Climate Home News: Fragile countries call for help. 13 countries affected by conflicts and humanitarian crises have joined forces to call on the international community to provide them with urgently needed resources. The aim is to mitigate and respond to the growing impact of climate shocks. They also call for existing gaps to be closed […]
By 2030, the demand for sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) will increase to 49 million tons per year. This would require a significant increase in production capacities for SAFs: Investments of one to 1.5 trillion US dollars would be needed for the necessary 7,000 new production facilities. These are the findings of a study conducted by […]
In 2023, global growth in the building sector was decoupled from the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions for the first time – these reached a plateau. Between 2015 and 2023, energy intensity in the sector fell significantly by 9.5%, but also fell well short of the target of an 18.2% reduction. The share of renewables in […]
If the CDU/CSU, SPD and Greens write climate neutrality into the Basic Law by 2045 as planned, this does not appear to improve the immediate chances of climate lawsuits. “There is no reason to fear that infrastructure projects will be increasingly prevented by lawsuits,” said Remo Klinger, a specialist lawyer for climate law who often […]
In Austria, the new government sworn in on Monday will also see the previously influential climate action ministry broken up. In the future, the environment and climate will be part of the Ministry of Agriculture, which is led by the conservative ÖVP party. The Ministry of Economics, which is also under ÖVP leadership, will be […]
Süddeutsche: Pointless certificates. Airlines use CO₂ certificates to cultivate an environmentally friendly image. However, programs such as TREES do not lead to any significant reduction – they literally do not save a single ton of CO₂. Experts also estimate that certificates from Guyana only achieve around 16 percent of the promised CO₂ savings. To the […]
The tough and often polemical debates surrounding the energy transition and climate protection during the election campaign and in other political debates are clearly leaving their mark: The population in Germany is also increasingly divided along fundamental political lines when it comes to the question of more or less climate action. Supporters of the Greens, […]