New power lines are needed urgently to incorporate an increasing amount of renewable electricity in the power grid, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the 20-year anniversary of the Federal Network Agency. 鈥淚t鈥檚 obviously also a question of the ...
29 May 2018, 00:00 In a plea for global cooperation and the rule of law in international relations, German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the signatories of the Paris Climate Agreement to honour their commitment and implement the agreed emissions ...
A 鈥渄ecommissioning wave鈥� of old wind turbines, whose 20 years of guaranteed support payments are up could become an environmental problem, Niklas Zaboji writes for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淭here are hints of building law violation, authorities ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 primary energy consumption rose strongly at the start of the year, mainly due to icy temperatures, according to energy research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). The booming economy and population growth also pushed up energy use, which went up 5 ...
Chinese grid operator SGCC is again trying to obtain a 20 percent share in German transmission network operator 50Hertz, Klaus Stratmann reports for the business daily Handelsblatt. In March 2018, SGCC failed to buy a 20 percent stake in 50Hertz, when ...
17 May 2018, 00:00 Germany must ensure a "just Energiewende" by making sure the project remains affordable for all and provides high quality jobs, according to the 6 million-member trade union group DGB. The unions back 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate targets ...
Many of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 28,000-odd onshore wind turbines will soon meet the end of their guaranteed 20-year feed-in tariff lifespan, meaning that the country can expect 鈥渁 decommissioning wave鈥� in the sector, Hinrich Neumann writes for Top Agrar. The Institute ...
German utility EnBW has increased its profits by one third in the first quarter 2018 compared to the same period last year, the company said in a press release. EnBW made 687 million euros in profits between January and March, with all business segments ...
The energy consumption level of buildings in Germany was stagnant between 2010 and 2016, a report prepared by the German Energy Agency (dena) reveals. The trend of improving energy efficiency, which saw energy consumption drop by 20 percent between 2002 ...
Manufacturing the materials used to build an average single family house in Germany consumes about the same amount of energy as heating an average four-person household for 20 years, Nicole Weinhold writes in renewable energy magazine Erneuerbare Energien ...
27 Apr 2018, 00:00 The Energiewende is an indispensable project even if future economic returns remain uncertain, according to Christoph M. Schmidt, president of the RWI- Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, and chair of the German Council of Economic ...
02 May 2018, 00:00 Josef Kallo, director of the Institute for Energy Conversion and Storage at Ulm University and coordinator of the Research Group Energy Systems Integration at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), says electric flight is not just a distant ...
Three studies highlight the additional need for skilled labour to implement the energy transition in the German buildings sector. The Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) has published a policy paper highlighting the need for an additional 100,000 ...
German container shipping firm Hapag-Lloyd plans to reduce its CO鈧� emissions by 20 percent by 2020 compared with 2016 levels. Its aim is to help support a drive to halve emissions in the global shipping industry, reports Reuters. 鈥淲e have deliberately set ...
23 Apr 2018, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, has indicated support for a national price on carbon emissions. The Social Democrat said in an interview the idea that Germany improves its emissions reduction by putting a price tag ...
18 Apr 2018, 00:00 German ministers and European Commissioners will be among those explaining why an energy transition is a good idea for the world, at the fourth Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue on 17-18 April 2018. The 91tv will give a ...
The country鈥檚 lignite phase out needs another 20 years to avoid a 鈥渉arsh structural break鈥� for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal regions 鈥� like it happened at the time of German reunification, Saxony鈥檚 state premier Michael Kretschmer told Leipziger Volkszeitung in an ...
10 Apr 2018, 00:00 The current legislative period has to be used to significantly advance the mobility transition in Germany, ensuring that the country remains a technology leader, said economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier at a mobility conference ...
German consumers overwhelmingly support an open and competitive electricity market, while many blame the country鈥檚 green energy levy and additional taxes for rising electricity costs, Kathrin Witsch writes in Handelsblatt, citing a survey conducted by ...
Germany's energy storage industry now provides more than half the number of jobs of the country's lignite industry, Jason Deign reports in Greentech Media. The energy storage industry employed around 11,130 workers in 2017, according to an ...
Renewable energy technologies hold significant potential in decarbonising industrial heating and cooling processes, writes the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) in a press release, based on a short study compiled by the Hamburg Institute. 鈥淎s more ...
The German government says the EU should devote at least 20 percent of its budget to climate-friendly projects and programmes, Rheinische Post reports. 鈥淭he government supports the propositions of the EU鈥檚 Green Growth Group,鈥� which called for one fifth ...
A new company founded by Munich鈥檚 public utilities plans to buy small and old wind farms no longer eligible for support under the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), the company, Hanse Windkraft, says in a press release. The company plans to repower wind farms ...
Rapid greenhouse-gas emissions reductions are needed to keep in check both the costs of the transition towards climate stabilisation and the amount of CO2 that will have to be removed from the atmosphere, write researchers from the Potsdam Institute for ...
Foreign minister Heiko Maas said that Germany would be dedicated to dealing with climate change-related conflict risks should the country be elected as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2019/2020, reports the AFP news ...
Only about 20 percent of organic household waste in Germany is used to produce biogas for heating and power generation, writes Ralph Diermann in an article for the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Investment needs and operating costs for the required facilities are ...
Belgian transmission system operator Elia will exercise its pre-emptive right to buy a 20 percent stake in German power transmission grid operator 50Hertz for 976.5 million euros, beating the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), reports Reuters. The ...
German car manufacturer Volkswagen said it plans to buy battery cells and related technology worth around 20 billion euros for electric-vehicle projects in Europe and China, news agency Reuters reports. A supplier decision for North America will be taken ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 to 95 percent by 2050 means the remaining 5-20 percent are being 鈥渓eft undiscussed鈥�,聽 Oliver Geden, head of the EU division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), ...
In 2016, private households in Germany used 665 billion kilowatt hours of energy for housing purposes, a 1.4 percent increase on 2015, writes the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) in a press release. The figures are temperature adjusted and do ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided to cut feed-in tariffs again for onshore wind parks not awarded in auctions by 2.4 percent from 1 July 2018, the agency announced in a press release. It is the fourth time in a row the agency has decided to ...
27 Feb 2018, 00:00 German cities may ban diesel cars from polluted areas following a landmark court ruling. In a major blow to German carmakers still heavily relying on diesel car sales, and a victory for environmentalists, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 top courts ...
22 Feb 2018, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Administrative Court has postponed to next week a highly anticipated decision on whether polluted cities can ban diesel cars to improve air quality. S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport Cars The Federal ...
Sea level rise is a major consequence of climate change that will continue long after emissions of greenhouse gases have stopped, and today鈥檚 mitigation action is important to limit long-term risks, according to a study conducted by the Potsdam Institute ...
The provision in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition agreement that the country will source 65 percent of its power consumption from renewables by 2030 is likely to make power prices 鈥渕ore volatile and lower鈥� than previously thought, Aurora Energy Research says in an ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition can only become a success if the country does not neglect efficiency, the second important pillar of the Energiewende besides renewables expansion, said acting German Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries at the annual kick-off ...
15 Feb 2018, 00:00 In a bid to avoid EU fines for bad air quality, the German government has proposed to make public transport free of charge in polluted cities. But contradicting many press reports, the government clarified it had no plans for a blanket ...
Germany will need the well-directed use of power-based synthetic fuels in connection with a phase-out of oil and natural gas to reach its long-term climate targets, the think tanks Agora Energiewende and Agora Verkehrswende* write in a joint analysis. ...
Chinese grid company SGCC鈥檚 plan to acquire 20 percent share in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operator 50Hertz worries German politicians and could refuel the debate on establishing a state-run transmission grid company, reports the Handelsblatt. It was a ...
The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) is reaching out for a 20 percent share in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operator 50Hertz in a bid to gain valuable insights into a business area in which China strives for a leading global role, Thomas Sigmund and ...
08 Feb 2018, 00:00 In their coalition treaty, negotiators from Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) have agreed to set up a special commission charged with managing the phase-out of coal-fired power generation in ...
Germany could flunk yet another climate target if it doesn鈥檛 increase energy efficiency, Susanne Ehlerding writes for Tagesspiegel Background. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 efficiency target 鈥� like the EU鈥檚 鈥� is to reduce primary energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020 ...
In 2017, at least 5.4 billion euros were spent by the German government from the federal budget on the country鈥檚 energy transition, up about 20 percent from the previous year, writes the German Taxpayers Federation in a study. Four billion euros were ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Barbara Hendricks has asked the EU Commission for more time to implement binding legislation for ensuring better air quality in inner cities, Zeit Online reports. At a meeting in Brussels, Hendricks said Germany would ...
An increase in transport sector emissions drove up 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 total greenhouse gas emissions for the second time in a row in 2016, according to the the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). At 909.4 million tonnes of CO 2 equivalent, emissions were 2.6 million ...
Private German consumers pay the highest power prices in Europe, strom-report.de reports, alongside Denmark 鈥� formerly the country with the highest consumer electricity bills. With an average price of 30.5 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), Germans pay about ...
Natural gas will become the most-used fossil fuel in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity supply within two decades, RWE boss Rolf Schmitz said at an energy industry conference held by business newspaper Handelsblatt in Berlin. Natural gas plants will be the only ...
The Green parliamentary group in the German Bundestag (parliament) has introduced a motion calling on the government to give 鈥渢op priority鈥� to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, initiating a debate in the plenary. ...
Southern German company Heindl Energy proposes to overcome one of the energy transition鈥檚 central challenges 鈥� how to store renewable electricity on a large scale 鈥� with a pumped hydro system that does not require mountains, reports Ralph Diermann for ...
Unveiling its Climate Strategy 2.0, the German Farmers鈥� Association (DBV) said climate change posed an enormous challenge for German farmers. 鈥淟ike no other economic sector, agriculture and forestry are directly affected, as extreme weather events in the ...
08 Jan 2018, 00:00 The negotiation partners in Germany's ongoing coalition talks have agreed to postpone the country's 2020 emissions reduction target until "the early 2020s". Party negotiators also agreed on introducing a climate ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government must ramp up expansion targets for wind power to meet the country鈥檚 climate targets and secure stable conditions for the industry, trade union IG Metall K眉ste says in a press release. IG Metall called on state premiers, ...
04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
22 Dec 2017, 00:00 After a year filled with events that put 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate policy in the limelight, such as the G20 summit in Hamburg, the COP23 in Bonn, or the debate over coal in the ill-fated 鈥楯amaica coalition鈥� talks, the country鈥檚 political life ...
21 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
The turnover of enterprises with 20 or more persons employed in the energy, water, and waste management industries amounted to 510.1 billion euros in 2016, a decrease of 9.8 percent compared with 2015, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said in a ...
In 2018, a total of 1,908 German businesses at 2,421 locations will be largely exempt from having to pay the country鈥檚 renewables levy (EEG surcharge) on electricity, writes the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (Bafa), which is in ...
19 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
German policymakers could agree to a European carbon floor price of 20 euros per tonne, Patrick Pouyanne, CEO of French oil company Total, has said according to Reuters. Back in September, French President Emmanuel Macron suggested a minimum CO 2 price of ...
Germany passed on the presidency of the Group of Twenty major economies to Argentina on 1 December, the federal government said in a press release. Government spokesperson Steffen Seibert said the G20 had delivered important results in 2017, demonstrating ...
Representatives of the G20 nations are meeting in Berlin today to talk about resource efficiency. The resource dialogue came out of the G20 summit in Hamburg last summer and aims to find ways of using resources such as water and land more sustainably. ...
Installing solar and pv power plants on cropland only has a minor effect on the crop yield, Daniel Seeger writes in pv magazine. A trial with so-called agro-pv installations showed that the solar power installations reduced the yield by between 5 and 20 ...
Instead of phasing out the 20 dirtiest coal power plants, the German government should buy and retire EU emissions allowances, writes Friedrich Breyer, professor for economy and social policy at the University of Konstanz in an op-ed in the S眉ddeutsche ...
30 Nov 2017, 00:00 During its G20 presidency this year, Germany made the issue of climate change and energy transition a central topic- and its G20 presidency successor Argentina is ready to carry it forward to the 2018 summit in Buenos Aires, according ...
24 Nov 2017, 00:00 For the first time in its post-war history, Germany struggles to form a stable government coalition two months after voters cast their ballot in September's elections. The so-called Jamaica coalition talks' collapse plunges ...
20 Nov 2017, 00:00 After almost five weeks of deliberations, the pro-business Free Democratic Party has pulled the plug on Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 efforts to form a coalition government made up of her conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the Greens and the ...
20 Nov 2017, 00:00 After almost five weeks of deliberations, the pro-business Free Democratic Party has pulled the plug on Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 efforts to form a coalition government made up of her conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the Greens and the ...
Germany can still reach its 2020 emissions reduction targets if it shuts down or throttles coal plants with a capacity of at least 5 gigawatt (GW), the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) says in a press release. The UBA says that 鈥渋n the short run鈥�, coal ...
Environmental organisations have warned Chancellor Angela Merkel and her negotiating partners at the ongoing Jamaica coalition talks for a new German government of risking a 鈥渃limate policy blackout鈥�. Merkel had to make 鈥渁 clear commitment鈥� to the ...
15 Nov 2017, 00:00 The German coalition talks on climate and energy policy stumble over a dispute over the reduction of coal fired power production. Just days before exploratory talks are scheduled to finish, the Green Party and its negotiating partners ...
14 Nov 2017, 00:00 Technical negotiations at COP23 in Bonn are approaching the final stage; it's important that they will be open to amendments throughout 2018, says German negotiator / Ministers arriving in Bonn will focus on finance, loss and ...
Over 80 percent of Germans aged between 18 and 67 say the country needs to step up its efforts to reduce the transport sector鈥檚 impact on the environment, a survey conducted by the government-owned financing institution KfW suggests. Almost 90 percent of ...
13 Nov 2017, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel calls on developed nations to advance technology and make investments to combat climate change / Protesters interrupt US event on "cleaner fossil fuels" / Peruvian farmer effected by climate change ...
10 Nov 2017, 00:00 Tough talks- but not yet reason to worry / EU remains steadfast on pre-2020 action and inflexible on Adaptation Fund / "No jobs on a dead planet"- trade unions / Climate-smart agriculture / Effects of climate change in Germany ...
The joint communiqu茅 from July鈥檚 G20 summit in Hamburg was a 鈥渕ajor success鈥� for multilateralism, German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 economic advisor and G20 sherpa Lars-Henrik R枚ller said at an event on the sidelines of the UN climate conference in Bonn. ...
Reducing global emissions from transport sector is key to limiting climate change, and G20 countries are responsible for the lion鈥檚 share, according to a study by the German government's international development agency (GIZ) and transport think tank ...
09 Nov 2017, 00:00 German state secretary for environment says ETS reform shows EU can work together on climate policy / Negotiators progress on technical details of Paris rulebook / COP president Fiji was world's third most climate-impacted country ...
08 Nov 2017, 00:00 Talks in Bonn as technical as expected but also 鈥渦nexcited, friendly and positive鈥�, says German negotiator / Developing countries call for voluntary reporting / US should remain part of COPs / German taxpayers are financing the climate ...
07 Nov 2017, 00:00 As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Jamaica coalition talks are approaching a critical point, the Green Party appears to soften core climate policy demands in an attempt to achieve similar concessions from its negotiating partners. Party leaders say that ...
In October 2017, renewable energy sources contributed more to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power mix than ever before over the period of one month, Spiegel Online reports. Solar, wind, hydro, and bioenergy plants produced 44.1 percent of the country鈥檚 electricity in October ...
06 Nov 2017, 00:00 German-Turkish relations might be at a low-point in many respects but when it comes to climate politics, Germany will try to keep the country on side during the COP23 summit in Bonn. Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, ...
Germany is likely to miss several of its energy transition goals by 2020, including greenhouse gas reduction and transport sector goals, writes an expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in a short interim ...
31 Oct 2017, 00:00 Ahead of the climate summit in Bonn, Professor Mojib Latif, a leading climate scientist from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, tells the 91tv about his distrust in emission data, the unfortunate ...
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), the party foundation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU, has compiled and updated an overview of private-sector involvement in financing climate protection in the G20 countries. Find the report ...
25 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany is hosting this year鈥檚 international climate summit (COP23) in Bonn. The conference will be about establishing the trust in mutually agreed rules on climate protection, says Carsten Rolle, head of the energy and climate policy ...
Coalition talks between CDU, CSU, FDP and Green Party will be about the parties鈥� ability 鈥渢o make something constructive of the differences鈥�, said chancellery chief and Christian Democrat Peter Altmaier in an interview with German public broadcaster ARD ...
Imports of natural gas to Germany rose by 19.5 percent between January and August 2017 compared to the same period last year, the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (Bafa) says in a press release. The country imported 3,060,298 ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists that she expects talks to discuss the possibilities for a new government coalition to last several weeks before actual negotiations begin, news agency Reuters reports. The lengthy talks were down to the ...
12 Oct 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she does not give up the government鈥檚 goal to reduce CO鈧� emissions by 40 percent by 2020, which would 鈥減lay a big role鈥� in the upcoming talks to form a new government coalition. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 broad ...
Operating wind turbines in Germany will only be profitable for a small fraction of the installations once their 20-year support period via the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) has ended, consultancy Energy Brainpool says in a white paper. The first turbines in ...
11 Oct 2017, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment ministry fears high emissions from coal-fired power plants and transport will make the country miss its 2020 climate targets by a wider margin than previously anticipated. The ministry鈥檚 warning adds further ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her conservative CDU/CSU bloc would begin exploratory talks on forming a so-called 鈥楯amaica鈥� coalition on 18 October, reports Reuters. That day, the CDU/CSU would hold separate talks with the Free Democrats (FDP) and ...
This year鈥檚 projected slight decrease in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables levy (EEG surcharge) is not a turning point in the country鈥檚 energy transition, writes Klaus Stratmann in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. Support payments for existing wind and solar power ...
09 Oct 2017, 00:00 As Germany digests the result of this year鈥檚 federal election, the country prepares for yet another important vote, this time in the state of Lower Saxony. The early election in the country鈥檚 number one wind power state is seen as vital ...
09 Oct 2017, 00:00 Leading Green politicians in Germany are optimistic an agreement to improve the country鈥檚 patchy climate record is possible in likely coalition talks with Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservatives and the free-market FDP. Despite major ideological ...
Germany is still likely to miss key Energiewende goals, including its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target, even as household power prices continue to rise, according to McKinsey鈥檚 bi-annual Energiewende-Index report. At 30.8 cents per kilowatt hour (ct ...
Thanks to unexpectedly strong demand, new budget e-car maker e.GO has expanded its production plans, reports public broadcaster WDR. The company aims to make up to 100,000 electric vehicles per year, considerably scaling up original plans for 20,000 cars. ...
Germany is a world leader on energy efficiency, according to IEA executive director Fatih Birol. Speaking at the presentation of the IEA鈥檚 Energy Efficiency report 2017 in Berlin, Birol said that聽鈥渆very German citizen had 580 dollars more to spend on ...
The German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) is demanding a complete coal phase-out in Germany within the next two decades. The expert panel of seven university professors has published a statement saying that the upcoming legislative period will ...
14 Mar 2018, 00:00 The 2017 September election results have led to unprecedented difficulties in forming a new government in Germany. After the longest government building process in modern Germany, Angela Merkel was re-elected as chancellor of a renewed ...
To mark the end of hard coal mining in Germany, players from rival football clubs Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04 and other clubs in the western German Ruhr coal mining area will team up for a friendly match against the Polish national team in 2018, ...
28 Sep 2017, 00:00 A 鈥楯amaica鈥� coalition between the CDU/CSU, the FDP and the Greens is currently the only realistic scenario for a stable government in Germany, and all parties must compromise to prevent 鈥渄readful鈥� new elections, says long-time Merkel ...
A large new battery capable of storing 20 megawatt hours of its integrated wind power turbine has started operating on the premises of the Fraunhofer ICT research institute near Karlsruhe, the Heilbronner Stimme reports. The so-called redox-flow-battery, ...
Parliamentary elections held Sunday resulted in a major setback for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 two largest parties, the conservative union of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 CDU/CSU as well as the Social Democrats (SPD), German media say after both parties suffered heavy ...
24 Sep 2017, 00:00 Despite heavy losses in Germany's parliamentary elections, Angela Merkel is poised to stay chancellor for another four years. The voters鈥� decision sets her conservative CDU/CSU party alliance on course for coalition talks with the ...
26 Sep 2017, 00:00 Germans have handed Chancellor Angela Merkel a fourth term in the country鈥檚 federal election. Most likely, Merkel will have to start talks with the Free Democrats (FDP) and the Green Party to form a so-called "Jamaica coalition, ...
While the current government coalition has largely shielded the coal industry, any coalition involving The Greens would at least start the process of phasing out coal as a power source, according to an election overview by energy news provider S&P ...
Ending diesel tax benefits in the EU would significantly help decrease CO鈧� and nitrogen oxide emissions in road transport, because diesel vehicle users are very price sensitive, the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) ...
18 Sep 2017, 00:00 With Germans about to cast their votes in the federal election, Chancellor Angela Merkel is virtually certain to retain power. But the make-up of the next coalition will be key to how the new government tackles a host of energy and ...
Wind power operators might have manipulated the output of their installations for many years in order to receive a higher guaranteed remuneration via the renewables surcharge paid by power customers, Jakob Schlandt writes in Hamburger Abendblatt. Germany ...
15 Sep 2017, 00:00 German voters head to the polls on 24 September to decide the make-up of the federal parliament. The next step, however 鈥� forming a government 鈥� could take weeks, if not months. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 party landscape has become more fragmented, ...
The Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) has published a fact check answering frequently asked questions on electro-mobility. Questions include 鈥楧o e-vehicles have a positive carbon footprint over the course of their life span, compared to ...
Volkswagen plans to invest more than 20 billion euros in zero-emission vehicles by 2030, Reuters reports. The carmaker said on Monday it would roll out 80 new electric cars by 2025, up from a previous goal of 30, with plans to offer electric versions of ...
A group of trade unionists, regional economics and energy ministers and industry leaders has called for Germany to increase its offshore capacity to at least 20 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, and at least 30 GW by 2035, Craig Richard reports for Windpower ...
There鈥檚 a big discrepancy between Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 call for other countries to decarbonise their economies and the grand coalition鈥檚 climate policy at home, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in an opinion piece for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Merkel was able ...
Hurricanes such as Irma and Harvey are a 鈥渨ake-up call for resolute climate policy鈥� and it is alarming that climate is playing no role in the current German federal election campaign, writes environmental and development NGO Germanwatch in a press release ...
08 Sep 2017, 00:00 As the current legislative period draws to a close, The 91tv asked key stakeholders to review the last four years of German energy and climate policy 鈥� and tell us what they would like to see from the next government. ...
07 Sep 2017, 00:00 Germany must urgently step up its CO2 reduction efforts immediately after the upcoming elections if it wants to prevent a spectacular miss of its 2020 climate targets, according to think tank Agora Energiewende. Instead of reducing ...
German sales of petroleum products have gone up 3.5 percent to 55.8 million tonnes in the first half of 2017, the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (Bafa) has said in a press release. Compared to the same period last year, German diesel sales ...
More than 40 percent of work council representatives in the German wind power sector expect market conditions to deteriorate, trade union IG Metall Coast says in a press release. In a survey of wind power companies, around a quarter of respondents said ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to 鈥渆xamine all other options鈥� before making a final decision on hardware retrofitting for diesel cars, she said in an interview with tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淚f I put another 1,000 to 2,000 euros per car into old ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 current cheapest electric car, the e.GO Life, comes from the small, new manufacturer e.GO Mobile and has the potential to become a bestseller, Focus Online reports. 鈥淲e aim for a production of 20,000 cars by 2019,鈥� says CEO G眉nter Schuh, who is ...
In light of the current debate surrounding diesel, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is an interesting alternative to conventional car fuels, writes Michael Specht in an article for Spiegel Online. Cars powered by LPG emit less nitrogen oxides than either ...
Fifty percent of Germans would not consider buying an electric car in the coming years, according to a representative survey by Institut f眉r Demoskopie Allensbach, commissioned by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Only 30 percent of respondents said ...
Germany did 鈥渁 fantastic job鈥� working for climate protection at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, said former US Vice President Al Gore in an interview with German public broadcaster ARD. 鈥淚 admire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leadership,鈥� said Gore. 鈥淐hancellor [Angela] ...
Coal-fired power generation 鈥渓ooks set to remain the backbone鈥� of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy supply, writes Vera Eckert for Reuters. This contrasts with Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 international ambition as climate protection role model, she adds. Read the article ...
It is 鈥渟urprising鈥� that major German banks did so little to finance renewable energy internationally while the country was a driver of the global energy transition, Dirk Messner, Director of the German Development Institute (DIE) told Christian Schaudwet ...
08 Aug 2017, 00:00 Since 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende shifted into gear in the early 2000s, the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors have created over a million jobs, many of them in technical branches, such as renewable energy production, power ...
02 Aug 2017
02 Aug 2017, 00:00 German carmakers have pledged to update the software in some 5 million diesel cars to lower emissions at the so-called "diesel summit", where leaders of the industry met with federal ministers and heads of federal states. ...
The G20 summits will continue to play an important role for climate protection, because 鈥渨ithout the pressure on the political level, implementing and monitoring climate targets would hardly be possible in some countries鈥�, write Susanne Dr枚ge and Felix ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind industry calls on the next federal government to increase the expansion corridors for offshore wind to at least 20 gigawatt (GW) by 2030 (at the moment: 15 GW), and to 30 GW by 2035, according to a joint press release issued by ...
Until now, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has not been the driving force behind climate protection, and if the party continues to govern with the Social Democrats (SPD) after this year鈥檚 election, a rapid coal exit would be a real surprise, Birgit ...
This year鈥檚 G20 summit was not a major step forward in solving the climate problem, yet it did not result in a major clash with US President Donald Trump either, Brigitte Knopf writes in the T20 blog, an initiative led by the German Development Institute ...
The governments of France and Germany have vowed to make cross-sectoral climate protection covering all areas 鈥渁 priority鈥� of their bilateral activities. In a joint statement by the Franco-German council of ministers, the countries鈥� leaderships said they ...
After the G20 summit in Hamburg, the governments of France and Germany should use the joint Ministerial Council meeting in Paris to establish the two countries as the 鈥� energy transition motor of the European Union 鈥�, writes Andreas Kuhlmann, chief ...
A pilot project by energy provider EWE for solar panels on the balconies of tenant flats has shown that residents use the vast majority of the generated electricity for private use instead of selling it on the market, Michael Fuhs writes in pv magazine. ...
13 Jul 2017, 00:00 Germany should implement a national tax on carbon emissions in order to meet its own emission reduction targets in the an efficient and straight forward way, the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) proposed based on a study by ...
Climate risks have to be included in company reports, writes Peter Wolff, head of department World Economy and Development Financing at the German Development Institute (DIE), in a guest article in Frankfurter Rundschau. The move was demanded by ...
The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) will present a proposal to put a tax on the use of fossil fuels in power generation, which would complement the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. A study by consultancy ...
The fact that climate protection has been one of the most discussed topics at the G20 summit in Hamburg is 鈥渙ne of the paradoxical achievements of Donald Trump鈥�, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in an opinion piece for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淎las, the climate ...
The G20 summit鈥檚 G19 outcome on climate is 鈥渜uite acceptable鈥� as Donald Trump was unlikely to change his mind on pulling out of the Paris Agreement, writes Christoph Seidler for Spiegel Online. Little has therefore changed as the countries鈥� commitments ...
A standstill can still be considered a success during Donald Trump鈥檚 time as US president, write Malte Kreutzfeld and Ingo Arzt in an article for tageszeitung (taz). The G20, which isolated Trump on climate, did not bring progress to global climate ...
G20 members commend private commitment to climate risk reporting but do not universally recommend it in the climate and energy action plan, which was annexed to the G20 Hamburg summit leaders鈥� communiqu茅, writes Dagmar Dehmer for Tagesspiegel Background. ...
鈥淐limate change and the challenge of defending multilateralism in an era of Trumpian protectionism has finally given Germany a global leadership role,鈥� writes Jennifer Tollmann in a blog article for E3G. US president Donald Trump鈥檚 rejection of the ...
It is 鈥渞emarkable鈥� that the G20 summit in Hamburg did not end up in scandal given that US President Donald Trump came across like a 鈥済rizzly bear among a mountaineering rope team鈥�, writes Stefan Ulrich in an opinion piece for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淎bove ...
08 Jul 2017, 00:00 The German presidency and chancellor Angela Merkel pulled off a 鈥渟olid鈥� diplomatic success on climate policy by closing the ranks of all G20 members except the United States at the summit in Hamburg, experts for climate diplomacy said. ...
08 Jul 2017, 00:00 Nineteen members of the G20 group of leading industrialised and emerging economies underscored their commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, leaving the United States isolated. The US also was the only country to opt-out of a first ...
11 Jul 2017, 00:00 The G20 group of the leading industrialised and emerging economies has agreed on a statement that shows the commitment of 19 of them to implement the Paris agreement on climate protection, including a first-ever plan for action on ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel might enjoy global respect as 鈥渓eader of the free world鈥� but her current standing also warranted 鈥渁 more nuanced assessment鈥� of what her country 鈥渉as done and can do鈥�, Michael Br枚ning writes in an opinion piece for Politico ...
The significant increase of investments into renewables in G20 countries is insufficient to meet the Paris Climate Agreement鈥檚 pledge to keep global warming well below two degrees Celsius, Klaus Stratmann and Silke Kersting write in Handelsblatt Global. ...
For Germans, climate change topped the list of the most pressing global issues for G20 to fix, a poll by public broadcaster ZDF showed. Thirty-three percent put solutions to climate change at the top of the list, 29 percent said the migrant crisis was the ...
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to miss the G20 leaders鈥� discussion on climate and energy as they have scheduled their first personal meeting during the working session, German news聽 website Spiegel Online ...
The topic of climate change should be 鈥渢reated with utmost intensity and seriousness鈥� at the Hamburg Summit, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said at a press conference before official talks began. Juncker said he was 鈥渢hankful鈥� that ...
For Germans, climate change topped the list of the most pressing global issues for G20 to fix, a poll by public broadcaster ZDF showed. Thirty-three percent put solutions to climate change at the top of the list, 29 percent said the migrant crisis was the ...
The G20 leaders must show readiness for compromise at the Hamburg summit, 鈥渨ithout bending their own positions too much鈥�, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her opening remarks to leaders of the world鈥檚 largest economies, ahead of the first ...
The T20 group of international think tanks are hoping for 鈥淕17, G18, G19鈥� solution on the disputed issue of climate protection, where 鈥渨e know that some of us are moving in the wrong direction鈥�, but the rest grew closer together in their push forward, ...
The BRICS group of powerful emerging economies add pressure on US President Donald Trump by urging an implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement at the G20 summit in Germany, news agency Reuters reports. In a joint communiqu茅 issued by the Russian ...
The wording on climate policies in the final G20 communiqu茅 was still not decided, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters at a press conference after leaders met to discuss the issue. The 鈥渓arge majority鈥� of G20 members expressed their commitment ...
The G20 group of leading industrialised and emerging countries have agreed on a joint communique at the summit in Hamburg, though leaders had still to iron out one last 鈥渨rinkle鈥� in the climate section, news agency Reuters reported, citing an EU official. ...
Climate and Energy have been the most debated G20 topics discussed on social media on the first day of this year鈥檚 summit in Hamburg according to data provided by the Press and Information Office of the German Government. The office counted 16,881 posts ...
German finance minister Wolfgang Sch盲uble cited the fact that the large majority of G20 countries showed clear commitment to the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement in the Hamburg summit talks as proof that the summit was a success. In an ...
The United States鈥� insistence to include a reference to fossil fuels in the section on climate policy in the G20 communiqu茅 remains the final sticking point to finish the document, news agency Reuters reported. Sources close to the process confirmed to ...
The final communiqu茅 of the G20 group of leading industrialised and emerging countries clearly reflects the dissent between the United States and the other 19 members on climate protection, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a press conference after ...
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to miss the G20 leaders鈥� discussion on climate and energy as they have scheduled their first personal meeting during the working session, German news聽 website Spiegel Online ...
06 Jul 2017, 00:00 With the US pulling out of the Paris Agreement, China and Germany are making a very public display of leadership on climate protection and transition to green energy. The export heavyweights are eager to keep the global economy on track ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her chief task during 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 G20 presidency is to 鈥渨ork on options for an agreement and not contribute to speechlessness". In an interview with weekly newspaper Die Zeit ahead of this year鈥檚 G20 summit in ...
A draft of conclusions to the G20 summit in Hamburg contains a compromise on climate protection between the US and other member states, news agency Reuters reports. The document, dated 3 July, acknowledged Washington鈥檚 鈥渋solation in opposing the Paris ...
The US negotiating team is 鈥渨orking hard to water down鈥� climate texts for the upcoming G20 summit at the preceding negotiations,聽said International Executive Director at Greenpeace Jennifer Morgan at the Global Solidarity Summit in Hamburg. It is ...
A study by the influential Pew Research Center has found that confidence by citizens around the world in the leadership skills of German Chancellor Angela Merkel decisively outweighs that in US President Donald Trump. While 42 percent of respondents in 37 ...
G20 governments put four times more money into fossil energy generation than into renewables- despite their official commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement鈥檚 aims, NGOs including WWF, Urgewald and Friends of the Earth say in a press release. In a ...
International efforts in the framework of the G20 to limit the effects of climate change will have to rely on wind power as a pillar of low-carbon energy generation, the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) says in a press release. 鈥淎uctions for wind and ...
05 Jul 2017, 00:00 The pressure on Germany to take global leadership on climate action has been constantly mounting since US President Donald Trump decided to take the United States out of the Paris climate agreement. Ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg ...
The G20 should boost the innovative strength of industry and accelerate technology development, so that it can 鈥渕ake its maximum contribution to climate protection,鈥� writes Kurt Bock, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors and CEO of BASF, and ...
An international group of 45 private foundations and philanthropic organisations has called on the G20 to make the implementation of the UN agreements on climate protection and sustainability their core responsibility. 鈥淚f necessary, this must be enforced ...
Germany no longer is among the countries most engaged in advancing climate protection, Werner R盲tz, co-founder of global justice group Attac Germany says in an interview with Frankfurter Rundschau. This year鈥檚 G20 host is advancing its energy transition ...
The G20 meeting in Hamburg is meant to address some of the most pressing global problems but many of the heads of state present at this year鈥檚 summit have a very poor record of defending human rights in their own countries, Christian Grefe writes in a ...
The city of Hamburg, host of this week鈥檚 G20 summit, has joined the international network Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, according to a press release. 鈥淐ities and communities are key to reaching international climate targets. Especially after ...
The Hamburg summit must send out the clear signal that the 鈥渙verwhelming majority鈥� will now implement the Paris Climate Agreement 鈥� with or without the US, says environmental NGO Germanwatch in a press release. 鈥淭he G20 has a special responsibility for ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have vowed to work together closely at the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg to further shared goals and overcome diplomatic difficulties with third countries. During a visit in Berlin, Xi said ...
The G20 is in principle 鈥渁n acceptable format鈥� to find solutions for big global challenges, but the Hamburg summit 鈥渕ust deliver results鈥� given the costs associated with hosting the event, said Sweelin Heuss, managing director at Greenpeace Germany, at a ...
04 Jul 2017, 00:00 At the Hamburg summit, the G20 leaders must go beyond mere lip services and present concrete proposals on how they will implement the Paris Climate Agreement, Christoph Bals, policy director of environmental NGO Germanwatch, tells Clean ...
G20 member states are beginning to decarbonise their economies, but the required investment in fossil fuels remains so high that the 鈥渨ell below 2掳Celsius鈥� global warming reduction target will be 鈥渕issed by a wide margin鈥�, according to the Brown to Green ...
Due to its inner unity, reliability and common interests like free trade and climate protection, China has become the most important G20 ally for Germany, besides other EU states, writes Finn Mayer-Kuckuk for Frankfurter Rundschau. Major topics of dispute ...
The lack of a consensus at the G20 could become actually a success for the German presidency, if it succeeded in building alliances for individual topics, in essence breaking with the forum鈥檚 convention of consensus-based decision-making, Dennis Snower, ...
In a telephone call, US President Donald Trump told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that he wants to help her make the G20 summit in Hamburg this week a success, according to the White House, reports S眉ddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). Before the phone call, Merkel ...
G20 member states are beginning to decarbonise their economies, but the required investment in fossil fuels remains so high that the 鈥渨ell below 2掳Celsius鈥� global warming reduction target will be 鈥渕issed by a wide margin鈥�, according to the Brown to Green ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the upcoming G20 meeting in Hamburg will focus not only on the economic growth, but also on sustainable growth, Reuters writes, quoting a podcast of the Federal Press Office. "We've got to have a 'win ...
30 Jun 2017, 00:00 One week ahead of the Hamburg G20 summit, the ambitious climate and energy action plan the German presidency was pushing hangs in the balance. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she is determined to make the meeting a success on ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chief climate diplomat Karsten Sach has stressed the need for China and Germany to show joint 鈥減ragmatic鈥� leadership in climate protection in light of new disorder in international climate diplomacy following the decision of US President Donald ...
Social Democratic (SPD) head of the federal parliamentary group Thomas Oppermann called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to forge a 鈥�19:1 alliance鈥� against US President Donald Trump on climate policy, reports news agency dpa. In a speech in the German ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel may not want to be US President Donald Trump鈥檚 opponent, but she is, writes Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淭his could pay off in terms of domestic politics,鈥� as other ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel tries to be factual and content-focussed in her clear criticism of US President Donald Trump鈥檚 policies but she is unlikely to be successful in light of the 鈥渃acophony of interests鈥� at the G20 summit, writes Stefan ...
The United States鈥� delegation successfully pushed for significant changes to the G20 climate and energy action plan draft during working group negotiations, reports Arthur Neslen for Climate Home. The latest draft of the plan, which was initiated by the ...
G20 states鈥� annual investments in renewable energies must almost double compared to 2015 levels to carry out measures needed to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, according to the Allianz Climate and Energy Monitor 2017 by Allianz Climate ...
Climate policy should be integrated with the G20 finance ministers鈥� agenda in order to stay below the 2 degrees Celsius guardrail set in the Paris Agreement, a team of authors including Ottmar Edenhofer, director of Mercator Research Institute on Global ...
US President Donald Trump鈥檚 decision to take the country out of the international Paris agreement on climate has harmed global trust and will also hurt the US economy, German environment minister Barbara Hendricks told company leaders at a conference on ...
01 Jul 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel can still hope to achieve substantial progress in climate protection as she enters difficult talks with the leaders of the world鈥檚 largest economies at this week鈥檚 G20 summit in Hamburg, John J. Kirton ...
29 Jun 2017, 00:00 European Union leaders have underscored their commitment to work towards a joint solution on climate issues at the G20 summit in Hamburg. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would not be easy regarding questions such as climate ...
Solar modules provided about one-third of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power in June but fell short of reaching record output volumes despite seemingly perfect weather conditions, Ralph Diermann writes on Spiegel Online. The country鈥檚 1.6 million PV modules produced 30.6 ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is determined to lead the climate negotiations at the G20 summit in Hamburg 鈥渋n a way that they serve the content and goal of the Paris Agreement鈥�, she said in a government declaration before the federal parliament. After ...
27 Jun 2017
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Barbara Hendricks has shunned calls for making a clear commitment to initialising the country鈥檚 exit from coal-fired power production. At a press conference by government members of her Social Democratic Party (SPD), ...
Sustainability criteria, such as climate protection, are becoming more and more important for major companies, and new developments in data transparency increase the pressure on them to act accordingly, Jan Willmroth writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Former ...
The chief of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 chancellery, Peter Altmaier, has said that while Germany is intent on meeting its 2020 emissions-reduction goals, it was not clear it would succeed. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 know if we鈥檒l make it,鈥� Altmaier said at the debate ...
23 Jun 2017, 00:00 The leading candidates of the two smaller yet influential German political parties sparred at a utilities conference in Berlin over major energy policy issues, such as the exit from coal-fired power generation and a national versus a ...
22 Jun 2017, 00:00 Germany's energy transition can only be successful if it is created by citizens themselves in a socially fair way, the Left Party writes in its election campaign programme. The Left is currently the largest opposition group in the ...
20 Jun 2017, 00:00 NGOs from all over the world have called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to fight for a strong stance on climate at the G20 summit in little more than two weeks. Merkel said the US decision to leave the Paris Climate Agreement 鈥渂roke ...
More than 300 civil society organisations call on 鈥渢he remaining 19 members of the G20 to reaffirm their unfaltering commitment鈥� to the implementation of The Paris Agreement after the US decision to leave the accord. The G20 engagement group Civil20 (C20) ...
Pope Francis has urged German Chancellor Angela Merkel to stand firm over international climate protection and protect the Paris Climate Agreement against dissenters, news agency Reuters reports. "The Pope encouraged me to continue to fight for ...
The German Green Party has strengthened its focus on ecology and economic transformation as core topics for its election campaign. Following the Green鈥檚 convention last weekend, the party published a set of amendments to its draft election campaign ...
Protesting for global climate protection efforts and against the US decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, Greenpeace Germany has projected a heart-shaped map of the world and the words 鈥淧lanet Earth first鈥� onto the Elbphilharmonie building, the ...
Canada鈥檚 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau disputed a report by German weekly Der Spiegel which claimed he proposed to strike the references to the Paris Agreement from the upcoming G20 communiqu茅 in a telephone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. 鈥淣o, ...
The United States' 鈥渟hort-sighted and irresponsible鈥� withdrawal from the Paris Agreement has prompted the G20 engagement groups to call on the remaining G19 member states to 鈥渃onvincingly show their willingness to implement the deal鈥� at the upcoming ...
With federal elections coming up in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel 鈥渘eeds some sort of win on climate change at the G20鈥�, Andrew Light, a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute (WRI) told the Washington Post. Things will 鈥済et interesting鈥� at ...
The German development ministry (BMZ) has concluded so-called reform partnerships with three African countries that include expanding the use of renewable energy sources and improving energy efficiency, the BMZ said in a press release. Tunisia, Ivory ...
Japan and Great Britain did not sign a joint statement with France, Germany and Italy in reaction to the US decision to leave the Paris Agreement, and Canada鈥檚 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed to strike the references to the Paris Agreement from the ...
The European Union, together with China, Canada 鈥渁nd other important partners鈥� must take on a leadership role in international climate policy, after the US announced that it would pull out of the Paris Agreement, environment minister Barbara Hendricks ...
"Designing the world's future" was the topic of this year鈥檚 Youth20 Dialogue Forum in Hamburg, where young people from more than 20 countries met to discuss global issues including climate change. The forum presented recommendations to ...
It is impossible to predict the climate policy results of the G20 summit in July after the US decision to leave the Paris Agreement, said German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert in an interview with public radio broadcaster NDR 90,3. But it is ...
US President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement does not mean that the country鈥檚 climate policy was already 鈥渇ully outlined鈥�, a German government official told reporters at a press briefing in Berlin, when asked about the upcoming G20 ...
A rule of thumb in international environmental policy so far has been that it will move forward as long as the US and China agree 鈥� 鈥渂ut this rule seems to have become obsolete鈥�, Jan Heidtmann writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. At the latest G7 summit, as ...
After three years of rapid shrinking and the loss of more than 100,000 jobs, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 solar industry seems to have bottomed out, Franz Hubik writes on Handelsblatt Online. 鈥淎lthough the market has shrunk to a fifth of its original size, it now was at ...
After the US decision to leave the Paris Agreement, the German government will work on uniting all remaining G20 members in climate protection efforts in the run-up to the summit in July, said government spokesperson Steffen Seibert at a press conference ...
02 Jun 2017, 00:00 President Donald Trump has announced that he will pull the United States out of the landmark Paris Climate Agreement. The USA will be the first country to leave the seminal 2015 treaty signed by nearly 200 individual nations that agreed ...
01 Jun 2017, 00:00 According to several US media reports, the Trump administration has decided to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. The US President said on Twitter he would announce his decision on Thursday. The USA would be the first country to ...
Despite the outcome of last week鈥檚 G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, a consensual statement by all leaders 鈥渟hould be the aspiration鈥� for the G20 summit in Germany in July, said Lars-Hendrik R枚ller, Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 economic advisor and the ...
The Green Party in the Bavarian state parliament says that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest nuclear power plant Gundremmingen, operated in part by RWE, has exceeded power output limits several times over the past year and a half by up to 20 percent, writes S眉ddeutsche ...
Think20 (T20), which brings together research institutions and think tanks from the G20 countries, presented key policy recommendations for G20 policy makers at the T20 Summit in Berlin. The proposals include recommendations on climate policy, such as ...
The German Green Party has made a strengthened commitment to climate protection and energy transition a prerequisite for joining a future coalition after September鈥檚 parliamentary elections. 鈥淲e are ready for talks with any party鈥�, but there had to be a ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 criticism of the current US administration鈥檚 stance on the Paris Climate Agreement, as well as her call for greater European assertiveness, have met with broad support from German politicians and business representatives, ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 role as host of the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg will not be easy should the US administration decide to pull out of the Paris Agreement, because other countries 鈥� 鈥渢he eternal laggards鈥� 鈥� would 鈥渞elapse into old blockade ...
Environmental and development NGO Germanwatch is 鈥渞elieved鈥� that all leaders except US President Donald Trump clearly committed to the Paris Climate Agreement and there was no 鈥渨eakening or re-interpretation鈥� of the accord, the organisation writes in a ...
A strong global carbon price of 40-80 US dollars per tonne of CO鈧� by 2020 and 50-100 US dollars by 2030 could be key to reaching climate goals and keeping the global temperature rise below two degrees, according to a new report by the High-Level ...
24 May 2017, 00:00 Days before the G7 summit in Italy, foreign governments praised German Chancellor Merkel for her international leadership on climate and urged her to sway US President Donald Trump to keep the United States in the Paris Agreement. ...
The proposal for a G20 energy and climate action plan, prepared for the summit in Hamburg on 7 and 8 July, remains vague and lacks ambition- and might yet be stopped completely by the United States, the tageszeitung (taz) newspaper writes. The 13-page ...
This week's G7 summit in Italy comes 鈥渁t the right moment" to talk about the Paris Climate Agreement with the US administration, but it will be a 鈥渃ontinuous dialogue鈥� in a long process until the G20 summit in Germany in July, said a German ...
23 May 2017, 00:00 Days before the G7 summit in Italy, foreign governments praised German Chancellor Merkel for her international leadership on climate and urged her to sway US President Donald Trump to keep the United States in the Paris Agreement. " ...
23 May 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised to try and convince 鈥渄oubters鈥� of the urgent need to mitigate climate change. But environmental organisations said her credibility as 鈥淐limate Chancellor鈥� was severely damaged because Germany had ...
It is economically beneficial for G20 member states to invest in climate protection measures, according to the new report "Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth" by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), presented ...
A global emissions trading system would be the ideal instrument to fight climate change, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. 鈥淚t would be best if damaging emissions had a price world-wide. A global carbon market would be an incentive for the ...
22 May 2017, 00:00 Germany and China increased pressure on the US government to stay in the Paris Climate Agreement ahead of the G7 and G20 summits. The continuing uncertainty about the US position puts 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 aim to agree on a G20 energy and climate ...
G20 countries must promote climate protection and the implementation of the Paris Agreement, said the Federation of German Industries (BDI), Germanwatch and Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in a joint press release ...
Denmark is the only European country where customers pay more for power than in Germany, Michael H枚fling writes in weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Danes pay about 31 euros for 100 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity 鈥� one euro more than the Germans and ...
Germany and China reiterated their calls on the US administration to commit to international climate protection efforts and stay in the Paris Agreement at a climate conference in Berlin. Germany is currently trying 鈥渙n all levels鈥� to persuade the US ...
19 May 2017, 00:00 The dominance of citizens鈥� energy projects among the successful bids in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first onshore wind power auctions comes as a big surprise for industry observers. Not only did citizen cooperatives account for the bulk of accepted ...
The presidency of this November鈥檚 UN Climate Change Conference, the government of Fiji, is 鈥渧ery optimistic鈥� about the outcome of COP23, while the US administration still has not decided on its international climate policy positions. 鈥淭he rest of the ...
More than 30 foundations from eight countries have initiated the Foundations Platform (F20) 鈥渢o further shape the political discourse on future sustainability measures before, during and after the G20 summit鈥澛� on聽7-8 July聽in Hamburg. The goal is to ...
Energy experts of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grand coalition of conservatives (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) have rebuffed the Green Party鈥檚 plans for an accelerated coal exit. 鈥淲e cannot phase out both nuclear and coal-fired power production within 15 or 20 years,鈥� ...
11 May 2017, 00:00 Once the flagship of German solar energy, PV panel manufacturer SolarWorld has filed for insolvency, in what founder Frank Asbeck called a 鈥渂itter step for the German solar industry鈥�. The company blamed plummeting prices caused by ...
Partial diesel bans aimed at improving local air quality are possible in most of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 20 largest cities, according to a survey by business daily Handelsblatt. 13 cities told the paper they would consider such bans, five said they were undecided and ...
Germany's big wind-power producing state Schleswig-Holstein faces "difficult" coalition talks after the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU)- the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel- garnered a surprisingly clear election win on Sunday, ...
12 May 2017, 00:00 In what is often dubbed 鈥渢he small-scale federal election鈥�, voters in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industrial powerhouse and most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia decide on a new government on 14 May. The exit from coal-fired power generation 鈥� a ...
German environment minister Barbara Hendricks will travel to Washington from May 15-17 to meet her US counterpart, EPA head Scott Pruit, and talk about climate and environmental protection, the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) said in a press ...
05 May 2017, 00:00 Nicknamed the 鈥渃radle of the Energiewende鈥� by its own government, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein, embodies some of the most pressing challenges and solutions to the country鈥檚 energy turnaround. With their decision in ...
German postal service Deutsche Post has found the first major customer for its in-house produced electric vehicle Street Scooter, Florian Zerfass writes in weekly Bild am Sonntag (BamS). Fish wholesaler Deutsche See is buying 80 scooters for distributing ...
28 Apr 2017, 00:00 No other party has been part of a German federal government longer than the Free Democrats (FDP). They also governed together with Angela Merkel's CDU at the time of the Fukushima disaster and supported the second nuclear phase-out ...
Global business leaders including Kurt Bock, CEO of German chemical giant BASF, have called on G20 governments to up their efforts on climate protection, Cordula Tutt writes in WirtschaftsWoche. Bock, who heads the B20 Energy, Climate & Resource ...
Germany would have to discontinue coal-fired power production even without committing itself to climate protection goals, Oliver Krischer, vice-chairman of the Green Party鈥檚 parliamentary group, said during a speech on his party鈥檚 energy policy ambitions ...
The EU needs to take a leadership role in addressing fossil fuel subsidies and the G20 platform is 鈥渁n obvious way for EU leaders and ministers to showcase their efforts and actions to eliminate鈥� them, writes Maeve McLynn, finance and subsidies policy ...
If climate action and renewables growth are constrained under the new US administration, the EU must step up its efforts and join forces with China and India, according to a joint report by Allianz Climate Solutions, NewClimate Institute and Germanwatch. ...
Environmental NGO WWF Germany is calling on the G20 finance ministers to show a clear commitment to climate protection at the upcoming meeting in Washington, DC., after they聽 made no mention of the issue in the communiqu茅 that followed their last meeting. ...
Deutsche Post DHL will double production capacity for its self-developed electric van, and start Streetscooter sales to third parties due to strong demand. The logistics company said in a press release it will commission another production location to ...
German offshore wind power costs are set to fall significantly, due to industrialisation of the sector, more efficient turbine construction, the switch from feed-in tariffs to auctions, and better coordination with grid operators, Olaf Preu脽 writes for ...
The world鈥檚 largest car manufacturing supplier, Bosch, plans to create more than 20,000 jobs worldwide this year to meet the demand created by digitalisation and e-mobility, the Tagesspiegel reports. The group currently has 390,000 employees, some 250,000 ...
Strong demand for heavy sports utility vehicles (SUVs) means German carmarker Daimler has failed to reduce average emissions from its vehicle fleet for the first time since 2007, Handelsblatt Online reports. For the second year in a row, emissions stood ...
In the midst of its transition to low-carbon energy generation, Germany has re-entered the top 20 in the World Economic Forum鈥檚 (WEF) Global Energy Architecture Performance Index. The index examines the affordability, environmental sustainability, and ...
China, Germany, Denmark, Mexico and other countries plan to form an international Energy Transition Coalition this year 鈥渇or accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy future鈥�, writes International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in a press ...
Representatives of the G20 dialogue forums business (B20), civil society organisations (C20) and think tanks (T20) have together called on the Group of Twenty member countries to take the lead in implementing the Paris Climate Agreement. They demand a ...
Ill-advised legislation and an alienation of citizens from renewable investments put the success of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition in jeopardy, Hans-Josef Fell writes for EurActiv. The country continued to be internationally celebrated for its Energiewende, ...
A joint report by the International Renewable Energy Agency and the International Energy Agency, on investment needed by 2050 to transform the world鈥檚 energy supply in line with Paris Climate Agreement targets, shows competing visions of a clean energy ...
21 Mar 2017, 00:00 Over 1,000 ministers, officials, business people, energy experts and journalists from around 90 countries take part in the third Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, a two-day confernce hosted by the German Foreign Ministry. The following ...
Sweden鈥檚 Vattenfall AB and Norway鈥檚 Statkraft AS say they might close some pumped-hydro plants in Germany, while Alpiq Holding AG may sell some units in Switzerland because they are no longer as profitable as they once were, write Weixin Zha and Jesper ...
Germany aims to use a large international energy conference in Berlin to inject fresh momentum and ideas into the G20 process in the run up to the Hamburg summit in July. "We want to use our G20 presidency this year to find a common position for all ...
In contrast to their prepared text, G20 finance ministers and central bank governors included no mention of the challenges posed by climate change in the communiqu茅 after their meeting in Baden-Baden on 18 March, writes Germanwatch. 鈥淎pparently, the new ...
20 Mar 2017, 00:00 Germany aims to use a large international energy conference in Berlin to inject fresh momentum and ideas into the G20 process in the run up to the Hamburg summit in July. The Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 鈥� a two-day conference on ...
Germany will release a G20 plan on addressing climate change next week, which will outline how member states can lead by example to implement the Paris Agreement, report Joe Ryan and Brian Parkin for Bloomberg. Germany was 鈥渢aking cautious steps ...
About 220 wind turbines in the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will have to be dismantled after 2020 because they lose eligibility for guaranteed feed-in tariffs after 20 years of service, Juliane Lange writes for Ostsee-Zeitung. It ...
Energiewende country Germany will use its G20 presidency this year to push for a global price on carbon as one of many measures to achieve climate goal, reports Roger Harrabin for BBC News. 鈥淲e need to find a mechanism for a carbon price. Then it鈥檒l be ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions rose to 906 million tonnes in 2016 (from 902 million tonnes in 2015), making it unlikely that the country will reach its 2020 emission reduction target, according to preliminary data by the Federal Environment Agency ...
The German federal government proposes a partnership on resource efficiency for G20 member countries. 鈥淲e need a strong partnership of all large economic powers so that we don鈥檛 keep exceeding our planet鈥檚 limits,鈥� said federal environment minister ...
The job cuts announced by E.ON are a further example of the Energiewende鈥檚 impact on employment in the industry, according to coal mining union IG BCE. 鈥淭he conventional power industry does no longer earn enough money to pay its employees [鈥 That鈥檚 ...
China is ready to fill the void left in international climate diplomacy left by a parting USA, former World Bank vice president and current board member of the European Climate Foundation* (ECF), Caio Koch-Weser writes in a guest commentary for ...
German utilities E.ON, Uniper, RWE and innogy are affected by the competition in the renewable power market and the costs of the country鈥檚 nuclear phase-out, but hope for better conditions after the general elections in autumn, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel ...
The G7 and G20 summits provide European leaders with the opportunity to carefully 鈥減ush the Trump administration to take a stance on climate鈥�, write Sara Stefanini and Andrew Restuccia for Politico. German chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 visit to the White ...
Special national targets for climate protection are 鈥渃ounterproductive鈥� and should be abolished, writes the Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in a concept paper on the EU energy market. The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) should ...
G20 finance ministers may encourage private funding for climate change instead of government pledges, according to a draft statement for the upcoming G20 finance ministers meeting, writes Joe Ryan for Bloomberg. This was a significant shift from what ...
Inner-city driving bans for diesel cars threaten the economy, consumer interests and even the environment, writes the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) in a long, front-page article. Diesel cars emit up to 20 percent less CO鈧� than petrol cars ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy consumption- and probably the country鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions- increased slightly in 2016, says energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) in its report on energy consumption. The data confirms AGEB鈥檚 estimates from ...
The EU鈥檚 proposed emissions trading system (ETS) reform spells 20 lost years for climate protection, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in an opinion piece for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. According to the proposal, certificates would be put in a 鈥渞eserve鈥� from 2019 and ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 state secretary in the economy ministry (BMWi), Rainer Baake, finds the EU Commission鈥檚 proposals on support for renewable energy sources 鈥渋nadequate,鈥� the ministry says in a press release. In the run-up to a meeting by the Council of Ministers ...
23 Feb 2017, 00:00 Against a backdrop of general elections later this year, a debate about a general overhaul of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 much-imitated system for renewables support is gathering pace. Many proponents of replacing the current Renewable Energy Act (EEG) ...
The German government tried to bring climate and sustainable development into the mainstream of international politics at the G20 foreign affairs minister meeting in light of leadership changes in several member states, writes Irene Quaile for Deutsche ...
Foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel wants to 鈥渄emonstratively foster multilateral cooperation鈥� with the G20 foreign minister meeting in Bonn- but concrete outcomes are unlikely, writes Stefan Braun in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淢ission saving the earth鈥檚 ...
The G20 foreign ministers will have to talk about global warming at their meeting in Bonn, as climate change increasingly is a threat to world peace, writes Christoph Bals of environmental NGO Germanwatch in a guest article for Zeit Online. 鈥淭he intensity ...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) is set to test the storage of large amounts of power in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest battery, the Fraunhofer ICT says on its website. A wind turbine with a capacity of 2 megawatt will feed electricity into the ...
The German government wants to make climate change a central topic at the upcoming G20 foreign affairs minister meeting in Bonn and is ready to challenge the new US administration on the issue, report Brian Parkin and Patrick Donahue for Bloomberg, citing ...
Russia and Germany have pledged to intensify their cooperation on聽 implementing the Paris Agreement 鈥檚 climate protection targets, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) said in a press release. Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the BMUB ...
Heating systems in Germany will have to change substantially by 2030 if the country is to reach its climate targets for 2050, according to a study commissioned by energy think-tank Agora Energiewende*. While the share of natural gas used for heating will ...
G20 president Germany will press the Group to reaffirm its commitment to fighting climate change when finance ministers meet next month for the first time since the election of Donald Trump, G20 sources said, report Noah Barkin and Jan Strupczewski for ...
Challenging times lie ahead for the German onshore wind industry after strong growth in 2016, according to business associations BWE and VDMA. In the past year, capacity additions grew by around one quarter compared to 2015 to 4,625 megawatts. The number ...
House owners in Germany are not improving their properties to more energy efficient standards fast enough for the country to meet its efficiency targets, German Energy Agency Dena said in a release. 鈥淥ur figures show: An acceleration of energy efficiency ...
The German Energiewende is "no project for the distant future", but has already been successfully put into action over the past years, writes the federal government in the new brochure 鈥淭he Energiewende: our success story鈥�. The 20-page booklet 鈥� ...
The Paris Climate Agreement is unlikely to be the right way to reach the goal of limiting global warming, according to the federal economy ministry鈥檚 independent academic advisory board, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). In a ...
Germany is a reluctant global leader but persistently works on providing assistance to developing countries, not least in the energy sector, Catherine Cheney writes on international development website聽 devex.com. Effective development assistance must be ...
Deutsche Bank will no longer grant new financing for thermal coal mining or new coal-fired power plants, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest bank said in a press release. The bank will also 鈥渞educe its existing exposure to the thermal coal mining sector,鈥� it said. Deutsche ...
This year鈥檚 G20 summit in Germany will be 鈥渁 test for governments, civil society, and companies to stick to鈥� the goals of the Paris Agreement, France鈥檚 former climate change ambassador Laurence Tubiana said, Ed King writes on Climate Home. While US ...
SMA Solar, a German global player in solar converter manufacturing, generated record sales in 2016 with more than 8 gigawatt (GW) of inverter output sold (2015: 7.3 GW), according to provisional figures announced by the company in a press release. Sales ...
Carmakers鈥� claims about the pending transport revolution are overblown, writes Stefan Voswinkel in mass-tabloid Bild. Whereas the companies promise realistic e-car driving ranges of 500 kilometres, that distance shrinks dramatically under adverse ...
The G20 Sustainability Working Group under German leadership aims to develop a 鈥�G20 Climate and Energy Action Plan鈥� in the run up to the Hamburg summit in July, Eva Kracht of the German environment ministry (BMUB) said at an event by Climate Transparency ...
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) hopes to engage developing countries in mobilising green finance projects with a new investment platform, according to NAMA News. Around 25 countries involved in the 鈥渄ialogue鈥� ...
25 Jan 2017
Due to a huge switch from coal to gas power generation, EU power emissions fell 4.5 percent last year, according to an analysis by energy think tanks Sandbag and Agora Energiewende*. 鈥淵ear-on-year, coal generation across Europe fell by 12 percent, whilst ...
The head of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) has warned government against giving up gas. Ahead of an energy industry conference organised by the Handelsblatt newspaper in Berlin Tuesday, Katherina Reiche said that for climate protection, ...
The transition to a low-carbon economy cannot be brought about by subsidising clean energy sources and will unfold by itself if market forces are allowed to come into play, Helmut Stalder writes in Swiss daily Neue Z眉rcher Zeitung (NZZ). 鈥淕别谤尘补苍y ...
G20 agriculture ministers called for more sustainable use of resources in a joint declaration following the first G20 ministers meeting under the current German presidency. 鈥淚n light of the growing global population and the goals of the Agenda 2030, ...
Even though renewable power is now cheaper than conventional fossil power in many countries, it would be wrong to assume global energy and climate policy will become 鈥渁 no-brainer,鈥� Brigitte Knopf, secretary general of the Mercator Research Institute on ...
G20 countries should develop and share renewable energy innovation in water use, food and agriculture to ensure food security, according to policy recommendations by the G20 think tank network T20 Task Force Towards Ending Hunger and Sustainable ...
Nearly seven years after 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first offshore wind farm 鈥渁lpha ventus鈥� began operating in 2010, the industry is thriving, Stephanie Wehkamp writes in maritime trade journal Schiff und Hafen. There are now 15 fully operational windfarms in the North ...
17 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
16 Jan 2017, 00:00 The best way for Germany to reach its 2030 emissions target for the power sector is by shutting down old coal plants, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) suggests. This strategy is more attractive than an additional CO2 levy, according ...
13 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
The German government has published its 2016 version of the country鈥檚 sustainability strategy. 鈥淲ith the strategy, the federal government lays the groundwork for Germany to become one of the world鈥檚 most efficient and environmental-friendly economies by ...
11 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
Introducing a toll for passenger cars on German highways might yield far lower returns than the annual 500 million euros expected by transport minister Alexander Dobrindt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. A study by the NGO Green Budget ...
The G20 summit in Germany in July 2017 will provide an important opportunity for major powers to resist backsliding on global climate goals, despite uncertainties after the US election, and it could even aid progress, according to a post on ...
05 Jan 2017, 00:00 The year 2017 will be filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. In addition to presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
Germany in 2012 provided 57 billion euros in subsidies that were detrimental to the environment, of which more than 90 percent were harmful to the climate, according to a report by Federal Environment Agency (UBA). 鈥淚t鈥檚 paradoxical: Germany commits ...
The popularity of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) continues to grow in Germany. New SUV registrations rose by a quarter last year, outpacing all other vehicle classes, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). But new cars鈥� average CO 2 ...
03 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
German coal mining state Brandenburg premier Dietmar Woidke has rejected calls for an end date for the country鈥檚 use of lignite for power generation. 鈥淎 discussion on whether we will switch off brown coal in 10, 20 or 40 years would only lead to a loss of ...
The 鈥楾rump effect鈥� of right-wing populism and climate change scepticism could become an obstacle for the world's most advanced energy revolution in Germany, writes Aaron Wiener in the US magazine Mother Jones. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 broad consensus on the shift ...
23 Dec 2016, 00:00 Germany is heading into a year filled with international top-events and elections that will determine the future course of the country鈥檚 Energiewende project. The uncertainties about the new US administration and the exact details of ...
02 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
22 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
22 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
When it comes to heating, there is 鈥渆normous potential鈥� for cooperation between the housing sector and the energy industry, according to a new study commissioned by the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). The results show that ...
21 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
20 Dec 2016, 00:00 German energy-related CO鈧� emissions rose almost 1 percent in 2016, despite a fall in coal use and the ongoing expansion of renewable energy sources, according to first estimates by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen. A rise ...
20 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
16 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
15 Dec 2016, 00:00 An expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German energy transition warned the country will probably miss its 2020 emission targets and other crucial Energiewende goals, threatening the entire project鈥檚 credibility. ...
The G20 must resolutely advance and implement both the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, according to a special report by German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), an independent scientific advisory body. The nations ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 G20 presidency is 鈥渁n important opportunity for other major powers to resist backsliding鈥� on climate change, especially in view of uncertainty over the new US president Donald Trump's energy policy, writes Climate Home. The German ...
Nuclear plant operators in Germany revoked around 20 lawsuits against the state in return for government guarantees of a limited financial liability for the country鈥檚 nuclear phase-out, Stefan Schultz writes on Spiegel Online. The utilities E.ON, RWE, ...
09 Dec 2016, 00:00 Germans will elect a new federal government in autumn 2017. Security, economic stability and refugees are likely to dominate election campaigns, but keeping the Energiewende on a steady course and fulfilling 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 international ...
07 Dec 2016, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party left energy and climate policy on the sidelines at the Christian Democratic Union鈥檚 (CDU) conference in Essen. The centre-right party laid the groundwork on Tuesday for its 2017 federal election ...
The Heinrich B枚ll Foundation has launched a website to accompany the German G20 presidency. The site offers feature articles, explanatory pieces, interactive maps and factsheets on the G20 issues. 鈥淲ell-founded information are crucial for honest public ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would try to work on climate policy with US President-elect Donald Trump, who has threatened to pull out of the Paris Agreement, reports news agency Reuters. At a meeting of her party (CDU), Merkel pointed out that ...
01 Dec 2016, 00:00 Calls for Germany to take on a leadership role in international climate protection grow louder as the country鈥檚 government is set to take over the G20 presidency from China on 1 December. Commentators and politicians see the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 role in international climate protection demonstrates that the energy transition can be an economic success story, state secretary in the economy ministry (BMWi) Rainer Baake said at the presentation of the International Energy Agency鈥檚 (IEA) ...
It remains to be seen if the other member states will support Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 agenda for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 G20 presidency starting on 1 December, write Jan Hildebrand and Martin Greive in Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he Chancellor aims to rope in the G20 to ...
Uniper is the 鈥渟urprise winner of the German energy market鈥� with a nearly 20 percent rise in its share price since the company鈥檚 stock market debut, writes Helmut B眉nder in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淲ith this, the utility 鈥� ...
Auto industry unions fear the pending transport revolution puts hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk, reports Alfons Frese in Tagesspiegel. Metalworkers union IG Metall and the heads of work councils at VW, Daimler, Opel, Bosch and Continental propose to ...
If the goal is to limit global greenhouse gas emissions, it is inefficient to break this down into individual national targets, writes Christoph M. Schmidt of聽Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen) in a guest commentary in Die ...
17 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germans will elect a new federal government in autumn 2017. Security, economic stability and refugees are likely to dominate election campaigns, but keeping the Energiewende on a steady course and fulfilling 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 international ...
14 Nov 2016, 00:00 After a public consultation process of over a year and months of political wrangling, the German government agreed on a climate action plan 2050. While this roadmap to a nearly carbon-emission free economy contains detailed targets for ...
11 Nov 2016, 00:00 After months of heated debate, the German government has finally struck an agreement on its contentious Climate Action Plan 2050, due to be signed off by the cabinet over the weekend. It includes emission reduction targets for transport ...
09 Nov 2016, 00:00 Disagreements over the future of coal in Germany have blocked adoption of a long-awaited government roadmap for making the country almost greenhouse gas neutral by 2050. In a surprise move capping several days of uncertainty about the ...
New guidelines for the industry in the German government鈥檚 Climate Action Plan 2050 bear traces of a planned economy, writes Christoph Eisenring in Neue Z眉rcher Zeitung. He cites measures such as expanding the area of arable land reserved for ecological ...
The energy consumption in industry was 4,016 petajoules in 2015, a decrease of 0.7 percent compared to 2014, writes 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 statistics agency Destatis in a press release. 鈥淎s in the previous years, the main energy sources in industry were natural gas ...
The federal economy ministry plans to introduce a common transmission grid fee across Germany, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Grid fees currently differ depending on the region and are higher where the development of renewables ...
02 Nov 2016, 00:00 German power consumers will have to shoulder grid fee rebates for energy-intensive industry in excess of 1 billion euros next year, sparking renewed calls for reform of the system to pay for keeping the grid stable as renewable power ...
According to grid operators, German power consumers will have to shoulder grid fee rebates for energy-intensive industry in excess of 1 billion euros next year, sparking renewed calls for reform of the system to pay for keeping the grid stable as ...
Supporters of solar power are seeking to head off a proposed legal constraint on small modules that can be easily plugged into wall sockets, writes Bernward Janzing in taz. The German section of the International Solar Energy Society (DGS) wants to see a ...
10 Oct 2016, 00:00 German federal states want to ensure that the sale of new diesel and petrol cars in the European Union ends by 2030, in order to protect the climate. The surprising cross-party initiative in the upper house of parliament (Bundesrat), ...
07 Oct 2016, 00:00 Only in a best case scenario will Germany be able to reach its goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, the latest projections from the environment ministry show according to analysts. The opposition in parliament and ...
The much-lauded stock market launch of RWE鈥檚 green subsidiary innogy could still become a disappointment for investors despite the strong book-building that values the company at 20 billion euros, Frank Stocker and Daniel Wetzel write in Die Welt. With an ...
The stock market launch of innogy could make RWE鈥檚 green subsidiary 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most valuable utility, writes Antje H枚ning in Rheinische Post. If the stock price of 36 euros- determined by auction- remains unchanged, innogy will be worth around 20 billion ...
In order to push the energy transition in heating, the Green Party鈥檚 think tank, the Heinrich B枚ll Foundation, proposes a tax reform that takes into account emissions caused in the sector. 鈥淕别谤尘补苍y ranks at the bottom in Europe in terms of taxation鈥� of ...
A determined transition to carbon-free energy production in Germany is crucial for the Paris Agreement to become a success, according to the environmental NGO Germanwatch. Signatories would have to make sure that the agreement is swiftly implemented- with ...
29 Sep 2016, 00:00 One year after the Dieselgate scandal hit the industry, German carmakers VW and Daimler unveiled their first models developed exclusively for an electric motor at the Paris Car Show on Thursday. Many industry experts say the move is key ...
Utilities and the German government continue to argue about the storage of nuclear waste, five months after a government-appointed commission proposed that the country鈥檚 four nuclear power station operators should pay more than 20 billion euros into a ...
The rise of car sharing and self-drive electric vehicles could drastically reduce the number of cars on urban roads, according to Christian Hochfeld, head of new transport think tank Agora Verkehrswende*. 鈥淚f a city鈥檚 entire car fleet was shared and self ...
German utility RWE and its subsidiary innogy have determined the price range for shares of innogy SE in the Initial Public Offering (IPO) to range from 32 euros to 36 euros. Innogy would be valued between 17.8 billion and 20 billion euros and RWE will ...
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney urged Germany to use its G20 presidency in 2017 to make progress concerning green financing in emerging economies. "The upcoming German presidency of the G20 now has a historic chance to mainstream climate finance ...
The federal agriculture ministry wants to make further changes to the already watered down Climate Action Plan 2050 by Social Democrat environment minister Barbara Hendricks, writes Jan Grossarth in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). An internal ...
As China has begun to refocus the G20 energy agenda on sustainability, Germany should use its upcoming presidency to further boost the importance of energy within the intergovernmental institution, writes Andreas Kraemer in a policy brief for Canada-based ...
08 Sep 2016, 00:00 Environmental organisations have responded to a government proposal to decarbonise the economy with outrage. They say the Climate Action Plan 2050 will fall well short of meeting climate targets, and accuse the environment ministry of ...
Experts and green groups are urging Germany to set a target year for the G20 nations to phase out hundreds of billions of dollars in state subsidies to polluting fossil fuels, writes Megan Rowling for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. As host of next year鈥檚 ...
China and the USA ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement聽shortly before the start of the G20 summit in China proves that both countries now see more chances than risks in climate protection, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The move will ...
The economic council of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) wants Germany to turn away from its current targets 聽to lower the country鈥檚 primary energy consumption, writes Martin Kessler in RP Online. These targets- a聽 20 percent reduction by 2020 and 50 ...
A global Energiewende is already underway, but world leaders should give it a further push at the upcoming G20 meeting in China, according to a WWF report. 鈥淎s the current level of coal in the mix remains a problem to be solved for Germany, the country ...
The Group of Twenty (G20) is 鈥渂eginning to head in the right direction鈥� towards a low-carbon economy but needs to step up its efforts to meet the Paris Agreement鈥檚 temperature goals, according to a report by Climate Transparency, the international ...
Representatives of industry, civil society and science call for an internationally coordinated price system for CO鈧� emissions in a guest commentary in Die Zeit. The Federation of German Industries (BDI), environmental NGO Germanwatch and the Mercator ...
30 Aug 2016, 00:00 The German government and the EU Commission have reached an agreement on state-aid related aspects of the country鈥檚 new power market law and other energy policy issues, clearing the way for the 鈥渕ost important reform鈥� since the market ...
30 Aug 2016
The leaders of the leading industrialised and emerging economies will discuss ways to funnel capital into financing climate measures at the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 4 and 5, a German government official said on Tuesday. The Chinese ...
26 Aug 2016, 00:00 In August, Germany held the fifth tender in its new auction pilot scheme for payments to large-scale solar projects. While officials overseeing the programme continue to praise its results and declining price levels, critics warn that ...
The Green Party has developed a concrete plan for phasing out coal in Germany, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淚n the coming legislative term, we aim at introducing the end of the coal era in Germany irreversibly and with planning ...
Communities in the German state of Hesse will soon be able to benefit financially from wind power even if they don鈥檛 directly operate wind farms, according to a report in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Hesse鈥檚 Official Gazette has published rules on ...
16 Aug 2016, 00:00 The rise of volatile wind and solar power in the share of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity generation means that keeping the grid stable becomes an ever more complex 鈥� and potentially costly 鈥� task. Predicting how many renewable megawatts will be ...
Natural gas is at its lowest price since 2010 at an average of 1,236 euros per 20,000 kilowatt hours (kWh), comparison portal CHECK24 reports. This was because of competition and the offers of alternative suppliers to the traditional utilities, writes ...
EU Commissioner in charge of Energy Union Maro拧 艩ef膷ovi膷 says that the auto industry 鈥渕ust finally get moving鈥� and make considerable progress in the area of zero emission vehicles, according to an article in Die Welt. 鈥淲ith the combustion engine the ...
A giant sailing vessel could become a new means of transport for car exports from Germany to America and Asia, reports Birger Nicolai in Die Welt. VW, Daimler and BMW are all looking into the possibility to get a contract for the 180 m long 鈥淓coliner鈥� ...
29 Jul 2016, 00:00 The surcharge that German consumers pay through their power bills to fund renewable power looks set to rise again in 2017, think tank Agora Energiewende* has predicted. If power suppliers calculate bills fairly, this won鈥檛 necessarily ...
Denmark and Germany have agreed on two separate but mutually opened PV auctions to be held in 2016, the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has said. Denmark will partially open one auction round with a capacity of 20 megawatt (MW) to bids for ...
PV magazine 鈥淥wn consumption after feed-in payments run out will stimulate storage market鈥� More than half of solar PV installation operators in Germany want to use their generated power themselves once their 20-year feed-in remuneration runs out, a study ...
Revenues in the energy, water and waste management industry fell by 15.9 billion euros (or 2.6 percent) in 2014, the second decline in a row, reports Germany's statistics agency Destatis. The turnover of businesses with 20 employees or more amounted ...
A 5-megawatt storage battery has started regular operations in Brandenburg, after a 1-year test run was completed successfully, PV magazine reports. The battery is among the biggest of its kind in Europe and has the prequalification as a network ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 third largest utility EnBW hopes investments in wind power and digital services will help it shed the image of a climate-damaging coal and nuclear company, reports Richard Fuchs for broadcaster Deutschlandradio. EnBW is using new management ...
Implementing the Paris Climate Agreement will be challenging, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel.聽 She said at the second day of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin this was already evident at 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 present work on a Climate Action Plan. All ...
The federal economy ministry proposes to lower the threshold for energy-intensive industries to be eligible for a reduced renewables surcharge, writes Spiegel Online. With this proposed adjustment to the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), reported ...
The G20 group of countries, whose energy ministers are going to meet in Beijing this week, are responsible for around 75 per cent of global energy consumption and energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. State secretary Rainer Baake, who is going to ...
After the British vote to leave the European Union, the EU鈥檚 energy union plans are at risk of being 鈥減ut on the back-burner until more pressing issues are worked out,鈥� writes Sara Stefanini for Politico. In light of the UK鈥檚 presidency of the Council of ...
20 Jun 2016
20 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW) 鈥淣ew study: EEG 2016 thwarts Paris climate agreement鈥� If Germany continued the deployment of renewable energies at the average pace of ...
16 Jun 2016
16 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Volkswagen Group VW aims to sell 2-3 million e-cars by 2025 Car giant VW plans a "major electrification initiative" with more than 30 new聽purely battery ...
01 Jun 2016
01 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Federal government 鈥淔ederal and state governments agree on key points of the Renewable Energy Act reform鈥� State premiers and the federal government have agreed on ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Hydrogen dw.com 鈥淟obby battle over Energiewende鈥� There is a lot of pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers to hammer out a compromise at tonight鈥檚 ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 [UPDATE with new details on 2025 renewable target in paragraph 3, ads News Digest items] German Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers will meet on Tuesday to work out a compromise on reforming the core piece of legislation behind ...
27 May 2016
27 May 2016, 00:00 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Panorama (ARD) 鈥淎bsurd Energiewende: climate law rewards electricity waste鈥� To be exempted from Germany's聽 Renewable Energy Act (EEG)聽 surcharge, 聽some companies just on 聽the threshold of ...
24 May 2016
24 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淧eople with their own power supply will have to pay鈥� Changes in power taxation planned by the German finance ministry could finish off business models based on renewable power ...
20 May 2016
20 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Institute for Renewable Energy (IWR) 鈥淲ind power overtakes nuclear energy for first time in Germany鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 wind turbines will generate more electricity this year than nuclear ...
25 Apr 2016
25 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv PV-magazine 鈥淓EG reform: state chamber wants exemptions for citizens鈥� energy鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 second parliamentary chamber, which represents the 16 states, has passed a resolution ...
22 Apr 2016
22 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv UBA Record high CO2 measurements in Germany 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has measured the highest annual CO2 concentrations ever in 2015. In its research stations on ...
20 Apr 2016
20 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv BMUB / Deutsche Welle 鈥淕别谤尘补苍y asks Belgium to hit the switch on disputed Tihange and Doel nuclear reactors鈥� Environment minister Barbara Hendricks submitted an ...
19 Apr 2016
19 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv sandbag.org A 鈥渓ose-lose-lose鈥� situation The Vattenfall lignite sale to EPH is a lose for the climate, a lose for the Swedish government and a lose for German workers ...
18 Apr 2016, 00:00 State-owned Swedish utility Vattenfall has agreed to sell its east German lignite operations to Czech utility EPH, the company said on Monday. While the affected regions stressed the sale would finally put an end to employees' ...
18 Apr 2016
18 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv 聽 Der Tagesspiegel 鈥淐zech investor wants to take over brown coal operations鈥� A year and a half after Sweden's Vattenfall said it would sell its German lignite ...
15 Apr 2016
15 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy New draft version of Renewable Energy Act released The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has released a new draft of the Renewable ...
14 Apr 2016
14 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淐hristian Democrats put the breaks on renewable development鈥� Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party wants to make changes to the ...
13 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) State secretary Baake says Germany must stop registering fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 At a panel discussion Tuesday, ...
11 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online/AFP/S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淯tilities increase nuclear provisions鈥� The utilities have increased their provisions for the nuclear exit in the last year, according to a report by press agency AFP ...
24 Mar 2016
24 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online 鈥淓-car subsidies 鈥� Sch盲uble dampens hopes of a buyer鈥檚 premium鈥� There is increasing scepticism within the federal government concerning subsidies for e-cars. Vice ...
23 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Reuters Nuclear commission wants utilities to supplement clean-up provisions The commission on payments for the nuclear clean-up insists that nuclear power station ...
22 Mar 2016
22 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt 鈥淭o inflate or to die鈥� Nordex, the small Danish wind turbine manufacturer, has confirmed the takeover of the wind branch of the Spanish group Acconia. The cartel ...
21 Mar 2016
21 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters / EnBW 鈥淕别谤尘补苍y's EnBW cuts dividend, sees lower profits in 2016鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 third largest utility EnBW posted a 125-million-euro net profit in 2015, but the adjusted operating result ...
10 Mar 2016
10 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Climate Action Network 鈥淏reak free from fossil fuels鈥� Climate activist movement 350.org and Climate Action Network have announced a series of peaceful, coordinated actions 鈥渢o disrupt ...
08 Mar 2016
08 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv RWE/Bloomberg RWE posts second net loss in two years 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest power producer RWE posted its second net loss in three years, reports Tino Andresen for Bloomberg. The group鈥檚 net loss ...
01 Mar 2016
01 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv IHS 鈥淎s European solar installations slow, China, US and Japan lead global installed PV capacity in 2016鈥� The United States and Japan will surpass 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 installed solar PV capacity this year, ...
23 Feb 2016, 00:00 A reformed energy-only market and interconnections with electrical neighbours are Germany's visions for a future European power system, energy state secretary Baake says. Utility industry head Kempmann warns against splitting power ...
23 Feb 2016
23 Feb 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt 鈥淣uclear giants buy their way out for 18 billion鈥� The expert commission on financing the nuclear clean-up will suggest to the government that utilities transfer their ...
19 Feb 2016
19 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche 鈥淓xpert commission re-calculates nuclear provisions鈥� The expert commission on financing the nuclear clean-up has commissioned consultancy Warth & Klein to calculate the ...
18 Feb 2016
18 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) "Gabriel: Europe needs more industry鈥� Europe鈥檚 aim to increase the share of manufacturing in gross domestic product (GDP) to 20 percent ...
11 Feb 2016
11 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Der Tagesspiegel 鈥淕overnment sees no future for two thirds of ski regions鈥� The government predicts that with a 2 degree Celsius warming, 61 percent of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ski regions would not be suitable ...
05 Feb 2016
05 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Zeit 鈥淏illions from the state for coal-fired power plants鈥� State development bank KfW supports coal-fired power plants and other coal-related projects abroad through its subsidiary IPEX, with ...
03 Feb 2016
03 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Environment Agency 鈥淕别谤尘补苍 greenhouse gas emissions fall considerably in 2014鈥� New data shows that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions fell to 901.9 million tonnes of聽CO2聽equivalents in 2014 ...
27 Jan 2016
27 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淓-car collision in the coalition鈥� The Social Democrats鈥� parliamentary group wants to push e-mobility with incentives worth billions, reports Andreas Mihm in the ...
21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Greenpeace Energy 鈥淔lawed subsidies鈥� Britain is planning a different kind of energy transition, writes Bj枚rn Finke in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. While they want to shut down all ...
20 Jan 2016, 00:00 Germany needs a pathway for exiting coal by 2050 at the very latest, according to Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks. She welcomed Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel's announcement of a round table on the thorny issue, and said a ...
20 Jan 2016
20 Jan 2016, 00:00 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淕abriel needs a masterplan鈥� The Paris Agreement has shown that coal will need to be phased out faster than currently planned, writes Joachim Wille in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
15 Jan 2016
15 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淔ull wind speed ahead鈥� The reason why payments for renewables have increased to 24.1 billion euros in 2015 is to be found in their success, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in a Q ...
14 Jan 2016
14 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Greenpeace 鈥淓xpenses for green power reach new record high鈥� Payments for renewable power have reached a record high in 2015, Andreas Mihm reports for the ...
