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Herausforderung für die deutsche Wissenschaft
Der Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU) bemängelt in seinem neuesten Jahresbericht, daß die deutsche Forschung zum Globalen Wandel zu wenig international ausgerichtet, zu stark an Einzeldisziplinen orientiert und in der politikrelevanten Aufbereitung zu schwach entwickelt ist. Als Alternative werden neue Möglichkeiten zu Strukturveränderungen in der Forschungslandschaft aufgezeigt. Dazu hat das Expertengremium einen neuen Ansatz zur Erforschung des Globalen Wandels vorgelegt: den Syndromansatz. Hiermit können die "Erkrankungen" des Planeten Erde systematisch beschrieben und analysiert werden, mit dem Ziel, Lösungsansätze zu entwickeln. Die 16 wichtigsten Syndrome oder Krankheitsbilder der Erde wurden identifiziert.
Charging the Use of Global Commons
Global common resources like international airspace and the high seas are in danger of overexploitation because the users need not bear the full social costs of their actions. The CO2-emissions of international aviation and of shipping are not subject to the quantitative reduction obligations of the Kyoto Protocol. Imposing user charges can close this regulatory gap and induce environment-related incentive effects to reduce environmental damage. Moreover, additional financial resources are generated, which should be earmarked for the protection and conservation of global common goods. In this special report, the Council makes recommendations for a politically viable implementation of the concept of global user charges for three specific areas of application.
Welt Im Wandel
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Climate Protection Strategies for the 21st Century
Examines how the global climate change is having initial tangible impacts upon humankind and nature today and how through the cooperation of the international community and through national-level efforts is possible to stabilize the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and thus prevent the most severe changes. With this special report, the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) provides recommendations for future negotiations within the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), particularly relating to the Kyoto Protocol. For this special report, the Council has commissioned three expert's studies, which are available for download from the website. Also links to simultaneous edition in German.
World in Transition
For policymakers. p. 1.
The Research Challenge
Development and environment problems have reached such alarming proportions that the very survival of humanity is now subject to critical and unprecedented threats. In its latest report, the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) criticizes Germany's global change research community for its lack of international orientation, its bias towards individual disciplines and for its weaknesses in translating scientific results into a form readily accessible to policymakers. The Council identifies alternatives for restructuring the research landscape, focusing primarily on a new "Syndrome Approach" for global change research. By applying this tool, scientists can systematically describe and analyze the "diseases" afflicting the Earth System, and thus elaborate response options.
