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....

"The fourth Factor X publication from the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity: The Nexus Approaches explores the interdependencies of sustainable development paths and associated resource requirements, describing and analysing the...

The success of climate and natural resource protection depends amongst others on the expansion of renewable energies. The policy paper describes the central results of the RESCUE study as well as the challenges and steps required to expand renewable energies in order to achieve greenhouse gas...

Eine nachhaltige räumliche Gesamtplanung ist ein zentrales Instrument zur Durchsetzung von raum- und flächenbezogenen Umweltzielen. Vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Herausforderungen hat das Forschungsvorhaben daher Bundesstrategien mit raumrelevanten Umweltzielen untersucht. Ziel war es,...