• Co-ordinator: Dr. rer. nat. Stephan Lingner, Dipl.-Geol.    

• Duration: 5/02-4/03

• Funding: Umweltbundesamt

• Documentation: Konrad Ott, Gernot Klepper, Stephan Lingner, Achim Schäfer, Jürgen Scheffran, Detlef Sprinz, mit einem Beitrag von Meinhard Schröder:
  Konkretisierungsstrategien für Art. 2 der UN-Klimarahmenkonvention
  (Graue Reihe 37)

The international climate policy has widely accepted the goal to prevent possible dangers to society and the environment from anthropogenic climate changes, according to Art. 2 of UN FCCC. Finding further concrete measures, necessary for the upcoming commitment periods of the Kyoto-Protocol, will require a sound basis for adequate precaution and fair distribution of residual risks due to climate change.
This project aimed at working out a reasonable and policy-compatible methodology to formulate and propose acceptable goals of international climate protection. Moreover, recommendations for an improvement of normative measures were given.
The results of this interdisciplinary effort are based upon the project report “Klimavorhersage und Klimavorsorge” by Schröder et al. (Springer-Verlag, 2002). This research project was conducted on behalf of the Federal Environmental Agency of Germany (Umweltbundesamt, UBA). The results were published in 2004.

• Dipl.-Oec. Achim Schäfer, Greifswald;

• Dr. rer. nat. Jürgen Scheffran, Potsdam.