Podcast climate update°: Why does the EU want to prepare for 3 degrees of global warming?

This week the EU Commission presented a framework plan for climate resilience and a proposal for a climate resilience law. In it, it calls on member states to prepare for global warming of up to three degrees Celsius by the end of the century. The plan is not very concrete. And: The Commission does not want to provide new financial resources, but it does want to provide digital tools. Verena Kern and Jonas Waack discuss why the step is still important in the klima update°.

Good news for the rainforest: Brazil's President Lula has been re-elected. He won the runoff against the right-wing extremist Flavio Bolsonaro, although he was still significantly behind in the first round. This means that the largest rainforest in the world is spared a repeat of the policy that massively accelerated deforestation under Bolsonaro's father Jair. Under Lula, on the other hand, 40 percent less rainforest was cut down in 2025 than in the previous year, the lowest since measurements began in 1988.

The next ice age began 2,000 years ago, but was stopped again in the 1960s by man-made climate change. This is the conclusion of a study published last week in the journal “Science”. In doing so, the research team questions the previous view that the next ice age was prevented by human-caused warming.