Three climate scientists walk into a bar … taking the climate crisis with humor? As Germany is getting ready for Carnival celebrations, we are taking an unusual angle this time. In today’s opinion piece, Eckart von Hirschhausen explains why humor can be a path to insight and reveal paradoxes and contradictions in climate policy. And […]
According to a study by the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, 95 emerging and developing countries have serious problems financing investments in environmental and climate action. 91 of these countries have high environmental investment needs or significant potential for nature conservation.The study examined 108 developing and emerging countries. The result:Countries heavily indebted to development […]
New rules aim to stabilize China’s carbon emissions trading. Companies and consulting firms have so far gotten away lightly with falsified data and emission reports because fraud was more lucrative than acquiring carbon credits. Now, penalties for rule violations have been drastically increased – from approximately 4,000 euros to at least 65,000 euros to 260,000 […]
China’s carbon trading system has been marked by repeated cases of fraud. Companies and consulting firms have forged emissions data and reports. The authorities have not sufficiently verified the reports and conditions at participating power plants. The penalties for falsification have so far been so low that fraud has been more lucrative than compliance and […]
Trump’s potential next term in office has climate activists worried, at the very least. Trump could increase fossil fuel subsidies, reverse some IRA investments and weaken US agencies in an effort to undermine climate action. Umair Irfan has examined the erratic ex-president’s master plan for climate policy and the factors that speak against his absolute […]
Environmental and climate organizations and the trade union IGBCE call on the German government to reform the debt brake, set up a special climate action fund and “strengthen the revenue side.” According to Germanwatch, the WWF, the Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR) and the trade union for mining, chemicals and energy (IGBCE), these proposals must be “examined […]
Despite stricter EU regulations, a new study shows that the discrepancy between car manufacturers’ CO2 emissions specifications and actual values is growing. Between 2018 and 2022, the difference increased from 8 to 14 percent. This is the result of a study by the research organization International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), exclusively available to Table.Media.The […]
The rapid expansion of renewables will continue over the next few years. According to new forecasts by the International Energy Agency (IEA), many countries will install more than twice as much renewable energy in the next six years as in the last six years. The growth forecasts for China are particularly impressive: the People’s Republic […]
One of the biggest successes at COP28 – the decision to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 – is being jeopardized by the slow expansion of power grids. Now, Francesco La Camera, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), warns in an interview with Table.Media: “Without addressing the urgent infrastructure needs, the world will […]
Analysts from the consulting firm Oliver Wyman have examined the effects of the climate crisis on human health based on six categories: Floods, droughts, heatwaves, tropical storms, forest fires and sea level rise. The report is based on current climate scenarios assuming a warming of 2.5 to 2.9 degrees. The report was published by the […]