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Climate change: How to tackle humanity's greatest challenge
LAST week the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) alarmed the world with yet another doomsday scenario by forecasting an up to 5 ° C warmer Planet Earth by 2100 and the resulting implications for nature, animals and humanity. It has been six years since the IPCC published its last report on the imminent threat of global climate change. In this period, awareness for climate change has risen to a very high level. Countless initiatives have been planned and implemented and international negotiations in Copenhagen, Rio de Janeiro and Durban have brought some progress, though no breakthrough yet. An international agreement on capping carbon emissions is yet to be reached, and time is running out.
The natural atmosphere of the earth is severely threatened by increased emissions from industries, households and traffic. The average global temperature on earth's surface is continuously increasing due to ever higher carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases' concentration in the atmosphere. We are seeing the consequences already, in Bangladesh and elsewhere. If global warming continues unchecked, it is likely to exceed the adaptive capacity of natural, economic and social systems.
Restricting global climate change is a task and target for the entire international community. The increase in the average global temperature should be limited to a maximum of 2° C, compared to pre-industrial levels. To this end, Germany is very much engaged in promoting a more sustainable way of living and in negotiating an ambitious international agreement on carbon dioxide reduction. Germany has pledged to reduce its emissions by 40% by 2020, regard- less of the efforts of other states.
In 2008, the Federal Ministry of Environment launched a comprehensive Climate Initiative, financed through additional funds drawn from the emissions trading scheme. It aims at tapping existing potential for reducing emissions in a cost-effective way, and at advancing innovative model projects for climate protection.
Even if we manage to limit the rise in the global average temperature to 2° C compared to preindustrial levels, there will be consequences of climate change to deal with. Therefore, the Federal Government adopted the "German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change" in December 2008. The aim of the Adaptation Strategy is to reduce global vulnerability to the consequences of climate change and to maintain or improve the adaptability of natural, social and economic systems.
In addition, the German Government supports measures for adaptation to climate change and the conservation of climaterelevant biodiversity in developing and industrialising countries. Germany believes that a new ambitious international climate protection agreement for the post-Kyoto Protocol period ought to be achieved without further delay.
Germany has been very vocal in tackling the global challenges of climate change. We do believe that an international agreement is still reachable and that the international community will manage the transition to a greener economy. These are ambitious goals. But they can be achieved ifwe act jointly and swiftly.