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....

Digitisation is not only transforming our society it is also having an impact on the environment: On the one hand, digitisation can improve the state of the environment for example through digitally optimised production processes. On the other hand, negative environmental rebound effects can...

"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...

Die Rio+20-Konferenz im Jahr 2012 hat beschlossen, einen Prozess zur Verabschiedung von globalen Nachhaltigkeitszielen (Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs) zu etablieren. Dieser Prozess ist eng verbunden mit einem anderen Prozess, der post-2015-Entwicklungsagenda, zu der auch die zukünftigen...