The paper “Making EU Governance Fit for Net Zero” analyses the current landscape of climate policy governance against eight core parameters at EU level and for Member States, and identifies a number of remaining weaknesses. Improvements should address several key processes, such as updating...

A long-term vision for climate protection is essential for triggering the actions and policies needed to bring about economy-wide decarbonisation. The scientific basis for long-term climate planning comes in the form of so-called climate protection scenarios. These studies model emission...

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...

Untersucht wurden die Treibhausgasemissionen für Deutschland auf der Basis von Modellanalysen für im Detail spezifizierte energie- und klimapolitische Instrumente. Im Mit-Maßnahmen-Szenario (MMS) werden alle Maßnahmen berücksichtigt, die bis zum 31.08.2014 ergriffen worden sind. Im...

Die Emissionen fluorierter Treibhausgase (HFKW, FKW, SF6) konnten durch die Verordnung (EG) Nr. 842/2006 stabilisiert werden. Für eine darüber hinaus angestrebte Reduzierung war eine Überarbeitung der Verordnung erforderlich, die in den Jahren 2012 bis 2014 erfolgte. Eine Neufassung wurde im...

The effectiveness of carbon pricing as a market-based policy tool with economy-wide transformation potential has increasingly rendered it the instrument of choice among policy makers responding to challenges posed by climate change. However, the potential for jurisdictions to introduce carbon...

Achieving the Paris Agreement Long-term temperature goal (PA LTTG) requires closing the 2030 ambition and action gap between emissions levels consistent with the Paris Agreement and emissions levels projected with current targets and policies. G20 countries have a crucial role to play in...

To increase climate policy ambitions and achieve carbon neutrality, countries need to take much more ambitious action already in the coming decade. One of the key areas of action is the transformation of our food systems towards sustainability. In this regard, two aspects stand out as having a...