12.12.202118.12.2021 EU prepares way for 0% VAT on several goods, solar panels for residential use now on proposed list The European Council has approved a proposal to amend the EU rules on rates of value-added [...]
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30.11.202129.11.2021 Even the best implement too little climate action Worldwide, only 24 countries might be called a frontrunner – and the minimum necessary reduction in [...]
28.11.2021 IRENA’s Energy Transition Support to Strengthen Climate Action Insight to Impact IRENA is the lead intergovernmental agency working on energy transition through renewables. Renewables [...]
09.11.2021 Race Towards Climate Neutrality Is Underway: CCPI’s top countries lead the way The 17th edition of the Climate Change Performance Index, by Germanwatch and NewClimate Institute, monitors climate [...]
07.11.202107.11.2021 COP26 climate pledges could help limit global warming to 1.8 °C, but implementing them will be the key All the climate pledges announced to date, if met in full and on time, would be [...]
01.11.2021 The Case for Leadership and Bold Choices RENA urges global community to seize energy transition momentum at G20, COP26 and beyond The global [...]
13.10.202113.10.2021 World Energy Outlook 2021 shows a new energy economy is emerging – but not yet quickly enough to reach net zero by 2050 With emissions, climate disasters and energy market volatility all rising, governments need to send an unmistakeable [...]
12.10.202111.10.2021 Global minimum tax adopted: Important progress but more to be done for global tax justice The plenary of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Forum on BEPS sealed the final text of the international [...]
02.10.202102.10.2021 UN energy summit: Commitments of more than US$400 billion in new finance and investment announced New commitments at UN energy summit a major stride towards affordable and clean energy, but much [...]
21.09.2021 Poorer nations expected to face up to $75 billion six-year shortfall in climate finance: Oxfam Wealthy nations are expected to fall up to $75 billion short of fulfilling their long-standing pledge [...]
14.09.202114.09.2021 Global Witness reports 227 land and environmental activists murdered in a single year As the climate crisis intensifies, violence against defenders of the earth is escalating. A report released [...]
09.08.2021 Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying – IPCC Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate [...]
28.07.202127.07.2021 The July 2021 flood disaster in Germany and the Climate Crisis Statement of Scientists for Future on the extreme weather events in July 2021 Human-made global warming [...]
21.07.202121.07.2021 With only 2% of governments’ recovery spending going to clean energy transitions, global emissions are set to surge to an all-time high IEA’s new Sustainable Recovery Tracker monitors governments’ fiscal responses to the Covid-19 crisis and estimates their [...]
12.07.202112.07.2021 Community energy: More women, more success Above all, women like Greta Thunberg or Luisa Neubauer, as initiators of the Fridays for Future [...]