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DEU/COM/2 B
[located on Vol. 4]
Title
Germany. Environmental policy - Climate protection in Germany. Second report of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany pursuant to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Full text (PDF)
Full text of this documents is located on Volume 4, NCs, IDRs
Notes
Second national communication. Full text available on the UNFCCC website
Abstract
The report outlines greenhouse-gas emissions trends in Germany and presents projections for the future. It describes some 130 individual measures that federal authorities have taken through a complex federal climate protection programme, and it provides an overview of similar measures of the Länder, of communities, of industry and of other relevant groups. A separate chapter is devoted to Germany’s specific situation following unification and to the reasons for the differences in emissions trends in the old and new Federal Länder.
From 1990 to 1995, emissions of the most important greenhouse gases were reduced as fol-lows in Germany: carbon dioxoide (CO 2 ) by 12 %, methane (CH 4 ) by 16% and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) by 7%. The studies described in the report indicate that the measures approved to date could achieve a CO 2 reduction of about 15% by the year 2005 (compared with the emissions level in 1990). In other words, a great deal has already been accomplished. On the other hand, considerable additional efforts will have to be made to achieve the national objective - 25% lower CO 2 -emissions by the year 2005, in comparison with the 1990 emissi-ons level. The 4th Report of the 'CO 2 -Reduction' Interministerial Working Group has the task of providing the Federal Cabinet with recommendations for additional measures that will permit the ambitious climate protection objective to be reached
Meeting
Keywords
Annex I Parties
FCCC
Germany
adaptation measures
climate impact assessment
education, training and public awareness
emission inventories
emission projections
emissions
financial mechanism
national communications
national planning
policies and measures
projections
research and systematic observation
technology transfer
Content
Publication date
14/10/1997
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