Johan Rockström – Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); Professor of Earth System Sciences, University of PotsdamJohan Rockström was deservedly awarded this year’s “Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement”, often dubbed the “Nobel Prize for Environment”. The Swede is one of the most influential thinkers and advisors in international climate and sustainability policy. Formerly […]
The EU holds substantial potential to decrease emissions stemming from consumption. This requires targeted measures to reduce consumption-based CO2 emissions (CBEs) as well as a reduction in overall consumption, as concluded by a study from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).Historically, political actions have primarily focused on territorial emissions from industrial production and energy, neglecting the […]
Majid al Suwaidi – CEO, AltérraMajid al Suwaidi has been tasked with financing the global energy transition. He is the CEO of Altérra, an investment fund founded at COP28 in Dubai in 2023, making it the largest private climate fund worldwide. Altérra aims to mobilize a total of 250 billion dollars in climate financing for […]
For the first time in a decade, the number of people worldwide without access to electricity is rising again as population growth exceeds the number of new grid connections. This is the conclusion of the latest “Tracking SDG 7” report by IRENA, the IEA, the World Bank and other international organizations, based on data from […]
The goals and measures embedded in the NDCs are not enough to stop and reverse deforestation by 2030. This is the conclusion of a UN-REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) program report presented on Monday at the SB60 interim conference in Bonn. The report analyzed NDCs submitted between 2017 and 2021 by the […]
Following a possible increase in votes for the AfD in the European elections, the party’s influence on climate policy will also rise. In Europe, but especially in the eastern German state and local elections this year, the party, which is partly far-right, can significantly slow down the energy transition at the local level. This is […]
Humanity can only emit around 200 billion tons of CO2, roughly equivalent to five years of current emissions, to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial age. This is the conclusion of the report “Indicators of Global Climate Change” (IGCC), which was published on Wednesday by an international research group led […]
Around 2.2 gigatons of carbon dioxide are removed from the atmosphere worldwide every year – but only 0.1 percent or 1.3 million tons of these removals are the result of novel methods such as CCS or enhanced weathering. The vast majority can be attributed to natural sinks, for example in forestry. By the middle of […]