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.
Page views: 80 The voices of experts, journalists and activists - COP30 is better than a complete failure (Part 3) 5th expert interview: Claudia Kemfert, climate economist The headline is slightly depressing: „Fossil blockers put the brakes on - society has long since moved on“. It is precisely this tension that runs through the entire report, in which climate economist Claudia Kemfert looks back on the COP30 - and...
Pageviews: 56 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 the expense of Belém. „Which of you would...
Page views: 50 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 -...
Page views: 75 „Welcoming the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém as the “COP of Truth”, restoring trust and hope in the fight against climate change (...)” This is how it is written The COP30 in Belém was supposed to be the „Conference of Truth“ - and failed because of precisely this truth When a climate conference starts with the promise of finally...
Page views: 82 Appeal to our Environment Minister Wolfram Weimer. Apparently he has nothing else to do with black and blue governments. Or have you heard anything from him? Yes? Really? That's exciting, because Wolfram Weimer is Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (colloquially: Minister of State for Culture), while our Federal Environment Minister goes by the name of Carsten Schneider....
Page views: 430 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: 75 „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: 85 In the podcast „99 ZU EINS“, 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....
Page views: 100 And suddenly it's food or no food: Nestlé food or no food So. This article and the research into it will be exciting. For medical reasons, I am no longer dependent on receiving my tube feeds by bolus (syringe), but via the PEG pump. My previous tube feed, restoric® supportiv S Vegan from Vitasy, which I have been very happy with for years, has unfortunately...
