To be clear, if we don't succeed in mobilising private capital for the issue of #climateadaptation, the money won't be enough - even if we talk down the tasks. This is the case in Europe and even more so worldwide. 🤐 …rotection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/disaster-preve… It’s the 🐘 in the room, here @ #FTKatV. And it will be the key question to be answered in our joint @de_us_net @UCCRN webinar on May-31, 2024 (16h CET). #DialIn!

Last stage before #COP28 is #SB58! For @UFZ_de on site report @RSchwarze Hefty work load, unprecedented number of mandated events, efficiency needed. Negotiations texts t.b. expected on Wednesday, June, 14th, at 6 p.m.. Ready to comment at the location! #SB58

A short critique on Nahm, Miller and Urpelainen (G20’s US$14-trillion economic stimulus reneges on emissions pledges), or why I an less pessimistic ... nature.com/articles/d4158…) The study compares the stimulus packages of the 20 largest economies in the COVID period (2020/21) and finds an insufficient contribution to emissions reductions.

A week ago, the central bank of #China’s official website announced that the People's Bank will increase 100 billion yuan to support the clean and efficient use of #coal. Already in November 2021, the People's Bank of China (#PBC) created a special reloan of 200 billion yuan to support the clean and efficient use of coal in seven areas; the total amount of reloans to support #coal has reached 300 billion yuan.

The #Ukraine war has shifted international political attention from the Glasgow #COP26 voluntary pledges to the Russian invasion. Among the Glasgow pledges in detail, I see the most serious shortcomings in the pledge to phase out global funding for coal and other fossil fuels, the so-called #carbonbomb as The Guardian has currently called it, but also in the trend of continued and accelerated #deforestation