At its spring meeting in Washington last week, the World Bank management revealed how it intends to navigate between the US government’s anti-climate policy and its climate and development goals in the future. The Bank apparently wants to address the controversial issue much less prominently than before, but remains on course with its structural changes […]
With demonstrative unity across many country groups, 17 heads of state backed the Brazilian presidency of the COP30 at a short virtual meeting on Wednesday. At the meeting, hosted by Brazil’s President Lula da Silva and UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the heads of state declared that they “cannot, must not and will not let up […]
Environmental experts hope to strengthen NATO’s defense capabilities on its eastern flank with more peatlands, extensive water areas and restored wetlands. The new plan would also allow the restoration of natural areas, regulate the water balance, store greenhouse gases and use the peatlands for agriculture. One such proposal has been put forward by experts, including […]
The late Pope Francis leaves a void in global climate policy and an ambivalent legacy. On the one hand, the head of the Catholic Church stressed the urgency of climate policy worldwide through his statements and letters and gave the issue an ethical and moral significance. On the other hand, he failed to anchor the […]
In response to the upcoming government’s plans to date, experts are calling for Germany’s future climate policy to be better coordinated and to be based in the Chancellery. To this end, a Federal Climate Council made up of experts and a high-ranking commissioner for climate issues should be set up, according to the proposals.The domestic […]
Climate policy will have a much less prominent place at the cabinet table in the upcoming German government. This is evident from the details of the coalition contract, but above all from the plans for the division of ministries in the new federal government. The term does not appear in the preamble to the contract. […]
While the issue hardly played a role in the election campaign, the coalition contract between the CDU/CSU and SPD devotes eight out of 144 pages to energy and climate. It states that the next federal government will essentially continue the course of its predecessors, committing itself to the goals of net zero and the European […]
With a new type of global investment fund, Brazil wants to secure the preservation of tropical rainforests worldwide and, at the same time, break new ground in climate financing. The concrete concept for the “Tropical Forests Forever Facility” (TFFF), which Brazil had already announced would be launched in 2024 for the COP30 in Belém, is […]
It was no April Fool’s joke, and it fundamentally changed Germany and the world of energy supply: 25 years ago, on April 1, 2000, the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) was passed. It has accelerated the expansion of electricity and heat generation from wind, solar, hydropower, biomass and geothermal energy. The combination of feed-in tariffs […]
On Wednesday, the German government passed another batch of emission allowances to be deleted as part of the coal phase-out. According to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), Germany has thus registered the deletion of 514,000 allowances with the EU on time for 2023. According to the ministry, this will “secure […]