Tag: Global environmental protection
Climate protection ranking: Germany is slipping
Berlin Along with Denmark and Sweden, Chile and Morocco are the countries that can count themselves among the pioneers in climate protection thanks to the rapid expansion of renewable energies.…
Climate protection ranking: Germany is slipping
Berlin Anyone looking for climate protection pioneers usually thinks first of the Scandinavian countries. Denmark, Sweden and Norway rely heavily on renewable energies and have been among the pioneers in…
The struggle for aid worth billions begins
Berlin There is not much time left to agree on controversial points. This Monday, the second and decisive week of negotiations begins at the world climate conference in Egypt. By…
The struggle for aid worth billions begins
Berlin There is not much time left to agree on controversial points. This Monday, the second and decisive week of negotiations begins at the world climate conference in Egypt. By…
We will only become climate neutral in 2050 if we recover CO2 from the atmosphere
In the fight against the climate crisis, turning away from fossil fuels alone is no longer enough. Rather, some of the greenhouse gases that continue to be emitted will have…
CO2 emissions 2022: Greenhouse gas emissions will also increase in 2022
Berlin The fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise – contrary to the goals that the countries set themselves in the Paris climate agreement. In 2022 they will be slightly higher…
“Let the others make an effort”
Young activists at the UN climate change conference COP27 “After decades of largely unsuccessful climate negotiations, the question is whether we are pursuing the right strategy. Other negotiation formats are…
“Are on the highway to climate hell”
Berlin Dark words at the world climate conference in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, warned of the catastrophic consequences of…
Europe not enthusiastic about US climate protection offensive
Berlin, Brussels The United States is working on a plan for the world’s largest companies to help finance the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy in developing countries. The…
Europe not enthusiastic about US climate protection offensive
Berlin, Brussels The United States is working on a plan for the world’s largest companies to help finance the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy in developing countries. The…
“The geopolitical tensions are a heavy burden”
Berlin He is represented at almost every climate conference: Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Development Organization (UNDP) and the highest-ranking German at the United Nations. The German-Brazilian has…
The world community can hardly reach the 1.5 degree target – but every tenth of a degree counts
COP27 The world community meets at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Center for the annual climate conference. (Photo: Reuters) Before the start of the most important annual meeting on global…
Departure or standstill? That is what matters at the climate conference
Berlin The signs for the world climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, are not good. Heat waves, droughts and floods as a result of climate change are already threatening the…
“The geopolitical tensions are a heavy burden”
Berlin He is represented at almost every climate conference: Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Development Organization (UNDP) and the highest-ranking German at the United Nations. The German-Brazilian has…
Departure or standstill? That is what matters at the climate conference
Berlin The signs for the World Climate Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, are not good. Heat waves, droughts and floods as a result of climate change are already threatening the…
These companies could help to reach the 1.5 degree target
Global Transition Award Winner This year, five companies were honored with the prize for their ambitions in climate protection. (Photo: Uta Wagner for Handelsblatt) Dusseldorf The starting point is bad:…
More heat deaths also in Germany
Berlin If Germany and other industrialized countries do not quickly increase the pace of the expansion of clean energies, reaching the Paris climate agreement will become increasingly remote. Because despite…
Climate advocates and NGOs are threatening governments with mass lawsuits
Smoking cooling towers of a power plant Lawyers and NGOs now emphasize that they have already filed more than 80 climate lawsuits around the world to get governments to do…
Biodiversity and its price
Who does not know them – the extraordinary animal species, previously only known to insiders, which, like the sand lizard at Tesla in Grünheide, delay or sometimes even prevent the…
Lemke presents program against global warming
bog in Germany Peatlands can bind carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in the long term. (Photo: imago images/blickwinkel) Berlin In an action program for natural climate protection,…