Tag: Emissions trading
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…
How much more energy can we save?
Dusseldorf Germany is one of the industrially most important countries in Europe – but faces the challenge of decarbonizing its CO2-intensive economy in the coming years. The goal of climate…
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…
US energy industry discusses hydrogen and CO2 storage
DAC facility In Ector County, Texas, Oxy is building the world’s largest DAC plant together with the Canadian start-up Carbon Engineering in the joint venture “1Point Five”. (Photo: Oxy) new…
Wintershall wants to transport German CO2 away with Fluxys
CO2 storage In Denmark, Wintershall is driving the “Greensand” project with the British chemical group Ineos. (Photo: Wintershall Dea/Sören Weper) Dusseldorf The gas company Wintershall Dea and the Belgian transmission…
Robert Habeck wants to auction contracts for industry
Berlin German industry can hope for massive state support in the near future for the transformation. As early as April, companies should be able to register their interest in the…
Robert Habeck wants to auction contracts for industry
Berlin German industry can hope for massive state support in the near future for the transformation. The Federal Ministry of Economics wants to start awarding climate protection contracts in April.…
Robert Habeck wants to auction contracts for industry
Berlin German industry can hope for massive state support in the near future for the transformation. The Federal Ministry of Economics wants to start awarding climate protection contracts in April.…
Global CO2 emissions rise to a record high
Black Pump coal-fired power plant Global CO2 emissions from coal increased in 2022. (Photo: IMAGO/mhphoto) Paris The International Energy Agency (IEA) is calling for more speed in the energy transition…
The Federal Environment Agency counters the FDP’s speed limit report
Speed limit 120 The study by the Federal Environment Agency comes to significantly higher CO2 savings through a speed limit than the FDP report. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The President of…
Green steel becomes a lucrative business
The current gas-fired direct reduction plants replace existing blast furnaces that use coal as a heat source. In the long term, the plants are to run on hydrogen. This is…
Study – Climate protection subsidies prevent value creation losses in the hundreds of billions
Berlin The climate-neutral conversion of the energy-intensive sectors of steel, basic chemicals and cement should be promoted with more targeted government support. This is the result of the study “Economic…
Why new aid is the wrong way
Global trends Handelsblatt author Thomas Hanke analyzes interesting data and trends from all over the world in the column. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy) France and Germany are drumming for more subsidies…
According to the report, the EU wants to reduce CO2 emissions from trucks and buses by 90 percent
Truck under toll bridge Previously, it had been planned that CO2 emissions from trucks and buses would fall by 30 percent by 2030. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to the EU…
Large corporations advertise green, but often miss the 1.5 degree target
Brown coal power plant Neurath in NRW Some companies do not fully disclose their emissions. (Photo: IMAGO/Wienold) Dusseldorf With their plans, many large corporations are missing the goal of limiting…
Why Germany’s autobahns are a special case
Dusseldorf Racing driver Sebastian Vettel wants it, the Tote-Hosen singer Campino wants it, and the police union in North Rhine-Westphalia wants it too – we’re talking about the speed limit…
Germany cannot outsource everything
Demonstration against natural gas production method fracking There is immense resistance to almost everything in Germany. Not only against fossil energies. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Fracking gas from the USA, nuclear…
Habeck’s consultants recommend a change of strategy for industrial transformation
Berlin Robert Habeck’s (Greens) officials have been working on a formula for months. It is designed to determine how steelmakers, chemical plants and other basic industries are reimbursed by the…
Robert Habeck’s consultants recommend a change of strategy in industrial transformation
Berlin Robert Habeck’s (Greens) officials have been working on a formula for months. It is designed to determine how steelmakers, chemical plants and other basic industries are reimbursed by the…
Why money laundering with emission certificates is lucrative
Niederaussem power plant in North Rhine-Westphalia Some market participants do opaque deals with pollution certificates. (Photo: imago/blickwinkel) Munich People with questionable offers like to get in touch with Michael Kroehnert.…