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COP30: Virtual pre-summit in April.

With a pre-summit meeting, the UN and the Brazilian COP presidency want to persuade tardy countries to submit their climate plans as soon as possible. So far, only 19 countries have done so. A virtual meeting is therefore planned for April.

By Bernhard Pötter

NGO alliance: Germany's Social Democrats urged to support wealth tax

Environmental organizations and social associations have called on the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to insist on its election promise of a wealth tax on the super-rich during the coalition negotiations. The revenue should be used for climate finance and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

By Nico Beckert

Electricity grids: Proposals for a socially just energy transition.

An analysis by the think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial, which is exclusively available to Table.Briefings, proposes a stronger role for the federal government in grid expansion and progressive tax revenue to finance it. Poorer households could be relieved in this way. Measured against their income, they have so far made the largest contribution to the energy transition.

By Lukas Bayer