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As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. In February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force. As a result, for the first time ever the international community of nations is required to implement binding action objectives and instrumen... read more

Despite of the widely accepted but general goal of the Climate Convention to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system, its interpretation with regard to further international commitments is still pending. This situation gives reason for investigations towards reasonable specifications of the Convention’s ultimate goal.   read more

Im Auftrag des UBA hat das Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE 34 freiwillige private Initiativen zur Treibhausgasneutralität untersucht und anhand formaler, inhaltlicher und klimapolitischer Kriterien ausgewertet. Die Analyse zeigt die große Bandbreite und Unterschiedlichkeit entsprechender Initiativen. Teils greifen sie den Begriff Klimaneutralität nicht weiter auf, teils beinh... read more

A new map product for calculating the critical loads for eutrophication and acidification of terrestrial ecosystems and for modelling air quality was created in this project. The spatial extent of the map covers a large number of countries in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The results of this project are map products representing the land cover in 217 EUNIS classes and 13 RCG classes. ... read more

Die Broschüre stellt den Prozess und die Ergebnisse des Forschungsvorhabens „Zivilgesellschaftliche Nachhaltigkeitsinitiativen auf dem Weg in nachhaltige Politik stärken, skalieren, vernetzen“ vor. Nachhaltigkeitsinitiativen verfügen über ein großes Potenzial, um Transformationsprozesse voranzubringen. Im Vorhaben wurden politische und gesellschaftliche Hürden identifiziert, die die Arbeit von... read more

The buildings sector accounts for about 40% of final energy consumption in Germany, and by far the largest part of this is due to old buildings. In total, more than 80% of the final energy consumed in households is used for space heating and hot water (Federal Statistical Office 2010). Implementing the economically worthwhile measures for reducing energy consumption in the buildings sector wou... read more

Resource protection and resource efficiency are an ecological, economic and social necessity. Many resources are limited and under pressure from the rising world population, production methods, consumer behaviour and the high per capita resource consumption. Using more and more resources will exceed the limits of the earth’s ecological carrying capacity in the foreseeable future. This developm... read more