During the EU Commission's visit to India, there were also signs of new cooperation on climate action and energy. Both partners are very different, but also have common interests in areas such as renewables. Nevertheless, a deal is on shaky ground.
By Goswami Urmi
There is opposition to the EU fleet limits from various quarters – and a desire to change the regulations. However, the high prices for CO₂ in ETS 2 would place a burden on consumers.
By Fritz Vorholz
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
Business associations, NGOs and think tanks are calling on the next German government to make more efforts in climate policy: The financial leeway must be increased by reforming the debt brake, electricity prices should fall and good framework conditions and political continuity for investments should be created.
By Redaktion Table
At its plenary session in Hangzhou, China, this week, the IPCC will decide on its work program until 2028/29 – and indirectly on the role of facts in climate policy. This is because countries such as the USA want to delay the work and reduce the influence of science on political decisions.
By Bernhard Pötter
Next week, the EU Commission will present its Clean Industrial Deal, a plan to make Europe's industry greener and competitive at the same time. The first details have now emerged from a draft of the plan. Including: social leasing.
By Lukas Knigge
In his inaugural speech, the new US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright cited the German energy transition as a cautionary example. However, the figures he cited are largely incorrect, not very conclusive and incomplete, as our fact check shows.
By Malte Kreutzfeldt
Japan has presented its energy plans and its new Nationally Determined Contributions. Experts say the CO2 reduction falls far short of what is necessary. Renewables and nuclear power are to be greatly expanded. Instead of declining electricity consumption, demand is now forecast to rise due to industrial production and data centers.
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The climate and the environment hardly played a role in the German election season. That is why the climate movement is fighting for more visibility – but also against a possible right-wing shift with regressive climate policy.
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