The Green Climate Fund is supporting 17 new projects with one billion US dollars. The fund has also developed a new strategy to improve access to climate financing.
By Nico Beckert
Former WWF board member Christoph Heinrich will head the Ecologic Institute think tank in the future.
By Malte Kreutzfeldt
Severe wildfires in the Northern Hemisphere are currently causing high CO2 emissions. Russia is particularly affected by the fires. Siberia could be approaching a dangerous tipping point.
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The International Energy Agency has calculated that if SUVs were a country, they would be the fifth-largest carbon emitter in the world. Large cars cause more global emissions than Japan and Germany.
By Nico Beckert
In addition to the constitutional complaint against the new Climate Change Act, Environmental Action Germany (DUH) also filed another climate complaint against the German government for failing to submit the 2023 Climate Protection Report on time. DUH argues that the government is thus failing to use a key control instrument.
By Alexandra Endres
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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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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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
