On September 25 in Bonn, the International Conference on Chemicals Management seeks a new framework for the global chemical industry – the goals: saving raw materials and energy, and achieving climate targets. The German start-up Traceless is working on solutions to achieve these goals. But the company is also facing criticism.
By Leonie Sontheimer
The UN's Climate Ambition Summit is putting the pressure on for a successful COP28. The summit was the antithesis of the grassroots climate conferences - and achieved something that is practically unthinkable in the diplomatic cosmos: A UN ranking of who takes climate action seriously and who does not.
By Bernhard Pötter
At the SDG Summit, it became evident that nations are far from reaching their sustainability goals. This poses a problem for climate action because efficient measures are hard to implement where poverty and hunger intersect with the climate crisis, as seen in the case of Honduras.
By Lisa Kuner