Children are the most valuable Resource we have
The “UNICEF Photo of the Year” 2019 tells of children’s brave struggle to survive in the [...]
Year: 2019
German climate targets by 2030: how to reach them
The price signal in the EU Emissions Trading System only slows down half of Germany’s carbon [...]
Power industry in 2020
Electric vehicles, digitalization, grid-scale energy storage, microgrids and corporate PPAs to be key trends, says GlobalData. [...]
Technological R&D – the most important driver for climate protection
Survey of experts from the IPCC and the UN climate change conferences indicates the priorities. Climate [...]
EffiLayers gets organic photovoltaics rolling
Sunny prospects: Under the direction of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen, five [...]
Will the trade war between America and China help the climate?
New study: penalties imposed by the Trump government result in slightly reduced greenhouse gas emissions, but [...]
TU Freiberg student fights for conservation of water resources
Katharina Schmitt-Mücke from the TU Bergakademie Freiberg is currently working on the international project “Moment for [...]
Did 2019 really bring us an unusual number of wildfires?
With heightened media attention on the unprecedented Arctic wildfires this summer followed by the Amazonian fires [...]
Demographic change and decline in biodiversity: context more complex than previously known
SOE study on biodiversity research – The continuing loss of biodiversity is one of the greatest global [...]
New Report Shows Potential of Renewables as a Reliable Power Source in Refugee Settlements
IRENA and UNHCR forge partnership to increase the role of renewable power solutions for displaced communities [...]
Interactions in the Earth system amplify human impacts
What we do to one part of our Earth system does not just add to what [...]
The “air” in the ocean becomes thinner
In addition to warming and acidification of seawater, the loss of oxygen in the ocean increasingly [...]
EU solar boom: over 100% solar market increase in 2019
Strongest growth year for solar since 2010 – More new solar capacity installed than any other [...]
Coal boom in sub-Saharan Africa
New MCC study reveals threatening consequences for climate change mitigation: the global community must do its [...]
Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics
Animals that evolved in environments subject to large-scale habitat-altering events like fires and storms are better [...]
Climate Change Performance Index sees opportunity for turning point
Climate Change Performance Index 2020: Decreasing emissions in 31 out of 57 high emitting countries / [...]