To create incentives for less car traffic, there should be road fees, for example depending on the time of day (“congestion charge”) or the pollutant emissions of the individual car (“air pollution charge”). This is the recommendation of Berlin-based climate research institute MCC.

The international balance of power in innovation is shifting. When it comes to world-class patents in important cutting-edge technologies, China is catching up fast or has already overtaken the United States in some areas thanks to its much greater dynamic.

Competitive power generation costs make investment in renewables highly attractive as countries target economic recovery from COVID-19, a new report finds.

Europe secured €60 billion in investments to produce electric vehicles and batteries last year – 19 times more than in 2018, new analysis shows.

The novel coronavirus outbreak has starkly exposed inequalities worldwide and could set back human development for the first time since 1990, the United Nations said.

The European Commission pledged to attach climate conditions to its massive funding package to save Europe’s coronavirus-battered economies, but stopped short of banning support for all fossil fuels,

The COVID-19 risk profile appears to be shifting: 15 percent of deaths in Brazil have been in patients younger than 50 years old, and nearly quarter of deaths in Mexico have been between the ages of 25 and 49 years.

Five years after first ditching some coal companies, Nordic investors are turning their focus to bigger carbon emitters in a range of industries, paving the way for other funds to follow.

Brown algae are important players in the global carbon cycle by fixing large amounts of carbon dioxide and thus extracting this greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology found that only highly specialized bacteria can carry out the degradation with the help of more than hundred enzymes.

Germans have difficulty gauging the negative impact of weather conditions such as ground frost, heat, or UV radiation. This is one of the key results of a representative survey conducted by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, published in Weather, Climate, and Society.