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Bio-plastics for the climate?

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

230920 -- UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 20, 2023 -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres C attends the Climate Ambition Summit at the UN headquarters in New York, on Sept. 20, 2023. Guterres on Wednesday warned that humanity has opened the gates of hell on climate. /Handout via Xinhua UN-CLIMATE AMBITION SUMMIT-GUTERRES MarkxGarten/UNxPhoto PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN

Climate Ambition Summit: Guterres claims climate leadership

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