Petra Sorge

Germany plans to cut generous subsidies for low-carbon heat pumps by about €2.1 billion ($2.4 billion) in the coming years, as it aims to make some budget savings while raising spending on defense and security.

The German government has proposed adding a surcharge to consumer energy bills to help finance a strategic natural gas reserve designed to keep supplies flowing in a worst-case crisis.

Germany’s oil industry retained between €100 million and €200 million from a fuel tax reduction earlier this year that was intended to ease the impact of surging costs on motorists, a government advisory panel found.

German lawmakers approved a rollback of a controversial law that encouraged a shift away from fossil-fuel heating systems, likely extending the lifetime of more polluting boilers.

German sovereign wealth fund Kenfo plans to raise its allocation to private markets from 25% to 30% over the next two years, while trimming its exposure to private equity.

Physicist Jaroslaw Necki vividly recalls his trips to the “Sahara,” the vast open-pit mines of central Poland rich with soft lignite coal. Working in these treeless landscapes, where sand and clay stretch into the distance, he’d often forget he was in the middle of Europe. Over the years, these excursions have made the associate professor at Krakow’s Mining and Metallurgical Academy a leading global expert in methane emissions — a powerful greenhouse gas known to have a significant impact on glo

The dramatic falls in reported emissions have been traced to a small but fundamental change in the methodology for measuring them — one introduced by the EU.

Dramatic reductions have raised questions about the methods to measure the greenhouse gas

Germany plans to scale back renewable-energy subsidies in a sweeping overhaul of its funding system, as surging solar output puts growing strain on the country’s power grid.

A tweak in European Union rules for reporting methane has allowed open-pit mine operators to undercount their emissions.