Addressing a Davos audience last year, in January 2022, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida publicly declared his vision for an Asia Zero Emissions Community (AZEC). Under Tokyo’s leadership, Kishida said, AZEC would drive regional cooperation and joint financing on renewable energy technologies and infrastructure, standardisation, and an emissions trading zone. A year on, Prime Minister…
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Today, the European Commission presented its “Fit-for-55” proposal which includes a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). The CBAM would impose a levy on imports into the EU based on their CO2 content from 2023. As part of the European Green Deal, Commission President von der Leyen had announced this instrument two years ago in order to be able to implement more ambitious climate policy targets without energy-intensive sectors shifting their emissions abroad (carbon leakage). Following the Commission’s proposal, the CBAM must now be spelled out in detail by the EU member states and the European Parliament. Going forward, it is key to ensure that the CBAM is effective in fighting climate change, that it is WTO compatible and, above all, that it has as few ramifications as possible for foreign policy and for developing countries in particular.…
The 2019 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25) from 2-13 December was all about raising ambitions of countries’ climate plans, rules for global emissions trading and addressing loss and damage from climate change. Together with partners from around the world, DIE co-hosted a series of events on managing climate risk and loss and damage, the…
Das Klimalog-Projekt am Deutschen Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) organisierte eine Vielzahl von Veranstaltungen bei und am Rande der 50. Sitzung des UNFCCC Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) und Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), auch Bonner Klimakonferenz genannt. Diese fand vom 14. bis 27. Juni in Bonn statt. Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des Projekts und seiner Partnerorganisationen informierten und diskutierten mit verschiedenen Akteuren, wie eine klimafreundliche, gerechte und nachhaltige Zukunft erreicht werden kann.…
We are a long way from 2015. That year, the world committed to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate – promising to end extreme poverty, address corrosive inequality, boost peace and prosperity, and stop climate change.
Now in 2018, we already look back at 2015 with nostalgia. This was the high water mark of multilateralism, brought low by the rise of populism and ‘illiberal democracy’. Suddenly, it seems, we are forced to find ways of rescuing the global rules-based order.
