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Solidarity with the people of Ukraine
What Russia's war means for the work of Germanwatch in Ukraine and our partners on the ground

Also for us at Germanwatch, 24 February 2022 has been a watershed. Since that day, war is raging just 800 kilometres from Berlin. Europe's peace order has been fundamentally called into question. A country is invading its neighbour. As we write this, the Russian army is marching towards the Ukrainian coal towns in the Donbass, towns which we at Germanwatch have been working intensively with ever since 2017.

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Blogpost
Green Recovery in India to Strengthen Overall Social Resilience
Blogpost
Joint blog of Vasudha Foundation and Germanwatch on the design of Green & Resilient Recovery in India through renewable energy development and systemic resilience building.

Against the background of the social, economic and political COVID-19 effects on India, all business-as-usual scenarios for economic development and emission trends of Indian and resilient society building are outdated. There is both the possibility of an accelerated structural change to renewable energy, away from fossil fuels and combustion engines and the danger of a massive rebound effect for the emissions path. The same width of possibilities exists between society-wide resilience building and intensified inequality.

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Publication
Shifting the Trillions
Cover Shifting the Trillions
The role of the G20 in making financial flows consistent with global long-term climate goals
The landmark Paris Agreement and the Agenda 2030 provide a new framework for global decarbonization and sustainable, climate-resilient development. Multilateral bodies like the G20 provide a natural focus point for governments of the leading industrial nations and emerging economies to take common action towards the achievement of these global goals. The mobilization of finance for sustainable investment, in particular the transition to a renewable energy system, is one of the most urgent but also promising tasks ahead.
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Outlook from the Lima Climate Summit: Foggy view towards Paris
Cover "Outlook from the Lima Climate Summit"
Despite momentum from past months: missed opportunity in Lima
From December 1st through 12th, the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP 20) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place in Lima (Peru). The outcomes of the conference represent a low-ambition consensus. They are a missed opportunity to set the course for an effective as well as ambitious agreement, scheduled to be concluded in Paris in 2015 and to enter into force in 2020. Before and even during the Lima conference, we saw many positive signs pointing towards a new momentum for climate action.
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Press Release
Global Climate Risk Index 2010 - reflecting most severely affected countries over almost two decades
Copenhagen needs to respond
The climate and development organization Germanwatch published its Global Climate Risk Index 2010 in Copenhagen today, ranking Bangladesh, Myanmar and Honduras as the countries most severely affected by extreme weather events from 1990 to 2008. When only considering the year 2008 ...
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Press Release
Countries emissions rise faster than ambitions
CCPI 2009 report: no country on track to prevent dangerous climate change
Rising absolute global emissions and increasing emissions per unit of GDP on a world-wide scale over the last few years give the backdrop to the results of the 4th edition of the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). The Climate Change Performance Index published annually by Germanwatch and Climate Action Network Europe compares the climate protection performance of 57 industrialised countries and emerging economies. Together they account for more than 90% of global energy related CO2 emissions.
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Press Release
Bangladesh, North Korea and Nicaragua most affected by weather catastrophes in 2007
Germanwatch presents new edition of Global Climate Risk Index
More than fifteen thousand people around the world died in 2007 from extreme weather events, a record number compared with recent years. Damages accounted to more than 80 billion US$. Many more people have been severely affected, through storms, floods and other weather extremes. People in less developed countries have a ...
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Press Release
Germanwatch presents Global Climate Risk Index
Pressemitteilung
Climate Summit in Bali held in the region most affected by weather catastrophes in 2006
The environment and development organisation Germanwatch and the Munich Reinsurance today presented the Climate Risk Index (CRI) at the UN climate negotiations in Bali. The Index shows that less developed countries often suffer far more from storms, floods and weather extremes than industrialized nations. In 2006, Asia was particularly affected.
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Press Release
No gold medal winners in climate protection competition
Germanwatch and CAN-Europe present 2007 Climate Change Performance Index
"If climate change protection were an Olympic Discipline, no country would make it to the medal ranks", concludes Matthias Duwe, Director of Climate Action Europe, based on the outcome of the country rankings that forms the base of the 2007 Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). The CCPI results clearly show that current efforts to stop dangerous climate change are insufficient.
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Global Climate Risk Index 2006
Deckblatt: Climate Risk Index 2006
Weather-related loss events and their impacts on countries in 2004 and in a long-term comparison
The Global Climate Risk Index 2006 analyses how much countries and country groups have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss even
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