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 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has for several years been researching appropriate, effective ways of implementing the targets set by the international community on stemming climate change in a highly industrialised and developed nation like Germany. The findings of the Intergovernmental...

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...

Mit der Energiewende verfolgt die Bundesregierung eine Transformation hin zu einem auf erneuerbaren Energien basierenden Energiesystem. Als Querschnittsaufgabe betrifft die Energiewende die Bereiche Strom, Wärme und Mobilität und tangiert somit alle wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen...