Climate Protection / Kyoto

Germany met Kyoto climate commitments

Germany met its climate protection target under the Kyoto Protocol in 2008 and remains a leader in international climate protection. [ more]

• 2010 report under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (PDF, 5,53 MB, in German only)

Climate / COP 15

Global climate agreement remains our goal

Following the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen made the following statement: "We did not achieve what we hoped for. But we did achieve everything we could - the alternative to this would have been nothing at all." [ more]

• Copenhagen accord (PDF, 153 KByte)

Nature

Climate protection through conservation of mangroves

Using funds from the Environment Ministry's International Climate Initiative the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) will press ahead with mangrove conservation in Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Samoa and Tonga. [ more]

• www.bmu-klimaschutzinitiative.de/en

Climate Protection / International

Germany and Brazil strengthen bilateral climate cooperation

On 03.12.2009 at the Federal Chancellery, Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen and Under Secretary General at the Brazilian Ministry for External Relations, Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on combating climate change. [ more]

• Pictures

Environmental Protection / Nature Conservation

Federal Environment Ministry supports national park in Rwanda

The Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) is providing approximately 1.6 million euros from the International Climate Initiative for the protection of the Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda. In cooperation with Rwandan partners, the University of Koblenz-Landau will establish a protection zone around the park by 2012. [ more]

Climate protection / Research and training

New fellowship programme for climate protection

Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel has welcomed the announcement by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation that it will grant International Climate Protection Fellowships to prospective leaders from newly industrialised and developing countries. Each year up to twenty fellows will be sponsored to come to Germany for a year. They will be based at German universities or other suitable institutions and will conduct projects in the field of climate and resource protection geared to the exchange of knowledge, methods and techniques. [ more]

• www.internationale-klimaschutzinitiative.de

Climate Protection / EU

Brussels proposes to finance climate protection in developing countries

Federal Environment Minister Gabriel has welcomed the proposal by the EU Commission on the financing of climate protection measures in developing and newly industrialising countries. Minister Gabriel: "The EU is living up to its pioneering role and is adding new momentum to the discussion in order to facilitate a successful outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. ..." [ more]

• 15th Climate Change Conference (Copenhagen)

TEEB

Time to Tap Climate Change-Combating Potential of the World’s Ecosystems

Investing in restoration and maintenance of the Earth’s multi-trillion dollar ecosystems - from forests and mangroves to wetlands and river basins - can have a key role in countering climate change and climate-proofing vulnerable economies. This is among the central findings of a new climate issues update by The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), a project launched by Germany and the European Commission in response to a proposal by the G8+5 Environment Ministers (Potsdam, Germany 2007) to develop a global study on the economics of biodiversity loss. [ more]

• Reports: The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity (TEEB)