At its 62nd plenary session in Hangzhou, China, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) decided on the scope and structure of the seventh assessment report (AR7). However, the controversial issue of when the three working groups should present their reports in 2028 was postponed for the third time in a row at an IPCC […]
The experts at Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) call it Tipping Point 2: The point at which newly installed electricity generation from wind and solar power plants is cheaper than existing fossil fuel power generation. As this new BNEF graphic shows, many countries have reached this point. After Tipping Point 1, where renewables are cheaper […]
We are still recovering with difficulty from an election night that got on our nerves. However, it soon became clear that the big issue of the climate crisis hardly played a role in these elections. So today we’re letting the climate scene have its say with its “do’s” and “don’ts”: From the Climate Union and […]
The role of science in international climate policy is coming under increasing pressure. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the central liaison body between politics and science, is threatened with a loss of importance and influence. The plenary session, which will take place from Feb. 24 to 28 in Hangzhou, China, is the last […]
We thought that we were done fact-checking climate issues. But no: As soon as he took office, the new US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright heavily criticized the German energy transition – with many questionable arguments. Malte Kreutzfeldt took a closer look at his claims. And lo and behold: Hardly any of the figures Wright […]
While Europeans are shivering in unusually sub-zero temperatures, January was the warmest on record worldwide. The north polar regions, in particular, feel the effects. Temperatures there are up to six degrees above the long-term average. According to data from the Alfred Wegener Institute’s “Meereisportal” (Sea Ice Portal), the Arctic ice will only cover an average […]
There was hardly any room to breathe in the TV studios for the Bundestag elections. That’s how big the elephant in the room was – the climate crisis. This crucial issue for the future was barely addressed and rarely questioned when the AfD in particular denied or distorted facts. That’s why Alexandra Endres took a […]
Table.Briefings: Ms. Henneberger, what was your goal when you entered the Bundestag three and a half years ago as an activist for the climate movement?Kathrin Henneberger: In very big terms: I wanted to bring about the end of the fossil age. And for my region, I wanted us to realize and enshrine the coal phase-out […]
This year’s “Petersberg Climate Dialogue” in preparation for the COP30 in Belém, Brazil, will take place on March 25 and 26 at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. This was confirmed to Table.Briefings by government circles. Despite the uncertainty as to who will define German climate policy after the German parliamentary elections, the conference is […]
Nine months before the COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the serious struggle for the outcome of this conference on financing and national climate plans has begun. While only just over a dozen of the almost 200 countries had submitted their plans by the UN deadline for submitting new national climate plans (NDCs) on Feb. 10, the […]