In the context of geopolitical tensions and geo-economic fragmentation, the German government now has the opportunity at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue to demonstrate leadership and position Germany as a central shaping and leading power in international climate policy.Germany and the EU are more important than ever before as international climate policy players, particularly after the […]
The Hamm Higher Regional Court (OLG) has announced that it will announce a decision on Saúl Luciano Lliuya’s climate lawsuit at 10 a.m. on April 14, 2025. If the court rules in favor of the plaintiff, the case will go to the next round. Only then will the Higher Regional Court be able to specifically […]
How high is the flood risk for Saúl Luciano Lliuya’s house in the Peruvian Andes? Has it increased due to climate change? If so, does the German electricity company RWE, whose coal emissions contribute to global warming, have to bear part of the costs of protecting the house? This is the subject in Lliuya’s landmark […]
At the three-day continuation of the World Conference on Nature (COP16) in Rome late on Thursday evening, the states agreed on a roadmap to develop a financial structure for the period after 2030 at the next two meetings. They also agreed on a mechanism to monitor and evaluate their progress in nature conservation. The Cali […]
In a joint discussion paper, the two think tanks Agora Verkehrswende and Zukunft KlimaSozial propose promoting battery-powered EVs in the future so that the switch is also worthwhile for people on low and medium incomes. They advocate a two-stage process: Firstly, EVs should be brought “into the mass market” and a subsidy based on income […]
The new German government should promote climate neutrality in transportation as a joint “future project” across all ministries. This is what the think tank Agora Verkehrswende advocates in a recent policy paper. Its core argument is that the mobility transition is about more than just climate action and transport policy. Properly understood, it could secure […]
In the election campaign, politicians and parties sometimes deliberately spread false facts about climate policy: AfD, but also parts of the CDU/CSU and FDP criticize renewable energies as expensive subsidy models with abbreviated data and propagate allegedly cheap electricity from nuclear energy or the widespread dismantling of wind turbines. Although distorted representations are not uncommon […]
If politicians left the heating transition exclusively to the market, heating costs for households would in all likelihood rise dramatically. This is the conclusion of a new joint study by the Öko-Institut and the “Paritätischer Gesamtverband.” Their analysis is based on the assumption that the Building Energy Act (GEG) would be overturned and a carbon […]
Just days before the federal elections in Germany, the national railways ticket is becoming an election campaign issue. Leading CDU/CSU politicians question its financial viability, but are divided on possible solutions. The debate was triggered by a statement made by Bavaria’s Transport Minister Christian Bernreiter (CSU), who is also Chairman of the Conference of Transport […]
Greenpeace International filed a lawsuit against the US company Energy Transfer at an Amsterdam district court on Tuesday. The NGO, which is headquartered in Amsterdam, is invoking a new European Union directive aimed at curbing so-called SLAPP lawsuits. The term refers to lawsuits strategically aimed at intimidating or silencing critics to prevent critical public participation. […]