Climate Update

ANTI-KLIMA

Le gouvernement de Donald Trump a annoncé mercredi une trentaine de mesures allant à rebours de la politique climatique de l’administration précédente. Sont notamment concernées les émissions des centrales à charbon et la protection des zones humides.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

Donald Trump’s administration to is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US’ climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plant.

ANTI-KLIMA

Environmentalists vow to fight “the greatest increase in pollution in decades.”

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Entlassungswelle in den USA Anti-Wissenschaftskurs von Trump hat erste Folgen für die Schweiz Jetzt abonnieren und von der Vorlesefunktion profitieren.

ANTI-KLIMA

WISSENSCHAFTEN

ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier agency for weather and climate science, has been told by the Trump administration to prepare to lose another 1,000 workers, raising concerns that NOAA’s lifesaving forecasts might be hindered as hurricane and disaster seas

ANTI-KLIMA

We’re reaching the point with the second Trump administration where, as Wall Street investors would say, the crazy is “priced in.” There’s absolutely no reason to expect anything other than aggressively dishonest and profoundly stupid governance.

ANTI-KLIMA

In thinking about the war being waged against life on Earth by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their minions, I keep bumping into a horrible suspicion. Could Trump and Musk be seeking to end our time on Earth?

WISSENSCHAFTEN

As the U.S. swings a budgetary axe at the federal government, one of the biggest casualties is climate science. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) faces a brutal 20% workforce reduction—jeopardizing critical research just when we need it most.

POLITIK

Earlier this week, Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer and I reported on the head-spinning moves by the Trump administration that are undermining the government’s ability to combat climate change.

ANTI-KLIMA

Wie millionenschwere Stiftungen und mächtige Lobbyisten versuchen, Trumps Agenda nach Europa zu bringen und die CDU für sich einzunehmen.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an argument that aimed to restrict states from suing oil companies for financial damage related to climate change.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

L'UNIL fait partie des dizaines d'universités et villes dans le monde où des scientifiques se sont mobilisés vendredi "contre le muselage de la science, de l'établissement des faits et de leur communication".

POLITIK

Als Reaktion auf die Trump-Wahl und dem Aufschwung der Rechten in Europa ist ab und zu das Narrativ zu hören, dies sei das letzte Aufbäumen des Patriarchats und des fossilen Zeitalters. Ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass an dem Narrativ etwas dran ist.

ANTI-KLIMA

EPA chief Lee Zeldin wants to demolish the bedrock of greenhouse gas regulation. It won’t be easy.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

How layoffs at NOAA reveal a flaw in the government’s hiring system, briefly explained.

POLITIK

Argentina’s President Javier Milei has expressed his will to leave the global climate pact, but key trade partners and foreign aid may stand in the way

URSACHEN

The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Massenentlassungen, Forschungsverbote und vorauseilender Gehorsam in Bundesbehörden und Hochschulen: In den USA wird gerade das Rad der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis zurückgedreht.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Le groupe de scientifiques s'est réuni en Chine pour faire adopter le rythme de publication de leurs travaux par les représentants mondiaux. Certains pays producteurs de pétrole ou grands pollueurs ont barré la route à un calendrier accéléré.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Après que les Etats-Unis ont annoncé leur retrait de l’Accord de Paris, une série de décrets émis par la Maison-Blanche alarment les experts. Ces décisions risquent de défaire le réseau établi de coopération scientifique mondiale sur le climat

ANTI-KLIMA

President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power.

TECH. & ENERGIE

After several record-breaking years, the U.S. clean energy sector faces a critical moment. Solar deployment and electric vehicle (EV) sales broke records in 2023 and 2024. Renewables now dominate new power generation capacity, while new domestic clean energy manufacturing facilities are popping up around the nation. However, headwinds are also getting stronger.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Innert Stundenfrist wurde der Biologe Matthew Herron von einer US-Forschungs­behörde gefeuert. Seine Geschichte zeigt, wie perfide die Trump-Regierung ihren Kampf gegen die Wissenschaft führt.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

A Sudanese activist on the outcomes—and the irreversible implications—of abruptly freezing foreign assistance.

WIRTSCHAFT

The Trump administration’s deep cuts to clean-energy programs are raising concerns about U.S. commitments to the lender.

TECH. & ENERGIE

The administration is setting the stage for Congress to repeal a longstanding waiver that allows California to set its own pollution standards. State officials say the effort is illegal.

POLITIK

It’s time to rethink how climate action succeeds. The key is to acknowledge that it’s never the sole force driving political decisions

WISSENSCHAFTEN

The National Science Foundation has fired workers at the office that manages polar research, raising fears about a reduced U.S. presence in two strategic regions.

ANTI-KLIMA

Der US-Präsident liefert anderen Ländern und Energiekonzernen die Ausrede, bei Erdöl, Erdgas und Kohle zu bleiben. Der Wechsel zu den erneuerbaren Energien verzögert sich.

ANTI-KLIMA

Auch Umwelt-, Klima- und Verbraucherschutzverbände wehren sich gegen die Anfrage der Unionsfraktion zur Finanzierung von Nichtregierungsorganisationen. Scharfe Kritik am "besorgniserregenden" Demokratieverständnis kommt auch vom Umwelt-Dachverband DNR.

POLITIK

Les ambitions gouvernementales ont été revues à la baisse lors de la récente loi d’orientation agricole; c’est bien au-delà du Salon de l’agriculture que le désintérêt pour les questions environnementales et climatiques menace en France

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Après que les Etats-Unis ont annoncé leur retrait de l’Accord de Paris, une série de décrets émis par la Maison-Blanche alarment les experts. Ces décisions risquent de défaire le réseau établi de coopération scientifique mondiale sur le climat

POLITIK

L’Union européenne a proposé mercredi de mettre un coup de frein à certains de ses projets sur le climat pour donner un peu d’air aux entreprises, soumises à une concurrence féroce venant des Etats-Unis et de la Chine

POLITIK

Pour notre chroniqueur David Hiler, la transition énergétique est menacée sur le Vieux-Continent, tant les dilemmes se multiplient. Entre défense de son modèle d’économie sociale de marché et changement de cap «à la sauce Trump»

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Une partie de l'avenir de la crise climatique se joue cette semaine en Chine. Les membres du GIEC, soit les experts climatiques de l’ONU, sont réunis depuis lundi à Hangzhou, près de Shanghai. Objectif: faire adopter le calendrier et les thématiques de leur futur rapport.

POLITIK

Débat entre Simone de Montmollin, conseillère nationale (PLR/GE) et Manfred Bühler, conseiller national (UDC/BE).

ANTI-KLIMA

Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be reduced by 84 percent.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

At a conference in Boston, the nation’s scientists commiserated and strategized as funding cuts and federal layoffs throw their world into turmoil.

POLITIK

The funding, approved by Congress and overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency, had been blocked since January, when President Trump ordered a pause and review of climate and clean energy programs.

RECHT URSACHEN

The suit, filed in Alaska, is likely to be the first of many challenging the administration’s goal of expanding fossil fuel production.

POLITIK TECH. & ENERGIE

In his inaugural speech, the new US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright cited the German energy transition as a cautionary example. However, the figures he cited are largely incorrect, not very conclusive and incomplete, as our fact check shows.

POLITIK

Developing countries are calling on the rich world to defy the US president, Donald Trump, and bridge the global chasm over climate action, before the goal of limiting global temperatures to safe levels is irretrievably lost.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

Woher die Freude an der ökologischen Zerstörung kommt und wie die Mitte der Gesellschaft das befeuert, zeigt eine neue Studie. Demnach hat es viel mit Angst zu tun.

POLITIK

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has created a new class of “emergency” permits for fossil fuel projects, raising the possibility that pipelines, mines, power plants and other facilities could be fast-tracked for approval as part of President Trump’s demand to increase oil, gas and coal production.

POLITIK

EPA’s chief is also trying to claw back $20 billion, implying wrongdoing. Attorneys call it an evidence-free tactic to get around judges’ orders.

ANTI-KLIMA

Kathleen Sgamma to oversee Bureau of Land Management, agency that manages quarter-billion acres of public land

POLITIK

About 80 percent of manufacturing investments spurred by a Biden-era climate law have flowed to Republican districts. Efforts to stop federal payments are already causing pain.

ANTI-KLIMA

Elon Musk unterstützt Rechtspopulisten, die E‑Autos hassen. Welche Strategie verfolgt er damit für Tesla? Steht Tesla am Abgrund? Was können Teslafahrer:innen tun, um Musks Angriffe auf die Demokratie nicht weiter zu unterstützen?

POLITIK

Alors que nous célébrons les dix ans de l’Accord de Paris, les États-Unis s’en retirent pour la deuxième fois, tandis que les réglementations en matière de durabilité sont attaquées de toutes parts. Cette année aurait dû être celle des célébrations.

ANTI-KLIMA POLITIK

L'UDC s'est félicité du rejet dimanche par le peuple de l'initiative pour la responsabilité environnementale de la Suisse. Dans un communiqué publié le soir même, elle dit même vouloir sortir de l'accord de Paris sur le climat, dans le sillage des Etats-Unis de Donald Trump.

ANTI-KLIMA

The billionaire oil tycoon's fingerprints are all over Trump's high-speed push to crush environmental regulation and renewables.

ANTI-KLIMA

Since the inauguration, billionaires who funded climate action over the last decade have avoided criticizing Trump’s climate policies.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Aid projects were designed to help Central Americans withstand extreme weather at home. Their end could undercut Trump’s goal of reducing migration.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Market forces could undercut the administration’s plans to increase the use of fossil fuels such as oil and petrol.

ANTI-KLIMA

More than 300 career employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA while reversing environmental protections.

ANTI-KLIMA

What we don’t know about Elon Musk’s federal takeover

POLITIK

In einem Informationsschreiben zu den Sparmassnahmen des Bundes äussern sich die Zentralschweizer Finanzdirektoren zur Klimapolitik.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

The freeze’s effect on research is still unclear, but scientists fear ‘incalculable’ damage.

POLITIK

A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.

ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN

Trump administration pulling references online ‘won’t make crisis’ stop affecting Americans’ lives, say experts

ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN

Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

POLITIK

Donald Trump en est le porte-drapeau et le leader naturel, mais c’est bien une internationale conservatrice qui se constitue à travers le monde. Climat, inclusion, égalité: la Suisse va-t-elle changer de cap?

WISSENSCHAFTEN

As one of its first acts, the Trump administration removed the online data tool used to allocate money to environmental justice communities. In two days, a coalition of data scientists had restored it on an independent internet domain.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

The Trump administration’s attack on USAID puts at risk close to $500 million a year in grant-based climate funding for developing countries

POLITIK

Trump wants to “unleash American energy.” What does that mean?

WIRTSCHAFT

C.E.O.s, policymakers and billionaires at the World Economic Forum’s conference have long pledged to fight climate change. Has it done any good?

POLITIK

A rule known as the endangerment finding requires the E.P.A. to regulate greenhouse gases. It has proved resilient against earlier attacks.

POLITIK

Part 1: Some Limits We Need to Work Around

POLITIK

Legal experts said the president was testing the boundaries of executive power with aggressive orders designed to stop the country from transitioning to renewable energy.

TECH. & ENERGIE

In a sweeping order, President Trump halted federal approvals for new wind farms, in a move that could affect projects on land and in the ocean.

ANTI-KLIMA

Top political appointees are already at the E.P.A. preparing to erase the agency’s climate rules and pollution controls. Many of them have tried it before.

WIRTSCHAFT

Unter dem Druck der Republikaner haben alle grossen US-Banken eine 2021 gegründete Klima-Allianz verlassen. Nun überlegt sich die UBS den gleichen Schritt. In der Schweiz ist die Nachfrage nach nachhaltigen Portfolios allerdings ungebrochen.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN POLITIK

Er bezeichnet den Klimawandel als «grossen Schwindel». Nun beendet der vereidigte Präsident Donald Trump die Mitgliedschaft der USA im Pariser Klimaabkommen. Die wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten.

POLITIK

President declares energy emergency, reiterates Paris withdrawal plan and overturns emissions standards

POLITIK

Noch-US-Präsident Joe Biden hat große Ozeanflächen unter Schutz gestellt. Er poliert damit sein Bild vor der Geschichte auf. Bleiben wird von den Last-Minute-Dekreten wohl wenig.

WIRTSCHAFT

Beim Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos warnt Klimaforscher Johan Rockström vor "Gegenwind" in der Klimapolitik. Klima-Unternehmer:innen bleiben optimistisch, doch die Topthemen sind jetzt Wachstum und KI.

POLITIK

Tout juste investi, Donald Trump a signé une pluie décrets présidentiels lundi dont le retrait des États-Unis de l'OMS et de l'accord de Paris sur le climat

POLITIK

Just look at how we've treated the natural world

POLITIK

The new president is expected to exit the Paris Agreement, slash climate finance and wage war on science – but clean energy may get an easier ride

EMPFOHLEN POLITIK

A few thoughts on the last day of the old world

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Agencies and unions have put in place new guardrails designed to limit political interference in government research.

POLITIK

Trump’s presidency is a reversion to autocratic tyranny. Only concerted resistance can stop it from spreading.

WIRTSCHAFT

Die US-Bankriesen treten aus der Net-Zero Banking Alliance aus. Denn Donald Trump hat nichts für diesen «Schwindel» übrig.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Los Angeles is burning. Fossil fuel companies laid the kindling. Soon the world will stop caring.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Statt weniger Plastik zu produzieren, will die Industrie den Begriff «recycelbar» aufweichen.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Wind energy is one of the fastest growing and cheapest forms of electricity in the United States. The president-elect calls it “garbage.”

POLITIK

A lucrative tax credit for renewable energy could be hard to kill because it applies to a technologies favored by Republicans, not just wind and solar.

POLITIK

Einer zweifachen Herausforderung sieht sich die Klimabewegung zur Bundestagswahl gegenüber: Klima gilt als Stimmungskiller, zugleich verschärft sich die Klimakrise. Fridays for Future legt dazu Wahlforderungen vor.

POLITIK

We can't let momentum disappear again.

POLITIK

President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to roll back many of the rules and subsidies that have attracted billions of dollars from the private sector to renewable energy and electric vehicles.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK. URSACHEN

Investors buying into claims against governments are winning huge payouts. Developing nations, and the environment, are losing big.

ANTI-KLIMA

Once one of America’s most outspoken voices on the threat of climate change, Elon Musk now argues these existential risks have been overstated. This shifting stance could influence Trump and help the Tesla CEO’s businesses.

ANTI-KLIMA

Vor einigen Wochen schaltete sich Elon Musk in den vorweihnachtlichen Bundestags-Wahlkampf ein. Auf seiner Social-Media-Plattform X ließ er seine 208 Millionen Follower:innen wissen: "Nur die AfD kann Deutschland noch retten."

POLITIK

Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in Brussels, faced a harsh questioning of her character and credibility before winning a chance to fight against climate change in the halls of power.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Anxiety, uncertainty and a renewed sense of purpose are surging in the community.

POLITIK

From scrutinising delegates at UN climate summits to tightening rules on which countries host them and the deals they do, COPs can be cleaned up

WISSENSCHAFTEN

La conférence de l’American Geophyscial Union, le plus grand rassemblement mondial de scientifiques du climat, s’est achevée vendredi. Entre peurs et impuissance face à une future administration prête à débrider l’exploitation des énergies fossiles, les spécialistes cherchent des stratégies pour limiter les dégâts

ANTI-KLIMA

Chris Wright, Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary, says oil, gas and coal are key to solving global poverty. Some call that misleading.