Achieving the Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal requires efforts for rapidly reducing GHG emissions while also increasing CO2 removals by sinks. G20 countries have a crucial role to play in increasing climate policy ambition. Land use change contributes 15 % of current global...

Climate change will affect the frequency, intensity and regional occurrence of extreme weather events and lead to gradual climatic changes. Although climate change impacts appear locally at first, they spread beyond political borders due to the global physical and economic interconnectedness....

Die Verhandlungen zu einem globalen Klimaabkommen welches 2015 in Paris beschlossen werden soll, und unter dem sich ab 2020 alle Länder zu Emissionsreduktionen verpflichten, stellt die Staaten-gemeinschaft unter der Klimarahmenkonvention vor große Herausforderungen. Unterschiedlichste...