Large German companies such as Siemens and Bosch are abandoning the solar industry. Their strategies resulted in debacles – their investments in solar power companies cost them billions. The author and former television journalist Franz Alt is a militant solar lobbyist. On his website, the 74-year-old, who wrote his doctoral thesis about Konrad Adenauer, gushes: [...]

Egypt is beating the war drums against Ethiopia over its plan to build a giant dam on the Nile, affecting a quarter of Egypt’s water supply. Given both countries’ needs, it’s a tough problem to solve. But it can be done. It’s fairly shocking to think that with all the turmoil going on in the [...]

Efforts to curb global warming have quietly shifted as greenhouse gases inexorably rise. After years of losing the fight against rising global emissions of heat-trapping gases, governments around the world are emphasizing what a U.N. Foundation scientific report calls “managing the unavoidable.”   The conversation is no longer solely about how to save the planet by [...]

The United Nations global warming talks have been set back by six months after Russia and its allies blocked progress at a group charged with implementing decisions of the 190 nations involved in the discussions. The Subsidiary Body for Implementation at the UN talks failed to complete any work at two weeks of meetings in Bonn that [...]

Germany urgently needs to scale back its financial support for the development of renewable energy to contain the spiralling costs of its move to a low-carbon economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday. Addressing an energy conference in Berlin, Ms. Merkel called for reducing government spending on energy like wind and solar power to keep Germany [...]

The green energy transition is getting more and more expensive. Taxes and duties on the electricity price reached a high of almost 32 billion Euros this year. And further charges are already in sight. Source: German Association of Energy and Water (BDEW) The green energy transition of the Federal Government is ever more increasing the [...]

The costs of Germany’s shift to a low-carbon economy are getting out of control, the country’s biggest energy lobby group said Monday, urging the next government to make energy policy a top priority. “There will no period of grace for the new government,” Hildegard Mueller, managing director of Germany’s energy and water industry association, known [...]

China led a rise in global carbon dioxide emissions to a record high in 2012, more than offsetting falls in the United States and Europe, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Monday. Worldwide CO2 emissions rose by 1.4 percent to 31.6 billion tons, according to estimates from the Paris-based IEA. China is the biggest [...]