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.
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RECHT
The ICJ climate ruling has major implications for the loss and damage fund
As the fund struggles with lack of money and bureaucratic barriers, its board must align its actions with the landmark court decision
POLITIK
* BEFORE COP30 * 10 years after the Paris Agreement, countries are still missing climate deadlines
Meanwhile, emissions have continued to rise since the landmark treaty was signed.
AUSWIRKUNGEN POLITIK
* AVANT LA COP30 * L’objectif de 1,5 degré «sur le point de s’effondrer»
L'objectif de limiter le réchauffement climatique à 1,5 degré par rapport à l'ère préindustrielle est "sur le point de s'effondrer", a mis en garde vendredi le secrétaire général de l'ONU. Il craint, avec la situation économique mondiale, que les nouveaux plans attendus d'ici la COP30, dans deux mois, ne soient pas à la hauteur.
POLITIK
La Chine s’engage à réduire ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre de 7 à 10% d’ici 2035
Le président chinois Xi Jinping a révélé mercredi l'objectif de réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre de la Chine à l'horizon 2035. C'est la première fois que le premier pollueur mondial s'engage sur une réduction chiffrée à moyen terme, contrastant avec le recul américain.
POLITIK
* ICAO * ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry
Exclusive: Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting, thinktank says
TECH. & ENERGIE
AI ‘carries risks’ but will help tackle global heating, says UN’s climate chief
Simon Stiell insists it is vital governments regulate the technology to blunt its dangerous edges
POLITIK
Vanuatu working toward UN vote aimed at fighting fossil-fuel industry influence
Ralph Regenvanu, minister of climate change for the Pacific island nation, says step taken on ‘behalf of everybody’
POLITIK
* UN SUMMIT | BEFORE COP30 * China’s plans to cut emissions too weak to stave off global catastrophe, say experts
Xi suggested US not rising to the climate challenge in his UN speech, but critics say new cuts fall ‘far short’ of what is necessary
POLITIK
* UN SUMMIT | BEFORE COP30 * Countries› new climate targets must go ‹further, faster›, says UN chief Guterres
Secretary general calls on all nations party to the Paris agreement to set climate plans for 2035 that achieve faster and deeper emission reductions
ANTI-KLIMA
* UN SUMMIT | TRUMP * Trump Says Green Energy Is a Scam and Attacks Climate Science
In a remarkable United Nations address, the president lashed out at wind turbines, environmentalists and allies around the world while dismissing the dangers of climate change.
ANTI-KLIMA POLITIK
* UN SUMMIT | TRUMP * U.S. Stands Alone
On Wednesday in New York, countries lined up to say they would accelerate their efforts to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. In staying away, the U.S. was all but alone.
POLITIK
* BEFORE COP30 * Will China and the BRICS fill the ‘leadership gap’ on climate change?
Amid a rapidly fracturing geopolitical order, there have been growing calls for China to “step into [the] leadership gap” left by the US on climate change.
POLITIK
* UN SUMMIT | BEFORE COP30 * UN chief urges countries to go «much further, much faster» on NDCs
With about 120 leaders and ministers speaking in New York, the pressure is on for stronger climate action plans to rein in global warming, with the world off track to meet Paris Agreement goals
ANTI-KLIMA
* UN SUMMIT | TRUMP * Trump Takes His ‘Green Energy Scam’ Talk to the UN
The U.S. president promoted himself and criticized a wide variety of targets, including renewable energy.
POLITIK
* BEFORE COP30 * New National Climate Action Plans Trickle in During Climate Week, But Still Add Up to a Lot of Warming
Scores of world leaders reaffirmed their commitment to limiting human-caused global warming at Wednesday’s Climate Week summit during the United Nations General Assembly. But emissions under new climate action plans submitted so far this year under the Paris Agreement would still add up to so much warming that more climate experts are now publicly discussing […]
POLITIK
* BEFORE COP30 * Brazil Invited the World to the Amazon. It’s Become a Big Headache.
This year’s U.N. climate conference, on the edge of the rainforest, is fueling criticism of the host nation and the entire process of global diplomacy on climate change.
KLIMAGERECHTIGK.
* ICJ OPINION * Can the ICJ opinion bring climate justice for Indigenous peoples?
The landmark ruling by the world's top court says national climate policies must protect Indigenous and minority rights - but to be effective, it needs to be enforced by states
KLIMAGERECHTIGK.
* BEFORE COP30 * Push for minerals to be included in just transition
Developing nations want minerals production and energy access - not just fossil fuel workers - to be included in discussions on a fair low-carbon transition
POLITIK
* BEFORE COP30 * UN climate chief issues rallying cry on national climate plans as deadline looms
Simon Stiell calls for "strong" climate targets to be submitted as soon as possible to ensure their inclusion in a critical UN progress report
KLIMAGERECHTIGK.
Esther Duflo, Prix Nobel d’économie: «Taxer les plus fortunés en faveur des pays du Sud est un projet faisable»
Alors que les conséquences du réchauffement climatique s’accumulent dans les nations les moins nanties, l’économiste française, de passage à Zurich, plaide pour un système de taxation des personnes les plus riches. Malgré les vents contraires
URSACHEN
* SOMMET PLASTIQUE * L’échec de Genève ne doit surtout pas servir d’alibi à l’inaction
« Un texte aurait le mérite d’harmoniser ces efforts. Mais en son absence, les dynamiques nationales, régionales et financières ne devront pas ralentir. Le monde des affaires n’a tout simplement plus le luxe d’attendre », assurent Sarah Perreard et Julien Boucher, co-directeurs d’Earth Action.
BÜCHER POLITIK
Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat
The long read: Before Peter Betts died in 2023, he wanted to pass on what he had learned over many years of negotiating at Cops – including how Paris 2015 was saved at the last bell
EMPFOHLEN KLIMAGERECHTIGK.
Wie reiche Länder ihre Klimaschulden begleichen könnten
Die Klimakrise trifft diejenigen, die sie am wenigsten verschulden, am härtesten. Die reichen Länder treffe daher eine Schuld, die sie begleichen müssten, sagt die Ökonomin und Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträgerin Esther Duflo. Und sie macht einen Vorschlag, wie das funktionieren könnte.
POLITIK
* SOMMET SUR LE PLASTIC * L’échec des négociations sur le plastique à Genève, nouveau coup dur pour le multilatéralisme
La conférence qui visait à réguler la pollution plastique s’est terminée sur un échec spectaculaire. La Confédération suisse avait beaucoup misé sur cette réunion
POLITIK
* UN-PLASTIKGIPFEL * Plastikmüll-Lösung geschreddert
Die UN-Verhandlungen für ein Plastikabkommen wurden erneut abgebrochen – wegen einer Blockade der Ölländer. Viele warnen davor, nun einfach weiterzuverhandeln.
POLITIK
* un plastics summit * ‹Consensus kills ambition›: UN plastics treaty talks end without an agreement
Procedural hurdles once again foil progress on a global agreement to end plastic pollution.
EMPFOHLEN POLITIK
* UN PLASTICS SUMMIT * Plastics treaty talks collapse without a deal after «chaotic» negotiations
UN talks ran into overtime, ending with a standoff over whether a treaty should include curbs on plastic production and the way forward unclear
POLITIK
* UN PLASTICS SUMMIT * Why the World Is Deadlocked Over a Treaty to Stop Plastics Pollution
After three years of talks, and despite growing warnings about the dangers of plastics pollution, nations are at an impasse again over what to do about it.
POLITIK
* UN-PLASTIKGIPFEL * Wieso platzte weltweites Plastik-Abkommen?
Nun ist klar, dass Verhandlungen in Genf über ein UN-Plastikabkommen vorerst gescheitert sind. Rund 180 Länder konnten sich nicht auf einen Vertragstext einigen. Christian von Burg, SRF-Wissenschaftsredaktor ordnet ein.
POLITIK
* COP30 * How could the UN climate talks be reformed?
This year marks a decade since nations successfully negotiated the Paris Agreement. Yet, with another round of negotiations looming at COP30 in November, there has been growing discontent with the UN climate process.
RECHT
*ICJ ADVISORY OPINION* Human Rights in the ICJ’s Climate Opinion: A Comparative Evaluation
The rights-based findings made in the ICJ’s inaugural climate advisory opinion are not necessarily ground-breaking in terms of their scope or ambition. But that they instead serve to legitimize and encourage the climate-related findings of regional human rights courts and United Nations treaty bodies.
RECHT
*ICJ ADVISORY OPINION* ICJ ruling expected to shape US climate lawsuits
Trump's attack on climate policies go against the top court's opinion, which could be used by lawyers to fight back
BEWEGUNG RECHT
* ICJ ADVISORY OPINION * ‘We were heard’: the Pacific students who took their climate fight to the ICJ – and won
In a packed court thousands of kilometres from home, Cynthia Houniuhi saw years of work come to fruition with the landmark ICJ opinion on climate harm
TECH. & ENERGIE
Countries failing to act on UN climate pledge to triple renewables, thinktank finds
Fossil fuel reliance likely to continue and Cop28 target of limiting global heating to below 1.5C will be missed
POLITIK
UN Human Rights Experts and Scientists Urge Brazil’s President to Veto a Law That Would Cut Environmental Reviews
The country can’t claim a climate leadership role at COP30 while harming the environment and trampling human rights in the process, they say.
RECHT
* ICJ ADVISORY OPINION * How the world’s highest court bolstered the fight for climate reparations
An International Court of Justice ruling that climate harm violates international law could shape reparations lawsuits as early as this week.
RECHT
* ICJ ADVISORY OPINION * Historic ruling finds climate change ‘imperils all forms of life’ and puts laggard nations on notice
Countries have wide-ranging obligations to adequately tackle climate change, the International Court of Justice has found. Those who don’t could be legally liable.
RECHT
* IGH-GUTACHTEN * Was das Klimaurteil aus Den Haag so besonders macht
Alle Staaten der Welt sind verpflichtet, die Erderwärmung zu bremsen, sagt der IGH in einem Gutachten. Doch was passiert, wenn sie sich daran nicht halten? Auch darauf hat das Gericht eine Antwort. Und die dürfte Folgen haben.
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
* GUTERRES SPEECH * U.S. Is Missing the Century’s ‘Greatest Economic Opportunity,’ U.N. Chief Says
In a speech on renewable energy, António Guterres cited “clear market distortion” in favor of fossil fuels by President Trump and others but called the transition to cleaner energy economically inevitable.
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
* GUTERRES SPEECH * UN: Five reasons why switching to renewables is ‘smart economics’
The global energy transition is now “unstoppable” due to “smart economics”, UN general-secretary António Guterres has said in an online speech
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
* GUTERRES SPEECH * New climate plans must supercharge energy transition, says UN’s Guterres
UN secretary-general urges governments to send a clear signal in their NDCs about the 'inevitable' shift away from fossil fuels
KLIMAGERECHTIGK.
* FfD4 SUMMIT * What’s next for climate finance? From Seville to Belém
The recent Financing for Development (FfD4) conference in Seville offers important clues about how to continue the political momentum on the road to COP30 in Belém. It is the first time that the FfD process has meaningfully connected to relevant UNFCCC decisions.
POLITIK
COP30 president: Transition from fossil fuels can start
In an exclusive interview, André Corrêa do Lago says that negotiators can work out rules or a timeline for the energy transition
POLITIK
* UNHRC CLIMATE DECLARATION * UN Human Rights Council omits fossil fuels after mention is removed
A proposal calling on countries to transition away from fossil fuels had to be dropped from the final UN Human Rights Council resolution
KLIMAGERECHTIGK.
* FfD4-GIPFEL * Schulden und das Klima: Wer zahlt den Preis?
Die globale Schuldenkrise dominierte die internationale Konferenz für Entwicklungsfinanzierung in Sevilla. Sie blockiert auch Klimaschutz und Anpassung.
MILDERUNG & ANPASS. POLITIK
* BONN CLIMATE TALKS * Countries reach hard-fought deal on climate adaptation in Bonn
Thorny negotiations for the new deal on climate adaptation, known as the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), almost broke down
POLITIK
* BONN CLIMATE TALKS * Key outcomes from the June 2025 UN climate conference
Carbon Brief gives an overview of the key outcomes and disputes at the 62nd biannual sessions of the UNFCCC subsidiary bodies (SB62).
POLITIK
* BONN CLIMATE TALKS * 10 things we learned about Cop30 from Bonn climate talks
Key takeaways from two weeks of negotiations aimed at setting out stall for November’s Cop30 in Brazil
RECHT
UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying
Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms
POLITIK
* BONNER KLIMAGESPRÄCHE * Klimadiplomatie: Die Macht müsste mit dir sein
Der Grundkonflikt zwischen Industrie- und Entwicklungsländern übersteht auch die Klima-Zwischenkonferenz in Bonn unbeschadet. Eine Suche nach den Ursachen.
MEDIEN & ÖFF. MEINUNG POLITIK
* BONNER KLIMAGESPRÄCHE * Leerstelle Klimapolitik
In den letzten drei Jahrzehnten war meist anderes politisch wichtiger als Klimaschutz – damit hatte eine engagierte Klimapolitik immer zu leben. Doch vermutlich hatte sie noch nie so einen schlechten Stand wie heute.
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
UNESCO appoints Indigenous co-chairs to protect languages and knowledge amid climate crisis
"A single word like 'X̱maay' contains generations of climate knowledge, laws, and cultural practices."
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
* UN OCEAN SUMMIT * How to See the Sea
Protection should be the default state of the oceans. By George Monbiot
POLITIK
* UN OCEAN SUMMIT * Nations and Funders Seek to Create and Expand Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas
The global goal of protecting 30 percent of the world’s ocean by 2030 remains paramount to attendees who call for accelerated action to halt biodiversity loss and climate change.
POLITIK
* BONN CLIMATE TALKS * What could a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty look like?
As climate negotiations get underway in Bonn, an initiative set up to work on a pact against fossil fuels is discussing its structure and ways to promote the phase-out of coal, oil and gas
KLIMAGERECHTIGK. POLITIK
* BONN CLIMATE TALKS * Workers and grassroots groups push Just Transition agenda
Social movements want justice placed at the heart of national climate planning, and a new global mechanism to support worker and community-led transitions
POLITIK
* UN OCEAN SUMMIT * Progress and frustration mark the UN’s third Ocean Conference
The historic high seas treaty is not yet in effect — but countries drew closer to implementing it.
POLITIK
* UN-MEERESGIPFEL * Rettung für die Ozeane
Der UN-Gipfel in Nizza hat sie noch nicht gebracht, aber er war immerhin ein Lichtblick in trüben Zeiten.
URSACHEN
Over half of countries push for plastic production cuts in new UN pact
Ahead of hard-fought negotiations due to resume in August, 95 countries have issued a “wake up” call for an “ambitious” plastics treaty
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
World might have set itself an unachievable nature target, says former UK negotiator
A landmark global goal to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 is close to slipping beyond reach – and may have not been achievable when it was set in 2022, according to a former UK lead negotiator.
POLITIK
* SOMMET OCÉANS * Les océans ne doivent pas devenir un «Far West» pour l’exploitation minière, lance l’ONU
La conférence de l'ONU sur l'océan s'est ouverte lundi à Nice par des appels à la mobilisation et au multilatéralisme pour éviter le chacun pour soi dans les eaux internationales. En filigrane se dessine une dénonciation de la politique unilatérale de Donald Trump, absent du sommet.
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
A credible UN carbon market needs rules that count – we’ve just set them
The broad standards for a more ambitious market are now in place. But without a steady flow of investment, this progress will remain largely on paper
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
Are Countries’ New Climate Plans Ambitious Enough? What We Know So Far
2025 is a pivotal moment for climate action. Countries are submitting new climate commitments, otherwise known as "nationally determined contributions" or "NDCs," that will shape the trajectory of global climate progress through 2035.
AUSWIRKUNGEN
* BLATTEN * UNO sieht Zusammenhang zwischen Klimawandel und Bergsturz
Die Weltorganisation für Meteorologie (WMO) sieht einen Zusammenhang zwischen dem Klimawandel und dem Bergsturz in Blatten VS. «Das ist eine eindringliche Warnung vor der Erwärmung unserer Welt», sagte WMO-Generalsekretärin Celeste Saulo am Montag in Genf.
POLITIK
Does the world need a global treaty on energy transition minerals?
As countries rush to secure supplies of the materials needed to ramp up clean energy, a push for stronger governance rules is gathering momentum
POLITIK
* COP30 * Brazil seeks early deals on two contentious issues at Bonn climate talks
Moving forward work on just transition and implementing recommendations from the Global Stocktake of climate progress are key priorities for upcoming UN negotiations
EMPFOHLEN WIRTSCHAFT
Wachstum soll nicht mehr über alles gehen
UN-Generalsekretär Guterres ernennt eine hochrangige Fachgruppe, die Alternativen zum BIP entwickeln soll. Denn der angebliche Wohlstandsindikator "erfasst weder Wohlergehen noch Nachhaltigkeit noch Pflegearbeit".
POLITIK
COP30 must heed the elephant in the room: fossil fuels
Oil, gas and coal cause three-quarters of global emissions. Why are they nowhere to be seen on the Belém climate summit’s agenda?
ANTI-KLIMA
* TRUMP * Will any climate progress survive the next four years?
Trump wants to reverse years of climate progress. It won’t be easy. Many worry that the Trump administration will derail the clean energy transition. But there’s reason to believe otherwise.
POLITIK
* TRUMP * Trump’s first 100 days: US walks away from global climate action
The Trump administration has pulled the plug on the UN climate process and its financial contributions, while at the same time backing fossil fuels and obstructing renewables
POLITIK
* UNFCCC * Trump’s assault on climate make UN talks an ‘uphill battle’, says Cop30 chair
Tariffs and environmental cuts will make meeting challenging, says summit president André Corrêa do Lago
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
Klimaneutral schippern
Ein neues Verfahren macht aus Klärschlamm und grünem Wasserstoff einen Schiffstreibstoff. Bundesministerien wie auch Umweltverbände finden das gut. Offen bleibt, wie schnell sich das Ganze hochskalieren lässt.
POLITIK
L’Accord de Paris est-il soluble dans la guerre commerciale?
L’impact du MAGA ne tuera pas la lutte contre le réchauffement car c’est la Chine qui mène le bal, en produisant mieux et moins cher tout ce qui a trait à la transition énergétique, et en nouant des alliances cruciales, écrit notre chroniqueur David Hiler
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
Governments agree green shipping targets and fees for missing them
Ship owners who fail to reduce emissions intensity 30% by 2035 will have to pay into a “net zero fund” to clean up shipping through green fuels
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
New Pact Would Require Ships to Cut Emissions or Pay a Fee
A draft global agreement sets a fee for cargo ships, which carry the vast majority of world trade, to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions.
POLITIK
* NAVIGATION * Governments set to agree fees for ships that miss green targets
But countries are still negotiating over the scale of the targets and fees, with small islands wanting high ambition and bigger nations resisting
WISSENSCHAFTEN
* TRUMP * White House ends funding for key US climate body: ‘No coming back from this’
Nasa cuts contract that convened USGCRP, which released assessments impacting environmental decision-making
TECH. & ENERGIE
* NAVIGATION * La décarbonation du transport maritime se joue cette semaine
L’Organisation maritime internationale se réunit à Londres pour s’accorder sur les mesures à prendre afin que la marine marchande devienne neutre en carbone en 2050. Les opportunités sont immenses, les risques de tout faire capoter aussi, selon une ONG
TECH. & ENERGIE
Klimaneutrale Schifffahrt: wie soll das gehen?
Die IMO, die Schifffahrtsorganisation der UNO, hat beschlossen, dass die Schifffahrt auf den Weltmeeren bis 2050 klimaneutral sein soll. Wie das gehen soll, darüber sprechen die IMO-Mitgliedstaaten diese Woche in London. Zu erwarten sind nötige Investitionen in Milliardenhöhe.
EMPFOHLEN POLITIK
Klimawandel enteilt der Klimapolitik immer schneller
Die internationale Klimapolitik am Leben zu erhalten, ist dem Petersberger Klimadialog in Berlin gelungen. Gemessen am schnellen Klimawandel ist das aber deutlich zu wenig, sagen Fachleute und fordern engagierte Klimapläne und ‑finanzierung.
AUSWIRKUNGEN
* WMO CLIMATE REPORT * More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN
Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced
AUSWIRKUNGEN
* WMO CLIMATE REPORT * Earth’s 10 Hottest Years on Record Are the Last 10
A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year to be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial era.
AUSWIRKUNGEN EMPFOHLEN
WMO State of the Global Climate 2024
The clear signs of human-induced climate change reached new heights in 2024, which was likely the first calendar year to be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era, with a global mean near-surface temperature of 1.55 ± 0.13 °C above the 1850-1900 average.
EMPFOHLEN POLITIK
La bataille du climat – documentaire
C’est après la première Conférence de l’ONU sur l’environnement en 1972 que la bataille du climat a débuté. Une lutte féroce s'engage, mêlant gouvernements, entreprises, ONG, opposants convaincus et sceptiques. Ce film retrace ces cinquante années écoulées entre avancées réelles et espoirs déçus alors que les alertes climatiques se succèdent. – 73 min.
KLIMAGERECHTIGK.
Analysis: Nearly a tenth of global climate finance threatened by Trump aid cuts
Nearly a tenth of global climate finance could be under threat as US president Donald Trump’s aid cuts risk wiping out huge swathes of spending overseas, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
MILDERUNG & ANPASS.
* CDB ARTENSCHUTZKONFERENZ * Ein bisschen Frieden mit der Natur
Mit dem Beschluss von Rom gibt es endlich eine Perspektive für eine Trendwende beim globalen Artenschutz. Doch viel wird davon abhängen, ob der Plan auch auskömmlich finanziert und eingehalten wird.
POLITIK
* CBD * More than half of nations fail to protect 30% of land and sea in UN nature plans
More than half of countries have not committed to protecting 30% of their land and sea for nature by 2030 in plans submitted to the UN – despite signing a global agreement to do so less than three years ago.
POLITIK
Japan disregarded widespread calls to raise its 2035 emissions goal
Japan missed a UN deadline by submitting its new 2035 emissions reduction target a week late, reportedly because the government had received so many public comments on the 60% cut it proposed – and yet it made no changes in response to overwhelming calls to boost ambition.
POLITIK
*NDCs * 95% of countries miss UN deadline to submit 2035 climate pledges
Around 95% of countries have missed a UN deadline to submit new climate pledges for 2035, Carbon Brief analysis shows.
POLITIK
* NDCs * Der Klima-Klingelbeutel ist noch fast leer
Nur ein gutes Dutzend Regierungen hat bisher neue CO2-Reduktionspläne für das 1,5-Grad-Ziel vorgelegt, und auch die faktisch neue Frist dafür läuft schnell ab. UN-Klimachef Stiell macht bei den Verzögerungen ebenso auf Goodwill wie Umweltorganisationen.
POLITIK
Le climat à l’épreuve du Nouvel ordre mondial
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.
POLITIK
* NDCs * Les pays tardent à dévoiler à l’ONU leurs objectifs nationaux de décarbonisation
Une dizaine de pays seulement a respecté la date fixée à lundi par l'ONU pour soumettre leur nouveau plan de lutte contre le réchauffement climatique. Parmi les retardataires, la plupart des grandes économies mondiales, pressées de présenter des stratégies exemplaires après le retrait des Etats-Unis.
POLITIK
UN gives countries more time to submit “quality” climate plans for 2035
The head of the UN climate change body has urged countries to submit new “first-rate” climate targets by September, after only a handful of countries published updated plans to cut emissions ahead of a February deadline.
POLITIK
* SCHWEIZ | NDC * Klimaziele: Schweiz will ein Drittel der Emissionen im Ausland ausgleichen
Die Schweiz setzt in ihrem nationalen Klimaziel (NDC) für das Jahr 2035 verstärkt auf Emissionsminderungen im Ausland. Bis zu einem Drittel der Emissionen könnten durch Artikel 6 des Pariser Abkommens ausgeglichen werden, anstatt sie im Inland einzusparen. Das könnte wiederum nötige Investitionen verzögern und das Klimaschutzgesetz der Schweiz verletzen.
POLITIK
* SCHWEIZ | NDC * Was taugt unsere Klimapolitik?
Die Schweiz ist gut darin, ihre Klimabilanzen schönzurechnen. Um die gesteckten Ziele ohne Tricks zu erreichen, braucht es gehörige Anstrengungen. Und zwar möglichst bald.
POLITIK
* SWITZERLAND | NDC * Swiss NDC Target (Domestic) Leads to <3° World
The Climate Action Tracker assesses Switzerland's climate targets: "insufficient".
POLITIK
UN-Umweltgipfel: Ineffektiv, aber unabdingbar
Im vergangenen Jahr hat die Weltgemeinschaft kaum eine der vielen Krisen und Konflikte unserer Zeit gelöst. 2024, das kann man guten Gewissens behaupten, war ein multilateraler Totalausfall.
POLITIK
* TRUMP * Le retrait des Etats-Unis des Accords de Paris profitera surtout à la Chine
Washington ne participera pas au financement de la transition énergétique des pays les plus pauvres comme prévu, ce qui risque d’avoir des effets en cascade, écrit David Hiler, ancien conseiller d’Etat vert genevois. Sauf pour la Chine…
POLITIK
New Zealand plans to barely cut emissions between 2030 and 2035
The government aims to reduce emissions by 51-55% between 2005 and 2035, promising additional cuts of just 1% from its previous 2030 goal
POLITIK
Support grows for global tax on shipping emissions to fund climate action
Shipping-reliant nations like Panama and Liberia have joined the EU, Japan and small islands in backing an emissions levy