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Are lobbyists at COP28 preventing the fossil fuel phase-out? | DW News

Negotiators at the COP28 climate summit have gone into overdrive, trying to avert failure.

Some countries – including Germany, the US and the UK – are refusing to sign up to the latest draft deal where a reference to "phasing-out" fossil fuels was taken out. The summit's hosts, the United Arab Emirates, have said they will now try again, in the hope of finding a consensus. Campaigners are blaming fossil fuel lobbyists at the conference for the watered down text.

For more on this, we talk to DW Climate Correspondent Louise Osborne.

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COP28: What difference can the 'loss and damage fund' really make? | DW News

Industrialized countries have pledged around half a billion US dollars to help the world's most vulnerable nations cope with the impacts of climate change.

An agreement on the new 'loss and damage fund' on the first day of the COP28 climate conference was met with a standing ovation. The money will help pay for damage caused by slow onset disasters, like rising sea levels, and extreme weather events, like heavy rain, flooding, droughts and wildfires. But many say the money pledged is not enough.

In Pakistan for example, families are still struggling after deadly floods – made worse by climate change – swept through Sindh province in mid 2022.

We talk to Mustafa Talpur. He is Asia Regional head of Advocacy and Campaigns for Oxfam international and joins us from Islamabad.

And for more, DW’s Climate Correspondent Louise Osborne is joining us in the studio.

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COP28 climate summit: Nations push for nuclear energy | DW News

The COP28 climate talks are taking place in Dubai, with an appeal to revive a source of energy that's been out of favor in many nations for decades.
US climate envoy John Kerry and French president Emmanuel Macron have spoken out in support of more atomic power as a source of emissions-free energy. France and the US were among more than 20 nations calling for a tripling of nuclear generating capacity by 2050. And in a further effort to limit global warming, German chancellor Olaf Scholz said the world needs much more renewable energy, while handling fossil fuels more responsibly.

00:00 Intro
01:17 Analysis from DW Chief Political Editor Michaela Küfner
02:32 DW climate reporter Louise Osborne reports on COP28 events

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King Charles III holds the day's opening address at COP28 | DW News

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned world leaders that ending the burning of fossil fuels is the only way to stop global warming.

Speaking at the formal opening ceremony of the UN's COP28 climate summit in Dubai, Guterres said that just reducing fossil fuel usage wouldn't be enough to prevent climate disaster. On Thursday, the talks got off to a quick start, with a landmark deal to help the world's poorest countries cope with the impacts of the climate crisis.

Britain's King Charles held the day's opening address at the summit. Here is some of what he had to say.

For more on the summit, we talk to DW's climate correspondent, Louise Osborne.

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How climate change is amplifying Europe's extreme weather events | DW News

Freak storms, flooding and devastating droughts, Europe's experienced it all this summer. The weather seems to be crazier than ever. Experts say it's linked to global warming. But how would that even work? We take a look.

Chapters:

00:00 Europe's "crazy" weather
01:20 A supercharged water cycle
03:37 Is climate change causing wild weather?
06:53 Living with change

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Amazon deforestation falls as leaders meet for key summit – DW – 08/08/2023

Heads of governments from the Amazon region are meeting to discuss how to protect the crucial rainforest. Illegal deforestation has marred the region for years. Scientists fear it could be reaching a tipping point.

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's most important carbon sinks and absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels. Yet it remains under threat — around 17% of the forest has already been destroyed.

Leaders of eight Amazon rainforest countries wil

Are new fuels the cleaner future of flying? | Transforming Business

Air travel is taking off again post-Covid, with passenger numbers to almost quadruple by 2050. But our sky-high dreams make for even bigger impacts on the climate. Could new fuels be the key to changing that?

#transformingbusiness #GuiltFreeFlying #airtravel

0:00 Intro
0:39 Plane engines and new fuels
01:53 The promise of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs)
03:44 Delta: betting big on SAFs
04:56 The challenges
07:29 The policy push
09:18 SAFs: the right way to go?



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Maritime nations agree to cut emissions to make shipping greener | DW Business

Maritime nations around the world have agreed to reduce emissions from the shipping industry to net zero by around 2050. The vague deadline - announced at a meeting of the UN's International Maritime Organization in London - apparently aims to take into account differences in national circumstances. The shipping industry currently accounts for around 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions - putting companies under increasing pressure to switch to greener fuels.

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The challenges of intensifying droughts and extreame heat | DW News

From decimated livestock in Ethiopia to dry riverbeds in England, many parts of the world are gripped by droughts, sometimes for years. In some regions, the climate crisis is making this extreme weather more intense. DW climate reporter Beatrice Christofaro explains how this is happening.

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How losing biodiversity could be killing us

Antibiotics, pain killers and even treatments for cancer – many are derived from nature. But we are killing off the species that could provide the next nature-based cure. How bad is biodiversity loss for our health?

Credits:
Reporter: Louise Osborne
Camera: Henning Goll
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editors: Michael Trobridge, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

#PlanetA #Biodiversity #Health

Read more:
Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of IPBES: https://zenodo.org/record/6417333#.ZEgk0y0RpTY

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:
https://www.iucnredlist.org

From drug discovery to coronaviruses: why restoring natural habitats is good for human health: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2329.abstract

The biodiversity crisis is a business crisis:
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2021/biodiversity-loss-business-implications-responses

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Discovering penicillin
02:05 Disappearing biodiversity
03:57 Healthy planet, healthy humans
06:51 Saving biodiversity
08:56 Conclusion

UN: Without halving emissions by 2030 world faces warming of around 3°C | DW News

The Earth has already warmed by at least 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial times in the mid 19th century. In 2015, world leaders agreed after intense negotiations to limit global warming to a common target of 1.5 degrees. So far, no major country is on schedule to meet this goal.

Future scenarios clearly show that climate change can only be halted with a radical transformation of the world's energy system. In addition, the report stressed that measures to adapt to the effects of climate change must already be implemented today. This will save lives and money, when compared with the costs of unchecked climate change on the global economy and society.

However, the window of opportunity to achieve these goals is closing fast, the scientists said. By 2030, the global community needs to nearly halve its emissions from burning coal, oil and gas, or face warming of around 3 degrees Celsius.

Guterres called on world leaders and fossil fuel companies to "massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every time frame." Speaking on Monday, he presented a plan to accelerate net-zero climate deadlines, invest in realistic innovations and deliver climate justice to those experiencing the worst effects of climate change.

Rising temperatures, natural disasters and irreversible ecosystem degradation are becoming increasingly life-threatening for humans and nature all over the world, top scientists warned in a major new report released Monday by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Efforts made so far to avoid passing a dangerous global threshold have been "insufficient to tackle climate change," but multiple options are still available. "Mainstreaming effective and equitable climate action will not only reduce losses and damages for nature and people, it will also provide wider benefits," said IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee. "This Synthesis Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action and shows that, if we act now, we can still secure a livable sustainable future for all."

"Today's IPCC report is a how-to guide to defuse the climate time-bomb," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. "It is a survival guide for humanity. As it shows, the 1.5-degree limit is achievable. But it will take a quantum leap in climate action."

Climate protection measures fall short
The fundamental message of all the IPCC's reports is unequivocal. "Without urgent, effective, and equitable mitigation and adaptation actions, climate change increasingly threatens ecosystems, biodiversity, and the livelihoods, health and well-being of current and future generations," said the report, compiled by 93 authors. Humanity has drastically altered the planet in just a few centuries, with responsibility for climate change linked to the burning of coal, oil and gas. At no time in the past 2 million years have CO2 concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere been as high as they are today.

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EU at loggerheads over hydrogen classification | DW News

How green is hydrogen? That's the question the European Commission needs to resolve as it resumes talks on renewable energy targets. At issue is whether or not hydrogen derived from nuclear power can be designated as "renewable." France - heavily reliant on atomic energy - has been lobbying in favor of that. But Germany and Spain oppose it. The French government is especially angry about this because is says it approved plans for a hydrogen pipeline between Spain and France on the basis that its hydrogen would get the renewable label. It's important because classifications of this kind can affect the eligibility for state aid.

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Gold: The dark truth behind your jewelry

Why is mining gold one of the world's most destructive industries? From Ancient Egypt to today, the precious metal has held a special value in society. Can the industry clean itself up or should we get less precious about this particular metal?

Credits
Reporter: Louise Osborne
Video Editor: David Jacobi
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer, Joanna Gottschalk & Michael Trobridge

Special thanks to the Deutsche Bundesbank for photos.

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

#PlanetA #Gold #SustainableMining

Read more:

Earthworks: Impacts of dirty gold on communities: https://earthworks.org/issues/dirty-gold-and-communities/

The clinical importance of the mercury problem in artisanal small-scale gold mining https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6549531/

Capturing coupled riparian and coastal disturbance from industrial mining using cloud-resilient satellite time series analysis: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35129

A pantropical assessment of deforestation caused by industrial mining: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118273119

World Gold Council: A Modern Day Gold Mine

Risk of tailings dams failure: https://izw.baw.de/e-medien/geotechnical-safety-and-risk-2011/PDF/3%20Risk%20and%20Reliability%20in%20Geotechnical%20Engineering/3_03.pdf

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:50 A golden history
01:47 How gold is used today
02:48 Industrial gold
05:48 Small-scale mining
07:00 Effect on indigenous communities
08:39 The actual worth of gold
10:57 Recycling gold
11:56 "Better" gold?
14:03 Conclusion: a way forward

Talks for a global plastics treaty get underway in Uruguay | DW News

For many people, it's hard to imagine modern life without plastic. But while its uses are endless, we also know that it's polluting our planet. That's why delegates from around the world are meeting in Uruguay, with their sights set on an internationally binding treaty, to help wean the world off its addiction.

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Biopiracy: How companies are buying up nature

Medicines and cosmetics use substances derived from nature. But Bioprospecting can turn into biopiracy. More and more companies are patenting natural ingredients making billions. It can come at a cost to the environment and traditional communities living in biodiversity-rich regions.

Credits:
Reporter: Louise Osborne
Video Editor: David Jacobi
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

#PlanetA #Biopiracy #Colonialism

Read more:
European Patent Office accepts biopiracy argument and revokes patent: https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/23505-epo-accepts-biopiracy-argument-and-revokes-patent

World Intellectual Property Organization: Leveraging economic growth through benefit sharing: https://www.wipo.int/ipadvantage/en/details.jsp?id=2594

The Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit sharing: https://www.cbd.int/abs/

Corporate control and global governance of marine genetic resources: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aar5237

Traditional Knowledge Digital Library: http://www.tkdl.res.in/tkdl/langdefault/common/Home.asp?GL=Eng

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:45 How It Began
02:28 Patently Questionable
05:25 Exploitation of Nature
07:12 Ethical Biotrade
08:38 Taking to the High Seas
10:50 The Road Ahead

What are the world's biggest carbon emitters willing to pay? | Business Special

Rising global temperatures have made extreme weather events like floods and wildfires more devastating. Climate disasters are causing billions of dollars in damage and hitting the poorest countries the hardest. But wealthy countries are responsible for the majority of earth-warming carbon emissions. A key question at the COP27 climate conference is: who should pay for the loss and damage due to climate change? DW takes a look at what developing countries want and what the world's biggest carbon emitters are willing to pay.

Article by DW environment reporter Louise Osborne: https://www.dw.com/en/who-is-paying-for-climate-change-loss-and-damage/a-63622795

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COP27: Who is paying for climate change loss and damage?

Global warming is leading to ever more extreme natural events and more damage. Countries in the Global South are demanding compensation for climate change they say wealthier nations, like Germany, caused.

Eric Njuguna is angry. The 20-year-old environmental activist is witnessing the devastating changes a warming planet is bringing to Kenya. People are losing their livelihoods, their homes and many, even their lives, to the worst drought the region has seen in the last 40 years.

"The impacts m

Opinion: Climate talks are slow — but they still matter – DW – 11/06/2022

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is shunning this year's UN global climate conference, citing "greenwashing." The summit definitely has its problems, and progress is slow. But everything counts, says DW's Louise Osborne.

The first time I saw Greta Thunberg in person she was sitting cross-legged, alone against a white wall, her "School Strike for Climate" sign propped up next to her. It was the COP24 international climate conference in Katowice, Poland, in 2018 and not many people knew much about
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