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COP28

ANTI-KLIMA POLITIK

* COP29 | FOSSIL FUEL LOBBYING * Saudi Arabia and Russia to U.N.: Don’t Talk About a Fossil Fuel Exit

A handful of oil-producing nations ensured that a United Nations General Assembly resolution on climate change steered clear of a call to transition away from fossil fuels.

URSACHEN

‘Fossil Fuels Are Still Winning’: Global Emissions Head for a Record

Countries promised to move away from coal, oil and natural gas at last year’s climate summit. New research shows they’re burning more than ever before.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Despite solar surge, world off track for COP28 renewable energy target

Current plans will only deliver half of the growth needed to hit a global target of tripling renewables by 2030, IRENA warns

POLITIK

G20 countries turning backs on fossil fuel pledge, say campaigners

Promise to ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ made at Cop28 climate talks has been left out of draft resolutions

POLITIK

Fossil fuel transition back in draft pact for UN Summit of the Future after outcry

The new text of a UN pact for the high-level event brings back a mention of the headline COP28 agreement

MILDERUNG & ANPASS. TECH. & ENERGIE

* ENERGY TRANSITION * COP28 Tripling Renewable Capacity Pledge

Tracking countries’ ambitions and identifying policies to bridge the gap

How fossil fuels went from sidelines to headlines in climate talks

When Romain Ioualalen started a new campaigning job at Oil Change International, he was tasked with putting fossil fuels on the agenda of international climate talks. That was in April 2020, just after the start of the pandemic.

POLITIK

“A la carte menu”: Saudi minister claims Cop28 fossil fuel agreement is only optional

Abdulaziz bin Salman’s interpretation of the agreement was slammed as “incredibly misleading” as the text “calls on” all governments to transition from fossil fuels

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Nature Got a More Prominent Place at the Table at COP28

Animals’ roles in the carbon cycle have long been overlooked. At the climate conference in Dubai, scientists showed how rewilding ecosystems can have big climate benefits.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

* COP28 | CARBON OFFSETTING * Countries go ahead with carbon deals despite Cop28 standoff

Carbon credit certifiers from the much-criticized voluntary market could be the big winners of a failure to strike a deal on the exchange of offsets between countries at Cop28, experts told Climate Home. Talks over Article 6.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * Webinar: Carbon Brief journalists discuss COP28’s key outcomes

Two days after the COP28 climate summit concluded on 13 December, Carbon Brief convened its team of specialist journalists to discuss the key outcomes of the two-week event in Dubai.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * ‘Not conducive to our survival’: Pacific islands on the climate frontline respond to Cop28 deal

The agreement was hailed as a win for climate action, but Pacific campaigners say it is too little too late in a rapidly warming world

POLITIK

* COP28 | CONFLICT * Sudan’s Cop28 delegates “really hurt” by silence on their civil war

While Israel’s attack on Gaza featured prominently, Sudan’s civil war and its climate links were largely ignored at Cop28

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * How Russia won a ‘dangerous loophole’ for fossil gas at Cop28

The Russian government’s campaign for endorsement of “transitional fuels” succeeded at the Cop28 climate talks in Dubai.

WIRTSCHAFT

* CARBON OFFSETTING * Carbon Markets Are in Limbo. That’s Not Stopping This Firm.

First, the little-known Emirati company set its sights on a forest the size of Maine. Then, another one that was big as South Carolina. After that, it focused on a chunk of land the size of Puerto Rico.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

* COP28 | CARBON OFFSETTING * Leaving global carbon trading in limbo – what the outcome of COP28 means for emissions markets

Going into the negotiations, parties were at odds over what seemed like mere technical details about transacting carbon units amongst countries under Article 6.2.

BEWEGUNG

* COP28 | REPRESSION * Environmental campaigners filmed, threatened and harassed at Cop28

Incidents of harassment, surveillance, threats and intimidation are creating a climate of fear at UN events including the recent Cop28 climate conference in Dubai, experts have said.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * Was COP28 a Success? Depends On Who You Ask

https://observer.com/2023/12/was-cop28-a-success-depends-on-who-you-ask/

TECH. & ENERGIE

* COP28 | FOSSIL FUELS PHASEOUT * Après la COP28, fin de partie pour les énergies fossiles ?

Chaque année, les négociations des COP sur le climat se déroulent un peu plus sous pression. Année la plus chaude jamais connue par l’humanité, 2023 a battu les records.

POLITIK

* UN CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS * Baked In

The structure of the climate summits ensures that the most lethal interests prevail, by design. Here are some better models. Let’s face it: climate summits are broken. The delegates talk and talk, while Earth systems slide towards deadly tipping points.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * Inizia la transizione, ma con molte concessioni all’Oil & Gas

Il phase-out, l’abbandono graduale dei combustibili fossili, non è stato inserito nel testo finale del Global Stocktake (GST).

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * Kemferts Klima-Podcast : Die Greenwashing-Konferenz von Dubai auf Apple Podcasts

Kein Ausstieg aus den fossilen Energien, stattdessen ein "Übergang" weg davon. Bei der Klimakonferenz in Dubai haben sich die Staaten darauf geeinigt. Klima-Ökonomin Kemfert: Dieser Minimal-Kompromiss wird nicht reichen.

WIRTSCHAFT

* COP28 | LOBBYING * Deutschland darf nicht wie Saudi-Arabien enden

Die COP 28 in Dubai war eigentlich keine Klimakonferenz. Sie war eine Weltwirtschaftskonferenz, und sie hat die Weichen neu gestellt. Es geht jetzt nicht mehr um Eisbären und Hitzetote, sondern um knallharte wirtschaftliche Interessen.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * Klimakonferenz findet Kompromiss zu fossilen Energien

Die Klimakonferenz wäre an der Formulierung zur Zukunft der fossilen Energien fast gescheitert. In der Nacht auf Mittwoch fand sich aber ein Kompromiss, mit dem alle Länder ähnlich unzufrieden sind. Das reichte, um den "VAE-Konsens" zu verabschieden.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * L’accord obtenu à la COP28 à Dubaï est-il vraiment historique?

Jusqu'à présent, seules des mesures de "réduction" du charbon avaient été inscrites, notamment lors de la COP26 à Glasgow en 2021. Ni le pétrole ni le gaz n'avaient été explicitement désignés jusqu'à cette COP28 à Dubaï, marquant ainsi la levée d'un tabou longtemps préservé.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * ‘The future is renewable’: How a huge gamble sealed Cop28 deal

Not long before the crucial final meeting of Cop28 climate summit, a seemingly chance meeting took place in the heavily guarded VIP lounge next to the main conference hall in Dubai.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * Klimagipfel endet im Wünsch-dir-was

Der Erfolg der Weltklimakonferenz in Dubai bemisst sich an ihrer wichtigsten Aufgabe: ob die Staaten der Welt beim Klimaschutz real vorangekommen sind. Das ist nicht einfach zu beantworten. Bei der COP 28 war für alle etwas dabei.

ANTI-KLIMA

* COP28 | AL JABER * Cop28 president says his firm will keep investing in oil

The president of the Cop28 climate summit will continue with his oil company’s record investment in oil and gas production, despite coordinating a global deal to “transition away” from fossil fuels.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

* COP28 | REACTIONS * «Wir drehen uns im Kreis»

Nur mit Appellen und dem kleinsten gemeinsamen Nenner kommt die Welt beim Klimaschutz nicht voran, sagt Mojib Latif. Der Kieler Klimaforscher über die Ergebnisse des Dubai-Gipfels.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * Wichtig, aber später und schwächer als nötig

Die Klimakonferenz in Dubai hätte auch scheitern können. Die Formulierung «Ausstieg aus den Fossilen» hatten Erdölländer, allen voran Saudi-Arabien, blockiert. Die ganz grosse Mehrheit der anderen Länder wollte aber genau das.

POLITIK

* COP28 | RENEWABLES› TARGET * Why didn’t China and India sign Cop28 tripling renewables pledge?

Three months ago in Delhi, leaders of G20 major economies backed a tripling of global renewable energy capacity by 2030. Then last Saturday in Dubai, a much bigger group of nations signed a similar pledge.

POLITIK

* COP28 | CARBON PRICING * Carbon pricing would raise trillions needed to tackle climate crisis, says IMF

Diverting the trillions of dollars by which the world subsidises fossil fuel production each year, and putting an implicit price on carbon emissions, would generate the vast amounts of cash needed to tackle the climate crisis, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said.

* COP29 * Azerbaijan chosen to host Cop29 after fraught negotiations

Azerbaijan has been announced as the host of next year’s climate summit after fraught negotiations. Under UN rules it was eastern Europe’s turn to take over the rotating presidency but the groups need to unanimously decide on the host.

ANTI-KLIMA

* COP28 | LOBBYING * Big meat and dairy lobbyists turn out in record numbers at Cop28

Lobbyists from industrial agriculture companies and trade groups have turned out in record numbers at Cop28, with three times as many delegates representing the meat and dairy industry as last year.

POLITIK

* COP28 | CARBON OFFSETS * Carbon credits talks collapse at Cop28 over integrity concerns

Hopes of clinching a deal on carbon trading mechanisms evaporated under the desert sun in Dubai after a tussle between the European Union and the United States.  Countries failed to agree on key rules to trade offsets bilaterally and to kickstart a long-awaited global UN-sanctioned market.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * No ‘phase-out’, but Dubai deal puts oil and gas sector on notice

Countries have agreed on the need to shift away from burning fossil fuels for the first time in the UN climate process, at Cop28 talks in Dubai. The “UAE consensus” did not go so far as to call for a “phase-out” as more than a hundred countries wanted.

EMPFOHLEN POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Dubai

Nearly every country in the world has agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels” – the main driver of climate change – at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. It is the first time such an agreement has been reached in 28 years of international climate negotiations.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * Four Takeaways From the COP28 Climate Summit

It took 28 years of climate negotiations for world leaders to agree to wean the global economy from the principal source of climate change: the burning of fossil fuels. It happened at the tail end of the hottest year on record.

POLITIK

* COP28 | GEOPOLITICS * Podcast: Warum die Klimakonferenz zum geopolitischen Spielball geworden ist

Seit zehn Tagen versammeln sich in Dubai Politiker, Aktivisten, aber auch Investoren, Banker und Ölproduzenten für die 28. Uno-Klimakonferenz. Die klassische Umweltpolitik steht dabei längst nicht mehr im Vordergrund.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * Oil Companies Are Fine With Call to Move Away From Fossil Fuels

Eni, the Italian energy giant, praised the “great pragmatism” of the meeting.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OUTCOME * Cop28 failed to halt fossil fuels’ deadly expansion plans – so what now?

Petrostates fought fiercely against the call from 130 nations at Cop28 for a fossil fuel phase-out. That is because they are engaged in a colossal fossil fuel phase-up, already working on double the extraction that the planet can cope with.

POLITIK

* COP28 | REACTIONS * Dubai deal: Ministers and observers react to the UAE consensus

Negotiators arrived in a good mood on Wednesday morning to the final Cop28 plenary in Dubai. At around 11 am, they adopted the final text of the global stocktake, in what delegates regarded as a historic moment.

POLITIK

* COP28 | REACTIONS * Indigenous people and climate justice groups say Cop28 was ‘business as usual’

As the leaders of the developed world hailed the Cop28 agreement to “transition away” from fossil fuels as historic, Indigenous people, frontline communities and climate justice groups rebuked the deal as unfair, inequitable and business as usual.

POLITIK

* COP28 | CARBON OFFSETS * Article 6 failure avoids a worse outcome

Torn between countries demanding that Article 6 carbon markets be available with virtually no restrictions and countries insisting on upholding transparency, human rights, and climate ambition, negotiators at COP28 failed to break the deadlock.

POLITIK

* COP28 | LOBBYING * Wenn die Erdöllobby Klimapolitik macht

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POLITIK

* COP28 | REACTIONS * Achim Steiner: «Es reicht nicht, aber es ist nicht schlecht.»

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* COP28 | SWITZERLAND * Klimaschützer zielen auf Rösti – sein Departement kontert

Die Schweiz ist nicht mehr in der Koalition der hoch ambitionierten Länder: Albert Rösti wird für einen Entscheid kritisiert, den er gar nicht getroffen hat.

ANTI-KLIMA

* COP28 | LOBBYING * Opec rails against fossil fuel phase-out at Cop28 in leaked letters

The Opec oil cartel has warned its member countries with “utmost urgency” that “pressure against fossil fuels may reach a tipping point with irreversible consequences” at Cop28, in leaked letters seen by the Guardian.

POLITIK

* COP28 | SWITZERLAND * Die Schweizer Schattendelegation

An der Uno-Klimakonferenz in Dubai ist die Schweiz mit zwei Delegationen vertreten. Die zweite hätte der Bund aber offenbar am liebsten totgeschwiegen.

POLITIK

* COP28 | GLOBAL STOCKTAKE * Cos’è e cosa ci si aspetta dal Global Stocktake

L’accordo di Parigi è un trattato internazionale che intende far cooperare i Paesi delle Nazioni Unite per mantenere il riscaldamento globale al di sotto della soglia critica di 2°C rispetto all’era preindustriale e possibilmente al di sotto di 1,5°C.

POLITIK

* COP28 | FOSSIL FUELS PHASEOUT * As fossil fuel phase-out gathers steam, resistance builds

Saudi Arabia is one of the strongest opponents of a decision at Cop28 to out fossil fuels, as tensions grow near the end of the first week of negotiations.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

* COP28 | ADAPTATION FUND * $700m pledged to loss and damage fund at Cop28 covers less than 0.2% needed

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.

POLITIK

* COP28 | COP29 * Krieg an der Klimakonferenz: Russland steht dem nächsten Gipfel im Weg

Wo findet die nächste Klimakonferenz statt? In Dubai kann das noch keiner sagen. Das ist nicht nur höchst ungewöhnlich, sondern auch ein Problem für die Klimaverhandlungen.

WIRTSCHAFT

* COP28 | LOBBYING * Mehr WEF als COP?

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POLITIK

* COP28 | FOSSIL FUELS PHASEOUT * How a Fossil Fuel Treaty Could Support the Paris Agreement and Wind Down Production

One of the most important questions surrounding the COP28 climate summit is whether nations will finally agree to phase out fossil fuels, which are responsible for the vast majority of climate-warming pollution.

POLITIK

* COP28 | FOSSIL FUELS PHASEOUT * Why defining the ‘phaseout’ of ‘unabated’ fossil fuels is so important at COP28

The future of fossil fuels – and whether to agree to phase them “down” or “out” – is shaping up to be a key battle at the COP28 climate talks in Dubai.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* GLOBAL TIPPING POINTS REPORT * Climate tipping points have put Earth on ‘disastrous trajectory’, says new report

The Earth is on a “disastrous trajectory” with “no adequate global governance” to deal with the scale of threats posed by climate tipping points, warns a major new report. These tipping points “pose some of the gravest threats faced by humanity”, according to the authors.

KULTUR & BILDUNG

* COP28 * Got Climate Angst? At the U.N. Summit, There’s a Quiet, Spiritual Place.

Among the hubs for climate scientists, activists and fossil fuel lobbyists at the United Nations climate summit is a new addition this year: a place to pray.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

* COP28 | LOSS & DAMAGE * Approvato il fondo loss & damage, ma troppo in fretta

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

POLITIK

* COP28 | FOSSIL FUEL PHASEOUT * More Than 100 Countries at COP28 Call For Fossil Fuel Phaseout

Climate activists and countries hard hit by climate disasters seek to break the fossil fuel industry’s stranglehold on global climate talks.

POLITIK

* COP28 | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES * Indigenous Leaders Urge COP28 Negotiators to Focus on Preventing Loss and Damage and Drastically Reducing Emissions

Climate change imperils Indigenous ecosystems, food security, knowledge bases and ways of life, leaders say, making rapid action to reduce emissions a “matter of life and death.”

POLITIK

* COP28 | NEGOTIATIONS * Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at COP28 climate summit

Amid all the noise around the COP28 climate talks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, it can be easy to lose sight of the negotiations and the core legal process at the summit.

URSACHEN

* COP28 | METHANE * Government, Corporate and Philanthropic Interests Coalesce On Curbing Methane Emissions as Calls at COP28 for Binding Global Methane Agreement Intensify – Inside Climate News

The Environmental Protection Agency announced new regulations at the COP28 global climate summit in Dubai on Saturday that will reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by nearly 80 percent.

ANTI-KLIMA

* COP28 | LOBBYING * Record number of fossil fuel lobbyists get access to Cop28 climate talks

At least 2,456 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop28 climate negotiations, according to an analysis.

POLITIK

* COP28 | FOSSIL FUEL PHASEOUT * Cop28 president says ‘no science for fossil fuel phase-out’ claim was misinterpreted

The president of Cop28 has been forced into a fierce defence of his views on climate science, after the Guardian revealed his comment that there was “no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C”.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

* COP28 | SCIENTISTS * More than 1,000 climate scientists urge public to become activists

‘We need you,’ says Scientist Rebellion, which includes authors of IPCC reports on climate breakdown, as diplomats meet for Cop28

WISSENSCHAFTEN

* COP28 | SCIENCES * Zehn neue Erkenntnisse der Klimawissenschaft

Es ist eine der wenigen Veranstaltungen auf der Weltklimakonferenz COP 28, bei der die Wissenschaft im Zentrum steht.

POLITIK

* COP28 | CLIMATE CLUB * Scholz› neuer Klimaklub bekommt nicht nur Beifall

Am Rande des Klimagipfels in Dubai ruft Scholz einen "Klimaklub" aus 36 Ländern ins Leben. Mit ihm soll die grüne Transformation der Industrie vorangebracht werden. Genaue Ziele oder Maßnahmen gibt es bisher aber nicht.

POLITIK

* COP28 | GESUNDHEIT * 124 Länder unterschreiben historische Deklaration zu Klima und Gesundheit

Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der Weltklimagipfel nimmt "Gesundheit" einen zentralen Platz ein. In einer Erklärung fordern über 120 Länder Maßnahmen gegen die Klima- und Gesundheitskrise. Fossile Energien werden nicht namentlich erwähnt.

POLITIK

* COP28 | VERHANDLUNGEN * Deutschland fällt bedrohten Inselstaaten in den Rücken

Auf dem Weltklimagipfel kommen auch dieses Jahr die anspruchsvollsten Forderungen von der "High Ambition Coalition". Obwohl Deutschland Mitglied ist, hat Kanzler Scholz die Unterschrift verweigert und dem politisch wichtigen Bündnis einen Bedeutungsverlust beschert.

ANTI-KLIMA

* COP28 | LOBBYING * Une présence record des lobbys à la COP28 en pleines négociations sur le fossile

- Des dizaines de dirigeants, chefs d'Etat et monarques se sont succédé à la tribune de la COP28 à Dubaï durant les premiers jours, mais le chemin vers un accord pour rompre la paralysie climatique semble loin d'être acquis.

POLITIK

* COP28 | CLIMATE CLUB | SCHWEIZ * Schweiz tritt «Klima-Club» der G7 bei – was bedeutet das?

Ein Club von 34 Ländern will vorangehen im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel. Kann das funktionieren? Eine Übersicht. Die Schweiz tritt dem «Klima-Club» bei.

ANTI-KLIMA

* COP28 | DENIAL * Disinformation Is One of Climate Summit’s Biggest Challenges

As the world’s leaders gather this week at a major summit to discuss ways to address the effects of global warming, one of the greatest obstacles they face is disinformation.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

* COP28 | LOSS & DAMAGE * Countries pledge $400m to set up loss and damage fund

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.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

* COP28 | GREEN CLIMATE FUND * US tees up Congress battle with $3bn Green Climate Fund pledge

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

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

* COP28 | CCS * Don’t be fooled: CCS is no solution to oil and gas emissions

The oil and gas industry wants you to believe it can capture its emissions and keep drilling as usual. That’s no way to avert climate chaos

URSACHEN

Vietnam charts uncertain coal path as finance falls short

But, as vague ambitions now turn into concrete plans, the reality looks rather different. A timeline for the early closure of coal power plants is absent from the investment blueprint for the Just Energy Transition Partnership (Jetp) unveiled at a Cop28 side event on Friday.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

* COP28 | DENIAL * Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels

The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal.

POLITIK

* COP28 | SCHWEIZ * Aline Trede über die Klimakonferenz in Dubai

Aline Trede über die Klimakonferenz in Dubai und die Verantwortung der privilegierten Schweiz.

POLITIK

* COP28 | SCHWEIZ * SRF-Arena: In Dubai das Klima retten?

Die 28. UN-Klimakonferenz beginnt am 30. November 2023. Auch die Schweiz ist in Dubai mit von der Partie. Im Fokus steht eine Zwischenbilanz bei der Erreichung der Pariser Klimaziele von 2015. Was kann die Konferenz bewirken? Und: Wo steht die Schweiz im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel?

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

* COP28 | CLIMATE INEQUALITY * Das Konto ist längst überzogen

Seit dem Pariser Klimaabkommen wird für jedes Land berechnet, wie viel CO2 es noch ausstoßen darf. Dabei haben viele Länder des Globalen Nordens ihren Anteil schon seit Jahrzehnten aufgebraucht

POLITIK

* COP28 | FOSSIL FUELS PHASEOUT * The EU Parliament Calls For Fossil Fuel Phase Out Ahead of COP28

The resolution outlines the position of elected European Union lawmakers going into COP28 and could help ensure that negotiators focus on a phaseout at the negotiations beginning Nov.

POLITIK

* COP28 | OVERVIEW * Six Numbers Illustrating Why COP28 Could Be a Heavy Lift for World Leaders

More than 70,000 diplomats, politicians, business leaders and environmental advocates from all around the world are expected in Dubai on Thursday for COP28, the United Nations’ flagship climate change summit.

POLITIK

* COP28 | STATE OF CLIMATE * What breaching 1.5C this year means for curbing climate change

2023 may overshoot the Paris agreement target for the first time. What does that mean for climate negotiations? Month after record-breaking month, 2023 is on track to be the hottest year measured in human history.

POLITIK

* COP28 | GEOPOLITIK * Kann die Zweiteilung der Welt überwunden werden?

Noch ließe sich die Erderwärmung bei 1,5 Grad stoppen. Dafür müssten auf der UN-Klimakonferenz in Dubai die richtigen Maßnahmen vereinbart werden. Auch die starre Unterteilung in Industrie- und Entwicklungsländer steht auf der Agenda.

POLITIK

* COP28 | ÜBERBLICK * Die wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten

In Dubai in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten startet die 28. Weltklimakonferenz.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

* COP28 | ANTI-CLIMATE * Anti-green backlash hovers over COP climate talks

War, a fossil fuel boom and populist revolts are sapping the optimism from the fight against climate change. And then there’s Trump.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

* COP28 | FOSSIL FUELS LOBBYING * Files Suggest Climate Summit’s Leader Is Using Event to Promote Fossil Fuels

As the host of global climate talks that begin this week, the United Arab Emirates is expected to play a central role in forging an agreement to move the world more rapidly away from coal, oil and gas.

POLITIK

* COP28 | MARCHÉ CARBONE * Four questions for Cop28 to settle about a global carbon market

Governments are set to take a decisive step at Cop28 towards making a long-awaited global carbon market governed by the UN a reality.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

* COP28 | FOSSIL FUELS PHASEOUT * The ‘inevitable’ fossil fuel fight set to dominate Cop28

Phasing down fossil fuels is “inevitable” and “essential”. It is hard to imagine the CEO of an oil major saying that 10 years, five years, even one year ago.

POLITIK

* COP28 | USA * US-Präsident schwänzt Klimakonferenz: Joe Biden stellt den Kampf gegen den Klimawandel in den Hintergrund

Der amerikanische Präsident hat gewichtige Gründe, warum er dieses Jahr nicht zum jährlichen Klimagipfel der Uno in Dubai reist. Joe Biden will in den nächsten Wochen unbedingt ein Hilfspaket für 106 Milliarden Dollar für die Ukraine und Israel durch den Kongress bringen.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

* COP28 | CLIMATE FINANCE * France, Kenya set to launch Cop28 coalition for global taxes to fund climate action

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.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

* COP28 | INTERVIEW * Klima-Ökonom Edenhofer: „Ein Irrglaube, dass die fossilen Energien dann von allein verschwinden würden“

In dieser Woche treffen sich in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten über 70.000 Politiker, Wissenschaftler, Aktivisten und Lobbyisten zur größten Klimakonferenz aller Zeiten. Die kurz COP28 genannte 28.

POLITIK

* COP28 | COP-PRÄSIDIUM * Ausgerechnet ein Ölmagnat soll den Klimaschutz auf Kurs bringen

Die letzten zwei Jahre war es der Ukrainekrieg, nun der Nahostkonflikt. Der globale Klimaschutz ist auch dieses Jahr nicht zuoberst auf der Agenda der internationalen Politik. Trotzdem hat das Gastgeberland, die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, an der diesjährigen Klimakonferenz grosse Erwartungen.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

* COP28 | STAND DER KLIMAPOLITIK * Grafiken und Ranglisten – Russland schlecht, Norwegen gut – und die Schweiz? Wer beim Klimaschutz wo steht

Russland schlecht, Norwegen gut – und die Schweiz? Wer beim Klimaschutz wo steht Acht Jahre sind vergangen seit dem historischen Erfolg von Paris: Das Pariser Klimaabkommen von 2015 ist der ehrgeizigste Umweltvertrag, den die Vereinten Nationen bisher unterschrieben haben.

ANTI-KLIMA

* COP28 | DENIAL * Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.

ANTI-KLIMA

* COP28 | DENIAL * Plans to present meat as ‘sustainable nutrition’ at Cop28 revealed

Big meat companies and lobby groups are planning a large presence at the Cop28 climate conference, equipped with a communications plan to get a pro-meat message heard by policymakers throughout the summit.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* COP28 | ÉTAT DU CLIMAT * A la veille de la COP28, un réchauffement visible comme le nez au milieu de la figure

«Les températures moyennes enregistrées cette année sont spectaculaires. Elles correspondent à la fourchette haute de ce qui était prévu par les modèles climatiques. Il s’agit maintenant de voir comment elles vont évoluer dans les mois à venir.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

* COP28 | FOSSIL FUELS LOBBYING * UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals

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