Measures

What will climate change look like in your region? Which adaptation measures are necessary and useful? The new funding measure RegIKlim aims to provide answers to these questions.

The research agenda "Sustainable Urban Mobility" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) outlines how science and practice can shape the way to a humane and environmentally friendly mobility system. With the competition ...

In the transport sector, drive concepts are moving from conventional internal combustion engines to zero-emissions electric drives. All modes of transport are affected, whether it be cars, buses, trucks, trains, ships, or airplanes, and whether it be ...

Billions of people in regions of the Global South have no access to electricity. There is a lack of inexpensive storage facilities to bring electric power from the sun and from wind to households. In industrialized countries, decentralized storage ...

Most biological and social systems have complex dynamics, marked by interdependencies, feedback loops as well as delayed effects, which can lead to abrupt and possibly irreversible changes of a system (tipping point)linked to exponential losses of ...

Biological diversity is declining rapidly worldwide. This development is based on serious gaps in knowledge and measures that urgently need to be addressed. The BMBF is meeting this challenge with a long-term Research Initiative for the Conservation of ...

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the French National Research Agency (ANR) are continuing their long-standing successful cooperation in science and research. The goal of the latest call for proposals is to strengthen ...

How can food supply, energy systems and urban digital infrastructures develop sustainably? How can water industries be sustainably managed and flood risk in urban areas better be tackled? What is the role of intellectual property rights to accelerate ...

(only available in German) Klimawandel, Landdegradierung, Bevölkerungswachstum – die Auswirkungen des globalen Wandels prägen das südliche Afrika und stellen die Länder vor große Herausforderungen. Diese Region ist bereits jetzt stark von den ...

For the first time, the UK and Germany have joined forces to investigate the impact of climate change on the Arctic Ocean.

(only available in German) Im zweitgrößten deutschen Braunkohlerevier leben über eine Million Menschen. Die Kohleförderung, seit vielen Jahrzehnten der wichtigste Wirtschaftszweig der Region, hat bereits deutlich abgenommen und wird voraussichtlich ...

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change poses unique challenges for science as the Parties recognized ''the need for an effective and progressive response to the urgent threat of climate change on the basis of the best available scientific knowledge''.