According to the final report of Germany’s coal departure panel, the country has a clear route forward to phase out the fossil fuel source while also making progress on its sluggish emissions reductions. Germany’s coal-fired power generation should be phased…
Following the election, Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn asks for a faster increase in CO2 prices and an earlier phase-out of coal
Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess has called for a more rapid increase in the price of carbon dioxide, an earlier phaseout of coal, and a bigger growth of renewable energy sources. After Germany’s general elections on September 26, Diess published…
Carbon border adjustment will not provide an equal playing field for EU business, according to a new research
Researchers from the University of Cologne’s Institute of Energy Economics (EWI) write in a policy briefing that while a European CO2 border adjustment payment can be a first step toward a fairer competition environment in terms of emission costs, not…
Germany has opened the world’s first industrial CO2-neutral e-kerosene factory
The non-profit atmosfair and its partners have opened the world’s first CO2-neutral e-kerosene production factory. To create green hydrogen, the facility in Werlte, Germany, combines CO2 collected from the air and a biogas plant that uses food waste, as well…
The German climate discussion unfairly ignores building emissions, according to a researcher
In an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung, Lamia Messari-Becker, a buildings and physics professor at the University of Siegen, stated that the climate discussion in Germany has been overly concentrated on wind and solar power, neglecting the huge volume of emissions…
A more equitable climate transition is needed, according to the head of Germany’s consumer protection organizations
The chairman of the German Consumer Organizations Federation (VZBV) has advocated for a climate-friendly infrastructure model that simultaneously ensures a certain quality of living for residents. Klaus Müller remarked in an interview with the daily Der Tagesspiegel that, in addition…