Press Statements / Speeches

Date
 
Title / Heading
 
23.09.2009 Minister Gabriel welcomes new fellowship programme for climate protection
Humboldt Foundation to award International Climate Protection Fellowships
 
10.07.2009 Climate Success at G8 and MEF Summit in L'Aquila
Sigmar Gabriel: "The 2-degree goal defines the framework for Copenhagen"
 
06.07.2009 Minister Gabriel: G8 summit must adopt clear decisions on climate protection 
29.06.2009 IRENA agrees on a three-way solution to the headquarters question
Gabriel: Bonn will accommodate the technology centre for renewable energies
 
26.06.2009 Gabriel: A big day for nature conservation in Germany
UNESCO: Wadden Sea now World Natural Heritage site
 
19.06.2009 Germany and China expand environmental cooperation 
16.06.2009 Gabriel welcomes business initiative on solar thermal power plants 
13.06.2009 Minister Gabriel: Talks with Chinese government on environmental and climate cooperation 
10.06.2009 Germany and Ukraine expand cooperation on climate protection and nature conservation 
10.06.2009 Machnig: Japan's climate protection target cannot be final
State Secretary Matthias Machnig concludes political talks in Japan
 
24.04.2009 State Secretary Machnig: G8 countries must use the crisis for a green recovery of their economies
Economic growth through improved protection of the climate and biological diversity
 
22.04.2009 World Earth Day: Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel concerned about worldwide destruction of nature
UN General Assembly will hold a special session on biological diversity in 2010
 
08.04.2009 Winning the Future In a Spirit of Compromise
Speech by State Secretary Matthias Machnig
 
01.04.2009 Gabriel: G20 should use 25 percent of their economic stimulus measures for climate protection 
27.03.2009 Start of negotiations on a fair and effective international climate agreement 
18.03.2009 Addressing the health effects of climate change
Federal Environment Ministry supports projects in cooperation with the World Health Organisation
 
16.03.2009 Astrid Klug: Vietnam is an important partner in environmental protection
Federal Environment Ministry provides 2.8 million euro for projects
 
12.03.2009 State Secretary Machnig: Ecological challenges require economic solutions
Environmental Congress opens in Sao Paolo
 
10.03.2009 New strategy needed for the international protection of biological diversity
Minister Gabriel: International community must noticeably improve protection of natural resources
 
10.03.2009 Turkmenistan and Germany: Cooperation on Environmental and Climate Protection 
09.03.2009 100 Projects need partners
CDM Initiative of the Federal Environment Ministry
off to a successful start
 
27.02.2009 Australia: stimulus for climate protection and nature conservation
State Secretary Machnig concludes environmental policy talks in Australia
 
19.02.2009 Federal Environment Ministry promotes capacity building for sustainable energy supply 
29.01.2009 Sino-German Climate Partnership Agreed 
28.01.2009 Federal Minister Sigmar Gabriel supports nature conservation areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 
26.01.2009 A milestone for future-oriented energy supply
International Renewable Energy Agency being founded today in Bonn
 
21.01.2009 Renewable energies: key to climate protection, economic development and poverty eradication
International Renewable Energy Agency to be founded on coming Monday/Conference in Bonn
 
20.01.2009 Sigmar Gabriel: International climate protection entering new era with President Obama 
14.01.2009 German government supports establishment of the International Renewable Energy Agency 
13.01.2009 Invitation to the founding conference for the International Renewable Energy Agency
Accreditation for meeting in Bonn is now possible
 
13.12.2008 Gabriel: Financial crisis is an argument for resolute climate protection
UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan concluded
 
12.12.2008 Signal for stronger ties between forest conservation and international climate protection
Developing and industrialised countries adopt joint declaration in Poznań
 
11.12.2008 Gabriel earmarks 200 million euro for climate protection projects in developing and newly industrialising countries
International Climate Protection Initiative as a model for international climate funding
 
11.12.2008 If not now, when? If not we, who?
Speech by Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel
 
09.12.2008 New initiative for the promotion of climate protection programmes worldwide 
08.12.2008 By adopting a national climate plan, Brazil takes the lead among newly industrialising countries
An important signal for the climate change conference in Poznan
 
21.11.2008 More funds to protect the ozone layer
Parties to the Montreal Protocol agree on financial support and pilot projects for developing countries
 
21.11.2008 International conference on bioenergy in Brazil 
18.11.2008 Germany and India agree strategic environment dialogue 
17.11.2008 Germany participates in more than 100 international climate protection projects 
15.11.2008 Gabriel travelling to India for political talks 
29.10.2008 Matthias Machnig: Stimulate markets and improve waste management standards abroad
Export initiative "Recycling and Efficiency Technologies" presents results
 
25.10.2008 Breakthrough for the expansion of renewable energies
International Agency to be set up in January 2009
 
30.09.2008 Project of the international climate protection initiative lowers energy consumption in Jordan
Environment Minister Gabriel: cooperation with newly industrialising and developing countries is crucial for climate protection
 
22.09.2008 Germany leads in the export of environmental goods
Export volume of environmental goods amounts to 56 billion euros
 
03.09.2008 Kazakhstan in the Focus of German Environment Policy 
01.07.2008 One more step towards setting up an International Renewable Energies Agency
Workshop to prepare for the establishment of IRENA
 
12.06.2008 Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel sees Germany and Russia as partners in a "modernisation partnership"
Good results from two days of consultations
 
02.06.2008 Second stage on the road from Bali to Copenhagen
Climate negotiations from 2 to 13 June 2008 in Bonn
 
30.05.2008 Closing Statement of the President of COP 9, Mr. Sigmar Gabriel, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany 
29.05.2008 Enhanced nature conservation in the Alps and Carpathians
Agreement on cooperation between the Alpine and Carpathian Conventions
 
27.05.2008 Netherlands, Denmark and Germany: protection of the Wadden Sea is a success story
Model example of transboundary nature conservation
 
26.05.2008 Machnig: G8 states must assume leadership in climate protection and biodiversity conservation 
19.05.2008 Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel opens the 9th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD in Bonn
Nature conservation is climate protection and climate protection is nature conservation
 
19.05.2008 LIVE NATURE
Concert for the 9th meeting of the COP to the Convention on Biological Diversity 2008
 
16.05.2008 State Secretary Machnig: We need international sustainability criteria for bioenergy 
06.05.2008 Gabriel announces increased support for Brazil in the protection of the tropical forests
Criteria for a sustainable, socially and ecologically responsible bioenergy production
 
05.05.2008 Sigmar Gabriel - World market offers tremendous opportunities for the German water sector
"German Water Partnership" launches at IFAT 2008
 
12.04.2008 Minister Gabriel: EU needs standards for bioenergy 
05.04.2008 Climate negotiations in Bangkok concluded
First round of negotiations after Bali agrees on work programme for 2008
 
01.02.2008 Minister Gabriel considers visit to China a success
High level meetings on climate protection and environmental technologies
 
17.01.2008 Outcome of the Bali Climate Change Conference
Policy statement by Federal Minister Sigmar Gabriel
 
15.12.2007 Minister Gabriel welcomes Bali outcome as major progress 
09.12.2007 Positive half time result at global climate summit in Bali
German delegation confident
 
23.11.2007 State Secretary Michael Müller: 'Climate Change is the world-wide community task of the future.'
In run-up to the Climate Change Conference in Bali, experts from science, business and politics meet in Berlin to discuss conclusions of the IPCC report
 
22.11.2007 State Secretary Michael Müller: Impacts of climate change particularly severe for the Alps mountain ecosystem 
17.11.2007 Grounds for concern are greater than ever
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adopts summary
 
29.10.2007 International partnership in emissions trading
Initiative to link up trading schemes
 
25.10.2007 Michael Müller: We need a powerful UN environmental organisation 
08.10.2007 Germany and Azerbaijan plan cooperation in climate protection 
29.09.2007 "Major Economies Meeting" on Climate Protection concluded in Washington
Gabriel: The US is moving - but not enough
 
20.09.2007 Matthias Machnig: Tapping the gold mine of environmental and energy technology markets worldwide 
19.09.2007 Gabriel welcomes European Commission's legislative package for the EU electricity and gas markets 
11.09.2007 Entering final leg in run-up to UN Climate Change Conference in Bali
Gabriel: Clear course is required for a new climate agreement
Wöhrl: Investment security needs to be created for companies
 
10.09.2007 Gabriel and Glos: We must mobilise technologies and investments for climate protection 
06.09.2007 Gabriel: International cooperation along the Danube is a model for other river basins
Award for the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR)
 
02.09.2007 Gabriel: Final preparations for Bali have started 
27.08.2007 Negotiations on follow-up agreement to Kyoto Protocol
Conference in Vienna to prepare climate summit in Bali
 
18.08.2007 All clear for Lake Baikal: environmentally sound route for oil pipeline
Success for German-Russian cooperation in nature conservation
 
10.08.2007 Starting shot for the second trading period of emissions trading
Allocation Act 2012 enters into force
 
14.07.2007 Germany and Florida cooperate on international matters of climate protection
Joint declaration signed by State Secretary at the Federal Environment Ministry Mathias Machnig and the Governor of Florida Charlie Crist
 
05.07.2007 German-Polish environmental agreement enters into force
Clearer provisions for transboundary environmental impact assessment
 
29.06.2007 Success for the environment, climate and innovations
Minister Gabriel draws positive balance of EU Presidency
 
07.06.2007 G8 Summit strengthens the UN climate process
Environmental Minister Sigmar Gabriel: "Bali meeting will be the litmus test for the seriousness of the agreements reached in Heiligendamm"
 
06.06.2007 Report: Climate protection also contributes to international security 
03.06.2007 Fish, whales, tropical wood: the conference in The Hague focuses on the conservation of endangered species 
16.05.2007 State Secretary Matthias Machnig: Environment Ministers' Meeting in Essen Will Send a Signal for an Ecological Industrial Policy in Europe
At Zeche Zollverein ECOTEC gives an insight into innovative environmental technologies
 
12.05.2007 15th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development
Joint Press Statement by Sigmar Gabriel, German Federal Minister for the Environment, representing the EU-Presidency and Stavros Dimas, European Commissioner for the Environment
 
10.05.2007 Climate protection is the greatest challenge for mankind in the 21st century
Federal Environment Minister Gabriel welcomes announcement made by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
 
07.05.2007 Under the German Presidency, the EU wants to lay the foundations in Bonn for a successful Climate Change Conference in Bali 
26.04.2007 The Federal Government’s Climate Policy in the wake of the European Council
Climate Agenda 2020 - Climate Protection means Restructuring the Industrial Society
Speech by Federal Minister Sigmar Gabriel
 
18.04.2007 Countdown for Marine Ecosystems
Expert meeting on marine biodiversity
 
18.04.2007 Harder penalties for illegal export of waste
Federal Cabinet adopts draft act
 
06.04.2007 Gabriel: We need an ambitious climate policy
Federal Environment Minister comments on new IPCC report
 
26.03.2007 Germany and Tunisia to extend cooperation on climate protection 
17.03.2007 Gabriel: A good signal for the G8 summit in Heiligendamm
Environment ministers agree on a Potsdam Initiative on biological diversity and identify a common base for climate protection
 
09.03.2007 Minister Gabriel welcomes the results of the EU summit
"Binding targets for the expansion of renewable energies are an historic turning point in the EU’s energy and climate policy"
 
22.02.2007 Europe Moving Offshore Together
Speech by Parliamentary State Secretary Michael Müller at the EU Policy Workshop on Offshore Wind Power Deployment
 
20.02.2007 Gabriel: Decision by the Environment Council is a historic step for climate protection 
02.02.2007 Scientists Present International IPCC Report on Climate Change
Research Ministry allocates 255 million euro to climate research / Environment Ministry announces ambitious climate policy
 
02.02.2007 Sigmar Gabriel: Fundamental reform of the United Nations environmental sector needed 
30.01.2007 Germany, Spain and Slovenia cooperate in promoting renewable energies
Joint declaration signed
 
05.01.2007 Federal Environment Ministry supports reconstruction of the water supply in Lebanon 
11.12.2006 Climate Change Threatens Mountain Regions 
08.12.2006 German Experts Advise Hong Kong on Waste Management 
08.12.2006 Germany and China to strengthen cooperation on climate protection and energy 
07.12.2006 Germany and China intensify cooperation on environmental protection 
09.11.2006 Germany and Peru agree on cooperation in climate protection
Kyoto mechanism also good for German economy
 
19.10.2006 Sigmar Gabriel: Germany to put forward an ecological innovations and industrial policy
UK Environment Minister Miliband promises his support
 
06.10.2006 Energy efficiency and renewable energies are one focus of German-Turkish cooperation
Federal Environment Minister Gabriel considers his four day visit to Turkey as success
 
21.09.2006 New priorities in research 
15.09.2006 Opportunities for more climate protection in Russia
German-Russian environmental talks in Moscow
 
13.09.2006 Protection of tropical forests becomes key issue of international environmental policy 
18.08.2006 Yvo de Boer new head of the Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn – Sigmar Gabriel sends his congratulations 
13.06.2006 Germany and Egypt agree on cooperation in the field of climate protection 
12.06.2006 Investments in renewable energies - Prospects for the Middle East, North Africa and Europe
Speech by Federal Minister Sigmar Gabriel
 
11.05.2006 Gabriel to offer advice and support to German companies for climate protection investments in developing countries 
12.01.2006 Sino-German Environmental Forum opened
Qingdao Initiative for a "strategic partnership in environmental protection"
 


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