Summer School on Sustainable Development 2009: Decarbonizing Europe and the World. European Climate Policy - Internal and External Dimensions
Hurricane Katrina in the United States, bush fires in Australia, floods in South Asia. Natural disasters all around the world demonstrate in an alarming way, how a warming planet could look like within a comparatively short period of time. Meanwhile, the economic and financial crisis confronts the world with its much more direct impacts to everyday life and tells international climate policy to step back on the agenda for a moment.