Climate Policy - PowerShift

Climate Change and Reparations: Will COP29 bring more global justice?

From Emma Jacoby / 27.11.2024 Comments Disabled

Climate protection, and then also fair? Shortly after the election of US President Trump, who wants to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement with his country, such demands seem difficult to implement. [...]

Blue hydrogen: Fossil and climate friendly?

From Emma Jacoby / 23.08.2024 Comments Disabled

Hydrogen is an important energy storage and raw material, for example for climate-neutral steel production. There is a whole color theory of green, blue, pink and gray hydrogen. While green hydrogen is climate neutral [...]

What does Europe bring us? The EU election in the PowerShift check

From Emma Jacoby / 30.05.2024 Comments Disabled

From 6 to 9 June, the people of Europe will elect the European Parliament. The EU also has a major influence on the PowerShift sectors - raw materials, trade, investment, climate and energy policy. In [...]

Hydrogen march?! The German Hunger for H2 Imports

From Emma Jacoby / 15.12.2023 Comments Disabled

With hydrogen, Germany wants to make its industry more climate-friendly. A large part of the hydrogen is to be imported. This is exactly what the German government is currently working on with its hydrogen import strategy. In this episode, [...]

Gas phase-out – why climate protection only works without natural gas

From Vanessa Fischer / 21.08.2023 Comments Disabled

Actually, it has been clear for a long time: Fossil fuels are dinosaurs of the past. But since Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, gas has been in high demand again. Instead of coming to Europe at last, [...]

Circular economy – how to make the energy transition resource-efficient

From Emma Jacoby / 31.01.2023 Comments Disabled

80 tonnes: That's how much steel is needed to build a wind turbine. We need a lot of metals for the energy transition. It is therefore clear: We have to use raw materials through recycling for so long [...]

Green hydrogen – What do German import plans mean for the Global South?

From Emma Jacoby / 16.12.2022 Comments Disabled

The champagne of the energy transition. At present, green hydrogen is often referred to as green hydrogen. In its national hydrogen strategy, the Federal Government plans to massively expand both production and imports in order to produce coal and natural gas.

After the reform – What's next for the Energy Charter Treaty

From Emma Jacoby / 06.09.2022 Comments Disabled

The German energy company RWE has sued the Netherlands for 1.4 billion euros in damages for its coal phase-out by 2030. Such lawsuits are possible through the Energy Charter Treaty, an international investment protection agreement and...

Podcast Special No. 24: Awakening in trade, raw materials and transport policy? PowerShift demands on politics

From Jeremy Oestreich / 27.10.2021 Comments Disabled

The challenges posed by climate and environmental crises as well as growing inequalities and global injustice are great: RWE has filed a lawsuit against the Netherlands' coal phase-out and is seeking 2.4 billion euros in damages. Germany continues to strengthen [...]

Podcast No 23 – Climate impacts of raw material hunger – how metal mining is driving the climate crisis

From Jeremy Oestreich / 20.09.2021 Comments Disabled

E-cars, digitalisation and technological progress are often at the centre of debates about a climate-neutral future economy. However, solutions that rely only on technologies usually increase the need for metallic [...]