This paper provides an overview of discussions on how to safeguard the sustainable implementation of the DESERTEC concept through the application of a sustainability framework.
Today, Germanwatch and six big German and European companies published a declaration in which they call on the German government to support the quick and long-term fix of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). The declaration, signed by Alstom, EnBW, E.ON, Otto, Puma, Shell, and Germanwatch, demands to enhance security for low-carbon investments done and planned. Low prices for CO2 are like posion for them. They therefore urge the German government to act.
Students who graduated or will graduate in summer 2013 as (at least) a Bachelor may apply at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany, to be one of the 25 participants admitted for the two‐year study programme Global Change Management (M.Sc.). Classes will begin in September 2013. The mission of GCM is to educate specialists who are able to cope with challenges of natural resource management under global change in an adaptive, proactive and precautionary manner.
This list contains a selection of online articles from around the world available shortly after the release of the Climate Change Performance Index 2013.
In a time of heavily increasing greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel investments, the light at the end of the tunnel cannot yet be seen. The eighth annual Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), which was published at the Doha climate talks today by Germanwatch and the Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, ranks the climate protection performance of the 58 highest emitters worldwide. For the first time, the index used deforestation data, which resulted in a rankings drop of countries with high forest emissions such as Brazil and Indonesia. Once again, no country made it into the first three spots on the list due to a lack of ambition to reach the goal of keeping global warming below 2 degree Celsius.
