Opinion overview

We are commencing operations at the first straw biomethane plant in Punjab, northern India. This is an important step towards preventing the burning of crop residues in the fields.

While the EU is adopting stricter climate targets, the Federal Environment Ministry is presenting a draft law that will increase CO2 emissions!

COVID-19 reveals: Germany needs a better immune system focused on "Made in Germany" more than on globalization at any extend. This is vital to get out of the crisis and to perform well in the future.

The CDU and the SPD are marginalising one another as far as Germany’s climate policy is concerned. My demand: make changes to the “team” to avoid another defeat!

These are my demands to push decarbonisation of traffic which I clearly address to the German Climate Cabinet.

We don’t need a “national electro mobility action plan”. Rather, what we need is a national action plan for “affordable, climate-neutral mobility” – and that does not automatically mean “Betting just on E”.

While the traffic lights are on red in Germany for the use of advanced mobility concepts, the USA is on green and has given the go-ahead to innovative climate-friendly technologies.

Barbara Hendricks leaves behind a poor and wrong environmental and transport policy which has been manoeuvred into a dead end

Our politicians are discussing a ban on private diesel passenger vehicles, while there are 1,400 old-fashioned diesel buses on the roads of Berlin every day.

Current legislation suggests that electric-powered cars are an attractive option, while completely ignoring the real ecological advantage of CNG vehicles!