In the first half of 2019, the percentage of energy production in Germany from renewable sources (44%) was higher than ever, as the Federal Association of German Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) recently reported. Consequently, the emissions of harmful greenhouse gases from energy production were roughly 15% lower in the...
Federal Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze and Federal Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek recently initiated a scientific platform for climate protection in Berlin. A social scientist and management expert from Universität Hamburg were among those appointed to the steering committee: Prof. Anita...
Expertise like that produced at Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS)” is essential in order to convince skeptics at the international political level of the reality of climate change, underscored Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas during his visit.
