Climate Update Archiv

AUSWIRKUNGEN

La réduction de la couverture forestière dans le bassin amazonien y entraîne une forte baisse des précipitations. Cela pourrait mettre en péril l’équilibre de la forêt tropicale, montrent des chercheurs brésiliens, à deux mois de la COP30 qui se tiendra à Belém

URSACHEN

Deforestation is playing a greater role than researchers expected, according to a new study.

URSACHEN

Über ein Drittel der weltweiten Landfläche ist mittlerweile eine Hochrisikozone, zeigt eine aktuelle Studie. Das destabilisiert die Biosphäre.

URSACHEN

Warming driven by deforestation caused an extra 28,000 heat-related deaths per year across Africa, South America and Asia over 2001-20, new research finds.

POLITIK

Lula da Silva partially vetoed a "devastation bill" passed by Congress, but Brazil still allowed weakened environmental controls

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Noch immer sind ineffiziente Öfen eine Gesundheitsgefahr für weltweit 2,3 Milliarden Menschen. Ein Projekt in Ruanda zeigt, wie es besser geht.

BÜCHER

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.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Forests have been quietly cooling the planet for decades, but their role is increasingly under threat.

URSACHEN

Organized crime has long been an overlooked but growing driver of deforestation in the Amazon — one that’s pushing into new territories.

URSACHEN

President has 15 days to approve or veto legislation that critics say will lead to vast deforestation and destruction of Indigenous communities

URSACHEN

The urgent message was delivered to Brazilian officials during annual U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, and includes new warnings about an Amazon rainforest tipping point.

BEWEGUNG

Months before hosting COP30, Brazil auctioned 47 oil and gas blocks in the Amazon. Activitsts have vowed to challenge the process in court.

URSACHEN

Discovery of illegal palm crops comes as Grupo BBF grapples with financial problems sparked by warnings over its human rights record

POLITIK

Eine weitere Aufweichung der Entwaldungs-Verordnung bedroht die Glaubwürdigkeit der EU beim Schutz der biologischen Vielfalt und des Klimas.

POLITIK

Nächstes Jahr könnte die Schweiz ein Jubiläum feiern: Dann ist das Waldgesetz 150 Jahre alt.

EMPFOHLEN URSACHEN

Data on Global Forest Watch reveals that 34% of tree cover losses worldwide from 2001-2024 were likely the result of permanent land use change, meaning trees won’t grow back naturally. This percentage nearly doubles in tropical primary rainforests, to 61%.

POLITIK

Ein Vorstoss von Mitte-Ständerat Benedikt Würth fordert die Lockerung des Waldschutzes. Umweltverbände laufen Sturm. Widerstand kommt aber auch aus der eigenen Partei.

URSACHEN

The Trump administration wants to fast-track logging in the Black Hills. What could go wrong? A lot, say tribes, scientists, and conservationists.

URSACHEN

Dozens of countries have promised to end deforestation. They’re failing.

URSACHEN

Brazil and Bolivia led forest destruction in 2024 as drought worsened fires and land was cleared for large-scale agriculture and cattle-farming

URSACHEN

En 2024, la destruction des forêts vierges tropicales a atteint un record depuis deux décennies, avec 6,7 millions d’hectares de forêt primaire perdues. Les incendies sont responsables de près de la moitié de ces pertes, devant l’agriculture pour la première fois

URSACHEN

New report says the government ignores local and international laws that protect Indigenous rights.

POLITIK

Die neue liberal-konservative Regierung fährt eine so klimafeindliche Politik, dass die Emissionen steigen. Statt Alarm zu schlagen, spielen die Verantwortlichen die Folgen herunter.

URSACHEN

The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

La déforestation de la forêt amazonienne fragilise la biodiversité. Malgré les craintes, elle ne devrait cependant pas transformer cette dernière en Savane, selon une équipe de chercheurs de l’Institut Max Plank de Météorologie de Hambourg. Voici pourquoi.

URSACHEN

Professional land grabbers operating in the Brazilian Amazon have sophisticated strategies to steal and deforest public lands and get away with it. According to the Federal Police, Bruno Heller is one of Amazon’s largest deforesters and relied on legal and technical advice, including a fake contract, bribing police officers, and near-real-time monitoring of deforestation work through satellite imagery, investigators said.

POLITIK

Joe Biden est arrivé dimanche à Manaus pour une visite historique en Amazonie, la première d'un président américain en exercice et un symbole à quelques mois du retour de Donald Trump à la Maison Blanche, qui inquiète pour la future politique climatique des États-Unis.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Halting deforestation will come with a hefty price tag

RECHT

This is the worst year on record for Amazon forest loss in the country, fueled by slash-and-burn agriculture and climate change. It's putting Indigenous peoples' lives and culture at risk.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS. POLITIK

Brazilians are currently living in a dystopian landscape. Thick smoke, oppressive heat and eerily orange sunsets blanket both major cities and small villages. Hundreds of cities are exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution while thousands of hectares of forest burn.

POLITIK

Credibility ‘damaged’ by proposed 12-month delay, which followed lobbying from governments and firms around the world

EMPFOHLEN URSACHEN

Analysis finds $800bn increase in direct support for activities including deforestation and fossil fuel use

URSACHEN

In Barra de Santiago, local people are struggling to save one of the few remaining mangrove forests, as they are lost to agriculture and urban sprawl

BEWEGUNG

Die indigenen Völker im Amazonas­gebiet erheben ihre Stimme immer lauter. Doch solange andere in der Ölförderung Profit wittern, hat Umwelt­aktivismus einen hohen Preis. Eine Begegnung mit der ecuadorianischen Vorkämpferin Nemonte Nenquimo.

URSACHEN

A complaint lodged with the government alleges that Argentine provincial officials and businessmen are profiting from clearing the native forest.

URSACHEN

The degradation of trees at the edges of tropical forests is more widespread than previously thought, according to new research.

URSACHEN

While Brazil and Colombia saw forest loss drop, their progress was offset by rises elsewhere

URSACHEN

In a grim new analysis of tropical forests, there are a few important glimmers of hope. Last year, the planet lost 9.

EMPFOHLEN URSACHEN

Despite major progress in Brazil and Colombia, deforestation led by farming still cleared an area nearly equal to Switzerland

URSACHEN

Despite major progress in protecting vast tracts of rainforest, the world failed again last year to significantly slow the pace of global forest destruction, according to a report issued on Thursday.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Le président brésilien, qui a accueilli son homologue français à Belem, est parvenu à freiner la déforestation en Amazonie. Mais sa politique en faveur de nouveaux forages pétroliers est critiquée.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Noch nie hat es in Amazonien so viel gebrannt wie in diesem Jahr. Mit altem Wissen und moderner Technik versuchen indigene Feuerwehr­leute den Regenwald zu retten. Eine Reportage von einem Brennpunkt des Klimawandels.

POLITIK

A metà marzo l’Indonesia ha ufficializzato l’esito delle elezioni di febbraio: ne è uscito vincitore Prabowo Subianto, già ministro della difesa del governo uscente, che ha promesso continuità con le politiche degli ultimi anni, incluse quelle climatiche, energetiche e ambientali.

URSACHEN

Die Abholzung im brasilianischen Amazonasregenwald ist einem Bericht zufolge in den ersten beiden Monaten des Jahres auf dem niedrigsten Stand seit 2018 in diesem Zeitraum gewesen.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Logging companies have “acquired” roughly 1m hectares of Indigenous peoples’ territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2000, according to a new study.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Palm oil. It’s in your snacks, your soap, pretty much everything. But palm oil plantations have caused vast deforestation. Can these three tech executives help fix things?

URSACHEN

As part of a long-running series profiling countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions, Carbon Brief looks at the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which, despite using hardly any fossil fuels, is one of the largest sources of emissions in Africa.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

The $1.8 million Centre for International Police Cooperation will be built in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus and funded by the Norwegian-backed Amazon Fund

URSACHEN

URSACHEN

New environment minister says measures – affecting just 1.5% of state-managed woods – are first step to stemming destruction

POLITIK

Firmen müssen nachweisen, dass in ihren Produkten keine Rodung steckt. Das verlangt die EU. Der Bundesrat zögert – noch. Die wichtigsten Antworten. Darum geht es: Für den Konsum in Europa wird anderswo Wald gerodet. Das gefährdet die Biodiversität und das Klima.

URSACHEN

A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the country’s main commercial logging regions.

URSACHEN

“Things are going downhill with the new government”, said one gold miner when detained by Brazil’s federal police

URSACHEN

Mongabay Latam traveled along 38 kilometers (24 miles) of Peru’s Cenepa River, near the border with Ecuador, where illegal mining dredges run around the clock in search of gold, hemming in seven Indigenous Awajún communities.

URSACHEN

An Indonesian official said it would levy $310 million in fines on growers of palm oil on land which should be forest

URSACHEN

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.

URSACHEN

Brazilian officials served up an array of plans and figures at the recent COP28 climate summit in Dubai, presenting itself as a world leader, on track to protect its forests and the people who live there.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Eine schwere Dürre plagt den Amazonas-Regenwald. Mehrere Faktoren kommen zusammen: Abholzung, das Wetterphänomen El Niño, Brände sowie der Klimawandel. Kann sich der Regenwald noch regenerieren?

WISSENSCHAFTEN

In a cavernous theater lit up with the green shapes of camels and palms at COP28 in Dubai, ecologist Thomas Crowther, former chief scientific adviser for the United Nations’ Trillion Trees Campaign, was doing something he never would have expected a few years ago: begging environmental ministers t

URSACHEN

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has decreased for the eighth consecutive month, but damage is rising in the cerrado, a tropical woody grassland that’s adjacent to Earth’s largest rainforest.

URSACHEN

Ein Fonds zum Schutz der Wälder, wie ihn Brasiliens Präsident beim Klimagipfel vorgeschlagen hat, kann sinnvoll sein, findet Waldmodellierer Friedrich Bohn vom Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ). Vor allem aber müssten die Treiber der Entwaldung bekämpft werden. Für den deutschen Wald sei der Klimawandel nicht das größte Problem.

WIRTSCHAFT

Une enquête de lauréat du Prix d’investigation de Public Eye Reportage réalisé par André Campos, Naira Hofmeister, Gil Alessi, France Júnior, Ruy Sposati, Carolina Motoki et Bruna Bronoski Photos: Ruy Sposati, Lilo Clareto, Fernando Martinho, João Laet · Vidéos de drone:Ruy Sposati, Fern

WIRTSCHAFT

Eine Untersuchung von Gewinner des Public Eye Investigation Award Reportage von André Campos, Naira Hofmeister, Gil Alessi, France Júnior, Ruy Sposati, Carolina Motoki und Bruna Bronoski Fotos: Ruy Sposati, Lilo Clareto, Fernando Martinho, João Laet · Drohnenvideos:Ruy Sposati, Fernando Martinh

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Vertrieben im Namen des Klimas: Wo reiche Staaten ihre CO₂-Emissionen kompensieren wollen, geschieht dies nicht selten auf Kosten der lokalen Bevölkerung. Die kenianische Aktivistin und Anthropologin Milka Chepkorir fordert eine Umkehr.

RECHT

Retten wir die Erde, nicht den Kapitalismus! In etwa so lässt sich zusammen­fassen, was der damalige bolivianische Präsident Evo Morales der Welt­gemeinschaft am Uno-Klimagipfel 2010 im mexikanischen Badeort Cancún zurief.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Liberias Regierung hat Grosses vor: Sie will ihren Wald retten und daran auch noch verdienen. Foto: Getty Images Liberia ist die grüne Lunge Westafrikas.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Rainforest countries from across three continents agreed at the Three Basins Summit in Brazzaville last week to work together to finance and protect their ecosystems – but failed to firm up a unified alliance.

URSACHEN

Rumänien ist ein Hotspot des Naturschutzes – in doppeltem Sinne. Das südosteuropäische Land verfügt noch über mehr als 525.000 Hektar Ur- und Naturwälder, das ist mehr, als jeder andere EU-Mitgliedsstaat außer Skandinavien aufzubieten hat.

URSACHEN

Die Wüste nördlich der Industriestadt Baotou in der Inneren Mongolei erstreckt sich über eine Fläche von 150 mal 90 Kilometer – gelbbrauner Sand, so weit das Auge reicht.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Seit mehr als zehn Jahren treibt eine kleine Organisation auf Borneo die Rettung des Regenwalds voran – und bedient sich dafür der Ölpalme.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

After 50 years of expanding oil operations in its Amazonian region, Ecuador will close the door on crude extraction in three oil fields that are home to Indigenous communities, including one of the country’s uncontacted groups.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Sur la quinzaine de projets de compensation examinés par l'étude, tous réalisés selon le protocole REDD+ sur le marché volontaire du carbone, seuls 5,4 millions de crédits sur 89 millions, soit environ 6%, ont réellement permis de réduire les émissions de carbone, ont rapporté cette semain

URSACHEN

The first half of Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency was so destructive for the Amazon that it was comparable to the record 2016 El Niño drought and heatwave in terms of carbon emissions, according to scientists.

POLITIK

Joy and hope are all too rarely associated with the environmental movement, but both have been in abundant supply since Ecuador’s people voted on Sunday to keep the country’s oil in the subsoil of the Yasuní national park.

POLITIK

Das Öl unter dem Yasuní-Nationalpark in Ecuador muss im Boden bleiben. Dafür stimmten knapp 60 Prozent der Wähler:innen bei einem landesweiten Referendum, das am vergangenen Sonntag parallel zu den vorgezogenen Präsidentschaftswahlen in dem südamerikanischen Land stattfand.

POLITIK

Lors d'un référendum organisé dimanche, parallèlement à des élections générales anticipées, les Equatoriens ont dit oui à 59% à l'arrêt de la production du "bloc 43", selon les résultats publiés lundi.

EMPFOHLEN MILDERUNG & ANPASS. POLITIK

En los resultados oficiales, con un 95,58% escrutado, el Sí se impone en la consulta del Yasuní. Esa opción también lleva la delantera en las preguntas del Chocó Andino.

POLITIK

Leaders of the eight Amazon basin countries committed this week to act together to prevent the rainforest “from reaching the point of no return” – although they stopped short of agreeing upon a common target for ending deforestation.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

In theory, forest carbon offsets are a simple idea. Companies pay for a tonne of carbon reduced through forest protection and restoration to counter emissions they are continuing to emit, or have emitted in the past. It sounds like a a win-win.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

“You cannot argue with the fact that our ocean fisheries are crashing. You cannot argue with the fact that we've lost 50% of the wildlife that was on the planet. You can't argue with the fact that we're losing rainforests, that rivers are being dammed. These are tangible things.

POLITIK

Good morning. “I think the world needs to see this meeting in Belém as the most important landmark ever … when it comes to discussing the climate question.

POLITIK

Eight Amazon nations agreed to a list of unified policies and measures to bolster regional cooperation at a major rainforest summit in Brazil on Tuesday, but failed to agree on a common goal for ending deforestation.

URSACHEN

An upcoming summit on protecting the Amazon has become the focus of a Indigenous and civil society-led campaign to set up an exclusion zone for fossil fuels South American nations and international financial institutions are coming under increasing pressure to stop exploiting oil and gas in the Amaz

URSACHEN

Die Bedeutung des Amazonas-Regenwaldes für den Planeten und seine Bewohner kann man gar nicht hoch genug einschätzen, da sind sich Wissenschaftler verschiedenster Disziplinen einig.

URSACHEN

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell by 33.6% in the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's term compared with the same period in 2022, the government says.

URSACHEN

An area the size of Switzerland was cleared from Earth’s most pristine rainforests in 2022, despite promises by world leaders to halt their destruction, new figures show.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Indonesien ist nach den USA und China der drittgrösste Klimagasproduzent der Welt. Das will das südostasiatische Land ändern. Statt Kohle verbrennt es nun zunehmend Holz – auf den ersten Blick ein nachhaltiger, weil nachwachsender Rohstoff.

URSACHEN

Deforestation raged ahead again in 2022, even after scores of countries pledged to protect their forests.

URSACHEN

C'est l'équivalent d'un terrain de football d'arbres tropicaux que l'on a abattus ou brûlés toutes les cinq secondes, de nuit comme de jour l'an dernier - une surface détruite de 10% supérieure à celle de 2021 -, conclut le World Resources Institute (WRI, Institut des ressources mondiales), ba

URSACHEN

“Maria Joel was a normal housewife with four underage children whose husband was murdered. She held her husband in her arms while he was dying. She had two choices.

POLITIK

Wirtschaftswachstum und verstärkter Schutz der grünen Lunge: Brasiliens Präsident ist mit seinen Versprechen im Dilemma. Seit dem Amtsantritt des neuen brasilianischen Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Anfang Jahr ist die Abholzung im Amazonasgebiet deutlich gesunken.

URSACHEN

More than 800m trees have been cut down in the Amazon rainforest in just six years to feed the world’s appetite for Brazilian beef, according to a new investigation, despite dire warnings about the forest’s importance in fighting the climate crisis.

URSACHEN

The rapid advance of organised crime groups in the Brazilian Amazon risks turning the region into a vast, conflict-stricken hinterland plagued by heavily armed “criminal insurgents”, a former senior federal police chief has warned.

URSACHEN

Millions of dollars in green financing intended to help Indonesia reduce its carbon emissions have been invested in a project that is destroying rainforest in Papua.

POLITIK

EU policymakers are expecting to sign off on a new law in the coming weeks aiming to prevent the sale of products such as palm oil, coffee and chocolate if they have been produced on deforested land.

POLITIK

China and Brazil announced this Friday a new collaborative effort to eliminate deforestation and control illegal trade causing forest loss.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

The illegal tin mine was so remote that, for three years, the massive gash it cut into the Amazon rainforest had gone largely ignored. So when three mysterious helicopters suddenly hovered overhead, unannounced, the miners living there scrambled into the forest.

URSACHEN

Major environmental auditing firms ignore or fail to recognize glaring environmental damage caused by loggers and other clients whose practices they certify as sustainable, undercutting an elaborate global system meant to fight forest destruction and climate change.

WIRTSCHAFT

Just past mile 73 on the highway that connects Canada to Alaska, north of the small city of Fort St. John in British Columbia, a dense line of spruce and pine abruptly ends. It is replaced by a vast expanse of brush and stumps scarring the clear-cut forestland.

URSACHEN

In the summer of 2021, as Myanmar’s military junta pressed a bloody campaign against its pro-democracy opponents, a 220-year-old U.S. lumber company that boasts of its commitment to responsible forestry quietly struck a deal with a subsidiary of a timber-processing firm with links to the junta.