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
From November 30 to December 12, 2023, the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) will take place in Dubai.
COP 2013 - 2022
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - 6th Assessment Report
At the end of February 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will present the Summary for Policymakers of Working Group II as part of the 6th Assessment Report (AR6). The report focuses on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. In early April, the Summary for Policymakers of Working Group III will deals with strategies for mitigating the climate crisis.
The Heinrich Böll Foundation is following the negotiations on the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report with a critical eye, particularly on the issues of net zero, overshoot of 1.5°C, and high-risk geoengineering technologies such as solar geoengineering (SRM) and technological Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR).
Further Dossiers
No Limits to Growth? - A Societal Transformation Scenario to limit global warming to 1.5°C - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
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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.
Further Articles
Events
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Blogs
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
