Publications

Deutschland wird seine nationalen Ziele verstärken und geeignete Maßnahmen ergreifen müssen, um die Ziele des Pariser Klimaabkommens zu erreichen. Dies wird laut erhebliche Anstrengungen im Verkehrssektor erfordern.

This briefing unpacks the key challenges and risks associated with using blue carbon as an offsetting mechanism, including how much the carbon storage in coastal ecosystems threatened by current and future climate impacts.

Limiting warming to 1.5°C is of paramount importance to protect the oceans. This briefing provides an overview of the latest science on key risks for ocean systems including from sea- level rise, ocean acidification and impacts on coral reefs and other marine and coastal ecosystems.

With an outlook to updated Nationally Determined Contributions, this briefing assesses how Parties are expected to do in terms of achieving their 2020 target and the implications for their post-2020 emissions trajectories.

This report from the CONSTRAIN project zeroes in on the remaining carbon budget as well as projected surface warming rates over the next 20 years.

The commonly agreed metric to aggregate emissions and removals of greenhouse gases under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement is the Global Warming Potential with a 100-year time-horizon (GWP100). This briefing looks at the pitfalls of applying a new metric, GWP*.