Alden Meyer says he works where “rhetoric meets the real world.” And these days, of course, that’s the climate conference in Bonn. To which Alden Meyer has traveled again. And where, as always, he will walk through the corridors and negotiating rooms, often with his small wheeled suitcase in tow. He tends not to get […]
Around the world, most of the “safe and just earth system boundaries” have already been exceeded. This is the conclusion of a study by international researchers from the Earth Commission, published Wednesday in Nature. The study sets limits for the five areas of climate, biosphere, water, nutrient cycles and aerosols based on eight indicators.These indicators […]
In the year 2100, one-third of humanity could live outside the so-called human climate niche. This is the result of a study published Monday in the journal Nature Sustainability. This forecast is based on the assumption that the average global temperature will increase by 2.7 degrees.The human climate niche refers to the regions of the […]
The oil companies Repsol of Spain and Eni of Italy have been granted licenses to produce natural gas in Venezuela. The gas is to be exported to Europe in liquefied form (LNG). This was reported by El País and Bloomberg. An agreement for the production was reportedly already signed at the beginning of May.The licenses […]