The term “climate terrorists” has been chosen as Germany’s “non-word” for 2022. This term does not refer to those who upset the physical and ecological balance of planet Earth. Rather, it refers to people who use civil disobedience to defend themselves against the destruction of our livelihoods.The current conflict over this is escalating in Germany’s Rhenish […]
The good news first: Worldwide, 88 percent of all wetlands are still largely untouched. They thus store around 600 billion metric tons of carbon on just 3 percent of land area – twice as much as is bound in the biomass of all forests, which cover a total of 27 percent of land mass. However, […]
Michael Bloomberg – UN Special EnvoyAs UN Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions, the US billionaire is one of the most important links between politics, business and civil society in the United States. Bloomberg made his fortune (currently estimated at about 80 billion dollars) as an investor and owner of his financial information service […]
Did you also toast 2023 wearing a T-shirt and shorts in spring-like temperatures? It was the warmest New Year since record-keeping began. And probably a harbinger of what we can expect to see in 2023 and beyond.In this Climate.Table, we, therefore, take a look at what the new year holds in store: We explain, among […]
1. La Niña is over – it gets even warmerIt was already clear in 2022: The long-term warming of the atmosphere manifests itself more and more violently even in the short-term weather. With emissions and CO2 levels in the atmosphere at a new high, temperatures climbed again in 2022, as they had in the previous […]
We feel the same way: Just before Christmas, we don’t want to be confronted with all the misery of global climate action again. That is why we searched for stories that would offer encouragement and spread a bit of hope. At first, we thought this would become a small section of this Climate.Table. Then it […]
Not everything was better in the past , but it was colder. This is clearly shown by the long-term measurement data of the German Weather Service (DWD). Over a period of 30 years – the time span in which weather data are condensed into climate statements according to scientific definition – the measurements show how […]
The use of renewables prevented greenhouse gas emissions totaling 217 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in Germany in 2021. This is roughly equivalent to the amount of greenhouse gases emitted annually by Austria, Switzerland, Ireland and Portugal combined. This is according to the emissions balance of renewables recently published by the German Federal Environment […]
After two decades of rapid growth, renewables are poised to dominate the electricity market worldwide. The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that in the next five years to 2027 alone, as much electricity capacity will be added from renewables worldwide as has been created in the last 20 years: around 2,400 gigawatts. This is roughly […]