We could hardly believe it ourselves: But just in time for Advent Climate.Table has some positive news: The EU has finally agreed in the trilogue to include shipping in emissions trading, as Lukas Scheid writes; IEA chief Fatih Birol, in an interview with Alexandra Endres, not only praises how the Germans are coping with the energy crisis so far. He is also confident that renewables will get a much-needed boost from climate policy, industrial policy decisions and the Ukraine war.