Climate Update
Climate Update Archiv Eine wöchentliche Presseschau zu allen Aspekten der Klimakrise aus der Schweiz und der ganzen Welt zusammen. Die Beiträge sind thematisch sortiert und lassen sich nach Themen und Schlagwörtern filtern. Jede Woche empfehlen wir eine Handvoll besonders interessanter Beiträge.
G-20
POLITIK
* COP29 | G-20 * G20-Gipfel reicht Klima-Strohhalm nach Baku
Der Weltklimagipfel in Baku schleppt sich dem Endspurt entgegen. Angesichts der stockenden Verhandlungen zu Emissionsminderung und Klimafinanzierung kommt der Impuls vom G20-Gipfel in Rio gerade noch rechtzeitig.
POLITIK
* G-20 * Pas d’avancée majeure sur le climat au sommet du G20 à Rio
Les dirigeants des plus grandes économies mondiales n'ont pas engrangé d'avancée majeure pour débloquer les négociations climat, lundi lors d'un sommet du G20 à Rio de Janeiro qui a été percuté par les guerres en Ukraine et au Proche-Orient.
POLITIK
* COP29 | G-20 * G20 backs new climate finance goal but ignores fossil fuels
G20 leaders “commit to successful negotiations in Baku”, including on climate finance, but promise little else to unblock fraught talks
POLITIK
G20 waters down experts’ climate finance report, despite UN pressure to act
A report by top economists on finance for climate action was weakened after feedback from G20 nations, even as the UN says they must all slash emissions
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
KLIMAGERECHTIGK. POLITIK
G20 agrees to make the super-rich pay their taxes
The G20 has made an important first step in reversing the unsustainable and extractive flow of wealth from the world’s poor to a handful of billionaires. At a meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, G20 finance ministers agreed on the need to work together on taxing the world’s richest individuals.
KLIMAGERECHTIGK. POLITIK
G20 countries agree on need to tax the super-rich — but later
Governments to start looking at question of tax on billionaires, according to statement seen by POLITICO.
KLIMAGERECHTIGK. POLITIK
* G-20 * L’épineuse question de la taxation des super-riches au menu du G20 à Rio
Face aux inégalités croissantes sur la planète, les ministres des Finances du G20 se retrouvent jeudi à Rio de Janeiro pour évoquer l'idée d'une taxation des super-riches, objet de vifs désaccords entre Etats membres.
URSACHEN WIRTSCHAFT
Public Enemies: Assessing MDB and G20 international finance institutions’ energy finance
This new report, “Public Enemies: Assessing MDB and G20 international finance institutions’ energy finance” looks at G20 country and MDB traceable international public finance for fossil fuels from 2020-2022 and finds they are still backing at least USD 47 billion per year in oil, gas, and coal projects.
URSACHEN
Visualised: how all of G20 is missing climate goals — but some nations are closer than others
Not a single G20 country has policies in place that are consistent with the Paris agreement’s goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C and meeting their “fair share” of emissions reduction.
POLITIK
Collapse of G20 talks in Bali spark fears of ‘backtracking’ on climate pledges
Energy and climate ministers from some of the world’s largest economies have failed to agree on joint texts at G20 meetings in Bali, Indonesia. With two months to the Cop27 summit, host Egypt has warned against “backtracking” on climate commitments.