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Die CEO der Basler Kantonalbank sieht trotz Integration keine Staatsgarantie für die Tochter Bank Cler. Im Private Banking hegt Regula Berger mit ihrer BKB Expansionspläne.

Ein Artikel der britischen Vogue sorgt aktuell für ordentlich Gesprächsstoff: Darin fragt Kolumnistin Chanté Joseph, ob es heute peinlich sei, in einer Beziehung zu sein. Klingt absurd? Vielleicht – aber der Text trifft einen Nerv.

Pour des raisons organisationnelles, la compagnie maritime nationale, Algérie Ferries, a modifié son programme de traversées entre Alger et Marseille. Deux voyages initialement prévus pour […]

L’article Changement de programme chez Algérie Ferries : perturbations sur la ligne Alger–Marseille est apparu en premier sur .

Es ist schon wieder Montag, die Arbeitswoche beginnt. Mit Zappalot bleibt die Laune trotzdem gut. In der neusten Folge schauen wir aufs wilde TV-Weekend zurück.

Der Advent ist die Zeit der Christkindlimärkte. Inmitten von feierlicher Beleuchtung findest du regionale Spezialitäten, Handwerkskunst und würzigen Glühwein. Hier unsere schönsten Schweizer Weihnachtsmärkte 2025 in der grossen Übersicht.

Tragödie in Hundepension im Bezirk Uster: Elf Hunde sterben über Nacht unter mysteriösen Umständen. Vergiftung wird vermutet, ein weiterer Hund überlebte nach Behandlung im Tierspital. Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft ermitteln zur Ursache.

«Ich dachte, das sei ein Geheimnis – aber es stimmt»: Boris Becker erklärt in einem Interview, wie es fast zur Zusammenarbeit mit Jannik Sinner gekommen wäre. Stattdessen landete er im Gefängnis.

Der Baustart von Xherdan Shaqiris Einfamilienhaus in Rheinfelden rückt näher. Das Aargauer Verwaltungsgericht ändert im Rechtsstreit mit dem FCB-Star ein altes Urteil.

Alors qu’un conflit peut basculer en quelques jours, il faut parfois plus d’un mois à un État membre de l’Union européenne pour autoriser le transit d’un char par son territoire.

The post Frontières, goulets d’étranglement et paperasse : les obstacles à la mobilité militaire en Europe appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Az év eleje óta 19,34 tonna kannabiszt foglaltak le Antwerpen kikötőjében, míg tavaly mindössze 336 kilogrammot - jelentette a Le Soir című, francia nyelvű belga napilap internetes oldalán hétfőn.

Unifying the process for how public authorities buy goods and services would make things much easier for companies, the EU executive argues

The European Commission’s bewilderment also comes despite a meeting of EU and Chinese trade officials in Brussels last week

Ittasan vezetett egy 14 óvodást és az óvónőt szállító mikrobusz 69 éves sofőrje Kassán, bevonták a jogosítványát.

The 30th "Conference of the Parties" (COP30) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place from 6-21 November 2025 in Belém, Brazil. It will bring together world leaders, scientists, non-governmental organizations, and civil society to discuss priority actions to tackle climate change. COP30 will focus on the efforts needed to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C, the presentation of new national action plans (NDCs) and the progress on the finance pledges made at COP29.

By Gabriel Labbate
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 3 2025 (IPS)

A new global study has challenged a key assumption in climate planning: that the planet’s geological “carbon vault” is vast enough to hold all the carbon dioxide (CO₂) we might one day choose to bury underground after we remove it from the atmosphere. It isn’t.

After accounting for seismic zones, protected areas, and densely populated regions, researchers estimate that the prudent planetary limit for geological carbon storage is about 1,460 GtCO₂—still a significant amount, but a fraction of the 11,800 GtCO₂ often cited as “technical” potential.

That finding merits a rethink of any strategies that hinge on essentially limitless underground storage. It also strengthens the case for a diversified portfolio approach that utilizes every credible tool at our disposal, rather than placing too much reliance on a single bet.

We need to adopt a pragmatic approach to achieve both integrity and scale. For too long, the debate has been framed as “permanent” versus “non-permanent” climate solutions—as if the only climate value that counts is storage measured in centuries or millennia. Regardless of the geological storage available, that is a cardinal mistake. Climate risk unfolds across multiple time horizons; therefore, our response must also be multifaceted.

There is real value in decadal-scale reductions and storage. Lowering atmospheric CO₂ over the coming years reduces peak warming, a key driver most associated with triggering irreversible tipping points—from forest dieback to ice-sheet instability and shifts in ocean circulation.

Even if some carbon is later re-emitted, the avoided heat during those crucial decades buys time for technologies to scale, protects people and nature from compounding impacts, and lowers the probability of crossing dangerous thresholds.

Engineered removals and geologic storage may deliver ultra-long-lived storage, but, as this report shows, there is still much to be learned. At the same time, nature-based solutions—especially forests and other ecosystems—can deliver large, near-term emission reductions and removals while providing irreplaceable co-benefits: biodiversity, water security, community resilience, and livelihoods.

Both are essential. Pitting them against each other wastes time we do not have.

Uncertainty about the long-term stability of land carbon stocks does not mean all nature “will go up in smoke.” It means we need risk management, not exclusion. Take, for example, the permanence standard that was recently adopted for Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, which equates “negligible risk” with storage effectively guaranteed over a 100-year horizon.

Framed that way, most nature-based solutions are ruled out because uncertainties accumulate over time. The right test is whether systems deliver real, additional, and durable climate benefits over relevant timeframes—and whether risks are transparently accounted for and continually reduced.

Every financial advisor teaches the same lesson: diversify to manage risk and improve returns. Climate strategy is no different. No single approach—technological or nature-based—can deliver the speed, scale, and durability we need. The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report underscores that nature-based solutions, particularly forests, can cost-effectively close a substantial share of the near-term ambition gap—on the order of 4–6 GtCO₂ per year by 2030.

That is a vast climate asset if stewarded with integrity and social safeguards. It is also a necessary condition for the success of the Paris Agreement.

A portfolio approach matches tools to time horizons, hedges systemic risk, and multiplies co-benefits. Durable geologic storage should be prioritized for the hardest-to-abate residual missions and for genuinely permanent removal needs; and high-integrity natural climate solutions should be accelerated now for the heavy near-term lifting that lowers peak warming and keeps tipping points out of reach.

If any strand underperforms, the others continue delivering climate benefit. And by investing in nature, societies gain adaptation, biodiversity, and development dividends that pure storage cannot provide.

Policy must catch up to this reality. Integrity and oversight should be strengthened across all solutions so markets function with trust—robust baselines, conservative accounting, credible buffer pools, insurance against reversal risk, high-quality MRV, and clear liability rules.

Standards should move away from effectively impossible definitions of “negligible risk” and toward recognizing decadal climate value, requiring strong safeguards, and using diversified portfolios. Governments should incentivize innovation across the full spectrum of solutions rather than picking winners; technology-neutral frameworks that reward verified climate outcomes—and that recognize different but complementary durability profiles—will channel capital where it does the most good.

The science does not give us permission to wait for perfect solutions. It calls for an “everything, everywhere, all at once” approach—applied wisely. The new storage estimates should focus minds, not fuel fatalism. Scarcity is a guide to strategy: use geologic capacity where it delivers the greatest long-term value, and scale high-integrity nature-based and demand-side actions now to bend the curve this decade and reduce the chances of dangerous tipping points.

That is what a prudent, diversified climate portfolio looks like.

We will not solve a multidimensional crisis with one lever. We will solve it by pulling all credible levers at once, with integrity, urgency, and a bias for learning.

The toolbox is full. It’s time to use it.

IPS UN Bureau

 

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Just like every financial advisor teaches the same lesson: diversify to manage risk and improve returns. Climate strategy is no different. No single approach—technological or nature-based—can deliver the speed, scale, and durability we need, argues Gabriel Labbate, head of the Climate Mitigation Unit at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Ghibli-Filme berühren unsere Seelen – eine aktuelle Studie zeigt jetzt, warum. Hayao Miyazakis magische Welten schenken Freude, Trost und einen Moment des Innehaltens. Und machen dich erwiesenermassen sofort glücklich:

The European Telecommunications Standardisation Institute (ETSI) is leaning into playing a strategic support role for the EU, its director general tells Euractiv

Koalíciós szerződést írt alá hétfőn Prágában az új cseh kormány létrehozásáról tárgyaló Elégedetlen Polgárok Akciója (ANO), a Szabadság és Közvetlen Demokrácia (SPD) mozgalom, illetve az Autósok párt vezetője, Andrej Babiš, Tomio Okamura és Petr Macinka.

Euronews: "A Tisza Világ applikációt az elindítása óta támadják nemzetközi hekkerek, akik mögött nyilvánvalóan az orosz szolgálatok állnak. Hogy miért teszik ezt? Mert egy céljuk van: a magyarok többségi akaratával szemben hatalomban tartani az ő érdekeiket kiszolgáló legfontosabb uniós szövetségesüket, Orbán Viktort" - írta vasárnap (11. 2.) Facebook-oldalán a legerősebb magyarországi ellenzéki párt vezetője annak kapcsán, hogy ismeretlenek kiszivárogtatták 200 ezer felhasználójuknak, szimpatizánsuknak az adatait.

In today's edition: Energy tax, COP30, rail lobby interview

Hétfőn feljelentést tett az SaS a főügyészségen a kormánypárti politikusok állítólag puccsra vonatkozó kijelentései miatt. Bírálják, hogy a kormány nem foglalkozik a növekvő bűnözéssel és a romló közbiztonsággal, de az állítólagos államcsíny miatt rendkívüli parlamenti ülést kezdeményezett.