05 Jan 2024, 10:00 The German government must stop relying too much on giving out subsidies for climate action from 2024, and instead tackle the country’s system of fossil fuel taxes, says energy analyst Andreas Schröder from commodity intelligence ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:32 As Germany strives for a renewable-driven power sector, regulators should enable a more flexible electricity demand, says Nicolas Leicht, energy market expert at Aurora Energy Research. Incentives such as locational price signals, as ...
02 Jan 2023, 12:53 Germany's government needs to devise support for the country's energy-intensive industry in 2023 in order to keep it competitive, says Carsten Rolle, who heads the climate and energy division at industry association BDI. ...
22 Dec 2022, 12:40 Germany has taken important steps to secure its energy supply and help households and businesses cope with the energy crisis, but it is important to continue along this path consistently in the coming year, according to the country' ...
03 Jan 2024, 13:37 Maximising the use and potential of the existing building stock are key levers to respond to Germany's housing shortage and drive forth the decarbonisation of the buildings sector, say Sibyl Steuwer and Lisa Graaf from think tank ...
15 Dec 2022, 11:57 Germany urgently needs an overarching plan to reduce transport emissions in the new year, given that the government didn’t make any headway during its first year in office, Wiebke Zimmer, deputy executive director of clean mobility ...
06 Jan 2023, 11:03 Germany and the EU must focus on reducing their dependence on raw materials that are critical for key energy transition technologies this year, says economist and government advisor Veronika Grimm. “We are [faced] with the task of more ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:35 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Finance 91tv / Handelsblatt The upcoming requirements on sustainability reporting for credit ...
06 Aug 2024, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Digitalisation 91tv As the share of renewables in Germany's electricity mix increases, so does the potential for households to benefit from lower wholesale power prices. In the first ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's grid agency BNetzA is set to adapt grid fees for industrial electricity consumers in a bid to incentivise flexible power consumption. In an impulse paper ...
05 Feb 2024, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU 91tv The European Union could achieve an ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target of 90 percent by 2040, compared to 1990, but the bloc must "consistently" implement the ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Digitalisation 91tv Cloud and edge computing hold great promise to increase the efficiency of a future decentralised energy system, yet the widespread use and acceptance of these solutions still face ...
04 Jan 2019, 11:00 German climate and energy policy must urgently become more proactive in 2019 to increase companies’ planning and investment security, says Mario Ohoven, president of the German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW). ...
15 Feb 2024, 13:10 Ruby Russel Heating 91tv Eastern German cities are taking the lead on energy-saving building upgrades, but the nationwide pace falls well short of climate targets, according to the Federal Association for Energy Efficient ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:38 Sören Amelang Adaptation Society 91tv Citizens expect the German government to take decisive action against the consequences of climate change, and are calling for the greening of inner cities to counter increasing heat, as ...
04 Jan 2021, 14:26 The transformation of the German and European economies will become more tangible in 2021, as new technologies, policies and business models begin to have an effect, Karsten Löffler, head of sustainable finance at the Frankfurt School ...
07 Jan 2019, 09:30 The impending phase-out plan for coal power in Germany will have a profound impact on the country's entire energy policy, says Antje von Broock of environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). The NGO is a member ...
08 Jan 2019, 11:00 A key premise for Germany to meet its climate goals is a strong CO2 price signal, says Manuel Frondel, head of the department "Environment and Resources" at the RWI-Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. Preferably, such a ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:12 Edgar Meza Heating Construction 91tv The climate-friendly conversion of Germany's building sector should include socially-just financing models, as housing, heating and retrofitting costs increasingly place a burden on ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:25 The central role of financial markets in advancing the global transformation towards more sustainable economies has been overshadowed during the turbulent year 2022 on European energy markets, sustainable finance researcher Franziska ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU 91tv Please note: This article has been updated to clarify that support for the target so far has been voiced only by the foreign ministry, while the government cabinet has yet to agree ...
The government's difficulty finding agreement on Germany’s Climate Action Plan 2050 was a preview of similar negotiations in the future, writes Theo Geers in an opinion piece for Deutschlandfunk. “Every saved tonne of CO₂ will have to be seized from ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Society 91tv An overwhelming majority of Germans want the country to ramp up its climate adaptation efforts and better prepare the country's infrastructure against increasingly regular ...
29 Jan 2024, 13:53 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Handelsblatt A ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:13 Municipalities of all sizes are at the forefront of the transformation of cities, infrastructure and Europe’s energy system, and should therefore lead this change actively, the German Institute for Urban Affairs (Difu) said. Enabling ...
23 Dec 2022, 10:24 After the shock of the energy crisis in 2022, the German government must tackle a range of issues that have been relegated to the back burner due to Russia’s war on Ukraine, says Brigitte Knopf, secretary general at the Mercator ...
20 Dec 2022, 13:19 The new year is going to pose the great challenge for Germany’s government to ensure that companies hit by the ongoing energy price crisis do not choose to relocate their business, according to Frederik Moch, head of energy policy at ...
02 Jan 2024, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 91tv 2023 marked Germany's hottest year since records began in 1881, according to preliminary analyses by meteorological service DWD. The year's average temperature reached 10.6 ...
22 Dec 2023, 08:48 Germany made dealing with the consequences of climate change more binding in 2023, and it must now use this momentum to step up implementation, says Christian Kind, adaptation head of programme at think tank adelphi. Spreading the costs ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Adaptation 91tv Adapting Germany to the effects of climate change will create tens of thousands of extra jobs within 15 years, according to a report by the German environment agency (UBA). "In 2040, an ...
15 Mar 2024, 13:44 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Finance 91tv Germany’s largest investment funds continue to put billions of euros in fossil fuel companies whose business ...
17 Dec 2020, 10:36 If Germany doesn’t help existing and promote new renewable energy installations, it risks a “green power gap” in 2030, Simone Peter, President of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) says. With the EU tightening its climate ...
22 Aug 2023, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany will miss its climate targets for 2030 and 2045 without additional measures despite considerable progress being made, according to the emissions projections report 2023 by the ...
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 ...
The ‘Trump effect’ 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. Germany’s broad consensus on the shift ...
03 Jan 2024, 12:19 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:44 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars Spiegel Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz has invited the country’s top car executives and other experts to discuss the country’s lagging shift to clean transport, according to news media reports. The meeting ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:18 Finding a proper economic policy response to the U.S. government's "Inflation Reduction Act" to lure green energy investments into German and European projects will be one of the key challenges the government is going to ...
Several German newspapers discuss the option of a possible regional government coalition between the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Green Party after the Bavaria state elections. In an opinion piece in the Mittelbayrische Zeitung, ...
08 May 2024, 13:34 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EUElections2024 Clean Energy ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Renewable Energy Act | EEG Handelsblatt German power transmission grid operators have said that an additional 7.8 billion euros from the country's budget is needed to pay out renewable energy support in 2024, reports ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Der Spiegel A draft report commissioned by the German government shows that the country’s current and planned climate policies are not enough to reach the official target of net-zero ...
The intense media coverage of the 2015 Paris Climate Summit only had a “modest appeasing rather than mobilizing effect” on the German public, according to a five-author paper published by Nature Climate Change. Before and after surveys showed that ...
05 Jan 2024, 11:43 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Cost & Prices Society Government 91tv / Spiegel / Table.Media Following a noisy backlash from farmers, the German government coalition has decided to backtrack on planned cuts to climate ...
21 Dec 2023, 10:12 Preparing a fast expansion of renewable power will be a key challenge for governments across Europe in 2024, says Sarah Jilibert-Schabram of the Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition (DFBEW). France and Germany both have stated ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:45 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv High energy prices are hitting companies unevenly across Germany’s 16 ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Policy 91tv / Zeit / n-tv A law requiring German municipalities, states and the country as a whole to adapt to the effects of climate change has now come into force (1 July). For the first time, ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:28 Julian Wettengel Wind Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is working on a proposal to subsidise offshore electricity for industry customers through an auction scheme in order to shield companies against ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Handelsblatt German transport minister Volker Wissing has been accused of breaking the country's Climate Protection Act in an expert report, newspaper Handelsblatt reports. According to the report ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:34 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Carbon removal 91tv Carbon farming is an essential tool for reaching Germany’s net zero targets and should therefore ...
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11 Apr 2024, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv An alliance of civil society groups has issued an appeal to the German government to not implement planned cuts in the 2025 budget and avoid damage “to the economic, ecological, and social stability ...
In a further erosion of Germany's political mainstream, the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) has lost its absolute majority in Bavaria’s state elections, while the Greens have become the second largest political force there, writes Deutsche ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Elections & Politics Passauer Neue Presse / Münchner Merkur The leadership of Germany’s conservative opposition party Christian Democrats (CDU) plans to adopt a position paper that calls for the rolling ...
09 Jan 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Tagesspiegel / Rheinische Post The German government will continue with its plans to rollback tax breaks for agricultural businesses, said ...
15 Jan 2025, 11:20 As geopolitical tensions escalate and make UN climate negotiations increasingly difficult, the next German government should continue to explore alternative alliances to push for decarbonisation, says Marian Feist, senior research ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:02 The coronavirus pandemic has stifled the possibility of staging mass protests on the streets. Young climate activists from Fridays for Future (FfF) therefore have had to devise new ways to get their message across. In the run-up to ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Finance International EU 91tv The European Union should go further in its proposal to counter the U.S.’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), more than 40 business organisations, companies, think tanks ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs International 91tv The economy ministers from France and Germany will use their planned visit to the U.S. on Tuesday (7 February) to advocate for “joint green lead markets” for climate ...
26 Jan 2023, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Transport Cars 91tv Germany's strategy for transport infrastructure development is not oriented towards the country’s climate and environmental goals, according to an analysis conducted by ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Cities 91tv A broad alliance of German trade unions and environmental associations has launched a joint call to the federal government for a legal reform to guarantee more financial support to implement ...
22 Dec 2022, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Edgar Meza Agriculture Government 91tv / Welt Reducing the environmental impact of food is one of the key priorities of the German government's upcoming nutritional strategy, presented by the ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Government Handelsblatt Germany's government coalition is facing yet more heated debates about how to plug a gap in the country's budget, as the deficit in next year's federal funding could be even bigger ...
27 Apr 2023, 13:02 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s economy ministry is planning to present a plan for an industrial electricity price in the coming week, Tagesspiegel Background reports. Speaking in Berlin on ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government Süddeutsche Zeitung / dpa With a set of demands on Germany’s energy transition and social security expenditures, the pro-business government party Free Democrats (FDP) has caused a stir in the ...
Germany’s largest industry federation, BDI, warns that high power prices could lead to an exodus of companies to cheaper production locations abroad, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Spiegel Online. BDI head Dieter Kempf said Germany had ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Policy 91tv Carbon contracts for difference (CCfDs) alone will not be sufficient to enable a rapid decarbonisation of Germany's energy-intensive industry, the academic advisory board of the ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Bild am Sonntag Germany's new agriculture minister Cem Özdemir from the Green Party wants people to “value their food as much as their cars”, he told Bild am Sonntag in an interview at the end of last ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:37 Sören Amelang Coal Grid Nuclear phase-out Renewables Germany will not experience an electricity shortage as a result of an exit from coal and nuclear power generation if it rolls out renewables as planned, even if the country’s power ...
19 Feb 2024, 15:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics EUElections2024 dpa / Reuters / Der Spiegel / Zeit Online / Politico / Tagesspiegel / Augsburger Allgemeine European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is seeking a second term at the ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Industry EU 91tv / Financial Times / Reuters / NY Times German economy minister Robert Habeck has welcomed the European Commission’s decision to further relax state aid rules for clean technologies as part ...
23 Feb 2023, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv Germany is unlikely to face gas shortages next winter, the Institute for Economic Research (DIW) has said in a report. Following a halt of Russian gas deliveries into Germany in September 2022, ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry EU 91tv Greening Europe’s industrial base, ensuring resilient clean-tech value chains and setting up a new EU climate fund should be among the priorities of the next European ...
20 Dec 2023, 10:40 Money that Germany has earmarked for climate action should be spent on projects that have a direct impact on key sectors, says Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). The economist warns against cross ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:36 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Sören Amelang Transport Cars 91tv The trend towards heavy and fuel-guzzling sports utility vehicles ...
01 Dec 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Germany's electricity market design needs a fundamental overhaul more urgently than ever before to make the economic value of supply security visible, the country's energy ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:15 The next German government must achieve what the previous few have not: increasing digitalisation, says Robert Busch, managing director of the Association of Energy Market Innovators (bne). Electricity system flexibility can only be ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:15 Next year will be a difficult one for climate policy, says Susanne Dröge, head of climate protection and energy at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Governments will have to show whether they are still committed to strong climate ...
30 Mar 2020, 13:53 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:10 Expert Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Company climate claims 91tv / Der Spiegel German asset management company DWS, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, is facing fresh ...
09 May 2022, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics NDR The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) have achieved a clear victory in the state elections of northern German Schleswig-Holstein and relegated chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:51 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics Die Zeit Since the start of the pandemic, climate activists from Fridays for Future have shied away from organising mass demonstrations and turned to soft lobbying instead, Nele Spandick ...
08 Dec 2020, 08:03 The European Union and Germany will continue to deal with the general question of energy sovereignty and strategic autonomy even with a new US administration led by Joe Biden, says Kirsten Westphal, senior associate at the German ...
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 ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:10 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Heating Government 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Environmental lobby group Friends of the ...
09 Dec 2020, 15:21 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Elections & Politics 91tv German government advisors have launched an urgent call on the country's political parties to make climate action a central topic in their programmes ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU Handelsblatt / 91tv The looming trade conflict between Europe and the U.S. about government subsidies for green investments could be significantly defused after the American ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:15 Germany made significant progress in the area of climate adaptation in the past legislative period, said Andrea Fischer-Hotzel from the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu). From the national to the municipal level, there is now ...
10 Jan 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government dpa / t-online With a set of immediate measures, Germany’s new economy and climate minister Robert Habeck wants to kickstart the government’s ambitious plans for fast emissions reduction and ...
09 Dec 2020, 11:43 The decision by EU leaders on raising the bloc's 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target has major implications for the Europe’s and Germany’s energy and climate policy in 2021 and beyond, says Brick Medak, head of think tank E3G' ...
29 Nov 2024, 13:45 The collapsed coalition of chancellor Olaf Scholz achieved a few important breakthroughs for Germany’s energy transition that should not be sacrificed for point-scoring in election campaigns, says Wolfram Axthelm from the Renewable ...
02 Feb 2021, 14:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Finance Green stimulus Frankfurter Rundschau The German sustainable bank GLS has grown in 2020, defying challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic and spurring calls for a social-ecological restructuring of the ...
25 Feb 2020, 13:38 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Claudia Kemfert German ...
16 Dec 2020, 10:18 The European Green Deal will move from words to action in 2021 and trigger a "tremendous wave of reforms" that are of key concern to German industry, says Carsten Rolle, who heads the climate and energy division at the ...
20 Jan 2021, 13:27 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv ...
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 ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv / Der Spiegel The leaders of the Left Party have called for a socially fair and climate-friendly coronavirus recovery as the centrepiece of the German ...
02 Oct 2024, 16:10 Germany's fight against the devastating long-term impact of climate change has reached a new milestone, with the environment ministry (BMUV) presenting a draft strategy that, for the first time, sets measurable targets to increase ...
06 Dec 2024, 09:25 Ensuring the timely construction of new hydrogen-ready gas power plants must be a top priority in energy policy for Germany's next government, says the head of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). Lobby ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:03 Wars, climate change and competition for land increase worldwide hunger, so Germany must ensure the EU directive on a sustainable food system "becomes a sharp sword" for resilience in the coming year, Reinhild Benning, ...
10 Jan 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv / Die Welt At Germany’s first mobility summit under Olaf Scholz on 10 January, the German chancellor aims to renew efforts to tackle the country’s lagging emissions reduction in the ...
09 Feb 2021, 13:31 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics ZEIT online The German Left Party (Die Linke) puts climate protection at the heart of its federal election campaign, Katharina ...
06 Apr 2020, 12:36 Rachel Waldholz Cost & Prices 91tv / pv magazine The drop in electricity demand driven by the coronavirus pandemic will likely lead to more hours of negative wholesale electricity prices in Germany this year, according ...
19 Dec 2023, 13:31 The German government must be on guard in 2024 to ensure it can meet its increasingly distant target of having 15 million electric cars on the road by 2030, says Wiebke Zimmer, deputy executive director of clean mobility think tank ...
20 Dec 2023, 09:05 Europe has no time to lose in formulating its renewed emissions reduction ambitions after the results of next June’s European Parliament elections become known, says Simone Peter from the German Renewable Energy Federation. A “Fit-for ...
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13 Dec 2024, 15:30 The coming year will show whether the EU can use a new strategy to clean its industry and continue the path laid out over the past five years in the European Green Deal, or whether increasing global competition and protectionist efforts ...
05 Dec 2024, 11:49 Germany’s next government must focus on the shift to climate-friendly mobility to secure industry competitiveness and ensure a socially just energy transition, says Christian Hochfeld, director of green mobility think tank Agora ...
08 Feb 2021, 13:27 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics ZEIT online / Tagesspiegel The German Social Democrats (SPD) want to put ...
12 Jan 2021, 14:28 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv A disturbance in the synchronised European high-voltage power grid on Friday, 8 January 2021, which resulted in a separation of ...
17 Mar 2021, 12:59 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics 91tv Climate activists from the Fridays for Future movement across the world will take to the streets on Friday 19 March for their seventh Global Climate Strike. With the slogan ...
21 Dec 2022, 12:53 Germany’s efforts to replace Russian gas this year are perceived internationally as lacking coherence with its climate ambitions and the government must show that these efforts do not impede the country’s emissions reduction plans, says ...
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20 Dec 2024, 14:57 Dave Keating *** Our weekly Dispatches provide an overview of the most relevant recent and upcoming developments for the shift to climate neutrality i n selected European countries, from policy and diplomacy to society and industry. For ...
09 Dec 2024, 14:00 The break-up of Germany's coalition government could further undermine public acceptance of the energy transition's costs, warns Brigitte Knopf, head of the think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial, which focuses on climate policy' ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:18 The German government overall has done a good job in maintaining energy supply security in the country in the turbulent year 2022, but risks to the energy system's stability persist also in 2023, says Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the ...
13 Dec 2022, 11:30 European countries will continue to deal with the energy crisis throughout next year, and seek sufficient gas supply on world markets while boosting renewable energy and key technologies such as heat pumps. However, the biggest climate ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:12 Germany is of central importance when it comes to the EU defining its priorities in energy and industrial policies, says Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. He argues that the country’s next ...
29 Jan 2025, 11:18 As Germans prepare to head to the polls for the 23 February snap election, the weakness of the country’s large industrial base has become a campaign focus. Some opposition policymakers blame exaggerated climate policies for the troubles ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:00 The European Parliament elections this week (6-9 June) are unlikely to cause a big rollback of existing EU Green Deal legislation, but a projected shift to right-wing – and often climate action sceptic – parties could lower ambition ...
24 Jan 2020, 12:12 Pressure is rising fast on industry to join the great decarbonisation race. Many energy-intensive German companies, like chemical giant BASF or steelmaker thyssenkrupp, already have detailed plans for drastic emission cuts, but lack ...
23 Aug 2018, 18:15 Germany’s coal commission will not give any recommendation regarding mining-owner RWE’s plans to continue clearing forest for the planned extension of the Hambach lignite mine in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The country's ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:52 Filling gas storages in 2023 might not be as easy as this past year in the absence of Russian pipeline gas, and Europe should focus on energy saving and finding ways to increase especially LNG supply to address the global shortage next ...
28 Jan 2025, 12:58 Slowing down industry decarbonisation in Germany would result in a dangerous loss of competitiveness in emerging green markets, says Philipp Verpoort, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Instead, the ...
19 Mar 2021, 13:36 Climate activists from the Fridays for Future movement across the world took to the streets on Friday for their seventh Global Climate Strike. In a year of multiple state elections and a federal election for Germany, activists in over ...
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 ...
08 Jan 2024, 13:54 Workers from agricultural companies across Germany have launched a week of authorised protests in the country by blocking roads and motorways with their tractors. They are demonstrating against cuts to tax breaks for diesel fuel widely ...
06 Sep 2021, 14:05 Environmentalists have denounced the car industry's continued reliance on climate-damaging vehicles as Europe's largest auto show IAA opens its doors to the public in Munich. Carmakers are presenting their visions for climate ...
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 ...
16 Mar 2021, 17:30 Germany’s foreign minister Heiko Maas and economy minister Peter Altmaier have called for closer global cooperation in key energy transition areas, such as green hydrogen, to help the world reach ambitious climate targets. As renewable ...
31 Mar 2020, 14:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
07 Dec 2020, 09:46 Germans should not expect a lot of climate policy decisions next year, as the debates will be firmly in the grip of the national and state election campaigns, says Brigitte Knopf, secretary general of the Mercator Research Institute on ...
11 Jan 2021, 12:51 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country’s 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in autumn. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
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 ...
17 Mar 2015
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Fraunhofer IWES/Agora Energiewende "The Eclipse 2015: Preview of the Power System in 2030" Friday’s solar eclipse will provide a taste of Germany’s power system in 2030, according to a ...
22 Mar 2022, 14:29 The Saarland state election on 27 March is the first major public vote since Germany’s new federal government assumed power at the end of last year. The election in the small state is therefore partly seen as an indicator on how voters ...
12 Mar 2021, 14:30 Youth climate activists agree on one thing: Germany needs to adopt radical climate policies in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. How best to push this agenda is a different question entirely. In this German “super election ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:30 German government officials and industry associations have welcomed the EU’s proposal for a “Green Deal Industrial Plan,” intended to enhance the competitiveness of Europe's industry on the path to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions ...
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 ...
21 Dec 2021, 14:21 Energy consumption in Germany has increased in 2021, as the economy recovered from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the country weathered a cold winter. At the same time, a year of depressed wind power production let the ...
30 Apr 2024, 14:44 The surge of populist parties that oppose ambitious climate policies has left its mark on Germany’s national debate as it did in many other European countries ahead of the upcoming EU elections. Fearful of the backlash against the costs ...
08 Sep 2017, 00:00 Dieselgate, looming driving bans in German cities, an election debate on phasing out combustion engines, and the rapid ascent of e-car rival Tesla – this year’s Frankfurt car show (IAA) comes at an awkward time for German carmakers. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
18 Dec 2020, 12:15 In the upcoming election year, the 20-year-old climate activist for Fridays for Future (FfF) Jakob Blasel will run for German parliament on a Green Party ticket. Blasel told 91tv his decision was based on the need to close ...
14 Dec 2020, 11:13 Germany’s grid expansion is making headway – despite the Covid19 pandemic – but the power market is in need of a thorough overhaul if the country is to pursue its ambitious electrification targets while keeping up high levels of supply ...
23 Aug 2023, 09:00 The German coalition government’s Climate Action Programme 2023 is insufficient to meet 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets- and overestimates its total potential to lower emissions, said the country’s Council of Experts on ...
04 Dec 2020, 10:43 The use of hydrogen in transport, climate-damaging subsidies and new motorway constructions will be among the most important clean mobility topics in the run up to Germany's general elections in 2021, says Jens Hilgenberg, who ...
10 Oct 2018, 17:18 Two days after the UN's latest IPCC report on global warming urged greater international efforts against climate change, the German parliament saw a heated debate about the implications for Germany. While the Green Party, which had ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:39 Preview 2020: Solar power in Germany has bottomed out from its breakdown a few years back and looks ahead at 2020 full of confidence that the odds are in its favour in the country thanks to the introduction of carbon pricing in the ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: Wind power became Germany's single most important power source in 2019 and appears well under way to fulfill its role as the central technology of the country's energy transition. Nevertheless, the wind industry ...
10 Jan 2019, 09:15 The German coal exit commission is set to deliver its final recommendations for the country’s coal exit in February 2019, but this report is likely to be only the beginning of a long and controversial policymaking process in the country ...
09 Jan 2019, 10:45 Energy and climate policy has played a notable role in recent elections in Germany, where public opinion is split over the course of the country's coal exit and diesel emissions in inner cities, says Michael Schäfer, head of ...
21 Dec 2018, 09:32 Ambitious climate action and a resolute energy transition are already possible in Germany but the country's government has yet to prove how serious it is about putting words into action, says Andreas Kuhlmann, the head of the ...
20 Dec 2018, 09:06 The weak and fragile German government is unlikely to implement the drastic measures needed for a speedy coal exit, regardless of the coal commission 's proposals due early next year, according to energy policy reseacher Claudia ...
03 Jan 2019, 11:30 Despite encountering many difficulties, Germany's so-called coal exit commission will manage to sketch a pathway out of coal-fired power production that is acceptable for everyone involved, says Peter Röttgen of renewable energy ...
19 Dec 2018, 10:10 Germany must face several fundamental energy and climate decisions in 2019 to save the country's Energiewende and its international standing, according to Greenpeace head Jennifer Morgan. Most importantly, the promised Climate ...
18 Dec 2018, 09:35 The role of gas – both in its natural form and as a CO2-neutral variety made with renewable power – will be one of the hottest topics on Germany's 2019 energy transition agenda, according to Carsten Rolle, secretary of the World ...
15 Oct 2018, 17:33 The ruling Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) – the sister party to Angela Merkel’s CDU and the partner in her national grand coalition government – were dealt a historic blow in the Bavarian state elections, ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: The fate of coal-fired power production in Germany has been sealed with the agreement of a government-appointed commission to phase-out the fossil fuel no later than 2038. But the proposal so far has not been translated ...
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’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
08 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
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’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
03 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
02 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s 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 Germany’s 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 ‘Jamaica coalition’ talks, the country’s political life ...
22 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
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’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
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’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
18 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
18 Mar 2022, 14:48 The new German three-party coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz had started its term at the end of last year with optimism to launch a vigorous climate action programme after two difficult years in a pandemic. But the “traffic light ...
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 ...
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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 ...
13 Jan 2020, 17:00 Preview 2020: Green and sustainable finance has made a steep ascent in Germany last year and established itself as a key element of climate policy. Government plans to become a leading location for green financial products, intensifying ...
07 Jan 2020, 11:30 Preview 2020: European climate diplomats are facing a busy 2020, and Germany looks set to play a key role as it holds the EU Council presidency in the second half of the year. After the UN climate conference in Madrid left many ...
16 Dec 2019, 10:24 Germany will miss its climate targets without leaps in technological innovation, even taking into account the recently agreed climate package, says Georg Nüßlein, deputy parliamentary group head of chancellor Angela Merkel’s ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:44 German ministers, high-level policymakers, as well as representatives from industry, science and civil society gather at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue on 9-10 April 2019 to discuss the progress of a global energy transition. ...
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 ...
