Climate crisis

FAIReconomics Newsletter Week 37/22

to the German Edition Despite energy crisis - Green Party leader Lang urges rapid coal phase-out: "It is necessary that we phase out coal in 2030 - if only to achieve our climate goals," said [...]

FAIReconomics Newsletter Week 36/22

to the German edition Coalition agreement on relief package with climate component: After long negotiations and a night session, the leaders of the traffic light coalition have agreed on a third relief package with a total [...]

FAIReconomics Newsletter Week 35/22

to the German edition Electricity prices are rising alarmingly: Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner has called for speed in the reform of the electricity market. "The federal government must address electricity prices with the utmost [...]

FAIReconomics Newsletter Week 28/22

to the German edition Coalition agrees on massive expansion of renewable energies: The coalition parties in the Bundestag have agreed on a massive expansion of green energies. Various laws are to create the basis for [...]

FAIReconomics Newsletter Week 27/22

to the German edition Network agency fears failure of hundreds of thousands of gas boilers: A regional gas shortage would be momentous. Meanwhile, Economics Minister Habeck calls the gas crisis a "quasi economic warfare". In [...]

FAIReconomics Week 26/22

to the German edition Scholz wants to expand Climate Club: At the G7 Summit, Chancellor Olaf Scholz is pushing for the revival of the Climate Club. Seven years after the Paris Climate Agreement, Scholz wants [...]

FAIReconomics Newsletter Week 24/22

to the German edition Habeck wants to tighten anti-trust law to get a grip on rising petrol costs:Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) wants to react to the high petrol prices despite the petrol discount [...]

FAIReconomics Newsletter Week 24/22

to the German edition G7 commits for the first time to ending coal-fired power generation, nuclear power remains an option: The environment ministers of the G7 countries want to do more to combat climate change, [...]

FAIReconomics Newsletter Week 20/22

to the German edition Europe's emissions trading - reform on the verge of a breakthrough: Emissions trading must be tightened if the EU wants to achieve its climate targets. In these weeks, negotiators in the [...]

FAIReconomics Newsletter Week 18/22

to the German edition Global energy transition efforts are not enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. Even with the government commitments of 64 countries and projected technology trends, global warming could reach 1.7 [...]