To date, processes to implement the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and international climate change mitigation and adaptation obligations are largely disconnected in most countries. This creates administrative overlaps, costs and hampers the development of effective problem...

Industrial mass production on the basis of cheap raw material and fossil fuels, which has evolved as the economic Leitbild of the 20th century has reached its critical limits. The environmental impacts of fossil fuels are threatening both the environment and further economic development. Changes...

This volume is a collection of recent studies by scholars from the Environmental Policy Research Centre at the Freie Universität Berlin. It provides an overview on research on recent trends in ecological modernisation, the role of pioneer countries in international policy development and the...

Im Jahr 2015 wurden drei hochrangige Politikagenden auf internationaler Ebene verabschiedet: die 2030-Agenda für nachhaltige Entwicklung mit 17 Zielen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung (Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs), das Pariser Abkommen zum Klimaschutz und das Sendai-Rahmenwerk für...