Die Klimakonferenz in Paris im Dezember 2015 wird jene Weichenstellung in der internationalen Klimapolitik vollziehen, die sich anlässlich der gescheiterten Klimakonferenz in Kopenhagen im Dezember 2009 erstmals abzeichnete.

If dangerous and irreversible climatic events are to be avoided, global average temperature should not increase by more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels. In order to achieve such a global target, a mitigation pathway has to limit global emissions to about 50 percent below 1990 levels by...

One of the lessons learned from the German effort under the heading of Energiewende is the insight that simply shifting to renewables and recommending improving energy efficiency is not sufficient to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Combined with the expected radical change of technologies this...

This insightful book explores the issue of sustainable development in its more operative and applied sense. Although a great deal of research has addressed potential interpretations and definitions of sustainable development, much of this work is too abstract to offer policy-makers and...