Germany
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News

Leaders Summit Showcases Clean Energy Commitments to Tackle Global Climate Crisis
In late April, US President Joe Biden convened 40 world leaders to “galvanize efforts” by the world’s major economies to tackle climate change, highlight economic benefits of early, “decisive” action,

Germany to bring forward climate goals after constitutional court ruling
Government proposes net zero deadline of 2045 instead of 2050, but critics demand actions not numbers Germany’s government is to revise its emission reduction targets after the country’s constitutional court

France and Germany unveil green recovery plans
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire and German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz unveiled their national recovery and resilience plans at a joint press conference Tuesday (27 April) ahead of the
Reports

Taxing Energy Use 2015 (OECD)
This OECD report provides a systematic analysis of the structure and level of energy taxes in OECD and selected partner countries, which together cover 80% of global energy use. The

OECD-IEA inventory of fossil fuels and other support
The OECD-IEA Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels provides updated fossil fuel support data for 34 OECD member countries and six partner countries, including a number of measures applied
Environmentally harmful subsidies in Germany in 2016 (UBA)
This report by the German Environment Agency (UBA) estimates that environmentally harmful subsidies in Germany amounted to 57 billion euros. The majority of these subsidies, worth 28.6 billion euros, are