Mr. Özdemir, your ministry is inviting international agricultural policy-makers to the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) in Berlin this week. Over the last 30 years, agricultural losses caused by droughts and floods have increased to 3.8 trillion dollars. How much awareness is there that climate change renders the global food supply insecure?One in […]
The German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt) is reportedly examining allegations of irregularities in a biodiesel project in China. German biofuel manufacturers had previously criticized that Upstream Emission Reduction Certificates (UER) issued by DEHSt to some international companies for their emission reduction projects in China were allegedly based on false information.UER certificates are granted for low-emission […]
Who decides on climate policy in China – and through which processes – is not easily discernible in the opaque structures of the Communist Party. However, one trend is clear: Since 2014, China’s system has increasingly been tailored to President Xi Jinping, who took office at that time. Consequently, Xi also sets the tone for […]
By 2037, Germany aims to establish a hydrogen backbone network built by private companies and fully financed through user fees. The government reached this agreement on Friday. The project could be discussed and approved in the Bundestag in the coming weeks. It involves expenditures of around 20 billion euros for a 10,000-kilometer-long network. Sixty percent […]
There will be no agreement between developed countries and India on a socially mitigated energy transition. The plans for a “Just Energy Transition Partnership” (JETP) between donor countries and India will no longer be pursued, Germany’s BMZ State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth stated on the sidelines of COP29 in Baku. Flasbarth told the information service Clean […]
China’s carbon emissions in the energy sector grew by 5.2 percent in 2023 – an increase that jeopardizes the People’s Republic’s climate target. Based on official data, this is the finding of a study published on Thursday by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air for the specialist service Carbon Brief. According to […]