Tag: COP26
How useful are climate summits really?
Dusseldorf The 26th UN Climate Change Conference is over. The promises made before the two-week negotiations were high: “It is our opportunity to make history,” said EU Commission President Ursula…
“For God’s sake, don’t kill this moment” – This is how the Glasgow settlement came about
UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow John Kerry (M), US President’s Special Envoy for Climate Issues, Xie Zhenhua (l), Chief Negotiator of China, and Frans Timmermans (r), Vice President…
Pressure for more climate protection is growing
Berlin, Glasgow All 197 participating states at the world climate summit in Glasgow agreed on a final declaration. The President of the conference, the British Alok Sharma, announced on Saturday…
“For God’s sake, don’t kill this moment” – This is how the Glasgow settlement came about
UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow John Kerry (M), US President’s Special Envoy for Climate Issues, Xie Zhenhua (l), Chief Negotiator of China, and Frans Timmermans (r), Vice President…
Pressure for more climate protection is growing
Berlin, Glasgow All 197 participating states at the world climate summit in Glasgow agreed on a final declaration. The President of the conference, the British Alok Sharma, announced on Saturday…
Pressure for more climate protection is growing
Berlin, Glasgow The nearly 200 participating states at the world climate summit in Glasgow have agreed on a final declaration. The President of the conference, the British Alok Sharma, announced…
Traffic light negotiations: environmental organizations join the Greens
Press conference after exploratory talks Green chairmen Robert Habeck (left) and Annalena Baerbock as well as SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz and FDP leader Christian Lindner: There are still numerous…
Draft of the final declaration watered down the goal of the coal phase-out
Cop26 in Glasgow The climate conference is likely to be extended, but a first draft for the final declaration is already in circulation. (Photo: AP) Berlin, Glasgow It is a…
What does the cooperation between the USA and China mean?
China causes 27 percent of global CO2 emissions, the USA 13 percent. The USA emits by far the most per capita emissions. Both countries had so far been on the…
How Japan wants to promote climate protection with concrete
Asia Techonomics In the weekly column we alternately write about innovation and economic trends in Asia. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy) Tokyo Concrete fans will get their money’s worth on the homepage…
Dozens of governments and companies are planning to phase out combustion engines – but Germany of all places is missing
Cars at a traffic light Because of the use of fossil fuels, the transport sector is one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf 31 countries,…
UNDP boss Steiner has great expectations of the traffic light government
Berlin He has already attended many climate conferences: Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Development Organization (UNDP). The German-Brazilian, the highest-ranking German at the United Nations, has for years…
More than 20 states want to end sales of internal combustion engines
Exhaust gases The car companies should aim to sell only zero-emission cars and vans in leading markets by 2035 at the latest. (Photo: dpa) Glasgow In the hot phase of…
This has been achieved so far at the World Climate Conference in 2021
Berlin, London British Prime Minister Boris Johnson loves simple slogans. The host also came up with a catchy motto for the World Climate Conference in Glasgow: “Coal, Cars, Cash and…
Climate conference 2021: Head of delegation Flasbarth optimistic
Jochen Flasbarth The State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment is something of a veteran at climate conferences. (Photo: dpa) Berlin No matter how difficult and tiring international climate…
We can still turn things around
The world seems to have strayed from the course: The effects of man-made climate change are enormous and are already bringing numerous regions to the brink of catastrophe. Extreme weather…
COP26 News: Latest news about the World Climate Conference
Of the President of the World Climate Conference, Alok Sharma, has Understanding expressed for the anger of many young people about the long-delayed climate protection worldwide. “I understand that, I…
COP26: This is how hard the climate crisis hits the farmers in Thailand
Extreme weather events are becoming more common in Thailand and threaten agriculture. Farmers in the region tell Handelsblatt reporter Mathias Peer about growing debts and fears of existence. .source site
The interplay between the energy transition and geopolitics
The energy transformation leads to serious geopolitical upheavals. The International Organization for Renewable Energies (Irena) already showed these consequences in 2019 in the groundbreaking report “A New World”. The transformation…
What is the COP26 Climate Conference?
When glaciers melt, biodiversity decreases, carbon emissions, fossil fuels, dangerous tomorrows await the blue globe we live in. So what is COP26, which is organized to fend off these dangerous…