Climate Update

POLITIK

A federal commission slows down the LNG rush--and Biden can drive the point home

ANTI-KLIMA POLITIK

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.

POLITIK

The UK, Colombia and New Zealand have signed on to a coalition of governments aiming to phase out fossil fuel subsidies joining 13 other mainly European nations in the alliance.

ANTI-KLIMA POLITIK

Despite endorsing a transition away from fossil fuels last year, Saudi officials have since worked to undermine it in at least five U.N. forums, diplomats said.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Legislation will be introduced to restrict licences for new coal mines as UK embraces clean energy future – PRESS RELEASE.

POLITIK

G20 leaders “commit to successful negotiations in Baku”, including on climate finance, but promise little else to unblock fraught talks

POLITIK

Countries now have a second chance in Baku to build consensus on how to cut emissions and transition away from fossil fuels

TECH. & ENERGIE

Transition experts say repurposing Poland’s Bełchatów mine and power plant for renewables not recreation could bring more jobs, revenue and electricity

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

An earlier draft decision at the UN nature summit included a call to transition away from fossil fuels – but it has been cut from the latest version

POLITIK

An earlier draft decision at the UN nature summit included a call to transition away from fossil fuels – but it has been cut from the latest version

TECH. & ENERGIE URSACHEN

Zahlreiche neue Kohleminen und -kraftwerke sind weltweit in Planung. Ein Ende des klimaschädlichsten Energieträgers ist laut der aktualisierten "Global Coal Exit List" nicht in Sicht, trotz des schnellen Ausbaus der Erneuerbaren.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Introducing strong policies to accelerate the rollout of renewables, coupled with a rapid, legally implemented phase-out of fossil fuels, may be our best hope for curbing global warming

TECH. & ENERGIE

Global electricity generation from solar will quadruple by 2030 and help to push coal power into reverse, according to Carbon Brief analysis of data from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

URSACHEN

Die Geschichte der Kohleverstromung begann vor 140 Jahren in Großbritannien, wo nun das letzte Kohlekraftwerk schließt. Global ist die Kohle aber noch keineswegs am Ende.

EMPFOHLEN TECH. & ENERGIE

The UK’s last coal-fired power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, will close this month, ending a 142-year era of burning coal to generate electricity. The UK’s coal-power phaseout is internationally significant.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Wo vor 142 Jahren die Ära der Kohle begann, vollziehen die Briten nun als erster hoch industrialisierter Staat den Ausstieg: Sie schliessen das letzte mit diesem fossilen Brennstoff betriebene Kraftwerk.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Der Ausbau von Windkraft und Photovoltaik muss sich global um ein Vielfaches beschleunigen, um das 1,5-Grad-Limit einzuhalten, legt eine heute veröffentlichte Analyse offen. Parallel muss aber auch der Einsatz fossiler Energien bis 2030 um zwei Drittel bis drei Viertel sinken.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Elektroautos sparen bereits heute fast 1,8 Millionen Barrel Öl pro Tag ein. Ölproduzenten könnten bald vor einem Nachfrageproblem stehen. Der Klimanutzen der E‑Autos hängt aber vom Strommix ab.

URSACHEN

At the end of this month, Britain’s last coal-fired power station will close.

URSACHEN

A few years ago, the world was on a path to ending coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel and the single biggest contributor to carbon dioxide emissions. Active and sustained campaigning brought coal closer to the point of death and the world to a coal-free future.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Last year, Ecuadorians voted to shield part of the Amazon from oil drilling. How the decision will be implemented is still to be determined.

POLITIK

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

POLITIK

A decision by Britain's new labor government may leave an entire oil field untouched

POLITIK

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

EMPFOHLEN URSACHEN

More than 10 million Ecuadorians voted last year to ban oil operations in part of the Amazon rainforest. But heavy crude has continued to flow from the region, which is home to uncontacted Indigenous families.

TECH. & ENERGIE

One of the nation’s largest coal-fueled electric plants is being replaced with thousands of acres of solar panels and a test of long-duration batteries.

WIRTSCHAFT

China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are investing in low-carbon sources and helping push the country’s energy transition towards a “critical turning point” where coal power starts to decline, a new report finds.

EMPFOHLEN MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Kolumbiens Regierung will die fossile Wirtschaft klimaneutral umbauen, hat aber kaum Geld für Investitionen. Im Interview mit Table.Briefings spricht Umweltministerin Susana Muhamad darüber, wie das gelingen soll.

RECHT

Britain’s top court ruled that emissions from burning a fossil fuel – not just producing it – should be considered in decisions on new extraction projects

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Seit 1990 befindet sich Ostdeutschland im Braunkohle-Ausstieg, doch wie in diesem Jahrhundert die Folgekosten bewältigt werden können, ist weiter unklar. Die Grünen warben kürzlich erneut für ihr Stiftungsmodell.

POLITIK

Countries have agreed to reduce power generated from coal, but shutting down plants is an economic and social challenge, especially in emerging economies

POLITIK

For Pacific Island nations like mine, the transition to clean and renewable energy is not just a goal but a necessity for survival

BEWEGUNG

Students, nonprofit groups and others are fund-raising to cap highly polluting oil and gas wells abandoned by industry.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.