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Climate Policy

Frauen pflanzen Reis in Kathmandu, der Hauptstadt Nepals. In dem Land haben sich Frauen zusammengetan, um sich das Recht auf Landbesitz zu erkämpfen.

'No climate justice without feminism'

German foreign and development policy is to become feminist, according to the government's plans. This will also change climate policy. Feminism is supposed to bring more equal rights for all: Societies are to become fairer – and thus more resilient to global warming.

By Alexandra Endres

What's cooking in Brussels? Nuclear power, mon amour

The negotiators will meet next Monday for the trilogue on the Renewable Energies Directive. The status of nuclear energy will be negotiated – an explosive political discussion that will take us right up to the Franco-German border.

By Claire Stam

Combustion engine phase-out: one sentence, multiple readings

The majority needed to phase out internal combustion vehicles in 2035 is in question. In the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, Germany could derail what was still a consensus in the October trilogue agreement. The FDP sees the blame with the Commission and an unfulfilled recital.

By Lukas Knigge

KHANTY-MANSI AUTONOMOUS AREA, RUSSIA -  21, 2020: A helicopter battles a wildfire in the taiga in Sovetsky District of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, north-west Siberia. On 14 July 2020, the local authorities declared a state of emergency in wooded areas of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. Since the start of the fire season , more than 240 wild fires covering an area of more than 29,000 hectares have been reported in the region. Denis Bushkovsky/TASS PUBLICATIONxINxGERxAUTxONLY TS0E0B30

The war also damages Russia's climate policy

One year after the start of the Ukraine war, Russia's climate policy continues to favor natural gas, nuclear power and a controversial statistic that records forests as carbon sinks. Moscow discredits the international climate process as Western power politics. And climate action is also hampered by war and sanctions.

By Redaktion Table