NO. 12 | NOVEMBER 2023

Poor harvests, lower quality crops due to weather conditions, and the threat of financial losses for farmers: this sounds like a crisis, but it is not, because products that are not allowed in bread and which are not suitable for use as animal feed can still be processed. Biorefineries can process…

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NO. 11 | AUGUST 2023

China is flooding the German market with huge amounts of palm oil-based biodiesel that is simply being relabeled as advanced sustainable biofuel. Claus Sauter, energy expert and CEO of VERBIO, and other industry experts share this suspicion. The German regulatory authorities have so far been just…

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No. 10 | April 2023

Valuable discussions, interesting new impressions and little sleep - this is how Claus Sauter, energy expert and CEO of VERBIO SE, sums up his trip to South America with the Minister of Economics and Energy, Dr. Robert Habeck, and the Federal Minister of Agriculture, Cem Özdemir. In an interview…

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No. 9 | December 2022

What about energy supply and energy security in Germany? What challenges have industry and private households to face in the new year? Claus Sauter, energy expert and CEO of VERBIO SE, explains how a lack of political decision-making power and the German culture of prohibition maneuvered the country…

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Media demand. Speaks plainly.
NO. 13 | JULY 2021

We are commencing operations at the first straw biomethane plant in Punjab, northern India. This is an important step towards preventing the burning of crop residues in the fields.

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NO. 12 | OCTOBER 2020

While the EU is adopting stricter climate targets, the Federal Environment Ministry is presenting a draft law that will increase CO2 emissions!

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Roots in agriculture.
NO. 10 | February 2020

The CDU and the SPD are marginalising one another as far as Germany’s climate policy is concerned. My demand: make changes to the “team” to avoid another defeat!

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NO. 8 | April 2019

We don’t need a “national electro mobility action plan”. Rather, what we need is a national action plan for “affordable, climate-neutral mobility” – and that does not automatically mean “Betting just on E”.

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