This year’s European Hydrogen Week began in Brussels on Monday with the official launch of the Clean Hydrogen Partnership. The new cooperation is intended to bring together representatives of the EU Commission, the member states, industry, and science in order to help innovations reach market maturity more quickly and to promote the development of an […]
With an immediate climate protection program including all necessary laws, ordinances, and measures, the new traffic light coalition wants to consistently orient its climate, energy, and economic policy towards the 1.5-degree path by 2022 at the latest. In this context, all draft legislation is to be reviewed in terms of its impact on the climate. The coalition agreement does not specify […]
At the Climate Congress of the Federation of German Industries, business representatives were not holding back their criticism of climate policy from Berlin and Brussels and made clear demands – especially of the Federal Government that is now being formed.Previously, the BDI and the Boston Consulting Group had published a study entitled “Climate Paths 2.0“, […]
Raw materials are at the beginning of every value chain and are of crucial importance for Europe as an industrial location. Europe is not a resource-poor region. Nevertheless, the list of so-called critical raw materials, i.e., all those whose supply risk is particularly high according to the EU Commission, grows from year to year. While […]
Electrification of road traffic, green hydrogen for industry, and heat pumps instead of gas heating: As the Green Deal measures are implemented, power demand in Europe will surge. At the same time, the EU wants to phase out fossil fuels, because 75 percent of EU-wide emissions stem from the generation and consumption of power. A […]
For years, the Weimar Triangle has been struggling with insignificance. The enormous potential of the three states, which together account for about 45 percent of the EU’s gross domestic product and nearly 40 percent of its population, and which also form a geographic axis between Western and Eastern Europe, contrasts with a depressing reality.The last […]
A significant increase in global energy efficiency is necessary to meet global climate targets. This is the conclusion of a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) presented on Wednesday.Although the increase in efficiency has reached the pre-Corona level again. At just under two percent, the rate is roughly in line with the annual […]
With numerous declarations, goals, and promises, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) came to an end last weekend in Glasgow. For the skeptics, these are at best recommendations for action. And indeed: concrete measures were hardly announced, let alone decided. One exception is Turkey, of all countries, which only managed to ratify the Paris […]
The Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline has been completed. The Russian energy company Gazprom wanted to start the first gas deliveries to Europe before the end of the year, and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin pressed for an early operating permit from decision-makers in Germany and at the EU level. But nothing will come of […]
According to the European Environment Agency’s latest estimates, 307,000 people died prematurely due to exposure to fine particulate matter pollution in the EU in 2019. That is the result of an updated study on the “Health impacts of air pollution in Europe” presented by the EEA on Monday. According to the study, at least 58%, or 178,000, […]