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The success of climate and natural resource protection depends amongst others on the expansion of renewable energies. The policy paper describes the central results of the RESCUE study as well as the challenges and steps required to expand renewable energies in order to achieve greenhouse gas neutrality, and for Germany to make an appropriate contribution to the Paris Climate Agreement.

In 2018, the European Commission published its Communication “A clean planet for all”, which calls for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Under the Paris Agreement (PA), Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed to limit global warming to "well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels" and to make efforts to "limit the temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels". Achieving these temperature objectives depends imperatively on sufficient national climate action in the mid-term.

Due to various international agreements, Germany is obliged to report emissions of air pollutants annually. Emission inventories are calculated using the fuel inputs known from the statistics and the associated fuel-specific emission factors. For large combustion plants comprehensive data on air pollutants are available on the basis of numerous measurements.

Aufgrund verschiedener internationaler Abkommen ist Deutschland verpflichtet, Emissionen für Luftschadstoffe jährlich zu berichten. Die Berechnung der Emissionsinventare erfolgt mit Hilfe der aus der Statistik bekannten Brennstoffeinsätze und den dazugehörigen brennstoffspezifischen Emissionsfaktoren.

This paper examines the connection between Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement on the one hand and carbon leakage on the other. 

Which criteria and concepts for peatland projects are environmentally sound? This question is answered in a new study by the German Environment Agency. It considers standards for peatland projects in the voluntary market for emissions offsetting and in the future compliance markets.

The Paris Agreement combines collective goals with individual countries’ contributions. This hybrid approach does not guarantee that the individual contributions add up to what is required to meet the collective goals. 

Given that the Paris Agreement has strengthened the long-term temperature goal and that it calls for a balance of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and sinks within the 21st century, there is the urgent need to re-assess the long-term targets of the EU and to show how the target of GHG neutrality can be reached in the EU.

Im Zuge der Weiterentwicklung der Deutschen Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel (DAS) hat die Interministerielle Arbeitsgruppe Anpassung (IMAA) die Durchführung einer regelmäßigen Evaluation der Strategie im Fortschrittsbericht 2015 verankert.

This report presents the concept for the evaluation and further development of the national German adaptation strategy (DAS), a description of the survey instruments that shall be used and a detailed description on how the concept was developed.

Der vorliegende Bericht enthält die für die Evaluation der Deutschen Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel (DAS) entwickelte Evaluationsmethodik, eine Beschreibung der zur Anwendung kommenden Erhebungsinstrumente sowie die Vorstellung der Herangehensweise, mit der die Methodik entwickelt wurde.