one of the biggest showings for the "Fridays for Future" movement, which has ...
01 Nov 2022, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised the actions of climate activists targeting artworks and blocking traffic by gluing themselves to streets. “There are other ways in which people can ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:37 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Deutsche Welle Urging the German chancellor to declare a climate emergency, campaigners from the global Extinction Rebellion movement chained themselves to the fence of Angela Merkel’ chancellery in ...
29 Oct 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Society Berliner Zeitung / 91tv Activists calling for a halt of a highway project have occupied the Green Party's headquarters in Berlin, arguing that the environmentalist party is complicit ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:52 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover – Germany's largest Protestant state church body – has called on its employees and members to join the planned global climate strike ...
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19 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Expert: EU, Greece should change mentality to face future wildfires By only focusing on firefighting without a prevention-focused holistic approach, it will be hard for the EU countries to face future ...
21 Jun 2023, 13:19 Sören Amelang Coal Society 91tv A broad coalition of climate activist groups have said they will stage a protest at an opencast lignite mine in East Germany and call for a rapid end to coal this Sunday (25 June). “It is ...
23 Aug 2019, 13:29 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 International 91tv German chancellor Angela Merkel has said she would back a Dutch proposal to significantly step up the EU's 2030 climate targets. She could "very well support" ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics New York Times For years, Germany has been embroiled in a cultural war over immigration, refugees and diversity, but the environment has also emerged as a deeply polarising issue that the ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:14 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal ...
23 Sep 2019, 10:34 After receiving more than 43,500 signatures on a petition in August, the Berlin House of Representatives will have to deliberate on a climate emergency status for the German capital. Forty German municipalities have already declared ...
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27 Jan 2025, 13:00 91tv Team Reuters: BASF 2024 earnings miss estimate by 1 billion euros on impairments Germany's top chemical maker BASF reported a drop in annual earnings below estimates on Friday (24 January), weighed by impairments on surface ...
13 Sep 2019, 13:21 Freja Eriksen Cars Frankfurter Rundschau / 91tv Europe's largest auto show (IAA) in Frankfurt am Main is turning into a "PR fiasco" for the German car industry due to climate protests and now a dispute with ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:54 Expert Thorsten Müller Chairman, foundation for research on energy and environment law Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s outgoing ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:10 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The role of global warming and climate action in German media has grown ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:28 Edgar Meza Finance EU Spiegel / 91tv The German government has joined environmentalists in condemning the European Parliament’s decision to support the inclusion of nuclear and gas power plants in the list of ...
03 May 2019, 13:23 Sören Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv Climate activists called for a swift end to coal-fired power generation at power plant operator RWE’s annual general meeting. Members of the Fridays for Future student protest movement ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:09 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv Climate policy could be a ...
12 Mar 2021, 14:30 Youth climate activists agree on one thing: Germany needs to adopt radical climate policies in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. How best to push this agenda is a different question entirely. In this German “super election ...
03 Dec 2019, 13:54 Sören Amelang Transport Society dpa / Focus Online German carbon offsetting nonprofit organisations atmosfair and Arktik are reporting rising demand in the wake of the Fridays for Future protest movement, according to a report by ...
19 Nov 2021, 13:17 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Society Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background A new climate movement has ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:27 Facing an unprecedented wave of climate protests, Germany's trio of car groups, BMW, Daimler and VW, put their sustainability ambitions at the centre of their presentations at the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA). In an unprecedented ...
18 Mar 2019, 14:30 In the days after tens of thousands of students protested across Germany for more action on climate change, reactions poured in from across the political spectrum. Some conservative politicians argue students should not miss school, and ...
08 Dec 2022, 08:58 Climate activists must strike a careful balance between conciliatory offers for discussion and constructive provocation, argues political scientist Jérémie Gagné from More in Common, an international non-profit initiative studying ...
26 Apr 2024, 14:01 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Policy Government 91tv Germany’s parliament has approved a controversial reform of the country’s key legislation for reaching climate targets, to the outrage of many NGOs who say the changes ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:06 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Society Handelsblatt / WirtschaftsWoche / Focus Online The row over German industrial heavyweight Siemens's involvement in the controversial Adani coal mine project in ...
13 Feb 2023, 14:05 Milou Dirkx Climate & CO2 Society Coverage of climate change on German public television has increased over the past years but still lags behind other topics such as business news, leaving “a lot of room for improvement”, a report ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:46 Germany's so-called climate cabinet- a round of ministers with key responsibilities touching climate issues- has decided to discuss options for a carbon price at its first meeting in Berlin today. Environment minister Svenja ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Hamburger Morgenpost / Tagesspiegel / Die Zeit / Merkur / Radio Hamburg Just one week after their defeat at Germany’s snap election, the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs dpa / Zeit Online German chancellor Olaf Scholz has unveiled plans to hold an industry summit later this month in a bid to address the ongoing woes in the country’s manufacturing sector. ...
24 Feb 2020, 13:59 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Euractiv / Tagesschau / Watson The Green Party surged into second place in the Hamburg regional elections this weekend, doubling its share of the vote after a campaign in which ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:11 The German environmental organisations DUH and Greenpeace have launched legal action against major carmakers VW, BMW and Mercedes Benz, as well as oil and gas company Wintershall Dea over their impact on climate change. The NGOs are ...
07 May 2019, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Cars 91tv An increasing number of Germans say they have major worries about climate change (61 percent in 2019 compared to 37 percent in 2017) and many are calling for action in ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices n-tv / 91tv Germany will achieve its target of achieving a share of 80 percent renewable energy in its electricity use by 2030, according to chancellor Olaf Scholz. Speaking at ...
24 Apr 2024, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government 91tv / Table.Media The German parliament (Bundestag) could vote on the highly disputed reform of the country’s climate action law as early as this Friday (26 April), according ...
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22 Apr 2025, 12:35 91tv Team FT: Germany’s neighbours eye share of Friedrich Merz’s big spending plans Germany’s economically liberal neighbours are warming to relaxing EU state subsidy rules for the long term, as they bet on their national industries ...
18 Mar 2025, 16:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Government 91tv Germany's parliament has adopted a constitutional reform to allow the country to take up hundreds of billions of euros in new debt to finance ...
05 Dec 2022, 09:35 With motorway and airport blockades as well as attacks on artworks, climate activists have caused a stir in Germany. The actions have provoked mainly negative reactions from politicians, the media and the general public, following ...
28 May 2019, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende Elections & Politics 91tv The results of the European elections, in which the Greens surged driven by concerns over global climate change, mean that energy companies must ...
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 “absurd.” The 16-year-old ...
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 ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:50 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cities Süddeutsche Zeitung The Bavarian capital Munich has declared a “climate emergency”, joining more than 60 other German municipalities to have done so over the course of 2019, reports Süddeutsche ...
04 May 2023, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Transport Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Environmental NGOs have criticised the government's decision to accelerate the planning and construction of motorway upgrades and demand that all projects ...
04 Sep 2019, 10:53 This year's Frankfurt Motor Show steals the limelight for unusual reasons. Thousands of people will flock to the bi-annual industry fair – but many of them not to admire horsepower-proud vehicles, but instead to call for their ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Electricity market Renewables 91tv Demand for green electricity contracts in Germany is on the rise again after several years of shrinking interest, according to the price comparison website Verivox. In June ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Coal Spiegel / 91tv The climate activists occupying the western German village of Lützerath, which is slated for demolition to make way for a nearby lignite mine, are set to be evicted by “massive” police ...
26 Apr 2019, 16:50 Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung / Spiegel Online Germany’s liberal, pro-business Free ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Germans' support for the climate movement has halved following the rise of highly controversial street blockades by more radical activists, shows a survey by More in ...
09 Feb 2021, 13:33 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Transport 91tv The ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:47 Edgar Meza Society 91tv Families could serve as particularly important "change agents" in tackling the climate crisis and not taking them on board neglects a huge opportunity, according to an analysis by the ...
02 Aug 2019, 12:19 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Freight 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German Aviation Association (BDL) said it wants to bring CO2 emissions from air traffic to zero- after months of rising criticism from ...
17 Aug 2021, 12:19 Activists from the coalition group ‘August Rise Up’ took to the streets in Berlin on Monday 16 August to call for more climate action six weeks ahead of the German federal election. Around two hundred people blocked the road in front of ...
04 Oct 2022, 15:05 Germany's western coal mining and heavy industry state North Rhine-Westphalia aims to complete the phase-out of coal-fired power production no later than 2030, eight years earlier than agreed in German coal exit law. However, two ...
26 May 2023, 13:40 Sören Amelang Society dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The UN has highlighted the importance of climate activists and their right to hold demonstrations following a crackdown on a street-blocking group in Germany. "Climate ...
16 Jul 2019, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / 91tv With European cooperation and an “appropriate design” of climate policy, the seemingly diverging calls for change by French yellow vests ...
24 Jun 2019, 13:50 A plea for an accelerated coal exit in Germany by the state premier of Bavaria, Markus Söder, has caused a row within Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative alliance over how to deal with growing political pressure to improve the ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:08 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel said reaching the country's climate targets in the transport sector will be a great challenge for the car industry and the government. Reducing ...
09 May 2025, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Government EU ARD / Tagesspiegel / 91tv The new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has called for a “rٲ” of Franco-German relations at his first international trip on Wednesday (7 May), after his ...
11 Oct 2024, 16:39 In Italian, the expression “hot autumn“ 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’s ...
07 May 2025, 15:00 The six-month wait for a new German government came to an end when Friedrich Merz was finally confirmed as chancellor in a day of high drama in parliament on 6 May. Stakeholders and observers have urged the new chancellor to keep energy ...
28 Apr 2021, 13:17 Charlotte Nijhuis Society 91tv Most young Germans are in favour of the energy transition, according to a survey conducted by the German environment ministry (BMU) and the federal agency for nature conservation (BfN). Two ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cities 91tv The Association of German Cities (Deutscher Städtetag) has called on the federal government to adopt a price on CO2 emissions as “an appropriate and necessary approach for ...
20 Sep 2019, 20:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel's so-called "climate cabinet" has put together the bedrock for future climate action legislation in Germany, just in time for UN Secretary-General António Guterres' Climate Action Summit in ...
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03 Feb 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany opens way for gas beyond 2035 with subsidy extension Germany’s parliament has extended a support scheme for some gas plants by four years to 2030, in a law hurried through just before the general election on ...
07 Nov 2024, 10:29 Following the break-up of Germany's governing coalition, the country's energy industry urged rapid snap elections to give companies much-needed investment security in uncertain times. Youth climate movement Fridays for Future ...
18 Dec 2020, 12:15 In the upcoming election year, the 20-year-old climate activist for Fridays for Future (FfF) Jakob Blasel will run for German parliament on a Green Party ticket. Blasel told 91tv his decision was based on the need to close ...
14 May 2024, 13:27 Jack McGovan Society 91tv Climate change is a great concern for middle-aged and older people in Germany, according to a survey published by the German Centre of Gerontology. People over the age of 43, which is defined as ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:59 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Society 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Debates about the causes of climate change, which dominated discussions on German language social media at the start of the millennium, have now ...
08 May 2019, 13:46 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation has immense negative effects on the environment, but – steered in the right direction – it can create new opportunities for climate action and the global ...
16 Jan 2023, 14:08 The Green Party's leadership has faced broad criticism from the climate movement for agreeing to the demolition of the village of Lützerath to expand a neighbouring mine as part of a larger deal to exit coal in western Germany by ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Business & Jobs 91tv Public transport in Germany could be headed for a “collapse” if the government does not take measures to abate the “massive labour shortage” in the sector, labour union ...
29 Mar 2023, 14:19 The German government coalition has overcome a month-long dispute with a deal on comprehensive reforms in climate and environmental protection, the acceleration of major infrastructure projects, and billions for the modernisation of ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:24 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Climate change is still young Germans’ biggest concern, but they would rather politicians act on the topic than drastically change their own lifestyles, a survey ...
10 Jun 2024, 13:44 German businesses, researchers and civil society have welcomed that democratic and pro-EU parties continue to have a large majority after the 2024 EU elections, but warned that wins for the populist and far-right camp means that it ...
19 Jul 2019, 14:04 Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed the introduction of price on CO2 emissions as part of a package to reach the country’s 2030 climate targets. In her annual mid-year press conference, Merkel said experts had made a convincing case for ...
14 Sep 2020, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Society dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Climate change is having a hard impact on many people's mental health, Sabine Maur, president of the German Psychotherapist Association (DPtV) in federal state Rhineland ...
06 May 2019, 13:33 Kerstine Appunn Citizens' energy ZDF Germany needs a nationwide masterplan for climate action that is applicable to all towns and municipalities, according to Gerd Landsberg, the head of the confederation of German towns and ...
12 Nov 2019, 12:52 Julian Wettengel Gas Finance 91tv / EurActiv ClientEarth, an NGO of lawyers and environmental experts, has called on the German government to back the proposal to ban all fossil fuel projects, including natural gas, from ...
21 Feb 2020, 13:25 Greta Thunberg will travel to Hamburg to participate in the student climate protests preceding local elections in the maritime city on 23 February, according to media reports. The Swedish activist's presence at the "Hamburg ...
Last Friday's vote in the German parliament in favour of plans to find a final nuclear repository could finally herald an end to the decades-old conflict over where to store Germany's nuclear waste, Daniel Wetzel writes for Welt Online. But ...
24 Nov 2024, 15:30 Politicians and civil society from Germany have said that the agreement on future climate finance at the UN climate change conference COP29 shows that international cooperation has prevailed even in a challenging geopolitical context. ...
18 Oct 2021, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv / RND Industry representatives in Germany have largely welcomed the ideas proposed by the possible next government coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and ...
20 Nov 2020, 13:20 Leading members of Germany's Green Party have called on climate activists to cooperate in the country's general elections next year. They warn that more radical climate platforms competing in elections could harm the fight ...
16 Jul 2019, 13:08 German defence minister and European Commission candidate Ursula von der Leyen told Members of the European Parliament that if elected, she would introduce a "Green Deal" for Europe in her first 100 days in office, including a ...
22 Apr 2021, 10:00 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society The climate protest group Last Generation (Letzte Generation) has announced that in the coming weeks its protest activities will target “the rich” and “symbols of modern wealth” in order to ...
25 Jan 2019, 11:58 Germany’s 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 ...
25 Jan 2019, 13:51 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv ...
06 Dec 2019, 14:56 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government 91tv The new leaders of Germany's Social ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 91tv / NDR / Bloomberg A nuclear power plant in northern Germany has come to the verge of being taken off the grid on Friday, a Lower Saxony state environment ministry spokesperson told ...
15 May 2019, 12:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics The Guardian Climate change denial has become a key topic of Germany’s far-right populist party AfD ahead of the EU parliamentary elections and the party particularly focuses ...
04 Mar 2019, 12:01 The school student protests for rapid climate action make headlines in Germany as well as in other countries, putting pressure on politicians to take a stance. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said this weekend she “strongly welcomes” ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Germany’s governing CDU party has become embroiled in a high-level dispute over the right approach to its future climate and energy policy. Calls by ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:50 The criminalisation of climate protesters is intensifying all over Europe, with multiple countries considering harsh new laws. While human rights activists express concern at the crackdown, experts are divided over the impact on the ...
01 Oct 2021, 11:34 After Spain hosted the COP25 in 2019 and many Spanish cities declared a climate emergency, the country's climate movement has grown – especially among young people. But the coronavirus pandemic slowed down this newfound momentum ...
13 Sep 2019, 13:24 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections ...
06 Sep 2023, 14:00 Europe’s carmakers have little to celebrate at this year’s IAA mobility show. Chinese firms’ widening lead in the global shift to electric vehicles is on open display at the biennial fair in Munich, while climate activists lambast ...
Coalition talks between CDU, CSU, FDP and Green Party will be about the parties’ ability “to make something constructive of the differences”, said chancellery chief and Christian Democrat Peter Altmaier in an interview with German public broadcaster ARD ...
10 May 2024, 15:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society rbb / Die Welt Activists protesting against the expansion of the Tesla factory in Grünheide have tried to enter the factory's premises, leading to clashes with police and arrests made on the US ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv / Der Spiegel The leaders of the Left Party have called for a socially fair and climate-friendly coronavirus recovery as the centrepiece of the German ...
24 Feb 2025, 11:00 German businesses, researchers and civil society have called for speedy coalition negotiations following the country's snap elections on 23 February. Planning security and clarity are essential in view of the stagnating economy and ...
17 Nov 2020, 14:02 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Society 91tv The majority of Germans are willing to adopt a more sustainable ...
25 Sep 2019, 13:57 Expert Oxfam Germany Climate & CO2 COP21 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv German environmental NGOs have used the publication of the ...
04 Sep 2023, 13:25 Sören Amelang Heating Policy 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany’s parliament is set to agree a controversial law for a phase-out of fossil fuel-powered boilers on Friday (8 September). The vote will provisionally ...
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17 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Fraunhofer IWES/Agora Energiewende "The Eclipse 2015: Preview of the Power System in 2030" Friday’s solar eclipse will provide a taste of Germany’s power system in 2030, according to a ...
15 Sep 2021, 17:52 In the run up to the German federal election, a group of young people have entered a third week of a hunger strike to call for more climate action- with one of the protesters being temporarily admitted to hospital. The group, which ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:16 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
30 Jun 2021, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics dpa / Zeit Online German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has cautioned that tackling climate change will require "giant steps" by governments and citizens around the world if global ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Hydrogen Elections & Politics Hamburger Abendblatt The mayor of Hamburg, Peter Tschentscher, has proposed shutting down the city's coal plant Moorburg "many years" earlier than the current end ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit At the end of her term in office, German Chancellor Angela Merkel aims to resume her former self-styled role as “ climate chancellor ”, motivated by the Fridays For ...
12 Jan 2023, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Society 91tv / ZDF German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has said he has “great respect” for climate protesters but sees the village Lützerath — which is due to be demolished and replaced ...
22 Oct 2020, 13:09 One year ago, the German government decided that the country should become climate-neutral by the middle of the century. What was lacking so far, however, was a plan how to achieve this. In order to fill this gap, three think tanks ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:21 Sören Amelang Hydrogen EU dpa / finanzen.net The French government is planning to cooperate with Germany in the development of hydrogen technologies, reports newsagency dpa in article carried by finanzen.net. French economy minister ...
02 Jul 2021, 13:15 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cities Der Tagesspiegel Not satisfied with the Berlin state government’s climate protection targets, a broad-based citizens’ initiative is aiming to mount a referendum to make the German capital carbon ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:46 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Gas International 91tv An alliance of civil society organisations including Fridays for Future, Germanwatch and Misereor has called on the government to abandon plans to support natural gas ...
02 Dec 2020, 13:40 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Members of the regional Green Party in central German state Hesse have said they might leave the party and join a new “climate list” due to the regional party ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:52 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
30 Oct 2020, 11:42 Mobility 91tv Europe’s transport sector needs a comprehensive overhaul if the continent is to meet its climate targets, a group of German environmental organisations said on Friday. The transport sector is currently ...
18 Jun 2019, 08:43 Germany will join a growing group of EU countries to support the pledge to aim for carbon neutrality by 2050, increasing the likelihood EU leaders will agree to the goal at a meeting this week (20-21 June), several media outlets report. ...
07 Dec 2018, 13:29 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics Elections & Politics 91tv German chancellor Angela ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Supporters of different climate action organisations have protested in Frankfurt against the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policy during the coronavirus ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:27 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics dpa, ZEIT Online Climate protection plans need a stronger focus on social equality, Reiner Hoffman, head of the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB), has said. The EU Green Deal, a ...
01 Oct 2020, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Die Welt Climate activists want to get small and niche parties in Germany to unite as one political party to overcome the five percent threshold to gain seats in parliament after the 2021 ...
10 Aug 2020, 13:25 Coal Society n-tv Climate activists demanding an end to coal power occupied two German coal-fired powered stations over the weekend, news website n-tv reports. Around 20 members of Direkte Aktion Berlin, which campaigns for an end to ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv The coming legislative period is decisive in implementing the sustainable transformation in all economic sectors, a group of German environmental NGOs has said while presenting ...
20 Sep 2019, 10:12 Today, the grand coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) aim to agree on a major policy package to bring Germany back on track to reaching the international ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:19 The far-right party AfD scored its first ever state election win in eastern Thuringia and came a close second in neighbouring Saxony, while the parties of the federal coalition government in Berlin recorded heavy losses. One year ahead ...
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03 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: German coalition nears budget deal as debt brake limits options- Scholz’s government to deliver draft as early as Friday- Budget sees cuts, but more spending on infrastructure, defense Carbon Pulse: EU ...
19 Oct 2020, 12:56 The three candidates for future leadership of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) – party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, have all called for rigorous efforts to protect the climate at a debate organised by the party’s ...
04 Oct 2019, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The climate activist movement Extinction Rebellion plans several road blockades and other activities in Germany’s capital Berlin starting on 7 October, saying they want to use ...
13 Nov 2020, 15:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Elections & Politics HR / Der Spiegel The dispersal of a protest camp against the construction of a highway in the central German state of Hesse by the police is exposing a deepening rift between climate ...
15 May 2025, 12:15 The new German government’s coalition agreement remains too vague on climate policy to make sure emission-cutting targets are met, warned the country’s Council of Experts on Climate Change. A comprehensive climate action programme, ...
09 Nov 2021, 12:50 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv The heads of Greenpeace Germany and an activist from climate protest group Fridays for Future activist have filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen in a German court accusing the carmaker of failing to do ...
09 Sep 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Many people in Germany are worried that rising global temperatures will have a "dramatic" impact on human life. In a long-term study by insurance company R+V, 41 ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag Despite Germany’s debate over stepping up national climate action intensifying, demand for air travel with the country’s largest airline, Lufthansa, is rising ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:39 Expert Ottmar Edenhofer Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC, Director of MCC, Deputy Director and Chief Economist of PIK Climate & CO2 Energiewende Technology Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...
17 Mar 2025, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Süddeutsche Zeitung / BR The plan to reform Germany’s debt brake to allow greater defence spending and set up a 500-billion-euro special fund for infrastructure faces another hurdle ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:50 Coal Die Zeit / Süddeutsche 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 ...
21 Jun 2021, 12:30 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics tageszeitung (taz) Germany’s Left Party has agreed the most radical election programme yet in terms of climate protection goals and demands at its party convention on 19-20 June. Climate is the key ...
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04 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann France 24: EU slaps Chinese electric cars with tariffs of up to 38% The European Union on Thursday slapped extra provisional duties of up to 38 percent on Chinese electric car imports because of "unfair" ...
16 Jul 2021, 10:23 The UK is leading the world in terms of climate targets as it heads towards COP26. This is in no small part due to the work of climate activists, who, in the words of the campaigning group Extinction Rebellion, have come together to ...
22 Jul 2021, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Politics 91tv “My political life has been characterised by the work against climate change,” German chancellor Angela Merkel said at her traditional summer press conference in Berlin. Merkel, who after 16 ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:21 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry Reuters / Deutsche Welle Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser is ready for Siemens Energy- an energy business it plans to spin off by September- to be at the centre of the ...
22 May 2019, 13:45 Voters across the EU will head to the polls between 23 and 26 May to elect a new European Parliament. It’s one of three major European institutions — along with the European Commission and Council — due for elections or leadership ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics The only state premier from the Green Party in Germany, Winfried Kretschmann from Baden-Wurttemberg, says the state's conservative CDU party has largely adopted his own party's stance ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society 91tv / Tagesspiegel Activists of the environmental action group Extinction Rebellion (XR) occupied the headquarters of Germany's lignite mining industry association, DEBRIV, in Berlin in ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:45 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cars Handelsblatt The SUV (sport utility vehicle) boom cheered on by German carmakers BMW, Daimler and VW is about to turn into a heavy liability for the industry as EU fines for excessive emissions loom ...
Hundreds of coal workers in the eastern German region Lusatia welcomed the country’s coal exit commission during a trip to the region with protest banners saying, “good jobs are being trampled on,” Michael Bauchmüller writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. ...
16 Sep 2024, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Policy International 91tv / Bloomberg / Tagesspiegel Background German chancellor Olaf Scholz is strengthening ties with the Central Asian region, signing accords for energy and ...
16 May 2019, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Finance 91tv Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel says the need for a reform of financial markets along sustainability criteria is one of the most pressing challenges the sector is facing. ...
13 Jul 2020, 14:04 Coal International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German-based construction group Hochtief is enjoying a coal boom in Australia despite growing criticism of mining in its home country, write Jonas Jansen and Christoph Hein in the ...
24 Apr 2019, 13:24 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background After exceptionally dry weather in 2018, the soil in many ...
08 Nov 2021, 17:30 With the goal to "keep 1.5° within reach", many see this year's COP26 in Glasgow as the most important UN climate change conference since the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement. Industrialised countries and large emitters are ...
07 May 2025, 13:03 Sören Amelang Elections & Politics 91tv The election of Friedrich Merz as Germany’s new chancellor in an unprecedented second parliamentary vote was greeted with relief by the country’s energy, industry, and ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:20 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Welt am Sonntag Miners will present the last piece of hard coal mined in Germany to the country’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in ...
23 Nov 2020, 14:00 Germany's Greens have backed a more ambitious climate target in a bid to defuse growing tensions with more radical activists. At a virtual convention designed to showcase the party's ability to govern Europe's largest ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:03 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit Humankind cannot continue living and economising the way it has, ...
09 Oct 2023, 13:49 The parties of Germany’s government coalition suffered heavy losses in two state elections in economically strong Hesse and Bavaria in western and southern Germany, while populist parties including the far-right AfD celebrated ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has called on European leaders to come up with a coherent plan to facilitate the spread of electric mobility on the continent. At the IAA ...
29 Jun 2021, 14:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Elections & Politics The conservative climate group KlimaUnion (ClimateUnion), which is made up of party members of the governing CDU/CSU alliance, released a position paper in which the members argue ...
08 May 2019, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv / ARD Germany's Manfred Weber and the Netherlands' Frans Timmermans – the two most likely candidates succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission President – ...
03 May 2024, 10:42 Making buildings more sustainable hinges on being able to measure what sustainability actually means. Definitions and standards vary widely across Europe, making it hard to compare projects and assess progress. Certifications can ...
28 Mar 2022, 14:25 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels International Security 91tv After a meeting with his G7 counterparts, German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said on Monday (28 March) that Putin's demand to only receive payment ...
27 Sep 2021, 14:05 The Social Democrats (SPD) under chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz have narrowly won Germany's federal elections. According to preliminary final results, the SPD received 25.7 percent of votes, while the conservatives (CDU/CSU) ...
27 Feb 2015, 00:00 Amidst political tussle over new power lines crossing Germany from north to south, which many see as one of the next big steps in the country's energy transition, the grid agency in charge has called the power highways in question ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:45 The members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) have unexpectedly voted for a more left-leaning leadership, casting doubt on the future of the coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance. The ...
27 May 2025, 12:17 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Technology WirtschaftsWoche In view of the massive energy capacity needed for artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, German energy company RWE is calling for government support to ensure the German ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:32 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:23 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Sören Amelang Electricity Renewables 91tv ...
21 Aug 2019, 16:00 Moment of truth for German climate policy: Right in time for the UN Climate Action Summit, chancellor Angela Merkel's government is due to present a raft of measures to drastically cut emissions. The eagerly awaited announcements ...
10 Apr 2025, 14:11 Germany’s prospective government has agreed in its coalition treaty to continue the country’s landmark energy transition without major adjustments and stick to existing climate targets. Faced with economic stagnation and the ...
Germany is making haste in ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement partly over fears that Donald Trump will pull out of the deal before it comes into force if he becomes US president, writes Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Time is pressing, and ...
12 May 2021, 11:31 The German government has given the green light to the necessary legal changes to speed up the country's bid for climate neutrality, aiming to hit the goal five years earlier in 2045. Cabinet approved a reform of the country's ...
21 Oct 2020, 13:41 The EU’s 27 agriculture ministers have found a compromise on how the 387 billion euros in farming subsidies should be spent in the years until 2027, agreeing to make certain environmental and climate standards mandatory and earmarking a ...
11 Apr 2025, 12:30 Climate will play a smaller role under Germany’s next government and greater ambition will be mostly pushed by the opposition, says Johannes Hillje, a political communication advisor who has worked with several German ministries. The ...
20 Aug 2020, 14:54 Greta Thunberg and fellow activists have met German Chancellor Angela Merkel to exchange views on the fight against climate change. The campaigners said the 90 minute meeting's atmosphere was friendly, but also added that " we ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:47 Jack McGovan Solar Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau Germany’s most recent push to boost the rollout of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the country, which is set to be agreed upon in parliament on Friday (26 April), could result in ...
12 May 2022, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Society G20 & G7 91tv / Die Zeit Several major environmental groups have urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to step up the country’s climate action efforts and make the topic a priority of the G7 ...
11 Jun 2021, 12:54 Green delegates are pushing for more ambitious climate policies in the party's election manifesto to be finalised at a party congress over the weekend, as the party seeks to stem a recent slide in the polls. Against the backdrop of ...
22 Nov 2024, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics MDR / dpa Three parties have agreed to form a coalition in Germany's eastern state of Thuringia following elections in September. The Christian Democrats (CDU), Social Democrats (SPD) and ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 91tv Thousands of scientists from a broad section of fields have come together to urge Germany's next government to prioritise climate policy. "We are very ...
04 Jun 2025, 16:37 The Danish government intends to use its EU Council presidency in the second half of this year to prioritise reaching an agreement among member states on a 2040 climate target for the European Union, said climate and energy minister ...
18 Jan 2021, 13:57 Armin Laschet has been elected the new leader of Germany's largest party, the Christian Democrats (CDU), clearing a major hurdle on what could be his way to becoming next German Chancellor. The premier of Germany's largest ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her conservative CDU/CSU bloc would begin exploratory talks on forming a so-called ‘Jamaica’ coalition on 18 October, reports Reuters. That day, the CDU/CSU would hold separate talks with the Free Democrats (FDP) and ...
03 Feb 2022, 12:13 Economy minister Robert Habeck and environment minister Steffi Lemke have reiterated Germany’s opposition to labelling nuclear power as a sustainable activity, but did not react to provisions on gas projects the European Commission ...
04 Dec 2024, 12:23 Sören Amelang Electricity market 91tv An energy system dominated by solar and wind energy does not require baseload power stations to guarantee supply security, German research academies have said. “The academy project ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:58 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Financial Times Germany’s last hard coal mine in the Ruhr area will officially close on Friday 21 December and with it the era of a “fuel that propelled the nation’s economic and political expansion – for ...
11 Dec 2024, 13:10 Importing green hydrogen via ships is not a viable strategy for the decarbonisation of Germany’s steel and chemical industries, the country’s government-funded Ariadne energy transition research alliance has warned. These sectors ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:22 Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv High energy prices have little influence on the transformation needs of most of the 100 companies on Germany’s HDAX stock market index compared to four other ...
The government coalition has agreed last-minute changes to the contested reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) in order to boost citizen energy projects, reports Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Citizen energy projects need to participate at ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:17 The German Greens opted for a moderate climate policy path at a party conference over the weekend and officially anointed party co-leader Annalena Baerbock as chancellor candidate for the September elections. Facing a recent dip in the ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables 91tv Germany needs more clarity on the future role of fossil gas in its energy system to allow industry to make the right investment choices, said the International Energy Agency (IEA) in a ...
05 Dec 2019, 13:08 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 ...
18 Sep 2024, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal 91tv Europe should establish a so-called “Carbon Central Bank” – an institution to oversee a market mechanism to remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere – to reach climate targets, ...
19 Nov 2017, 00:00 Germany's aspiring coalition partners continued talks past a second deadline on Sunday, 19. November, after having made little headway in key climate and energy issues in exploratory talks that had already gone past the first self ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:00 Voters in the EU will head to the polls in June 2024 to elect the next European Parliament, kicking off a months-long process to pick the bloc’s new leadership that will shape climate policy until the end of the decade. It will face the ...
06 May 2025, 17:15 In a bumpy start to Germany’s new coalition government, conservative leader Friedrich Merz managed to secure a majority in parliament to become the next chancellor only in the second round of voting. The unprecedented failure to ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Renewables Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy ministry (BMWK), which is currently run by the Greens, who will likely not be part of the new coalition government, has presented ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Heating Society 91tv The share of homeowners who say they don’t have the money to install climate-friendly technologies has increased significantly in Germany. 41 percent of property owners ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:24 A dispute over what is supposed to be its most important climate policy is adding to the woes of Germany’s governing coalition. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and their centre-left coalition partner SPD are ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:24 Bennet Ribbeck Industry 91tv The electrification of industrial processes with renewable energy is the most cost-effective transformation path for the sector, the research consortium IND-E has stated in a report. The authors ...
05 Mar 2025, 17:07 Germany’s likely next government coalition parties have proposed an overhaul of state debt rules to make hundreds of billions of euros available for defence and infrastructure investments. The agreement, which faces a big hurdle in the ...
30 Apr 2025, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Government 91tv The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has approved the coalition agreement with the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, led by chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz, clearing the final major hurdle to ...
22 May 2025, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Ensuring that flexible electricity use is accounted for in Germany's grid fee reform could allow for lower electricity bills, a group of energy providers and mobility ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling n-tv / 91tv Lithium from southeastern European country Serbia could bolster Germany's ambitions for establishing a domestic battery production industry. German ...
19 May 2025, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's federal government needs to provide additional funds for climate mitigation and adaptation measures, and make these easily available to its states ...
06 Sep 2021, 14:05 Environmentalists have denounced the car industry's continued reliance on climate-damaging vehicles as Europe's largest auto show IAA opens its doors to the public in Munich. Carmakers are presenting their visions for climate ...
12 Jan 2021, 14:28 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv A disturbance in the synchronised European high-voltage power grid on Friday, 8 January 2021, which resulted in a separation of ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:18 Germany needs to implement a host of measures to achieve a climate neutral electricity system effectively, climate policy research institute Ariadne said. More flexibility and efficiency should be the focus of power market reforms, as ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:08 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv A robust political strategy based on realistic expectations for hydrogen production is needed as demand for the gas remains low due to its high costs and other factors, researchers at the Potsdam ...
Convening in Argentina, ministers from the G20 – a group of both developing and developed countries, including Germany – are discussing fossil fuel extraction, the digitalisation of energy markets, and the transparent handling of data, according to dpa in ...
13 Dec 2023, 14:15 Germany and other EU governments have welcomed the outcome of the climate conference COP28 in the United Arab Emirates, saying it heralds the end of the fossil fuel era. EU lawmakers said the deal reached in Dubai will form the ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:30 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv A package of measures to boost the use of solar energy in Germany by removing red tape, approved by parliament on Friday (26 April), will significantly accelerate the rollout of the ...
18 Dec 2015, 00:00 Second parliament chamber passes laws for combined heat and power support and new power cables / Progress in grid expansion and more money for efficient power stations will advance energy transition and national climate targets, says ...
Shares of German carmakers BMW, VW and Daimler were falling substantially on Monday after allegations emerged on Friday that the companies operated a cartel, followed by an EU probe into the affair, news agency Reuters reports. “The European Commission ...
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07 Apr 2025, 13:36 91tv Team International Energy Agency (IEA)- Our latest review of Germany’s energy policies is out now Report explores how making Germany's electricity system more efficient & resilient can support the energy transition, ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Industry Handelsblatt / 91tv The break-up of the coalition government and insecure funding mean that it is unclear whether Germany’s pioneering ‘climate contract’ subsidy scheme to slash industry emissions ...
13 Dec 2023, 13:47 German and European politicians, scientists, businesses and civil society have overwhelmingly welcomed the key message of this year’s UN climate change conference COP28 in Dubai: the agreement to "transition away" from fossil ...
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 ...
15 Mar 2023, 13:22 A slight reduction of German greenhouse gas emissions last year is not enough to put the country on track to reaching its 2030 climate target. The country would have to triple the annual reduction from 2 percent in 2022 to 6 percent ...
13 Jan 2021, 11:41 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country’s 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in autumn. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
21 May 2025, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation 91tv The cost of extracting water from Berlin’s main river, the Spree, should be increased to reduce future demand and help prevent conflicts about allocation, economists at the German Institute ...
18 Mar 2016, 00:00 Renewable energy sources already play a key role in keeping Germany's carbon emissions in check, the country's environment minster told an international conference on Friday in Berlin. However, completing the energy transition ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Storage Hydrogen 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany can store enough hydrogen in salt caverns alone to meet more than the maximum expected national and European demand needs, the economy ministry (BMWK ...
03 Jun 2025, 13:07 Expert Eurelectric European electricity industry interest group Electricity market EU Julian Wettengel Electricity Business & Jobs 91tv Increased production and use of electricity across all sectors is key for the ...
23 May 2025, 13:08 Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out 91tv / FT Economy and energy minister Katherina Reiche has confirmed media reports that her government agreed with France to largely drop its resistance to supporting new nuclear power ...
15 Aug 2019, 10:58 In a bid to regain its damaged reputation as a future mobility leader, BMW will replace its CEO on Friday, when Harald Krüger will hand over the company's steering wheel to Oliver Zipse. But industry experts are uncertain whether ...
11 Dec 2014
11 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Study: Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) “How the world sees the Energiewende” Germany’s Energiewende – the shift from conventional and nuclear energy to a renewable power supply – is the focus of ...
Allowances for emitting a tonne of CO 2 have tripled in price, reaching nearly 16 euros on the European Energy Exchange on Friday, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes. The rise follows trading being at around 5 euros a year ago. Rolf Schmitz, head ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:35 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Finance 91tv / Handelsblatt The upcoming requirements on sustainability reporting for credit ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:29 Future nuclear fusion power plants will not be able to complement wind and solar electricity production because they will likely need to run around the clock for economic and technical reasons, a German parliamentary report concludes. ...
09 Apr 2021, 09:39 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv [CLARIFICATION: Agora Energiewende said Q1 developments in the power market show greenhouse gas emissions could rise in 2021. Drops reference to 2020 target.] Unfavourable weather ...
02 Apr 2020, 13:31 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 International 91tv The decision to postpone the COP26 UN climate negotiations because of the coronavirus pandemic drew praise and concern from Germany. Government officials, experts and ...
30 Mar 2022, 15:54 Renewable energy sources are the answer to both the climate crisis and the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war against Ukraine, said ministers at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue. Experts, politicians, business leaders and ...
05 Feb 2025, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Handelsblatt The German government and industry players are considering using parts of the contentious Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea for hydrogen deliveries ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:45 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Business & Jobs Society 91tv More attractive conditions are needed to make people join civil protection and disaster relief volunteer units as Germany faces more frequent extreme weather ...
Members of Germany’s coal-exit commission used their second plenary meeting on Friday, 13 July to hear presentations about the “tasks, framework conditions and structural policy challenges” that are to form the basis for their decision-making in the ...
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 ...
08 Sep 2023, 15:13 Sören Amelang Heating Policy 91tv A new law for the phase out of oil and gas boilers in Germany was agreed upon in parliament today (8 September 2023), though changes to the original plans following controversy within the ...
The European Energy Exchange in Leipzig on Friday auctioned a total of 4.36 million emission allowances for the German government that brought in 64.7 million euros, Michael Bauchmüller writes in Süddeutsche Zeitung. The success of the auction marks a new ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Digitalisation 91tv Cloud and edge computing hold great promise to increase the efficiency of a future decentralised energy system, yet the widespread use and acceptance of these solutions still face ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU Süddeutsche Zeitung / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Member countries of the EU should have the option to temporarily opt out of the planned emissions trade for transport and buildings when it comes ...
04 Jun 2025
04 Jun 2025, 11:31 91tv Team Phys.org: German nuclear fusion research facility sets new performance records Wendelstein 7-X achieved world record in a key parameter of fusion physics, among other milestones. Reuters: Germany lobby group says China's ...
The dispute within Germany’s federal government over environment minister Barbara Hendricks’ Climate Action Plan 2050 “is becoming increasingly uncomfortable for Chancellor Angela Merkel,” writes Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “At the next UN ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:34 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Rachel Waldholz Nuclear phase-out taz / 91tv Critics are denouncing plans to build a new interim storage facility for ...
29 May 2015, 00:00 Germany and its neighbouring countries have agreed to let the market determine wholesale power prices even if this means soaring prices at times of high demand, Germany's state secretary for energy Rainer Baake said. He also ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Concern about the impact of climate change is rising, while fewer people feel individual action is needed to combat the problem, according to a survey in 32 countries on ...
03 Jun 2025
03 Jun 2025, 12:10 91tv Team IMF: Making germany grow again Labor costs are main driver of decline in German price competitiveness, even more so than rising energy costs. PIK: Scientists say next few years vital to securing the future of the West ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:44 German ministers, high-level policymakers, as well as representatives from industry, science and civil society gather at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue on 9-10 April 2019 to discuss the progress of a global energy transition. ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics 91tv The absence of climate mitigation measures is the greatest threat to prosperity and security in Germany and Europe, a group of environmental organisations said in a joint ...
21 Mar 2025
21 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: German energy transition could be 300 billion euros cheaper with more efficiency, finds report BCG & BDI industry association say investments currently planned in renewables, power grids and hydrogen far exceed ...
13 Sep 2024, 12:06 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv Planned hydrogen storage projects remain significantly behind forecasted demand, an issue which could affect Germany’s attempts to move towards a renewable energy system, found a report ...
10 Aug 2021, 13:00 German politicians and other stakeholders said the latest major report on climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an urgent warning that rapid emission cuts are needed to keep the Paris Agreement target ...
14 Feb 2025, 10:00 Germany’s snap elections on 23 February take place against the backdrop of massive changes in geopolitics, presenting the next government with the opportunity to reset its relationships with major European partners, says Rafael Loss, ...
The Christian Democrats (CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia will form a government coalition, state chairmen Armin Laschet (CDU) and Christian Lindner (FDP) told news agency dpa. “We have a coalition agreement” and the ...
06 May 2025, 13:00 Germans cast their vote in the country's federal election on 23 February. Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz is set to become the next chancellor and will now lead the formal coalition negotiations with the Social Democrats ...
17 Sep 2021, 11:37 Three candidates vie to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor in the most unpredictable federal election in decades that will determine the next steps Europe's largest economy takes on the path to climate neutrality. A recent ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:21 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry, which is central to Europe’s plans to establish a green hydrogen economy, is calling for postponing existing deadlines for using the climate-neutral gas, reported business ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Policy 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's parliament is set to pass a package of energy laws after the minority government of the Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens found agreements with the ...
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 ...
12 Feb 2025
12 Feb 2025, 10:35 91tv Team European Commission presents 2025 work programme The Commission has adopted its 2025 work programme, outlining its ambition to boost competitiveness, enhance security, and bolster economic resilience in the EU. EIB Investment ...
Renewable energy sources covered 35 percent of power demand in Germany in the first half of 2017, utilities association BDEW said on Friday. In the first half of 2016, the renewables share was 33 percent. Onshore wind power installations made the largest ...
05 May 2025
05 May 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany’s red tape creates a Berlin-sized hole in energy shift Military airspace restrictions are holding up wind-power projects, highlighting the challenges for Germany’s energy and defence plans. Montel: Critics ...
26 May 2025, 12:04 Germany’s plans for the ramp-up of a green hydrogen economy has run into significant uncertainties, including over the fuel’s future price, regulation, and the necessary infrastructure development, said an energy industry report. ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:20 Jack McGovan Storage Resources & Recycling 91tv Deep bodies of water in northern Germany have been found to contain large amounts of lithium that could be used to help produce batteries for the energy transition, ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:42 Jack McGovan Efficiency Construction 91tv Buildings in the worst energy efficiency categories have above-average carbon emissions, so targeting them first for refurbishments would have a significant climate impact, ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:23 Jack McGovan Cars 91tv Germany's economy and climate ministry has welcomed the European Commission’s plans for the automotive sector, arguing it will increase the sector's international competitiveness. "With ...
Czech investor Daniel Kretinsky’s purchase of Vattenfall’s German brown coal business, officially completed on Friday, is a bet that Germany will not end coal-fired energy production anytime soon, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. Kretinsky’s holding EPH ...
30 Sep 2020, 12:23 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has thrown her weight behind the European Commission’s proposal to increase the bloc’s climate target to a 55 percent greenhouse gas reduction by 2030. Speaking in federal parliament, she said the country ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:42 Sören Amelang Electricity market Gas Tagesspiegel Background U.S. gas turbine manufacturer GE Vernova has expressed doubts about the plans by Germany’s prospective next government to connect 20 gigawatts of gas-fired power plants to the ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:19 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Germany's energy industry has warned that the country might struggle to find investors to build new hydrogen-ready gas power plants, following the end of a ...
An alliance of climate activists and renewable proponents has published an advert in business daily Handelsblatt urging politicians to stop the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) in parliament in order to “save the Energiewende”. “Anybody who wants ...
19 Aug 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Bioenergy Finance RND / dpa / Handelsblatt Biomass could continue to play an important role in Germany's future energy system, economy minister Robert Habeck told dpa as reported by media house RND. He announced a ...
31 Mar 2025, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Merkur An election promise by German conservative alliance of the Christian Democrat Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) to abolish parts ...
14 Nov 2024, 13:16 The expansion and maintenance of Germany’s rail and road network should be financed by a special fund outside of the regular budget, according to the government’s council of economic advisors. Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & ...
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 ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:04 Rachel Waldholz Renewables Policy dpa / Energie & Management / Der Spiegel Environment minister Svenja Schulze is calling on German state and federal officials to act quickly to resolve disagreements over the expansion of ...
25 Apr 2025, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Setting up multiple local pricing zones instead of having one big market area could help bring electricity prices down in Germany and increase supply security, according to a report ...
10 Jun 2022, 13:10 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Kerstine Appunn Wind Der Spiegel / 91tv The German government’s push for ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:30 The small western German village of Lützerath has become the latest battle ground for climate activists, as it is being demolished to expand a neighbouring lignite mine. Given Germany’s aims to quit coal ‘ideally’ by 2030 and to reach ...
08 Sep 2017, 00:00 Dieselgate, looming driving bans in German cities, an election debate on phasing out combustion engines, and the rapid ascent of e-car rival Tesla – this year’s Frankfurt car show (IAA) comes at an awkward time for German carmakers. The ...
01 Apr 2025, 17:38 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv Planned investments to expand and modernise the EU's electricity grids by 2050 fall short of the necessary amounts of money required to support the bloc's move to climate neutrality, ...
03 Apr 2024, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany should have an honest conversation about how much strategic sovereignty it wants, and figure out what it is willing to pay to keep production of key energy-intensive sectors in the ...
New German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said the energy transition is one of his ministry’s major projects, speaking as he took over the helm of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) Friday. “The project Energiewende ...
28 Apr 2025, 10:45 Insufficient grid connections mean that Central Europe and Northern Europe cannot benefit from cheap, competitive solar power from the Iberian Peninsula, says Joan Groizard, Spain’s secretary of state for energy. Better interconnection ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:33 Chancellor Angela Merkel's government coalition is racing to put together a major climate action package by 20 September, just in time for UN Secretary-General António Guterres' climate summit in New York on 23 September. Mere ...
The German federal parliament (Bundestag) has voted by a large majority to transfer liabilities for storing nuclear waste to the state, the Bundestag has stated in a press release. The legislative proposal introduced by the government stipulates that ...
10 May 2019, 11:33 Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has proposed forming a coalition of the willing among European Union countries for CO₂ pricing in transport, buildings and agriculture to meet 2030 climate targets. At a meeting of EU leaders in ...
21 Jan 2025, 13:01 The beginning of reelected U.S. president Donald Trump’s second term in office has prompted calls from German government representatives, researchers and civil society actors to strengthen European efforts to uphold global efforts to ...
04 Sep 2020, 15:15 The era of Chancellor Angela Merkel will come to an end when Germans head to the polls next autumn after what looks set to become an unusually dramatic run-up to the federal elections. With no clear front-runner for her succession in ...
10 Apr 2025
10 Apr 2025, 13:30 91tv Team Bloomberg: AI data center growth means more coal and gas plants, IEA says Growth in artificial intelligence-focused data centers will drive demand for gas- and coal-fired power plants, according to new report. Tennet: 12 ...
04 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 5 at the UN climate conference: Negotiatons are not "leaping forward" / 1.5°C should be mentioned in agreement / German climate action in the spotlight at home Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Business Elections & Politics 91tv Bureaucracy and energy are the top issues that German companies say the next government to should prioritise, according to a survey by economic research institute ifo ...
13 Aug 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv Most residents of the eastern German state of Saxony are in favour of the switch to renewables, but many are still concerned about new wind turbines being built near their home ...
27 Nov 2020, 14:33 A little more than one year after Germany’s so-called “climate cabinet” presented a big policy package to reach 2030 climate targets, its members will meet again on 2 December – but this time only to take stock, not decisions. ...
The federal parliament’s committee for economics and energy has agreed to the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), including many last-minute changes, according to a press release. The government coalition parties, economy minister Sigmar Gabriel’s ...
22 May 2025
22 May 2025, 12:05 91tv Team FT: Northvolt failure raises stakes for Europe’s battery industry Swedish start-up’s fate raises fears its European peers will also perish in the ‘valley of death’. Bloomberg: Spain, Portugal urge EU effort on power link after ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Storage Handelsblatt The surging interest of potential operators of large-scale battery storage units that seek connections to Germany’s transmission grid could put network operators in a difficult situation, reported ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:40 Edgar Meza Grid Solar Handelsblatt German transmission grid operator 50Hertz has called for a more balanced and careful approach when it comes to the further expansion of solar photovoltaics (PV), saying there is a risk of overloading ...
24 Jan 2025, 12:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has cautioned that new-found enthusiasm for nuclear power, as a means to mitigate global warming, must not slow the rollout of ...
08 Apr 2016, 00:00 In Czech company EPH, Vattenfall might have found a buyer for its lignite coal mines and power stations in Lusatia. But as the companies involved refuse to comment, environmentalists warn that coal has no future in a country that wants ...
02 Jun 2025, 13:11 Sören Amelang Adaptation 91tv / Zeit Heavy rainfall and flooding caused insured damages worth 2.6 billion euros in Germany last year, around one billion euros more than the long-term average, industry association GDV said. ...
24 Jan 2019, 12:05 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt The leaked final report of Germany’s coal commission suggests it will not be ambitious enough when it comes to climate protection, argues Jürgen Flauger in a ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:57 Jack McGovan Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Plasma technologies could open new options for decarbonising heat supply in industrial processes, offering an alternative to the use of green hydrogen, newspaper Handelsblatt reported. Swedish ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has said in its draft election campaign programme that it aims to ensure the country is competitive in industry ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:14 Edgar Meza Wind Security WirtschaftsWoche Despite warnings of potential security risks posed by Chinese components in wind turbines, major energy companies oppose a ban in Germany, arguing that the country's planned expansion path ...
27 May 2019, 15:43 Germany’s ruling parties have taken another blow in the European elections, further rattling the fragile government coalition, as voters increasingly turn away from the established forces in the political centre. Against the backdrop of ...
28 May 2025, 13:16 A higher court in Germany has set an important precedent, arguing that large global emitters can be held responsible for climate damages under the country’s civil law, legal experts representing environmental NGOs said. The court, ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:26 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society Washington Post Tens of thousands of teenagers across Europe have skipped school since the beginning of the year, joining protests demanding action on climate change, Luisa Beck reports in the ...
17 Apr 2025, 15:00 The return of nuclear energy in Italy is slowly but steadily shifting from possibility to concrete political project. The transition to renewables, meanwhile, has entered a paradoxical phase: installation numbers are solid yet local ...
01 Apr 2025
01 Apr 2025, 11:22 91tv Team Politico: EU exploring weaker 2040 climate goal The European Commission wants to keep a 90 percent emissions-cutting target but to change how countries calculate their progress. Eurelectric: Solar breaks historical record in ...
22 Jun 2021, 12:56 The manifesto of Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance for the upcoming national election remains vague on climate and energy, leaving plenty of leeway for possible government coalition negotiations with competitors like the Green ...
The German federal cabinet finally approved the government’s Climate Action Plan 2050 as the basic framework on how Germany is to become largely greenhouse gas neutral in 2050. In a press release, environment minister Barbara Hendricks pointed out that ...
13 May 2025, 13:37 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Renewables Government 91tv The new German government’s energy policy framework is “promising” despite few concrete quantitative targets in the coalition agreement, a report from Deutsche Bank ...
27 Sep 2021, 15:30 Germany is set to vote for a new government on 26 September. After 16 years at the helm of Europe's largest economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel will make room for a successor who will shape the country's energy and climate ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Cities 91tv Municipalities in Germany warn that they could be running out of money soon and are struggling to implement a wide range of their tasks, including guaranteeing a reliable ...
03 Feb 2025, 14:49 Germany is increasingly looking outwards to find skilled workers to fill its green labour gap, especially to India. Joint collaborations aim to tackle a critical challenge faced by both nations: securing a skilled workforce capable of ...
15 Nov 2021, 12:10 The UN climate summit COP26 in Glasgow has heralded in the end of the fossil fuel era, said German environment minister Svenja Schulze shortly after the conference. However, not everyone saw the two-week meeting in a similarly positive ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:10 Sören Amelang Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv Germany's chancellor-in-waiting, conservative Christian Democrat Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz, has reached a breakthrough deal on the 500-billion-euros ...
02 Jun 2021, 13:21 Voters in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt will head to the ballot box on 6 June to elect a new state government. Home to one of Germany’s three main coal mining regions, the state is dealing with the transition away from lignite ...
04 Jun 2025, 13:23 s.amelang Adaptation 91tv Around 3,000 people have died due to high temperatures during each of the past two summers in Germany, said both the country’s environment agency (UBA) and its disease control authority, the Robert ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Ahead of the German snap election, an alliance of industry associations has called on political parties to push for a government strategy to decarbonise heat that businesses use in their ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology 91tv A debate about the possibilities for treating nuclear waste in a way that greatly reduces the time that radioactive materials are considered a health hazard and thus ...
18 Mar 2024, 12:57 Sören Amelang Policy Security 91tv / Table.Media / The Guardian Germany’s defence ministry expects climate change to have a profound impact on security issues and has presented a plan to prepare its military for the new ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Government 91tv The German government’s new building energy legislation to phase out the use of fossil fuel heating systems has generated mixed reactions from industry associations and ...
29 Aug 2024, 13:51 Jack McGovan Renewables Cost & Prices Electricity prices in Germany could be made more flexible and fall during particularly sunny or windy conditions according to a proposed measure to adapt grid fees to renewable power supply by ...
28 Jan 2019, 12:39 Kerstine Appunn Security 91tv Germany’s foreign minister Heiko Maas urged the United Nations at Friday’s open debate of the UN Security Council to take the link between climate and security into account in all conflict ...
03 Dec 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling 91tv Germany's government cabinet is set to adopt a national circular economy strategy tomorrow (4 December), said the environment ministry. The ministry spells out targets ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:00 Germany’s prospective coalition government has agreed to continue the country’s landmark energy transition without major adjustments, and stick to existing climate targets. In their coalition treaty, conservatives and Social Democrats ...
24 Sep 2024, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Cost & Prices 91tv / SWR Germany's nationwide flat-rate public transport ticket, the Germany-ticket, is at risk of losing subscribers now that the federal government and state transport ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:58 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv A working group made up of government officials and industry representatives focusing on climate-neutral aviation is calling for clear commitment by political leaders and industry to the market ...
22 Nov 2024, 11:00 Social barriers make it tough for women to work in the solar sector in India, thwarting what could be a vibrant clean energy workforce in the world’s most populous country. Experts are calling for more attention to green skills and ...
16 May 2025, 13:12 Jennifer Collins Renewables Business & Jobs 91tv More than half of business leaders in eastern Germany rate the region's economic potential as "high" or "very high", with renewable energy seen ...
03 Jun 2025, 12:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost & Prices 91tv Importing shipped green hydrogen from Africa could be more expensive for Germany than previously thought, according to a joint study by TU Munich, Oxford University and ETH ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:17 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Germany’s gas transmission system operators have submitted a joint application for a planned hydrogen core network to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). Due to be completed by 2032, the planned network would ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:38 Germany is betting on sustainable hydrogen to decarbonise its economy and will largely have to import the fuel in future due to unfavourable local conditions for renewable electricity production. With its hydrogen import strategy, the ...
17 Mar 2025
17 Mar 2025, 13:00 91tv Team FT: Green energy stocks fall back to levels last seen 5 years ago Uncertainty over political support for clean transition depresses market. Reuters: Peruvian farmer takes German energy giant RWE to court in landmark climate ...
29 Jan 2025, 11:18 As Germans prepare to head to the polls for the 23 February snap election, the weakness of the country’s large industrial base has become a campaign focus. Some opposition policymakers blame exaggerated climate policies for the troubles ...
05 May 2025, 15:32 The choice for Germany’s new transport minister suggests the country is unlikely to face a profound policy overhaul to get the emission-intensive sector on track to meet ambitious 2030 climate targets. Long-serving conservative ...
13 May 2025, 13:23 Jack McGovan Transport 91tv A number of environmental organisations, trade unions and others have called on Germany’s new transport minister, Patrick Schnieder, to commit to sustainable local and regional transport in his ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU dpa / Die Welt / Reuters Erecting trade barriers to shield national industries from foreign competition is not the way to ensure European companies remain competitive, said German chancellor Olaf Scholz during ...
21 May 2025, 13:19 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The new German government is aiming to increase investments in eastern Germany, where political opposition to current energy transition and climate policies has grown ...
17 Oct 2016, 00:00 Germany’s consumer surcharge to fund renewable electricity will rise less than expected in 2017. Still, discussions about the cost of the country’s Energiewende project and ways to reform the renewables support dominated the public ...
12 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025, 10:57 91tv Team Reuters: RWE, TotalEnergies agree long-term green hydrogen supply deal Germany's top utility agrees to supply French oil major with around 30,000 t of green hydrogen a year from 2030, in one of the sector's biggest ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy Süddeutsche Zeitung A proposal from Germany’s likely next chancellor for a “moratorium on dismantling” the remaining decommissioned nuclear reactors in the country has been met with reluctance ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Agriculture 91tv German stakeholders in agriculture support calls for an EU-wide benchmarking system, arguing that this could help reward sustainable practices in the sector. Such a system has been proposed ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:55 Conservative CDU member Katherina Reiche looks set to become Germany’s new economy and energy minister in a government led by Friedrich Merz as chancellor. Reiche looks back at ten years in the energy industry, where she assumed leading ...
Germany’s renewables surcharge is to rise from 6.35 cents per kilowatt-hour (ct/kWh) to 6.88 ct/kWh next year, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) learned from grid operator sources. The 8 percent increase would be less than predicted by experts. This ...
05 Dec 2014
05 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau "We need a fund" Jörg Sommer, chairman of the German Environment Foundation, says more money is needed to treat nuclear waste in Germany. In an ...
17 Jan 2025, 13:12 Sören Amelang Transport Elections & Politics 91tv The next German government must ensure that aviation can become climate-neutral within 20 years, which will require a plethora of policy initiatives, an alliance of ...
01 Nov 2021, 08:26 The 26th UN climate change conference in Glasgow is a necessary instrument to put “moral pressure” on world governments to commit to more climate action, Stefan Rahmstorf, scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Elections & Politics 91tv Solar and heating industry associations have appealed to politicians at the federal and state levels to show clear policy commitments to the energy transition after ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:11 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The past year was “a record year” for ...
14 Jun 2024, 12:53 Sören Amelang Society EUElections2024 EU 91tv A broad alliance of German environmental NGOs, unions, consumer, and church groups has called for a “European Green and Social Deal” to be implemented in the next EU legislature ...
10 Oct 2024, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Increasing heatwaves and droughts in recent years have led to regional water scarcity and associated conflicts in Germany and the situation is set to intensify as climate change ...
22 May 2025, 13:02 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv Germany's renewable power expansion, the finalised phase out of nuclear, and the ongoing decommissioning of coal and gas power plants have had a positive effect on the country's ...
28 Jan 2025, 12:58 Slowing down industry decarbonisation in Germany would result in a dangerous loss of competitiveness in emerging green markets, says Philipp Verpoort, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Instead, the ...
10 Sep 2021, 10:11 Once touted as the “climate chancellor”, Germany’s outgoing head of government Angela Merkel’s climate leadership over her 16 years in office is now seen by many as middling. International observers commend her steadfast leadership in ...
10 Mar 2025, 13:28 Germany’s likely next coalition government has agreed to a substantial electricity price cut to relieve households and companies and honour national and European climate targets. The Conservatives, under probable next chancellor ...
20 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Trump to declare national energy emergency, unlocking new powers Actions set to touch full spectrum of the US energy industry in bid to unleash domestic production. European Commission: Strategic dialogue on the ...
11 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: Clock ticks for German fiscal bonanza but Merz ally optimistic A senior ally of Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday (11 March) was optimistic about securing support for a massive increase ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:39 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany should act quickly to kickstart the hydrogen economy with concrete steps as not enough has been done in practice so far, said the Association of German Engineers ...
13 Feb 2025
13 Feb 2025, 13:49 91tv Team Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)- Little potential for "climate plantations" within planetary boundaries Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is being discussed as a way to remove ...
11 Nov 2024, 13:49 Julian Wettengel International COP29 91tv As the UN climate change conference COP29 gets underway, Germany is continuing its push to include countries beyond the rich industrialised economies among those to contribute ...
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 – winner of February’s snap election – ...
12 Dec 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen Die Welt Steel producers in the western German state of Saarland have been granted 2.6 billion euros in state support to transform their production procedures towards climate neutrality. Economy and ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:02 The coronavirus pandemic has stifled the possibility of staging mass protests on the streets. Young climate activists from Fridays for Future (FfF) therefore have had to devise new ways to get their message across. In the run-up to ...
20 Mar 2015
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 Clear and sunny weather, a solar eclipse and no blackout- Germany's power system has passed an important test. The eclipse was a taste of the future, as the rise in renewables will make fluctuations of this magnitude regular events ...
20 May 2025, 13:09 Edgar Meza International 91tv Germanwatch is calling for greater support for Africa’s energy transition as the continent continues to provide raw materials for Europe’s green transformation. An upcoming meeting between ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:20 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Handelsblatt The German government is concerned about the country’s oil refineries, which are facing the most serious crisis in decades caused by the rising cost of emissions, cheap fuel imports, weak demand ...
17 Sep 2015
17 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Bloomberg “Why Germany’s nuclear power exit is causing havoc for utilities” Financing the nuclear phase-out is the biggest challenge yet for Germany’s large utilities, which explains this week’s ...
25 Apr 2025, 14:00 The aspiring German coalition government under conservative leader Friedrich Merz is set to assume control at a time of unprecedented transatlantic turmoil for the EU. Amid a backlash against global climate policy led by the new US ...
16 Apr 2025, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars WirtschaftsWoche The tariff policies of US president Donald Trump are likely to lead to a massive drop in global automobile production, the CEO of German automotive industry supplier Mahle, Arnd Franz, has warned ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:50 Rachel Waldholz Finance Utilities dpa / Focus Online US investment bank Goldman Sachs says German utilities RWE and E.ON remain good investments, despite the coal exit, newswire dpa reports in an article carried by Focus Online. In an ...
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 Germany’s industrialisation possible. The ...
18 Nov 2019, 12:34 Tesla's announcement to build a "gigafactory" for e-car production in Germany is likely to speed up the slow shift to electric mobility in the country, politicians and mobility experts have said. Media called the ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Government 91tv The German government has approved its climate adaptation strategy to better prepare the country for dealing with extreme weather events, such as heat waves, droughts, heavy ...
15 Nov 2024, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Elections & Politics ARD Germany’s largest opposition group in parliament, the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, has supported the continuation of the country’s national flat-rate ticket for using local ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:38 European transmission system operators (TSOs) have recommended that Germany split its single electricity price zone into up to five bidding zones. This should maximise economic efficiency across the whole market area, ensuring security ...
25 Oct 2024, 12:58 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt Households installing smart meters could face higher costs in future, Tagesspiegel Background reported based on a draft amendment to Germany's energy industry ...
24 Oct 2023, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU Spiegel / 91tv German government coalition member and pro-business party FDP (Free Democratic Party) has criticised a proposal agreed by EU member state governments last week to make so-called ...
18 Mar 2021, 14:02 Sören Amelang Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The German Greens propose a large public investment programme to support the transition to a climate-friendly economy and a phase-out of combustion engine car sales by 2030 in their ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:05 Edgar Meza Storage Cars manager magazin US electric car manufacturer Tesla will be manufacturing battery cells along with electric vehicles at its planned German factory in Grünheide near Berlin, manager magazine reported citing ...
27 Feb 2025
27 Feb 2025, 13:14 91tv Team Bloomberg: Don't sound the death knell for Germany's green wave yet The nation’s industrial giants believe clean technology is the best bet for the future. That should be an incentive for Friedrich Merz to stay the ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:34 Edgar Meza Mobility Freight 91tv Economic experts in Germany and France are calling for the two countries to coordinate strategies in the decarbonisation of road freight transport. In a joint statement, the Franco-German ...
