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Lisa Kuner Published: March 19th, 2025

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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 […]

Lisa Kuner Published: March 17th, 2025

SAF: Many investments require sustainable aviation fuels.

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 […]

Lisa Kuner Published: March 17th, 2025

Buildings: Global emissions reach a plateau.

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 […]

Lisa Kuner Published: March 3rd, 2025

Austria: Climate action in the new government

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 […]

Lisa Kuner Published: February 25th, 2025

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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 […]

Lisa Kuner Published: February 24th, 2025

Climate in numbers: Polarization in climate policy is increasing

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, […]