Climate Update

BÜCHER EMPFOHLEN

Hitze trifft nicht alle gleich: Ob Wetter zur Katastrophe wird, hängt auch davon ab, wie stark patriarchale und koloniale Strukturen in einem Land fortwirken.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Auswirkungen des Klimawandels sind global zu spüren. Dennoch funktioniert die Klimafinanzierung noch nicht wunschgemäss.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK. POLITIK

Germany wants all high-emitters, especially among G20 countries, to pitch in. But China and Saudi Arabia say the responsibility lies with developed nations

KLIMAGERECHTIGK. POLITIK

One economist explains why taxing the rich and paying the poor actually has a chance of becoming a reality.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK. POLITIK

And she called for the money to be sent directly to the world's most climate-vulnerable people.

URSACHEN WIRTSCHAFT

Commercial banks are financing a huge amount of fossil-fuel and industrial agriculture activities in the Global South – they must turn off the tap

KLIMAGERECHTIGK. POLITIK

In den internationalen Klimaverhandlungen dreht sich derzeit alles ums Geld. An der UNO-Klimakonferenz Ende Jahr in Baku müssen die Staaten sich auf eine neues globales Klimafinanzierungsziel einigen. Schon jetzt laufen die Verhandlungen heiss.

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.

Ein neuer UN-Report zeigt eine riesige Lücke bei der Finanzierung der globalen Nachhaltigkeitsziele. Die Klimakrise verschärft die Lage. Aber das Hauptproblem liegt tiefer.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

According to most metrics, economic inequalities across the world have been declining since the late 1980s.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Simon Stiell says far more money is required for developing countries to submit bold new climate plans, which would benefit all economies

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Simon Stiell calls for reform at development banks to enable governments to provide more climate finance to developing world

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Demand for finance to pay for the aftermath of climate impacts is rocketing – but progress on getting a new UN loss and damage fund up and running is slow

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Logging companies have “acquired” roughly 1m hectares of Indigenous peoples’ territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2000, according to a new study.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

In Siccità, ultimo lavoro cinematografico di Paolo Virzì, uscito nelle sale italiane nel 2022, il regista immaginava una Roma distopica ma futuribile, in cui non piove da anni, il Tevere è ormai secco e in città si sta diffondendo un’ignota malattia infettiva tropicale.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK. POLITIK

Schweizer Geld fürs Ausland Werden Autofahren, Fliegen und importierte Produkte für den Klimaschutz teurer? Wer soll das bezahlen? Diese Frage stellt sich nicht nur bei der 13. AHV-Rente, welche die Stimmbevölkerung gutgeheissen hat.

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

BÜCHER

This ground-breaking book makes visible the global counter-movement for environmental justice, combining ecological economics and political ecology. Using 500 in-depth empirical analyses from the Atlas of Environmental Justice, Martínez-Alier analyses the commonalities shared by environmental defenders and offenders respectively.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Their failure to agree risks delaying help for victims of climate disasters in developing countries

WIRTSCHAFT

Umweltschäden und Verletzung von Menschenrechten durch Schweizer Unternehmen – zuletzt häufen sich solche Fälle.

AUSWIRKUNGEN EMPFOHLEN MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

The current path of climate policy is at a dead end—a welcome opportunity to rethink.

EMPFOHLEN KLIMAGERECHTIGK. URSACHEN

Friederike Otto hält den Kampf gegen Sexismus, Rassismus und Ungerechtigkeit wichtiger als die Senkung von CO₂-Emissionen. Warum?

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.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

La Suisse mise sur des projets de compensation à l'étranger pour atteindre ses objectifs climatiques. C'est ce que prévoit la loi sur le CO2 dont débat le Conseil national lors de la session en cours.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Die Schweiz setzt für die Erreichung ihrer Klimaziele auf Kompensationsprojekte im Ausland. So sieht es das CO2-Gesetz vor, welches der Nationalrat in der laufenden Session debattiert.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Per raggiungere i propri obiettivi in ambito climatico, la Svizzera punta su progetti di compensazione all’estero. Questo è quanto prevede la legge sul CO2 discussa dal Consiglio nazionale nella sua sessione corrente.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

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.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

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

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Historical responsibility for climate change is radically shifted when colonial rule is taken into account, Carbon Brief analysis reveals.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

The rights over vast tracts of African forest are being sold off in a series of huge carbon offsetting deals that cover an area of land larger than the UK.

POLITIK

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.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

The richest 1% of people are responsible for as much carbon output as the poorest 66%, research from Oxfam shows. Luxury lifestyles including frequent flying, driving large cars, owning many houses, and a rich diet, are among the reasons for the huge imbalance.

POLITIK

Questions of social and economic class must be at the centre of our response to the climate crisis, to address the huge inequalities between the carbon footprints of the rich and poor and prevent a backlash against climate policies, the economist Thomas Piketty has said.

TECH. & ENERGIE

With just days to go until Cop28, we are launching a landmark report to highlight the need for massive investment in renewable energy sources rooted in justice.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Reiche leben extrem klimaschädlicher als arme Menschen, heisst es im neuen Oxfam-Bericht. Dazu gehören auch Schweizerinnen und Schweizer. Doch Schuldzuweisungen bringen nichts.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

The world faces twin crises of climate breakdown and runaway inequality. The richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions. Meanwhile, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest. Women and girls, Indigenous Peoples, people living in poverty and […]

POLITIK

Prof Saleemul Huq OBE and I wrote and submitted this article before his untimely death on Saturday 28 October, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

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KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Governments are starkly divided over plans for a loss and damage fund, with two months to go until it is due to be established. While rich and poor countries have agreed to set up a fund to address loss and damage caused by climate change, they are miles apart on who pays and who benefits.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

The UN’s flagship global climate fund looks likely to have to rein in its ambition, after France announced just a 4% boost in its contribution. Yesterday, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire announced his nation would give €1.61 billion ($1.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

There will be no confirmation that rich countries have met their $100 billion a year climate finance promise until 2025 at the earliest. That’s according to ministers from Canada and Germany, the two nations tasked with drawing up the “delivery plan” for belatedly meeting the pledge.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

A poor Kolkata neighborhood lost power during a heat wave, unlike a nearby luxury mall. The resulting protest exposed extreme heat’s unequal toll in India.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

The heads of small island states most vulnerable to climate change have criticised “endless” climate change negotiations at the start of an unprecedented maritime court hearing.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

As host of the G20 summit last weekend, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was right to highlight the importance of debt relief. But he and other G20 leaders could have done more to recognise how economic reliance on fossil fuels has made debt crises worse.

RECHT

L'audience, qui va durer deux semaines, doit déterminer si les gaz à effet de serre sont de la "pollution marine" au sens de la Convention de l'ONU sur les droits de la mer, protégée par cette cour basée à Hambourg en Allemagne.

POLITIK

In June, Senegal signed a “just energy transition partnership” (JETP) deal, establishing a goal to reach 40% renewable energy in the electricity mix by 2030. But, beyond just a transformation of the electricity sector, this deal sets out a pathway to transform the whole of Senegalese society.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

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TECH. & ENERGIE

The world is racing ahead with enormous investments in renewable energy, for the first time this year plowing more money into solar power than oil.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Was blieb, ist die Verschuldung: Nach den Überschwemmungen vom letzten Jahr stehen in Pakistan Millionen Menschen vor dem Nichts. Ihr Schicksal wird zum globalen Testfall für die Klimagerechtigkeit. Doktor Quazi sitzt auf dem Beifahrersitz eines Minivans und schaut durchs Fenster.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Developing countries want “at least” $100 billion a year by 2030 for the loss and damage caused by climate change.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

When countries adopt a global fund for climate disaster losses and damages at the Cop28 climate talks, the USA will be arguing to limit its use, according to U.S. officials.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Nicaragua verweigerte Journalisten von SRF Investigativ die Einreise. Die Reporter wollten ein Aufforstungsprojekt der Schweizer Stiftung Myclimate besuchen. Bauern vor Ort kritisieren, es fehle ihnen an Geld und Werkzeug.

EMPFOHLEN KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

If you're poor, the only way you're likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it – by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun or by car.

The United Nations’ flagship climate fund is giving nearly $190 million to an investment programme that finances some of the world’s biggest farm companies in a bid to preserve tropical forests.

After a series of “long and at times difficult” meetings, government negotiators on the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) board approved a new strategy yesterday morning.

WIRTSCHAFT

Red. Das Folgende ist die Zusammenfassung einer Recherche der Menschenrechtsorganisation Public Eye. Der Regenwald von Borneo bekam nach der Holz- und Palmölindustrie einen neuen Feind: die Kohlekonzerne.

What does a just energy transition mean for the world’s least developed countries where energy access, especially in rural areas, is a priority for national development?

Small island nations would rather fight than flee, but rising sea levels have prompted apocalyptic legal discussions about whether a state is still a state if its land disappears below the waves.

Solaranlage an der Universität Kumasi in Ghana: Die meisten Entwicklungsländer sind ein unsicheres finanzielles Umfeld für erneuerbare Energien. (Bild: ZSM/​Wikimedia Commons) "Das internationale Finanzsystem steckt in einer Krise. 52 Länder sind bankrott oder gefährlich nahe dran.

A group of wealthy European nations and Canada have promised to contribute €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) to help the West African nation of Senegal roll out renewables.

Franklin Steves, senior policy adviser at E3G, said the summit is “first and foremost” about trying to heal the rift between developed and developing countries that started with the Covid-19 pandemic.

An unusual if guarded optimism has descended upon Paris, along with hundreds of world leaders, bankers and climate activists. They have come for a two-day conference billed as the new Bretton Woods.

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.

The science is clear. The climate crisis is the biggest single threat we face as a global community. In turn, meeting the goals of the Paris agreement and realising the opportunities of climate action is the task of the 21st century. No single government can address this alone.

BÜCHER

Die Bausteine für Klimagerechtigkeit sind klimapolitisch wirksame Maßnahmen für einen sozial-ökologischen Umbau in den nächsten 5–10 Jahren.

AUSWIRKUNGEN EMPFOHLEN

Die Menschen leben wie kleine Parasiten auf der Erde: Sie saugen die Natur aus, mit fatalen Folgen. Der indische Historiker Dipesh Chakrabarty fordert darum radikales Umdenken, weg von der menschlichen Perspektive. Yves Bossart spricht mit ihm über Bakterien, Biodiversität und Bagger.

Edi et Asmania ont été choisis par leur village pour dénoncer les pollueurs de la planète. Leur île, en Indonésie, est en train de mourir, victime de la montée des eaux et du changement climatique.

Two weeks ahead of a highly-anticipated climate finance summit, most developed country leaders have not confirmed their attendance, sparking concerns they are not taking it seriously. In sharp contrast, the leaders of many developing countries have indicated they will be at the gathering in Paris.

Italy helped a retailer open chocolate and gelato stores across Asia. The United States offered a loan for a coastal hotel expansion in Haiti.

Countries like the United States and those in Europe could be on the hook for an eye-popping $170 trillion in climate reparations for their excessive carbon emissions, according to new research from the University of Leeds.

dg. David Antonioli, Chef des weltgrössten CO2-Zertifikate-Händlers Verra tritt zurück. Seine Zeit als CEO ende am 16. Juni, gab Antonioli am 22. Mai in einem Statement auf Linkedin bekannt. Nach «15 fantastischen Jahren» übergebe er an die jetzige Präsidentin Judith Simon.

Bei der Protestdemo vor der Glencore-Hauptversammlung spricht Hilda Arrieta vom Frauennetzwerk El Paso (rechts): Der Konzern missachte die Rechte der lokalen, meist indigenen Gemeinschaften. (Bild: Laura König) "Solidarity with the Yukpa.

In der Schweiz steigen die Temperaturen doppelt so schnell wie im weltweiten Durchschnitt. Die Folgen sind laut Meteo Schweiz und der ETH trockenere Sommer mit mehr Hitzetagen und heftigeren Niederschlägen sowie schneearme Winter.

Im jüngsten Synthesebericht des Weltklimarats findet sich auf Seite 16 eine beeindruckende Grafik. Sie veranschaulicht die sogenannten Hitze-Feuchtigkeits-Risiken für die menschliche Gesundheit.

BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters) - Wealthy nations are on track this year to meet their overdue $100-billion climate finance pledge to developing countries, three years later than promised, Germany's foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday.

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URSACHEN

Der Autor dieses Gastbeitrags ist Verantwortlicher Politische Kommunikation bei Helvetas, einer Organisation der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Infosperber publiziert seinen Artikel, der im entwicklungspolitischen Newsletter Polit-Sichten von Helvetas erschienen ist.

RECHT

The UN Human Rights Council has encouraged governments to adopt policies and an effective legal framework to implement the right to a healthy environment, a resolution that sparked tensions between proponent countries and the US.

RECHT

On Wednesday, Vanuatu, population 300,000, rallied countries to ask the world’s highest court to weigh in on a high-stakes question: Can countries be sued under international law for failing to slow down climate change?

Während Industriestaaten die finanziellen Möglichkeiten haben, extreme Schäden aufzufangen, stellt der Klimawandel für die Menschen im globalen Süden eine existenzielle Bedrohung dar.

The world must step back from the brink of climate disaster to save the people of the Pacific from obliteration, the prime minister of Samoa has urged.

Die Klimakrise sorgt weltweit immer häufiger für Ernteausfälle und damit verbundene Hungersnöte. Die Ökumenische Kampagne der Entwicklungsorganisationen Fastenaktion und Heks macht darauf aufmerksam und fordert mehr Klimagerechtigkeit.

Last summer, a third of Pakistan was underwater. My country, the fifth most populous in the world, was submerged. Two million homes were destroyed, thousands of acres of agricultural land were flooded and 90% of the crops in Sindh, a food belt, were damaged.

EMPFOHLEN KLIMAGERECHTIGK. POLITIK

A group of Pacific Island students who were instrumental in pushing a UN resolution that should make it easier to hold polluting countries legally accountable for failure to act on the climate crisis have greeted its adoption as historic.

Vulnerable communities disproportionately affected by global warming are being given ‘insufficient’ funds to help adapt to extreme climate impacts, the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says.

Nepal, Bangladesh, Senegal, Malawi, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Tonga and Vanuatu are exploring setting up national facilities to channel resources for climate disasters response and disburse money where it is most needed.

Am Mittwoch empfing Papst Franziskus die Gründer von "Debt for Climate", Juan Pablo Olsson (Mitte) und Esteban Servat, im Vatikan. (Foto: Servizio Fotografico Vaticano) Viele Länder im globalen Süden ächzen unter extremen Staatsschulden.

Der Aufschrei war gross, als jüngst Medien berichteten, dass Klimakompensationsprogramme weniger bringen als versprochen. Schlechte Nachrichten? Nicht, wenn einem der Schutz der Natur wirklich am Herzen liegt.

Of the 193 United Nations member states, 105 have now supported Vanuatu’s call to request that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gives an advisory opinion on states’ legal obligation for climate action and the consequences of causing harm.

Gaurav Ganti is an analyst at Climate Analytics, and a doctoral researcher in the Geography Department at Humboldt University of Berlin. Prof Carl-Friedrich Schleussner is head of climate science and impacts at Climate Analytics and professor at Humboldt University of Berlin.

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.

EMPFOHLEN KLIMAGERECHTIGK. URSACHEN

The difference between the carbon emissions of the rich and the poor within a country is now greater than the differences in emissions between countries, data shows.

RECHT

Les plaignants réclament à Holcim, basé à Zoug, "une indemnisation proportionnelle aux dégâts causés par les changements climatiques et une participation au financement des mesures de protection contre les inondations", ont indiqué mercredi dans un communiqué trois ONG qui soutiennent ces h

RECHT

Das Zuger Kantonsgericht muss sich mit einem brisanten Fall befassen. Am Dienstag haben drei Bewohner und eine Bewohnerin der kleinen indonesischen Insel Pari Klage gegen Holcim am Firmenhauptsitz in Zug eingereicht.

Portugal has signed an agreement to swap Cape Verde’s debt for investments in an environmental and climate fund that is being established by the archipelago nation off West Africa’s coast, Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said on Monday.

Der fossile Kapitalismus lasse sich eher von den Rändern her bezwingen, sagt der argentinische Aktivist Esteban Servat. Mit der Initiative «Debt for Climate» glaubt er, einen wirksamen Hebel gefunden zu haben.

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.

GENEVA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - International donors on Monday committed over $9 billion to help Pakistan recover from ruinous floods last year, exceeding its external financing goals and paving the way for a new model on raising funds to fight climate disasters in poorer countries.

Pulchérie Amboula lebt im Süden des Kongos auf der Batéké-Hochebene. Dort baut die Kongolesin das Grundnahrungsmittel Maniok an. Wenn sie versucht, ihre Felder zu betreten, folgen seit einiger Zeit Männer in Pickups ihrem Traktor, bis sie wieder weg ist.