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Opinion on the amendment of the Carbon Dioxide Storage Act

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Opinion on the amendment of the Carbon Dioxide Storage Act

From Neelke Wagner / 12.11.2024 Comments Disabled

The German government plans to make the disposal of carbon dioxide under the North Sea possible. For this purpose, a thousands-kilometre pipeline network for carbon dioxide is to be built throughout Germany. The catch and [...]

Panel discussion: Energy partnerships on an equal footing? Dangers and Opportunities of Foreign Energy Policy

From Leonel / 30.03.2024 Comments Disabled

The energy crisis in Germany was recently declared over by Federal Minister Robert Habeck. In recent years, the traffic light government has campaigned for numerous ‘energy partnerships’ with other countries and [...]

Crash course climate-friendly heating networks

From Leonel / 14.03.2024 Comments Disabled

We are in the middle of the climate crisis, extreme weather events are accumulating. It is high time to change the way we do things, including in the heating sector. This is because not only the CO2 emissions generated by the combustion of coal, [...]

"Win-Win" for whom? Effects of gas imports from Senegal

From Neelke Wagner / 11.10.2023 Comments Disabled

Despite all the commitments to transformation: In May 2022, Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised Senegalese President Macky Sall to help Senegal extract gas and import the extracted gas. This [...]

Press release on the day of action “Get out of the gas lobby! Get out of the future Gas!”

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Press release on the day of action “Get out of the gas lobby! Get out of the future Gas!”

From Vanessa Fischer / 25.09.2023 Comments Disabled

Berlin, 25 September 2023: In Berlin, civil society is now taking its protest against the manipulative tactics of the gas industry directly to the doors of the lobby association “Zukunft Gas”. Experts from various organizations and [...]

Crash course: The future without natural gas – how do we achieve the heat transition?

From Tine Laufer / 21.06.2023 Comments Disabled

In this country and especially in the global south, people are increasingly suffering from the consequences of the climate crisis. Persistently high methane emissions contribute significantly to this. Methane, the main component of natural gas, heats the climate [...]

Green hydrogen for Germany – hope or hype?

From Hendrik Schnittker / 01.12.2022 Comments Disabled

Hydrogen as a green energy source is on everyone's lips. Many companies and the federal government are relying on this technology to implement the energy transition. Green hydrogen is to be supplied with electricity from renewable [...]