The German government devised ambitious plans for a faster energy transition, but many of the plans are not going smoothly. Today, we will examine this in several ways: When it comes to the heating transition, Malte Kreutzfeldt explains why state subsidies for heat pumps in the form of favorable loans are not very popular. We […]
Economic growth urgently needs to be reconciled with climate targets. This is the demand of the G20’s Task Force for the Global Mobilization Against Climate Change (TF Climate) in a report entitled “A Green and Just Planet,” which was published in Washington on Wednesday. It calls for green growth, not growth that excludes climate action.As […]
Just under four weeks before COP29, the EU has set out its position for the climate conference in Baku – but it lacks a concrete figure for climate financing. Lukas Knigge explains why this may be the wrong strategy. In contrast, more concrete progress was made at last week’s COP preparatory conference on carbon markets […]
In the UN carbon market, there is to be a binding mechanism to protect human rights and the environment through a detailed risk assessment. This is a first in the UN climate process and one of the results of the COP29 preparatory conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. However, the states still have to approve the drafts […]
32 years of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, 36 years of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – and no end to climate change in sight, what’s going on? We have known for decades that fossil fuels are the main problem. It was only last year that this was finally acknowledged in the final […]
In the search for new materials that are climate-friendly and recyclable, biological systems originating from a species that has received little attention are coming to the fore: Fungi. They, or more precisely their roots, could do a lot for climate action in the future – for example as a building material, for insulation or as […]
Chile’s climate policy is showing results and is now rated as “almost sufficient” to contribute to achieving the 1.5-degree target. This is the conclusion of the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) in its updated assessment of the country.Following the adoption of a new Climate Change Framework Law in 2022, there has been strong progress in climate […]