Connected Earth: Kontext

What’s holding back climate protection?  The toolbox for effective climate protection is ready and waiting. We have long known which adjustments need to be made: expanding renewable energies, electrification, expanding public transport, increasing efficiency in industry, replacing oil and gas heating systems — and much more besides. Nonetheless, the necessary political and economic decisions for…

Climate protection as the driving force of the economy? Protecting the climate is not in contradiction with the economy. Indeed, it is even a prerequisite for it in the long term. But first things first. The basis of our way of running the economy and thus of modern-day western prosperity and the threat to it…

What does science say about the climate crisis? What do you think of when you think of the climate crisis? Close your eyes for five seconds.  What images do you see? Floods, droughts, scientists issuing warnings, ruined wheat fields, statistics with red lines, children and youths demonstrating, forest fires, a polar bear on a melting ice…