In April, the share of coal in Poland’s electricity production fell below 50 percent for the first time at 49.4%. According to a report by the Polish think tank Forum Energii, this is partly due to the strong growth in renewables and a decline in demand for energy in the country. In addition, gas-fired power […]
100 percent renewable electricity by 2035 – that is the promise of Kenya’s new climate target (NDC), which was recently published. In addition, the country’s greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced by 35% by then. The NDC has been praised by experts, with many describing it as a possible “blueprint” for other African countries. […]
Local electricity prices: In addition to a study on local electricity prices, the Agora Energiewende think tank also offers an interactive online tool with which these can be modeled and compared over time and geographically in 22 regions.Second warmest April: The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has published climate data from the past April. The […]
While the CDU/CSU and SPD want to boost prosperity in the country through more economic growth according to the coalition agreement, a panel of experts is calling for practically the opposite: The Energy Sufficiency Research Group (EnSu) is advocating a “sufficiency strategy” and a move away from the fixation on growth. In a recent impulse […]
Brigitte Knopf, Director of the think tank Zukunft Klimasozial, has called for the new German government to swiftly introduce income-based subsidies on the road to climate neutrality. In a background paper, the think tank explains that transformation investments are currently almost impossible to make for households with low and medium incomes, and that there is […]
Only just over one in two people in Germany (53%) still see themselves as responsible in the fight against climate change. Four years ago, this figure was still more than two-thirds (69%), according to a survey conducted by the opinion research institute Ipsos. More than 23,000 people in 32 countries were surveyed in January and […]