The combustion of coal for power generation peaked worldwide in 2023 and will decline in the coming years. This is according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its “Electricity 2024” outlook for 2024 to 2026, which predicts that the share of coal in the global electricity mix will decrease by three percent as early […]
The US government’s announcement to “temporarily pause” approvals for new LNG terminals raises hopes that the core decision of COP28 in Dubai will be filled with life: countries’ pledge to “transition away from fossil fuels.” Many observers see the US government’s decision as a first step towards implementing this COP resolution.However, the global expansion plans […]
A full decarbonization of the world’s 1,000 most CO2-intensive industrial plants could save around eight billion tonnes of CO2 a year. That is around a third of the reduction required to achieve the 1.5-degree target. This is the result of the “Global Carbon Restructuring Plan” study presented by management consultancy Roland Berger. The necessary transformation […]
The small details sometimes decide whether big promises succeed. This is the case with the ambitious renewables expansion targets agreed upon at COP28 in Dubai. Their success depends, above all, on sufficient power grids. Nico Beckert discovered that the situation is so dire that the two responsible energy agencies, the IEA and IRENA, now warn […]
After tough negotiations that were close to failing at the end, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) decided late last week to start work on the 7th Assessment Report (AR7). The various parts of the report are expected to be finalized and published by the end of 2029. This was decided at last week’s […]
The 1,000 most CO2-intensive industrial plants in the world could save around eight billion tons of CO2 annually if they were to be fully decarbonized and thus help maintain the 1.5-degree limit on global warming. Depending on the technology, this transition would require investments of between 7.5 and 10.5 trillion US dollars between 2025 and […]
The European elections this year and the subsequent formation of a new EU Commission will also decide the fate of the European Green Deal – an excellent opportunity to take stock. The scientific community has just done this, and lo and behold, the EU legislation on Europe’s path to net zero by 2050 has some […]
Shortly after COP28 in Dubai, a leading German climate negotiator changed division: Luisa Rölke, who has partly led the German delegation as Head of the Division of International Climate Policy at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany since COP26, has been Head of Division for Climate Policy, Climate Adaptation and Water at the Ministry of […]
2023 broke many temperature records. Last year saw the warmest recorded average temperatures on the Earth’s surface (since 1850): On average, the planet had a temperature of 14.98 degrees Celsius. This was 0.17 degrees more than in 2016, the warmest year on record, according to the latest report from the EU Copernicus program on climate […]
The new year begins – as it rarely does – with good news: Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions are believed to have fallen by almost ten percent last year – a good step towards meeting the Paris climate targets. However, a second glance, which Malte Kreutzfeldt and Nico Beckert have risked, shows this: Around half of […]