In an editorial article published in Handelsblatt, Clemens Fuest, head of the Institute for Economic Research (ifo), urges on the new German administration to demonstrate more commitment to European policy. A “new way of thinking” is required in climate policy,…
CLIMATE CHANGE
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According to think tanks, new EU climate measures will hasten Germany’s coal departure and industrial change
According to think tanks Agora Energiewende and Institute for Applied Ecology, the EU’s proposed new climate and energy legislation will effectively push Germany’s coal phase-out date to 2030, and rising prices in the Emissions Trading System (ETS) will make coal…
The influence of Fridays for Future on German climate policy
Germany’s youth climate movement is pressuring the country to increase its ambition. Since mobilizing large numbers of young people to demand more action on climate change, the Fridays for Future movement has become an indispensable element of the public discussion…
Germany’s agriculture commission has made recommendations for climate-friendly farming
The "Commission for the Future of Agriculture" was established by Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet in 2020 as a last-ditch effort to involve the farming sector in the government's efforts to achieve climate neutral transformation. Agriculture had been thrust into the…
Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement an energy transition in Germany
Germany's national climate objectives are as follows: Germany wants to be carbon neutral by 2045, which would be the year 2045. Initially, it established a target of reducing emissions by at least 65 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels,…
The Nobel Prize in Physics is viewed as a signal and a warning to do more to combat global climate change
Earlier this month, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and Syukuro Manabe of Princeton University in New Jersey, United States, would share this year’s Nobel Prize…
According to a media source, the Environmental Protection Agency has called for more aggressive climate objectives
As reported by Spiegel, the German Environment Agency (UBA) has recommended for the country’s greenhouse gas emission reduction target for 2030 to be increased to 70 percent below 1990 levels (from the existing aim of -65 percent). UBA also wants…
Will the epidemic and the election of a new administration aid or impede climate action in the next year?
Germany’s energy transition agenda will be dominated by a ‘climate election’ in 2021, according to a preview The year 2021 is shaping up to be a turbulent and crucial one for climate and energy issues in Germany: Following months of…