Thuringia has made considerable progress in climate action and could become one of Germany’s first net-zero federal states – but only if it maintains its pioneering position. So far, the state has reduced more carbon emissions than any other federal state, has a high share of renewables in its electricity mix, few carbon-intensive power plants, […]
Political Germany is looking eagerly to Saxony and Thuringia this weekend, where new state parliaments will be elected. Despite increasing heat and rainfall, despite the strong expansion of renewables and ambitious plans for climate neutrality, the climate crisis has hardly been an issue in the election campaign. Or if it has, then only as an […]
The Free State of Saxony is a long way from a path that can bring the state close to its officially agreed goal of climate neutrality by 2045. Despite major reductions in emissions during the transition period, the state’s energy and climate plan shows that greenhouse gases have remained virtually unchanged for more than 20 […]
16 important players in German climate policy are hardly noticed in the public debate – the federal states. Yet German climate policy does not only take place in Berlin or Brussels – but above all in the 16 federal states and almost 11,000 municipalities. Ahead of the state elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg, Table.Briefings […]
According to a recent study for the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, the 2020 federal budget included around 35.8 billion euros in state subsidies that increased the country’s climate-damaging emissions. Globally, direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies totaled around 7,000 billion US dollars in 2022 – seven trillion US dollars. That is around […]
Climate policy is also and especially about money: Who gets how much? And who has to pay? This is the subject of our Briefing today: Under pressure to save money, the coalition government is trimming the “Climate and Transformation Fund” (KTF), which was actually supposed to shape the green transformation – and we’ll explain which […]
Three months before the start of the crucial COP29 in Baku, the serious debate on the structure of future global climate financing has now begun with concrete proposals. Last week, the ideas of various countries and groups on how the new financial target (NCQG) to be adopted in Baku should be financed became known.The positions […]
In 2020, subsidies or tax breaks totaling at least 35.8 billion euros drove up greenhouse gas emissions in Germany. If these incentives remain in place, they would result in an additional 156 million tons of CO2 emissions between 2023 and 2030. On the other hand, other state subsidies will ensure that emissions fall by around […]
The temperature records continue in the Earth’s polar regions. In the middle of the southern polar winter, weather stations in the eastern Antarctic are measuring record temperatures on the ground: On average, July temperatures were around 10 degrees Celsius above what is normal for the time of year. The measuring station at the South Pole […]
At its 61st meeting, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) adopted the framework (“scoping”) for important parts of its next Assessment Report (AR7): At a week-long meeting in Sofia at the end of last week, the 230 delegates from 114 countries laid down the details for the special report on “Cities in a changing […]