Tag: Federal Environment Agency
This start-up wants to pay out GHG premiums faster
Dusseldorf The topic of greenhouse gas quotas creates covetousness. Since the beginning of the year, every owner of an electric car has been able to receive an annual bonus. Anyone…
Price shock – The 30 most important answers
Uncertain future Nobody knows exactly how energy policy will continue. However, some questions can be answered. (Photo: Mona Eing & Michael Meissner) As a result of Vladimir Putin’s war of…
Ukraine war: security of supply more urgent than climate protection?
Uncertain future Nobody knows exactly how energy policy will continue. However, some questions can be answered. (Photo: Mona Eing & Michael Meissner) As a result of Vladimir Putin’s war of…
Transport Minister Wissing tears EU requirements clearly
Volker Wissing The transport minister ranks sixth in the company car check with his Audi A8 L 60 TFSI e quattro. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin New cars in the European Union…
Saving energy against Putin – which measures can help
Robert Habeck “The cheapest and most efficient contribution to more independence is less energy consumption.” (Photo: dpa) Berlin Saving energy in order to become independent of Russian energy: That is…
Scrap bonus and 10,800 euros e-car discount
Berlin Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing is planning to use massive subsidies to quickly persuade Germans to buy electric cars. This emerges from a government report in which several research…
Scrap bonus and 10,800 euros e-car discount
Berlin Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing is planning to use massive subsidies to quickly persuade Germans to buy electric cars. This emerges from a government report in which several research…
BDI calls for “Sprinter premium” for speedy renovations
Berlin The Federation of German Industries (BDI) warns the traffic light government against delaying the renovation of buildings. “Politics must finally set the course for the long overdue wave of…
In this way, the energy requirement in buildings can be reduced
Berlin Household energy consumption in Germany is largely based on non-renewable energy sources. Heat and hot water are mainly generated with natural gas and fuel oil. Around half of all…
What do the measures really achieve?
Dusseldorf “There will be no general speed limit.” That’s how it is clearly stated in the coalition agreement. The sentence, which ended up there at the urging of the FDP,…
Transport sector will again miss its climate targets in 2021
Berlin Germans produce too many greenhouse gases when driving and heating their homes. The Expert Council for Climate Issues has confirmed the emission data determined by the Federal Environment Agency…
Handelsblatt Green: What is the real benefit of saving energy?
Dusseldorf Germany’s dependence on energy imports from Russia is increasingly causing difficulties in view of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Economics Minister Robert Habeck…
Why the building industry emits so much CO2
Modern building This is what a part-timber construction should look like in the future. Bochum, Dusseldorf In a mouse-grey Bochum settlement, of all places, where apartment buildings are lined up…
Speed limit on motorways: SPD and Greens for it
The Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport, Daniela Kluckert (FDP), rejected the request. “We did not explicitly agree on a speed limit on motorways in the coalition…
In 2021, the transport sector missed its climate targets
Berlin The new federal government obviously wants to forego the transport sector achieving its climate targets every year in the future. At the presentation of the annual climate report, the…
Large dependence on oil, gas and coal
Renewable energy Electricity generation from renewable energies fell by seven percent, mainly due to poor wind conditions. (Photo: dpa) Berlin While the federal government wants to launch a new relief…
Dax & dates in the daily stock market report
Dusseldorf Russia’s attack on Ukraine is still the dominant topic in the world, including on the stock exchanges. Nevertheless, investors on the German stock market are relatively optimistic, and many…
How to reduce dependency on Russian oil
Brussels, Berlin Rapidly reducing energy dependency on Russia is a declared goal of Germany and the European Union in view of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. The Federal…
Conflict in Ukraine: Energy price shock – Smart technology can help
Thyssen Krupp Steel Works in Duisburg Energy-intensive companies in particular are being put under pressure by the high electricity prices. (Photo: dpa) Reducing dependence on Russian gas, oil and coal…
What natural gas is used for in Germany
Berlin, Dusseldorf If Moscow threatens to stop supplying natural gas, this is a problem for Germany in particular: more than half of the gas consumption in this country is covered…