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...

Climate protection scenarios are a key part of long-term climate policy planning, which has been given a further boost by the Paris Agreement. The modelling performed in such scenarios informs the development of 2050 national climate strategies—which themselves serve as roadmaps for the...

This policy paper commissioned by the German Federal Environment Agency examines the greenhouse gas reduction potential from the measures of the first pillar (GAEC standards and eco-schemes) of the Common European Agricultural Policy 2023-2027. The results are based on a study that will be...

In November 2018, the European Commission published its Strategic Long-Term Vision entitled “A Clean Planet for all” calling for the target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This proposal was subsequently agreed upon by EU heads of state and government, it features centrally in...

Mit den bis 2018 beschlossenen Klimaschutzmaßnahmen wird das Ziel, die Treibhausgasemissionen im Verkehrssektor auf 95 bis 98 Mio. t CO2-Äquvalente in 2030 zu reduzieren, deutlich verfehlt werden. Es bleibt eine Klimaschutzlücke von deutlich mehr als 50 Mio. t CO2-Äq. bestehen. Das UBA...