Research for the Environment

Where humans have attempted to cultivate deserts, they are now struggling against soil salinisation and desiccation. Climate change will make this situation in many regions of the world worse and is already leaving its mark today. The answer to climate change has to be: Adaptation - and at the same time climate change mitigation. The UFZ is using its expertise to contribute to research on the impacts of climate change and the development of adaptation strategies.

Contents:

• Preamble of the Scientific Managing Director of the UFZ
• Research on integrated climate change politics
• Interview: Achim Steiner, UNEP
  We need to come to an agreement about the climate
• The future of water
• Water from the Amudarya
• Vulnerability to extreme events
• Learning from the Kalahari
• Improving regional climate models
• ALARM: Climate change is tearing holes in the web of life
• Perspective for extremists
• Viruses on tour
• Poisonous prospects
• Point of view: Bioenergy - Hope for climate protection from bioenergy?
• Climate change and sustainable forestry
• Interview: Pavan Sukhdev; TEEB
  Vital ecosystems provide a greater protection from the impacts of climate change
• Point of view: The costs of adaptation to climate change remain uncertain
• Avoiding conflicts - using synergies
• Point of view: We can´t get around coal!
• Can we dispose CO₂ underground?
• On the road to a European adaptation policy
• Environmental law and adaptation pressure
• Information pages

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UFZ Special: On the case of climate change (Nov. 2009)