The Thursday of the second COP week is like a miniature climate crisis: The sins of the past now take their revenge. We could have started looking for solutions much earlier, we should have reached compromises much faster. But no, and now look where we are. Those who dawdled over the last few days now […]
With a new report and a new world map of peatlands, researchers and the UN Environment Programme UNEP draw attention to an often-forgotten threat to the climate: carbon emissions from drained wetlands. After all, peatlands are the world’s threatened and largely ignored carbon reservoirs. On only about four percent of land area, they store about […]
The success or failure of the “implementation conference” will be determined by whether there is a compromise on the structure and financing of loss and damage (L+D). Negotiators call this the “landing zone” where ministers can reach agreement. As of Thursday evening, however, the positions are still far apart.The developing countries’ proposal is a maximum […]
The “climate club” of climate pioneer states, with which German Chancellor Olaf Scholz intended to advance international negotiations in an exclusive setting, will become an inclusive group. The main aim of the project is to advance the decarbonization of the industry in as many countries as possible, explained Stefan Wenzel, parliamentary state secretary at the […]
The international energy transition has a new giant project: With billions in aid from the G7 countries, Indonesia wants to generate its electricity without coal by 2050. On Tuesday, Indonesian President Joko Widodo signed a 20 billion dollars Just Energy Transition Partnership with representatives of the International Partners Group (IPG). The goal is for the […]
Mr. Schneider, in the climate debate, some voices are hoping for a nuclear power renaissance and thus for low-CO2 electricity. Is that realistic in your view?This is a fact-free debate. When people talk about renaissance, they get the impression that nuclear power plants are being built everywhere and increasingly. This would require indicators that point […]
When the cat’s away, the mice will play. This also happens at COP27 right now: The Egyptian presidency refrains from its duties that the countries themselves begin to organize themselves. An exciting and entirely new coalition is forming between coal country India, the EU, the UK and island nations to push back against coal, oil […]
COP27 faces an explosive debate on the global energy transition. An Indian push for scaling back “all fossil fuels” in the final declaration found support on Monday from the EU, the UK and some island nations. Other countries, such as Saudi Arabia, already signaled not to agree to such a final declaration.In the internal letter […]
Mr. Rockström, you once again present the bitter data on the climate crisis to politicians and negotiators at COP. The data gets worse every year. Does that make you feel like a broken record?Not like a broken record. But it definitely has elements of frustration. And it takes enormous patience. Before each COP, we consider […]
The United Nations is increasingly irritated by attacks by Egyptian security forces at COP27. In recent days, it has been made clear to the host country’s representatives on several occasions that their officials must behave in accordance with UN rules and must not spy on conference visitors, according to high-ranking UN circles. The German Embassy […]