53,800,000,000 tons of CO2-equivalent – that’s the new negative record for greenhouse gas emissions set in 2022, according to the latest report from the EU’s EDGAR database. This is still 1.4 percent more than the year before, and a trend that runs counter to meeting the 1.5-degree limit: It would require a decrease of around […]
The countries of the European Union are on track to significantly miss their planned climate target. Instead of the planned minus 55 percent in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, the measures taken so far only yield a reduction of minus 40 percent. With planned additional measures, the gap to the target is reduced to minus […]
The “Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance” (BSW) calls for a fundamentally different climate policy in Germany and Europe. The Alliance thus breaks with the most important previous elements of Germany’s policy area. Unlike the consensus of all parliamentary groups in the German Bundestag (with the exception of the AfD), the BSW rejects the emissions trading instrument, opposes […]
Last week, the World Bank adopted new goals and measures at its annual meeting to better align poverty reduction with climate action. The importance of reducing CO2 emissions, including in poorer countries, is illustrated by this World Bank statistic: Global warming can only be limited to 1.5 degrees if middle- and low-income countries also reduce […]
Diplomats and climate politicians fear the escalating war between Israel and the Palestinian organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip could jeopardize the upcoming climate negotiations. Observers say that with thousands of people dead from Hamas terrorist attacks and Israeli retaliatory strikes in the Gaza Strip, the conditions for reaching an agreement at the COP28 in […]
It took a small eternity, but it was worth it: Instead of clearing up the question in the morning with what ideas and demands the EU should travel to COP28 in Dubai in December, the tussle over the European path lasted late into the night on Monday in Luxembourg. But the EU environment ministers reached […]
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have initiated structural reforms to align the international financial system better to combat the climate crisis. At last week’s annual fall meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, the World Bank, in particular, under its new head Ajay Banga, announced measures to better balance poverty reduction and economic growth […]
More than ever, time is short in climate policy. That’s why we should discuss the important things. Easier said than done, as our Climate.Table shows today. We have collected examples of where serious debates have sometimes fallen short so far.Everyone is talking about the urgent need to develop renewables around the world. But rarely does […]
Germany’s position in international climate policy is weakened by disputes in its government coalition. The coalition partners disagree on the path to a global phase-out of fossil fuels. As the government could not find a common position on whether such a phase-out should be demanded with or without carbon capture and storage (CCS/CCU), Chancellor Olaf […]
Just three months before COP28 in Dubai, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has made it clear that he does not want to leave international climate policy to the UN member countries. With his day-long Climate Ambition Summit and the many events around the SDG Summit and the UN General Assembly in New York, Guterres has clearly […]