Côte d'Ivoire
In 2023, Development Minister Svenja Schulze and Ivorian Finance Minister Adama Coulibaly signed a new climate and development partnership between Germany and Côte d'Ivoire. The focus of the alliance is forest protection, preservation of biodiversity and investments in power grids and solar energy. The climate and development partnership aims to better protect existing forest areas. In addition, the Ivorian government's ambitious goals of restoring up to three million hectares of forest area by 2030 and increasing the forest area to 20 percent of the country's area by 2045 (previously nine percent) are supported. “Côte d'Ivoire has set itself ambitious climate protection goals and is rightly relying on international support for this. This concerns the protection of forests, reforestation, but also the expansion of solar energy. Because Côte d'Ivoire has great potential for renewable energies that can be used even more,” said Schulze at the signing.
Israel
In March 2022, Germany and Israel signed a joint declaration on cooperation in the energy sector. In the last decade, Israel began to develop offshore natural gas, which is intended to make the country self-sufficient. Nevertheless, Israel has set itself ambitious climate policy goals. By 2050, greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced by 85 percent compared to 2015. To this end, the expansion of renewable energies should be promoted, also with the help of German expertise. By 2030, almost a third of electricity will be generated through photovoltaics and the generation of kinetic energy from ocean currents and waves. There is also great potential for cooperation in the area of cybersecurity. Attacks on critical infrastructure in the energy sector represent a serious threat. The partnership aims to specifically improve the resilience of energy systems. Germany also wants to work closely with Israel in the hydrogen economy in the future. There are currently efforts to build a pipeline in the eastern Mediterranean that could connect Israel to the rest of Europe via Cyprus and Greece.
Qatar
In 2022, Economics Minister Robert Habeck agreed on a long-term energy partnership between Germany and Qatar. This also involves cooperation in the area of liquefied gas. In addition, the two countries are cooperating on the expansion of renewable energies, energy efficiency, electricity market development, network expansion and the production and trading of green hydrogen. Green hydrogen, i.e. hydrogen obtained using renewable energies, is considered a crucial building block on the path to a more sustainable energy economy. Green hydrogen can be transported as an energy source via pipelines. Qatar could play an important role as a desert state with lots of sunny days and a long coastline.
Ukraine
Ukraine is one of Germany's most important trade and investment partners. Since 2020, Germany and Ukraine have also been partners in energy matters. The most important topics of the partnership are the transformation of coal regions, hydrogen, renewable energies, energy efficiency and decarbonization. The two countries have set ambitious goals for the energy transition. Ukraine wants to achieve a share of 70 percent of renewable energy in electricity generation by 2050, and Germany wants to achieve at least 80 percent. The interim target for Ukraine is 25 percent and for Germany 45 percent by 2035.
Morocco
Morocco is one of the pioneers in the field of renewable energies – and not just on the African continent. The country ranks eighth in the 2022 Climate Protection Index – close behind countries like Sweden and Norway. Morocco already covers 20 percent of its energy needs with green electricity from hydropower, wind and solar. The declared goal is to increase the proportion to 52 percent by 2030, and in the best case to 86 percent. An energy partnership with Germany has existed since 2012 and was recently deepened again as part of the federal government's National Hydrogen Strategy, which was adopted in 2021. On the initiative of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, an “alliance for the development of the Power-to-X sector” was agreed, which also includes the conversion of green electricity into the energy source hydrogen. One of the challenges is the provision of water as a raw material, as there is a shortage of it in Morocco. It must be obtained through seawater desalination. Corresponding systems are currently being built across the country, also with the support of the Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the German development bank KfW.
Japan
Renewable energies and energy efficiency as well as the topic of hydrogen from production to distribution to use are the central areas in which Japan and Germany want to work more closely together. At the beginning of 2020, the two partner countries signed their roadmap and set up two working groups on the tasks. Japan wants to become greenhouse gas neutral by 2050.
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