10 Dec 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung The steel industry is “of geopolitical importance” for German industry and will therefore receive assistance from the government in mastering its ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:21 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry, which is central to ܰDZ’s plans to establish a green hydrogen economy, is calling for postponing existing deadlines for using the climate-neutral gas, reported business ...
17 Sep 2024, 13:59 Jack McGovan Industry 91tv / Handelsblatt Germany's steel-producing states and industry associations have called on the federal government to introduce measures for competitive energy prices, to ramp-up the hydrogen ...
14 Apr 2025
14 Apr 2025, 12:20 91tv Team UN: Countries reach historic deal to cut shipping emissions Under new system, ships exceeding emissions limits need to acquire remedial units to offset excess pollution. BBC: Race to keep furnaces burning at British Steel ...
18 Oct 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Grid Industry Hydrogen Technology Policy Handelsblatt Doubts over Thyssenkrupp Steel ܰDZ’s (TKSE) strategy to decarbonise using hydrogen puts Germany’s plans for the construction of a hydrogen core grid at risk, gas grid ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:57 Jack McGovan Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Plasma technologies could open new options for decarbonising heat supply in industrial processes, offering an alternative to the use of green hydrogen, newspaper Handelsblatt reported. Swedish ...
31 May 2024, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv / dpa / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy minister has awarded steelmaker ArcelorMittal 1.3 billion euros to drive the decarbonisation of its production sites in the states of ...
06 Feb 2024, 13:12 Jack McGovan Industry 91tv The German government has pledged to support the multinational steel manufacturing corporation ArcelorMittal with a total of 1.3 billion euros to help reduce carbon emissions from steel production ...
22 May 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Using public procurement contracts and quotas for climate-friendly basic materials could help drive demand for climate-friendly products like green steel or cement, the German economy ministry ...
04 Apr 2025
04 Apr 2025, 11:05 91tv Team NYTimes: Volkswagen to add ‘import fee’ to cars sold in US The company’s move is one of the first and clearest examples of automakers using price increases to deal with the 25 percent tariffs President Trump imposed on car and ...
26 Feb 2024, 13:30 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv The European Commission has approved 1.3 billion euros of German state aid to help multinational steelmaker ArcelorMittal make its operations in the country more climate-friendly. The ...
12 Dec 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen Die Welt Steel producers in the western German state of Saarland have been granted 2.6 billion euros in state support to transform their production procedures towards climate neutrality. Economy and ...
28 Feb 2025
28 Feb 2025, 11:54 91tv Team AP: UN talks end in Rome with nations backing $200 billion a year plan to protect nature Global negotiators concluded an extended session of the United Nations biodiversity conference, COP16, with key commitments on funds ...
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 ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Construction Handelsblatt / 91tv With a new label for low-carbon cement, Germany's industry aims to ramp up production and sales of the climate friendlier construction material, business ...
29 May 2024, 14:07 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv The production of low emissions cement and steel is set to become cheaper than that of counterparts produced with fossil fuels before the middle of the century, according to a report by the ...
09 Dec 2024
09 Dec 2024, 13:40 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's Scholz not ruling out Berlin taking stake in Thyssenkrupp steel Chancellor meets top representatives of ailing steel sector to discuss high energy prices, cheap competition and shift to decarbonisation. ...
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 ...
15 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025, 11:45 91tv Team dpa: Parties row over Germany's shift to 'green' steel Conservative leader Merz doubts viability of climate-friendly steel, but labour union says it's industry's only chance of survival. Andreas ...
06 Sep 2024
06 Sep 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Copernicus: Summer 2024 – Hottest on record globally and for Europe During the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:16 Two new projects for the climate-friendly production of steel and cement illustrate the ambition of Germany’s industry to meet sustainability targets without ceding market share to foreign competitors. Economy minister, Robert Habeck, ...
07 Oct 2021, 13:46 Edgar Meza Industry In its efforts to slash CO2 emissions in steel production, thyssenkrupp Steel has announced what it describes as a milestone on its path to climate-neutral steel – its new bluemint Steel brand, produced with less ...
11 Dec 2024, 13:10 Importing green hydrogen via ships is not a viable strategy for the decarbonisation of Germany’s steel and chemical industries, the country’s government-funded Ariadne energy transition research alliance has warned. These sectors ...
10 Feb 2025
10 Feb 2025, 13:25 91tv Team Reuters: Baltic states switch to European power grid, ending Russia ties The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system, severing Soviet-era ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:22 Joey Grostern Wind 91tv Germany looks set to exceed its 2030 onshore wind power target by 2.6 percent, according to an analysis by the Google-backed think tank Goal100. Considering the number of applications and permits for ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt German conglomerate thyssenkrupp finds it increasingly difficult to spin off its troubled steelmaking division, Kevin Knitterscheidt and Martin Murphy write in Handelsblatt. In order to successfully sell ...
23 Nov 2023, 12:48 Sören Amelang Renewables Industry 91tv Germany’s steel and renewable industries have launched a joint call for a “transformation summit” to clarify the urgently needed funding for industry decarbonisation in the wake of ...
12 Apr 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices WDR Steelmaker Thyssenkrupp has announced a substantial production reduction at its site in Duisburg in western Germany, a step that will also lead to job cuts for its roughly 13,000 ...
21 Dec 2022, 10:51 The uptake of net zero targets among India’s industrial giants is unlikely to translate into rapid emissions reductions given a lack of adequate policies, funding and regulatory oversight. On the contrary, the country's steelmakers ...
21 Jul 2023, 13:58 Jack McGovan Industry EU 91tv / Die Welt Germany’s largest industry decarbonisation project to date has been approved for funding by the EU Commission, according to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate ...
26 Jan 2021, 12:06 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt Industrialist Sanjeev Gupta, the only bidder for German conglomerate Thyssen-Krupp's loss-making steel business, plans to convert the mills to produce green steel if he’s successful, reports German ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry 91tv A new " steel strategy " for establishing low-carbon ...
23 Nov 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German government wants to help the steel and chemical industry become ...
19 Feb 2024, 09:49 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv / Handelsblatt The European Commission has approved a subsidy scheme by the German government worth 4 billion euros to help reduce emissions from industry production. Support would be given ...
30 Sep 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt The steel industry needs financial support of 13 to 35 billion euros to make the shift to climate-friendly steel production, according to an analysis conducted by think tank Agora Energiewende and ...
05 Dec 2024
05 Dec 2024, 10:30 91tv Team Corporate Europe Observatory: How frontline communities are impacted by the EU’s green extractivism ܰDZ’s scramble for green hydrogen in South Africa will have a devastating impact on local communities, report says. ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:23 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The steel industry needs a clear and reliable framework for its decarbonisation, said Heinz Jörg Fuhrmann, CEO of the Salzgitter Group, at the presentation of the company’s ...
04 May 2021, 12:08 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Clean Energy ...
14 Jan 2022, 13:36 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen Reuters / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German steelmaker Salzgitter wants to shift its entire steel production from blast furnaces to low-emission technologies by the middle of the next ...
08 Jun 2020, 13:11 Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Industry Rheinische Post The German government is working on an action plan to support the country's steel industry in becoming more competitive and climate friendly, writes Antje Höning in the Rheinische ...
15 Mar 2022, 13:33 Edgar Meza Industry EU 91tv The European Commission's plans to replace emission rights trading with a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which aims to create a level playing field for EU producers subject to EU ...
12 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025, 10:57 91tv Team Reuters: RWE, TotalEnergies agree long-term green hydrogen supply deal Germany's top utility agrees to supply French oil major with around 30,000 t of green hydrogen a year from 2030, in one of the sector's biggest ...
Several German states are demanding that the federal government and the EU should protect the steel industry from stricter environmental regulations and rising electricity costs, reports Süddeutsche Zeitung. In a draft of the joint final statement for ...
29 Mar 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv The steel pipelines used in Germany’s gas grid are generally suitable for the transport of hydrogen, said the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW). “The ...
16 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 Sören Amelang World Economic Forum: These are the biggest risks we face now and in the next 10 years "Extreme weather events" rank second in the short term of two years and first in the long term of 10 years. Bloomberg: ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:20 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Industry Clean ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry accounts for about one third of the country's total industry emissions, meaning that becoming carbon-neutral by 2050 comes with particular challenges to the ...
11 Feb 2025
11 Feb 2025, 11:00 91tv Team PIK: Research institute compiles 85,000 individual studies about climate policy, offering "wealth of evidence" Over a quarter of studies reviewed from 2020 or later; Potsdam Institute for Cliamte Impact Research ...
German steel company thyssenkrupp has started production of the synthetic fuel methanol from CO₂ and other emissions in steel production, the company says in a press release. The fuel production from side products of steel smelting is part of the so ...
04 Oct 2019, 13:42 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German steel industry should receive billions in ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:33 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Technology Handelsblatt German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp plans to phase out CO₂-intensive coke-based steel production and replace it with a hydrogen-based process by 2050, ...
28 Aug 2020, 13:22 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv ...
18 Aug 2023, 14:06 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs International 91tv Large swathes of German industry will be impacted by the incoming carbon border tax, but a survey among affected companies shows they are “insufficiently prepared” for ...
11 Apr 2025
11 Apr 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Politico: Friedrich Merz’s cabinet: Who will lead Germany’s key ministries? Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives and their Social Democratic Party (SPD) counterparts have struck a coalition deal, but party ...
23 Jan 2025, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU 91tv French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz have vowed to uphold close Franco-German cooperation to ensure European sovereignty in key industrial areas as the new U ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Industry 91tv At least 100 billion euros of investments are necessary to make European steel production climate neutral by 2050, according to a study by Munich-based consultancy Roland Berger. ...
An abrupt end to coal-fired power generation in Germany would damage the steel industry’s competitiveness by pushing up electricity prices, the head of the country’s steel association, Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff, said at the National Steel Summit, Reuters ...
22 May 2019, 11:33 Volker Hille’s passion project could cut Germany’s entire CO2 output by almost one percent. He is head of corporate technology at Salzgitter Group, one of ܰDZ’s largest steelmakers, which currently emits around eight million tonnes ...
06 Aug 2024
06 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Georg Zachmann: Share of heat-pumps in new buildings in Germany doubles from <30% in 2019 to >60% in the first month of 2024 Gas-boilers dropped from >50% in 2015 to 5% in the first month of 2024, says Bruegel ...
11 Apr 2016, 00:00 With backing from economy minister Sigmar Gabriel, thousands of German steelworkers rallied against EU reform plans for the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) on Monday. Gabriel said there must be no contradiction between climate ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:05 Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology 91tv Germany’s largest steelmaker thyssenkrupp has set itself the target of cutting its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. “Thyssenkrupp aims to be climate ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Cities 91tv The prospective future government coalition of Germany’s smallest state, the City of Bremen, is betting on green hydrogen and its derivates to decarbonise local industries, such as ...
01 Jul 2024
01 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: Germany, Morocco agree alliance to support green hydrogen production and exports Germany is seeking to expand its reliance on hydrogen as a future energy source to cut greenhouse emissions for highly polluting ...
12 Nov 2019, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology 91tv Germany’s largest steelmaker thyssenkrupp has launched a series of tests into the use of hydrogen in a working blast furnace aimed at reducing CO2 emissions ...
20 May 2025, 13:11 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A key plan by Germany’s new government to introduce a subsidised electricity price for industry and revive the sector could be prevented by European Union law, business daily ...
13 Oct 2021, 13:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices WirtschaftsWoche / Der Spiegel / manager magazin Media reports show that rising prices for energy and especially for natural gas across Europe could start to hamper German companies’ ability to ...
The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the country’s most populous state and home to numerous emissions-intensive heavy industries, has launched an initiative to examine options for bringing down industry’s carbon footprint, the NRW ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:22 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 dpa / Handelsblatt Germany's Green Party is proposing a plan to make the country's energy-intensive industries like steel and cement more climate-friendly, using a comprehensive package of ...
15 May 2019, 12:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A Climate Action Law in Germany that spells out clear sectoral emissions reduction targets is in the interest of energy-intensive industries like steel, environment ...
German steel manufacturer Thyssen-Krupp launched a research project on using steel mill gases like nitrogen, methane or hydrogen oxide as resources for chemical materials, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The project, dubbed Carbon2Chem, showed how ...
Low prices of Chinese products, the reform of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), as well as levies connected to the Energiewende in Germany, all put a heavy burden on the German steel industry, writes Ulrich Grillo, president of the Federation of ...
The auto sector will remain one of the steel industry's biggest customers, because the switch to e-mobility demands large quantities of steel for component parts, charging stations, power grids and power stations, Helmut Bünder writes for Frankfurter ...
23 Mar 2022, 15:41 A sudden stop of energy imports from Russia would threaten "hundreds of thousands of jobs" and push Europe's economy into recession, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned. He said Germany will end its energy dependence as ...
27 Mar 2025, 10:12 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Industry 91tv / Table Media [UPDATES article to include support for scheme in coalition talks.] The European Commission has approved a support scheme worth five billion euros to help ...
The German steel industry has remained stable in a difficult global environment, according to a report by the Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI). “The capacity utilisation of the steel industry increased to 89 percent in the first ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 91tv Thousands of scientists from a broad section of fields have come together to urge Germany's next government to prioritise climate policy. "We are very ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Ahead of the German snap election, an alliance of industry associations has called on political parties to push for a government strategy to decarbonise heat that businesses use in their ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:24 Bennet Ribbeck Industry 91tv The electrification of industrial processes with renewable energy is the most cost-effective transformation path for the sector, the research consortium IND-E has stated in a report. The authors ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:08 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv A robust political strategy based on realistic expectations for hydrogen production is needed as demand for the gas remains low due to its high costs and other factors, researchers at the Potsdam ...
Energy start-up Lumenion, Vattenfall Energy Solutions and Berlin-based housing company Gewobag have kicked off a steel storage pilot project in Germany’s capital to store excess regional wind and solar power, the companies announced in a press release. ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:27 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Wind 91tv Leading global wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has won an order to build a 29 megawatt (MW) wind power plant at a steel ...
07 Nov 2023, 13:05 Edgar Meza Hydrogen International 91tv The German government is supporting the establishment of Africa’s first green ironworks with a grant of 13 million euros. A consortium consisting of three German companies, CO2Grab, TS ...
18 Sep 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating 91tv Germany's industry could save up to 21 billion euros in energy costs annually if it generated heat more efficiently for the manufacture of products, according to a report ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:51 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices ...
11 Dec 2019, 13:04 Julian Wettengel Storage Start-ups 91tv Berlin-based energy startup Lumenion has presented the pilot of its 2.4-megawatt-hour (MWh) steel storage system in a housing project in Germany’s capital. The technology would allow ...
06 Jun 2023, 13:14 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Industry 91tv Steel and iron production plants dominate in a list of the 30 most polluting industrial facilities in Germany ...
21 Feb 2025, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics ZDF Most of Germany’s leading parties say they are committed to the country’s 2045 climate neutrality target. In the last major TV debate on public broadcaster ZDF before ...
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 ...
12 Mar 2024, 14:07 With a novel subsidy system that supports energy-intensive industries in Germany switch to more climate-friendly production processes, the country counts as a pioneer in Europe by linking climate action with increased competitiveness, ...
The future design of the EU Emissions Trading System is of "existential importance" for the steel industry, according to the German Steel Industry Association (Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl). The association says in a press release that the ...
26 May 2025, 12:04 Germany’s plans for the ramp-up of a green hydrogen economy has run into significant uncertainties, including over the fuel’s future price, regulation, and the necessary infrastructure development, said an energy industry report. ...
25 Mar 2021, 14:02 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv With the aim to scale hydrogen technology and ensure its integration in the energy market, a new project partnership in northern Germany will invest 1.3 million euros to create a “Clean ...
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 ...
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 ...
31 Jan 2025, 13:06 Joey Grostern Carbon market Business EU 91tv Around three quarters of German companies are not able or only partially able to report emissions data from their suppliers outside of the EU, with two-thirds fearing that this ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:23 Kerstine Appunn Gas Business & Jobs Security 91tv A sudden stop of Russian gas supplies as of July 2022 would lead to a loss of economic output of more than 12 percent, affecting up 5.6 million jobs in the country, a ...
The NGO Green Budget Germany (FÖS) claims recent studies commissioned by the German steel industry on the impact of the planned reform of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) were based on unrealistic assumptions which portrayed misleading “horror ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has said in its draft election campaign programme that it aims to ensure the country is competitive in industry ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:05 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv A large-scale transition to using wood for building construction in "timber cities" could avoid more than 100 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the century, ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Grid Renewables 91tv Dividing Germany’s single power price zone into several individual regions could reduce final electricity prices for consumers across the country, said a report by ...
03 Mar 2020, 14:13 Sören Amelang Energiewende Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt German ministries continue to be divided over plans for a hydrogen economy, delaying publication of the country's highly anticipated strategy to lower emissions in high ...
29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt “Steel before a great exodus” The EU’s plans for a reform of the emissions trading system might lead to a mass exodus of steel companies from Europe, reports Carsten Dierig in Die Welt. ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:05 Sören Amelang Electricity Industry Hydrogen 91tv German industry demand for electricity will rise steeply during the sector’s decarbonisation even if it opts for intensive use of hydrogen, according to a report by a ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Industry Handelsblatt / 91tv The break-up of the coalition government and insecure funding mean that it is unclear whether Germany’s pioneering ‘climate contract’ subsidy scheme to slash industry emissions ...
11 Aug 2021, 13:49 Kerstine Appunn Finance 91tv One of the main objectives of this year’s UN Climate summit in Glasgow (COP26) should be reworking the details of international climate finance and include more links to reciprocal efforts in ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:22 Jennifer Collins Carbon removal Industry International Die Welt A project that would connect Germany's Rhine-Ruhr industrial heartland to an undersea carbon storage project in the Dutch North Sea is set to be delayed by years, ...
04 Apr 2019, 14:09 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Gas Hydrogen Technology 91tv German steelmaker Salzgitter has expressed confidence that policymakers will provide the support necessary to realise a large-scale hydrogen project to ...
04 Oct 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices EU Handelsblatt Some of Germany’s biggest CO2 emitters have taken advantage of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to ensure their own emissions remain low-priced, according to a Handelsblatt report by ...
01 Oct 2021, 12:51 Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German government’s current hydrogen strategy is insufficient, according to the ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry FAZ / 91tv The German government is continuing its push for carbon capture and storage technologies with the draft of its planned Carbon Management Strategy, reported Frankfurter ...
24 Feb 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Industry AFP / RP Online / taz German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp was one of several companies that funded influential Dutch climate change sceptic Frits Böttcher, according to a major new ...
10 Feb 2016
10 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Internal market analysis: EU member states’ nuclear provisions more than 100 billion euros short” An EU analysis has revealed that the member states are not well prepared for the ...
28 Oct 2020, 14:52 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Technology Handelsblatt Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is set to increase funding to convert carbon dioxide emissions in heavy industry into useful chemical products, Barbara ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:03 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU 91tv A European CO2 border adjustment payment can be a first step towards a fairer competition environment regarding emission costs but not accounting for indirect emissions means that a ...
25 Nov 2019, 12:36 Energy-intensive basic industries – such as steel, chemicals and cement – have to quickly introduce and scale up key low-carbon technologies to avoid wrong investments at a time when governments aim for a climate neutral economy by 2050 ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Contracts refunding companies for investments in low-emissions technologies could be a key tool to ensure industry starts the transition to climate-neutral production, a ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:47 Julian Wettengel Grid Tagesspiegel Background Europe has to better coordinate its electricity grid buildout, and other countries should learn from Germany's mistakes, said Michael Jesberger, member of the executive board at grid ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:04 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry 91tv Technologies to capture and store or use carbon dioxide from industrial processes will become "a special focus" of the next round of Germany's pioneering subsidy ...
07 Jul 2021, 13:13 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry ...
07 May 2021, 13:45 Electric cars have long been touted as key to a more sustainable future, but their contribution is clouded by the climate impact of making and disposing of them. As part of an industry-wide bid to roll out entirely CO2-neutral vehicles, ...
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 ...
12 Aug 2024, 13:23 Sören Amelang Carbon removal Industry Policy Tagesspiegel Background / rbb The German state of Brandenburg, which surrounds the capital Berlin, plans to quicken the controversial capturing, transport, storage and utilisation of CO2 to ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Cars Financial Times The German state of Saarland, home to major suppliers for combustion engine cars, shows the vulnerability of the country’s car industry in a future driven by all-electric vehicles, report Guy Chazan ...
15 Jul 2024, 13:52 Jack McGovan Industry Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Many industrial companies have submitted proposals for low emission investments to the German government's scheme to reimburse them for the extra costs associated with climate ...
08 Nov 2023, 14:13 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen International Handelsblatt Norwegian shipping company Höegh LNG is set to convert its floating liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals in Germany to import hydrogen starting 2028, the company's CEO, Erik ...
21 Aug 2018, 15:33 The projected rise in CO2 prices in Europe could see coal-fired power plants being replaced by gas plants in Germany, thereby saving millions of tonnes in greenhouse gas emissions and helping the country to achieve its energy transition ...
11 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online/AFP/Süddeutsche Zeitung “Utilities increase nuclear provisions” The utilities have increased their provisions for the nuclear exit in the last year, according to a report by press agency AFP ...
07 Jan 2016
07 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “No climate protection without an energy transition in transport” Transport is absolutely crucial to decarbonising the economy and Germany should embrace a leading role, but ...
15 Oct 2024, 14:30 Fifteen companies in Germany have been awarded support guarantees in the first round of the so-called ‘climate contracts’ scheme that is meant to put the country’s industry sector on track towards climate neutrality. Economy minister ...
02 Sep 2021, 12:00 In its pursuit of climate neutrality by 2045, Germany has set its sights on extending the energy transition to its famed heavy industry. All major parties address the topic in their programmes for the election on 26 September, ...
25 May 2021, 13:15 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry Handelsblatt / 91tv The German government’s goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2045 has put companies from energy-intensive industries, such as steel, chemicals, paper and cement, ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices n-tv / 91tv Germany will achieve its target of achieving a share of 80 percent renewable energy in its electricity use by 2030, according to chancellor Olaf Scholz. Speaking at ...
15 Feb 2024, 13:30 Ruby Russel Transport Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Projects to build green hydrogen electrolysers at refineries are being cancelled because oil companies lack guarantees that the investments will be profitable, even though the ...
09 Mar 2021, 13:20 Kerstine Appunn Cars Business & Jobs Süddeutsche Zeitung In setting ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gases, the European Union and its member states should be careful not to forget about the impact this has on the bloc’s ...
15 Jan 2024, 13:25 Sören Amelang Carbon market Policy Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Germany’s coalition government will not follow through with its original plan to return revenues from carbon price to citizens as compensation for rising CO2 prices in the ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:40 Higher energy efficiency, a "paradigm shift" in the circular economy, innovative production processes, as well as carbon capture and usage or storage could make Germany's industry CO2-neutral by 2050, but the government& ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Germany has become the first member state to join an EU scheme to support domestic renewable hydrogen production through the European Hydrogen Bank. Under the "Auctions-as-a-Service” ...
05 Apr 2016
05 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Federal Environment Agency “Emissions trading: industry’s emissions almost unchanged in 2015” The CO₂ emissions of German energy intensive industry remained virtually unchanged for the ...
The German steel industry has found in Chancellor Angela Merkel an ally “in its fight against further CO₂-reduction requirements,” Andreas Macho writes for WirtschaftsWoche. In her annual summer press conference, Merkel said “solutions had yet to be found ...
01 Sep 2020, 12:47 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Hydrogen Cost & Prices 91tv The price of green hydrogen will be significantly ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:23 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Alliance for Climate and Economy Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft ...
13 May 2024, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Germany will need more hydrogen than previously expected across all economic sectors by 2030, said the national hydrogen council in an updated assessment of future demand. The council gauged ...
22 Nov 2024, 09:30 The collapse of Germany’s coalition government has thrown climate policymaking in ܰDZ’s largest economy into disarray, and added many question marks to the progress of its landmark energy transition. The sacking of finance minister ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Czechia and eastern German state Saxony have agreed to deepen their cooperation on a joint network for hydrogen and to generally intensify research and industry exchange in the budding ...
22 Sep 2015
22 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) “The VW scandal” It is a mystery why VW decided to take the risk of manipulating emission results with rather limited benefits, writes Holger Appel in FAZ. Why ...
24 Apr 2024, 14:15 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv The German economy ministry sees "signs of a slight economic upturn" in the country as energy-intensive industries have expanded their production since the beginning of ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling 91tv The German government wants to strengthen the role of recycled raw materials in the country's industry in a bid to increase supply security of metals and industrial ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze has called on the country’s energy-intensive industries to present plans to reduce their carbon emissions, Handelsblatt reports. At a meeting in early July, the Social Democrat (SPD) will meet representatives of ...
The European Union agreeing on a more ambitious renewables target than the German government had pushed for shows that the Energiewende country is increasingly struggling when it comes to climate protection, writes Thorsten Knuf in an opinion piece in ...
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 ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:14 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 ...
Representatives of German businesses have welcomed the announcement by new economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier to work towards lower power prices for companies, Donata Riedel writes in WirtschaftsWoche. Christian Vietmeyer, CEO at the Association ...
26 Sep 2023, 12:32 Expert GTAI- Germany Trade & Invest Economic development agency of the Federal Republic of Germany Business & Jobs International Edgar Meza Wind Hydrogen dpa / Handelsblatt Germany and the UK aim to cooperate on the expansion of ...
19 Feb 2025, 13:00 As the new U.S. administration under president Donald Trump upends decades of transatlantic relations and the wider geopolitical order, Germany faces the challenging task of resetting relations with its neighbours to ensure a strong EU ...
A reform of the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) could make the scheme more effective without endangering the competitiveness of the European raw materials industry, a report by international researchers, including the German Institute for ...
With the future of e-mobility being decided in China, German carmakers have to get a move on to not fall behind, writes Sebastian Schaal for WirtschaftsWoche. An “actively shaped, distorted technology race” was unfolding in China, according to Sebastian ...
09 Jun 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating International 91tv The French city of Strasbourg and the German town of Kehl, which are located on opposite sides of the river Rhine, are planning to connect their heating systems in a cross-border ...
14 Feb 2025, 14:20 The conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz is widely tipped to become Germany’s next chancellor – but remains ambiguous on a range of policy fields, notably on energy and climate. Despite being known as a senior policymaker for decades, ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:39 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv The twelve largest chemicals production sites in Germany caused ...
Germany’s new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, wants to introduce a state support programme for climate projects in industry, she told the Rheinische Post. “Together with my cabinet colleagues from the economy [BMWi] and research [BMBF] ministries, I ...
10 Nov 2023, 13:19 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Industry 91tv Energy consumption in Germany’s industry dropped 9.1 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year, ...
05 Nov 2014
05 Nov 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Welt Steel industry says its concerns over energy policy go unheard Various voices from the steel industry raise concerns about the Energiewende in an article in Die Welt. Industry representatives are ...
31 Mar 2016
31 Mar 2016, 00:00 (UPDATE- clarifies sourcing in section on emissions trading in paragraph 6- sources are Prognos and German Steel Federation, not Die Welt. Headline changes accordingly.) Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Frankfurter ...
03 Aug 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck and the European Commissioner for energy Kadri Simson have called on EU member states to join the ‘H2 Global’ initiative in a bid to ...
Global greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced by using algae that convert carbon dioxide into a raw material for producing carbon fibre, researches at the Technical University of Munich have found. The algae remove CO 2 from the atmosphere and turn it ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv / n-tv A planned trip to India by Germany’s economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck aims to bring the countries closer together in efforts to develop renewable ...
08 Mar 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German government’s plan to introduce a subsidy scheme with so-called “climate contracts” for less climate-damaging industry processes will also include small and medium-sized ...
Germany's coalition government of Christian and Social Democrats has neglected topics important to German industry, writes Ulrich Grillo, president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), in a guest commentary for Die Welt. Among other examples ...
23 May 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen dpa / ARD / 91tv Germany’s gas storage capacity is insufficient for the planned expansion of the use of hydrogen, according to gas storage network operator INES. Current gas storage facilities ...
20 Feb 2024, 14:04 Jack McGovan Industry EUElections2024 EU Handelsblatt / 91tv More than 70 companies from across Europe have come together to demand an industrial deal from the European Commission and member states under fear of falling ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Dimethyl ether (DME) – a compound used as propellant in deodorant sprays – is a “hitherto underestimated” way to store and transport hydrogen over long distances, said researchers of the ...
02 Oct 2023, 13:38 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs EU Tagesspiegel Background / taz / 91tv German companies have complained about highly complicated reporting obligations and a lack of preparation time for the start of the EU’s first phase ...
The German government partially or fully waived the country’s renewable energy levy for 717 companies last year because of a special equalisation scheme to mitigate competitive disadvantages for energy intensive industries, Petra Hannen writes in PV ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv Improving circular economy principles for the use of steel, cement and plastics could help Germany’s energy-intensive industries reduce their greenhouse gas ...
The German Green Party should not overlook the concerns of workers in the steel or car industry when it debates the decarbonisation of the country’s economy, metalworker union IG Metall head Jörg Hofmann said as a guest speaker at the Greens’ annual party ...
25 Jul 2022, 14:02 Hannah Naylor Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Expensive energy is forcing almost one sixth of German industrial companies to throttle production, if not halt it altogether, reveals a survey by the Association of German ...
The world's first hydrogen fuel cell train has started commercial operation on 17 September in the German state of Lower Saxony, French rail group Alstom announced in a statement. The Coradia iLint, built by Alstom in Salzgitter, Germany, is equipped ...
10 Mar 2025, 13:28 Germany’s likely next coalition government has agreed to a substantial electricity price cut to relieve households and companies and honour national and European climate targets. The Conservatives, under probable next chancellor ...
The cooling water in many of ܰDZ’s nuclear power plants is pre-heated to prevent brittle steel in reactor pressure vessels from breaking, writes Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “It continues to become more complicated to reach exactly the ...
21 Oct 2015
21 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Environment State Secretary Flasbarth (BMUB) Germany must exit coal in the next 25-30 years A well-organised exit from coal which considers social aspects is needed in the next 25 to 30 years if ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv Europe and Germany should ensure that certain elements of the supply chain of industries critical for the move to climate neutrality happen on their home turf to make the ...
The approval of the sale of Vattenfall’s German lignite plants and mines to Czech utility EPH showed that Germany and Sweden were not willing to implement the Paris Climate Agreement, says Johan Rockström, executive director of the Stockholm Resilience ...
23 Feb 2022, 14:35 Sören Amelang Hydrogen EU 91tv The EU Commission's proposals for adapting the gas market to climate targets are not enough to ensure a rapid scale-up of the hydrogen economy, according to Germany's hydrogen ...
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 ...
Almost no other country hosts as many important car manufacturers side-by-side as Germany and, with about 800,000 employees nationwide, the industry “has an invaluable social responsibility ”, Thomas Fromm writes in a commentary for Süddeutsche Zeitung. ...
A whole range of different policies is needed to bring down the emissions arising from basic commodity production in Germany, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) says in its weekly report. The production and use of basic commodities like ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv As Germany’s hydrogen (H2) economy takes shape, a double supply gap is emerging in the country’s south, a report by consultancy PWC found. While the north is well positioned, the country’s ...
05 Apr 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv The use of synthetic fuels, also known as e-fuels, is unsuitable for road transportation in the medium to long term based on current knowledge, a report by the Fraunhofer Institute for ...
24 Nov 2021, 12:14 Jessica Bateman Industry The Federal Environment Ministry in Germany (BMU) is funding two projects researching alternatives to fossil fuel use in the glass industry. Glass manufacturer Schott, based in Mainz, will receive around 4.5 ...
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 ...
22 Jun 2023, 13:58 Carolina Kyllmann Technology 91tv Timber is set to displace other emission-intensive building materials like cement and steel as Germany looks to decarbonise its construction sector, according to a government strategy. ...
14 Feb 2022, 13:35 Paul Gordon Industry Policy 91tv A company alliance has called for closer cooperation on the capture, storage and transport of CO2 between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In a joint letter, the signatories – among ...
17 Apr 2025, 15:00 The return of nuclear energy in Italy is slowly but steadily shifting from possibility to concrete political project. The transition to renewables, meanwhile, has entered a paradoxical phase: installation numbers are solid yet local ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:38 Unusually low wind power output has caused another 'Dunkelflaute' period in Germany with significantly reduced renewable power production and extreme price hikes in short-term electricity trading. Most customers are shielded ...
09 May 2025, 16:15 Three years on from the invasion of Ukraine, the European Union is still trying to wean itself off Russian energy supplies. The bloc has come a long way from the dependency it once had, yet certain EU countries still rely on Russia for ...
11 Apr 2025, 15:30 The biggest hurdles to building Germany's next government have fallen: a historic spending package has laid the groundwork for coalition negotiations between the conservative CDU/CSU alliance – winner of February’s snap election – ...
23 Nov 2015
23 Nov 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) / Green Budget Germany (FÖS) “Energiewende in transport a long time coming” Fundamental political steps to relocate and avoid traffic and push alternative fuels and engines are ...
04 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas EU 91tv The European Union can cut its fossil gas use in half by 2030 and fully exit the fuel by 2050 while maintaining supply security and industrial production at today’s levels without disruptive ...
The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) amendment proposal passed by the environmental committee in the European Parliament (EP) in December 2016 angers German industry, writes Klaus Stratmann for Handelsblatt Global Edition. “Even our most efficient ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Business Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany’s leading business executives are taking climate and environmental protection increasingly serious, according to a survey presented at the COP26 climate ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:20 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Welt am Sonntag Miners will present the last piece of hard coal mined in Germany to the country’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in ...
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 ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Hydrogen 91tv While the German energy transition made considerable progress in 2020, this could be short-lived as it was largely due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, consultancy ...
14 Jun 2019, 09:07 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
20 Aug 2021, 13:37 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Grid Industry dpa / Reuters / Tagesspiegel SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz is aiming for a new law to ensure industry has enough renewable electricity to decarbonise over the coming decades, ...
19 Oct 2020, 12:59 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Heating EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Europe needs a new way of using resources and should bring together design and sustainability, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen writes in an op-ed ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:12 Jessica Bateman Gas Policy 91tv It is possible to ensure the efficient use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a transitional solution in Germany over the coming winter and beyond without losing sight of the climate ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:24 Sören Amelang Storage Technology 91tv Wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa has begun storing renewable power as heat in about 1,000 tonnes of volcanic rock in the Northern German city of Hamburg. Electricity heats the rock to ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Corporate decision makers in Germany have voted hydrogen technologies as the most important field of action for energy ...
29 Jun 2020, 13:06 Industry Handelsblatt Politicians must urgently implement EU-wide mechanisms that help Germany’s heavy industry to continue to be successful while transitioning to greenhouse gas neutrality, says Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. ...
16 Sep 2022, 13:56 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv The German beverage industry has warned that the rapid rise in energy and raw material costs could push hundreds of companies with thousands of employees into ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv The German environment ministry (BMU) says it will open a research centre focused on reducing emmissions in energy-intensive industries in the eastern German ...
In 2014/15, the iron and steel industry has received about 2 billion euros per year in reliefs and exemptions from taxes and fees for electricity and CO 2, according to an analysis by Green Budget Germany (FÖS), commissioned by the Green parliamentary ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:25 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Handelsblatt When presenting the European Commission’s plans for a carbon-neutral EU in 2050, energy commissioner Miguel Arias Canete’s remark that certain ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Tageszeitung (taz) The introduction of a uniform system for recycling the vast volumes of construction waste is not making headway even after 15 years of negotiations between Germany's 16 states, Heike ...
18 Jun 2021, 12:57 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 EU 91tv The industrial lull caused by the pandemic largely contributed to a 12 percent decrease in CO₂ emissions from power and industry units in Germany last year, according to a new report ...
04 Mar 2015, 00:00 The consultation period for the government's green paper on power market reform is over and submissions reveal stakeholders' different ideas and priorities for a redesign. Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Electricity ...
27 May 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt German industry leaders expressed concerns that Germany will lose out when it comes to building a hydrogen economy, Handelsblatt reports. "It is five to twelve," Martin Brudermüller, CEO ...
07 Aug 2020, 15:11 Hydrogen Industry 91tv A pilot plant for producing green hydrogen energy for low-emission production of chemicals and fuel has opened in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Fraunhofer Centre for Chemical-Biotechnological ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:30 Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt Despite the much-anticipated release of its National Hydrogen Strategy this summer, uncertainty still surrounds Germany’s green hydrogen plans, making the path forward unclear despite the government’s ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:35 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Germany's should not jeopardise its national climate goals by committing to green hydrogen on a long-term technology path today, as it is still out in the open how innovations and ...
12 Apr 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Technology 91tv German energy provider EWE has completed the first stage of a test project to see whether the safe storage of green hydrogen in underground caverns is possible. The ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:34 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn Industry Cost & Prices EU 91tv A carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) ...
30 Sep 2021, 13:16 Charlotte Nijhuis Finance COP26 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A month ahead of the international climate conference COP26 in Glasgow, 220 financial institutions call on 1,600 companies to define solid targets to reduce their greenhouse ...
28 Jan 2022, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt A sharp reversal halting the drop in prices for solar panels, wind turbines and batteries caused by supply chain problems and rising raw material costs could ...
26 Jan 2016
26 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv manager magazine / Bloomberg “Gas-fired power stations rise from the dead” What might be the biggest absurdity of the German Energiewende could now be ending, as relatively clean gas-fired power ...
25 Jan 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Climate action policies and the ability of the economy to cope with them will become a defining factor for the financial system’s stability, the German central bank Bundesbank has said in a ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU Handelsblatt Proposed changes to EU state aid regulations are causing concern among Germany's most energy-intensive companies that are currently benefiting from rebates that shield them from paying the ...
20 Apr 2016
20 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv BMUB / Deutsche Welle “Gy asks Belgium to hit the switch on disputed Tihange and Doel nuclear reactors” Environment minister Barbara Hendricks submitted an ...
07 May 2025, 15:00 The six-month wait for a new German government came to an end when Friedrich Merz was finally confirmed as chancellor in a day of high drama in parliament on 6 May. Stakeholders and observers have urged the new chancellor to keep energy ...
13 Dec 2019, 13:13 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Industry 91tv Industry produced 55 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in Germany in 2018, meaning local units of ...
13 May 2022, 12:18 Sören Amelang Gas Die Zeit Environmental NGOs warn that leaving the unused Nord Stream 2 pipeline at the bottom of the Baltic Sea could cause environmental damages, but legal uncertainties mean it’s unclear what will happen to the 11 ...
31 May 2021, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Handelsblatt Industry representatives have criticised that little has happened since the German government decided its hydrogen strategy one year ago, reports Marcus ...
19 May 2021, 13:36 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics International RND German federal finance minister Olaf Scholz has proposed the creation of an international organisation of countries to lead the way in climate protection, Andreas Niesmann writes for ...
14 May 2021, 14:05 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Policy 91tv Germany's government has agreed on a "climate pact" that sketches out steps to achieve the more ambitious emission reduction targets approved by cabinet this ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:17 Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Bloomberg Oil major Shell plans to transform itself into “the largest electricity power company in the world” by the early 2030s, and the recent purchase of German battery ...
20 Sep 2024, 15:02 The worst floods in at least a decade hit southern Poland and neigbouring regions in mid-September due to extreme rainfall, which scientists said was likely more intense due to climate change. The situation has received wide political ...
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 ...
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 ...
18 Mar 2021, 14:02 Sören Amelang Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The German Greens propose a large public investment programme to support the transition to a climate-friendly economy and a phase-out of combustion engine car sales by 2030 in their ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:40 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv One year on from the National Hydrogen Strategy launch, Germany’s government and industries are divided over its implementation. While the government’s interim report ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics EU 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung Friedrich Merz, a prominent politician of the governing conservative CDU/CSU who stands a chance to become a minister in Germany's next government ...
23 Jun 2022, 13:05 Edgar Meza Policy EU Euronews, 91tv The European Parliament’s approval on 23 June of a draft law overhauling the bloc’s emissions trading system (EU ETS) has been met with widespread criticism from industry and ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:51 Sören Amelang Gas Business Hydrogen Start-ups Technology 91tv The cosmetics industry is increasingly interested in using renewable hydrogen, according to German electrolysis start-up sunfire. Hydrogen made with renewable ...
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 ...
14 Feb 2025, 10:00 Germany’s snap elections on 23 February take place against the backdrop of massive changes in geopolitics, presenting the next government with the opportunity to reset its relationships with major European partners, says Rafael Loss, ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:22 Sören Amelang Industry 91tv The German chemical industry association VCI has teamed up with the country's engineering association VDI to develop concepts aimed at reaching greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050. The ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:30 Edgar Meza Storage Hydrogen 91tv German technology company Bosch is ramping up stationary fuel cell efforts, announcing this week plans to begin full-scale production of distributed power stations based on solid oxide fuel ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:50 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's gas industry plans to establish a pipeline network measuring 5,900 kilometres to enable the large-scale use of hydrogen in the country. According to a plan seen by business daily ...
22 May 2025, 10:46 Carbon capture is set to play a key role in decarbonising the cement and concrete industry, says Jan Theulen, Group Lead Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) at Heidelberg Materials, one of the world's largest cement ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:25 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv Germany will not be able to import enough renewable hydrogen to reach the targets laid out in its national hydrogen strategy, according to an analysis conducted by the ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Government EU Reuters / Die Welt / 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The postponement of Franco-German government consultations has been labelled as a “ diplomatic earthquake ” in ...
22 Mar 2021, 12:16 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU The European Union should create a “climate club” with other large emitters instead of ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:15 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Industry The use of new low-emission technology across all ...
14 May 2020, 14:03 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany can establish an initial grid for transporting green hydrogen made with renewables by 2030 at limited costs, according to the country's gas transmission grid operator umbrella ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:38 Germany is betting on sustainable hydrogen to decarbonise its economy and will largely have to import the fuel in future due to unfavourable local conditions for renewable electricity production. With its hydrogen import strategy, the ...
22 Dec 2020, 13:07 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Charlotte Nijhuis Policy 91tv Reducing the environmental damages caused by greenhouse gases, nitrogen emissions, other ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt [Update adds details on launch of environment ministry’s investment support programme.] Germany’s industrial sector fears the investment in energy efficiency it will ...
04 Dec 2020, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cities 91tv / Tagesspiegel A new subway line in the centre of Berlin has drawn criticism for its climate impact due to an expert report finding that new subway projects in the German capital on ...
15 Jan 2016
15 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “Full wind speed ahead” The reason why payments for renewables have increased to 24.1 billion euros in 2015 is to be found in their success, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in a Q ...
22 Jun 2021, 13:48 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German government aims to spend some 5.2 billion euros next year in climate protection investments as part of an emergency climate pact that is expected to be approved by ...
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 ...
26 May 2021, 13:25 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv Germany will need some 60 terawatt-hours of hydrogen by 2030 and domestic production can only cover a third of that demand, according to a paper by Berlin-based think tank Climate Neutrality ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices Die Welt Germany’s energy-intensive industries have called for an energy transition cost “super cap” for their businesses, Daniel Wetzel reports for newspaper Die Welt. Lobby ...
26 Nov 2019, 13:04 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:01 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The expected dismantling of thousands of old wind turbines in Germany could overburden ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:27 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party ...
24 Mar 2017, 00:00 All eyes are on the federal state of Saarland kicking off Germany’s election year on 26 March. An otherwise unremarkable campaign started to engage national politics when the Social Democrats put forward their new federal election ...
30 Nov 2021, 10:50 The three "traffic light coalition" parties have agreed to form Germany's next government and tabled a coalition treaty that they promise will put the country on a path compatible with Paris Climate Agreement 's ...
01 Feb 2021, 13:47 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt The German industry is confident that the goal of achieving ...
01 Apr 2022, 13:01 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Security Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The heads of Germany’s large, energy intensive companies have warned against severe damages that would be caused by a stop to Russian gas ...
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 ...
28 May 2021, 12:48 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv As part of Germany’s long-term strategy to make hydrogen a cornerstone of its energy transition, the federal ministries for economic affairs and energy (BMWi) and of transport and digital ...
27 Apr 2020, 13:10 In the fight against climate change, hydrogen made with renewable electricity is increasingly seen as a silver bullet for sectors with particularly stubborn emissions, such as heavy industry and aviation. As a result, the emission-free ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:13 Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Germany's environment minister Svenja Schulze has proposed to speed up the large-scale use of renewable hydrogen with a quota for aeroplane fuels and tenders for production. "For me it is ...
03 Feb 2020, 13:46 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:18 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Carbon removal Fossil fuels Technology 91tv Germany’s ...
10 Dec 2019, 13:31 Expert GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit German development agency International Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany will establish a central hub to coordinate its ...
30 Mar 2021, 13:37 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 91tv Green hydrogen technology can help reduce emissions from industry, transport and heating in ...
03 Dec 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty have kicked off in Paris. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The 91tv ...
21 Aug 2020, 14:14 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Agriculture Tagesspiegel Background German farmers should consider switching to more heat resistant crops, Ernst Rauch, chief climate scientist at reinsurance group Munich Re, told Heike Jahberg in an ...
18 Nov 2019, 13:33 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende 91tv The amount of packaging waste accruing in Germany has reached a new record high, the Federal ...
11 Oct 2019, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv German car manufacturers Daimler and BMW, utility RWE and building materials company HeidelbergCement are among the world's most influential lobbyists against ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:48 Corrects headline:Daimler will enlist several wind farms, not thousands of wind turbines, as previously stated. Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cars Süddeutsche Zeitung German carmaker Daimler is signing agreements with wind farm operators ...
18 May 2020, 14:16 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen 91tv Germany should aim to build up large capacities of hydrogen ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:15 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Gas Hydrogen Technology Wirtschaftswoche French oil major Total keeps an eagle eye on German projects that use ...
17 Dec 2020, 14:20 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv The German parliament has passed the latest reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), which specifies a timeline of tenders for renewable power installation additions until ...
18 Mar 2020, 13:40 Sören Amelang Coal Gas Hydrogen Policy 91tv / Handelsblatt / Energate The German government has adjourned a decision on the country's highly anticipated strategy on how to boost the use of hydrogen to decarbonise ...
29 Mar 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Policy 91tv The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that Germany's system of financing its renewables build-up through a surcharge on power bills does ...
06 Nov 2017, 00:00 The UNFCCC conference in Bonn needs to see more states make ambitious climate mitigation pledges, Sabine Nallinger, Managing Director of the Foundation 2°- German Businesses for Climate Protection, tells 91tv. The outcome could spur the ...
29 May 2024, 14:30 In a bid to help Germany reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045, the government has presented a draft law reform that would allow the storage of CO2 under the seabed, as well as onshore – but only if the federal states choose to do so. ...
08 Sep 2015
08 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau Nuclear decommissioning: Environmental activists worried about security An alliance of 76 environmental groups is demanding stricter security standards and more public ...
13 Sep 2021, 14:00 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics 91tv A second televised debate between the three chancellor candidates for the German federal election has again seen the Social Democrats’ (SPD) candidate Olaf Scholz come out on ...
23 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germany’s industry should work with the government to reach the goals in the country’s newly adopted Climate Action Plan 2050 rather than criticise the plan or individual measures, energy state secretary Rainer Baake told a conference ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen ...
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 ...
13 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024, 15:30 The coming year will show whether the EU can use a new strategy to clean its industry and continue the path laid out over the past five years in the European Green Deal, or whether increasing global competition and protectionist efforts ...
22 Feb 2024, 14:30 The climate impact of construction has mostly remained an afterthought in Europe's efforts to make its buildings climate-friendly, which has largely focused on heating emissions. Yet, as homes and offices become more energy ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:24 Germany is starting a novel subsidy programme worth billions of euros in a bid to make its prized heavy industry climate neutral. Following a preparatory phase beginning in early June, the country plans to introduce so-called Carbon ...
03 Nov 2020, 13:40 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen 91tv ...
18 Dec 2024, 10:13 Italy is considering a return to nuclear power as part of its strategy to achieve carbon neutrality and increase energy independence. The debate has reignited political tensions over the issue, with proponents arguing that nuclear ...
03 Feb 2020, 13:44 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel 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 ...
09 Oct 2019, 10:44 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Technology 91tv It is possible for the German chemical industry- ...
22 Apr 2020, 15:01 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert ...
15 Mar 2023, 09:45 Germany’s renewable industry association BEE has criticised key elements of the EU proposal to reform the design of the bloc’s electricity market. The lobby group said strict rules about the shape of future subsidies for new low-carbon ...
02 Jul 2019, 13:39 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv The likely next government coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and the Left Party in Germany’s smallest state Bremen wants to declare a ...
08 May 2019, 13:31 German industry heavyweights including chemical maker BASF, HeidelbergCement, gas supplier Linde and steelmaker Salzgitter say they are prepared for profound emissions cuts, but still lack the necessary market signal from policymakers. ...
03 Nov 2020, 12:53 Energy consumption and related CO2 emissions in Germany are set to fall significantly in Germany in 2020, data by energy market research group AGEB shows. The drop in CO2 output to a large extent is caused by the coronavirus pandemic ...
04 Jan 2024, 12:51 Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions fell around ten percent last year to the lowest level since around 1950, as a weak economy and high prices caused energy-intensive industry to lower production and electricity generation from coal ...
01 Oct 2015
01 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW)/Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) “Wind power generation 2015 already exceeds last year’s level” Thanks to strong winds and the addition ...
10 Sep 2021, 14:56 Germany could transform its economy to net zero emissions by 2045 at net zero costs, because switching to green technologies opens up new markets and opportunities for growth, consultancy McKinsey has found. In its report „Net-Zero ...
20 Nov 2023, 16:30 Germany will invest 4 billion euros in sustainable energy projects in Africa until 2030 to help improve the continet’s role in renewable power, green hydrogen and critical raw material extraction, chancellor Olaf Scholz announced at the ...
15 Mar 2022, 13:55 Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions have increased by nearly five percent in 2021, in an expected rebound during the economic revival after the pandemic. The country's Federal Environment Agency warned that the “Corona windfall ...
02 Oct 2024, 13:00 Germany’s three-party coalition government is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in several elections, casting a shadow over the progress of the country’s energy transition. Energy industry and ...
20 Jan 2016, 00:00 Germany needs a pathway for exiting coal by 2050 at the very latest, according to Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks. She welcomed Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel's announcement of a round table on the thorny issue, and said a ...
29 Sep 2022, 17:37 The German government has agreed on a relief package worth up to 200 billion euros to fight soaring energy prices. “Prices must go down – that’s our conviction, and the government will do anything to achieve that,” said chancellor Olaf ...
18 Mar 2015
18 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv taz / dpa “The concept has definitely failed” Germany’s Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks considers negotiations between the federal government and state governments over which states will ...
23 Jan 2019, 10:55 Power prices are less of a concern for some industry sectors and coal-heavyweight RWE has long been about “much more than coal” – industry representatives offered an unusual take on the German coal exit debate in a panel discussion ...
02 Feb 2022, 12:52 With its Green Deal the European Union has embarked on the transition to a climate neutral economy by 2050, and it has made sustainable finance a key pillar of its efforts. The EU taxonomy – a system that defines companies’ activities ...
08 Sep 2022, 12:00 Current "climate neutral" product claims may be flawed, but they are a clear sign that companies realise that consumers want climate action, argues Jens Burchardt, the Boston Consulting Group's global expert on climate ...
21 Nov 2023, 08:43 The debates over the fallout of last week’s shock constitutional court ruling on Germany’s state budget borrowing rules are in full swing, as the government faces difficult decisions on how to fill a 60-billion-euro gap in its special ...
30 Jul 2019, 13:43 Primary energy use in Germany decreased almost two percent in the first half of 2019 due to a large drop in coal consumption, according to first estimates. This is likely to result in a further substantial fall in the country’s CO2 ...
05 Feb 2016
05 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Zeit “Billions from the state for coal-fired power plants” State development bank KfW supports coal-fired power plants and other coal-related projects abroad through its subsidiary IPEX, with ...
29 Jan 2019, 15:02 Following a sharp drop in new onshore wind power installations in Germany in 2018, the industry warns that mounting resistance against new turbines endangers a sufficient supply of renewable energy demanded by industry and national ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:30 Germany's environment ministry has warned that climate-neutral fuels made with renewables must not become an excuse for neglecting the domestic roll-out of renewables, increasing efficiency and other efforts to cut emissions. " ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:11 As German stakeholders eagerly await the European Commission’s proposals on overhauling the EU’s energy and climate policy, the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) has said new EU laws could mean that the country has to once again ...
07 Oct 2021, 12:17 Germany can reach its target of climate neutrality by 2045 but enormous tasks such as the massive expansion of renewable energy and transformation of whole industries have to be initiated as quickly as possible by the country’s next ...
06 May 2022, 14:04 The effects of the war in Ukraine will have a major impact on Germany’s most important state election this year, making next week’s vote in heavy industry heartland North-Rhine Westphalia another gauge of the public’s view of the ...
02 Apr 2024, 10:30 “Reuse and recycle” is a catchphrase most people associate with plastic bags or bottles. But our homes, schools and offices are also made with materials that are far too valuable and carbon-intensive for single use: They shouldn’t ...
30 Sep 2020, 12:23 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has thrown her weight behind the European Commission’s proposal to increase the bloc’s climate target to a 55 percent greenhouse gas reduction by 2030. Speaking in federal parliament, she said the country ...
12 May 2017, 00:00 In what is often dubbed “the small-scale federal election”, voters in Germany’s industrial powerhouse and most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia decide on a new government on 14 May. The exit from coal-fired power generation – a ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:28 Renewables' growing raw material needs could become the energy transition's "Achilles' heel", warns Germany's environment agency UBA. It calls for better ecological and social mining standards to become an ...
03 Feb 2016
03 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Environment Agency “G greenhouse gas emissions fall considerably in 2014” New data shows that Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions fell to 901.9 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents in 2014 ...
21 Oct 2021, 13:32 Germany’s next government must act quickly, trigger large-scale investments and set the right framework to ensure the country transforms its economy to reach climate neutrality by 2045, said industry association BDI and Boston ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:14 The European Union wants to establish itself as the world leader in hydrogen technologies and will focus on ramping up electrolyser capacities in the next four years. According to the European Commission's hydrogen strategy, the ...
24 Apr 2017, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans to go beyond a rational take on the Energiewende and develop “a certain passion and joy” for the country’s generational project. Speaking at an event by her conservative CDU/CSU group in the ...
24 Feb 2015, 00:00 A vote in the European Parliament on the reform of the EU's emissions trading system has prompted applause by some and disappointment from others. The 91tv has compiled some of the reactions out of Germany to the ...
03 Feb 2015
03 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Bavaria does not need two grid extensions” The southern German state of Bavaria, one of the country’s industrial powerhouses, has completed a three-month “Energy Dialogue” ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:03 As president Vladimir Putin continues to wage war in Ukraine and the U.S. is preparing to ban all oil imports from Russia, calls are getting louder for Germany and Europe to follow Washington’s lead. European countries are paying ...
12 Jan 2022, 12:20 Faced with a “drastic backlog” of too-high emissions left by the previous government and with not enough measures in place to reach the 2030 climate targets, Germany’s new minister for the economy and climate, Robert Habeck, has ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:26 Powering aeroplanes with renewable fuels is crucial for making flying less climate-damaging, but it will get aviation nowhere near climate neutrality, environmental NGOs, industry representatives and researchers agreed at a conference ...
05 May 2021, 10:03 The latest pledges for greenhouse gas reductions by large emitters like the EU and the U.S. are making a difference in predicted global temperature rise and “show progress and a great need for action,” Germany’s environment minister ...
23 Jan 2020, 15:45 The expansion of offshore wind power capacity in Germany has exceeded that of onshore turbines for the first time ever last year. This is both due to a particularly bad year for onshore expansion and the increasing competitiveness of ...
18 Dec 2019, 14:05 Germany has seen a second year of significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, as coal use fell by more than 20 percent and energy production from renewables increased, preliminary calculations by energy research group AG ...
17 Jun 2021, 12:00 As the German election campaign kicks into its next gear, the chancellor candidates of the country’s major parties met face to face on Wednesday to discuss climate and energy issues at an event organised by energy industry association ...
04 Apr 2016
04 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel Sandbag “Top 10 European polluters still dominated by German lignite” “Four out of five of the biggest polluters in Europe are still German lignite plants,” reports UK-based sandbag. The not-for-profit ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:43 The EU is struggling to decarbonise its buildings, most of which are heated by fossil fuels that spew planet-heating gasses. But it has the technologies to go green. The bigger problem, experts say, is overcoming the barriers to rolling ...
17 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) "European Commission has missed the opportunity for innovation in CO2 intensive materials" The EU Commission’s proposal for carbon leakage ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:30 The UK government is embracing carbon removal technologies as a part of its net-zero ambition and wants to use carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to revive the industrial heartlands in the North of the country and create tens ...
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 ...
11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015, 00:00 Agora Energiewende “Without a decisive change of course the emissions trading system will fail permanently” Only the rapid introduction of a market stability reserve to increase the price of CO2 emissions can salvage the European system ...
14 Dec 2015
14 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “For humanity” The Paris treaty is a “terrific day for humanity” and spells out clearly that the fossil era is coming to an end, writes Michael Bauchmüller in a commentary for ...
11 Sep 2020, 14:36 One year before Germany's next general election, economy minister Peter Altmaier calls for a "historic consensus" between all democratic parties, businesses and civil society to ensure that climate action and the ...
29 Oct 2019, 17:41 Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp drop in coal consumption is driving a decline of the country’s overall energy use in 2019. If this trend continues, the ...
26 Jun 2018, 17:32 Germany has provided inspiring visionary leadership on energy and climate change for many years, but is now at risk of being left behind, former US Vice President Al Gore said on the first working day of the country’s coal exit ...
26 Apr 2016
26 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Energy policy after Chernobyl” The impact of Chernobyl was the largest where its fallout was the smallest – in Germany, where the ...
06 Apr 2016
06 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Ministry for the Environment and Nuclear Safety Using nuclear energy is an ‘aberration’ The nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl almost 30 years ago showed that using nuclear energy ...
29 Oct 2015
29 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Environment Agency (UBA) “Energiewende: Industrial consumers can use power more flexibly” German industry could make their power demand more flexible and thus reduce load by up to 6 ...
11 Jul 2019, 13:33 The shift to a low-carbon future is turning the economy inside out. Policy has a crucial role to play, but ultimately it is businesses that will make the energy transition happen. In Energiewende home country Germany, many start-ups are ...
20 Feb 2015
20 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv World Energy Council “G energy transition is currently not an export hit” Many international energy experts doubt that Germany's energy transition works as a blueprint for other countries ...
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 ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:59 The world’s top management consultancies, who for decades have advised the biggest polluters, are now piling into the business of helping companies cut emissions to become more sustainable. They are retraining staff, poaching ...
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 ...
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 ...
09 Feb 2021, 14:40 The energy transition marks the single largest effort in history to reduce industrial waste by pursuing the goal of burning zero fossil resources and replacing them with renewables- but it does not come without waste on its own. Germany ...
26 Oct 2021, 17:29 High gas, petrol and power prices are set to play a part in the ongoing negotiations to form the next German government coalition, which will shape the country’s energy transition policy for years. The election winner Social Democrats, ...
16 Oct 2017, 00:00 Not far from Germany's largest brown coal mine, the United Nations’ 23rd COP climate summit will take place in Bonn. While implementing the Paris Agreement will take centre stage under the presidency of Fiji, the host country ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
15 Jun 2020, 10:30 A mainly fossil energy guzzler, heating in Germany has taken a back seat to the Energiewende's poster child, the power sector. But the “Wärmewende”, or heating transition, has significant potential to curb emissions and is ...
16 May 2019, 16:50 Chancellor Angela Merkel has put carbon capture and storage (CCS) back on the table, saying the controversial technology was crucial for Germany to reach climate neutrality by mid-century. CCS has been met with a lot of public mistrust ...
06 Aug 2021, 14:00 Germany’s upcoming national election is the first in which climate and energy policy have truly taken centre stage. In the agriculture sector, droughts and new policies aimed at bringing out the sector’s potential for eco-system ...
29 Oct 2019, 08:40 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how Germany's energy transition is transforming the commercial landscape. To showcase these big changes in the world’s fourth largest economy, this new series ...
17 Oct 2018, 14:44 The global energy transition is both accelerating and unstoppable, and will continue to disrupt many industries from carmaking to construction, according to green energy pioneer Amory Lovins. But the cofounder and Chief Scientist of the ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
18 Apr 2018, 00:00 German ministers and European Commissioners will be among those explaining why an energy transition is a good idea for the world, at the fourth Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue on 17-18 April 2018. The 91tv will give a ...
24 Jul 2020, 10:40 The rivalry between Europe and China in emission-free hydrogen technologies could become one of the defining business stories in the global effort to stop climate change. Scarred by its painful experience in solar PV manufacturing, ...
22 Sep 2020, 10:30 As the coronavirus crisis drives many governments across the globe to introduce emergency plans to cushion the immediate economic effects, there are growing calls to align any mid and long-term stimulus efforts with climate targets. ...
06 Nov 2019, 09:11 Energy and climate policy observers grade Angela Merkel's government 3.7 points out of 10 for climate efforts in a mid-term review. Industry experts, researchers and lobbyists say plans for a CO2 price in transport and heating ...
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 ...
