Opinion

Issue 4/2017

Video: Carbon pricing, switch to auctions

Editor-in-Chief Jörg-Rainer Zimmermann on the current debate surrounding carbon emissions, the continuing failure of the European trading scheme to deliver a just price for carbon dioxide, and how the switch to auctions is putting the expansion goals for renewable energies at risk.

23 Nov 17, 0

Comment

Video: The emissions trading system does not work

Editor-in-chief Jörg-Rainer Zimmermann comments on one of the topics in our latest issue of new energy: the disfunctional European Emissions Trading System and current, rather unambitious attempts to revamp it.

12 Apr 17, Jörg-Rainer Zimmermann 0

World Business Dialogue

Video message from new energy

Editor-in-chief Jörg-Rainer Zimmermann sends a video message on the future of our energy system to young entrepreneurs at the World Business Dialogue in Cologne.

10 Mar 17, 0

Energy people

The irreversible momentum of clean energy

As of 20 January, it is official: Donald Trump is the new president of the US, and Barack Obama is no longer in the White House. Before packing his bags, however, Obama left his successor a clear message on climate action. In the following article, first published in the US journal Science, Obama explains why he believes the transition to clean energy is irreversible.

15 Feb 17, Barack Obama 0

Op-ed by Ken Berlin (The Climate Reality Project)

Paris is Critical, But it’s Only the Beginning

Business leaders, NGOs, national governments and citizens all over the world are mobilizing leading up to December’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 21st Conference of the Parties in Paris (COP21). At COP21 we hope to see critical international action on the global climate crisis. The negotiations are being lauded as our best opportunity yet for national leaders to sign a strong, global emissions reductions agreement.

29 Jul 15, Ken Berlin 1