There will be no 50:50 balance of climate finance for mitigation and adaptation in the near future. This is the conclusion of an analysis of the climate finance plans of 26 wealthy countries by the non-governmental organization CARE.Only ten countries have quantitative funding targets for adaptation with a combined value of 14.3 billion dollars. According […]
To mitigate the effects of extreme heat, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) announced a German heat protection plan on Tuesday. “We are not well positioned in Germany against heat deaths.” Germany does not yet have a uniform heat plan, but some cities and states already made more progress in this regard than the federal […]
In Bonn and beyond, the global stocktake will be a politically fiercely debated assessment of global climate action. But the process faces a problem that has hardly been considered so far: Reliable data on greenhouse gas emissions, which are supposed to form the foundation of the debates, are often in short supply, as Table.Media has […]
Around 66 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar projects are at various stages of development in South Africa, with some 18 GW already at an advanced stage. This means that the necessary environmental permits have been obtained and feasibility studies have been conducted. This is the conclusion of the “2023 South African Renewable Energy Grid […]
A new study suggests that climate change has progressed so much that there could be an ice-free Arctic in summer in the near future. This would be a much faster development than previously assumed: As recently as 2021, the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report had assumed that with rapid emissions reductions and global warming below 2 […]