So far, many large companies from CO2-intensive sectors have received free carbon credits. The environmental organization WWF has called for this allocation to be restricted sooner than planned.
By Alex Veit
China's steel sector jeopardizes the country's climate targets. Low-carbon production processes such as electric arc furnaces or the use of hydrogen are only making slow progress. Coal-based steel and iron production would have to fall rapidly to meet the country's climate targets.
By Nico Beckert
Planning new electricity capacities with renewable energies has often been cheaper than with fossil fuels. Now comes the next step: In many countries, renewables even beat the costs of existing and ongoing fossil fuel power generation.
By Bernhard Pötter
A consistent mobility transition not only serves the climate, but also strengthens the competitiveness of industry and social fairness: This is according to the think tank Agora Verkehrswende in a paper of demands to the new German government.
By Alexandra Endres
The EU should become an attractive hub for green production: That is Brussels' signal to its own industry and Washington with the Clean Industrial Deal. Even if funding matters remain unresolved, the plan has been welcomed in Europe.
By Lukas Knigge
Threatening, cutting funding, firing government employees: In just a few weeks, the new US government has dismantled the country's environmental and climate policy institutions and research programs built up over decades. The damage to science, administration and politics is hard to predict.
By Isabel Adler
The EU's Clean Industrial Deal aims to balance competitiveness and climate action. However, Germany, Europe's largest economy, has been in recession for two years. Is climate action to blame for the economic crisis?
By Nico Beckert
The green economy in the UK is growing three times faster than the rest of the economy, according to a report by a British industry association. Wages are higher and growth is more fairly distributed geographically.
By Nico Beckert
Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine is causing more and more CO₂ emissions. A new study breaks down how the greenhouse gas was produced: last year, mainly due to forest fires caused by the fighting.
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In November, the participants at COP16 were unable to reach an agreement on the financing of species conservation worldwide. An attempt is now to be made in Rome to find an agreement.
By Redaktion Table
