As the UNFCCC negotiations wrapped up at the newly finished World Conference Centre in Bonn, there was a feeling of slow and fractional progress towards the climate summit in Paris.
In July 2015, the third International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD) will be held in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The conference will set the tone for international ambition on
Last month the President of Poland signed the new Renewable Energy Act, which will, among others, grant support for renewable power production in microinstallations. Owners of the smallest RES installations
Europe is currently discussing how it should reform its ETS for the post 2020 period. In July 2015, the European Commission released its proposal on the reform.
The gavel went down two hours earlier than the scheduled finishing time of the first UNFCCC meeting of 2015. It is difficult to tell whether this is good or bad,
Today the EU decision makers are meeting in Latvia, the holder of the EU presidency, to kick off the debate on how to create the Energy Union. The strengths and
The coal mining industry did not have a good start into the New Year. Europe’s largest coal producer, the Polish company Kompania Weglowa, has been pushed to the brink of
Climate finance has been bumped down the pecking order of climate ambition during UN Climate Summit in Lima.
Emissions reduction and climate finance, both before and after 2020 – these two hot topics in the international climate negotiations will absorb the EU high level representatives, who arrived to the
Yesterday in Berlin, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) “Pledging Conference” concluded with USD 9.3 billion being pledged in support of climate action in developing countries. The table below shows the