Climate Update

RECOMMANDÉ MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Why we need to change the meat, not the consumer, to solve the climate crisis.

ANTI-CLIMAT RECOMMANDÉ

Environmental and health groups sued the E.P.A. over its elimination of the endangerment finding. The matter is likely to end up before the Supreme Court.

ANTI-CLIMAT RECOMMANDÉ

Carbon Brief examines the endangerment finding was, how it has shaped US climate policy and what its repeal could mean for the future.

RECOMMANDÉ ÉCONOMIE

Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate

RECOMMANDÉ DROIT & LITIGE

Lawsuit from health and environmental justice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’

RECOMMANDÉ MÉDIA & OPINION PUBL.

ANTI-CLIMAT RECOMMANDÉ

The Trump administration has repealed the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change.

RECOMMANDÉ POLITIQUE

Was wir im Sekundentakt NICHT in einheimische Wertschöpfung, Arbeitsplätze und Versorgungssicherheit investieren

LIVRES RECOMMANDÉ

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz zeigt in seinem neuen Buch, dass es eine «Energiewende» noch nie gegeben hat.

IMPACTS

Dangerous days have nearly tripled in past 45 years – and increase largely driven by human-made warming

IMPACTS

Five countries responsible for 75% of world’s coffee supply record average of 57 extra days of coffee-harming heat a year

IMPACTS

Vanessa Napaltjari Davis puts $70 a week on her prepaid electricity card – but as Alice Springs swelters through ever-hotter summers, that credit lasts less than three days

IMPACTS

Führende Klimaforscher:innen sehen das Risiko einer Heißzeit-Erde deutlich näher kommen. Mehrere Kipppunkte im Erdsystem könnten früher als gedacht erreicht sein und sich gegenseitig verstärken.

IMPACTS

Plus de deux milliards de tasses de café sont consommées chaque jour dans le monde. Mais cette habitude planétaire pourrait devenir plus coûteuse et plus incertaine. Selon une analyse de Climate Central, le réchauffement climatique menace les récoltes dans la quasi-totalité des pays producteurs.

IMPACTS

Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

CAUSES

The carbon cycle as we know it has been interrupted in ways never before seen in Earth’s history. How could understanding the deep history of CO2, as well as humanity’s relationship with this controversial and vital molecule, help us prepare for the planetary changes ahead?

CAUSES

New global maps show croplands produce nearly 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Rice, corn, wheat and oil palm drive most of the impact.

CAUSES

Each El Niño event in recent decades has gotten steadily worse, because each one drives the temperature to a new record.

RECOMMANDÉ MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Why we need to change the meat, not the consumer, to solve the climate crisis.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Ma Jun, one of China’s most recognisable environmental activists, tells Carbon Brief that more needs to be done to encourage “multi-stakeholder” participation in climate efforts

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Unlike geopolitical and technological shifts, which are likely to result in net job losses, the transition towards resilient, low-carbon economies could significantly expand the workforce.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Last years crash in the New Zealand carbon price holds lessons for policymakers everywhere

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Advisory board member says adapting is ‘not rocket science’ but Europe already paying price for lack of preparation

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Der Klimawandel stellt Landwirte in Ghana vor Probleme. Können sie sich anpassen, will unser Autor vor Ort wissen – und gerät wegen Geschichten von freundlichen Krokodilen und verhexten Kindern in seinem Denken selbst in Verlegenheit.

POLITIQUE

Das Hochseeschutzabkommen, der Standort Genf und Beiträge an UNO-Organisationen sind unter Druck.

POLITIQUE

Fünf Gründe. Und zum Schluss noch eine Geschichts­lektion.

POLITIQUE

Critics accuse administration of ‘cooking the books’ by claiming US would save $1.3tn from climate finding reversal

POLITIQUE

Eine ETH-Studie deckt grosse Widersprüche in der CO₂-Bilanzierung auf. Auch die Schweiz wird ihren fairen Anteil an den Emissionen in fast allen Berechnungsszenarien überschreiten.

RECOMMANDÉ POLITIQUE

Was wir im Sekundentakt NICHT in einheimische Wertschöpfung, Arbeitsplätze und Versorgungssicherheit investieren

POLITIQUE

Das Engagement der Schweiz bei internationalen Umwelt- und Klima-Organisationen sei gefährdet: Das sagen Aussenpolitiker und Umwelt-Organisationen mit Blick auf das Entlastungspaket. Weitere Kürzungen dürften sich unter anderem auf den Standort Genf auswirken.

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

While most hybrids are said to use one to two litres of fuel per 100km, a study claims they need six litres on average

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

Record d’altitude avec SolarStratos, tour du lac Titicaca à bord de PlanetSolar II : en 2025, Raphaël Domjan a repoussé une nouvelle fois les frontières de l'énergie solaire. Entretien

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

With Trump blocking Venezuelan oil imports and old power plants breaking down, the island – with Chinese help – is turning to solar and wind to bolster its fragile energy system

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

Frankreich setzt weiter auf Kernkraft und will die Laufzeiten seiner Reaktoren auf bis zu 60 Jahre verlängern. Erneuerbare Energien sollen weniger ausgebaut werden als zuvor geplant.

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

L’expérience d’un journaliste de Swissinfo avec les panneaux photovoltaïques lui a montré ce qui empêche certains de gens d’adopter cette technologie.

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

Lithium is branded as the cure-all to our fossil fuel dependence. But its history tells another story: that the solution to the world's problems is always more mining.

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

Beijing is bracing for a tsunami of spent EV batteries by boosting recycling – a strategy that could also cut its reliance on imports of minerals

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

Ob als Akku im Handy, als Energielieferant für den Antrieb von E-Autos oder als Medium für die Speicherung von Strom – Batterien sind heutzutage allgegenwärtig. Rund um neue Batterietechnologien entsteht deshalb ein regelrechter Hype. Auch in der Schweiz.

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

Vor allem in den Städten wird auf Fernwärme-Projekte gesetzt. Manche werden aber auch abgebrochen.

RECOMMANDÉ ÉCONOMIE

Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate

DROIT & LITIGE

The Trump administration is opening subsistence habitat critical to Alaska Native hunters to oil drilling. Indigenous groups say the move violates a previous agreement.

RECOMMANDÉ DROIT & LITIGE

Lawsuit from health and environmental justice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’

DROIT & LITIGE

The battle is expected to reach the Supreme Court, which is far more conservative today than it was when the measure was established.

DROIT & LITIGE

Indonesische Inselbewohner gehen wegen Klimaschäden gegen einen Schweizer Zementhersteller vor. Eine neue Folge des Justiz-Podcasts.

SCIENCES

Pour la première fois, une équipe a reconstitué l’évolution de la teneur atmosphérique en hydrogène au cours du dernier millénaire, en analysant une carotte de glace au Groenland. Elle constate que la concentration du gaz s’envole. Une tendance qui pourrait se renforcer avec l’avènement d’une économie de l’hydrogène

SCIENCES

Two scientists unpack some of the reasons why projecting the speed and scale of future sea level rise is difficult.

RECOMMANDÉ MÉDIA & OPINION PUBL.

ANTI-CLIMAT RECOMMANDÉ

Environmental and health groups sued the E.P.A. over its elimination of the endangerment finding. The matter is likely to end up before the Supreme Court.

ANTI-CLIMAT

The Environmental Protection Agency tossed out the scientific determination known as the endangerment finding, which gave the government the authority to fight climate change. If it survives legal challenges, the Trump administration’s move could prevent future presidents from reinstating climate rules unless Congress acts.

ANTI-CLIMAT RECOMMANDÉ

Carbon Brief examines the endangerment finding was, how it has shaped US climate policy and what its repeal could mean for the future.

ANTI-CLIMAT

Senators said repeal was ‘particularly troubling’ and was counter to EPA’s mandate to protect human health

ANTI-CLIMAT

Environmental groups say ‘cynical and devastating’ reversal of endangerment finding has grave implications

ANTI-CLIMAT RECOMMANDÉ

The Trump administration has repealed the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change.

LIVRES RECOMMANDÉ

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz zeigt in seinem neuen Buch, dass es eine «Energiewende» noch nie gegeben hat.

JUSTICE CLIM.

Why we cannot get to the roots of the eco-crisis without first grasping the soil they were planted in, Farhana Sultana explains in this podcast (50 min.)

CAUSES

Nations are rushing to secure resources within their own borders.  Globalisation is over. Colonialism and mining have always gone hand in hand. But now that the Global South has more political muscle as a bloc, and now that resources are running low, wealthy countries which have historically secured and polluted elsewhere are opening up extractive frontiers within their own territories. This is a tectonic shift in international politics.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

We're living through a crisis of colonialism. Imagine if we rolled up our sleeves instead of pointed our fingers? – Jessica Hernandez is an indigenous climate scientist and author of Growing Papaya Trees. Her work reveals that the roots of our planetary crisis lies in the violence of colonialism and neo-colonialism.

JUSTICE CLIM.

Gewinne aus Kohleprojekten im globalen Süden fließen in den Norden – auf den Folgen bleiben die Länder sitzen. Doch immer mehr Menschen vor Ort wehren sich.

CULTURE & EDUC.

This is the message of this week’s guest, Aboriginal scholar and author, Tyson Yunkaporta. In his explanation of the importance of learning through living, and living with learning, Tyson points to the how the discourse around decolonisation has granted expertise based on identity rather than experience. He highlights how indigenous thinking is fundamentally consensus building, mirroring the Western scientific method, and warns that neoliberal thinking has infected what should have been a radical transformation, creating individuals who consider themselves fully contained “little corporations”.

LIVRES

Der Historiker Sunil Amrith erzählt in «Brennende Erde», wie die Menschen seit Jahrhunderten versuchen, sich die Natur untertan zu machen. Sein wichtiges Buch ist ein Weckruf.

JUSTICE CLIM.

Der Ausbau grüner Technologien folge neokolonialen Mustern, schreiben die Autor:innen einer neuen Studie der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Anhand von sechs Fallstudien skizzieren sie die Rolle Deutschlands bei der globalen Rohstoffausbeutung.

JUSTICE CLIM.

Vom Kolonialismus führt ein breiter Weg zur Klimaungerechtigkeit. Dass heute eine Klimakatastrophe die Menschen in Kamerun bedroht, liegt wesentlich in der deutschen Kolonialherrschaft vor über hundert Jahren begründet.

CULTURE & EDUC.

Pope Francis made a strong moral case for addressing climate change and respecting Indigenous rights. Will Leo do the same?

LIVRES

In “Dark Laboratory,” Tao Leigh Goffe traces the origins of global environmental collapse to the explorer’s conquest of the Caribbean.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

What Indigenous knowledge could mean in the fight to curb global warming. Hi, I’m Paige Vega, Vox’s climate editor.

RECOMMANDÉ JUSTICE CLIM.

Addressing climate justice calls for a “fundamental, decolonial constitutional change”, according to a new study published in Climate Policy.

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

Mining companies have been offered a path to sustainability but few are taking it – Indigenous people need to be at the table demanding change

RECOMMANDÉ JUSTICE CLIM. CAUSES

Friederike Otto hält den Kampf gegen Sexismus, Rassismus und Ungerechtigkeit wichtiger als die Senkung von CO₂-Emissionen. Warum?

JUSTICE CLIM.

Uno dei temi sul tavolo della Cop28 di Dubai è l’implementazione del fondo loss and damage.

JUSTICE CLIM.

Historical responsibility for climate change is radically shifted when colonial rule is taken into account, Carbon Brief analysis reveals.

CAUSES

The UK is responsible for nearly twice as much global warming as previously thought, due to its colonial history, Carbon Brief analysis shows.

ACTIVISME

“From the 1963 up until today, they can't kill our ideology. They can't kill our philosophy. They can’t kill our fight. Because we believe what we fight for. We fight for our right, freedom, dignity, and truth.

World Indigenous leaders meeting this week at an annual UN summit have warned that the west’s climate strategy risks the exploitation of Indigenous territories, resources and people.

LIVRES

Podcast mit Buchautor und Historiker Milo Probst.

In this episode we focus on land grabs and dispossession by the conservation sector in the present day and hear how local people and those from far away confront this injustice.  Our first guest is Yannick Ndoinyo, a Maasai community leader from Tanzania, who is also a conservation biologist.

SCIENCES

Climate activism in the United States and Europe is typically framed as sacrifice for the sake of future generations: We must consume less now to extend the expiration date on human civilization as we know it.

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

Ein Anruf von Bundeskanzler Scholz beim kolumbianischen Präsidenten soll dazu geführt haben, dass eine umstrittene Kohlegrube nun wegen deutscher Importe erweitert wird. Nach Kontraste-Recherchen stößt das in der Grünen-Fraktion auf harte Kritik.

Daniel Speich-Chassé, né en 1969, est professeur d'histoire globale à l'Université de Lucerne et membre du conseil scientifique de l'Initiative pour les glaciers, pour laquelle il est l'un des tout premiers contributeurs depuis 2016.

Daniel Speich-Chassé, Jahrgang 1969, ist Professor für Globalgeschichte an der Universität Luzern und Mitglied im wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Gletscher-Initiative, für die er sich als einer der allerersten Mitstreiter seit 2016 engagiert.

JUSTICE CLIM.

Activists pushing for global reparations for colonialism and slavery are often accused of asking for the politically impossible. At the international scale, however, reparations are more plausible than one might think.

CULTURE & EDUC.

Dover Priory, 16 November 1535: at a modest monastic establishment on the edge of one of England’s main working ports, the nearest to the continent of Europe, the abbot signs a ‘deed of surrender’, turning over the establishment and all its property from the Church to the king.