Climate Protection & Adaptation to climate change

Latest news & documents

• Renewables Grid Initiative brings together NGOs and TSOs and announces initial partners. Press release, 3 July 2009
• A summary of the Climate Negotiations in Bonn, June 2009
• A Copenhagen Climate Treaty - Version 1.0 (June 2009)
• Briefing Paper: CCS in China (May 2009)
• Invitation: Climate Action Day / Development and Climate Day on 6 June in Bonn
• 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
• Economic/climate recovery scorecards: How climate friendly are the economic recovery packages? (April 2009) [PDF, 270K]
• Briefing Paper "Funding Sources for International Climate Policy" (March 2009)
• Europe's half-hearted plan to finance climate action. A comment on the Commission's proposal for a EU position (Feb. 2009)
• Climate Summit in Poznan
• Climate Change Performance Index - CCPI
• Climate Risk Index
• Briefing Paper: Climate change Adaptation in Poznan: moving forward on short and long-term action? (Nov. 2008)
• Study: Climate change, food security and the right to adequate food (Nov. 2008)

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"
• 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

• Study: Climate change, food security and the right to adequate food (Nov. 2008)
• Discussion Paper: Making the adaptation fund work for the most vulnerable people (Sept. 2008)
• Adaptation under UNFCCC – the road from Bonn to Poznan 2008 (August 2008)
• Conference Invitation: Climate change + poverty reduction, 30/31 May 2008
• Briefing Paper: Adaptation to climate change - where do we go from Bali? (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

• 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)

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

• 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 "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)
• Briefing Paper: Between Poznan and Copenhagen: The Climate Train in the "Valley of Death". Results of the UN Climate Summit in Poland
• Further information on the Climate Summit in Poznan
• Adaptation under UNFCCC – the road from Bonn to Poznan 2008 (August 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)
• Videos from the Climate Summit in Bali 2007

• 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]