22 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Concern about the impact of climate change is rising, while fewer people feel individual action is needed to combat the problem, according to a survey in 32 countries on ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:41 Jennifer Collins Fossil fuels 91tv The G7 group of industrialised nations failed on a 2016 pledge to phase out "inefficient fossil fuel subsidies" by 2025, according to a report commissioned by NGO Greenpeace ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The German government is open to partnering with African countries on fossil gas projects, as well as blue hydrogen production (made from fossil gas, ...
10 Dec 2024, 14:45 The early end of Olaf Scholz’s coalition government follows a three-year term marked by crises and a deep internal dispute over funding for future climate and energy policies. Despite its noisy demise, the chancellor’s three-party ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:50 India and a group of countries including the U.S. and Germany will not agree on a so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), a key international deal that was meant to promote the South Asian nation’s climate-friendly ...
15 Nov 2024, 15:00 Large parts of northern Italy were devastated by the country’s fourth floods within a year, triggered by intense rainfall on 19 and 20 October. Parts of Sicily, in the south, were also severely impacted. The floods came as Italy’s ...
23 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024, 11:47 91tv Team Reuters: Germany bets on India to reduce reliance on China From cars to logistics, German companies are largely optimistic about India's growth potential, tapping into a wealth of skilled young workers, a cheaper cost ...
23 Sep 2024, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal G20 & G7 91tv The Group of Seven (G7) large industrial democracies can be a key forum for “pioneering new cooperation” on carbon dioxide removal (CDR), wrote researchers from Germany and ...
06 Sep 2024, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Electricity Gas 91tv Electricity connectors and pipelines are crucial to leverage the potential of closer cooperation on energy and climate between Europe and the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) region, ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:15 Sören Amelang Coal Policy Tageszeitung / 91tv The German government does not intend to introduce a law to pull forward the country’s coal power phase-out from the officially agreed 2038 exit date to 2030. "A legal ...
13 Jun 2024, 13:30 This year's G7 leaders' summit in Italy, to be held in a secluded luxury resort in the Puglia region on 13-15 June, has been largely sidelined in the country's public discourse as the focus is firmly on the campaign for ...
31 May 2024, 15:00 As the European elections approach and the political parties in Italy engage in divisive campaigns over European policies and the management of various international contexts, the country is preparing to host the summit of G7 countries ...
17 May 2024, 15:00 Just as France is marking the biggest drop in its greenhouse gas emissions in almost a decade, the debate about the country’s future energy policy continues in full swing. This applies to almost all sectors of the economy – and the ...
03 May 2024, 15:35 With the sudden arrival of summer weather, Germans stream back into street cafes and beer gardens with a collective sigh of relief. On the way, they are greeted by EU election campaign posters, which have sprung up across the country ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs 91tv Energy consumption in Germany has fallen significantly in the first three months of 2024 compared to the same period one year before, energy industry and research initiative ...
21 May 2024, 14:17 The EU’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, has boosted hopes in Germany’s eastern coal mining region Lusatia that a prosperous future lies ahead in the transition towards climate-neutral industry in the area. At a visit to ...
02 May 2024, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv / dpa German government representatives welcomed the agreement by the Group of Seven (G7) major economies to end coal power generation by 2035, and said EU emissions trading means that there is ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv This year's Petersberg Climate Dialogue will create space for ministers from about 40 countries to have "difficult discussions" on international climate ...
26 Mar 2024
26 Mar 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The growing volumes of cheap green technologies coming out of China are leading to worries that solar panels, electric cars, batteries and other products sold below their production price ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics International 91tv The EU and the U.S. should have strong incentives to develop a joint green agenda – given their shared aim to foster decarbonisation while “de-risking” from China ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:31 Energy and climate cooperation, as well as countering migration, will be among the top priorities of Italy's G7 presidency this year. Led by prime minister Giorgia Meloni, the country's right-wing government will bring its ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:13 Italy has just taken over the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) large democratic economies, but its positions on climate policy often remain ambiguous, says Luca Bergamaschi, co-founder of the think tank Ecco Climate. He ...
22 Dec 2023, 15:00 The German government has to fund a wide range of its ambitious climate and energy transition projects for 2024 with considerably less money than initially planned. A ruling by the country's highest court on the constitutionally ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:00 Voters in the EU will head to the polls in June 2024 to elect the next European Parliament, kicking off a months-long process to pick the bloc’s new leadership that will shape climate policy until the end of the decade. It will face the ...
13 Dec 2023, 13:47 German and European politicians, scientists, businesses and civil society have overwhelmingly welcomed the key message of this year’s UN climate change conference COP28 in Dubai: the agreement to "transition away" from fossil ...
11 Dec 2023, 12:20 Italy aims to become an important player once again at the table of international climate negotiations, the country’s recently appointed special envoy for climate Francesco Corvaro said. The university professor and engineer said that ...
04 Dec 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Government COP28 Der Spiegel / 91tv Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has called off a planned trip to the UN climate conference COP28, due to the ongoing budget crisis that has upset the climate ...
30 Nov 2023, 15:00 [CORRECTION: Earlier version of the article misstated the number of members in the climate club. The club's website says 36 countries are members.] On the first day of the UN climate change conference COP28 in Dubai, Germany and ...
23 Nov 2023, 12:49 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany and Italy have agreed to expand energy cooperation in order to strengthen supply security and the transition to climate neutrality, with gas and hydrogen pipelines across the Alps ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:38 Aniket Narawad Climate & CO2 Society Only 47 percent of people in Germany agree that high-income countries should take the lead on compensating low-income countries for climate change-led economic losses, one of the lowest support ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:49 Julian Wettengel Renewables G20 & G7 91tv Leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) influential economies have agreed on the aim to triple of renewable energy capacity globally by 2030, but stopped short of calling for an ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables G20 & G7 91tv Germany is advocating for an agreement on "a clear and concrete target" for the global expansion of renewables among the Group of Twenty (G20), said ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:15 The two most influential members of the EU, Germany and France, agree on the urgent need to jointly decarbonise Europe’s energy system and put supply security on a safer footing after the tumultuous energy crisis year 2022. Russia’s war ...
27 Jun 2023, 09:42 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling EU 91tv / Bloomberg Ministers from France, Italy and Germany have agreed on closer cooperation on the extraction, processing and recycling of critical raw materials needed for ...
19 Jun 2023, 13:12 Sören Amelang Coal International 91tv / Tagesspiegel Germany has committed an additional 200 million euros to help Colombia reach its climate targets. During the Colombian President, Gustavo Petro’s, visit to Germany, the ...
22 May 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel International G20 & G7 91tv Researchers, NGOs, and media commentators have criticised the German and Japanese governments for what they say is a weak outcome on climate policy at the Group of Seven (G7) ...
19 May 2023, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv / Financial Times Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz must push for an accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, as the issue has not featured prominently enough ...
08 May 2023, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv / ARD Kenya has signalled its interest in becoming the first African nation in an international ‘climate club’ of countries agreeing on tighter climate action rules that ...
02 May 2023, 13:39 Internationally agreed targets to expand renewable energies and increase energy efficiency are needed to put the global economy back on a path towards limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5°C, Germany's foreign minister ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:58 Sören Amelang Renewables International G20 & G7 91tv The German government and NGOs have welcomed the first G7 commitment to concrete targets for the rollout of renewables, but environmentalists also warned that the ...
11 Apr 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel International 91tv / Bloomberg The G7 countries cause a large part of the world's resource consumption and the associated damage to the climate and environment and thus have to “accept their ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Industry International 91tv Germany has signed agreements to intensify its cooperation on climate and energy with Chile and Uruguay, with strong focus on decarbonising emission-intensive industry. At the ...
29 Mar 2023, 13:19 Sven Egenter International Security Increasing competition and new global power structures caused by the shift to climate-neutral industries and energy sources risk splitting the world anew into conflictive spheres, German economy and ...
27 Feb 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv Closer cooperation with Germany on renewable power and other energy transition technologies could help India increase its energy sovereignty, chancellor Olaf Scholz has said ...
30 Jan 2023, 12:48 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz wants promote energy cooperation and secure critical raw materials for the energy transition from South America. The politician is visiting Argentina, Chile ...
23 Dec 2022, 14:20 The German government coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz looks back at a turbulent first year in office, which has been dominated by the reality check of Russia’s war on Ukraine and the European energy crisis. The turmoil in global ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:46 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Gas International 91tv An alliance of civil society organisations including Fridays for Future, Germanwatch and Misereor has called on the government to abandon plans to support natural gas ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:37 Julian Wettengel International 91tv The G7 group of influential economies have set up an international climate club to support the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, with a focus on pushing the climate-friendly ...
17 Nov 2022, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Finance International 91tv / Reuters Germany hopes to start a partnership with the new Brazilian government that addresses the socio-ecological transformation of the country’s national economy as a whole, ...
15 Nov 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The German government is setting up two new funds with a total of 550 million euros to support the development of the global hydrogen economy through cooperation, especially with emerging and ...
15 Nov 2022, 13:22 Julian Wettengel International 91tv / Reuters The G7, along with Norway and Denmark, have announced a 20 billion U.S. dollar partnership to support Indonesia in moving away from fossil fuels and speeding up its energy ...
14 Nov 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Finance International 91tv / Deutsche Welle The G7’s strong economies have launched a scheme to quickly provide financial support to countries most vulnerable to climate risks in case of a disaster – the ...
14 Nov 2022, 12:19 Edgar Meza Politics International 91tv Germany is seeking to diversify supply chains and increase international cooperation on climate protection with Asian countries, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a visit to Vietnam ...
08 Nov 2022, 13:51 As the UN climate change conference (COP27) gets underway in Egypt, the German government has pledged additional funding to protect forests worldwide and support the most vulnerable countries in dealing with climate risks. Chancellor ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:20 The European Union aims to take on a leadership role when the global community meets in Egypt for the annual UN climate change conference. But a unified European voice is difficult to maintain as member states are hampered by ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:34 German officials have reiterated that public support for new gas projects in other countries should be possible, as long as these are in line with overall climate commitments. The comments by the government come amid sharp criticism by ...
31 Oct 2022, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels COP27 91tv Several German NGOs have called on the government to rule out public support for fossil fuel extraction projects in other countries and thus make good on its pledge signed at last ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:34 Energy exports to western Europe are one of the pillars a future Ukrainian economy could rest on, Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a conference in Berlin on the war-torn country’s ...
20 Oct 2022, 14:27 The German government has said it increased public climate finance for developing and emerging countries to 5.34 billion euros last year, meaning the country is on track towards reaching its target of 6 billion euros by 2025. Together ...
11 Oct 2022, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv Germany aims to keep the Paris Climate Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C within reach, even as the energy crisis in Europe puts a focus on fossil fuels in the short term, ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:30 Industrialised countries are taking pains to convince developing nations at the 13th Petersberg Climate Dialogue that they will live up to their emission reduction and climate finance commitments despite the fallout from the Russian war ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:38 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 International 91tv German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under particular pressure to underline Germany's climate policy credibility when ministers from 40 countries meet at the 13th ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:20 Jessica Bateman Business & Jobs 91tv Germany should respond with more and faster climate action to the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war against Ukraine, said the German CEO Alliance for Climate and Economy ...
08 Jul 2022, 12:31 Hannah Naylor Finance International 91tv The economy ministry (BMWK) is channelling an additional 126 million euros into the International Climate Initiative (IKI) in order to support decarbonisation efforts in emerging and ...
07 Jul 2022, 14:21 Germany's ruling parties have dropped the target of “near 100 percent renewables” in the power grid by 2035 but agreed on more favourable conditions for solar PV and strict wind power expansion targets for laggard states in their ...
06 Jul 2022, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 G20 & G7 Handelsblatt The concept of an international climate club of nations which agree to cooperate on higher climate policy standards could lose drive before it is even launched due to the ...
30 Jun 2022, 13:24 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Gas Security 91tv Germany’s ...
28 Jun 2022, 15:11 Civil society groups and others have largely reacted with criticism of the German presidency's role in furthering climate action within the G7 group of influential economies. With the energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion ...
28 Jun 2022, 17:16 G7 leaders have finished their three-day meeting in the Bavarian Alps with a commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, even as they agreed that public funding could be necessary for some fossil gas projects to reduce dependence on ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cars Efficiency EU 91tv European energy ministers have agreed on reaching a share of 40 percent renewables in the EU’s energy mix by 2030, thus increasing the previous 32-percent target and ...
27 Jun 2022, 19:30 The leaders’ meeting at Schloss Elmau in the German Alps is set to be a “historic” G7 summit, says political analyst John Kirton. Never before has a summit of the G7 summit faced such a simultaneously unfolding and severe set of ...
27 Jun 2022, 14:23 Kerstine Appunn International Security 91tv The G7 leaders should agree on import tariffs on Russian oil and gas at their summit in Elmau, according to researchers from the economic institute IfW Kiel. "A tariff ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:25 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Kerstine Appunn Grid Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The German ...
24 Jun 2022, 14:08 The German government has launched the second of a total of three escalation stages of its national gas supply security plan, which was drawn up in reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After triggering the first "early ...
28 Jun 2022, 17:00 Climate is planned to figure high on the agenda as leaders of the G7 democratic economies come together in a remote castle with picturesque views of alpine peaks in southern German state Bavaria. The German presidency has promised to ...
21 Jun 2022, 12:52 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv Efforts to replace fossil fuel imports from Russia must be accompanied by an "even stronger adoption of policies embracing the transition to decarbonisation and the green economy, ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels G20 & G7 91tv The question of how to replace natural gas supply from Russia will play an “enormous role” at upcoming leaders’ summits of the European Union, the G7 and NATO, said a German ...
17 Jun 2022, 08:50 The German government’s G7 agenda has been thrown off course by Russia’s war against Ukraine, but chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is determined to keep climate policy as a top priority for the summit of the seven large economies in ...
14 Jun 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 Science ministers of the G7 countries have agreed on a number of measures to promote greater climate change research, CO2 removal and protection of the ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus. A meeting in Frankfurt on ...
14 Jun 2022, 08:55 Russia’s war against Ukraine will throw the agenda of the upcoming G7 summit off course, but it will not derail the climate focus host country Germany has set, political analyst Ella Kokotsis told 91tv. As a leading ...
01 Jun 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann International G20 & G7 91tv The G7 countries have to deliver a breakthrough in international climate policy that is commensurate with the urgency of protecting natural habitats in grave danger due to ...
30 May 2022, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU Der Tagesspiegel / 91tv The German foreign ministry’s special envoy for international climate action, former Greenpeace head Jennifer Morgan, has said she supports the idea of higher import ...
27 May 2022, 13:54 Sören Amelang International G20 & G7 91tv Germany and the United States have launched an energy partnership focused on accelerating climate action, speeding up the energy transition with new technologies, and promoting ...
27 May 2022, 13:31 The Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) has committed to making their electricity systems “predominantly” carbon-free by 2035, but stopped short of setting a concrete date for exiting coal. Following their meeting in ...
23 May 2022, 13:14 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International G20 & G7 91tv The burgeoning global trade in green hydrogen risks becoming an environmental and social burden in producing countries, and the G7 must take steps to ensure it will ...
24 May 2022, 07:59 Germany could support Senegal in efforts to exploit fossil gas resources off its coast, chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a visit to the western African country. As Germany seeks alternatives to Russian fossil fuel imports, Scholz said ...
18 May 2022, 12:25 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv Development ministers of the seven leading western industrialised states (G7) are meeting in Berlin on 18-19 May to discuss the German G7 presidency’s plans for so-called Just Energy ...
16 May 2022, 13:07 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv Foreign ministers of the seven leading western industrialised states (G7) have committed to supporting emerging and developing countries in their endeavour to transition towards climate ...
12 May 2022, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Society G20 & G7 91tv / Die Zeit Several major environmental groups have urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to step up the country’s climate action efforts and make the topic a priority of the G7 ...
28 Apr 2022, 11:30 Germany has reduced its dependence on Russian crude oil from 35 to 12 percent and will take steps to replace the remaining deliveries to the Russian-operated Schwedt refinery within the next days, said the economy and climate minister. ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:43 The new chapter of the 6th report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focuses on mitigating climate change effects. Commentators from Germany regard the report as “a clear call to society and policymakers for ...
30 Mar 2022, 14:45 Germany must decide which companies are considered crucial enough to receive gas in case of a shortage caused by Russian supply cuts, Kerstin Andreae, head of energy industry association BDEW told 91tv. Andreae welcomed ...
30 Mar 2022, 13:49 Germany has triggered the first stage of its national gas supply emergency plan over fears that Russia might soon cut supplies if it doesn't receive payments from foreign buyers in roubles. The government called on all consumers to ...
28 Mar 2022, 18:45 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv The international community must not lose sight of major issues such as climate change despite the new situation Russia’s war against Ukraine has brought, said German ...
28 Mar 2022, 14:25 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels International Security 91tv After a meeting with his G7 counterparts, German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said on Monday (28 March) that Putin's demand to only receive payment ...
23 Mar 2022, 12:38 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 G20 & G7 Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany has a key role to play when it comes to getting governments across the world on board for the transition away from fossil fuels, said the country’s new state ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:45 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Security G20 & G7 Clean ...
01 Mar 2022, 13:29 The world is already facing “unequivocal" consequences of climate change and damages will increase rapidly with rising temperatures, the United Nation’s climate science body IPCC is warning in its new landmark report. The paper on ...
24 Feb 2023, 11:00 One year after Russia started its devastating war on Ukraine, the energy policy landscape of Germany and most of Europe has changed radically. European states to a large extent lowered or even completely cut their reliance on Russian ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Government International 91tv The German government plans to support climate and environmental protection projects in Indonesia with credits worth 2.5 billion euros by 2025, the German development ...
10 Feb 2022, 09:25 Germany aims to strengthen its climate foreign policy with the appointment of Greenpeace International head Jennifer Morgan as special envoy. The new “face of Germany’s international climate policy” will expand partnerships with other ...
27 Jan 2022, 13:04 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Finance International 91tv The new German finance minister, Christian Lindner, has said climate action and sustainable finance will be two core topics during the country’s G7 ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:01 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Government International 91tv Germany will attempt to move towards a "social-ecological" market economy model that puts great emphasis on diplomacy to advance the global fight ...
21 Jan 2022, 18:40 The German government wants to use this year’s presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialised nations and democracies to improve the coordination of global efforts to combat climate change. “We want to achieve that no ...
20 Jan 2022, 11:54 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Global climate policies must be shaped towards different countries’ strengths and weaknesses if they are to be successful, a leading German economist has said. In an opinion piece for Der ...
20 Jan 2022, 10:22 Germany's new government must take rapid policy decisions at home and actively engage at the EU level and beyond to pave the way for urgent emission cuts in energy-intensive industry. The start of the country's government ...
19 Jan 2022, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen G20 & G7 Germany will use its presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) major economies this year to turn the group into “a nucleus of an international climate club,” said German chancellor Olaf Scholz at the ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:11 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sören Amelang Industry G20 & G7 91tv Germany should use its G7 presidency to push for more ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel EU G20 & G7 91tv Climate action tops the agenda of the German presidency of the G7 group of influential economies, which the new economy and climate ministry aims (BMWK) to use to improve greenhouse gas ...
12 Jan 2022, 12:00 As some of the richest democracies in the world, the Group of Seven (G7) have the opportunity to strike a “grand bargain” with developing nations on combatting climate change at the same time as health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
03 Jan 2022, 14:13 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany would use its year-long presidency of the Group of Seven (G7), which began 1 January, “to make this group of countries a trailblazer for a climate-neutral ...
23 Dec 2021, 13:13 A new German government has started its work shortly before Christmas, kicking off its four-year term with a key promise to make the country ready for its ambitious bid to become climate neutral before the middle of the century. At a ...
22 Dec 2021, 13:50 Germany’s new government coalition is set to markedly strengthen the country’s European and international climate policy efforts and use the presidency of the G7 next year to advance the establishment of a global “climate club” and new ...
20 Dec 2021, 10:55 The start of Germany's new government makes 2022 a crucial year for the country's landmark energy transition. All eyes are on the three-way coalition's first steps towards implementing its ambitious climate plans, which ...
15 Dec 2021, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Gas EU Security 91tv The contentious Russian-German pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is not a suitable instrument to penalise Russia in case it attempts to invade neighbouring Ukraine, said German government ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Gas Government EU 91tv / Reuters / ZDF Climate and energy policy has emerged as a key issue for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and members of his cabinet on their first official trips abroad. Scholz ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:51 Few nominations for Germany’s new government cabinet have caused as much international uproar as that of FDP leader Christian Lindner as finance minister. Critics have warned that the head of the pro-business party could thwart ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics International 91tv In the context of the formation of Germany’s new government, former environment minister Svenja Schulze moves on to lead the country’s development ministry (BMZ) ...
08 Dec 2021, 14:36 Jessica Bateman Elections & Politics Government Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s new foreign minister, Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock, will head up international climate policy for the first time in the ministry’s history, ...
04 Nov 2021, 14:47 In light of several fossil fuel phase-out pledges at the COP26 climate summit, researchers and activists have pointed out that Germany's planned coal exit date is far from ambitious enough and called on the next government ...
01 Nov 2021, 12:48 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 COP26 91tv The G20 summit in Rome has achieved good results on climate policy, said German chancellor Angela Merkel. “That is a good signal for Glasgow," she said. Ahead of the UN Climate Change ...
28 Oct 2021, 13:30 Governments from across the world will descend on Glasgow next week for the UN climate change conference COP26, with the UK presidency’s key objective as keeping the goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5°C within reach. It is set ...
25 Oct 2021, 17:19 Developed countries have said they will deliver on their pledge to provide 100 billion US dollars per year in climate finance to support developing nations by 2023, three years later than originally planned. However, a “climate finance ...
26 Oct 2021, 12:43 The booming voluntary market for CO2 emission offsets is facing a hairy double counting issue that could stop further growth in its tracks. While high-aiming businesspeople are preparing a new standard to scale the market and make it ...
22 Oct 2021, 13:15 Charlotte Nijhuis Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Europe’s largest banks are lagging behind on setting climate targets needed to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, according to a report by German consulting firm Zeb seen by the ...
24 Sep 2021, 13:38 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv International The fight against climate change must be top of Germany’s agenda when it takes over the 2022 G7 presidency in three months, writes conservative chancellor candidate Armin Laschet in ...
23 Sep 2021, 12:45 “Achieving net-zero” emissions by the middle of the century is a goal that few would fault. But when it comes to reaching a balance of greenhouse gases and carbon removal – as not all emissions from food and industrial production can be ...
21 Sep 2021, 14:04 The German state secretary in the environment ministry, Jochen Flasbarth, has called on wealthy nations to do more on climate finance and come up with a plan to reach the target of mobilising 100 billion U.S. dollars per year for ...
10 Sep 2021, 10:11 Once touted as the “climate chancellor”, Germany’s outgoing head of government Angela Merkel’s climate leadership over her 16 years in office is now seen by many as middling. International observers commend her steadfast leadership in ...
07 Sep 2021, 14:01 Expert Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Better company reporting, more good examples set by ...
26 Aug 2021, 10:15 International partners can be assured that Germany’s next government coalition after the September election will not veer far off course of the country’s current climate and energy policy, says government advisor and director of two ...
15 Jul 2021, 09:30 The German environment ministry has called new EU proposals to reform the bloc's climate and energy policy “nothing less than a new industrial revolution in the European Union.” The European Commission's comprehensive proposal ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:07 Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel has reassured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Germany would do everything to ensure Ukraine remains a gas transit state even after the completion of the contentious Nord Stream 2 pipeline. ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany will raise its federal budget contribution for international climate financing from the current four billion euros to six billion euros annually by 2025. The success of the ...
11 Jun 2021, 14:06 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Gas International Handelsblatt / 91tv [UPDATE adds date for Merkel visit] German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Washington, D.C. to settle the transatlantic dispute between the U.S ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:20 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Society Security 91tv The top risks perceived by German respondents in the Munich Security Index 2021 survey by the Munich Security Conference (MSC) are climate change, the ...
11 Jun 2021, 08:00 As the global fight against climate change gains momentum with more and more countries updating their emissions targets, a green surge is washing over Germany’s national election campaign and sets the scene for the country to become a ...
07 May 2021, 15:54 Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel has stressed the need for action against global warming, and urged countries to not fall behind on climate protection measures and financing for developing countries despite the “massive holes” in ...
06 May 2021, 12:12 The German government has presented its strategy to make the country a global leader in sustainable finance and help mobilise money for greening the economy. The Sustainable Finance Strategy proposes a “traffic light” system to identify ...
18 Mar 2025, 10:20 The pipeline Nord Stream 2 connects Germany directly to Russian gas supplies, but it has never come into operation and has split opinions, both in Europe and beyond, for years. It has become a symbol of failed German energy policy, ...
06 Jan 2021, 13:19 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 EU Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland The new US ...
10 Dec 2020, 11:02 With the EU presenting its Green Deal implementation packages next summer, Germany’s autumn election will be a climate election, says Christoph Bals, Policy Director at NGO Germanwatch. He has a long list of changes that the new ...
23 Nov 2020, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn International G20 & G7 91tv The heads of state and government from the G20 (Group of Twenty) major economies have formally confirmed their cooperation on climate protection. Despite the United States ...
20 Nov 2020, 14:31 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv The Group of Twenty (G20) major economies could play a crucial role for global climate action next year, said a German government official in Berlin ahead of this year’s digital G20 summit ...
13 Nov 2020, 15:15 The election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States is raising hopes that the US can be a partner again in international efforts to combat climate change. The US backed away from many climate commitments during the ...
16 Sep 2020, 12:50 German industry, politicians and environmental NGOs have criticised first details of the European Commission proposal for a more ambitious 2030 climate target. Plans for more stringent passenger car emission rules and the inclusion of ...
26 May 2020, 12:43 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv An active removal of several hundred ...
20 May 2020, 13:44 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business ...
30 Apr 2020, 12:37 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International ...
28 Apr 2020, 10:59 The coronavirus crisis has put a spotlight on deteriorating transatlantic relations as both continents focus on the well-being of their own populations and U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push his America First strategy. Over ...
23 Mar 2020, 08:55 The United States administration, politicians and industry warily watch European Union debates on introducing a carbon border adjustment mechanism, which would put a CO₂ price on goods imported to the EU to reduce the risk of carbon ...
19 Nov 2019, 13:42 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs G20 & G7 Reuters / Passauer Neue Presse / Handelsblatt / 91tv ...
11 Nov 2019, 08:07 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 91tv No G20 country has a climate strategy in line with the Paris Agreement’s ambitious end of its main target- to limit global warming to 1.5°C- although most are technically capable and have ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:22 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Expert KfW Bank KfW- government ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv The exceptionally large wildfires in the Amazon region in South America have led German government members to criticise Brazil's government under President Jair ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:36 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Policy German Institute for International and Security ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:18 Expert DIE- German Development Institute Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International G20 & G7 German Development Institute Support for multilateral commitments, especially those ...
24 May 2019, 13:24 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Technology Policy Spiegel Online The goal of becoming a ...
21 Dec 2018, 15:08 Germany plans to use its diplomatic clout during its two-year term on the UN Security Council to ensure that climate change concerns are an integral part of UN security policy. People who are most vulnerable to global warming, such ...
21 Dec 2018, 11:58 The German government has said it will use its two-year term as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council to spotlight the security implications of climate change. After the recent shift in climate policy by some permanent ...
10 Dec 2018, 09:03 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:26 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International G20 & G7 91tv The German government wants to build on last year’s G20 final declaration regarding climate provisions, but the outcome of ...
When it comes to progress in phasing out carbon-intensive coal from the national power mix, Germany is the worst performing western country in the industrialised nations’ G7 club, only trailed by Japan but outperformed by the US and its pro-coal ...
Climate change adaptation has played a big role at the G7 environment ministers’ meeting, said German environment minister Svenja Schulze in a telephone press briefing after the first day of the meeting in Halifax, Canada. “It is important to discuss this ...
Ahead of the G7 environment, energy and ocean ministers meeting in Halifax, Canada, humanitarian relief organisation CARE published a comprehensive analysis of the finance provided by the G7 group to developing countries for climate change adaptation and ...
18 Jun 2018, 14:58 Social justice should be a guiding principle of modern climate policy, German environment minister Svenja Schulze said at the opening of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin. Samantha Smith of the International Trade Union ...
Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw his support for the joint communiqué at the G7 summit in Canada is “sobering and a bit depressing”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Anne Will in a television interview for German public broadcaster ARD. Merkel said ...
06 Jun 2018
Ahead of the G7 summit in Canada, German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated the importance of her government’s commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, after the US had decided to leave the accord last year. “All the more it’s on us to reach our ...
According to a government official, Germany wants the 8-9 June G7 summit, to be held in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, Canada, to issue a joint communiqué that also covers climate and energy-related issues. In light of the US’ position, agreeing on a ...
German climate policy announcements are the most ambitious among all of the western industrialised nations in the G7 but the country only comes second to last in the group when it comes to ending support for fossil fuel use, the think tank Overseas ...
07 Mar 2018
07 Mar 2018, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has chosen her close ally and former head of the Chancellery Peter Altmaier as the next economy and energy minister. This puts the political heavy-hitter in charge of shaping Germany’s Energiewende at a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
08 Sep 2017, 00:00 As the current legislative period draws to a close, The 91tv asked key stakeholders to review the last four years of German energy and climate policy – and tell us what they would like to see from the next government. ...
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 ...
08 Jul 2017, 00:00 The German presidency and chancellor Angela Merkel pulled off a “solid” 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 ...
The topic of climate change should be “treated with utmost intensity and seriousness” at the Hamburg Summit, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said at a press conference before official talks began. Juncker said he was “thankful” 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, “without bending their own positions too much”, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her opening remarks to leaders of the world’s largest economies, ahead of the first ...
The T20 group of international think tanks are hoping for “G17, G18, G19” solution on the disputed issue of climate protection, where “we know that some of us are moving in the wrong direction”, 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 communiqué issued by the Russian ...
The wording on climate policies in the final G20 communiqué was still not decided, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters at a press conference after leaders met to discuss the issue. The “large majority” 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 “wrinkle” 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’s 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 Schäuble 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’ insistence to include a reference to fossil fuels in the section on climate policy in the G20 communiqué remains the final sticking point to finish the document, news agency Reuters reported. Sources close to the process confirmed to ...
The final communiqué 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’ discussion on climate and energy as they have scheduled their first personal meeting during the working session, German news 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 ...
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 ...
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. “If necessary, this must be enforced ...
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 ...
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 ...
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’s largest economies at this week’s 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 ...
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 “broke ...
The United States' “short-sighted and irresponsible” withdrawal from the Paris Agreement has prompted the G20 engagement groups to call on the remaining G19 member states to “convincingly show their willingness to implement the deal” at the upcoming ...
German environment minister Barbara Hendricks welcomed the commitment to climate protection that all G7 members except the United States made in the final communiqué of the environment minister meeting in Italy, according to a press release. “The Paris ...
With federal elections coming up in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel “needs some sort of win on climate change at the G20”, Andrew Light, a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute (WRI) told the Washington Post. Things will “get interesting” at ...
The US will join the G7 in the communiqué of environment ministers meeting in Bologna, but it will acknowledge points of disagreement, a German official told reporters attending the meeting, according to a Bloomberg article by Chiara Albanese and Brian ...
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 – “but this rule seems to have become obsolete”, Jan Heidtmann writes in Süddeutsche Zeitung. At the latest G7 summit, as ...
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 ...
The visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Berlin had special significance as it came just days after a difficult G7 summit had exposed deep rifts between Germany’s government and the current US administration, particularly over climate change, ...
Despite the outcome of last week’s G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, a consensual statement by all leaders “should be the aspiration” for the G20 summit in Germany in July, said Lars-Hendrik Röller, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s economic advisor and the ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s criticism of the current US administration’s 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, ...
German chancellor Angela Merkel has described the climate talks at the G7 meeting in Italy as “very unsatisfying”. The US’s reluctance to say whether it will remain in or leave the international Paris Agreement on climate protection had created a “six ...
Environmental and development NGO Germanwatch is “relieved” that all leaders except US President Donald Trump clearly committed to the Paris Climate Agreement and there was no “weakening or re-interpretation” of the accord, the organisation writes in a ...
The German government expects difficult negotiations in climate and trade policy with US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, reports Henrike Roßbach in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “In terms of trade and climate, the communiqué ...
The leaders of the G7 must fully commit to climate protection and the implementation of the Paris Agreement, and industry “needs more than a minimum consensus”, said Dieter Kempf, president of Federation of German Industries (BDI), in a press release. “No ...
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. ...
This week's G7 summit in Italy comes “at the right moment" to talk about the Paris Climate Agreement with the US administration, but it will be a “continuous dialogue” 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 “doubters” of the urgent need to mitigate climate change. But environmental organisations said her credibility as “Climate Chancellor” was severely damaged because Germany had ...
A global emissions trading system would be the ideal instrument to fight climate change, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “It 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 Germany’s aim to agree on a G20 energy and climate ...
The presidency of this November’s UN Climate Change Conference, the government of Fiji, is “very optimistic” about the outcome of COP23, while the US administration still has not decided on its international climate policy positions. “The rest of the ...
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 ...
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 – a two-day conference on ...
The G7 and G20 summits provide European leaders with the opportunity to carefully “push the Trump administration to take a stance on climate”, write Sara Stefanini and Andrew Restuccia for Politico. German chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to the White ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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’s 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 ...
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 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’s credibility. ...
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 Germany’s international ...
01 Dec 2016, 00:00 Calls for Germany to take on a leadership role in international climate protection grow louder as the country’s government is set to take over the G20 presidency from China on 1 December. Commentators and politicians see the ...
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 ...
Despite many setbacks, a number of achievements towards greater environmental protection in the past decade is cause for optimism, Achim Steiner, former executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, tells Bernhard Pötter in an interview ...
06 Jun 2016
06 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Tagesspiegel “80 percent renewables are not a problem” There is much more flexibility in the German power grid to cope with renewables development than currently needed, said Boris ...
30 May 2016
30 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Die Welt “EU wants to split Germany into two power price zones” The European Commission “is threatening to split [Germany] into two power price zones,” which would make power more ...
25 May 2016
25 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Reuters Campaigners urge Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad Environmental groups urged G7 nations led by Japan and Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad, reports ...
20 May 2016
20 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Institute for Renewable Energy (IWR) “Wind power overtakes nuclear energy for first time in Germany” Germany’s wind turbines will generate more electricity this year than nuclear ...
22 Mar 2016
22 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “To inflate or to die” Nordex, the small Danish wind turbine manufacturer, has confirmed the takeover of the wind branch of the Spanish group Acconia. The cartel ...
02 Mar 2016
02 Mar 2016, 00:00 tageszeitung “Short-sighted cap fans” Despite fighting climate change being a national objective and renewables now the cheapest source of energy, leading conservative politicians want to use reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) to ...
17 Dec 2015, 00:00 [UPDATES with comments from VKU] German politicians, climate activists, scientists and media celebrated the "historic" Paris climate agreement. Some business associations as well as activists pointed to flaws of the deal, and ...
09 Dec 2015
09 Dec 2015, 00:00 Spiegel Online “How the Germans are negotiating a climate miracle” The Paris climate summit could result in a global commitment to decarbonisation, writes Axel Bojanowski for Spiegel, but there is still resistance from the oil producing ...
07 Dec 2015
07 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Still up in the air” There are still many hurdles to an agreement in Paris and there is a real danger of disappointment, writes Klaus Stratmann in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. ...
05 Dec 2015, 00:00 UPDATE (adds NGO statement on climate finance pledge) Agreement on a draft agreement – with lots of options / Climate funding pledges reach $94 billion / Climate risk insurance can help dealing with loss and damages / Climate blind ...
02 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 3 at the UN climate conference: Today's official theme is resilience, with divestment and renewables featuring in others of the many side events / Germany insists on strong monitoring mechanism in agreement / ambitious pace for ...
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 2 at the UN climate conference: Negotiators begin their day-to-day work / Finance pledges for forests and renewables / New guidelines for climate compatible investment rules Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature ...
26 Nov 2015
26 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “Germany plans the exit” A spectacular change in German energy policy is taking shape a few days before the start of the climate summit in Paris, writes Thorsten Knuf in ...
13 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
10 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
29 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
22 Oct 2015
22 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) “The energy transition in Europe: initial lessons from Germany, the UK and France” The experience of Germany, the UK and France shows that the transition to a ...
08 Oct 2015
08 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) “Average duration of power supply cuts per consumer and year less than 12 minutes for first time” The average power consumer in Germany ...
12 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
17 Sep 2015
17 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Bloomberg “Why Germany’s nuclear power exit is causing havoc for utilities” Financing the nuclear phase-out is the biggest challenge yet for Germany’s large utilities, which explains this week’s ...
21 Aug 2015
21 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Network Agency / Süddeutsche Zeitung “Twelve minutes without power” The German power supply was more stable in 2014 than in any year since 2006, the Federal Network Agency said yesterday. ...
18 Aug 2015
18 Aug 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “The Goliath in open-cast mining” The illegal protests against open-cast mining in Western Germany over the weekend are strongly reminiscent of the violent demonstrations in the country against ...
22 Jul 2015
22 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv energytransition.de “‘5 megatrends’ for a global energy transition” There are five global ‘megatrends’ pointing to a world-wide energy transition, according to an overview by renewable power ...
16 Jul 2015
16 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Zeit “Don’t get distracted” The carbon divestment movement and the G7 commitment to decarbonisation indicate that climate policy is getting serious and irreversible, writes Andreas Kuhlmann, ...
03 Jul 2015
03 Jul 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Ruby Russell Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy State secretary Baake: power market 2.0 guarantees supply security Germany’s economy and energy ministry is proposing a reform of the power market based on an energy ...
02 Jul 2015, 00:00 Germany will not impose an additional climate levy on old and dirty power plants. In late-night negotiations, the ruling government coalition buried a levy proposal, choosing instead to mothball and later decommission some lignite power ...
29 Jun 2015
29 Jun 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung “Unemployment benefit for coal” The apparent death of the levy on old coal-fired power plants is bad news because the alternative presented by major utilities and mining ...
25 Jun 2015
25 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Gabriel takes on the energy sector” Energy minister Sigmar Gabriel was given a chilly reception by the Chairwoman of the Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) in ...
24 Jun 2015
24 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Energy minister speech at utilities congress Government considers alternative to climate levy The proposal to charge old coal-fired power stations a “climate levy” to force them reduce CO2 ...
19 Jun 2015
19 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) “The environment encyclical is a historic event” The Pope’s environment encyclical “ Laudato si ” could have a big climate impact on climate politics in Poland, ...
12 Jun 2015
12 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Simply carry on” G7 politicians want to rid the world of fossil fuels but German industry will demand support for the decarbonisation, Karl-Heinz Büschemann writes in the ...
27 May 2016, 00:00 Update 27 May 2016 [European Commission approves state aid for closure of lignite power plants] | The government has approved wide reaching power market reform, including a phase-out plan for some lignite plants. A "coal reserve ...
11 Jun 2015
11 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv DPA / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau “Coal levy threatened” The levy on emissions from old coal-fired power stations is on the brink of failure, insiders have told German press agency DPA. ...
10 Jun 2015
10 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Great aim, little deed” When it comes to decarbonising the economy, Germany is nowhere near as ambitious as the government likes to say, writes Silke Kersting in a commentary for the ...
09 Jun 2015
09 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “A new world economy” “Whoever thought international climate policy was a temporary phenomenon, like a heavy thunderstorm with dark clouds, should quickly rethink,” ...
08 Jun 2015, 00:00 G7 leaders made a commitment to limit global warming to 2 degrees at their meeting in southern Germany. In order to achieve this goal, the group of seven industrialised countries said they would push for a decarbonisation of the global ...
08 Jun 2015, 00:00 The G7 has published its final communiqué after the summit in Elmau in southern Germany. 91tv presents reactions from Germany to the results of the meeting of major industrialised countries. Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean Energy ...
08 Jun 2015
08 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel “Sigmar Gabriel prepared to sacrifice climate levy” Economy and energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel is about to let go of his proposed climate levy for old coal-fired power stations, Der ...
07 Jun 2015, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel has voiced optimism that Germany can find a way to cut emissions from coal-fired power plants. Merkel, who seeks to convince other leaders of major industrialised countries to commit to ambitious climate action ...
06 Jun 2015
06 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Oxfam / E3G “Let them eat coal” Five of the G7 countries are burning more coal now than before the Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009, while the G7 coal plants together emit ...
05 Jun 2015
05 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Carbon Tracker Initiative "Coal: caught in the EU utility death spiral" New coal-fired power plants fail to generate positive cash-flows even under the most optimistic ...
04 Jun 2015, 00:00 G7 countries hope to present their vision of a long-term target for climate protection at their upcoming summit in Germany, according to a German official. Industrialised nations could also make pledges to decarbonise their economies, ...
04 Jun 2015
04 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BDI / IG BCE Industry Association joins forces with mining union to combat coal levy Leading German industry association BDI has thrown its weight behind mining union IG BCE ’s efforts to thwart ...
07 Jun 2015, 00:00 UPDATE (7 June 2015)-- All eyes are on Germany and Chancellor Angela Merkel during the G7 summit this weekend. Recent statements including her weekly podcast indicate Merkel intends to do justice to her former reputation as " ...
03 Jun 2015
03 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) / The Times Merkel: G7 ought to pioneer transition to low-carbon economy Climate protection is a large global challenge, German Chancellor Angela ...
02 Jun 2015, 00:00 Europe must deliver on its own targets for a successful climate summit in Paris at the end of this year, the head of the German Chancellery, Peter Altmaier, told a business conference on Tuesday. At the same time, he stressed that the ...
02 Jun 2015
02 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Bad atmosphere in the power sector” One of Germany’s four largest utilities, EnBW, has come out in favour of the government’s proposal for an additional levy on old coal-fired ...
01 Jun 2015
01 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung Interview with Chancellor on Climate Summit In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said that preparing for the climate summit in Paris ...
26 May 2015
26 May 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Berliner Morgenpost “Climate debate splits government” The discussion about how Germany can achieve its climate goals has raised tensions within the government, reports the Berliner Morgenpost. Armin Laschet, ...
22 May 2015
22 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Destatis “G7 in Figures” Germany’s Federal Statistical Office Destatis has published a booklet ahead of the G7 summit in Bavaria this June, including data on energy and climate protection efforts ...
20 May 2015, 00:00 Industrialised countries’ business associations have urged to make the Paris climate summit a success. “The world climate conference in Paris in December offers a chance to greatly advance global climate politics. The world must use ...
20 May 2015
20 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) “The godmother of climate receives visitors” The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is Angela Merkel’s reaction to the failed climate summit of Copenhagen ...
19 May 2015, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande have thrown their weight behind an ambitious and urgent push to make the Paris climate summit a success. The international community must start work now in order to ...
19 May 2015
19 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Bloomberg / Handelsblatt “Germany, France Seek Curb on Fossil Fuel Pollution This Century“ To control the risks of climate change, Germany and France want to almost completely forego the use of ...
13 May 2015
13 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv ARD tagesschau.de “The German energy transformation is impressive” Ernest Moniz, the United States Secretary of Energy, has praised Germany’s development of renewables but said the US were not ...
12 May 2015, 00:00 G7 energy ministers agree on increasing efficiency as a no-regret measure to achieve energy security and greenhouse gas reductions. Joint action planned on cybersecurity for the electricity sector and a transparent gas market. Expert ...
12 May 2015
12 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung / Die Welt “Energiewende show on the high seas” Germany’s energy minister Sigmar Gabriel invited his G7 counterparts to visit a new offshore wind converter platform in the North ...
11 May 2015
11 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv dpa “Gabriel wants to convince G7 of Energiewende” At today’s meeting of G7 energy ministers in Hamburg, the German government hopes to convince other industrialised nations that renewables can ...
07 May 2015
07 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv The New York Times “Germany, the Green Superpower” With a generous feed-in tariff “that made it a no-brainer for Germans to install solar power (or wind) at home,” Germany has made a “world-saving ...
23 Apr 2015
23 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv ZDF heute.de “Climate levy on coal: Gabriel puts his foot down” With pressure and criticism from coalition partner CDU-CSU increasing, Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel has defended his ...
20 Apr 2015, 00:00 German chancellor wants to push for commitment for ambitious climate targets from G7 as climate activists call for strong leadership. Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv International Security Climate & CO2 Ambitious climate ...
20 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Metal vs coal” Unions are deeply split on the issue of the proposed coal levy, according to an article by Michael Bauchmüller in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Germany's IG ...
14 Apr 2015
14 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) “Germany as a business location: Energiewende beats Industry 4.0” A majority of companies in the electrical industry is ...
30 Mar 2015
30 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel “Energy transition causes controversy between chancellor and state premiers” An alliance of three state premiers have informed Chancellor Angela Merkel about their concerns ...
12 Mar 2015
12 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Let the utilities die” Germany’s biggest utilities are in an existential crisis of their own making, writes Nicolai Kwasniewski in a commentary on Spiegel Online. “The survival of ...
27 Feb 2015
27 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv LichtBlick / WWF “German citizens against coal” A survey by green energy supplier LichtBlick and environmental organisation WWF, coinciding with the launch of a new coal-fired power station in ...
04 Feb 2015, 00:00 The debate over grid extensions to balance over-supply of wind power in Germany’s north with high demand in the south continues as the consulting process in Bavaria fails to yield a concrete decision on their necessity. Grid The ...
21 Jan 2015, 00:00 Environment minister Barbara Hendricks looks forward to the UN climate summit and the role of Germany's climate action programme, hails the global contribution made by German renewable technology and doubts the economic sense of ...
30 Dec 2014, 00:00 After an eventful 2014 – marked by the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), a new climate action package and the first fall in CO2 emissions for two years – German energy policy is primed for action in 2015. Expert AGEB- AG ...
