Climate Protection & Adaptation to climate change

Latest news & documents

• G8 Summit 2008 - Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries: What the G8 Has to Deliver (July 2008)
• Climate Protection & Adaptation - Germanwatch Journal No.2/2008 [PDF, 620K]
• Discussion Paper: A Portrait of China’s Climate Policy
• Conference Invitation: Climate change + poverty reduction, 30/31 May 2008
• Briefing Paper: Adaptation to climate change (March 2008)
• Briefing Paper: Bali, Poznan, Copenhagen - Triple Jump Towards a new Quality of Climate Policy? (Feb. 2008)
• Videos from the Climate Summit in Bali 2007
• Climate Risk Index
• Climate Change Performance Index - CCPI
• Climate summit in Bali
• Briefing Paper: Civil Society Alliances on Climate Change in Industrialised Countries (August 2007)

Climate & Insurance

• Insurance-related Options for Adaptation to Climate Change [PDF, 50KB]
• Munich Climate Insurance Initiative: Mission Statement [PDF, 370KB]
• Documentation of experts workshop "Insuring the uninsurable", 10 May 2004
• Documentation of briefing "Insuring the uninsurable", 20 March 2003

• Glacial lake outburst floods in Nepal and Switzerland
• Sea-level rise in Bangladesh and The Netherlands
• Climate change challenges Tuvalu

• Conference Invitation: Climate change + poverty reduction, 30/31 May 2008
• Briefing Paper: Adaptation to climate change (March 2008)
• Briefing Paper: Civil Society Alliances on Climate Change in Industrialised Countries (August 2007)
• MDGs and climate change: Interview with S.K.Ohme, BMZ (Oct. 2006)
• Climate Risk Index
• Presentations from the conference "Climate change as a challenge for poverty reduction", 18 Nov 2005
• Documentation of Expert Meeting "Developing a method for addressing vulnerability to climate change and climate change impact management: To index or not to index?", 26 January 2004

• Climate Change Performance Index - CCPI
• Climate Risk Index

• Facts about flying you shouldn't miss
• Clean Business Travel
• Aviation and Climate Change (Feb. 2001)
• Future of Rail (Feb. 2001)
• Proposal for a European Aviation Levy to Internalise External Costs of Climate Change (Sept. 1999)

• Gleneagles Dialogue: NGO declaration on energy policy (March 2007)
• Documentation of Ratings Event on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, 2 April 2004
• Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage as a sequestration strategy

• G8 Summit 2008 - Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries: What the G8 Has to Deliver (July 2008)
• Discussion Paper: A Portrait of China’s Climate Policy
• Briefing Paper: Adaptation to climate change (March 2008)
• Briefing Paper: Bali, Poznan, Copenhagen - Triple Jump Towards a new Quality of Climate Policy? (Feb. 2008)
• Briefing Paper: Bali as litmus test for Heiligendamm. An analysis of the climate relevance of the G8 summit 2007 (July 2007) [PDF, 60KB]
• G8: Divert the deked move by the US government into constructive dynamics (June 2007)
• Gleneagles Dialogue: NGO declaration on energy policy (March 2007)
• NGO Policy Paper on the G8 summit 2007 (March 2007)
• Climate Change Performance Index - CCPI
• Results of the UN Climate Summit in Montreal (Jan 2006)
• Business is cause and effect of international climate regulation. Press release, 5 Dec. 2005
• Documentation of Side Event "Climate change as a challenge for development organizations", 20 May 2005
• Conference Documentation "Building Upon Kyoto: The Long Term Prospects of International Climate Policy", Tokyo, February 2004 [PDF, 550KB]

• Climate Policy in Germany. A brief overview [PowerPoint file, 140KB]

• German government sued over climate change:
• Press release, 2 Feb 2006
• Briefing Paper, 15 June 2004 [PDF, 150KB]
• Press release, 15 June 2004 [PDF, 60KB]