Klimaneutrale Unternehmen und Verwaltungen: Wirksamer Klimaschutz oder Grünfärberei?

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Burkhard Huckestein
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Rule Out ◽  
Voluntary Initiatives

Immer mehr Unternehmen und Verwaltungen wollen klimaneutral werden, etwa um ihr Image zu verbessern. Trotz oder gerade aufgrund ihrer Popularität sind freiwillige Initiativen, etwa Aufforstungsprojekte, mit denen Treibhausgasemissionen kompensiert werden sollen, umstritten. Kritiker(innen) sehen darin eher Grünfärberei als einen wirksamen Beitrag zum Klimaschutz. Organisationen, die es mit dem Klimaschutz ernst meinen, formulieren Anforderungen, die auch die Vermeidung und Reduzierung von Treibhausgasen einschließen.More and more companies and administrations want to become climate neutral, for example to improve their corporate image. Such voluntary initiatives are as popular as they are controversial, among others reforestation to compensate greenhouse gas emissions. Critics regard them as greenwashing rather than a contribution to climate protection. To avoid this reproach, requirements are needed that rule out greenwashing and include prevention and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Die Klimaschutzgesetze der Bundesländer

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Schnittker
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Federal States ◽  
Protection Legislation

The federal states are among the pioneers in German climate protection legislation. Even before the Federal Climate Protection Act, various Länder, in particular North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg, have enshrined targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in law. In addition, they have adapted their planning laws to help implement climate protection-relevant projects in spatial planning. The author compares various state climate protection laws and examines their constitutionality in particular. Following on from this, the legal effects of the laws are explained in the context of constitutional and federal law.

scholarly journals Climate protection as an ethical challenge

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Zbigniew M. Karaczun
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Ethical Challenge ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
The Common ◽  
Human Responsibility

Mitigation of the global climate change is one of the most important challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. It will require significant changes in the economy, consumption, the style of life. However, the climate protection is also an ethical problem. It is a problem of responsibility for the climate – the common good of all creatures. This article discusses selected ethical issues that are related to the implementation of climate policy. It was indicated that the acceptance of research results indicating human responsibility for climate change is a prerequisite for active climate action. It has also been found that the common but differentiated responsibility of individual countries is primarily due to their historical greenhouse gas emissions. It also results from the fact that most of the significant negative impacts of climate change will occur in the poorest countries, whose share of greenhouse gas emissions is very small. The rejection of human responsibility for climate change and the responsibility of rich societies for already occurring changes and their effects in developing countries means that climate mitigation actions are not being sufficiently addressed. Behind the Pope Francis repeated that without changing ethical attitudes towards the natural environment and accepting responsibility for the whole world around us, effective climate protection would not be possible.

Low-Carbon Russia: Prospects after the Crisis

2009 ◽  
pp. 107-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Bashmakov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Potential Energy ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Scenario Approach

On the eve of the worldwide negotiations of a new climate agreement in December 2009 in Copenhagen it is important to clearly understand what Russia can do to mitigate energy-related greenhouse gas emissions in the medium (until 2020) and in the long term (until 2050). The paper investigates this issue using modeling tools and scenario approach. It concludes that transition to the "Low-Carbon Russia" scenarios must be accomplished in 2020—2030 or sooner, not only to mitigate emissions, but to block potential energy shortages and its costliness which can hinder economic growth.

Ecological specificities of the interaction between animal breeding and climate changes, caused by greenhouse gas emissions

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-72
Author(s):  
O. Zhukorsky ◽  
O. Nykyforuk ◽  
N. Boltyk
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Animal Breeding ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Emissions Inventory ◽  
Theoretical Substantiation ◽  
Global Problems

Aim. Proper development of animal breeding in the conditions of current global problems and the decrease of anthropogenic burden on environment due to greenhouse gas emissions, caused by animal breeding activity, require the study of interaction processes between animal breeding and external climatic conditions. Methods. The theoretical substantiation of the problem was performed based on scientifi c literature, statistical informa- tion of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the data of the National greenhouse gas emissions inventory in Ukraine. Theoretically possible emissions of greenhouse gases into atmosphere due to animal breeding in Ukraine and specifi c farms are calculated by the international methods using the statistical infor- mation about animal breeding in Ukraine and the economic-technological information of the activity of the investigated farms. Results. The interaction between the animal breeding production and weather-and-climate conditions of environment was analyzed. Possible vectors of activity for the industry, which promote global warming and negative processes, related to it, were determined. The main factors, affecting the formation of greenhouse gases from the activity of enterprises, aimed at animal breeding production, were characterized. Literature data, statistical data and calculations were used to analyze the role of animal breeding in the green- house gas emissions in global and national framework as well as at the level of specifi c farms with the consid- eration of individual specifi cities of these farms. Conclusions. Current global problems require clear balance between constant development of sustainable animal breeding and the decrease of the carbon footprint due to the activity of animal breeding.

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