Earth and Climate

Climate change is also endangering drinking water. UN expert Léo Heller explains why clean water is a human right.

How important are our oceans and what we do to protect them? An interview with Monika Breuch-Moritz, Germany’s Maritime Ambassador.

The coal phase-out is painful for many regions of Europe. In order to master it, they teamed up.

What can politics do to combat climate change? The political scientist Jale Tosun from Heidelberg on climate policy in the United States and Europe.

Across the world, farmers’ very existences are threatened by climate change. A climate risk insurance scheme protects them and their families.

Megacities play a key role in climate protection. The C40 network helps them to exploit it.

How an app from Welthungerhilfe is helping farmers in Zimbabwe. Three questions and answers.

Precarious living conditions, loss of identity: Researcher Kira Vinke has learned about the plight of climate immigrants from the people affected themselves.

Germany supports the training of climate experts with two unique research centres in Western and Southern Africa.

Especially in winter, India suffers from smog. Germany is cooperating in providing low-emission mobility solutions.

Bill Gates is wrong. Nuclear power will not save the climate. Beyond Chernobyl and Fukushima, there’s too much speaking against it.

Climate protection and global sustainability goals: Hamburg receives the UNESCO Prize for Education and Sustainable Development in 2019.