Ms. Baerbock, we’re conducting this interview shortly after your unplanned return. Weren’t you supposed to be in New Zealand right now? What damage has this caused to German foreign and climate policies, given that you had to cut short your trip to Oceania?It truly hurts. Since 2011, no German Foreign Minister has been to Australia. […]
Ms. Baerbock, we’re conducting this interview shortly after your unplanned return. Weren’t you supposed to be in New Zealand right now? What damage has this caused to German foreign and climate policies, given that you had to cut short your trip to Oceania?It truly hurts. Since 2011, no German Foreign Minister has been to Australia. […]
Rarely have technical details such as the flap behavior on an aircraft wing led to such big debates as in the last few days. Germany talked about how and why Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had to cancel her planned trip to Oceania in Abu Dhabi. And even more so among us fellow passengers on board […]
The failed visit of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to Oceania also has consequences for German and international climate policy. Beyond the political embarrassments and technical mishaps, the Foreign Minister’s cancelation also slows down and prevents numerous developments and projects key to international climate action at the Federal Foreign Office.In Australia, on the one hand, […]
In year eight after the Paris Climate Agreement, which you helped negotiate, temperatures continue to rise, we have floods and forest fires around the world like never before. Where do we stand, really?Even if it may sound strange: Eight years after Paris, we are in a better position than I dared to hope back then. […]
He is the classic example of the old white (and white-haired) man: Jim Skea, the new IPCC head, prevailed against his competitor Thelma Krug from Brazil in the second round of voting at the UN Climate Council yesterday. There were many congratulations. But Skea now has two big tasks: Coordinating the work on the next […]
British physicist and renewable energy expert James “Jim” Ferguson Skea will head the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as chair for the next five to seven years. On Wednesday, the majority of delegates at the 59th IPCC Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, voted to elect the Brit. As the new chair, he will lead […]
France and the OECD want to strengthen the potential role of nuclear power in the climate debate ahead of COP28. A joint conference, “Roadmaps to New Nuclear,” at the OECD headquarters in Paris in late September is expected to gather about two dozen countries that want to debate new nuclear programs or an expansion of […]
He is a passionate and dedicated politician who spares neither himself nor those around him: As Executive Vice President of the EU Commission and EU Commissioner for Climate Action Policy, Frans Timmermans has prepared and pushed through important decisions over the last few years. Now he has made another decision: He will run in the […]
From a climate policy perspective, Frans Timmermans’ departure comes at both a good and very bad time.Internally, the resignation of the executive vice-president of the EU Commission and climate commissioner is manageable: Timmermans has pushed through the major packages of this Commission’s “Green Deal” with considerable dedication and success. He is the architect of the […]