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Weather extremes, species extinction and changing climate zones – global warming can no longer be denied. This has prompted the international community to set ambitious climate targets to curb the worldwide rise in temperature and its consequences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
International climate policy<\/h2>\n
As early as the end of the 1960s, the first initiatives for the coordination of environmental policy measures were discussed at the international level, but without any noteworthy goals. Only in 1992, after protracted negotiations in Rio de Janeiro, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed. This primarily contributed to a general agreement on objectives to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in a way as to slow down anthropogenic climate warming.<\/p>\n
What such targets and measures look like is to be determined in further negotiations by the UN climate conferences.<\/p>\n
The third Conference on Climate Change in Kyoto in 1997 (COP3) is considered a major step forward in international climate policy. <\/p>\n
In the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, the international community of states agreed for the first time on binding action targets for climate protection. The period of validity was divided into two commitment periods, from 2008-2012 and from 2012-2020. Up to now, the USA has not ratified the protocol.<\/p>\n
In order to maintain climate protection after this period of validity, a new agreement was needed. This was adopted at the climate conference in 2015 called the Paris Agreement, which for the first time contains a concrete goal to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.<\/p>\n
*Source:Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit<\/i><\/p>\nClimate targets<\/h2>\nWhat does this mean for Europe and Germany?<\/h3>\n
The European Union has committed itself to energy and climate policy goals under the terms of the Framework Convention on Climate Change and various resolutions of its own. These include a binding emission reduction of 20% by 2020, at least 40% by 2030, and at least 80% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels. While the targets for 2020 are relatively easy to achieve, the medium and long-term goals require quite stringent measures in order to be met.<\/p>\n
Germany’s greenhouse gas reduction targets are set out in binding form in the Climate Protection Act of 2019. According to this, emissions are to be reduced by at least 35% by 2020 and by at least 55% by 2030.<\/p>\n
*Source:Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit<\/i><\/p>\n
The Climate Protection Act in particular was criticised right up to the end. With regard to emission savings, the draft law does not set any new targets in addition to the legally valid European targets, but only describes which sector may emit how much greenhouse gas. Another point of criticism is that the gap, that arises when one sector reduces more CO2 than planned, can be filled by another sector. In the future, this CO2 price is to be transferred to a European emissions trading scheme.*<\/p>\n
*Source: Die Zeit<\/i><\/p>\nWhat is contributed at local level?<\/h2>\n
On the initiative of the citizens, the local Agenda 21 e.V. and with the support of the city council, the Trier Action Plan for Development Policy was launched, in which concrete goals and measures for an ecologically sustainable, fair and internationally responsible Trier were defined.<\/p>\n
The fields of action of the target paper are oriented towards the development policy guidelines of the country and take up the “Sustainable Development Goals” of the United Nations as a basis.<\/p>\n
In addition to goals and measures for sustainable mobility and land use, the city sees itself as responsible for reducing its CO2 emissions and resource consumption.<\/p>\n
What can the university contribute?<\/h3>\n\n- Participation in the steering group “Climate, Environment and Energy” in the city administration of Trier<\/li>\n
- Collaboration with the city administration on issues relating to resource efficiency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Our suggestions:<\/h3>\n\n- Resource efficiency through the use of LED lighting<\/li>\n
- Lamps with motion detector (more efficient than in N-building please)<\/li>\n
- Reprogramming the blinds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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