New Year's Eve 2025/26 was not a „bit of exaggerated banging“, but a national stress test, which Germany failed magnificently with eleven dead, mutilated children, traumatised animals and a cheering pyro lobby. While some are popping corks, others are losing their hands, homes and joie de vivre - and yes, but the main thing is „tradition“.
While climate science has long been sounding the fire alarm, politics, the fossil fuel lobby and the Trump effect continue to play „business as usual“: +3 degrees by 2050, historically unjust emissions, a lobby playbook against climate protection and a COP30 that goes home with minimal compromises. Anyone who still wants to „wait and see“ has not understood the principle of responsibility.
Seitenaufrufe: 94 Die Stimmen von Expert*innen, Journalist*innen und Aktivist*innen – die COP30 ist besser als ein komplettes Scheitern (3. Teil) 5. Expertinneninterview: Claudia Kemfert, Klimaökonomin Die Überschrift ist leicht deprimierend: „Fossile Blockierer bremsen – die Gesellschaft ist längst weiter“. Genau dieses Spannungsfeld zieht sich durch die gesamte Reportage, in der Klimaökonomin Claudia Kemfert auf die COP30 zurückblickt – und...
Pageviews: 65 The voices of experts, journalists and activists - the German chancellor's waves were high (Part 2) 4 Reuters, AFP, TRT, EuroNews and Deutsche Welle The German chancellor's waves were high. Friedrich Merz stands at a lectern in Berlin, addresses a room full of business representatives - and makes a joke at Belém's expense. „Which of you would...
Page views: 61 The voices of experts, journalists and activists - The COP30 in fast motion (1st part) Tagesthemen from 10 November 2025 - Conference start The first official coverage of the start of COP30 on tagesthemen. Expectations at the start of the conference: Photo: Aerial view of the skyline of the city of Belém and the Amazon in the Amazon region in the state of Pará, Brazil. -Paralaxis / iStock by GettyImages Heute Journal vom 11.11.2025 -...
Seitenaufrufe: 90 „Welcoming the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém as the “COP of Truth”, restoring trust and hope in the fight against climate change (…)” So steht es geschrieben Die COP30 in Belém sollte die „Konferenz der Wahrheit“ werden – und scheiterte an genau dieser Wahrheit Wenn eine Klimakonferenz mit dem Versprechen startet, endlich die Wahrheit zu...
Seitenaufrufe: 103 Appell an unseren Umweltminister Wolfram Weimer. Hat ja offenbar sonst nix zu tun bei schwarzen und bei blauen Regierungen. Oder hast du was von ihm mitbekommen? Ja? Ehrlich? Das ist spannend, weil Wolfram Weimer ist Staatsminister beim Bundeskanzler und Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (umgangssprachlich: Kulturstaatsminister) , während unser Bundesumweltminister auf den Namen Carsten Schneider...
Page views: 510 It was so well prepared and planned. After last year fell through, everything should be better this year 2025. I've finished so many pages of text that some of it will be set to music - because nobody reads that much text. And then there was my editor, who blacked out one or two passages...
Page views: 83 „It has taken decades to fight for our protection laws. Let's not allow them to be quietly abolished because conservative parties - such as the European People's Party, the sister party of the CDU/CSU - want to exploit the majority situation to abolish good and important protection standards.“Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V. Open letter to the EU Commission Plenary Chamber of the European Parliament in Brussels,...
Page views: 96 In the „99 ZU EINS“ podcast, the „Gruppe Widerspruch“ discusses the topic of climate policy in capitalism in episode 546. The thesis: The climate crisis can hardly be effectively combated with the current form of capitalist states and economies. Instead of „yet another moral appeal“, there is a well-founded and systematic criticism of the underlying mechanisms of the economy, state and international politics....
