Over the past two years, the Helmholtz Climate Initiative's Net-Zero-2050 project has scientifically investigated and evaluated strategies and new paths concerning the German framework for CO2 neutrality. One of the results is a web atlas intended to drive the public and political debate on CO₂ neutrality at various levels.
Mit neuen finanziellen Hilfen will der Bund Städten und Gemeinden den Weg zu null Emissionen einfacher machen. Doch wie kann der konkret aussehen?
Drinking water for showering, washing dishes, and flushing toilets: In Germany, we use water pretty indulgently. Climate change will likely bring an end to that. What will it take to ensure our future reserves of this precious resource?
Hydrogen is considered one of the great hopes for a climate-neutral energy supply in the future. The catch is that a great deal of energy and space is still needed for its production and storage. Researchers at the Helmholtz Climate Initiative are investigating how the energy carrier can be stored in a more climate-friendly, cost-effective and space-saving way.
The need for negative emissions is rising with the Federal Climate Change Act.
About one quarter of the emissions we emit every year end up in our oceans. Seagrass meadows near the coast play a role that has so far been underestimated: they absorb a lot of carbon dioxide, more than previously expected. Angela Stevenson from GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel researches seagrass meadows in the German Baltic Sea. The first results are now available.
The German Environment Agency recorded some 739 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions for Germany in 2020, which is around 8.7 percent less than in the previous year. For the first time, the German Environment Agency has presented its emissions data to the German government in accordance with the requirements of the Federal Climate Change Act.
Climate change? It has always existed. In order to understand what the near future might already hold in store for us, scientists are researching what factors have been affecting this complex dynamic system for millions of years and how.
Quality education, gender equality, no poverty, climate action—these are four of the 17 total Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations. Helping achieving these goals is a key objective of the German government, and Germany’s National Sustainable Development Strategy provides the blueprint for this undertaking.
