08 Jun 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Security Handelsblatt Germany and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will cooperate on an accelerated energy transition to meet their climate neutrality targets, the UAE¡¯s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ At his first meeting with the newly elected Brazilian president Luiz In¨¢cio Lula da Silva, German chancellor Olaf Scholz has focused on joint efforts to protect the ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:01 s.amelang ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Government International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany will attempt to move towards a "social-ecological" market economy model that puts great emphasis on diplomacy to advance the global fight ...
27 Jan 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany and Australia plan to intensify their cooperation in the areas of energy, climate protection and emissions reduction, German economy minister Robert Habeck together with ...
05 Jan 2024, 11:45 Julian Wettengel Gas ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ German gas consumption decreased yet again in 2023, while the country's role as a European gas hub diminished further following the halt of Russian pipeline gas supply in 2022. Gas use was ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU dpa / Die Welt / Reuters Erecting trade barriers to shield national industries from foreign competition is not the way to ensure European companies remain competitive, said German chancellor Olaf Scholz during ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:21 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Wind EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The Federation ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:00 German industry association BDI has said that the country¡¯s industrial success in the future depends on businesses doing well on green technologies such as modern power grids, wind energy, green hydrogen production, electric mobility, ...
21 May 2024, 14:17 The EU¡¯s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, has boosted hopes in Germany¡¯s eastern coal mining region Lusatia that a prosperous future lies ahead in the transition towards climate-neutral industry in the area. At a visit to ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Policy ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ 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 ...
11 Dec 2023, 12:20 Italy aims to become an important player once again at the table of international climate negotiations, the country¡¯s recently appointed special envoy for climate Francesco Corvaro said. The university professor and engineer said that ...
17 Nov 2020, 13:53 Expert GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft f¨¹r Internationale Zusammenarbeit German development agency International Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Handelsblatt A new project launched by Germany's development cooperation ...
23 Jun 2023, 11:00 The role of nuclear power within Europe¡¯s energy transition is a clear point of contention between Paris and Berlin. However, there is much more agreement between the EU¡¯s two largest powers on major strategic priorities, including the ...
02 Feb 2022, 13:40 k.appunn Agriculture International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany¡¯s environment ministry (BMUV) will launch four new projects worth a total of 32 million euros to protect wetlands and peatlands abroad, it announced on the occasion of today¡¯s ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:49 Edgar Meza Society EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ People in Germany would like to see more European cooperation in energy and climate policy, according to a survey conducted by market research institute Prolytics on behalf of the German ...
30 Nov 2021, 13:51 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 International ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:23 S?ren Amelang Technology International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Europe is heavily reliant on China in realising its green ambitions and must be prepared to pay more for the shift to climate neutrality if it wants to increase independence, ...
24 Mar 2021, 13:13 Charlotte Nijhuis Technology International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany risks falling behind in the global race for technology leadership, including green technology, Deutsche Bank writes in a monitoring report. The report looks at Germany ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Carbon removal EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ An agreement by the majority of EU member states on a draft for an EU wide standardised and voluntary certification framework for CO2 removal and carbon farming marks an important step ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The EU and the U.S. should have strong incentives to develop a joint green agenda ¨C given their shared aim to foster decarbonisation while ¡°de-risking¡± from China ...
08 Nov 2023, 14:13 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen International Handelsblatt Norwegian shipping company H?egh LNG is set to convert its floating liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals in Germany to import hydrogen starting 2028, the company's CEO,?Erik ...
03 May 2024, 15:35 With the sudden arrival of summer weather, Germans stream back into street cafes and beer gardens with a collective sigh of relief. On the way, they are greeted by EU election campaign posters, which have sprung up across the country ...
20 Dec 2024, 10:13 Large-scale solar PV developers have not been able to overcome Nigeria¡¯s reputation as a risky place to do business, a problem which can be seen across sub-Saharan Africa. Despite tremendous solar potential, very little of it has been ...
18 Mar 2024, 13:03 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ An alliance of social and environmental NGOs has called on the German government to include concrete and binding sustainability and justice standards in its hydrogen import strategy ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:50 S?ren Amelang Renewables Solar ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany will likely far exceed the government target for installing new PV arrays this year, the country¡¯s engineering association VDI said. Additional capacity installations are set to ...
12 Jul 2024, 15:00 The European elections are over and, as was widely expected, centre-right conservatives finished on top, leaving everybody else in the European Parliament the duty to find common ground with the biggest group and form an alliance. ...
21 Jan 2022, 18:40 The German government wants to use this year¡¯s presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialised nations and democracies to improve the coordination of global efforts to combat climate change. ¡°We want to achieve that no ...
28 Oct 2021, 13:30 Governments from across the world will descend on Glasgow next week for the UN climate change conference COP26, with the UK presidency¡¯s key objective as keeping the goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5¡ãC within reach. It is set ...
24 Sep 2021, 13:38 Julian Wettengel ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ International The fight against climate change must be top of Germany¡¯s agenda when it takes over the 2022 G7 presidency in three months, writes conservative chancellor candidate Armin Laschet in? ...
12 Feb 2024, 13:33 Franca Quecke Cost & Prices Society ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / Science Media Center Over two thirds (69%) of the world's population are willing to contribute "1% of [their] household income every month to fight global warming, ...
05 Feb 2025, 13:35 Germany's outgoing government made important moves to protect the country against the worsening effects of climate change. Notably, it introduced the first legally-binding climate adaptation law and presented a strategy to protect ...
24 May 2024, 14:00 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU Clean ...
08 Jul 2022, 13:45 Kerstine Appunn Cars Der Spiegel / dpa Germany¡¯s car industry can manage the switch from the internal combustion engine to electric drives ¡°without major job losses¡±, Volkswagen (VW) head of the workers¡¯ council Daniela Cavallo has said ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:45 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Security G20 & G7 ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:31 S?ren Amelang Adaptation dpa Climate change has particularly severe impacts on mountains across the globe, as glaciers disappear, dangerous rockslides and avalanches become more likely, and biodiversity decreases, Swiss researchers have ...
02 Nov 2022, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / Reuters [CORRECTION: Corrects wrong date for run-off election in Brazil. It took place on 30 October 2022.] Germany is willing to quickly unfreeze funds to help curb ...
23 May 2024, 13:59 Carolina Kyllmann Grid EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Investments in Europe's distribution grids need to double to 67 billion euros per year by 2050, a report commissioned by electricity industry association Eurelectric found. Failing to ...
23 May 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Bloomberg In the looming trade conflict with China over import tariffs on electric vehicles, Germany is at risk of seeing its rejection of trade restrictions being outvoted in the EU, the ...
10 Nov 2023, 10:15 Germany¡¯s ruling coalition has reached a deal on how to support industry struggling with high electricity prices in the coming five years. The package of measures, worth 12 billion euros in 2024 alone, includes lowering the electricity ...
29 Jan 2024, 13:58 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The U.S. government¡¯s decision to put a halt to licensing new liquefied natural gas (LNG) ...
16 Oct 2024, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Business & Jobs EU Handelsblatt The EU¡¯s planned battery regulation that is aimed at ensuring clean production conditions for batteries in Europe continues to irk German companies, who complain that the ...
17 May 2024
17 May 2024, 11:28 After months of negotiations, politicians in the Netherlands reached a deal to form a new government that will include populist parties: the nationalist Party for Freedom (PVV) and the agrarian-populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB). ...
26 Oct 2021, 13:23 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ A new survey published by the World Energy Council Germany has found that a majority of international energy experts regard the country's energy transition, the Energiewende, as a ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:39 S?ren Amelang International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany aims to put pressure on China to raise its climate targets, according to the? government¡¯s first strategy ?for dealing with the east Asian country. The paper, which was adopted by ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / Die Zeit Germany¡¯s government has formally adopted the country¡¯s draft budget for 2025 and amended the 2024 budget, which had become a difficult task after a court ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs EU Handelblatt / ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The opposition by the German co-governing Free Democratic Party (FDP) could prevent the planned adoption of sustainability and human rights rules for the EU's ...
30 Sep 2024, 12:00 The late summer months brought bad energy and climate news for Croatians. August ¨C a traditionally low activity month during the holiday season ¨C saw record-breaking heat, with temperatures exceeding long-term averages by almost 5¡ãC in ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Industry Policy ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / WirtschaftsWoche The German government¡¯s plans for a so-called capacity market, which would reward power plant operators for providing generation capacity rather ...
10 Jun 2022, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Renewables International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ German chancellor Olaf Scholz should focus on climate change mitigation during his visit to Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia and Bulgaria this week, NGO Germanwatch has said. ...
24 Oct 2024
24 Oct 2024, 13:15 Germany's economy minister has proposed a ten percent state aid premium for industry investments to boost the struggling economy and ease the path to climate neutrality. Robert Habeck said the country is falling behind ...
20 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024, 14:57 Dave Keating *** Our weekly Dispatches provide an overview of the most relevant recent and upcoming developments for the shift to climate neutrality i n selected European countries, from policy and diplomacy to society and industry. For ...
08 Nov 2023, 14:21 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany is lagging behind European countries such as Norway and the Netherlands when it comes to transitioning its energy market away from fossil fuels, according to an ...
14 Feb 2024, 14:00 Ruby Russel Industry Business & Jobs ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ A survey by consulting firm EY has found that only one in five companies considers Germany a compelling place to decarbonise production ¨C with excessive bureaucracy the biggest ...
07 Nov 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Security COP28 ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Geopolitical conflicts such as in Ukraine or the Middle will not fully derail upcoming negotiations at the UN climate change conference COP28 in the United Arab Emirates, ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann International Handelsblatt International Energy Agency (IEA) head Fatih Birol is weary of too much optimism about energy security in Europe ahead of the 2023 winter, he said in an interview with newspaper Handelsblatt. ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The share of newly registered battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) in Germany has jumped by nearly 38 percent in the first ten months of 2023, compared to the same period last year. ...
28 Feb 2024, 12:24 Jennifer Collins Agriculture EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The newly passed EU law to restore nature has been met critically by the farming industry. The lobby group German Farmers¡¯ Association (DBV) criticised it for being a "backward ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:08 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The COVID-19 crisis is widening the gap between ...
01 Oct 2024, 13:12 S?ren Amelang Storage Resources & Recycling EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The longevity of electric car batteries will cause a scarcity of recycled raw materials, making some of the EU¡¯s targets for battery recycling unrealistic, researchers ...
11 Jan 2024, 13:47 Franca Quecke Carbon removal S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Industry and environmental associations have joined forces to come out in favour of the controversial technology to store and capture CO2 for sectors where emissions cannot be avoided, ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:07 Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ A joint German-Australian study will investigate the feasibility of a green hydrogen supply chain, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)? states. The BMBF and ...
03 Nov 2020, 15:03 Governments in Germany and elsewhere in Europe are wary of the impact the US election could have on international climate action cooperation. While a win by incumbent President Donald Trump would likely exacerbate existing disputes on ...
28 Mar 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Africa could become Europe's most important partner for the development of the energy transition, provided the right kinds of investments are made at ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany, Denmark, the UK and the EU will provide 100 million euros for climate change mitigation projects in developing countries, economy minister Robert Habeck said at the Global NDC ...
28 Nov 2023, 14:04 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Nearly two-thirds (62%) of respondents from Germany place the cost of living in the top three concerns for their country, compared with 55 percent who said the same about the ...
15 Dec 2022, 14:03 Julian Wettengel Gas Government Table.Media Germany¡¯s economy ministry expects a significant import overcapacity if all planned floating and fixed onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals are implemented as planned, reports Table ...
02 Aug 2024, 12:34 The upcoming elections in three Eastern German states in September have put the region at the centre of attention of the country¡¯s political landscape in 2024, especially due to the expected success of populist parties which could shake ...
02 Nov 2021, 12:57 Taking her final bow on the world stage after 26 years of climate policy involvement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the opening of COP26 in Glasgow that progress in emission reductions has been insufficient to achieve the ...
11 Oct 2022, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Security ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany aims to keep the Paris Climate Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5¡ãC within reach, even as the energy crisis in Europe puts a focus on fossil fuels in the short term, ...
03 Jan 2024, 12:19 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost ...
22 Apr 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Bild / Die Welt Politicians from Germany¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance have reinforced their criticism of the planned end of new registrations of combustion engine cars in the EU by 2035. Bavaria¡¯s state ...
26 Jan 2021, 12:05 Expert DIE- German Development Institute Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Entwicklungspolitik Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany will provide an additional 120 million euros in financial aid to ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:42 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨? The German government coalition's first year in office has brought much-needed progress in key energy transition areas but still falls ...
09 Dec 2024, 14:00 The break-up of Germany's coalition government could further undermine public acceptance of the energy transition's costs, warns Brigitte Knopf, head of the think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial, which focuses on climate policy' ...
20 Jan 2022, 11:54 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Global climate policies must be shaped towards different countries¡¯ strengths and weaknesses if they are to be successful, a leading German economist has said. In an opinion piece for Der ...
14 Nov 2022, 12:19 Edgar Meza Politics International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany is seeking to diversify supply chains and increase international cooperation on climate protection with Asian countries, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a visit to Vietnam ...
28 Mar 2022, 18:45 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The international community must not lose sight of major issues such as climate change despite the new situation Russia¡¯s war against Ukraine has brought, said German ...
11 Jun 2021, 08:00 As the global fight against climate change gains momentum with more and more countries updating their emissions targets, a green surge is washing over Germany¡¯s national election campaign and sets the scene for the country to become a ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann EUElections2024 EU Zeit Online Germany's government coalition parties- chancellor Olaf Scholz¡¯s Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party, and the Free Democratic Party (FDP)- have laid out conditions for ...
19 May 2023, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / Financial Times Germany¡¯s chancellor Olaf Scholz must push for an accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, as the issue has not featured prominently enough ...
17 Nov 2020, 15:38 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International Zeit Online Germany needs a ...
10 Jun 2024, 14:54 Voters in Germany abandoned the parties of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government in their droves at the European elections, handing the conservative CDU/CSU alliance of European Commission leader Ursula von der Leyen a ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power was a "historic mistake," Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) told business daily Handelsblatt. ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:38 S?ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out International S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischer Rundfunk Local politicians from Germany¡¯s border region in Bavaria have expressed concerns about the security of nuclear power stations planned in the ...
23 Nov 2022, 14:00 S?ren Amelang Solar Resources & Recycling Germany must reduce its reliance on China in green technologies and should be more demanding on climate issues when dealing with the Asian country, states a foreign ministry draft paper seen ...
25 Oct 2023, 12:55 Julian Wettengel Security ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The German government has promised an additional 195 million euros in support to Ukraine, about half of which is designated for the protection and rebuilding the country¡¯s energy ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:25 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Kerstine Appunn Grid Renewables Hydrogen ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The German ...
07 Oct 2024, 09:30 We are almost exactly one year away from the next German federal elections. Or are we? The three-party coalition government led by chancellor Olaf Scholz is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in ...
10 Dec 2019, 13:31 Expert GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft f¨¹r Internationale Zusammenarbeit German development agency International S?ren Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany will establish a central hub to coordinate its ...
09 Feb 2024, 13:01 S?ren Amelang Mobility Transport A broad alliance of German climate NGOs, welfare organisations, trade unions and business associations? has warned ?that the cuts to the country¡¯s railway budget puts the mobility transition and climate ...
23 Apr 2021, 12:55 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Kerstine ...
28 Jun 2024, 16:00 French citizens are awaiting the upcoming snap election brought about by the dissolution of parliament following president Emmanuel Macron¡¯s loss to the far-right in this June¡¯s EU elections. The vote could have a profound impact on the ...
05 Dec 2018, 14:00 Julian Wettengel ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Climate & CO2 Politics International Social Europe German Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s decision not to run for re-election will create a vacuum in international negotiations on global warming, ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Government International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The German government plans to support climate and environmental protection projects in Indonesia with credits worth 2.5 billion euros by 2025, the German development ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Business Industry Reuters / n-tv The German state and a number of banks have agreed to support Siemens¡¯ financially struggling subsidiary Siemens Energy with guarantees of about 12 billion euros, news agency Reuters ...
05 Dec 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The renewable energy sector offers promising opportunities for economically disadvantaged rural regions in the European Union that could not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions but ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:19 The far-right party AfD scored its first ever state election win in eastern Thuringia and came a close second in neighbouring Saxony, while the parties of the federal coalition government in Berlin recorded heavy losses. One year ahead ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:51 S?ren Amelang Renewables Wind EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany¡¯s plans for a rapid expansion of offshore wind energy at the end of the decade could clash with similar plans of its neighbours around the North Sea, the country¡¯s section of ...
29 May 2024, 15:19 One year later than originally planned, French president Emmanuel Macron paid a three-day state visit to Germany that allowed him to reinforce calls for closer European cooperation in the week before the EU elections. Both Macron and ...
21 Nov 2022, 13:57 S?ren Amelang International COP27 ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The UN climate conference COP27 in Egypt did not deliver what is needed to mitigate the rise in global temperatures, the German government has said. ¡°The steps adopted to reduce ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Society Table.Media The protests against the razing of the village of L¨¹tzerath in order to expand the brown coal mining operations of energy giant RWE are damaging Germany¡¯s image and standing in international climate ...
09 Dec 2020, 11:43 The decision by EU leaders on raising the bloc's 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target has major implications for the Europe¡¯s and Germany¡¯s energy and climate policy in 2021 and beyond, says Brick Medak, head of think tank E3G' ...
30 Apr 2020, 12:37 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International ...
01 Oct 2019, 17:30 Germany is set to reach its goal of doubling contributions to international climate finance to four billion euros annually by 2020 compared to 2014 figures. A gap had become clear earlier this year, but a budget draft states that this ...
24 Oct 2022, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Finance Company climate claims ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Sixty percent of the top 20 DAX companies ¨C major German businesses trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange ¨C have set themselves net-zero greenhouse gas emission ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:09 Edgar Meza International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany expects cooperation with Indonesia to expand and intensify in the coming years, particularly in the areas of renewable energy and raw materials, the ...
03 Nov 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany is currently heavily dependent on imports of raw materials key for energy transition technologies, but the government is only in the early stages of ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:13 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices S?ren Amelang ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Cars ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:34 Carolina Kyllmann Cars Policy EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ German economists are split on whether additional EU tariffs on electric cars from China are needed or appropriate, a survey by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) found. A third ...
14 Sep 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Colombia has become an important supplier of hard coal to Germany, substituting for Russia, the government has said in an? answer ?to a parliamentary inquiry by the Left Party. ...
22 Mar 2021, 12:16 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut f¨¹r Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU The European Union should create a ¡°climate club¡± with other large emitters instead of ...
18 Oct 2024, 10:56 The new government of prime minister Michel Barnier was announced on 21 September, with the 2025 budget following on 10 October. To reduce the public deficit to 5 percent of the country's economy by 2025, and to 3 percent by 2027, ...
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 ...
24 Oct 2023, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The electricity price for industry in Germany is within the European average, but the price in key competitive neighbouring markets such as France are ¡°significantly lower,¡± ...
04 Nov 2024, 13:46 A position paper in which German finance minister Christian Lindner calls for fundamental economic policy changes has sparked outcry from coalition government partners, further destabilising an already weakened alliance. The paper was ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann International ARD / ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany¡¯s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck is visiting Kyiv in a bid to strengthen cooperation in the energy sector and discuss Ukraine¡¯s reconstruction following Russia ...
05 Jul 2024, 15:07 Months of negotiations among the parties in Germany¡¯s governing coalition about the country¡¯s 2025 budget have ushered in ¡°record investments¡± into renewable power, industrial decarbonisation, electric mobility and a faster transition ...
28 Jul 2023, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Gas EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany will likely avoid a gas shortage in the winter of 2023/24, but reliable liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports are key to preventing bottlenecks, the Bavarian industry association vbw said ...
13 Nov 2020, 15:15 The election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States is raising hopes that the US can be a partner again in international efforts to combat climate change. The US backed away from many climate commitments during the ...
18 Mar 2024, 12:57 S?ren Amelang Policy Security ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / Table.Media / The Guardian Germany¡¯s defence ministry expects climate change to have a profound impact on security issues and has presented a plan to prepare its military for the new ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:20 Jennifer Collins Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A mooted cap on industry power prices could stall green energy expansion in Germany by making investments in wind and solar unprofitable, according to a report by business daily ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:54 k.appunn International ARD The escalation of violence in Kazakhstan is causing concern among German businesses who were planning to tap into the country¡¯s rich potential for developing climate-friendly technologies, renewable energies ...
21 Jun 2024, 14:14 On the night of the European elections, French president Emmanuel Macron did not wait until the official results were called to announce the dissolution of the country¡¯s parliament and, consequently, to call new elections already by the ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:52 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The expansion of green hydrogen production efforts Germany is slowing down, says a? report ?commissioned by utility E.ON. ¡°The hydrogen generation capacity planned by 2030 has risen from 8.1 ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany will enter into solidarity agreements for gas supply with Italy and Switzerland in a bid to improve energy security across Europe in response to the energy crisis of 2022, the ...
07 May 2024, 10:00 The impact of a populist party opposed to climate action is starting to make itself clearly felt in Spain. From climate budget cuts to suspending low-emission zones and reversing plans for green taxes: As a partner in several city and ...
22 Apr 2021, 10:00 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil ...
12 Oct 2023, 11:49 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Agriculture ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Rising temperatures in Europe could have a negative impact on one of the world's most important regions for growing hops, a key ingredient in beer ...
12 Jan 2021, 13:43 Charlotte Nijhuis International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / Der Spiegel Germany is joining the High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced at the One Planet Summit for biodiversity in Paris. The ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Hydrogen trade with the EU could play an important role in rebuilding the economy and energy infrastructure of Ukraine, Germany¡¯s government-appointed National Hydrogen Council has said. ...
13 Mar 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / Handelsblatt / dpa Germany¡¯s economy and agriculture ministers seek to intensify strategic cooperation with Brazil and Colombia on trade and climate action, they said. Over a six-day ...
03 Mar 2022, 12:55 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Security ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The German government is releasing oil reserves from the country¡¯s Petroleum Stockholding Association (EBV) in an effort to calm the oil market. The move follows a decision on Wednesday ...
06 Oct 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The majority of over 200 economists surveyed by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) reject German economy minister Robert Habeck¡¯s proposal to subsidise electricity for ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Gas ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany can be ¡°fairly optimistic¡± regarding its gas supply in winter 2023/2024, said energy industry association BDEW, one year after Russia ended its pipeline supply to the country on 31 August. ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:29 Jack McGovan Gas Security ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany is expected to completely fill its gas storage by the 2024/2025 winter, according to storage system association INES. Gas levels remain sufficient and the association doesn¡¯t expect to ...
17 Dec 2020, 13:53 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Clean ...
25 May 2021, 13:18 Expert Climate Neutrality Foundation Stiftung Klimaneutralit?t Climate & CO2 Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Industry Efficiency Edgar Meza Mobility ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The Berlin-based Climate Neutrality Foundation is calling ...
05 Mar 2024, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Cars EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany's alliance of centre-right conservative parties CDU/CSU is aiming to reverse the ban on new combustion engine cars from 2035, which the EU decided on last year, according to a ...
17 May 2023, 14:09 Germany¡¯s Green energy and climate action minister, Robert Habeck, has suffered a setback for his decarbonisation plans with the departure of his energy state secretary, Patrick Graichen. Habeck¡¯s state secretary left his post following ...
The global transformation towards a decarbonised energy system has positive effects for human security, such as reducing the dependence on fossil resources supply chains, strengthening the access to energy as an economic factor, and thus increasing ...
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 ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Please note: This article has been updated to clarify that support for the target so far has been voiced only by the foreign ministry, while the government cabinet has yet to agree ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:32 Business & Jobs International Tagesspiegel Background Germany has faced multiple setbacks over the last month in two separate cases over its energy transition plans before an international arbitration court, Christian Schaudwet ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:16 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The past decade has seen a sharp drop in prices for clean ...
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 ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:20 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Business Handelsblatt German industrial giant Siemens regards industrial companies' responsibility to become more environmentally friendly as a defining task of the future and ...
08 Dec 2023, 13:30 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:49 Julian Wettengel Renewables G20 & G7 ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) influential economies? have agreed ?on the aim to triple of renewable energy capacity globally by 2030, but stopped short of calling for an ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Renewables International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Associations from the German and Ukrainian renewable energy industry have agreed to work together more closely to speed up the energy transition in both countries. The ...
21 Jun 2023, 09:00 The governments of China and Germany have agreed to introduce a ¡°Climate and Transformation Dialogue¡± to speed up their transition towards a more climate friendly economy. Fighting climate change remained a main concern for the two ...
16 May 2022, 13:07 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Foreign ministers of the seven leading western industrialised states (G7) have committed to supporting emerging and developing countries in their endeavour to transition towards climate ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:30 Jennifer Collins Transport Freight ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany's ports require huge investments to maintain their crucial position in supplying energy and goods, and to keep up with the energy transformation, said coastal state ...
30 Apr 2024, 14:44 The surge of populist parties that oppose ambitious climate policies has left its mark on Germany¡¯s national debate as it did in many other European countries ahead of the upcoming EU elections. Fearful of the backlash against the costs ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The European Union has given Germany and six other EU countries the green light to provide a total of 6.9 billion euros in state support to companies for 33 projects along the hydrogen ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International KPMG Germany is one of seven European countries in the top ten of international auditor KPMG¡¯s ¡° Change Readiness Index 2019 ¡±, assessing countries¡¯ ability to manage change and build a ...
15 Feb 2024, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal EU Table.Media CO2 allowances from the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) no longer used by coal power plants which were shut down as part of Germany's coal exit will be deleted to make sure they are not ...
28 Sep 2020, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Security FAZ / Tagesspiegel Background The German national parliament¡¯s (Bundestag) research service does not regard US sanctions against German companies in connection with the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline as a ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:25 S?ren Amelang Mobility Cars Tagesschau German chancellor Olaf Scholz used his opening address at the IAA mobility show in Munich to unveil a push to increase the number of rapid charging points in the country, reports Tagesschau. ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:12 Julian Wettengel EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The German government aims to submit the draft update of the country¡¯s national energy and climate plan (NECP) to the EU sometime this summer, a spokesperson from the economy and climate ministry ...
30 Jan 2023, 12:48 Carolina Kyllmann International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ 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 ...
08 Nov 2023, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Freight ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The German road freight sector¡¯s shift towards climate neutrality is being complicated by framework conditions, a group of industry associations and lorry producers have warned in a ...
25 Jan 2023, 13:03 Carolina Kyllmann International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany wants to promote the development of a climate and environmentally-friendly economy in Africa, the development ministry (BMZ) announced in its ¡° Africa strategy ¡±. ¡°Africa is ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:21 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Society EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / Spiegel The European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has reduced the emission of hazardous air pollutants like sulphur dioxide, particulate matter, and nitrogen oxides, ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany and France have reiterated their wish to work together on the energy transition, technological sovereignty, supporting industry in the transition to climate neutrality and ...
09 Feb 2024, 13:04 S?ren Amelang Gas Security ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany can probably fill its gas storages to the brim before next winter, operators have said. ¡°It is possible to completely refill the gas storage facilities again before the coming winter ...
29 Oct 2019, 14:10 S?ren Amelang Transport Policy Die Welt Germany's plan to introduce a climate levy on airline tickets to finance a decrease in train fares violates an EU-US aviation treaty, according to US airlines. "The cross-subsidization ...
23 Jan 2025, 10:30 Making German homes less climate-damaging and keeping them affordable for residents at the same time will be a central task for the country's next government. The heated controversy over a phaseout law for oil and gas boilers is ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:24 Edgar Meza Gas Security Die Welt The US government's threat of sanctions against companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project has led to angry calls of defiance by government officials and business leaders in ...
17 Jan 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany imported around 62 billion euros of Norwegian natural gas, oil and condensates in 2022 and has become the country¡¯s number one goods importer, said the German-Norwegian chamber ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:34 b.wehrmann Elections & Politics International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ In the context of the formation of Germany¡¯s new government, former environment minister Svenja Schulze moves on to lead the country¡¯s development ministry (BMZ), ...
07 Nov 2023, 13:05 Edgar Meza Hydrogen International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ 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 ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Airplanes in Germany will be made more environmentally friendly by supplying them with clean electricity during stops at the airport, the country¡¯s transport minister, Volker Wissing, has said. Airplanes ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:07 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Ensuring compliance with a possible supply chain act that makes certain ...
29 May 2018, 00:00 In a plea for global cooperation and the rule of law in international relations, German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the signatories of the Paris Climate Agreement to honour their commitment and implement the agreed emissions ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Freight ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Catenary trucks powered by overhead lines represent an option for clean freight transport, yet setting up the required infrastructure on German motorways would be "technically possible, but very ...
30 Aug 2024, 12:42 Three eastern German states will elect a new government in September 2024, marking a potentially pivotal moment in the post-reunification history of the country and for the future of its climate and energy transition policies. The ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ New constructions and renovations in Germany are failing to sufficiently account for the growing effects of climate change, increasingly putting them at risk of overheating during summer ...
10 Mar 2021, 13:44 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Picking up on the United Nations¡¯ call for a ¡°decade of action¡± to implement the 2030 ...
26 Sep 2023, 12:30 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f¨¹r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Edgar Meza Transport Hydrogen Die Welt / ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Aviation industry representatives and political leaders in Germany have vowed ...
The Munich Security Conference included climate change and emissions pollution as some of the biggest issues for international security in its 2018 report. ¡°In the end, few experts doubt the long-term effects a changing climate will have on international ...
14 Sep 2023, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation International BR The record rainfalls triggering deadly floods in Libya and Greece dwarf the precipitation that caused Germany¡¯s 2021 flood catastrophe, and are a grim reminder of the need to act on and ...
07 Nov 2023, 12:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Electricity Security ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany saw a slight drop in ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:34 Energy exports to western Europe are one of the pillars a future Ukrainian economy could rest on, Germany¡¯s chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukraine¡¯s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a conference in Berlin on the war-torn country¡¯s ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The governments of India and Germany have agreed on close cooperation to promote a climate-friendly transition in the energy and transport sectors. On a visit to India, German ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Welt am Sonntag The German government is preparing the necessary regulatory steps to make it possible to export and store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) in seabeds outside Germany, reports ...
The German wind industry has lauded the international optimism regarding the renewable energy source at the global fair WindEnergy Hamburg but complained that the interest of German politicians in this growth sector has faded. Nearly 1,500 exhibitors from ...
22 Sep 2022, 14:00 Jessica Bateman Agriculture International The German economic cooperation ministry (BMZ) has announced plans for a climate and development partnership with the C?te d¡¯Ivoire. This will involve restoring five million hectares of tropical ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:56 S?ren Amelang Heating Policy dpa Germany's Green Party parliamentary group wants to support the country¡¯s struggling economy with a 30 billion euro investment programme that focuses on energy-efficient building modernisations. An ...
18 Dec 2018, 11:24 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S?ren Amelang ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Cars Business & Jobs ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ German carmakers have decried the EU agreement on 2030 car fleet emission targets as ...
02 Apr 2020, 13:31 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The decision to postpone the COP26 UN climate negotiations because of the coronavirus pandemic drew praise and concern from Germany. Government officials, experts and ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:01 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Coal Business Tagesspiegel Siemens Energy has signed a supply contract with South Korean plant manufacturer Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction for a planned coal-fired power plant on ...
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 ...
10 May 2024, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Russian nuclear power experts have been deployed to the northern German town of Lingen to assist French company Framatome in modernising the local nuclear fuel rod factory ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:20 The European Union aims to take on a leadership role when the global community meets in Egypt for the annual UN climate change conference. But a unified European voice is difficult to maintain as member states are hampered by ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:12 Kerstine Appunn Finance International Security ARD / RND / POLITICO The European Union on Thursday announced wide-ranging economic sanctions against Russia in response to president Vladimir Putin¡¯s military attack on Ukraine- but didn¡¯t ...
15 Oct 2021, 11:31 Edgar Meza Hydrogen International Die Welt German seaports could soon become key sites for the development of the country¡¯s hydrogen economy, according to a recent report by the German Maritime Center (DMZ) in Hamburg. Hydrogen is seen ...
24 Feb 2021, 12:38 Expert Federal Foreign Office Ausw?rtiges Amt International Security Julian Wettengel Security ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ German foreign minister Heiko Maas has reiterated his government¡¯s calls to make climate change a key focus of all ...
14 Jun 2024, 12:53 S?ren Amelang Society EUElections2024 EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ A broad alliance of German environmental NGOs, unions, consumer, and church groups has called for a ¡°European Green and Social Deal¡± to be implemented in the next EU legislature ...
16 Jan 2024, 12:51 Edgar Meza Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung A global rush to find natural hydrogen (H2) is intensifying the focus on what could turn out to be a much cheaper source for the gas, seen to play a key role in the energy ...
20 Jun 2023, 12:27 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Jessica Bateman Cars Business & Jobs dpa / Die Welt Around half of all e-cars made in Germany are being produced in the eastern states, despite the region only ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:07 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany's climate policy and action are "insufficient" to meet its national and international climate targets,? according to the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) project. ...
11 Aug 2021, 13:49 Kerstine Appunn Finance ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ 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 ...
20 Apr 2023, 12:33 S?ren Amelang Wind Hydrogen International Handelsblatt Nine European gas transmission grid operators have agreed to construct a pipeline network in the North Sea to transport hydrogen made in offshore wind farms, business daily ...
07 May 2021, 15:54 Germany¡¯s chancellor Angela Merkel has stressed the need for action against global warming, and urged countries to not fall behind on climate protection measures and financing for developing countries despite the ¡°massive holes¡± in ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:13 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen Cities ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / Die Welt The city of Hamburg is aiming to play a key role in the German and European shift towards a hydrogen economy with a new import strategy for the climate-friendly fuel. The ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ 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 ...
09 Nov 2021, 18:30 After a week of political announcements, ministers this week join their negotiators to hash out the nitty-gritty of the Paris Agreement rulebook and eyes are on a possible solution for carbon markets under Article 6. ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ tracks the ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany¡¯s volatile 2023 summer weather was marked by heat peaks, extreme rainfall and above-average sunshine ¨C with the temperature once again being significantly above the long-term ...
10 Jan 2024, 15:18 Franca Quecke Industry EU Handelsblatt Germany provided more state aid for companies during the energy crisis than all of the other 26 member states of the European Union combined, reports business daily Handelsblatt. The data comes ...
30 May 2022, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU Der Tagesspiegel / ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ 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 ...
09 Jan 2024, 14:03 Franca Quecke Gas Security Der Spiegel / Hamburger Abendblatt The alleged sabotage of an important gas pipeline currently under construction in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein might lead to damages of at least 1.6 million euros, ...
18 Aug 2023, 14:06 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ 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 ...
12 Jan 2022, 12:00 As some of the richest democracies in the world, the Group of Seven (G7) have the opportunity to strike a ¡°grand bargain¡± with developing nations on combatting climate change at the same time as health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
19 Dec 2018, 10:10 Germany must face several fundamental energy and climate decisions in 2019 to save the country's Energiewende and its international standing, according to Greenpeace head Jennifer Morgan. Most importantly, the promised Climate ...
17 Dec 2021, 14:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Conservative hardliner Friedrich Merz looks set to become the leader of German opposition party the Christian Democrats (CDU). In an internal vote by CDU members, Merz ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:00 BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Climate & CO2 Policy b.wehrmann Elections & Politics Government ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The new German environment minister has said climate action will ...
18 Nov 2022, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Poland and Germany have agreed to intensify their cooperation on energy policy through joint projects on energy efficiency, renewables, infrastructure and the energy market design. ¡°The ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:36 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Policy German Institute for International and Security ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 After months of internal dispute, Germany's government has agreed on a draft law for reforming corporate responsibility for sustainable supply chains. Large companies that rely on imported resources and workers in source countries, ...
07 Jul 2021, 12:16 Edgar Meza Grid Industry ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ German companies could make a significant contribution to stabilising the electricity grid by flexibly adapting their demand to available supply, according to a new study conducted by the ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:24 S?ren Amelang Industry Hydrogen ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Converting hydrogen to ammonia will be "the dominant transport technology" in order to ship the fuel to Germany, according to a report ?commissioned by the World Energy Council ...
15 Nov 2022, 13:22 Julian Wettengel International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / Reuters The G7, along with Norway and Denmark, have announced a 20 billion U.S. dollar partnership to support Indonesia in moving away from fossil fuels and speeding up its energy ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Industry International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ 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 ...
17 Mar 2022, 14:00 S?ren Amelang Cars EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / Politico Germany backs the EU proposal to phase out the sale of combustion engine cars from 2035, dropping its earlier insistence on an exception for cars using synthetic e-fuels made with ...
19 May 2021, 13:34 Edgar Meza International dpa John Kerry, the U.S. presidential envoy for climate, called for greater global efforts in the fight against climate change during his visit to Berlin on Tuesday, German news agency dpa reports. Global ...
20 May 2020, 13:44 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business ...
21 May 2021, 13:13 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Business International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ A majority of consumers would like to see a strong supply chain law ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:11 BDI- Federation of German Industries Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy s.amelang Industry G20 & G7 ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany should use its G7 presidency to push for more international cooperation in the fight against ...
09 Nov 2022, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann International dpa / Handelsblatt / ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Politicians and business representatives from France and Germany have stressed the need for a sound and extensive cooperation of the two key EU members to maintain ...
31 Aug 2021, 13:41 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Industry dpa / Der Spiegel Tough and lengthy approval procedures are slowing down the ...
08 Nov 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Industry representatives and environmental groups have warned the German government against scrapping key components of the country¡¯s Climate Action Law in a planned ...
31 Mar 2023, 11:37 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / MDR The energy ministers from Germany¡¯s sixteen states have called on the federal government to examine lowering the electricity tax to the European minimum, and supporting ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Heating EU Contexte ?nergie Several European energy experts warn that the German government coalition row over a planned law to phase out fossil fuel-powered boilers could have repercussions for similar ongoing ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ 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¡± ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The future of the energy system in economic powerhouse state Texas will be a key feature during an upcoming trip of German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock to the United ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:53 Ruby Russel Renewables EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ German industry associations have welcomed a decision by EU energy ministers to extend temporary measures ?to reduce dependence on Russian gas and protect EU energy consumers from price spikes ...
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 ...
21 Jul 2023, 14:12 Expert Greenpeace Czech Republic Climate & CO2 Renewables Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Jack McGovan Coal International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / taz / ARD A decision by Poland¡¯s Supreme Administrative ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:03 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ 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 ...
20 Dec 2023, 09:05 Europe has no time to lose in formulating its renewed emissions reduction ambitions after the results of next June¡¯s European Parliament elections become known, says Simone Peter from the German Renewable Energy Federation. A ¡°Fit-for ...
20 Dec 2023, 10:40 Money that Germany has earmarked for climate action should be spent on projects that have a direct impact on key sectors, says Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). The economist warns against cross ...
The only way to enable ¡°Chancellor [Angela] Merkel¡¯s next government to reach the 2020 climate target is to exit from coal-fired power generation,¡± writes Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International in a guest commentary in the ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Industry ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany must act quickly to secure its place as a key location for industries in an increasingly climate-friendly global economy, said economy minister Robert Habeck. ¡°Almost all major ...
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 ...
08 May 2023, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / ARD Kenya has signalled its interest in becoming the first African nation in an international ¡®climate club¡¯ of countries agreeing on tighter climate action rules that ...
27 May 2022, 13:31 The Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) has committed to making their electricity systems ¡°predominantly¡± carbon-free by 2035, but stopped short of setting a concrete date for exiting coal. Following their meeting in ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ German state subsidies are set to increase to 67 billion euros in 2024 from 38 billion euros in 2021, mainly driven by efforts to green the economy and the energy ...
06 Jun 2023, 13:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Chinese manufacturers of electric cars are increasingly gaining a foothold in Germany¡¯s car market, May 2023 figures released by Germany¡¯s Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:18 Rachel Waldholz Cars Hydrogen ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The number of electric cars on German roads increased significantly last year, while major markets like the U.S. and China recorded slower growth. That's according to? a survey by the ...
Pope Francis has urged German Chancellor Angela Merkel to stand firm over international climate protection and protect the Paris Climate Agreement against dissenters, news agency Reuters reports. "The Pope encouraged me to continue to fight for ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:26 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 The progress made so far by the world¡¯s largest industrialised and emerging countries is far too miniscule to adhere to the Paris Agreement¡¯s 1.5 degree temperature ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:33 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ A new report commissioned by Germany¡¯s Bertelsmann Stiftung and carried out by the Forum ?kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft (F?S) economic think tank, criticises the ...
27 Jun 2022, 14:23 Kerstine Appunn International Security ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The G7 leaders should agree on import tariffs on Russian oil and gas at their summit in Elmau, according to researchers from the economic institute IfW Kiel. "A tariff ...
03 Jan 2019, 12:00 Expert ICCT- International Council on Clean Transportation Transport Julian Wettengel ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Transport Cars ICCT The International Council on Clean Transportation has published a collection of European vehicle market ...
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 ...
15 May 2024, 12:33 Jack McGovan Transport EUElections2024 EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Rail travel should be the focus of legislative and investment decisions in the aftermath of the 2024 EU elections, an alliance of rail industry and NGOs said in an open letter ...
18 Jul 2023, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Lower liquefied natural gas (LNG) purchases by China may become a boon for Germany¡¯s supply of the fossil fuel in the coming winter season, business daily Handelsblatt reported. In ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:27 Milou Dirkx Society EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Action against climate change ranks among the topics people in Germany want the European Parliament to prioritise, according to the? latest Eurobarometer survey. Climate action and EU defence are ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices WirtschaftsWoche German finance minister Christian Lindner has questioned the need for generous state support to attract investments in future industries, such as battery, hydrogen or ...
14 Nov 2019, 13:26 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Federal Foreign Office Ausw?rtiges Amt ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Gas ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany will be able to fully fill its gas storage facilities over the summer even if only a moderate volume of the fuel is available in the EU internal market, but there is still a risk of a ...
30 Nov 2023, 13:10 Edgar Meza Renewables EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ In order to increase the market share of European manufacturers in the renewable energy sector, wind turbines and photovoltaic (PV) roof systems could receive more funding if they are produced ...
05 Feb 2024, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The European Union could achieve an ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target of 90 percent by 2040, compared to 1990, but the bloc must "consistently" implement the ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Policy EU Table.Media The consequences of Germany's current budget struggles will have implications on the European Union, but the extent of the impact will depend on decisions taken by the ruling coalition ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Cars Technology EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / NDR / NZZ German chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed the start of construction of a battery cell factory by Swedish Northvolt in northern Germany for being "of strategic ...
27 Jun 2023, 09:42 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / Bloomberg Ministers from France, Italy and Germany have agreed on closer cooperation on the extraction, processing and recycling of critical raw materials needed for ...
07 Jun 2024, 12:00 Right-wing populist parties opposed to climate action are gaining power and popularity across the European continent and are set to do well in the 2024 European Parliament elections. These parties strongly influence climate narratives ...
09 Nov 2021, 12:50 Edgar Meza Cars ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The heads of Greenpeace Germany and an activist from climate protest group Fridays for Future activist have filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen in a German court accusing the carmaker of failing to do ...
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28 Jun 2024, 12:00 Carolina Kyllmann Julian Wettengel Associated Press: Von der Leyen, Costa and Kallas endorsed for the EU¡¯s top jobs European Union leaders have agreed on the officials who will lead the EU¡¯s powerful executive branch. News agency AP ...
11 May 2023, 13:11 Edgar Meza Policy Security Handelsblatt / ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Economy minister Robert Habeck has warned against over-reliance on China and called for the broadening of supply chains while reassessing ¡°the opportunities and risks of our ...
23 Dec 2022, 10:24 After the shock of the energy crisis in 2022, the German government must tackle a range of issues that have been relegated to the back burner due to Russia¡¯s war on Ukraine, says Brigitte Knopf, secretary general at the Mercator ...
22 Sep 2022, 14:08 Jessica Bateman Technology EU Tagesspiegel Background The German government will propose a ¡°European Alliance for Transformation Technologies¡± at an upcoming meeting of EU ministers responsible for industry policy and the internal ...
05 Apr 2019, 12:46 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Security WirtschaftsWoche Many countries see Germany as a pioneer of the energy transition and the government will make greater use of this role to push action also on an international scale, writes German ...
The global energy transition will require the presence of a sizeable international market for synthetic fuels and Germany will have to import significant amounts of green fuels created by converting renewable energy with so-called power-to-x technologies, ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt The European Commission (EC) has concerns over Germany¡¯s economy ministry plans to create incentives for the construction of new?gas-fired power plants with a combined capacity of about 25 gigawatt (GW) ...
Germany and other EU member states should strengthen? cooperation on climate protection, in light of the upcoming US administration's likely reversal of climate legislation, writes Susanne Dr?ge in an commentary for the German Institute for ...
Many climate scientists are worried that incoming US President Donald Trump¡¯s administration will confound international negotiations, Michael Bauchm¨¹ller writes in S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°There¡¯s either a scenario Bush or a scenario crazy in store for US ...
There is much detail work to be done until the UN Climate Change Conference will start in Polish Katowice on 2 December, said the German environment ministry after a preparatory meeting in Krak¨®w. However, the will of governments to agree on a rulebook ...
05 Jul 2017, 00:00 The pressure on Germany to take global leadership on climate action has been constantly mounting since US President Donald Trump decided to take the United States out of the Paris climate agreement. Ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:43 The new chapter of the 6th report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focuses on mitigating climate change effects. Commentators from Germany regard the report as ¡°a clear call to society and policymakers for ...
08 Jul 2017, 00:00 The German presidency and chancellor Angela Merkel pulled off a ¡°solid¡± diplomatic success on climate policy by closing the ranks of all G20 members except the United States at the summit in Hamburg, experts for climate diplomacy said. ...
Germany aims to use a large international energy conference in Berlin to inject fresh momentum and ideas into the G20 process in the run up to the Hamburg summit in July. "We want to use our G20 presidency this year to find a common position for all ...
26 May 2020, 12:43 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ An active removal of several hundred ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:36 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen International Clean Energy ...
03 May 2023, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Industry Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Reuters / Handelsblatt / Merkur German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and finance minister Christian Lindner (FDP) have criticised plans by the economy ministry to subsidise ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:33 Rachel Waldholz Cars Hydrogen Business & Jobs ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / The Daily Telegraph / Die Welt / Deutsche Welle German carmakers are planning a major investment in electric vehicles over the next three years, the German ...
13 May 2019, 14:00 Implementing the Paris Agreement means that countries have to have more ambition on a national level and the same is true for the European Union, Germany¡¯s environment minister Svenja Schulze said at the opening of the 10th Petersberg ...
06 Nov 2019, 13:32 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The number of flights taken in Germany to domestic as well as international destinations continues to rise, the Destatis national statistical office has found. In the first half of 2019, the ...
Germany is a reluctant global leader but persistently works on providing assistance to developing countries, not least in the energy sector, Catherine Cheney writes on international development website? devex.com. Effective development assistance must be ...
Environmental and development NGO Germanwatch is ¡°relieved¡± that all leaders except US President Donald Trump clearly committed to the Paris Climate Agreement and there was no ¡°weakening or re-interpretation¡± of the accord, the organisation writes in a ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables G20 & G7 ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany is advocating for an agreement on "a clear and concrete target" for the global expansion of renewables among the Group of Twenty (G20), said ...
06 Jun 2023, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling dpa / Der Stern The lack of mineral resources could become a challenge for the planned ramp-up of hydrogen industry in Germany, Europe and worldwide, news agency dpa writes in an? ...
22 Feb 2022, 16:45 Many German politicians, business associations, and environmental NGOs have welcomed the government's decisions to halt the contentious gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 following Russian aggression towards Ukraine. Against the backdrop ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:35 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ ...
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 ...
07 Mar 2023, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Freight dpa Germany¡¯s postal service Deutsche Post has called for mandatory labelling of the CO2 footprint of parcels sent by parcel services to inform customers, reports news agency dpa. Such a ...
11 Jan 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Tagesspiegel Background A lack of IT specialists is becoming a cyber security risk for German energy industry companies, reports newsletter service Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity. ¡°Electricity grid ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Society EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Security and affordability is the top priority for the future young Europeans want, followed by a liveable planet and social justice, according to the Next Generations Study 2023 survey by ...
29 Nov 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Global climate action and environmental protection can only work with an active Russian engagement, Germany's development minister Gerd M¨¹ller said at the German ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Welt Online / WirtschaftsWoche / ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Citing high energy costs, too much bureaucracy and a lack of skilled workers, the heads of industry associations have warned of a bleak future for Germany if ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:44 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Renewables ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The International Energy Agency¡¯s (IEA) latest report on renewable ...
13 Aug 2019, 13:43 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices ...
04 Dec 2018, 15:33 S?ren Amelang ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Climate & CO2 Business International Handelsblatt Germany's industry should not be worried about the European commission's proposal for a climate-neutral Europe by 2050, according to EU ...
12 Apr 2024, 14:08 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Carbon market EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The German government should use its national experiences to support EU neighbours in ...
25 Oct 2023, 12:51 Julian Wettengel Wind EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ German energy industry players have welcomed a European Union package of proposals to strengthen the bloc¡¯s wind power industry. The main goal of the measures in the package should be to ...
New US sanctions against Russia will have serious consequences for the energy supply in Germany and Europe, writes Kirsten Westphal of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in a guest commentary for S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. ¡°The ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Finance International Die Zeit The German and French economy ministers said ¡°substantial progress¡± has been made in talks about transparency and cooperation on green subsidies between the EU and the U.S during a visit ...
24 Oct 2023, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU Spiegel / ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ German government coalition member and pro-business party FDP (Free Democratic Party) has criticised a proposal agreed by EU member state governments last week to make so-called ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Policy EU FAZ The European Union should focus on strengthening existing policy instruments when charting the course for climate action in the years after 2030, write researchers Brigitte Knopf and Oliver Geden in an op ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:41 Julian Wettengel International Security ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The climate crisis and its effects on people¡¯s lives around the world will be at the heart of the National Security Strategy being developed by the German government, said ...
21 Oct 2021, 13:24 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / dpa Several environmental organisations are calling for an immediate end to short ...
16 Mar 2021, 17:30 Germany¡¯s foreign minister Heiko Maas and economy minister Peter Altmaier have called for closer global cooperation in key energy transition areas, such as green hydrogen, to help the world reach ambitious climate targets. As renewable ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Hydrogen International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany has pledged at least 112 million euros to support Kenya in implementing ¡°its ambitious goal of switching entirely to renewable energy sources by 2030,¡± the ...
06 Aug 2021, 13:21 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Tagesschau The regional list of Germany¡¯s Green Party will be excluded from the ballot in the state of Saarland during the national election, the federal election committee announced on 5 ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:22 S?ren Amelang International EU The European Parliament and the EU member states must insist on improvements to the European Commission's insufficient plans for emission reduction to rapidly make the bloc more independent from ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background One of Germany's major gas grid operators has joined the pipeline project "H2Med", which is set to transport hydrogen from the Iberian Peninsula towards ...
23 Feb 2024, 13:40 Franca Quecke Company climate claims EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Following a dialogue with the European Commission and national consumer protection authorities,?Berlin-based fashion retailer?Zalando has committed to removing "misleading ...
10 Oct 2023, 13:10 German chancellor Olaf Scholz and French president Emmanuel Macron held an informal meeting aimed to nurse the crucial Franco-German axis for Europe¡¯s industrial transformation on the way to climate neutrality. In Hamburg, northern ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:02 Julian Wettengel ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Climate & CO2 International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Germany will not leave developing countries alone in dealing with climate protection and adaptation to climate change, said German environment ...
07 May 2021, 12:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices Clean ...
28 Feb 2024, 13:14 The German government is aiming to introduce a 2060 target for net-negative greenhouse gas emissions, as well as intermediate targets for technical carbon sinks, as key elements of its contribution to the Paris climate targets. By the ...
08 Mar 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann International Security ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / The Guardian / CNN German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected calls for immediately ending all energy trading with Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. ¡°Europe¡¯s ...
28 Nov 2018, 16:19 Benjamin Wehrmann ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Wind Technology International Stiftung Offshore Wind Energy Together with international partners, the German economy and energy ministry (BMWi) has initiated a project to study the removal of ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:32 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Cars International manager magazin / Reuters Car-makers Volkswagen and Ford say that a legal battle between two South Korean battery manufacturers in the United States could hamper the production of ...
06 May 2021, 13:06 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Sectors of German industry are struggling with rising carbon prices and demanding help from the government, which has made CO2 pricing a key part of its climate protection ...
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 ...
09 Nov 2020, 14:57 European leaders, researchers and media commentators breathed a collective sigh of relief following Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential elections and expressed hope for a new partnership on combating climate change. The news ...
11 Apr 2019, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Finance International ICIJ / Urgewald The World Bank is touting investments in solar parks and other climate-friendly projects ?but has continued to finance oil and gas exploration, pipelines and refineries that ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:26 S?ren Amelang Industry EU ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ The EU¡¯s proposed strategy for scaling up energy transition technologies would soften environmental standards across the board, is too broad in scope, and also lacks the necessary funding,? ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:15 Benjamin Wehrmann EU Security Der Tagesspiegel The European energy crisis caused by Russia¡¯s war on Ukraine has created the right environment for ¡°finally and forcefully implementing a Europeanisation of energy and climate policy,¡± ...
The US states, cities, companies, and civil society actors that have confirmed their unwavering support for international climate action despite the US administration¡¯s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement ¡°gives courage¡± to everyone adhering to ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:20 Julian Wettengel International ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Governments across the world have to make the 2020s the ¡°decade of sustainability¡±, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 20th annual conference of the German Council for ...
09 Dec 2022, 13:53 Carolina Kyllmann Coal ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ Former coal regions in eastern Germany have secured a budget worth 1.44 billion euros for the renaturation of lignite mines over the next five years. The states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony ...
15 Jan 2021, 12:50 Charlotte Nijhuis Finance ÍþÁ¦²ÊÍæ·¨ / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / dpa Germany¡¯s largest insurance company Allianz has set a new interim target for the restructuring of 800 billion euros in investments, the company announced in a press ...