Climate Update Archiv

EMPFOHLEN MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

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

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

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-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

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

EMPFOHLEN WIRTSCHAFT

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

EMPFOHLEN RECHT

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

EMPFOHLEN MEDIEN & ÖFF. MEINUNG

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

The Trump administration has repealed the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change.

EMPFOHLEN POLITIK

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

BÜCHER EMPFOHLEN

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

AUSWIRKUNGEN

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

AUSWIRKUNGEN

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

AUSWIRKUNGEN

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

AUSWIRKUNGEN

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.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

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.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

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

URSACHEN

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?

URSACHEN

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

URSACHEN

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

EMPFOHLEN MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

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

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

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

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

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.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

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

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

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

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

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.

POLITIK

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

POLITIK

Fünf Gründe. Und zum Schluss noch eine Geschichts­lektion.

POLITIK

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

POLITIK

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.

EMPFOHLEN POLITIK

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

POLITIK

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. & ENERGIE

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. & ENERGIE

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. & ENERGIE

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. & ENERGIE

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. & ENERGIE

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. & ENERGIE

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. & ENERGIE

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. & ENERGIE

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. & ENERGIE

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

EMPFOHLEN WIRTSCHAFT

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

RECHT

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

EMPFOHLEN RECHT

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

RECHT

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

RECHT

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

WISSENSCHAFTEN

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

WISSENSCHAFTEN

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

EMPFOHLEN MEDIEN & ÖFF. MEINUNG

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

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-KLIMA

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-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

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

ANTI-KLIMA

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

ANTI-KLIMA

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

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

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

BÜCHER EMPFOHLEN

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

TECH. & ENERGIE

The decision, a major reversal, could help poorer nations industrialize, cut planet-warming emissions and boost U.S. competitiveness on next-generation reactors.

WIRTSCHAFT

The Trump administration’s deep cuts to clean-energy programs are raising concerns about U.S. commitments to the lender.

TECH. & ENERGIE

The poor state of many networks across Africa is slowing growth in renewable electricity provision, while off-grid solar may be faster and cheaper for rural areas

TECH. & ENERGIE

Some $35 billion is aimed at building small solar sites in rural areas and other improvements. The World Bank chief called the project “foundational to everything.”

URSACHEN

The bank has advised wealthy nations to cut subsidies for high-emissions foods but stopped far short of promoting veganism

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

The Spring Meetings of the World Bank and IMF are a chance to transform outstanding debts for fossil fuel projects into grants for renewable energy systems

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

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

WIRTSCHAFT

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.

WIRTSCHAFT

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.

WIRTSCHAFT

Russia, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have urged the World Bank to keep funding fossil fuel as a way to guarantee energy access across the world, as the lender pursues green reforms.

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.

WIRTSCHAFT

The World Bank’s insurance arm is working on plans to protect carbon offsetting projects against political risks in developing countries as a growing number of governments seek to impose new rules onto the market.

WIRTSCHAFT

Ajay Banga officially became the 14th president of the World Bank on Friday and urged staff to join him in developing a “new playbook” for a global institution whose relevance has come into question in recent years. The ascension of Mr.

WIRTSCHAFT

Ajay Banga, President Biden’s pick to be president of the World Bank and broaden its ambitions to combat climate change, was approved by its executive board on Wednesday. Mr. Banga will assume the job on June 2 and succeed David Malpass, who was nominated by former President Donald J.

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.

WIRTSCHAFT

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.

ANTI-KLIMA

Saudi Arabia and Russia have called on the World Bank to ramp up its financial support for carbon capture and storage.

WIRTSCHAFT

BENGALURU, India — The Biden administration nominated Ajay Banga, the former longtime chief executive of Mastercard, to be the next president of the World Bank, a selection that is likely to drastically reshape the global development institution and broaden its ambitions to combat climate change.

WIRTSCHAFT

The World Bank’s plan to loosen its spending rules and lend more money to climate projects in developing countries does not go far enough, according to officials and campaigners.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

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.

EMPFOHLEN MILDERUNG & ANPASS. POLITIK

Last year was shaped by events that barely anyone predicted – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, horrendous floods in Pakistan and a hard-fought breakthrough on finance for victims of climate disaster.

WIRTSCHAFT

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

POLITIK

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.

EMPFOHLEN KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

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

WIRTSCHAFT

David Malpass has faced continuing criticism from those who question his commitment to climate action as well as the bank’s track record. Gelles is with a team of New York Times reporters in Egypt covering the United Nations climate summit.

POLITIK

A group of 10 major economies are building momentum to scale-up climate finance for developing countries by reforming how development banks spend money, starting with the largest: the World Bank.

WIRTSCHAFT

The World Bank has come under fire for failing to show that its claimed spending on the climate crisis is real, in a report suggesting up to 40% of its reported climate-related spending is impossible to account for. Of $17.

ANTI-KLIMA

The World Bank has provided nearly $15bn of finance directly to fossil fuel projects since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015, and is likely to have spurred far greater investment indirectly, new research has found.

ANTI-KLIMA

Climate activists are calling on President Biden to take steps to fire David Malpass, the head of the World Bank, after he publicly waffled on whether he believes that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are causing climate change, saying "I'm not a scientist.

ANTI-KLIMA

Weltbankpräsident David Malpass steht wegen Äusserungen zur Klimapolitik unter Druck. «Wir sind mit den Äusserungen von Präsident Malpass nicht einverstanden», sagte die Sprecherin des Weissen Hauses, Karine Jean-Pierre, am Freitag in Washington.

WIRTSCHAFT

Beim Jahrestreffen der Weltbank und des Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF) in dieser Woche in Marrakesch haben die Mitgliedsländer der Weltbank deren Aufgabe neu definiert.

WIRTSCHAFT

Das globale Finanzsystem muss reformiert werden, um vor den aktuellen Herausforderungen zu bestehen. Klima- und Schuldenkrise erfordern eine Kapitalerhöhung. Darum geht es beim Treffen von Währungsfonds und Entwicklungsbanken in Marrakesch.