Befitting the climate crisis, the conversation with Jennifer Morgan began shortly past twelve. It was an intense and exciting hour of talk with Germany’s Special Envoy for International Climate Action in Table.Media’s café on Thursday. Half chat, half interview, it gives a good impression of how big the task will be to achieve results at […]
The “Summary for Policymakers” (SPM) in the 6th IPCC Report’s Synthesis Report, which was presented to the public in Interlaken on Monday, “summarises the state of knowledge of climate change”. That is what the first sentence of the document says. But the report also reveals the individual economic and political interests of the 135 IPCC […]
Sleep in, then talk: After the participants in last week’s marathon meeting on the IPCC Synthesis Report caught up on their sleep, we spoke with some of them about the deals, details and background of the document that would otherwise be lost behind the headlines. And we took the current UN Water Conference in New […]
Another IPCC report? And “only” the Synthesis Report, which summarizes what is already known? Those who believe so should not be mistaken: The comprehensive summary of the 6th IPCC Assessment Report is quite something. Which is why we are reacting quickly with a special Climate.Table issue.Because the report, which hundreds of experts from science and […]
The impact of scientific data on climate policy has been hard to measure. But the 6th Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was presented on Monday, will clearly shape global climate policy:The IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6) Synthesis Report summarizes the state of the science that has been developed since […]
NDCs could exceed 1.5-degrees soonThe current decade is crucialCurrent fossil fuel infrastructure exceeds 1.5-degree target80 percent of the 1.5 degree budget has already been used upSolutions: Finance, technology, laws, lifestyle change
For International Women’s Day, our Climate.Table is published one day earlier than usual and particularly focuses on “Women and Climate“. This is not a “gender craze”, but an acknowledgment of the facts: True climate action is only possible if everyone has a say and can participate in decisions.We, therefore, lay out what a feminist climate […]
The island nation of Vanuatu has made a significant step in its push to take responsibility for the impacts of climate change to court. In early March, the country announced that it had now found 105 states as supporters for its request to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for a […]
The most important new body of the international climate negotiations for 2023 will begin its work at the end of March: The Transitional Committee, which is preparing the structure for the loss and damage fund, will meet for the first time from March 27-29. This has been announced by the UN Climate Change Secretariat. The […]
This Friday, “Fridays for Future” are once again calling for a global climate strike – and this time they have some important allies next to them on the streets in Germany. The German service sector union ver.di is holding its warning strike in six German states on the same day. In this way, climate activists […]