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Sustainability News and Resources

New and resources on sustainability and climate change.
A lot of it is in German — please add similar resources in English.

Resources

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

The Sixth Assessment Report consists of three Working Group contributions and a Synthesis Report

National Centers for Environmental Organization (NCEI)

World Meteorological Organization

Since 1993, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), through the Commission for climatology and in cooperation with its Members, has issued annual statements on the status of the global climate to provide credible scientific information on climate and its variability.

They also prepare reports for smaller regions, e.g.

In cooperation with the WHO they prepared an

News and Interviews

2024 10 05. ARD: Dürre lässt Amazonas-Nebenfluss austrocknen

“Durch die extreme Trockenheit ist einer der größten Flüsse Brasiliens fast ausgetrocknet.” This in nicely documented in this ARD news clip.

2023 09 28. ARD Tagesschau: Sven Plöger mit Einschätzungen zu Extremwetter

In the context of the ExtremWetterKongress the Tagesschau broadcasted this interview with Sven Plöger concerning “Wie Extrem ist das Wetter”.

2023 09 27–29. ExtremWetterKongress

Hamburg is presently hosting a congress addressing extreme weather events with an amazing program and a very nice YouTube channel.

2023 08 29. ARTE Doku: Fast_fashion

Fast Fashion is causing considerable amounts of the global greenhouse gas emissions, waste water, and house-hold waste. Since years the UN Alliance aims to put fashion on path to sustainability. However, it is one of the most rapidly growing industries. Thus, it became the industry with the most severe environmental impacts after oil and mining, and severe social impact due to really bad employment standards. An overview of its present impact is given in the documentary Fast Fashion. Die dunkle Welt der Billigmode of ARTE investigation and reports.

2023 08 21. ARTE Doku: Panik in der Antarktis

For a long time the were little signs of climate change in Antactica. This has changed according to the ARTE report on Politics and Society on Panik in der Antarktis

2023 01 15. Documentation on the Santa Fe Workshop: "The Growing Gap Between Our Physical and Social Technologies"

If you still need inspiration for your essay I recommend the Danish documentation

of the

The participants provide a brilliant analysis of the Sustainability Crisis, and put forward very important ideas to address open problems. However, at times they dramatically go wrong, like in their expectation how a global pandemic might help(:!:) to solve problems.

2022 11 06. Luisa Neubauer zur Klimakonferenz in Ägypten und Klimaaktivismus

2022 11 05. Klimagerechtigkeit – So wird Klimaschutz sozialer und effektiver

Die Klima-Krise betrifft uns alle. Aber gerade die Ärmsten leiden unter den Folgen am meisten, während sie am wenigsten CO2 verursachen.
podcast and more information at Quarks Daily Spezial

2022 11 02. Temperatures in Europe increase more than twice global average

Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global average over the past 30 years – the highest of any continent in the world. As the warming trend continues, exceptional heat, wildfires, floods and other climate change impacts will affect society, economies and ecosystems, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
sources: WMO, ARD

2022 10 28. A recent book on democracy and religion

What would modernity be without religion? Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa, director of the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt, explores this question in his publication “Demokratie braucht Religion” (“Democracy Needs Religion”), which has just been published by Verlag Kösel.
remark: Gregor Gysi provided a very interesting foreword of the book.
sources: publisher, Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, interview im DLF

2022 03 15. Deutschland trocknet langsam aus

Noch ist Deutschland mit reichlich Wasser gesegnet. Das gilt als selbstverständlich. Doch neue Daten zeigen: Der Wasserverlust ist beträchtlich - und das Ausmaß noch nicht abzusehen.
source: ARD/SWR

2022 08. Friederike Otto on the UN climate report

interviews in DW (English), tagesschau24

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