With an urgent plea to change course and sharp criticism of the countries with fossil raw materials, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) spoke out at the Bonn Climate Change Conference on the debate about phasing out oil, gas and coal. The CAT is a project of the think tanks Climate Analytics and New Climate Institute, […]
There is a big hole in the budget of the UNFCCC’s Climate Secretariat: the UN agency is currently short about 30 million euros, Executive Director Simon Stiell said at the opening of the SB58 climate conference on Monday. The two-year budget for 2024 and 2025 is to be discussed and adopted at the meeting in […]
What is the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex after the Kakhovka dam was blown up?Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been occupied by Russian troops almost since the beginning of the war, and technical supplies continue to be provided by Ukrainian personnel. The risk of accidents increases after the Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro […]
How fast half a year goes by: It feels like COP27 in Egypt has only just ended, and now it is already time for the interim conference SB58 in Bonn. Delegations, experts and lobbyists from different sides have been meeting, emailing, zooming and negotiating almost constantly since Sharm el-Sheikh. Now they have come together again […]
The Green Party government faction in the German Bundestag is increasing pressure on Chancellor Scholz to withdraw his promises to help expand gas production in Senegal. With a study published on Friday by the think tanks New Climate Institute and Germanwatch, the Green parliamentary group demands instead that Senegal be supported in building a power […]
Time is pressing, this time even more than usual: At this year’s “small COP” in Germany, the doors will close at 6 pm. According to information from the UN, the conference budget is short by about one million euros. So the evening shifts of the staff will be cut. And finance is once again a […]
Mr. Messner, a big topic at SB58 in Bonn and at the COP in Dubai will be the global stocktake. But what does this stocktake bring other than the realization we already have – that we are not on the right path?Basically, we have a global stocktake every year – the UNEP Emissions Gap Report. […]
For a long time now, one thing has been clear in the climate debate: The only certainty is uncertainty. This also becomes apparent when taking a closer look at the most essential data for climate action: Information about CO2 emissions. And this data has always been, and still is, riddled with uncertainty, especially when it […]
For weeks, Germany has been engaged in heated debates about the “heating transition” and the ban on fossil energy for heating buildings. However, the better buildings are insulated, the less energy is needed to keep the heat inside (or outside). So it’s interesting to take a look at other European countries: How quickly is energy […]
The current compromise in the US budget dispute also impacts the country’s climate policy: Environmentalists are outraged that the proposal includes the approval of the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) gas pipeline in West Virginia as well as faster planning processes for infrastructure projects. The White House, however, defends the deal because it leaves large […]