The global increase in greenhouse gases is also changing the climate conditions more severely in Germany. This particularly affects local cultivated landscapes, which cover large parts of Germany and are already experiencing a wide range of ecological problems. Although agricultural land use...

This short essay provides an account of what happened in the run-up to, and during, the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009. It briefly discusses the scientific basis for climate change policy, which came under fire only a few weeks before the Conference of the Parties. It then turns to the...