Climate Update

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Auswirkungen des Klimawandels sind global zu spüren. Dennoch funktioniert die Klimafinanzierung noch nicht wunschgemäss.

JUSTICE CLIM. POLITIQUE

Germany wants all high-emitters, especially among G20 countries, to pitch in. But China and Saudi Arabia say the responsibility lies with developed nations

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Brazil and France want the G20 to get behind a global minimum tax on billionaires’ wealth, also backed by IMF chief

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One economist explains why taxing the rich and paying the poor actually has a chance of becoming a reality.

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And she called for the money to be sent directly to the world's most climate-vulnerable people.

POLITIQUE

Comment les finances de la Confédération, des cantons, des communes et des assurances sociales vont-elles évoluer à long terme ? Le rapport « Perspectives à long terme des finances publiques en Suisse, 2024 » montre que la pression sur les comptes des administrations publiques augmentera jusqu’en 2060, notamment en raison de l’évolution démographique.

POLITIQUE

Wie entwickeln sich die Finanzen von Bund, Kantonen, Gemeinden und Sozialversicherungen auf lange Sicht? Der Bericht «Langfristperspektiven der öffentlichen Finanzen der Schweiz 2024» zeigt, dass die öffentlichen Haushalte bis ins Jahr 2060 zunehmend unter Druck geraten werden.

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In den internationalen Klimaverhandlungen dreht sich derzeit alles ums Geld. An der UNO-Klimakonferenz Ende Jahr in Baku müssen die Staaten sich auf eine neues globales Klimafinanzierungsziel einigen. Schon jetzt laufen die Verhandlungen heiss.

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Ein neuer UN-Report zeigt eine riesige Lücke bei der Finanzierung der globalen Nachhaltigkeitsziele. Die Klimakrise verschärft die Lage. Aber das Hauptproblem liegt tiefer.

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Eine Koalition aus Vorreiterstaaten beginnt auf der Weltbankkonferenz ein ehrgeiziges Projekt: 2025 soll auf der COP30 eine globale Klimasteuer beschlossen werden. Abgaben aus Finanzspekulationen, fossilen Energien, Flügen oder Schiffsverkehr könnten Milliarden für den Klimaschutz einbringen.

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World Bank and IMF urged to back plan at Spring Meetings.

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Simon Stiell says far more money is required for developing countries to submit bold new climate plans, which would benefit all economies

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Simon Stiell calls for reform at development banks to enable governments to provide more climate finance to developing world

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

Mit viel privatem Kapital soll die Wasserstoff-Infrastruktur aufgebaut werden, global wie national. Doch trotz enormer öffentlicher Vorleistungen zögern Investoren, Milliarden in Elektrolyseure und Netze zu stecken. In Deutschland einigte sich jetzt die Koalition über die Finanzierung des Kernnetzes.

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Demand for finance to pay for the aftermath of climate impacts is rocketing – but progress on getting a new UN loss and damage fund up and running is slow

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GCF head Mafalda Duarte promises a more proactive plan to bring cash to the most vulnerable countries struggling with climate impacts

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Schweizer Geld fürs Ausland Werden Autofahren, Fliegen und importierte Produkte für den Klimaschutz teurer? Wer soll das bezahlen? Diese Frage stellt sich nicht nur bei der 13. AHV-Rente, welche die Stimmbevölkerung gutgeheissen hat.

POLITIQUE

Developed and developing countries are gearing up for heated discussions over the size of the goal and who should provide money for it

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Laut einer Umfrage im Rahmen der Gallup World Poll 2021 und 2022 wäre eine Mehrheit der Befragten in 125 Ländern bereit, jeden Monat ein Prozent ihres Haushaltseinkommens für den Klimaschutz auszugeben.

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Their failure to agree risks delaying help for victims of climate disasters in developing countries

POLITIQUE

Rich nations always say they need their parliaments approval for climate finance at Cops – now is the time to start

POLITIQUE

Die Institutionen der globalen Finanzarchitektur wie die Weltbank sind 80 Jahre alt. Damals ging es um den Wiederaufbau nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Um heute der Klimakrise Herr zu werden, muss die Finanzarchitektur umgebaut werden. Frankreich hat dazu einige Ideen.

CAUSES

The lower house of Brazil’s Congress has approved a bill to relax environmental licensing to pave a highway cutting through the heart of the Amazon that scientists say will threaten the future of the world’s largest tropical rainforest.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

Wealthy countries most responsible for the climate emergency have so far pledged a combined total of just over $700m (£556m) to the loss and damage fund – the equivalent of less than 0.

JUSTICE CLIM.

Era uno dei risultati attesi ed è stato raggiunto subito, il 30 novembre, lo stesso giorno di apertura della Cop di Dubai.

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Governments have collectively pledged more than $400 million to establish a loss and damage fund for the victims of climate disaster. On day one of UN climate talks in Dubai, negotiators rubber-stamped plans to get the fund up and running.

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The US has promised $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), for reducing emissions and adapting to climate change in developing countries.

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France and Kenya are set to launch an international taxation taskforce at Cop28 to push for new levies to raise more money for climate action.

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

With just days to go until Cop28, we are launching a landmark report to highlight the need for massive investment in renewable energy sources rooted in justice.

POLITIQUE

Despite some last-minute wavering over specific words and the placement of commas in a key document, a State Department official said on Wednesday that the U.S.

POLITIQUE

Die Initiative «St. Galler Klimafonds» wurde abgelehnt. Der Gegenvorschlag angenommen. Die Übersicht über alle St. Galler Resultate. Kanton St. Gallen: Einheitsinitiative für einen Klimafonds von 100 Millionen Franken

POLITIQUE

Die Verwendung nicht benötigter Corona-Kredite für den Klima- und Transformationsfonds der Bundesregierung widerspricht der Schuldenbremse, urteilt das Bundesverfassungsgericht. SPD, Grünen und FDP fehlen nun 60 Milliarden Euro.

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Vor der UN-Klimakonferenz im Dezember konnte bereits ein erstes Hindernis überwunden werden. Die Länder haben sich auf die Ausgestaltung des Fonds für klimabedingte Verluste und Schäden weitgehend geeinigt. Doch einige Fragen sind noch offen.

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The Komati coal-fired power plant, located 88 miles east of Johannesburg in South Africa’s coal heartland, has been called the flagship of the country’s budding energy transition. At its peak, the facility, which came online in 1961, produced 2 percent of the country’s power supply.

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Activists from Extinction Rebellion march dressed as billionaires, including Amazon head Jeff Bezos, in a demonstration on April 13, 2023 in Berlin, Germany.

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Die Folgen der Klimaerwärmung weltweit sind unübersehbar, und die Kosten steigen rasant. Das UNO-Umweltprogramm UNEP schätzt in einem neuen Bericht genau diese Kosten der Schäden ein, die der Klimawandel anrichtet. Das Fazit ist ernüchternd.

POLITIQUE

In Abu Dhabi bereiten die Minister den Klimagipfel im Nachbaremirat Dubai vor. Das wird schwieriger als der Testflug der "Solar Impulse" 2015. (Bild: Jean Revillard/​Solar Impulse/​rezo.ch) Die 28. UN-Klimakonferenz in Dubai ist fünf Wochen vor ihrem Beginn bereits in einer Krise.

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The president of the next UN climate summit, Cop28, has told government negotiators they must agree how to set up a new loss and damage fund before leaving the Egyptian city of Aswan.

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Government officials from small island developing states (Sids) have said they find it difficult to get money from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for projects to help them adapt to climate change.

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WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Countries are deadlocked over how to design a fund to help countries recover and rebuild from climate change-driven damage, with just over 30 days left before crucial United Nations climate negotiations kick off in Dubai.

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ÉCONOMIE

The World Bank has officially expanded its mission to include climate change, while pushing ahead with reforms that could unlock additional funding and cheaper loans for green projects.

ÉCONOMIE

The World Bank is seeking to persuade governments to take money away from subsidies for fossil fuels and invest it in good causes like climate change.

JUSTICE CLIM.

Governments are starkly divided over plans for a loss and damage fund, with two months to go until it is due to be established. While rich and poor countries have agreed to set up a fund to address loss and damage caused by climate change, they are miles apart on who pays and who benefits.

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The UN’s flagship global climate fund looks likely to have to rein in its ambition, after France announced just a 4% boost in its contribution. Yesterday, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire announced his nation would give €1.61 billion ($1.

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There will be no confirmation that rich countries have met their $100 billion a year climate finance promise until 2025 at the earliest. That’s according to ministers from Canada and Germany, the two nations tasked with drawing up the “delivery plan” for belatedly meeting the pledge.

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The heads of small island states most vulnerable to climate change have criticised “endless” climate change negotiations at the start of an unprecedented maritime court hearing.

POLITIQUE

In June, Senegal signed a “just energy transition partnership” (JETP) deal, establishing a goal to reach 40% renewable energy in the electricity mix by 2030. But, beyond just a transformation of the electricity sector, this deal sets out a pathway to transform the whole of Senegalese society.

TECH. & ÉNERGIE

The world is racing ahead with enormous investments in renewable energy, for the first time this year plowing more money into solar power than oil.

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Developing countries want “at least” $100 billion a year by 2030 for the loss and damage caused by climate change.

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When countries adopt a global fund for climate disaster losses and damages at the Cop28 climate talks, the USA will be arguing to limit its use, according to U.S. officials.

POLITIQUE

US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen has pressed China to do more to support international climate institutions that are helping finance green initiatives around the world, urging deeper cooperation in addressing the “existential threat” of global heating.

The United Nations’ flagship climate fund is giving nearly $190 million to an investment programme that finances some of the world’s biggest farm companies in a bid to preserve tropical forests.

After a series of “long and at times difficult” meetings, government negotiators on the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) board approved a new strategy yesterday morning.

The government is drawing up plans to drop the UK’s flagship £11.6bn climate funding pledge, the Guardian can reveal, as the prime minster is accused of betraying populations most vulnerable to global heating.

The ongoing debate about climate-induced loss and damage is rife with conflicts. Different perspectives, political views, and ideologies make it difficult for parties to agree on a way forward.

Solaranlage an der Universität Kumasi in Ghana: Die meisten Entwicklungsländer sind ein unsicheres finanzielles Umfeld für erneuerbare Energien. (Bild: ZSM/​Wikimedia Commons) "Das internationale Finanzsystem steckt in einer Krise. 52 Länder sind bankrott oder gefährlich nahe dran.

A group of wealthy European nations and Canada have promised to contribute €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) to help the West African nation of Senegal roll out renewables.

An unusual if guarded optimism has descended upon Paris, along with hundreds of world leaders, bankers and climate activists. They have come for a two-day conference billed as the new Bretton Woods.

Poor countries will be able to pause their debt repayments if hit by climate disaster, under plans announced by the World Bank at the finance summit in Paris.

Franklin Steves, senior policy adviser at E3G, said the summit is “first and foremost” about trying to heal the rift between developed and developing countries that started with the Covid-19 pandemic.

The science is clear. The climate crisis is the biggest single threat we face as a global community. In turn, meeting the goals of the Paris agreement and realising the opportunities of climate action is the task of the 21st century. No single government can address this alone.

In Indien, dem seit Kurzem bevölkerungsreichsten Land der Erde, leben die meisten Menschen auf dem Land und dort sehr klimafreundlich.

Two weeks ahead of a highly-anticipated climate finance summit, most developed country leaders have not confirmed their attendance, sparking concerns they are not taking it seriously. In sharp contrast, the leaders of many developing countries have indicated they will be at the gathering in Paris.

In 2015, China’s President Xi Jinping announced the fund during a state visit to the USA, months before unprecedented US-Chinese climate cooperation helped the world agree to the Paris agreement.

Italy helped a retailer open chocolate and gelato stores across Asia. The United States offered a loan for a coastal hotel expansion in Haiti.

Countries like the United States and those in Europe could be on the hook for an eye-popping $170 trillion in climate reparations for their excessive carbon emissions, according to new research from the University of Leeds.

BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters) - Wealthy nations are on track this year to meet their overdue $100-billion climate finance pledge to developing countries, three years later than promised, Germany's foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday.

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POLITIQUE

The US will provide $1 billion to the UN’s flagship climate fund – its first such contribution in six years. Joe Biden made the commitment as he hosted a virtual meeting of world leaders on Thursday to spur high-level leadership to limit global warming to 1.5C.

A broad group of low and middle-income countries has called for governments to give more money to the World Bank, in an effort to ramp up climate finance.

ÉCONOMIE

The World Bank’s steering committee and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday called for further reforms this year to expand the bank’s ability to respond to climate change, pandemics and other crises that are reversing development gains.

Während Industriestaaten die finanziellen Möglichkeiten haben, extreme Schäden aufzufangen, stellt der Klimawandel für die Menschen im globalen Süden eine existenzielle Bedrohung dar.

Vulnerable communities disproportionately affected by global warming are being given ‘insufficient’ funds to help adapt to extreme climate impacts, the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says.

Nepal, Bangladesh, Senegal, Malawi, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Tonga and Vanuatu are exploring setting up national facilities to channel resources for climate disasters response and disburse money where it is most needed.

POLITIQUE

Nigeria has elected Bola Tinubu as its new president following an election in which climate change played only a minor role. Cutting emissions and the impact of rising global temperatures did not seem to be a priority for Nigerian voters in February, despite last year’s killer floods.

MITIGATION & ADAPT.

When it was announced, the World Bank’s Solid Waste Emergency and Efficiency Project (Sweep) was touted as one of the lifelines that would help Pakistan’s biggest city, Karachi, with its urban flooding nightmare. But that hasn’t happened.

Les coûts de la reconstruction à court terme sont estimés à 16 milliards de dollars (15 milliards de francs) au moins.

GENEVA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - International donors on Monday committed over $9 billion to help Pakistan recover from ruinous floods last year, exceeding its external financing goals and paving the way for a new model on raising funds to fight climate disasters in poorer countries.

ÉCONOMIE

The World Bank is considering making climate action more central to its mission, according to a draft “evolution roadmap” drawn up by bank staff.

Früher war eine Million noch viel Geld. Dann wurde begonnen, mit Milliarden zu rechnen.

Klimareporter°: Herr Persaud, Sie wollen Tausende Milliarden in den Klimaschutz investieren. Ist das nicht etwas zu ehrgeizig? Avinash Persaud: Unser Ziel ist es, die Menschen zu schockieren, damit sie den richtigen Maßstab finden. Wir sind nicht auf einen bestimmten Plan festgelegt.

Vor mehr als zehn Jahren hat die Staatengemeinschaft beschlossen, dass die Gruppe der Industriestaaten den Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern ab 2020 jährlich 100 Milliarden Dollar zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel und für eine klimaschonende Entwicklung zur Verfügung stellen müsse.

Wealthy countries and banks will provide $15.5 billion to help Vietnam transition away from coal, the UK foreign ministry announced on Wednesday. Half of the money is to come from governments, the Asian Development Bank and the International Finance Corporation.

POLITIQUE

This article is part of our Women and Leadership special report that profiles women leading the way on climate, politics and business around the globe.

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions must be roughly halved by 2030 to get the world on track for the Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to 1.5C.

Les inondations dévastatrices au Pakistan ne sont qu'un exemple parmi d'autres : les effets du réchauffement climatique sont chaque année plus marqués et visibles. Les pays les plus pauvres et les groupes de population les plus vulnérables sont souvent les plus durement touchés.

Die verheerenden Überschwemmungen in Pakistan sind nur ein Beispiel: Die Auswirkungen der Klimaerwärmung werden Jahr für Jahr stärker und sichtbarer. Die ärmsten Länder und die verletzlichsten Bevölkerungsgruppen trifft es oft besonders schwer.

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Last month at COP27, the U.N. climate change conference, a yearslong campaign ended in an agreement.

At this month’s UN climate summit, rich countries agreed to set up a dedicated fund to address the loss and damage caused by climate disasters, after years of blocking. This was a big breakthrough, but it came with a catch: they want to expand the donor pool.

POLITIQUE

Der Ständerat will wie der Bundesrat in den Jahren 2023 bis 2026 mehr Geld für weltweite Massnahmen zugunsten der Umwelt ausgeben. Er hat sich gegen die Mehrheit seiner Kommission gestellt und als Erstrat den entsprechenden Verpflichtungskredit von gut 197 Millionen Franken gutgeheissen.

In early September, after unprecedented rainfall had left a third of Pakistan under water, its climate change minister set out the country’s stall for Cop27.

ACTIVISME

A decadeslong pressure campaign by policymakers and advocates in the Global South was credited Sunday with pushing wealthy nations to finally drop their opposition to a "loss and damage" fund to help developing countries that face some of the worst climate impacts, allowing the financing plan to be

Aus Entwicklungsperspektive waren an dieser Konferenz die Verhandlungen zur Finanzierung von klimabedingten Schäden und Verlusten besonders wichtig. Der Druck auf die Industriestaaten war dieses Jahr angesichts der Überschwemmungen in Pakistan und der Dürre in Ostafrika grösser denn je.

POLITIQUE

Beim Klimagipfel in Sharm el‑Sheikh wird festgelegt, wie der Verhandlungsprozess in den kommenden Jahren strukturiert sein soll. (Foto: Mike Muzurakis/​IISD/​ENB) Obwohl die 27.

The EU is open to creating a new funding stream to help victims of climate disaster recover – as long as China contributes. On one of the most contentious issues at Cop27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, EU climate chief Frans Timmermans hinted at room for compromise.

A group of rich nations and banks plan to invest $20 billion in speeding up Indonesia’s transition from coal to clean energy. Japan and the US coordinated financial contributions from seven other national governments and the EU, as well as private sector partners.

Die Vereinbarung sieht neben der Forderung nach Entschädigung für den Schutz des Regenwalds durch die Internationale Gemeinschaft unter anderem den Zugang zu Klimafinanzierung vor.

After decades of delays, excuses and outright resistance, a small but growing number of wealthy Western countries have committed to paying direct aid to developing nations to help them deal with the climate crisis, which burdens them disproportionately even though they had little to do with causing