FAZ: Fracking expert becomes energy minister. The future POTUS Trump wants to make Chris Wright his Secretary of Energy. Wright is a fracking specialist and founded several companies that helped the technology achieve a breakthrough in the US. Full articleNew York Times: Climate fund begins work. The UN climate summit in Azerbaijan has paved the […]
The Food & Climate Action Group, an alliance of more than 25 NGOs, called for a resolution to “turn away from the overconsumption of meat” at COP29 on Friday. In a declaration, the group, which is campaigning for a global food transition, urges, among other things, subsidies for low-emission foods such as vegetables. Turning away […]
The words of UN Secretary-General António Guterres were clear: To “keep global climate targets alive”, “every country must submit economy-wide nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that are oriented towards the 1.5-degree limit”, he said in a speech at COP29. The G20, as the largest emitters, must lead the way in this and in the fossil fuel […]
Global climate policy and the UNFCCC framework convention urgently need to be revised, various representatives of the international climate scene have called for in an open letter. A “shift from negotiation to implementation” is needed, they say. Among other things, the letter calls for a better selection process for the COP presidency.Furthermore, the COP process […]
Reuters: Taliban at COP29. Representatives of the Afghan Taliban will attend the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku. The Taliban were not welcome at the UN climate conferences in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in 2022 and in Dubai in 2023. Read the full articleWall Street Journal: Bathing in oil. The fact that the World Climate […]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will increase its climate-related lending by up to $7.2 billion after the US and Japan agreed to take on the risk for some existing loans. This was reported by the news agency Reuters. Accordingly, the ADB’s new strategy could serve as a template for other development banks. The ADB has […]
Between 2010 and 2022, rich countries spent $2.7 trillion on domestic fossil fuel subsidies. This is six times as much as the $437 billion they pledged for international climate financing in the same period. This is the conclusion of an analysis by the NGO One. The gap in international public financing to cover the climate […]