According to a work plan published on Wednesday, China will extend its emissions trading system to the steel, cement and aluminum industries. From the end of 2025, 1,500 steel, iron and aluminum smelters as well as companies from the cement sector will have to participate in the ETS. However, according to ETS expert Yan Qin […]
It is officially the beginning of spring, and yet it almost feels like summer in parts of Germany. The problem is that there has hardly been any rain for three or four weeks. This is also reflected in the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research’s “Drought Monitor.”Parts of the total soil up to a depth of […]
Decarbonizing the German chemical industry will take decades, involve major structural changes and require massive government funding. The necessary transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon resources and energy presents the industry with major challenges. Even in the best-case scenario, the industrial sector, which accounts for around ten percent of German industrial output, will probably have […]
Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney has abolished the CO₂ tax for consumers as one of his first official acts. After being sworn in on Friday, Carney signed a prime ministerial directive to abolish the tax on April 1. The tax has been levied since 2019. Carney had already promised to abolish the tax during […]
It is unlikely that Europe will be able to supply itself with EV batteries, storage systems and the like. A recent study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI published in Nature Energy sees only a 50 percent chance of the EU achieving its goal of 90 percent self-sufficiency by 2030. However, […]
According to a new study by the organization WaterAid, climate change causes 52 percent of the world’s largest cities to become wetter, while 44 percent become drier. The study shows that the internal climate of some large cities changes from historically humid to dry or vice versa. This means that past adaptation measures are no […]
Contrary to their promises at the COP29 on climate finance, many developed countries are cutting their budgets for development cooperation and climate action. The debate about the Trump administration’s massive cuts to USAID’s development aid overshadows the fact that many European countries also give less rather than more money for development aid. An investigation by […]
An alliance of 16 civil society organizations has called on the SPD to push through its election promise of a wealth tax on the super-rich in the coalition negotiations. The revenue from this tax should be used for future investments such as climate action, public welfare and “support for low-income countries.” The signatories include Greenpeace, […]
Mark Carney was elected leader of the Liberals by a large margin on Sunday and thus also the candidate for the next prime ministerial election. He will soon succeed Trudeau on an interim basis. The 59-year-old Carney has never been elected to political office before, but can look back on a long career in the […]
China has only set itself minimal new climate targets for 2025 in the Government Work Report. It was published on March 5 at the start of the National People’s Congress and lists the following climate action measures:
