The euphoria over the new agenda item “loss and damage” has long since faded. After a week of sometimes tough negotiations, disillusionment has now set in at COP27. The negotiating teams are glad that they are now getting a new dynamic with the arrival of the ministers.Dispute in compensation for loss and damageIn the second […]
The most common question this week will be: When and how will the EU increase its climate target? With the trilogue agreement on the LULUCF regulation, Europe is on track to cut more emissions than envisaged in the EU climate law. This would allow EU negotiators at COP27 to implement what they themselves are asking […]
Without civil society, there would have been no Paris Agreement, said Jennifer Morgan, State Secretary at the German Foreign Office, on Tuesday on the sidelines of an event in the German pavilion at COP27. But that very civil society is taking a beating in Sharm el-Sheikh.The development organization Germanwatch reports “human rights violations and gross […]
While there is much talk at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh about how climate targets will be implemented in national legislation, Brussels has taken a decisive step in this direction. In the trilogue negotiations between the EU Commission, Parliament and the Council, an agreement on the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) was reached last night. The legislative […]
The COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh started with a first victory for the developing countries: Dealing with loss and damage resulting from climate change in the global South will become a so-called “Agenda Item” and is thus officially on the agenda of the climate conference. The issue of loss and damage has so far divided rich […]
The COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh started with a first victory for the developing countries: Dealing with loss and damage resulting from climate change in the global South will become a so-called “Agenda Item” and is thus officially on the agenda of the climate conference. The issue of loss and damage has so far divided rich […]
The EU Commission asks member states to use the revised crisis framework for state aid to support farmers and fertilizer producers in the current fertilizer crisis. That’s according to a draft communication from the Brussels-based agency, scheduled for Nov. 9 and published Thursday by Contexte. Countries are supposed to use funds from the solidarity contribution […]
Countries’ promises of climate neutrality are based on unrealistic amounts of land-based carbon storage. That’s the conclusion of the authors of the first “Land Gap Report“, to be released Thursday. The total land area required for the planned biological storage of carbon, according to reports by UN member states, is just under 1.2 billion hectares, […]
Countries’ promises of climate neutrality are based on unrealistic amounts of land-based carbon storage. That’s the conclusion of the authors of the first “Land Gap Report“, to be released Thursday. The total land area required for the planned biological storage of carbon, according to reports by UN member states, is just under 1.2 billion hectares, […]