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What goes on in Poland on the 30th of October.

What goes on in Poland on the 21st of October.

Just before the UN climate summit in New York, the CDU/CSU and SPD coalition announced new ideas on how to achieve Germany’s 2030 climate targets. For now, these are mainly national measures, but a similar discussion and perhaps similar solutions will emerge at European level. This will have a significant impact on the EU regulations […]

There is a big discussion in Germany right now: to what extent can we use existing infrastructure to transport and distribute hydrogen? Can Germany at least partially move its infrastructure from natural gas to hydrogen? Therefore, it will be interesting to see what the federal government writes in its announced national hydrogen strategy – says […]

There could be a coalition between Conservatives and Greens in which Greens would resign from 2030 coal exit postulate in exchange for concessions somewhere else. For example, Conservatives are thinking about 10H regulation similar to Polish and that would be more important issue from the point of view of Greens – says Hanns Koenig from […]

The victory of Poles in the OPAL case does not threaten the security of gas supplies to Europe, but the unpredictable policy of Gazprom – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl. The OPAL verdict forces Gazprom to limit supplies via OPAL On September 10, the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union […]

The Fridays for Future student climate protest movement will leave its mark on society, independent of its eventual duration, according to a working paper by the Institute for Social Movement Studies. The movement politicises and mobilises many young people that have had little contact with politics until now.

A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on land use shows that climate change is threatening the world’s food supply and livelihood, making it an „existential question”, said German environment minister Svenja Schulze. The agricultural and forest sectors are victims of this development, but also the cause of a large share […]

What goes on in Europe on the 13th of August.

The German Federal Network Agency, BNetzA, has launched an investigation into whether power price speculation destabilised the country’s power grid, newspaper Handelsblatt reports.