Around six weeks before the European elections on June 9, the election campaign – for example by the SPD and CSU – and the mailing of election notifications have begun in Germany. This time, the ballot paper also includes names that are otherwise more familiar from climate strikes. The “Last Generation” climate movement, for example, […]
Just after the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and a few days before the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, we take a closer look at climate financing: Bernhard Pötter and Malte Kreutzfeldt have collected new figures, the results of the meetings and the call by German climate envoy Jennifer Morgan for […]
With the “Low Emission Steel Standard (LESS),” Economy Minister Robert Habeck, along with the Steel Industry Association, presented a labeling system for green steel at the Hannover Messe. More than 60 representatives from politics, industry, and science were involved in the development of the new standard, according to the industry association.The LESS classification takes into […]
Sometimes laws make progress when no one expects it: This was the case with the Climate Protection Act on Monday. In the morning, the Expert Council for Climate Issues explained why it was a bad idea to abolish the binding sector targets. In the afternoon, the news came that this was exactly what had been […]
Justin Tomlinson from the Tories is to become the new Energy Minister in the UK. He was previously Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions and has little experience in the energy sector. Tomlinson is now the eleventh person to take over as Energy Minister in ten years.At the end of last […]
47 emerging and developing countries are threatened with insolvency in the coming years as they would have to increase their investments to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This would affect up to one billion people, according to a new study by the “Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery” project. Although a further […]
Methane emissions from opencast lignite mining in Germany could be up to 184 times higher than officially reported. This is the conclusion of a recent Environmental Action Germany (DUH) analysis and the think tank Ember Climate. This means that methane emissions in Germany’s energy sector in 2021 were twice as high, and total methane emissions […]
In a landmark decision, India’s Supreme Court has ruled that the climate crisis impairs the constitutional right to life. It said India must promote renewables to protect citizens from the adverse effects of climate change. “Without a clean environment which is stable and unimpacted by the vagaries of climate change, the right to life is […]