By climatic protection politics one understands political measures for the protection of the world climate on international, national and local level. A goal of the climatic protection politics is it to reduce and/or stop the speed and the effects of the global heating up. Main means in addition is the reduction of the output by Treihausgasen, there these for the heating up of the earth climate (greenhouse effect) to be made responsible.

The climatic politics are part of the environmental policy, exhibit however the characteristic that it can have success only with a world-wide beginning. Their success depends therefore still more than within other ranges of the environmental policy on the readiness for the international cooperation.

International measures

1992 were signed after long negotiations in Rio de Janeiro the climate frame convention of the United Nations, which admits internationally under the contraction UNFCCC is. It is called framework convention, because it fixes essentially only a general communication over the objective of the climatic protection, the development of an equipment for the reaching of this goal however further negotiations (Conference OF the Parties (copilot)) left (table 1). A substantial milestone of these negotiations was reached five years later in form of Kyoto minutes.

One of the measures, which carry out the agreements of Kyoto minutes, is the emission right trade, which gives world-wide states and enterprise the possibility to profit from own investments into the climatic protection.

One of the largest problems of the climatic protection politics prepared - apart from the attitudeattitude attitude of the USA - the demand of many developing countries by climatic protection obligations in their industrial development not to be prevented. There exist conflicting aims with the development policy, which cannot be completely solved. The development policy considers however demands of the climatic protection increasingly by the fact that it concentrates on the transfer of modern, "“clean"” technologies, which are adapted to the needs of the developing countries after possibility.

European and German measures

Numerous in the last years individual measures and changes of title taken place serve - often apart from other goals - the climatic protection. They can be enumerated here not all. A substantial part of these changes of title aims off to lower by more efficient energy use the energy consumption and thus the CO2-Emissionen. The adjustment of the output other greenhouse gases stands only at the beginning. Regulations, which are to limit the climaticrelevant emissions of the industry and traffic, discover however strong of resistances of parts of the industry and also within the policy. An example of it was the 2004 kindled controversy between the minister of economics Wolfgang Clement and the secretary of the environment Trittin over details of the arrangement of the emission right trade. This became to 30. March 2004 settled. Both Ministers agreed to limit the carbon dioxide emissions for industry and energy industry until 2007 on 503 million tons per year until 2012 on 495 million tons. The Department of the Environment had originally demanded a delimitation on 488 and/or 480 million tons.

1995 had already committed itself Germany on the climate summit in Berlin to lower the output of carbon dioxide (CO2) up to the year 2005 around 25 per cent compared with 1990. The national climatic protection program of the Federal Republic of Germany from 18 October 2000 should guarantee that the goal of a reduction of the greenhouse gas missions assured by Germany on European and international level is achieved. With the resolution of the Federal Government from 13 July 2005 the national climatic protection program was updated (national climatic protection program 2005).

See also

• Climate
• Climatic protection
• Climatic change
• Global heating up
• Greenhouse effect
• Kyoto minutes
• Emission right trade, global Climate Certificate system
• Climate frame convention

Literature

• Mojib Latif: Climate. Frankfurt/Main 2004
• Mojib Latif: Hitzrekorde and century flood. Challenge climatic change. Munich 2003
• The earth in the greenhouse. In: Spektrum der Wissenschaft. Dossier, 2/2005
• Franz alto, Rudolf Bahro, Marko Ferst among other things: Ways to the ecological turn of an era. Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3419-7 (information)
• Johannes M. Waidfeld: Growth, the mistake; Prosperity, a social view. Fischer & Fischer media AG, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-89950-076-8

Related links

• Text of the climate frame convention (pdf file)
• Website of the German Federal Office for Environment Protection to the climatic protection politics
• Agreement between the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German economy to the climatic precaution (pdf file)
• What mentioned and which means Kyoto minutes to the climatic
• www.Klimaentwicklung.de
• Everyone can contribute to the climatic protection
• What has it with the tradable emission certificates on
• Compressed overview of the climatic protection strategies of all German Lands of the Federal Republic and the Federal Government
• www.whitehouse.gov - global the Climate CHANGE Policy Book and the climatic protection politics of US president George W. Bush

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