Climate targets are objectives decided at national or EU level to reduce or even stop the effects of global warming. One of the best-known climate targets is the 1.5-degree target: According to the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015, in which the global community agreed to combat global warming, the global man-made temperature increase caused by...
Climate protection is part of environmental protection and an umbrella term for all measures and concepts to counteract the consequences of climate change.The increasing emission of greenhouse gases by humans, mainly due to increasing industrialization, creates a greenhouse effect. This is considered the main cause of global warming. Protecting the climate therefore means releasing as...
Climate politics at global, national and European level deals with strategies and measures to protect the climate. The focus is on avoiding greenhouse gases and adapting to the consequences of climate change that can no longer be avoided. These consequences include global warming and extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall and storms. In addition,...
The carbon footprint indicates the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by personal activities or by a business or production process. For example, when people drive a car, fly on vacation by plane, or construct a building. Or when customers buy clothing that is manufactured in faraway countries and transported to Europe. All of this...
Refers to the emission of the environmentally harmful carbon released during the combustion of fossil fuels (e.g. coal, natural gas, mineral oil).
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