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Education for Sustainable Development Worksheets | 1. February 2014

Worksheets: Going under!

Using a specific case study, pupils learn about the direct consequences of climate change for the inhabitants of a Pacific island state. The teaching module provides general information about climate change as well as looking at an entirely different perspective.

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Education for Sustainable Development Global trade Worksheets | 1. February 2014

Worksheets: The threat to tropical rainforests and international climate protection

The lesson modules below address an issue which will already be known to pupils from the lower secondary grades. Tropical rainforests play an important role time and again – and not only in geography lessons.

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Worksheets | 1. February 2014

Worksheets: Climate change and food security

The materials presented here give pupils the opportunity to work through the links between the areas of food security and global climate change. These connections, intensifying as they are in a world of increasing globalisation and constant change, are examined throughout the various regions and in a more detailed way.

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Education for Sustainable Development Worksheets | 1. February 2014

Worksheets: Extreme events and climate change

These teaching materials provide school pupils with the chance to work independently through the thematic complex surrounding climate change and weather-related climatic events.

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Global trade Background Paper | 1. December 2013

Livestock production and food security in a context of climate change, and environmental and health challenges

Our analysis has shown that, to optimize the interrelationship between soil, climate and cattle and maximize the latter‘s contribution to global food security, the following steps need to be taken...

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German climate policy and energy transition EU climate policy and carbon pricing Position Paper | 1. December 2013

Recommendations on Transparency and Public Participation in the Context of Electricity Transmission Lines

This position paper by Germanwatch develops specific recommendations to the issue of public participation in the context of electricity transmission power lines. Public participation has become more and more important in policy making during the past years. Policy makers have reacted to the urgent need to enhance public participation in the field of power grids. New laws in this context, for example in Germany or at the European level, demonstrate this approach.

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International climate co-operation Position Paper | 1. December 2013

MENA Civil Society Position Paper

Civil society organizations dealing with the environment and renewable energy in the MENA region want to cooperate on the protection of the climate and get engaged in the political decision-making processes of promoting renewable energy in the MENA region. Therefore 23 NGOs, particularily from the MENA region, agreed on the attached position paper which will be submitted for the UfM Ministerial Meeting on Energy aiming to adopt the Mediterranean Solar Plan (MSP) in Brussels in December 2013.

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Climate finance Study | 1. November 2013

Monitoring Climate Action

Monitoring, reporting and verification of climate finance provided and the funded activities has grown in importance during the last years. Therefore, a consortium of Germanwatch, Ecofys and Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy has developed for the German Federal Environment Agency a proposal for a potential monitoring and reporting system for a bilateral climate funds.

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UN climate conferences International climate co-operation Indices | 1. November 2013

The Climate Change Performance Index 2014

The Climate Change Performance Index is an instrument supposed to enhance transparency in international climate politics. On the basis of standardised criteria, the index evaluates and compares the climate protection performance of 58 countries that are, together, responsible for more than 90 percent of global energy-related CO2 emissions.

International climate co-operation Background Paper | 1. November 2013

Reimagining China’s cities

Beijing, November 18, 2013 | In collaboration with E3G – Third Generation Environmentalism, Germanwatch, the Wuppertal Institute and Stiftung Mercator, chinadialogue produced a special edition of its journal focusing on one of the biggest challenges facing China’s leaders over the next two decades: sustainable urbanisation.

Andrea Taubert

Secretariat and Project Assistance Bonn Office

Jenna Voß

Secretariat and Project Assistance Berlin Office