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Carbon dioxide features prominently in the debate about climate change. However, short-lived climate pollutants like soot, methane and hydrofluorocarbons also play a role in global warming. read more

More than one tenth of Germany's land surface is suited for wind turbines - without causing significant harm to sensitive protected areas or compromising noise protection laws. read more

Creating a climate-neutral society is not an abstract goal but rather a set of real ideas about how our daily lives might look and work in future. In some respects, our lives will change in fundamental ways, whereas in other areas we can carry on as we have been doing all along. The basic characteristics of this future everyday life can already be discerned.We can and ought to already adopt some o... read more