In brief | 14 November '24

Euractiv: Likely future German coalition divided on energy, climate

Germany's conservative CDU/CSU, led by Friedrich Merz, is expected to win the snap election on 23 February according to the latest polls but remains at odds on energy and climate policy with its most likely coalition partner: Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD).

Dezernat Zukunft: Public financing needs for the modernisation of Germany

Report authors estimate that an additional 782 billion euros of public financing will be needed by 2030 to achieve widely accepted goals in education, decarbonisation, digitisation, research, health, transport, housing, internal security, climate adaptation, economic resilience, defence and further aspects of external security. This would amount to an average of around 3 percent of GDP per year. 

FT: Germany tells its ports to reject Russian gas cargoes

-Deutsche Energy Terminal was instructed not to receive a Russian LNG shipment which was set to soon arrive, the FT reported

-The EU has kept importing Russian LNG despite Ukraine war

FT: French boycott of COP29 lays bare widening divides at UN climate summit

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev lashes out at Emmanuel Macron and steps up defence of oil and gas as regional countries dominate guest list.

European Commission: Sending letters of formal notice who have still not submitted their final updated NECPs

Commission calls on Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia and Slovakia to urgently submit their final updated National Energy and Climate Plans.