Study shows how to decarbonise transport by 2035 / Diesel sales rise
Greenpeace / Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
Greenpeace Germany has published a study proposing 鈥渁mbitious measures鈥� to decarbonise German transport by 2035, carried out by Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. To succeed, the scenario demands 鈥渁 comprehensive paradigm shift in all sectors and courageous structural changes鈥�. This includes a cut in passenger transport and slower growth of freight transport with 鈥渋nnovative strategies to avoid traffic鈥�. The scenario also involves a shift from private cars to public transport, non-motorised transport, and shared mobility, and from freight transport by聽road to rail and inland waterways. The fossil combustion engine is replaced by e-mobility and alternative fuels. 鈥淥nly if the federal government decides a date for the end of the combustion engine now, will tomorrow鈥檚 transport sector contribute its share to climate protection,鈥� Greenpeace transport expert Benjamin Stephan said.
Read the press release in German and the study in German .
See the 威力彩玩法 dossier The energy transition and 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport sector for more information.
碍枚濒苍er Stadtanzeiger
Over 60 companies have criticised government plans to substantially limit the possibilities for wind power expansion in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Hilmar Riemenschneider writes for 碍枚濒苍er Stadtanzeiger. In a letter to the new state government of conservative CDU and economically liberal FDP, the companies argue that a new minimum distance of 1,500 metres between wind turbines and the nearest settlement would reduce the area available for wind power projects by 90 percent, and lead to a 鈥渕assive decline鈥� in the renewable energy source鈥檚 expansion by 2019, Riemenschneider says. The companies - renewable energy providers, utilities and turbine manufacturers from NRW and other German states - say the new state government鈥檚 plans would 鈥渁bruptly and drastically alter鈥� the legal conditions for wind-power generation and threaten up to a billion euros in annual investments.
Read the article in German .
Find background on the election in NRW here and key points of the coalition treaty here.
Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (Bafa)
German sales of petroleum products have gone up 3.5 percent to 55.8 million tonnes in the first half of 2017, the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (Bafa) has said in a press release. Compared to the same period last year, German diesel sales climbed 4.5 percent to 19.09 million tonnes, petrol sales by 3.4 percent to 9.2 million tonnes and naphtha sales by 5.9 percent to 8.18 million tonnes. At the same time, the country鈥檚 biodiesel sales fell by 7 percent to 1.04 million tonnes and bioethanol sales by 1.3 percent to 0.55 million tonnes. Total imports of petroleum products grew by 2.2 percent to 20.5 million tonnes, whereas crude oil imports sank by 1.5 percent to 43.8 million tonnes.
See the press release in German .
For background, read the 威力彩玩法 factsheet 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 dependence on imported fossil fuels.
WirtschaftsWoche
The German steel industry has found in Chancellor Angela Merkel an ally 鈥渋n its fight against further CO鈧�-reduction requirements,鈥� Andreas Macho writes for聽WirtschaftsWoche. In her annual summer press conference, Merkel said 鈥渟olutions had yet to be found鈥� for reform negotiations on the fourth phase of Emissions Trading System (ETS) in the European Union.
Read the article (behind paywall) in German .
For background, read the 威力彩玩法 article German steelworkers fight EU plans for emissions trading.
Zeitung f眉r kommunale Wirtschaft
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 lignite industry received a lot of support at an energy conference in eastern Germany, economic newspaper Zeitung f眉r kommunale Wirtschaft reports. At the Eastern German Energy Forum, the state premier of Saxony-Anhalt, Rainer Haseloff, said lignite would be indispensable in Germany until 2050. He pointed to a shortage of power storage technology and neighbouring countries' continued use of the fuel.
Read the article in German .
See the 威力彩玩法 factsheet When will Germany finally ditch coal? for more information.
The Economic Times
India has entered into a pact with Deutsche Gesellschaft f眉r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) - the German government's international development agency - to help integrate renewable energy into its grid,聽The Economic Times reports. India鈥檚 Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal said "clean energy has a very important role to play," in relations between the two countries.聽
Read the article in English聽.
IW 碍枚濒苍
German carmakers are keeping up in the international race for electro mobility, even though it remains a niche market in Germany itself, the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW 碍枚濒苍) says in its weekly newsletter. 鈥淕ermany is not the leading market for e-mobility, but German carmakers can still become leading manufacturers,鈥� the IW says. German carmakers had a market share of 19 percent of all e-cars sold globally in 2016, compared to a 23 percent聽share in conventional passenger cars. Fewer e-cars were sold in Germany in the first half of 2017 than in Norway, despite its population being 15 times the size.
Read more about聽German carmakers鈥� fight for the top-spot in e-mobility in the 威力彩玩法 dossier.
