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L-R Jennifer Lee Morgan, Staatssekretaerin und Sonderbeauftragte fuer internationale Klimapolitik im Auswaertigen Amt und Annalena Baerbock Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen, Bundesaussenministerin, , aufgenommen waehrend der Plenarsitzung der COP27 Klimakonferenz. Scharm-el-Sheikh, 20.11.2022 Scharm-el-Sheikh Aegypten *** L R Jennifer Lee Morgan, State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Policy at the Federal Foreign Office and Annalena Baerbock Buendnis 90 Die Gruenen , German Foreign Minister, , taken during the plenary session of the COP27 Climate Change Conference Sharm el Sheikh, 20 11 2022 Sharm el Sheikh Egypt Copyright: xThomasxTrutschelx

This is what COP28 could agree on

The negotiations in the run-up and at COP28 around CO2 reduction, adaptation and finance will be tough. But after the conference in Bonn, a few "landing zones" for compromises are emerging.

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230602 -- TAIZHOU, June 2, 2023 -- This aerial photo taken on June 1, 2023 shows workers loading carbon dioxide at Taizhou coal-fired power plant of China Energy Investment Corporation China Energy in Taizhou, east China s Jiangsu Province. China Energy on Friday announced that it has put Asia s largest carbon capture, utilization and storage CCUS facility for the coal-fired power generation sector into operation in east China s Jiangsu Province. TO GO WITH China launches Asia s largest carbon capture project for coal-fired power sector Photo by /Xinhua CHINA-JIANGSU-CARBON CAPTURE PROJECT CN TangxDehong PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN

EU in line with Emirates: CCS as solution

Hardly noticed by the public, the EU has changed its course on the controversial issue of CCS: It now wants to keep the CO2 capture loophole open when ending fossil fuels. This is in line with the presidency of COP28.

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230602 -- TAIZHOU, June 2, 2023 -- This aerial photo taken on June 1, 2023 shows workers loading carbon dioxide at Taizhou coal-fired power plant of China Energy Investment Corporation China Energy in Taizhou, east China s Jiangsu Province. China Energy on Friday announced that it has put Asia s largest carbon capture, utilization and storage CCUS facility for the coal-fired power generation sector into operation in east China s Jiangsu Province. TO GO WITH China launches Asia s largest carbon capture project for coal-fired power sector Photo by /Xinhua CHINA-JIANGSU-CARBON CAPTURE PROJECT CN TangxDehong PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN

EU auf Linie der Emirate: CCS als Lösung

Kaum bemerkt von der Öffentlichkeit hat die EU ihren Kurs beim umstrittenen Thema CCS geändert: Sie will nun beim Ausstieg aus den Fossilen das Schlupfloch CO₂-Abscheidung offenhalten. Und liegt damit auf Linie mit der Präsidentschaft der COP28.

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Water Level In Kakhovka Reservoir In Nikopol - Ukraine Nikopol, Ukraine - June 9, 2023 - Transmission towers are seen as the level of water in the Kakhovka Reservoir continues to decrease after the Khakhovka Dam was blown up by Russian occupiers, Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Region, central Ukraine. Photo by Nina Liashonok/Ukrinform/ABACAPRESS.COM Photo by Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/ABACAPRESS.COM Odesa Dnipropetrovsk Region Ukraine PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxFRAxSPAxUKxUSAxBELxPOL Copyright: xSmoliyenkoxDmytro/Ukrinform/ABACAx 856446_015 SmoliyenkoxDmytro/Ukrinform/ABACAx 856446_015

'An act of eco-terrorism by Russia'

While war rages in his homeland, Vadym Sydiachenko negotiates for Ukraine at the Climate Change Conference in Bonn. He considers the disaster at the Khakovka dam a threat to the entire region. He calls for Russia's expulsion from the UN for this reason.

Von Bernhard Pötter