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No time for fatalism: 1.5 degrees can still be maintained

Climate science shows: The 1.5-degree target can still be met. To stop fighting for it would be tantamount to giving big emitters carte blanche – and would fail all people who live in places that lack resources and opportunities to adapt to a warming world.

By Redaktion Table

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Russia's climate policy becomes obscure

Over the past months, Russia has banned many international environmental organizations. With them, the last critical experts have fallen silent. Without them, the climate goals, strategies and measures of the Russian government can hardly be independently assessed.

By Arne Schütte

Protest In Bonn Against The War In Ukraine Ukraine activists install a hundred of water bottles with a sign of United Nothing at square of United Nation in Bonn, Germany on June 14, 2023 to appeal to representatives from all nations for the climate conference in Bonn as Ukraine Kakhovskaya dam was attacked with huge environmental and humane consequences Bonn Germany PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxFRA Copyright: xYingxTangx originalFilename: tang-notitle230614_np3Up.jpg

Bonn conference takes minimal steps towards COP28

The Bonn Climate Change Conference only partially fulfilled its function of making technical preparations for COP28: Many issues, such as the global stocktake, remained unresolved and were postponed without much progress. A long dispute over the agenda slowed things down even further — an overview of the results.

By Alexandra Endres

230602 -- TAIZHOU, June 2, 2023 -- This aerial photo taken on June 1, 2023 shows workers loading carbon dioxide at Taizhou coal-fired power plant of China Energy Investment Corporation China Energy in Taizhou, east China s Jiangsu Province. China Energy on Friday announced that it has put Asia s largest carbon capture, utilization and storage CCUS facility for the coal-fired power generation sector into operation in east China s Jiangsu Province. TO GO WITH China launches Asia s largest carbon capture project for coal-fired power sector Photo by /Xinhua CHINA-JIANGSU-CARBON CAPTURE PROJECT CN TangxDehong PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN

EU in line with Emirates: CCS as solution

Hardly noticed by the public, the EU has changed its course on the controversial issue of CCS: It now wants to keep the CO2 capture loophole open when ending fossil fuels. This is in line with the presidency of COP28.

By Bernhard Pötter