Green Party – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Tue, 06 Apr 2021 10:01:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 A Green Spring in Germany: a bellwether for the Autumn? https://energytransition.org/2021/04/a-green-spring-in-germany-a-bellwether-for-the-autumn/ https://energytransition.org/2021/04/a-green-spring-in-germany-a-bellwether-for-the-autumn/#respond Tue, 06 Apr 2021 10:30:12 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=24127 In March’s two state elections, no party lost more ground than Angela Merkel’s ruling CDU. Tarred by deepening scandal, a slow vaccination rollout and lockdown fatigue, its popularity is plummeting. Conversely, big gains in these early contests in the nation’s super-cycle election year — culminating with September’s federal parliament and chancellery vote — show that public opinion is turning...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/04/a-green-spring-in-germany-a-bellwether-for-the-autumn/feed/ 0 Lunch with Mr. Energiewende: Rainer Baake is Back in Berlin https://energytransition.org/2020/08/lunch-with-mr-energiewende-rainer-baake-is-back-in-berlin-and-behind-a-new-think-tank/ https://energytransition.org/2020/08/lunch-with-mr-energiewende-rainer-baake-is-back-in-berlin-and-behind-a-new-think-tank/#respond Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:00:59 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=22921 Rainer Baake, 64-years old, is a veteran renewable energy politico with roots that stretch back deep into the earliest days of Germany’s renewables movement and the Greens. In March 2018, Baake left the Federal Ministry of Economy and Energy (BMWi), where he headed up the energy portfolio, with a resounding bang. Since then, he’s travelled around the world shooting a film about climate change.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/08/lunch-with-mr-energiewende-rainer-baake-is-back-in-berlin-and-behind-a-new-think-tank/feed/ 0 Germany’s solar industry could implode this summer https://energytransition.org/2020/05/germanys-solar-industry-could-implode-this-summer/ https://energytransition.org/2020/05/germanys-solar-industry-could-implode-this-summer/#comments Wed, 13 May 2020 13:00:02 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=22291 Germany’s solar industry is in deep crisis and may implode in the summer. Solutions have been around for a long time, but internal power struggles and debates over distance rules between wind turbines are holding back progress. Florence Schulz reports for EURACTIV.com Solar industry in Germany is trying to get politicians to act. ( Public Domain) The country’s solar industry is collecting...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/05/germanys-solar-industry-could-implode-this-summer/feed/ 1 The Clock is Ticking on the EU’s European Green Deal https://energytransition.org/2020/02/the-clock-is-ticking-on-the-eus-european-green-deal/ https://energytransition.org/2020/02/the-clock-is-ticking-on-the-eus-european-green-deal/#respond Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:00:29 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21755 Well over half of the way into the first 100 days of the freshly installed European Commission (EC), led by President Ursula von der Leyen, the design and scope of the EU’s much hyped European Green Deal (EGD) is still quite vague. Serious questions loom about the plan’s ability to help Europe hit UN climate targets. Paul Hockenos explains why. ( Public Domain) Von der Leyen’s bombastic The...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/02/the-clock-is-ticking-on-the-eus-european-green-deal/feed/ 0 Irrational thinking: Merkel’s government stunningly green-lights new coal-fired power plant https://energytransition.org/2019/12/irrational-thinking-merkels-government-stunningly-green-lights-new-coal-fired-power-plant/ https://energytransition.org/2019/12/irrational-thinking-merkels-government-stunningly-green-lights-new-coal-fired-power-plant/#respond Thu, 26 Dec 2019 14:00:51 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21471 Despite all their rhetoric, Angela Merkel’s Grand Coalition government is clearly not all that interested in really powering past coal. The latest evidence is its decision to allow the Uniper-owned 1,200 MW hard coal-fired power plant, Datteln 4, to come online in 2020 — against the recommendations of the Coal Commission. As the government embarks on a bizarre sales campaign peddling the idea that...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2019/12/irrational-thinking-merkels-government-stunningly-green-lights-new-coal-fired-power-plant/feed/ 0 Politicos, Read the Polls: Europeans Want More Climate Action https://energytransition.org/2019/12/politicos-read-the-polls-europeans-across-the-28-want-more-climate-action/ https://energytransition.org/2019/12/politicos-read-the-polls-europeans-across-the-28-want-more-climate-action/#respond Mon, 23 Dec 2019 14:00:57 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21425 Throughout 2019 one poll after another has underscored that EU citizens are taking climate change very seriously and want to see action on climate protection on both the national and EU level. This should be a signal to Europe’s political class that they must prioritize all of the climate-related issues: from renewables to sustainable agriculture. The problem is that too many in the halls of power...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2019/12/politicos-read-the-polls-europeans-across-the-28-want-more-climate-action/feed/ 0 Poland Discovers Ecology https://energytransition.org/2019/10/poland-discovers-ecology/ https://energytransition.org/2019/10/poland-discovers-ecology/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:00:56 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=20949 After a long time of being either ignored or seen as a Western luxury topic, the state of the environment has begun to occupy a broad space in Polish public debate. From the threat of air pollution to the climate crisis, sustainability is now more visible than ever in the media and the campaign ahead of parliamentary elections on October 13. But will this shift produce a real change in direction...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2019/10/poland-discovers-ecology/feed/ 0 Fail: Merkel’s market-friendly Climate Plan banks on fairy tales https://energytransition.org/2019/10/michael/ https://energytransition.org/2019/10/michael/#comments Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:00:59 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=20929 After months of deliberations, in late September Germany’s ruling coalition, made up of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Centrist SPD unveiled their new climate action strategy—to near universal disappointment. Now approved by the government, the plan’s architects hope a weak plan is better than none at all. L. Michael Buchsbaum summarizes Friday for Future protestors are disappointed with the...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2019/10/michael/feed/ 1 Sound and fury: Merkel’s Climate Cabinet and its shortcomings https://energytransition.org/2019/09/sound-and-fury-merkels-climate-cabinet-and-its-shortcomings/ https://energytransition.org/2019/09/sound-and-fury-merkels-climate-cabinet-and-its-shortcomings/#respond Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:00:13 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=20809 Despite increasing public pressure, both coalition parties within Merkel’s so-called Climate Cabinet favor taxes or market based trading schemes to tackle the climate crisis instead of new regulations to increase renewable energy or hard measures to phase out fossil fuels. L. Michael Buchsbaum takes a look Emission trading or CO2 taxation is one of the topics to be negotiated ( Public Domain) It’s...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2019/09/sound-and-fury-merkels-climate-cabinet-and-its-shortcomings/feed/ 0 Greta’s Coming for Us: It’s the climate-change believers she’s out to flip https://energytransition.org/2019/09/gretas-coming-for-us-its-the-climate-change-believers-shes-out-to-flip/ https://energytransition.org/2019/09/gretas-coming-for-us-its-the-climate-change-believers-shes-out-to-flip/#comments Mon, 02 Sep 2019 13:00:04 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=20603 On a high-speed, zero-emissions vessel, Greta Thunberg arrived in the U.S. from Europe on August 29 – a masterpiece of symbolism and PR savvy, the kind which by now we’ve come to expect from the Swedish teenager and her fellow activists in the Fridays for Future movement. In the space of just one short year, their audacious “school strikes” on Fridays have prompted a startling reality check among...

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