Opportunities and risks of climate change
Today, global warming is a fact. The climate has changed: visibly, tangibly, measurably. An additional increase in average global temperatures is not only possible, but very probable, while human intervention in the natural climatic system plays an important, if not decisive role.
And who is affected by climate changes? In a word, everyone. Climate change – a change in the average weather conditions – may have both positive and negative effects in individual cases, but it can never be without consequences. Since the weather influences all areas of life, climate changes affect each and every one of us.
Thus, the decisive issue again is not whether we have to adapt, but to what, when and how. This publication examines possible answers. It shows how the forecasts of climate research can be broken down into practical measures, and thus aims to make the concrete effects of climate changes visible.
