Climate Update

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

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Animals’ roles in the carbon cycle have long been overlooked. At the climate conference in Dubai, scientists showed how rewilding ecosystems can have big climate benefits.

POLITIK

Two days after the COP28 climate summit concluded on 13 December, Carbon Brief convened its team of specialist journalists to discuss the key outcomes of the two-week event in Dubai.

POLITIK

The agreement was hailed as a win for climate action, but Pacific campaigners say it is too little too late in a rapidly warming world

POLITIK

While Israel’s attack on Gaza featured prominently, Sudan’s civil war and its climate links were largely ignored at Cop28

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Carbon credit certifiers from the much-criticized voluntary market could be the big winners of a failure to strike a deal on the exchange of offsets between countries at Cop28, experts told Climate Home. Talks over Article 6.

POLITIK

The Russian government’s campaign for endorsement of “transitional fuels” succeeded at the Cop28 climate talks in Dubai.

WIRTSCHAFT

First, the little-known Emirati company set its sights on a forest the size of Maine. Then, another one that was big as South Carolina. After that, it focused on a chunk of land the size of Puerto Rico.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Going into the negotiations, parties were at odds over what seemed like mere technical details about transacting carbon units amongst countries under Article 6.2.

BEWEGUNG

Incidents of harassment, surveillance, threats and intimidation are creating a climate of fear at UN events including the recent Cop28 climate conference in Dubai, experts have said.

POLITIK

https://observer.com/2023/12/was-cop28-a-success-depends-on-who-you-ask/

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

The structure of the climate summits ensures that the most lethal interests prevail, by design. Here are some better models. Let’s face it: climate summits are broken. The delegates talk and talk, while Earth systems slide towards deadly tipping points.

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.

WIRTSCHAFT

Die COP 28 in Dubai war eigentlich keine Klimakonferenz. Sie war eine Weltwirtschaftskonferenz, und sie hat die Weichen neu gestellt. Es geht jetzt nicht mehr um Eisbären und Hitzetote, sondern um knallharte wirtschaftliche Interessen.

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.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Nur mit Appellen und dem kleinsten gemeinsamen Nenner kommt die Welt beim Klimaschutz nicht voran, sagt Mojib Latif. Der Kieler Klimaforscher über die Ergebnisse des Dubai-Gipfels.

POLITIK

Die Klimakonferenz in Dubai hätte auch scheitern können. Die Formulierung «Ausstieg aus den Fossilen» hatten Erdölländer, allen voran Saudi-Arabien, blockiert. Die ganz grosse Mehrheit der anderen Länder wollte aber genau das.

POLITIK

Three months ago in Delhi, leaders of G20 major economies backed a tripling of global renewable energy capacity by 2030. Then last Saturday in Dubai, a much bigger group of nations signed a similar pledge.

POLITIK

Diverting the trillions of dollars by which the world subsidises fossil fuel production each year, and putting an implicit price on carbon emissions, would generate the vast amounts of cash needed to tackle the climate crisis, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said.

Azerbaijan has been announced as the host of next year’s climate summit after fraught negotiations. Under UN rules it was eastern Europe’s turn to take over the rotating presidency but the groups need to unanimously decide on the host.

ANTI-KLIMA

Lobbyists from industrial agriculture companies and trade groups have turned out in record numbers at Cop28, with three times as many delegates representing the meat and dairy industry as last year.

POLITIK

Hopes of clinching a deal on carbon trading mechanisms evaporated under the desert sun in Dubai after a tussle between the European Union and the United States.  Countries failed to agree on key rules to trade offsets bilaterally and to kickstart a long-awaited global UN-sanctioned market.

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

It took 28 years of climate negotiations for world leaders to agree to wean the global economy from the principal source of climate change: the burning of fossil fuels. It happened at the tail end of the hottest year on record.

POLITIK

Seit zehn Tagen versammeln sich in Dubai Politiker, Aktivisten, aber auch Investoren, Banker und Ölproduzenten für die 28. Uno-Klimakonferenz. Die klassische Umweltpolitik steht dabei längst nicht mehr im Vordergrund.

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

Negotiators arrived in a good mood on Wednesday morning to the final Cop28 plenary in Dubai. At around 11 am, they adopted the final text of the global stocktake, in what delegates regarded as a historic moment.

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

Torn between countries demanding that Article 6 carbon markets be available with virtually no restrictions and countries insisting on upholding transparency, human rights, and climate ambition, negotiators at COP28 failed to break the deadlock.

POLITIK

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POLITIK

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Die Schweiz ist nicht mehr in der Koalition der hoch ambitionierten Länder: Albert Rösti wird für einen Entscheid kritisiert, den er gar nicht getroffen hat.

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

An der Uno-Klimakonferenz in Dubai ist die Schweiz mit zwei Delegationen vertreten. Die zweite hätte der Bund aber offenbar am liebsten totgeschwiegen.

POLITIK

L’accordo di Parigi è un trattato internazionale che intende far cooperare i Paesi delle Nazioni Unite per mantenere il riscaldamento globale al di sotto della soglia critica di 2°C rispetto all’era preindustriale e possibilmente al di sotto di 1,5°C.

POLITIK

Saudi Arabia is one of the strongest opponents of a decision at Cop28 to out fossil fuels, as tensions grow near the end of the first week of negotiations.

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.

POLITIK

Wo findet die nächste Klimakonferenz statt? In Dubai kann das noch keiner sagen. Das ist nicht nur höchst ungewöhnlich, sondern auch ein Problem für die Klimaverhandlungen.

WIRTSCHAFT

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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.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

The Earth is on a “disastrous trajectory” with “no adequate global governance” to deal with the scale of threats posed by climate tipping points, warns a major new report. These tipping points “pose some of the gravest threats faced by humanity”, according to the authors.

KULTUR & BILDUNG

Among the hubs for climate scientists, activists and fossil fuel lobbyists at the United Nations climate summit is a new addition this year: a place to pray.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Era uno dei risultati attesi ed è stato raggiunto subito, il 30 novembre, lo stesso giorno di apertura della Cop di 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

Climate change imperils Indigenous ecosystems, food security, knowledge bases and ways of life, leaders say, making rapid action to reduce emissions a “matter of life and death.”

POLITIK

Amid all the noise around the COP28 climate talks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, it can be easy to lose sight of the negotiations and the core legal process at the summit.

URSACHEN

The Environmental Protection Agency announced new regulations at the COP28 global climate summit in Dubai on Saturday that will reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by nearly 80 percent.

ANTI-KLIMA

At least 2,456 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop28 climate negotiations, according to an analysis.

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”.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

‘We need you,’ says Scientist Rebellion, which includes authors of IPCC reports on climate breakdown, as diplomats meet for Cop28

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Es ist eine der wenigen Veranstaltungen auf der Weltklimakonferenz COP 28, bei der die Wissenschaft im Zentrum steht.

POLITIK

Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der Weltklimagipfel nimmt "Gesundheit" einen zentralen Platz ein. In einer Erklärung fordern über 120 Länder Maßnahmen gegen die Klima- und Gesundheitskrise. Fossile Energien werden nicht namentlich erwähnt.

POLITIK

Auf dem Weltklimagipfel kommen auch dieses Jahr die anspruchsvollsten Forderungen von der "High Ambition Coalition". Obwohl Deutschland Mitglied ist, hat Kanzler Scholz die Unterschrift verweigert und dem politisch wichtigen Bündnis einen Bedeutungsverlust beschert.

POLITIK

Am Rande des Klimagipfels in Dubai ruft Scholz einen "Klimaklub" aus 36 Ländern ins Leben. Mit ihm soll die grüne Transformation der Industrie vorangebracht werden. Genaue Ziele oder Maßnahmen gibt es bisher aber nicht.

POLITIK

Le glyphosate, c’est pas si mal alors ?

ANTI-KLIMA

- Des dizaines de dirigeants, chefs d'Etat et monarques se sont succédé à la tribune de la COP28 à Dubaï durant les premiers jours, mais le chemin vers un accord pour rompre la paralysie climatique semble loin d'être acquis.

POLITIK

Ein Club von 34 Ländern will vorangehen im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel. Kann das funktionieren? Eine Übersicht. Die Schweiz tritt dem «Klima-Club» bei.

ANTI-KLIMA

As the world’s leaders gather this week at a major summit to discuss ways to address the effects of global warming, one of the greatest obstacles they face is disinformation.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

The US has promised $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), for reducing emissions and adapting to climate change in developing countries.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

The oil and gas industry wants you to believe it can capture its emissions and keep drilling as usual. That’s no way to avert climate chaos

URSACHEN

But, as vague ambitions now turn into concrete plans, the reality looks rather different. A timeline for the early closure of coal power plants is absent from the investment blueprint for the Just Energy Transition Partnership (Jetp) unveiled at a Cop28 side event on Friday.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Governments have collectively pledged more than $400 million to establish a loss and damage fund for the victims of climate disaster. On day one of UN climate talks in Dubai, negotiators rubber-stamped plans to get the fund up and running.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal.

POLITIK

Aline Trede über die Klimakonferenz in Dubai und die Verantwortung der privilegierten Schweiz.

POLITIK

Die 28. UN-Klimakonferenz beginnt am 30. November 2023. Auch die Schweiz ist in Dubai mit von der Partie. Im Fokus steht eine Zwischenbilanz bei der Erreichung der Pariser Klimaziele von 2015. Was kann die Konferenz bewirken? Und: Wo steht die Schweiz im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel?

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

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.

POLITIK

More than 70,000 diplomats, politicians, business leaders and environmental advocates from all around the world are expected in Dubai on Thursday for COP28, the United Nations’ flagship climate change summit.

POLITIK

2023 may overshoot the Paris agreement target for the first time. What does that mean for climate negotiations? Month after record-breaking month, 2023 is on track to be the hottest year measured in human history.

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.

POLITIK

In Dubai in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten startet die 28. Weltklimakonferenz.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

As the host of global climate talks that begin this week, the United Arab Emirates is expected to play a central role in forging an agreement to move the world more rapidly away from coal, oil and gas.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

War, a fossil fuel boom and populist revolts are sapping the optimism from the fight against climate change. And then there’s Trump.

POLITIK

Governments are set to take a decisive step at Cop28 towards making a long-awaited global carbon market governed by the UN a reality.

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

Der amerikanische Präsident hat gewichtige Gründe, warum er dieses Jahr nicht zum jährlichen Klimagipfel der Uno in Dubai reist. Joe Biden will in den nächsten Wochen unbedingt ein Hilfspaket für 106 Milliarden Dollar für die Ukraine und Israel durch den Kongress bringen.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

France and Kenya are set to launch an international taxation taskforce at Cop28 to push for new levies to raise more money for climate action.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

In dieser Woche treffen sich in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten über 70.000 Politiker, Wissenschaftler, Aktivisten und Lobbyisten zur größten Klimakonferenz aller Zeiten. Die kurz COP28 genannte 28.

POLITIK

Die letzten zwei Jahre war es der Ukrainekrieg, nun der Nahostkonflikt. Der globale Klimaschutz ist auch dieses Jahr nicht zuoberst auf der Agenda der internationalen Politik. Trotzdem hat das Gastgeberland, die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, an der diesjährigen Klimakonferenz grosse Erwartungen.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Russland schlecht, Norwegen gut – und die Schweiz? Wer beim Klimaschutz wo steht Acht Jahre sind vergangen seit dem historischen Erfolg von Paris: Das Pariser Klimaabkommen von 2015 ist der ehrgeizigste Umweltvertrag, den die Vereinten Nationen bisher unterschrieben haben.

ANTI-KLIMA

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.

ANTI-KLIMA

Big meat companies and lobby groups are planning a large presence at the Cop28 climate conference, equipped with a communications plan to get a pro-meat message heard by policymakers throughout the summit.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

«Les températures moyennes enregistrées cette année sont spectaculaires. Elles correspondent à la fourchette haute de ce qui était prévu par les modèles climatiques. Il s’agit maintenant de voir comment elles vont évoluer dans les mois à venir.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

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POLITIK

USA geloben Besserung Halten die notorischen Klimasünder ihre Versprechen? Ohne die USA und China geht nichts an der nächsten Klimakonferenz Ende Monat in Dubai: Die Amerikaner sind für 11 Prozent der Treibhausgase verantwortlich, die Chinesen für 29 Prozent.

POLITIK

Non-binary campaigners told Climate Home News they would not attend Cop28, which starts on 30 November, or were wavering due to the host country’s record. Rani is a non-binary Pakistani who works for an umbrella group of NGOs on climate issues.

AUSWIRKUNGEN EMPFOHLEN

Ahead of every Cop climate talks, think tanks, campaign groups and United Nations agencies get their number-crunchers to produce a load of reports summarising where the fight against climate change is at. These reports can start to induce deja-vu.

POLITIK

A fine 2023 saranno state ben ventotto le conferenze internazionali delle nazioni sul clima, nazioni più o meno unite, amiche o nemiche, comunque coordinate dall’Onu per affrontare una questione globale.

POLITIK

Per quanto difficile e ingeneroso sia ridurre all’osso la complessità della diplomazia climatica, ogni Cop, ogni anno, ha un tema che emerge alla vigilia come più forte (o più scomodo) di altri e che tiene banco durante i negoziati.

POLITIK

As nations gather at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, top of the agenda will be the culmination of a process known as the “global stocktake”.