A study warns that meat production in Germany in particular has a hugely detrimental effect on the climate, environment and health. However, the new German government does not want to take countermeasures.
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Mark Carney's election victory in Canada prevents a drastic rollback of climate policy. However, numerous hurdles prevent greater ambitions. Canada's new climate target is not overly ambitious, and the oil and gas sector has strong supporters in the provinces. Moreover, Carney only heads a minority government and must constantly seek new majorities in parliament.
By Nico Beckert
The "Bundesgesellschaft Zukunft Umwelt Gesellschaft" distributes national funding to support climate, environmental and nature conservation. Constanze Haug has been its new managing director for a year now. Haug wants to "efficiently enable climate action" and places her hopes in the new federal government.
By Redaktion Table
Storms, floods, wildfires: insured losses from natural disasters could reach USD 145 billion worldwide by 2025, according to Swiss Re. "In peak years", the sum could more than double.
By Alexandra Endres
On Monday, a power cut led to broken-down trains, a collapsed mobile phone network and traffic chaos on the Iberian Peninsula. The cause is not yet clear, but could have something to do with a weather phenomenon.
By Marion Bergermann
China has approved the construction of ten new nuclear reactors and is maintaining its rapid expansion course. The People's Republic can build nuclear power plants more cheaply than Western countries. But even in China, there are frequent delays.
By Nico Beckert
Following the withdrawal of Western institutions, the controversial EACOP oil pipeline from Uganda to Tanzania has now secured its first round of financing from African and Arab banks. The countries are hoping for development and export revenues. Environmentalists criticize that the project violates the NDCs.
By Viktor Funk
Global military spending is more than one trillion US dollars higher than that for climate protection and adaptation. While the global military build-up continues, five times as much money would be needed for climate action in order to avoid even greater damage.
By Lukas Bayer
The future Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Katherina Reiche, is being praised not only by her own party, but also by the German Renewable Energy Federation. By contrast, other ministries that are important for climate action are being occupied by people who have hardly attracted any attention on the subject to date.
By Malte Kreutzfeldt
The Ministry of Economic Affairs (BMWK) is against a division of the German electricity price zone. The renewable energy association BEE warns of the impact on the economic viability of existing renewable energy plants.
By Manuel Berkel
