Climate Protection & Adaptation to climate change

Latest news & documents

• Call for Application: International Master Study Programme - Global Change Management (M.Sc.)
• Briefing Paper: Climate Change and Health - Time to Act ( January 2012)
• Poster Contest: Climate Justice
• Article: The Durban Package: an insufficient Breakthrough (December 2011)
• Climate Change Performance Index 2012 released at UN-climate summit. "Coalition of the responsible" needed to prevent dangerous climate change. Background Paper and Press release, 6 Dec 2011
• German Climate Finance Tested over the Long Term: New Website Goes Online. Joint Press Release of Brot für die Welt, Germanwatch, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and Oxfam, 02 December 2011
• Global Climate Risk Index 2012: Pakistan and Guatemala mostly hit by weather extremes in 2010. Germanwatch presents Global Climate Risk Index at UN climate conference in Durban. Press release and Background Paper, 29. Nov. 2011
• Briefing Note: An innovative approach: The German use of ETS revenues for national and international climate financing (November 2011)
• Discussion Paper: National Adaptation Plans. Towards Effective Guidelines and Modalities (November 2011)

Climate & Insurance

• Discussion Paper: Climate Insurance as part of a Post-Kyoto Adaptation Strategy (Oct. 2008)
• Report of Expert Workshop, 30 Oct. 2008: "Risk management and insurance solutions in face of climate change: The way forward in Poznan and Copenhagen"

• Glacial lake outburst floods in Nepal and Switzerland
• Sea-level rise in Bangladesh and The Netherlands
• Climate change challenges Tuvalu

• Briefing Paper: Low-Carbon Development in Southeast Asia. Energy Opportunities in Puerto Princesa, Palawan (Philippines) and Denpasar, Bali (Indonesia) (October 2011)
• Briefing Paper: Climate Change and Health - Time to Act ( January 2012)
• Analysis: Desertec and Human Development at the Local Level in the MENA-Region. A human rights-based and sustainable livelihoods analysis (October 2011)
• Briefing Paper: The Race to Low-Carbon Economies has started. Developing Countries Leading Low-Carbon Development (March 2011)
• Report of Conference and Film Festival: Development and Climate Day 2009
• Short Film "The Bill" (May 2009)
• Study: Climate change, food security and the right to adequate food (Nov. 2008)
• Adaptation under UNFCCC – the road from Bonn to Poznan 2008 (August 2008)
• Briefing Paper: Civil Society Alliances on Climate Change in Industrialised Countries(August 2007)

• Climate Change Performance Index - CCPI
• Climate Risk Index

• Analysis: Desertec and Human Development at the Local Level in the MENA-Region. A human rights-based and sustainable livelihoods analysis (October 2011)
• Renewables 2011 Global Status Report. Report and Press Release (July 2011)
• Renewables Grid Initiative brings together NGOs and TSOs and announces initial partners. Press release, 3 July 2009
• Briefing Paper: CCS in China (May 2009)
• The SuperSmart Grid - a PIK/ECF Paper (Aug. 2008) [PDF, 140KB]
• Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage as a sequestration strategy

General topics

• Briefing Paper: Climate Change and Health - Time to Act ( January 2012)
• Global Climate Risk Index 2012: Pakistan and Guatemala mostly hit by weather extremes in 2010. Germanwatch presents Global Climate Risk Index at UN climate conference in Durban. Press release and Background Paper, 29. Nov. 2011
• Discussion Paper: Reporting on the Use of Auctioning Revenues of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. Suggestions on Reporting Requirements with a Focus on those Potentially Used for International Climate Finance (November 2011)
• Analysis: Desertec and Human Development at the Local Level in the MENA-Region. A human rights-based and sustainable livelihoods analysis (October 2011)
• Green Climate Fund: Reports on meetings of the Transitional Committee
• Climate Compact Special: Successful start for the design of the Green Climate Fund (May 2011)
• Climate change measures must be made corruption proof. New report shows urgency of ensuring good governance in climate policy. Press release, 2 May 2011
• Briefing Paper: The Race to Low-Carbon Economies has started. Developing Countries Leading Low-Carbon Development (March 2011)
• Study: German Climate Finance. Put to the Test (November 2010)
• Oxford Energy and Environment Brief: Elements for organizing the Transitional Committee to establish the Green Climate Fund (January 2011)
• Interview with Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC (April 2010)
• Study: The Millennium Development Goals and Climate Change: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead (September 2010)
• Climate Summit in Copenhagen 2009
• Study: Scorecards on best and worst policies for a Green New Deal (Nov. 2009)
• Briefing Paper: Loopholes in the Emissions Targets of Industrialized Countries (11 Dec. 2009)
• UN Climate talks in Bangkok: Too little, too slow, too unambitious. Press release 9 Oct. 2009
• A summary of the Climate Negotiations in Bonn, June 2009
• A Copenhagen Climate Treaty - Version 1.0 (June 2009)
• Time for Decisions: The Climate Train Picks up Steam for Copenhagen. A Germanwatch contribution to the State of the World 2009 Report (April 2009) [PDF, 160K]
• Climate talks need massive political support. Press release 8 April 2009
• Briefing Paper: Between Poznan and Copenhagen: The Climate Train in the "Valley of Death". Results of the UN Climate Summit in Poland
• Climate Summit in Poznan
• Videos from the Climate Summit in Bali 2007
• Briefing Paper: Bali, Poznan, Copenhagen - Triple Jump Towards a new Quality of Climate Policy? (Feb. 2008)

• Website: The Adaptation Fund NGO Network
• The Germanwatch Adaptation Fund Project Tracker (January 2011)
• Report on the 15th Meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (September 2011)
• Briefing Paper: Institutions for Adaptation. Towards an Effective Multi-Level Interplay (June 2011)
• Briefing on the 15th Meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (September 2011)
• Report on the 14th Meeting Adaptation Fund Board  (August 2011)
• Briefing on the 14th Meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (June 2011)
• Report on the 13th meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (March 2011)
• Briefing on the 13th Meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (March 2011)
• Report on the 12th meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board
• Adaptation Fund - NGO Newsletter. An Independent Newsletter on the Adaptation Fund
• Briefing Paper: Making the Adaptation Fund Work for the Most Vulnerable (December 2010)
• The Adaptation Fund: Fully operational. Report of the 11th Meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (October 2010)
• Briefing on the 11th meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (September 2010)
• Report on the 10th meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board. (June 2010)
• Briefing Paper on the 10th meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (June 2010)
• International action on adaptation and climate change: What roads from Copenhagen to Cancún? (June 2010)
• Historic milestone achieved in the 9th Meeting of Adaptation Fund Board [PDF, 200K]
• Briefing Paper: Regional Centres for a changing climate (March 2010)
• The Adaptation Fund
• Adaptation to Climate Change in the Joint Africa-EU Strategy and the Copenhagen Climate Summit [PDF, 950K]
• Briefing Paper: Climate change Adaptation in Poznan: moving forward on short and long-term action? (Nov. 2008)
• Adaptation under UNFCCC – the road from Bonn to Poznan 2008 (August 2008)
• Briefing Paper: Adaptation to climate change - where do we go from Bali? (March 2008)

• Climate Compact Special: Germanwatch comments UN-Report on climate-financing (November 2010)
• Briefing Paper: Analysis of the German Federal Government’s Draft Energy Concept (September 2010)
• Briefing Paper: The Dead Souls: How to Deal With the Russian Surplus? (Sept. 2009)
• Briefing Paper: The Layers of the Doll: Exploring the Russian Position to Copenhagen (Nov. 2009)
• Briefing Paper "Funding Sources for International Climate Policy" (March 2009)
• Economic/climate recovery scorecards: How climate friendly are the economic recovery packages? (April 2009) [PDF, 270K]
• Europe's half-hearted plan to finance climate action. A comment on the Commission's proposal for a EU position (Feb. 2009)
• Discussion Paper: A Portrait of China’s Climate Policy

• Call for Application: International Master Study Programme - Global Change Management (M.Sc.)
• Germanwatch Climate Expedition