The capacity of battery storage systems in Germany has developed even more positively than initially reported. The majority is accounted for by private home storage systems in combination with solar systems. However, further growth is still necessary.
By Malte Kreutzfeldt
More than 40 farmers from the Pakistani province of Sindh are demanding compensation for flood damage from the two companies. Because RWE and Heidelberg Materials are refusing their demands, the farmers have now filed a lawsuit.
By Alexandra Endres
Despite the La Niña weather phenomenon, 2025 was the third-warmest year since records began. The past three years exceeded the 1.5-degree limit on average, according to data from the EU climate service Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organization.
By Lukas Bayer
The insurance group Munich Re warns that the impact of climate change on global natural disasters is growing. NGOs are calling on the insurer to exit its own fossil-fuel activities.
By Miriam Scheibe
Venezuela’s oil industry has the highest methane intensity in the world, and production is particularly harmful to the climate. Why even US companies are unlikely to solve the problem.
By Nico Beckert
Venezuelas Ölindustrie hat die weltweit höchste Methanintensität, die Förderung ist besonders klimaschädlich. Warum auch US-Firmen das Problem kaum lösen würden.
By Nico Beckert
Proposals by the administration of the European Parliament on which committees should take the lead in discussing the legislative texts from the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) have met with resistance.
By Markus Grabitz
The US, Denmark and Greenland want to set up a high-level working group to look for ways to resolve the conflict over the island. Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said that they agreed to disagree.
By Till Hoppe and Stephan Israel
European consumer advocates reject hydrogen as a heating solution. Instead, they recommend tried and tested technologies such as heat pumps. However, in one respect, they cite Germany as a negative example.
By Manuel Berkel
