Tag: Climate Protection Act
Tempo 30: FDP and Greens agree
Tempo 30 zones With the draft that has now been submitted, authorities could protect the population from noise and exhaust fumes and reorganize traffic in terms of urban development. (Photo:…
Habeck says goodbye to sector targets
Robert Habeck With the amendment to the law, the Economics Minister largely abolishes the sector targets. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) says goodbye to the rigid requirements…
A minister is at the center of the climate dispute – and the traffic light crash
Berlin No matter how sharply the Green coalition partner criticizes the Federal Transport Minister, Volker Wissing goes his own way stoically. On Wednesday, the FDP politician answered questions from the…
The next coalition crash is approaching at 30 km/h in cities
Berlin. It is only an adjective that can be found in the most recent decision of the coalition committee of the SPD, Greens and FDP. But it has what it…
An obligation to install is not enough – a comment
Germany wants to get away from fossil fuels for understandable reasons – and as quickly as possible. To this end, by 2040, if possible, all of the energy that has…
The climate protection law is a bad design – a comment
E-car charging Battery powered cars are the preferred means of reducing CO2 emissions in the transport sector. In order to also reach the number of 47 million cars with combustion…
Wissing’s experts assume a car toll and an end to combustion engines in their forecast
Transport Minister Volker Wissing For months, the FDP man has been exchanging blows with the Greens on the question of how Germany should be mobile in the future without emitting…
Legal opinion: Germany violates climate protection law
Berlin The transport and building sectors are expected to have failed to comply with the upper limits for CO2 emissions set out in the Federal Climate Protection Act for the…
Hydrogen, the beacon of hope, will remain scarce for years to come
Production of green hydrogen in Spain Experts do not expect a global market for hydrogen to develop until the 2030s. (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Berlin Germany can only become climate-neutral if…
This is how your company becomes climate-neutral
Wind turbines in front of the Jänschwalde power plant The federal government aims to make Germany climate-neutral by 2045. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The climate protection organization WWF and the consulting…
Germany will probably miss climate targets for 2022 and 2023
Robert Habeck “We will probably still miss our targets for 2022, even for 2023 it will be difficult enough.” (Photo: AP) Berlin Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and…
This could affect tenants and landlords in terms of heating costs
Radiator and thermostat Heating is getting more expensive: Energy prices are rising, plus CO2 pricing. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt When millions of German tenants soon find their utility bills in their…
The industry is disappointed with the decisions of COP 26
Berlin When Roland Harings, CEO of Aurubis AG, is supposed to evaluate the results of the world climate summit, he first tries to find a conciliatory tone. The intensive international…
The SPD, the Greens and the FDP want more pragmatic climate goals
Schkopau lignite power plant in Saxony-Anhalt The potential coalition partners SPD, FDP and Greens want to defuse the climate protection law in one key area. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Just a…
Environment Ministry keeps data under lock and key
Berlin Contrary to legal requirements, the Federal Environment Ministry has not yet submitted the climate protection report or the climate projection report. The ministry confirmed this to the Handelsblatt on…
This is how much CO2 Germany has to save in transport
traffic jam on the highway The repeatedly hotly debated speed limit on motorways would only save two million tonnes of CO2, i.e. a tenth of the required target. (Photo: dpa)…