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1 week ago | 
table.media | Julia Fiedler |Manuel Berkel |Julia Dahm
For a long time, it was almost impossible to say whether an extreme weather event was linked to the climate crisis. Today, thanks to attribution research, heavy rainfall and similar events can be increasingly linked to global warming. An initiative by Davide Faranda now even aims to do this "almost in real time." But there is also criticism. Davide Faranda wants to take attribution research to a new level.
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1 week ago | 
table.media | Till Hoppe |Julia Dahm |János Allenbach-Ammann |Manuel Berkel
Europe.Table Professional Briefing#922 / Apr. 11, 2025Please use HAN to get access to this article. No payment data. No automatic renewal.
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3 weeks ago | 
table.media | Manuel Berkel |Lukas Bayer |Bernhard Poetter
Industry, local governments and environmental groups have issued a joint declaration calling for the rapid and environmentally friendly expansion of renewable energies. Read what those involved hope to gain from this in Table.Briefings. The development time for new wind, solar and electricity grid projects in Europe is to be significantly shortened through a construction method that is considered "fair" by all sides.
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4 weeks ago | 
table.media | Lukas Scheid |Manuel Berkel
Profits in the Chinese industry fell slightly in the first two months of the year. This is the third year of declining profits. This is seen as a sign of the ongoing difficulty of post-pandemic recovery. Find out more in Table.Briefings. China's industrial profits fell slightly in the first two months of 2025.
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1 month ago | 
table.media | Manuel Berkel |Malte Kreutzfeldt |Nico Beckert
The EU Commission may want to integrate biomethane into AggregateEU, the mechanism for pooling demand and joint procurement. At the annual Eurogas conference, an official also commented on the methane regulation. The EU Commission wants to strengthen energy security through more domestically produced biomethane.
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1 month ago | 
table.media | Manuel Berkel |Lukas Scheid
The EU's energy ministers are beginning consultations on what energy security should look like once the crisis is over. On Monday in Brussels, Germany's outgoing Economics Minister issued an urgent warning against new dependencies. Spring was in the air at the meeting of energy ministers in Brussels. "We are slowly getting over the crisis.
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1 month ago | 
table.media | Eric Bonse |Manuel Changming Liu |Manuel Berkel
This year, the EU and China are celebrating 50 years of diplomatic relations. Brussels has invited Xi Jinping, but according to a media report, he declined. Find out more in Table.Briefings. Xi Jinping has declined an invitation to attend a summit in Brussels to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the EU and China, reports the Financial Times, citing two anonymous sources.
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1 month ago | 
table.media | Denis Trubetskoy |János Allenbach-Ammann |Manuel Berkel
Robot dogs could shape the future of warfare. That is why the Chinese state has been investing in private manufacturers of ground drones. Find out more in Table.Briefings. They traverse rocky terrain, climb stairs and balance over obstacles: So-called quadrupeds are a popular gadget for the mass market.
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1 month ago | 
table.media | Manuel Berkel |Lukas Scheid |Nico Beckert
At the World Conference on Nature in Rome, the states reached agreements. This also has an impact on climate action. Read the details in Table.Briefings. At the three-day continuation of the World Conference on Nature (COP16) in Rome late on Thursday evening, the states agreed on a roadmap to develop a financial structure for the period after 2030 at the next two meetings. They also agreed on a mechanism to monitor and evaluate their progress in nature conservation.
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1 month ago | 
table.media | Malte Kreutzfeldt |Alex Veit |Manuel Berkel
Planning new electricity capacities with renewable energies has often been cheaper than with fossil fuels. Now comes the next step: In many countries, renewables even beat the costs of existing and ongoing fossil fuel power generation. The experts at Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) call it Tipping Point 2: The point at which newly installed electricity generation from wind and solar power plants is cheaper than existing fossil fuel power generation.
