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German government sticks to excluding households and small businesses from electricity tax cut
Clean Energy Wire
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July 3, 2025
After a week-long debate following public outcry over the German government’s plans to exclude households and small businesses from tax reductions for electricity, the governing coalition ultimately decided to stick to its budget proposal and...
Germany Ramps Up Checks on Shadow Fleet in Baltic Sea
Ship & Bunker
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July 3, 2025
Since July 1, Germany and Sweden have been checking tanker insurance in the Baltic Sea to target Russia’s shadow fleet and boost maritime safety. File Image / Pixabay Germany has begun asking tankers passing east through the Fehmarn Belt to prove...
In Havana continues on sessions of Environmental Convention
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 4, 2025
Seven congresses feature the program for this biennial event, which will bring together more than 500 Cuban and foreign delegates from nearly twenty countries until July 5. As part of the first meeting of the scientific sector, Cuban residents...
German VPP developer sonnen enters Canadian market
Smart Energy International
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July 3, 2025
German virtual power plant (VPP) developer sonnen has entered the Canadian market with a VPP of approximately 100 sonnenBatteries. The new VPP is launching in Edmonton, the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, built in the residential...
One in three German startups sceptical on US investor financing, survey finds
KDAL - Minnesota
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July 4, 2025
BERLIN (Reuters) -Nearly one in three startups in Germany would have second thoughts about accepting financing from U.S. investors, according to a survey released on Friday, in a sign of growing scepticism about the business environment under U.S....
EIB loans €450m to EWE for grid expansion in Germany
Smart Energy International
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July 4, 2025
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has loaned €450 million ($530 million) to Germany’s EWE to expand the power grid in Lower Saxony. EWE, a German energy and infrastructure company, will use the financing to lay over 2,600km of new underground...
Debt's climate link: Reforming global debt architecture is key to unlocking climate finance
Down to Earth
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As the fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) kicks off in Seville, Spain, we look at how a massive debt burden on developing countries is holding them back. As an unfit global financial architecture makes accessing...
Renewable Firms Rush to Secure German Projects as Mood Shifts
Mint
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July 4, 2025
(Bloomberg) -- Developers of renewable energy are rushing to lock in German projects as Berlin’s tone on the green transition shifts, sparking worries that strong government support may start to dwindle. High participation at two recent clean...
“The climate movement is much less naive now”
D+C Development and Cooperation
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Linus Steinmetz in an interview with Jörg Döbereiner International headlines in recent months have been dominated by the conflicts in the Middle East, Kashmir and Ukraine. Multiple column inches and minutes of airtime have also been devoted to US...
Germany's Nuclear U-Turn Divides Leadership
Oil Price
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July 2, 2025
Germany is increasingly indicating openness to nuclear energy, marking a complete pivot from their historic stance on the controversial energy source. Germany’s shift in attitude toward nuclear energy comes as part of a larger global movement back...
CWC Immense For German Football: 'Enhances The International Reputation...'
News18
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July 4, 2025
Last Updated:July 04, 2025, 11:21 IST The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is key for German football, with Bayern vs. PSG and Dortmund vs. Real Madrid in the quarterfinals. Bayern Munich will next face PSG. (AP Photo) The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup holds...
School closures to rail chaos: What happens when Germany is hit by extreme heat
The Local - Germany
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July 3, 2025
Germany has just been hit by a punishing, record-breaking heatwave that had a major impact on how the country functioned. With more extreme heat to come here's what we can expect in future. Temperatures soared across Germany this week, reaching...
The Russia Problem Threatening Germany’s Government
Foreign Policy
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The incumbent Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffered a disastrous result in Germany’s February election. Chancellor Olaf Scholz was forced to step aside, and the SPD entered into a governing coalition with the victorious conservative Christian...
Climate change worries 44% of Greek hoteliers
Tornos News
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July 2, 2025
European and Greek hoteliers express strong concerns about the impact that climate change may have on their businesses in the coming years. According to a survey by Statista and Booking.com entitled “The Titans of Travel”, which also uses data...
Germany’s Social Democrats reaffirm rearmament and Great Power policy
World Socialist Web Site
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July 2, 2025
Anyone who followed the Social Democratic Party (SPD) congress in Berlin last weekend must again answer the question—“Are there any limits to the decline and political bankruptcy of the Social Democrats?”—with a resounding “No.” Ahead of the...
Elliot Anderson knocking on the England door is testament to Forest's growth environment
The New York Times
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July 4, 2025
Before he signed for Newcastle United at the age of eight, Elliot Anderson was occasionally coached by Paul Gascoigne at Wallsend Boys Club. Wallsend is a footballing institution in the North East, with Peter Beardsley, Alan Shearer and Michael...
German rivers run low and roads buckle as European heatwave spreads eastward
The Journal
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July 2, 2025
THE EUROPEAN HEATWAVE that has already scorched the western and southern parts of the continent began spreading eastwards today, bringing extreme weather warnings to Germany and causing motorways to buckle. There is some level of reprieve in sight...
Germany gives go-ahead to controversial offshore gas project
Upstream
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The German government has approved a new offshore gas drilling project in a cross-border reservoir with the Netherlands in an effort to boost energy security, according to the German Economy Ministry. The two governments will sign a unitisation...
NGX secures funding to launch climate programme
Punch
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July 3, 2025
Nigerian Exchange Group has secured multi-billion naira funding from DEG Impulse gGmbH, a subsidiary of the German Development Finance Institution, to implement its flagship NGX Net-Zero Programme (N-Zero). In a statement made available to our...
Germany and Sweden Launch Joint Initiative to Monitor Shadow Fleet in Baltic Sea
gCaptain
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July 2, 2025
A handout photo released on January 10, 2025, shows the suspected 'shadow fleet' tanker Eventin, carrying around 99,000 metric tons of oil from Russia, under tow after a propulsion issue in the Baltic Sea. Photo: Havariekommando/German Central...