Ms. Bergmål, at COP28, Norway strongly supported a resolution stating that countries should “transition away from fossil fuels.” What does this goal mean for Norway, which produces a lot of oil and gas?We want to be part of this transition. We must reduce emissions worldwide, and that also applies to fossil fuel producers. We want […]
On the sidelines of the spring meeting of the World Bank and IMF in Washington, one of the most ambitious projects in international climate financing is being initiated: A group of industrialized and developing countries aims to explore the options for global climate taxes and sound out alliances for this project with a Task Force […]
The board of trustees of the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI), the leading assessment platform for the climate impact of companies, has backed down from its U-turn in response to internal and external criticism of new assessment criteria. “There has been no change to the current SBTI standards“, according to a statement issued by the […]
How is the global financial system adapting to combat the climate crisis? This is one of the key questions for the spring meeting of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week in Washington. It is clear that the transformation has begun, but is still in its infancy. While World […]
Every year, the rating agency Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) evaluates the policies and progress of the G20 countries on decarbonization. Based on many criteria for quality and quantity, they sound the alarm in the latest issue of the G20 Zero Carbon Policy Scoreboard: Countries responsible for almost 80 percent of global greenhouse gases are […]
One week before the spring meeting of the World Bank and the IMF, Simon Stiell, Executive Director of the UN Climate Change Program, used drastic words to call for serious climate action steps. At an event in London, Stiell said there are only “two years left to save the world” because “the next two years […]
The global contribution of nuclear energy to tackling the climate crisis once again sparked a fierce debate in international bodies. On the one side, countries like France and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) currently advocate nuclear technology as supposedly indispensable in the fight against climate change. On the other side, other countries and experts […]
This could be a groundbreaking ruling for the climate policies of European states and for further climate lawsuits: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recognized in its ruling on Tuesday that climate change threatens human rights – and inadequate climate action jeopardizes them. It ruled in favor of a lawsuit by Swiss citizens against […]
The 15th Petersberg Climate Dialogue will take place this year on April 25 and 26 in Berlin. The Federal Foreign Office expects around 40 ministers from key states to attend the informal conference. Traditionally, this is where this year’s climate negotiations in Bonn in June and at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November are prepared.According […]
As the tenth consecutive month, March 2024 brought a new peak in global temperatures. According to data from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, March was the warmest March ever recorded, with a global average temperature of 14.14 degrees Celsius, 0.73 degrees above the 1991-2020 average – and a full 1.68 degrees warmer than the […]