Earth and Climate

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.

The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research is one of the world’s leading environmental policy think tanks. One of its studies is even responsible for a “word of the year”.

Proposals to put Germany on the path towards sustainable transportation could cost the government billions of euros.

Germany can and wants to achieve the climate targets but is facing one major challenge.

The Fridays for Future movement is calling for a radical carbon tax, yet a prominent scientist does not believe this is the way forward. Who is right?

A disaster is currently taking place in Brazil’s rainforests. Huge forest fires are spreading as a result of illegal slash-and-burn of the forest. Germany is suspending development aid.