Germany has promised to provide six billion euros annually from public funds for global climate financing from 2025. However, the government's draft budget is around one billion euros short of this target.
By Bernhard Pötter
She knows everyone on the climate scene and everyone knows her: Laurence Tubiana, architect of the Paris Agreement and head of the European Climate Foundation ECF, is being considered as the new prime minister of France. She champions social transformation.
By Redaktion Table
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has signed the revised Climate Protection Act. Environmental associations are now filing three constitutional complaints against it.
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In California, five times as much land has already burned as usual for the time of year. This is partly due to the wet winter, heatwaves, and warm nights.
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Mineral oil companies are alleged to have cheated to improve their carbon footprint. The German Environment Agency has filed a complaint. Now the police are taking action.
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Because the Norwegian state-owned oil company Equinor is doing too little to reduce its emissions, the Science Museum is terminating an eight-year support contract. The background to this is the large fossil deposits in the North Sea.
By Alexandra Endres
More solar and wind energy, financial support for heat pumps – but no ban on combustion engines. A recent survey shows which form of EU climate policy a majority of Germans could support in the future. Another result is that the Green Deal is unknown to many.
By Alexandra Endres
The UN Environment Program (UNEP) warns of eight global changes that are accelerating the climate crisis and species extinction. The consequences: Release of anthrax spores from permafrost with dangers for humans and animals, uninhabitable regions and psychological damage as a result of flooding or forest fires.
By Nico Beckert
The new British Climate Change Minister Ed Miliband will also be the UK's chief negotiator at the next climate conference. This could give the UK new weight in international climate diplomacy.
By Redaktion Table