Will the courts save us?
Climate protection – that’s all of us. For a climate-neutral world, for a climate-neutral Europe and [...]
Month: May 2024
New approach can reduce laughing gas emissions from agriculture by up to 95%
Norwegian scientists have isolated a soil bacterium that eats laughing gas. With a new technique developed [...]
Credibility makes or breaks the price: political commitment in long-term climate policy key for effective EU emissions trading system
High policy credibility is crucial for carbon prices in the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS) [...]
Climate change costs the world 12% of GDP for every 1°C of warming
a new report on the effects of climate change assumes that these damages are up to [...]
Electric cars: EU needs 8 times more charging points per year by 2030 to meet CO2 targets
A new European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) report reveals an alarming gap between the current availability [...]
Shared taxis, car-sharing, ridesharing: how pooling solutions can be strengthened in road transport
Two studies co-authored by MCC shed light on the opportunities for policymakers to incentivise this, and [...]
Every week is harvest season in Western-designed hybrid farm
Net zero, zero-mile agriculture system extends berry growing season Climate change and severe weather are the [...]
Carbon pricing works – major meta-study shows findings more comprehensively than ever
MCC Director Ottmar Edenhofer: “The conflict of beliefs over the core instrument of climate policy can [...]
Study reveals consumers value animal welfare more than environmental sustainability when buying meat and dairy products
The study suggests that while consumers consider sustainability important, other factors such as taste, quality, and [...]
Will farmers become the oil sheikhs of the 21st century?
The rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (1912 bis 1977) said at the end of his life: [...]
Climate change likely to aggravate brain conditions
Climate change, and its effects on weather patterns and adverse weather events, is likely to negatively [...]
Researchers identify fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50,000 years
Today’s rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point [...]
Environmental Monitor 2024: Climate protection measures are having an impact
he German Environment Agency’s (UBA) Environmental Monitor 2024 once again presents a mixed picture of the [...]
2023 was the hottest summer in two thousand years
Researchers have found that 2023 was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere in the past [...]
13 percent reduction in asthma in children born in an urban low emission zone
An MCC-led study based on health insurance data uses rigorous methodology to quantify the cause-effect relationship. [...]
The Top 10 Percent Are the Main Beneficiaries of Globalization
The income of many people around the world has considerably increased due to the economic globalization [...]