Germany needs to reduce per capita carbon emissions from 11 tons per year down to 0.3 tons
Negotiations to form a new climate agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol are coming to a close. The new global contract should be finalized by the heads of state and government from the192 participating countries this December in Copenhagen. Climate experts say that for the agreement to actually do any good at all, it will have to dictate a 95 percent reduction in global carbon emissions by 2050. But is that really possible?
WWF Germany, the Öko Institute and the Prognos Institute say that it is. The three organizations recently released a study in Berlin called "Model Germany – Climate Protection by 2050" in which they laid out what the country has to do to make this a reality.
Report: Richard Fuchs/Ellice Mol