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Germany’s Green Party has given up its fight within Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition for stricter measures that would enable the country to meet its ambitious climate goals in ...
A decade ago, Germany’s renewable energy transition was seen as a model for the rest of the world. Today much of the working class has turned against all things green.
Germany’s Green Party entered the government in 2021 with the best election showing of its history, establishing itself for the first time as a true mainstream party with the potential of one ...
In Germany’s current primary-energy mix, including such things as fuel used for transport and heating as well as electricity generation, the share of renewables still remains below 20%.
On the other side, green NGO Transport & Environment — which backs batteries — reckons that e-fuels could power just 2 percent of cars in the EU by 2035 even under the best-case scenario. That would ...
The bad: The transportation, buildings, and industrial sectors remain, ... Ignore social impacts, risk green backlash. In Germany, buildings have to pay a carbon tax that rises over time.
Germany's wind power expansion is facing an unexpected roadblock: builders need permits to transport the heavy turbines down the country's roads, and they are waiting months to get them.