12.02.202112.02.2021 German politics has been talking up coal for decades MCC uses big data technology to analyse all Bundestag speeches since 1949. Pro-fossil encouragement prevailed despite [...]
12.02.2021 Circular economy: MEPs call for tighter EU consumption and recycling rules Green Deal objectives can only be achieved through circular economy model – Binding 2030 targets needed [...]
02.02.202102.02.2021 G20 Countries’ Climate Policies Fail to Make the Grade on Paris Promises New G20 Zero-Carbon Policy Scoreboard assesses, ranks nations – and finds that despite impressive headline goals, [...]
19.01.202119.01.2021 As the USA re-joins the Paris Climate Agreement – a push for global climate action? Shortly before his inauguration as the next president of the United States, Joe Biden announced that [...]
08.01.202108.01.2021 CO2 pricing for emissions in heating and transport sectors to start in new year in Germany National emissions trading system for fuels creates more incentive for climate protection. Germany is set to [...]
05.01.202105.01.2021 Corona year 2020: record declines in carbon emissions and coal power Lower demand for electricity, more renewables and cheaper electricity production from gas heralded the beginning of [...]
02.01.202131.12.2020 The State of the Planet is broken UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on 2nd December 2020 called on humanity to end the “war on [...]
19.12.2020 Current policy frameworks hinder expansion of renewable energies worldwide and undermine climate targets While governments around the world spend billions of dollars to rebuild economies in times of the [...]
12.12.2020 IRENA Coalition for Action releases new report onstimulating community energy investment Citizen-led renewable energy projects – commonly known as “community energy” – can play an important role [...]
07.12.2020 Global arms industry: Sales by the top 25 companies up 8.5 per cent; Big players active in Global South Sales of arms and military services by the sector’s largest 25 companies totalled US$361 billion in [...]
04.12.202004.12.2020 Changemakers of the renewabledecade The European Solar Prize 2020 wasawarded to nine laureatesfighting for the energy revolution.Today EUROSOLAR awarded the [...]
03.12.202003.12.2020 World’s governments must wind down fossil fuel production by 6% per year to limit catastrophic warming A special issue of the Production Gap Report – from leading research organizations and the UN [...]
18.11.202018.11.2020 Climate Transparency Report 2020 The “Climate Transparency Report” 2020 reviews the climate policy of the G20 members The G20 countries [...]
10.11.202009.11.2020 Seven countries with the dirtiest electricity in 2030will undermine EU climate goals In the next decade renewables are set to double and coal power to halve – but [...]
28.10.202028.10.2020 Climate Investment Platform: Plugging the Energy Investment Gap in Developing Countries IRENA and Climate Investment Platform partners are working closely to advance renewables deployment efforts in developing [...]
21.10.202020.10.2020 Why there is no energy transition in many countries Understanding the forces of inertia in order to overcome them: a study led by the MCC [...]