Climate Update

WIRTSCHAFT

Faith-based climate advocates’ transparency efforts are more than a “Hail Mary.”

POLITIK

Ist der Kohleausstiegs-Beschluss des G7-Gipfels wirklich der "historische Erfolg", als der er gefeiert wird? Die Formulierungen im Abschlussdokument lassen zweifeln. Zumal die G7-Länder noch weit hinter eigenen Zusagen zurückbleiben.

POLITIK

Agreement gives leeway to countries heavily reliant on coal and allows power plants fitted with carbon-capture technology

TECH. & ENERGIE

Oil in the North Sea is expected to be net-energy negative by 2031. This means that in 2031, it’ll cost more energy to extract the fossil fuels than we would gain by using them, rendering extraction unfeasibly expensive.

TECH. & ENERGIE

The world will need oil and gas for a few decades more – and the debate is heating up over who should get to produce and sell it

URSACHEN

We need to get serious about transitioning off fossil fuels

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

“We are at a very, very difficult crossroads.”

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

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

TECH. & ENERGIE

Cautious optimism among experts that emissions from energy use may have peaked as net zero mission intensifies

URSACHEN

TECH. & ENERGIE

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

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.

POLITIK

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

POLITIK

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

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

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

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

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.

URSACHEN

The Australian government has been praised for joining a global partnership committed to stopping billions of dollars in foreign aid and loans being spent on fossil fuel expansion, but the decision has also prompted renewed calls for it to reconsider polluting subsidies at home.

POLITIK

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.

POLITIK

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

POLITIK

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

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.

EMPFOHLEN POLITIK

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

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POLITIK

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ANTI-KLIMA

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

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

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.

POLITIK

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

POLITIK

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”.

POLITIK

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.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

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

Seit Mitte Oktober laufen im Braunkohlekraftwerk Jänschwalde in Brandenburg wieder zwei Blöcke als sogenannte "Winterreserve". Auch im vergangenen Winter hatte der Betreiber, die Lausitz Energie AG, die beiden Anlagen aufgrund der gesetzlichen Vorschriften angeworfen.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Die Klimakrise ist auch eine Gesundheitskrise. Schon heute sterben zahlreiche Menschen vorzeitig an den Folgen des Klimawandels oder an Krankheiten, die durch den Klimawandel beeinflusst werden.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

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.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

With 151 countries, 257 cities and 969 companies having announced net-zero targets, it is clear that much of society now understands the need to achieve net-zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by mid-century in order to limit dangerous warming.

POLITIK

EU countries on Monday (16 October) adopted a common stance for the United Nations Cop28 international climate conference but language on the EU’s emissions reduction target and fossil fuel exit goal was softened to reach a unanimous decision.

POLITIK

Six weeks ahead of the Cop28 climate talks, negotiators from Africa and India have set out separate plans to push developed countries to do more to move away from fossil fuels.

POLITIK

China’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua said today that a global fossil fuel phase-out is unrealistic, dampening hopes that such an aim could be agreed at the Cop28 climate talks.

EMPFOHLEN TECH. & ENERGIE

CALGARY, Alberta, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Government policies to fight climate change are discouraging oil companies from investing heavily in new production even as they turn in record profits - a dynamic that could spell tight supply and high prices as clean energy alternatives seek to fill the void.

EMPFOHLEN URSACHEN

Cleaner energy technologies like electric cars and solar panels are spreading so rapidly that the global use of oil, coal and natural gas could peak this decade, but countries will still need to pursue more aggressive measures if they want to limit global warming to relatively safe levels, the world

URSACHEN

The world’s demand for oil, gas and coal will begin to decline this decade in “the beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era, according to the global energy watchdog.

TECH. & ENERGIE

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MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Une coalition de dix-huit pays menée par les Îles Marshall a réclamé vendredi 'une sortie urgente des énergies fossiles' et 'un pic des gaz à effet de serre d'ici à 2025'. Cela au terme d'un sommet sur le climat à Bruxelles à cinq mois de la COP28.

POLITIK

The United Arab Emirates’ Cop28 will accelerate an energy transition that “phases down the use of fossil fuels”, its president-designate Sultan al Jaber said, raising expectations for the climate summit in Dubai.

POLITIK

Windkraft am Kohlekraftwerk Jänschwalde in der Lausitz: Wie wird die Transformation gesteuert? (Bild: Thomas Knauer/​Visdia/​Shutterstock) Die letzte Frist, um das Heizungsgesetz fertigzustellen, hat die Ampel am Freitag eingehalten.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

BENGALURU, India (AP) — The Indian government will not consider any proposals for new coal plants for the next five years and focus on growing its renewables sector, according to an updated national electricity plan released Wednesday evening.

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. When it was first announced in 2017 that Australia’s oldest power station, Liddell, would close, the news set off a political firestorm.

India plans to stop building new coal-fired power plants, apart from those already in the pipeline, by removing a key clause from the final draft of its National Electricity Policy (NEP), sources said.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 28.04.2023 - Interview de Peter Richner, expert en énergie et directeur adjoint de l'Empa, sur notre avenir énergétique - et la difficulté des "prévisions".

TECH. & ENERGIE

Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 28.04.2023 - Interview mit Peter Richner, Stellvertretender Direktor Empa, zu unserer Energiezukunft – und der Schwierigkeit von "Prognosen".

TECH. & ENERGIE

The power sector is about to enter a “new era of falling fossil generation,” as coal, oil and gas are pushed out of the grid by a record expansion of wind and solar power, according to new analysis by climate thinktank Ember.

POLITIK

The Group of Seven richest countries set higher 2030 targets for generating renewable energy, amid an energy crisis provoked by Russia's war on Ukraine, but they set no deadline to phase out coal-fired power plants. At a meeting hosted by Japan, ministers from Japan, the U.S.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Ein Forschungsteam der ZHAW kommt zum Schluss, dass die vom Bund geplanten fossilen Reservekraftwerke für die Stabilität des Schweizer Stromnetzes nicht gebraucht werden. Damit bestärken sie den Klimastreik, der sich gegen die fossilen Ausbaupläne seit längerem wehrt.

POLITIK

Un traité de non-prolifération des énergies fossiles pour accélérer la décarbonation de l'économie. C'est l'idée portée par plusieurs Etats, ainsi que par un nombre croissant d'ONG, de villes et de scientifiques. Peut-elle faire boule de neige?

POLITIK

Governments will continue to discuss whether to call for a phase-out of fossil fuels ahead of the Cop28 climate talks, the Egyptian Cop27 president told reporters after a gathering of 50 climate ministers in Copenhagen today.

TECH. & ENERGIE

«Das Ende der Kohle ist in Sicht», verkündet die Website der Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) recht feierlich.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

India and China were widely criticised at COP26 in 2021 when they pushed to tone down the language on coal consumption that emerged from the climate summit.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

The pact included a historic promise to stop pouring billions each year into financial aid for fossil fuels. It called on governments to accelerate the “phase-out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies,” which keep the price of fossil fuels artificially low.

POLITIK

Governments failed to agree on this wording at previous climate talks and this phrase is likely to divide nations at the Cop28 summit in Dubai in November.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

The scientists who plan out how to limit global warming to 1.5C have asked coal-reliant countries to phase out the fuel faster than is realistic, a new study says. The study published in the journal Nature found that a typical 1.

URSACHEN

Cruise ship Carnival Breeze docking in Grenada, January 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic put most tourism on hold (Pic: Larry Syverson/Flickr) Momentum is growing behind calls to decarbonise global shipping, as several large emerging economies joined rich nations and climate vulnerable Pacific

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.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Täglich sterben weltweit bis zu 150 Tier- und Pflanzenarten aus. Brände, Hungersnöte und Überschwemmungen häufen sich. Die Biodiversitätskrise und die Klimakrise sind die grössten menschgemachten Bedrohungen für unseren Planeten, unsere Lebensgrundlage.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Chaque jour, 150 espèces animales et végétales s’éteignent dans le monde. Les incendies, famines et inondations se font de plus en plus fréquents. Pour la planète, notre base existentielle, la crise de la biodiversité et celle du climat sont les plus grandes menaces induites par l’homme.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Ogni giorno in tutto il mondo si estinguono fino a 150 specie animali e vegetali. Incendi, carestie e inondazioni si verificano con sempre maggiore frequenza.

TECH. & ENERGIE

In a new report, the international group said that solar, wind and other renewable sources will expand much more swiftly than forecast last year.

URSACHEN

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EMPFOHLEN TECH. & ENERGIE

Renewable energy isn’t replacing fossil fuel energy—it’s adding to it. Despite all the renewable energy investments and installations, actual global greenhouse gas emissions keep increasing.

POLITIK

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TECH. & ENERGIE

Shortly after the dawn call to prayer sounded across Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Sunday, negotiators adopted a climate deal to polite applause.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

The president says oil is his economy’s worst addiction. Phasing it out would be a global first for a major oil producer. ARAUCA, Colombia — Over the past four decades, Colombia has pumped billions of barrels of oil from under a vast savanna it shares with neighboring Venezuela.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Vietnam is set to follow Indonesia and South Africa with a climate financing package of at least $11 billion to shift its economy away from coal and boost the rollout of renewable energy sources.

On Wednesday, the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA), led by Denmark, added Fiji, Tuvalu, Kenya, Chile and Washington state, which advocates say shows momentum is building from last year.

POLITIK

Denmark and Costa Rica jointly launched the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (Boga) at last year’s Cop26 climate summit along with six other core members. This “group of first movers” committed to phase out or rule out fossil fuel development in their countries.

POLITIK

John Kerry wants to allow companies to offset their emissions by investing in the transition from coal to clean energy in developing countries.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Hurricane Ian has just swept across the Caribbean and the US east coast. It’s likely to become the deadliest hurricane in Florida’s history. The entirety of Cuba lost power for several days; homes have been flattened; and repairing the devastation could cost billions.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Scientists, economists and Indigenous activists met in Oxford in September to discuss a challenge central to solving climate change: how can the world rid itself of fossil fuels?

POLITIK

Vanuatu also sought support for its campaign to seek an opinion from the International Court of Justice on countries’ legal obligations to protect people from climate disasters Vanuatu, a Pacific island nation of 310,000 people, has called on countries at the UN general assembly to sign up to a fo

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Pope Francis called on Saturday for “courage” in abandoning fossil fuels and lamented that older generations did not know how to protect the planet and secure peace.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Il faut remettre en question le modèle de développement du monde et le réformer sans tarder. C’est le message lancé par le pape François, samedi 24 septembre, devant un millier de jeunes réunis à Assise.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Renewable energy rose to make up nearly one-fourth of the electricity generated in the United States in the second quarter this year, while coal generation declined.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

A state law bans the use of coal for energy production beginning next year.The AES Hawaii Power Plant on Oahu supplied more than 11 percent of Hawaii’s electricity in 2021.Credit...

TECH. & ENERGIE

Michael Jakob, senior fellow at the Ecologic Institute and senior researcher at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. Jan C.

POLITIK

Neue und alte Bekenntnisse: Zwei Tage lang diskutierten die Energie- und Umweltminister:innen der G7-Staaten in Berlin über Auswege aus der Klima-, Biodiversitäts- und Verschmutzungskrise.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, said instead of replacing Russian oil, gas and coal, nations must pivot to clean energy.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Several governments are introducing measures to help consumers by reducing prices at the pump. Wherever possible, pricing measures should be designed carefully, prioritising the poorest parts of the population and those for whom cars are an indispensable part of their economic activity.

PARIS, March 16 (Reuters) - France will end government subsidies for the installation of new residential gas heaters and boost support for renewable energy heating in a bid to further reduce reliance on Russian fossil fuel exports, the environment minister said on Wednesday.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

On the last day of February, the IPCC issued its most dire report yet. The Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres, had, he said, “seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Paula Walk and Isabell Braunger, researchers at the Europa University Flensburg and at the Technical University Berlin with a focus on sustainability transitions.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

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WIRTSCHAFT

Below, you can look up these banks and investors and their coal financing or investments. You can also search for a GCEL company and look at the banks and investors behind it. The investment figures presented are gathered at the group level.

URSACHEN

Pipelines extend across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska, 36 miles from the Willow Master Development Plan located in the National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska's North Slope. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Braunkohlekraftwerk an der deutsch-polnischen Grenze: Für Kohlekonzerne ist Ausstieg zurzeit kein Thema. (Foto: Vondraussen/​Wikimedia Commons) Deutschland und die Europäische Union müssen aus der Kohleverstromung aussteigen, um ihre Klimaziele zu erreichen.

TECH. & ENERGIE

The majority of coal-fired power is not being phased out quickly enough to meet climate goals and avoid catastrophic global heating, despite new pledges made at Cop26.

POLITIK

John Kerry is the first United States special presidential envoy for climate, appointed under the Biden administration in January 2021. He spoke to Euractiv’s energy and environment editor, Frédéric Simon.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

The Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF) governing board has approved Indonesia’s investment plan for how it will spend $500 million in concessional funding designed to unlock public and private investments to rid the economy of coal. The CIF estimates the money will leverage $2.

POLITIK

Quella di Dubai sarà la Cop dell'industria dei combustibili fossili, nel bene o nel male.