Climate
We need to act now, if we want to keep the planet in a liveable condition under climate change. The Paris Climate Agreement was a step in the right direction. Now ambition has to be raised and wrong approaches to solving the climate crisis have to be prevented. We want to promote real alternatives, advance social-ecologic transformation and hold those accountable whose business model causes climate change. A change of course is possible!
Latest contributions
Speakers:
- Kai Kuhnhenn, Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie, Germany
- Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Central European University Budapest and IPCC Working Group III Vice Chair
Facilitation:
- Linda Schneider, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Senior Programme Officer International Climate Policy
In our Online Event "No Limits to Growth?" (15 December 2020) we present the „Societal Transfomation Scenario“, a new global mitigation scenario, which challenges not only the notion of perpetual global economic growth but also its compatibility with ambitious climate goals. It shows how through a reduction of production and consumption in the Global North, we can stay below 1.5°C without resorting to high-risk technologies while avoiding temperature overshoot.
With our two speakers we discuss the need for limiting production and consumption, in particular in wealthy countries of the Global North and explore to what extent are pathways of deeper transformation reflected in current work of the IPCC and what we can expect from the upcoming Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).
This event aims to open up the discussion around alternative pathways and future trajectories that are currently not considered in mainstream mitigation scenarios.
COP 25: Climate Conference in Madrid
The 25th Conference of the Parties (COP 25) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place under the Presidency of the Government of Chile from 2 to 13 December in Madrid, Spain. A key objective is to complete several matters with respect to the full operationalization of the Paris Agreement which includes a need to increase national ambition. Despite the relocation of the COP the civil society People’s Summit will take place in Santiago de Chile.
Further Articles
COP 2013 - 2018
Blogs
Events
Our German blog "Klima der Gerechtigkeit" offers current information and commentaries on national as well as international climate and energy policies.
In our blog "Global Energy Transition" global experts write about the international Energiewende.
Publications
Geoengineering
Climate Finance
This site germanclimatefinance.de is designed to critically evaluate and increase transparency regarding the German government’s contribution to international climate finance.
The Climate Finance Fundamentals look at various aspects of climate change financing. It is meant to give readers unfamiliar with the global discourse about funding for climate action a better understanding of financial flows, the regions and countries they reach, and the climate interventions they target
