Germany

In 2011, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the country was turning away from nuclear energy in favor of a renewable future. Since then, however, progress has been limited. Berlin has wasted…

The German company has promised to make its entire business carbon neutral by 2020. Starting in 2020, Bosch will compensate for any residual and unavoidable carbon emissions primarily by buying…

The Energy Transition Fund called for by the European Parliament is more than just a pot of money to support coal-dependent regions, says Claude Turmes, Luxembourg’s minister for energy and spatial…

For years, the EU Commission has warned Germany about illegally high levels of nitrate in groundwater. The European Court of Justice even ruled on the issue in June. Now, the German government is…

Confidential documents prepared in advance of a two-day EU summit in Brussels have exposed an East-West divide in Europe on climate change, with Germany siding with Poland, Hungary and the Czech…

While Germany and Eastern European countries continue to oppose raising the EU’s 40% emission reduction target for 2030, a new analysis insists the bloc will actually manage at least 50% cuts under a…

Wind energy is a well-established source of renewable energy, but what countries have the highest wind energy capacity in the world? Wind power has become an important source of energy generation…

The global BMU IKI-funded project Mainstreaming EbA implemented by GIZ is delighted to invite you to the 4th International EbA Community of Practice Workshop, 11-14 June 2019 in Bonn, Germany

In 2050, 80 percent of the electric power in Germany has to be based on renewable resources. To reach this goal, it is required to store electric power in the form of chemical energy carriers. Within…

The newly-launched European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR) https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/esssr.html in Hamburg, Germany, was created in order to foster the cause of…

German transmission system operator 50Hertz, one of four in the country, says that over 2018 well more than 50 per cent of the electricity consumed in the company’s grid area was generated by…