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News 28 Jul 2025 - 14:19 Climate activists call EU-US trade deal “disastrous signal for climate action”
News 28 Jul 2025 - 13:35 Heat pump sales in Germany surge but must double to hit expansion targets – industry
News 25 Jul 2025 - 13:27 State should cover up to 100% of low-income households’ energy renovation costs – think tank
News 25 Jul 2025 - 13:24 Data centres in Germany planning own fossil fuel plants, citing slow grid connections – report
News 24 Jul 2025 - 14:08 Germany must strengthen climate action following landmark ICJ opinion – legal experts
News 24 Jul 2025 - 13:42 German climate progress “insufficient” to meet post-2040 targets – leaked government report
News 24 Jul 2025 - 12:30 Pioneering German city's gas grid phase-out hit by “uncertain” government policy
News 23 Jul 2025 - 12:39 Germany doesn’t connect a single offshore wind turbine to grid in first half of 2025
News 23 Jul 2025 - 12:36 Germany mulls switching planned gas power plants to hydrogen at a later stage
News 23 Jul 2025 - 12:33 Nuclear legacy costs far outweigh Germany’s environmental protection investments
News 23 Jul 2025 - 12:31 Poland’s major oil discovery in Baltic Sea carries too many risks for exploitation – German economists
News 22 Jul 2025 - 13:18 Vattenfall and Germany's central bank call on government to stay the course on energy transition
News 21 Jul 2025 - 14:09 Germany’s financing plans for climate action on shaky ground despite special fund - auditors
Interview 21 Jul 2025 - 11:00 German government must leverage opportunities of green procurement – business initiative
News 18 Jul 2025 - 13:45 Innovation and technology are key German contribution to solving climate change – chancellor Merz