Europe can become less dependent on China for the production of solar products in the medium term. However, such a turnaround would need a lot of political will, billions of euros in start-up financing and several years’ time, experts and business representatives agree. Chinese plans to restrict exports of solar production equipment in the future […]
According to a new study by Lobbycontrol, the gas industry still has a great deal of influence on German politics. In important energy policy decisions, for example, on the subject of LNG imports and hydrogen, the gas lobby continues to defend its interests, the NGO says. German-Russian lobby networks had in the past led to […]
Europe can become less dependent on China for the production of solar products in the medium term. However, such a turnaround would need a lot of political will, billions of euros in start-up financing and several years, experts and business representatives agree. Chinese plans to restrict exports of solar production equipment in the future could […]
Nitrogen fertilizers are responsible for about five percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. This is the result of a new study published in Nature Food. According to the study, the greenhouse gases CO2, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and methane are produced during the production and use of nitrogen fertilizers. Natural gas, coal and petroleum are […]
Europe can become less dependent on China for the production of solar products in the medium term. However, such a turnaround would need a lot of political will, billions of euros in start-up financing and several years’ time, experts and business representatives agree. Chinese plans to restrict exports of solar production equipment in the future […]
China’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) launched in the summer of 2021 with high hopes. It is the largest ETS in the world and covers 40 percent of all Chinese emissions – 4.5 billion tonnes of carbon per year. Unfortunately, however, the system is plagued by design flaws that at best improve the efficiency of power […]
In order to still meet the 1.5-degree target, large coal-consuming countries like China, India or South Africa would have to phase out coal-fired power generation at an unprecedented rate. The phase-out would have to happen more than twice as fast as other changes in a major energy source of the past 50 years – including […]
The climate crisis could reduce the number of climate refugees, a new study shows. What sounds contradictory has a simple reason: The effects of climate change are causing more people to lose their livelihoods. As a result, they have less money to afford to flee in the first place.Scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate […]
Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck was in Washington this Monday and Tuesday to negotiate the direction of the Inflation Reduction Act with his US counterparts. The goal is to nip a green economic war between the US and the EU in the bud. Habeck came with proposals for green free trade. Bernhard Pötter is on […]
It is a minor announcement that could have a major impact: China wants to place an export ban on important technologies for the production of solar systems. A final decision on this is still pending. A public consultation was open until the end of January. But all China experts consulted are certain that the export […]