Interviews

Tobias Orthen (GES) at the climate conference in Baku

6. December 2024

Last year in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), this year in Baku (Azerbaijan) – the most recent climate conferences have taken place in regions whose economies are heavily dependent on oil and gas. Around 80 per cent of global primary energy still comes from fossil fuels. The climate debate must face up to this fact. In […]

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The new book by GES: ALL IN!

22. October 2024

In a detailed interview, Franz Josef Radermacher explains what the book is about: “The key realisation is, on the one hand, that we have a dramatic problem on the globe with regard to the climate. And the second realisation is that there is a way, with good will and a lot of wisdom, to overcome […]

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“We need more expertise in politics”

4. October 2024

Axel Pieper is a medium-sized entrepreneur. Together with his wife Regina Brückner, he founded the 4Pi-Solutions initiative, which focuses on energy and climate issues. Pieper knows that Germany cannot solve the climate problem on its own. As an entrepreneur, he also realises that the German energy transition, as currently planned, is weakening the competitiveness of […]

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“Every small step is a step forward and better than doing nothing at all.”

6. September 2024

In his documentary film “The Forest Maker” (2021), Volker Schlöndorff portrays the agronomist Tony Rinaudo. The Australian has developed a reforestation technique in Africa. The FMNR method (Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration) is particularly cost-effective. In contrast to complex and expensive reforestation, the existing root system in the soil is reactivated – in co-operation with local […]

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Stop Germany going it alone in climate policy!

2. August 2024

Joachim Weimann is a professor of economics in Magdeburg and advises the think tank R21 on climate and energy issues. He considers emissions trading systems – i.e. the pricing of CO2 emissions as part of a cap-and-trade system – to be the decisive lever in climate policy. He sees strengths above all in the market-based […]

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Fuels for climate-friendly mobility

5. July 2024

In this interview, Hans Jürgen Wernicke (GES) explains the technical possibilities for making the various modes of transport as climate-friendly as possible. Around 95 per cent of all means of transport – cars, lorries, ships and aircraft – are currently powered by fossil fuels, most of which are based on crude oil. This makes the […]

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An affordable, climate-neutral electricity system for Germany

7. June 2024

Christof von Branconi summarises the key points of the new GES paper on the electricity system in an interview. According to GES estimates, the demand for electricity will be lower than previously planned: The e-car boom is not happening, the same applies to heat pumps and the expansion of large electrolysers for the production of […]

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Resources for the energy transition

3. May 2024

No green hydrogen without electrolysis, no electrolyser without precious metals. Iridium and platinum serve as catalysts that set the chemical process of water electrolysis in motion in the first place – so that hydrogen is produced in the end. Heraeus Precious Metals in Hanau founded the Hydrogen Systems business line at the beginning of the […]

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Interview with Olaf Toedter from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

5. April 2024

The approval of HVO was preceded by years of political dispute in Germany. In other European countries – such as the Netherlands, Italy and Scandinavia – the fuel has been part of everyday life for years. It is obtained from biological residues (e.g. cooking fats, waste oils). The decision to start selling HVO in Germany […]

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India is booming – demand for energy is rising

29. February 2024

GES is in dialogue with an Indian energy expert: Manoj Agarwal lives in India and has many years of experience in the energy industry and had been the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the then one of the major Indian Power Utility company in the private sector. Today he is a freelance consultant. In his […]

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