Climate Update

ANTI-KLIMA

Port Heiden is facing an energy crisis. A $300,000 grant from the EPA would have helped the traditional Alutiiq community swap costly, polluting diesel for cheaper, clean power.

ANTI-KLIMA

Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content

POLITIK

Ein Vorstoss von Mitte-Ständerat Benedikt Würth fordert die Lockerung des Waldschutzes. Umweltverbände laufen Sturm. Widerstand kommt aber auch aus der eigenen Partei.

POLITIK

Den Verkehr klimatauglich machen? Das wird immer mit dem Kostenargument ausgebremst. Dabei gibt es sozialverträgliche Lösungen.

POLITIK

Ein paar fehlgeleitete Zürcher wollen nach der Katastrophe von Blatten die Berggebiete aufgeben. Die Walliser Politik ist – wie immer – empört. Jetzt braucht es im Wallis eine ehrliche Debatte, schreibt ein Einheimischer.

RECHT

The city is suing oil companies over global warming. Trump says lawsuits like these threaten national security. The judge wants to hear what both sides think.

RECHT

The complaint argues that orders aimed at increasing American fossil fuel production infringe on the fundamental rights of young people.

RECHT

The judge asked lawyers how a suit by Charleston, S.C., claiming oil companies misled people about climate risks, might be affected by a Trump executive order blasting cases like these.

ANTI-KLIMA

The 24 awards would have gone to a range of companies trying in novel ways to reduce the pollution that is heating the planet.

POLITIK

The drastic policy shifts will make it harder on those who grow food — and on those struggling to afford to eat.

ANTI-KLIMA

Republicans have touted the House-passed legislation as one of the largest tax cuts in the nation’s history. They’ve failed to mention this increase targeting electric and hybrid vehicle owners.

TECH. & ENERGIE

The measure, passed by the House, would roll back incentives for people to buy electric vehicles and for automakers to make them in the U.S.

POLITIK

Der neue Bundeslandwirtschaftsminister Alois Rainer stellt billigeres Fleisch in Aussicht und erteilt der Tierwohl-Prämie eine Absage. Wissenschaftlich ist derweil klar: Ohne Agrarwende mit einem Abbau der Tierbestände sind die Klimaziele nicht zu erreichen.

ANTI-KLIMA

Mit ihrem neuen Steuergesetz attackieren die Republikaner die US-Energiewende. Dem "Inflation Reduction Act", Joe Bidens Erneuerbaren-Booster, droht die Abschaffung. Das würde auch große Teile der eigenen Klientel treffen.

POLITIK

Nächste Woche kommt der Beschleunigungserlass erneut ins Parlament. Er soll sicherstellen, dass der Ausbau von Wasser-, Wind- und Solarkraftwerken schnell geht. Doch nun droht das Gegenteil zu passieren.

ANTI-KLIMA

The agency plans to argue that carbon emissions from power plants do not contribute “significantly” to climate change. Scientists disagree.

ANTI-KLIMA

Dozens of states, counties, cities, and tribes across the United States and its territories are currently suing major fossil fuel companies for fraud, climate damages, or racketeering.

ANTI-KLIMA

A new report draws on internal company documents and other public records to comprehensively outline the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to mislead the public and avoid paying for their products’ harms.

ANTI-KLIMA

The party’s signature tax plan would kill most Biden-era incentives, but there’s a sticking point: G.O.P. districts have the most to lose.

ANTI-KLIMA

Far right accused of misinformation over turbines at Reinhardswald, which has left local people divided

WIRTSCHAFT

Research shows companies ‘aligned’ with strategies to meet climate goals have risen from 3% in 2019 to 23% in 2025

POLITIK

Some said they worried that California’s planned ban on gas-powered vehicles would raise the price of cars. Another cited “intense and misleading lobbying” by the oil industry.

RECHT

The halt threatens jobs and holds back energy production at a time the president has claimed an “energy emergency,” state attorneys general said.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Fossile Energien, Elektrifizierung, Paris-Vertrag und weitere Schlüsselbegriffe wurden von den Staaten aus den Vorlagen zum neuen Weltklimabericht gestrichen, sagt IPCC-Vizechefin Diana Ürge-Vorsatz. Das Gleichgewicht von Wissenschaft und Politik sei aus der Balance geraten.

RECHT

In an unusual move, the Trump administration pre-emptively sued Hawaii and Michigan to try to stop them from suing oil companies over global warming.

RECHT

In the wake of a high-profile court decision that upended the state of Montana’s climate policy, Republican lawmakers in the state are pushing a suite of bills that could gut the state’s ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

POLITIK

Compared to his first term, the threat posed by Trump’s second administration is on a “new level,” environmental groups and legal experts say.

TECH. & ENERGIE

The future for our planet looks bleak. Here’s why it’s not.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

The attack on climate science continues.

POLITIK

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

WISSENSCHAFTEN

The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.

POLITIK

Lawmakers voted to stop the state from requiring that an increasing share of new trucks sold there have zero emissions.

POLITIK

In just a few months, President Trump’s moves have exceeded the worst fears of climate activists.

URSACHEN

It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.

URSACHEN

This new legislation is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems in living memory.

POLITIK

Tariffs and environmental cuts will make meeting challenging, says summit president André Corrêa do Lago

ANTI-KLIMA

The former PM has form when it comes to pushing corporate interests and meeting populists halfway

ANTI-KLIMA

Former Labour PM accused of ‘handing talking points’ to Tories and Reform after saying net zero strategy faltering

ANTI-KLIMA

Hilft der Mann im Weißen Haus ungewollt dem Klima? Wer so etwas erzählt, will sich nicht selbst die Mühe machen, Konzepte für ein Wirtschaften ohne zerstörerisches Wachstum zu entwickeln.

POLITIK

Die neue liberal-konservative Regierung fährt eine so klimafeindliche Politik, dass die Emissionen steigen. Statt Alarm zu schlagen, spielen die Verantwortlichen die Folgen herunter.

URSACHEN

Fossil fuel giant BP’s recent scrapping of its 2030 interim target to reduce production is estimated to cause 72,000 additional heat deaths by the end of this century driven by increased emissions from burning more oil and gas, new Global Witness analysis shows. The target was to cut oil and gas production by 40% by the end of 2030 relative to 2019.

BEWEGUNG

Speculation is rampant that environmentalists could be targeted in an Earth Day move by the president.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Projekte zusammenstreichen, Wissenschaftler:innen entlassen: Macht die US-Regierung so weiter, fehlen künftig zentrale Datengrundlagen zur Bekämpfung der Erderhitzung.

ANTI-KLIMA POLITIK

President Trump issued four executive orders on Tuesday exploiting the declaration that America is experiencing an “energy emergency”.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations.

POLITIK

Officials are moving to eliminate requirements that most big polluters disclose how much carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases they emit.

ANTI-KLIMA

President orders justice department to stop enforcement of critical policies holding fossil fuel companies accountable

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Nasa cuts contract that convened USGCRP, which released assessments impacting environmental decision-making

BEWEGUNG WIRTSCHAFT

Dutch group Follow This says it will not file any resolutions against oil and gas companies this AGM season

URSACHEN

The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

The move raises concerns among scientists that the assessment, which is required by Congress, is now in jeopardy.

POLITIK

Das EU-Klimaziel – 90-prozentige Dekarbonisierung bis 2040 – wackelt. Die Zustimmung vieler Mitgliedsländer, auch Deutschlands, ist ungewiss, die EU-Kommission diskutiert "Flexibilisierungsoptionen". In Großbritannien steht gleich das ganze Netto-Null-Ziel zur Debatte.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Knapp 2.000 Wissenschaftler:innen fordern ein Ende des "massiven Angriffs auf die Wissenschaft" in den USA und schreiben von einem "Klima der Angst". Unter der Trump-Politik leidet besonders die Klimaforschung.

POLITIK

Avant l'élection de Donald Trump, des figures de l'UDC, comme le conseiller fédéral Albert Rösti ou le président Marcel Dettling, avouaient leur admiration pour lui. Depuis son investiture, l'UDC a même repris certaines de ses positions. Un durcissement de ligne qui va trop loin pour certains élus et qui en place d'autres dans l'embarras.

WIRTSCHAFT

Face aux décrets anti-ESG de Donald Trump, des investisseurs institutionnels réaffirment leurs convictions et font pression sur les gestionnaires d’actifs Agrandir l'image Aux Pays-Bas, la caisse de pension PME envisage de renoncer aux services de gestion d’actifs de BlackRock (dirigé par La

POLITIK

En cette année où nous allons célébrer les dix ans de l’Accord de Paris, les réglementations européennes en matière de durabilité sont remises en question. Le point avec Ophélie Mortier, Responsable de la durabilité et de l'impact chez DPAM.

POLITIK

Brussels caved to the auto sector’s pleas for leniency on emissions targets, giving lobbyists and politicians an opening to push for more.

ANTI-KLIMA BEWEGUNG

Everyone concerned about the health of the planet and of our democracies needs to stand with European green groups as we resist a concerted political campaign to defund us.

POLITIK

Der Verkehrsminister macht mit den neuen CO2-Regeln den Autoimporteuren ein Geschenk – für die er früher lobbyiert hat. Wie Albert Rösti sich erklärt.

WIRTSCHAFT

UBS ist der zweitgrösste Investor von San Miguel Global Power in Europa – einem philippinischen Energiekonzern, der seine fossile Stromerzeugung derzeit massiv ausbaut. Trotz der wachsenden Klimakrise unterstützt die Schweizer Grossbank damit weiterhin klimaschädliche Projekte.

BEWEGUNG RECHT

A pipeline company’s lawsuit against the environmental group could chill free speech, experts said. First Amendment issues are likely to figure prominently in an appeal.

BEWEGUNG RECHT

Greenpeace lost – not because it did something wrong but because it was denied a fair trial

WIRTSCHAFT

At a time of resistance to environmental, social and governance goals, pension funds have become a bulwark against efforts to sideline climate risks.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Given the Trump administration’s recent moves relating to climate, the former vice president is looking to the developing world for the next generation of climate activism.

ANTI-KLIMA

He once talked about the need to fight climate change. Now, he embraces Elon Musk, lavishes praise on the president and strives to stand out in a MAGA world.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Die Klimaforschung ist in den USA unter Beschuss. Donald Trumps Administration entliess seit Ende Februar Hunderte von Mitarbeitern aus einer Behörde, die eine zentrale Schaltstelle für Wetter- und Klimadaten ist. Das macht auch Wissenschaftern in Europa Sorgen.

ANTI-KLIMA

What the beef industry knew about its environmental impact — and how it spent decades blocking climate action.

BEWEGUNG RECHT

As Trump pushes ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda, Greenpeace verdict offers startling outlook for environmental activism

BEWEGUNG RECHT

L'ONG Greenpeace a déclaré à l'AFP qu'elle ferait appel du jugement. «Vous ne pouvez pas mettre en faillite un mouvement», a lancé Sushma Raman, de Greenpeace USA à l'AFP.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Vast quantities of climate and environmental information have been removed from official websites in the past months. Scientists are trying keep it available.

BEWEGUNG RECHT

The environmental group had said the lawsuit, over its role in a protest movement, could mean an end to its operations in the United States.

BEWEGUNG RECHT

Auch in der Schweiz nehmen Klagen gegen Nichtregierungs­organisationen zu. «Solche Rechtsfälle binden massiv Ressourcen», sagt Iris Menn, Chefin von Greenpeace Schweiz.

ANTI-KLIMA

Trump’s EPA claims that climate change isn’t a danger to human beings

POLITIK

Tariffs, tax credits and deregulation are among the industry’s top priorities.

POLITIK

Despite President Trump’s rollback of climate policy, some Republicans and business leaders say clean energy can help his “energy dominance” agenda.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

La professeure de l’EPFZ reçoit de nombreuses sollicitations de collègues américains qui cherchent à quitter leur pays en raison des attaques de l’administration Trump. Aux Etats-Unis, la politisation de la science climatique ne date pas d’hier, souligne-t-elle

BEWEGUNG RECHT

The storied group has a remarkable history of daring protests and high-profile blunders. It faces a reckoning in North Dakota.

TECH. & ENERGIE

To applause from oil and gas executives, Chris Wright said natural gas was preferable to renewable energy and climate change was a “side effect of building the modern world.”

ANTI-KLIMA

But will Team Trump succeed in turning back time? Maybe Not!

EMPFOHLEN POLITIK

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.

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

BEWEGUNG RECHT

The environmental group, battling a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, told the North Dakota Supreme Court it can’t get a fair trial.

URSACHEN

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