Topic of the week: the economy after corona
“Now more than ever!”
Sabine Nallinger, Managing Director of Stiftung 2° – German Businesses for Climate Protection, discusses the business model of the future.
Earth and Climate
Current information and background on soil and climate, nature protection and biodiversity.
Topic of the week: EU and climate protection
Together for more climate protection
Three Presidencies for Climate: that’s the motto of the Three4Climate project. Find out here what it’s all about.
“Certain catch-up effects”
The world after the coronavirus: Sonja Peterson doubts that the coronavirus crisis will have long-term effects on climate change.
The human right to water
Climate change is also endangering drinking water. UN expert Léo Heller explains why clean water is a human right.
Crucial ecosystems
How important are our oceans and what we do to protect them? An interview with Monika Breuch-Moritz, Germany’s Maritime Ambassador.
Europe
Getting out of coal together
The coal phase-out is painful for many regions of Europe. In order to master it, they teamed up.
North America
How climate policy works
What can politics do to combat climate change? The political scientist Jale Tosun from Heidelberg on climate policy in the United States and Europe.
Well insured
Across the world, farmers’ very existences are threatened by climate change. A climate risk insurance scheme protects them and their families.
Smart cities
Megacities play a key role in climate protection. The C40 network helps them to exploit it.
Smartphones aid the harvest
How an app from Welthungerhilfe is helping farmers in Zimbabwe. Three questions and answers.
“The only way to survive”
Precarious living conditions, loss of identity: Researcher Kira Vinke has learned about the plight of climate immigrants from the people affected themselves.
Africa
Know-how against climate change
Germany supports the training of climate experts with two unique research centres in Western and Southern Africa.