Climate Protection & Adaptation to climate change

Latest news & documents

• Climate Summit in Copenhagen misses its target. Press release, 19 Dec 2009
• The Adaptation Fund in Copenhagen: summary of outcomes (PDF, December 2009)
• Climate Change Performance Index 2010
• Briefing Paper: Loopholes in the Emissions Targets of Industrialized Countries (11 Dec. 2009)
• Discussion Paper: The Adaptation Fund in the debate on the post-2012 financial architecture (10 Dec. 2009)
• Global Climate Risk Index 2010
• Climate Summit in Copenhagen 2009
• The Adaptation Fund: Maturing on the way to Copenhagen. Briefing on the outcomes of the 8th meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (Nov. 2009)
• Briefing Paper: The Layers of the Doll: Exploring the Russian Position to Copenhagen (Nov. 2009)
• Study: Scorecards on best and worst policies for a Green New Deal (Nov. 2009)
• UN Climate talks in Bangkok: Too little, too slow, too unambitious. Press release 9 Oct. 2009

Climate & Insurance

• Discussion Paper: Climate Insurance as part of a Post-Kyoto Adaptation Strategy (Oct. 2008)
• Report of Expert Workshop, 30 Oct. 2008: "Risk management and insurance solutions in face of climate change: The way forward in Poznan and Copenhagen"

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

• Report of Conference and Film Festival: Development and Climate Day 2009
• Short Film "The Bill" (May 2009)
• Study: Climate change, food security and the right to adequate food (Nov. 2008)
• Adaptation under UNFCCC – the road from Bonn to Poznan 2008 (August 2008)
• Briefing Paper: Civil Society Alliances on Climate Change in Industrialised Countries (August 2007)

• Climate Change Performance Index - CCPI
• Climate Risk Index

• Renewables Grid Initiative brings together NGOs and TSOs and announces initial partners. Press release, 3 July 2009
• Briefing Paper: CCS in China (May 2009)
• The SuperSmart Grid - a PIK/ECF Paper (Aug. 2008) [PDF, 140KB]
• Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage as a sequestration strategy

General topics

• Study: Scorecards on best and worst policies for a Green New Deal (Nov. 2009)
• UN Climate talks in Bangkok: Too little, too slow, too unambitious. Press release 9 Oct. 2009
• A summary of the Climate Negotiations in Bonn, June 2009
• A Copenhagen Climate Treaty - Version 1.0 (June 2009)
• Time for Decisions: The Climate Train Picks up Steam for Copenhagen. A Germanwatch contribution to the State of the World 2009 Report (April 2009) [PDF, 160K]
• Climate talks need massive political support. Press release 8 April 2009
• Briefing Paper: Between Poznan and Copenhagen: The Climate Train in the "Valley of Death". Results of the UN Climate Summit in Poland
• Climate Summit in Poznan
• Videos from the Climate Summit in Bali 2007
• Briefing Paper: Bali, Poznan, Copenhagen - Triple Jump Towards a new Quality of Climate Policy? (Feb. 2008)

• The Adaptation Fund
• Briefing Paper: Climate change Adaptation in Poznan: moving forward on short and long-term action? (Nov. 2008)
• Adaptation under UNFCCC – the road from Bonn to Poznan 2008 (August 2008)
• Briefing Paper: Adaptation to climate change - where do we go from Bali? (March 2008)

• Briefing Paper: The Dead Souls: How to Deal With the Russian Surplus? (Sept. 2009)
• Briefing Paper: The Layers of the Doll: Exploring the Russian Position to Copenhagen (Nov. 2009)
• Briefing Paper "Funding Sources for International Climate Policy" (March 2009)
• Economic/climate recovery scorecards: How climate friendly are the economic recovery packages? (April 2009) [PDF, 270K]
• Europe's half-hearted plan to finance climate action. A comment on the Commission's proposal for a EU position (Feb. 2009)
• Discussion Paper: A Portrait of China’s Climate Policy