To this day, Sultan Al Jaber insists that the Majlis at COP28 in Dubai was the breakthrough for the global stocktake. The meeting of the leading minds at the climate summit a year ago, in accordance with Emirati custom, is said to have made the historic step towards abandoning fossil fuels possible in the first […]
The EU received an inglorious prize at COP29. It is the Fossil of the Day. The “Fossil of the Day” award is traditionally presented on each COP day by the civil society organizations of the Climate Action Network (CAN) to the biggest polluters, users of fossil fuels and blockers of ambitious climate policy.After the G7, […]
Teresa Ribera has been confirmed as Competition Commissioner of the European Union on Wednesday evening. The nomination of the Spanish socialist by the EU Parliament was uncertain until the last minute. Coordinators from the conservative EPP group threatened to block the nomination if Ribera’s S&D group refused to approve the Italian candidate – a far-right […]
The Azerbaijani presidency of COP29 in Baku does not want to produce a “cover decision.” It is usually a place to write down major policy decisions that were not included on the conference agenda.It would also have been the place to respond to a call from Cali to the Climate COP. In early November, the […]
Together with the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA), Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck presented standards for low-carbon cement and concrete for the first time in Baku on Monday. This step is part of the efforts to drive forward the decarbonization of certain industrial sectors within the climate club.The cement and concrete industry […]
As hardly any news emerged from the negotiating rooms, the focus in Baku yesterday was on other debates and less prominent issues.There were many protests on the COP29 grounds – for a “fossil phase-out”, for five trillion dollars in climate funding and for the protection of life in the Global South through less fossil fuel […]
The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) reiterated their demands on Friday for the new climate finance target (NCQG) to be negotiated at COP29. “A bad target helps no one,” said Cedric Schuster, Minister of Environment of Samoa and AOSIS Chair, at a joint press conference in Baku.The LDCs […]
Criticism of the functioning and structure of the UN climate conferences caused a backlash on Friday. The legitimacy of the COP lies in the fact that all countries are involved, said Alok Sharma, COP President 2021 in Glasgow. In an interview with Table.Briefings, he made it clear that the COP is one of the few […]
The Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Ottmar Edenhofer, presented his proposals in Baku on Thursday on how carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the atmosphere can become marketable and, above all, profitable. He proposes so-called “clean-up” certificates which, in addition to the conventional CO2 levy of the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), […]
Germany’s representatives in Baku were visibly relieved to announce on Wednesday that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had signed the Leaders’ Statement of the High Ambition Coalition (HAC). After not signing several declarations of the alliance of developed and developing countries last year, the German government returned to the circle of ambitious climate champions in Baku.BMZ […]