🗓️Coming up **CLEW Masterclass: How to report on decarbonising heating**

Heating private homes requires a huge amount of #energy, most of which still comes from burning #fossilfuels

Germany’s tortuous path towards new #heating legislation has shown that decarbonising heating can suddenly erupt into a major national controversy

Fact-based #reporting plays a crucial role in enabling a constructive debate about the transition

📅 19.10
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📣 Launching 'Dispatch from...'📣

We have added a new element to our weekly newsletter

Each Friday, the Dispatch will assess one #energytransition case in #Europe, starting with #Poland, #France, #Croatia, #Italy, #Germany and #Brussels (for the #EU as a whole)

We aim to help readers look beyond #national borders to gain insights into current debates and developments

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France, Germany vow to cooperate on industry transformation, back EU probe into Chinese EVs

Ministers Robert Habeck🇩🇪 and Bruno Le Maire🇫🇷 reiterated their countries’ determination to cooperate on key #industrial, #energy and #climate policy

They vowed to use their combined strength to better position Europe in the international race for creating a successful and competitive low-carbon economy

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/france-germany-vow-cooperate-industry-transformation-back-eu-probe-chinese-evs

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Sign up for our upcoming research tour ➡️ Exploring #energy and #climate stories: Insights on Poland's pre-election discourse

#Elections in #Poland 🇵🇱 will be crucial for the direction of energy and climate policy in this part of Europe, as ongoing war in Ukraine still impacts #energysecurity, attitudes toward #climateaction, approaches to #nuclearenergy, and the sustainability of #foreignrelations and alliances.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/research-tours/research-tour-exploring-energy-and-climate-stories-insights-polands-pre-election-discourse

“Perfect Storm” - Car show #IAA will highlight China’s lead in electric cars

Europe’s carmakers will have little to celebrate at this year’s IAA mobility show

Chinese firms’ widening lead in the global shift to #electricvehicles is set be on open display at the biennial fair in Munich, while climate activists will lambast European firms’ reliance on dirty combustion engines and SUVs

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/perfect-storm-car-show-iaa-will-highlight-chinas-lead-electric-cars

The German coalition government’s Climate Action Programme 2023 is insufficient to meet 2030 #greenhousegas emissions reduction targets - and overestimates the total potential to lower #emissions, said the country’s Council of Experts on Climate Change

The government advisors warned that Germany is set to miss crucial EU targets in the coming years, which means that it would have to pay for emissions allocations from other member states

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-could-face-costly-eu-target-miss-govt-overestimates-its-climate-programme-expert-council

The EU’s two largest economic and industrial leaders, #Germany and #France, have spearheaded efforts to put the EU ahead in the global scramble for #greenindustry leadership and #decarbonisation technologies.

Despite differences in how they produce #energy both Berlin and Paris have closed ranks in response to competition from the U.S. and China.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/franco-german-push-eu-green-industrial-revival-needs-close-alignment-succeed

Public discontent with government risks slowing Germany’s climate efforts

Nearly halfway through its 4-year term, the govt faces increasing public discontent over its switch from two years of #energycrisis management to controversial #climate policies

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/public-discontent-government-risks-slowing-germanys-climate-efforts

Consultancies cash in on #climate advice as firms race towards #netzero

But can advisory firms with a focus on maximising profits be part of the solution to the #climatecrisis?

They are retraining staff, poaching environmental experts, and buying up smaller specialists in order to generate fat fees from the corporate net zero shift

But they also continue to help #fossilfuel clients prop up their businesses, and lobby against regulations

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/consultancies-cash-climate-advice-firms-race-towards-net-zero