Headline: From your personal CO₂-emission to a global CO₂-market – the IASS at the 5th Climate Week in Hamburg

13.08.2013

With an interactive CO2 game, developed at the IASS, visitors of the Hamburg Climate Week can create their personal CO2 footprint. By doing so, they will learn how they can personally contribute to a more climate friendly way of living in their everyday lives. „Many of us know CO2 only as an abstract term or concept from the media and do not have a feeling for how closely CO2 emissions are connected to our daily lives“, explains Dr. Thomas Bruhn, physicist and atmospheric scientist in the research cluster Sustainable Interactions with the Atmosphere at the IASS Potsdam. Bruhn is going to present the CO2 game that he developed from August 15 to August 17, 2013 at the 5th Climate Week in Hamburg. The IASS Potsdam offers different interactive and informative tools on the subjects of CO2 and climate justice.

One of the present challenges is that each of our lifestyles should cause less than 2.5 tons of CO2 emissions a year to maintain stable climatic conditions on Earth. Currently, however, every German causes approximately 11 tons of CO2 emissions - roughly four times as much as recommended from the perspective of climate protection. The different societal dimensions of this challenge that range from technological progress to the contribution of every individual in everyday life will be discussed at the Climate Week in Hamburg.

According to Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Hamburg Climate Week is the largest climate event in Europe. This year it is located in the Europa-Passage in the centre of Hamburg close to the Binnenalster (or Inner Alster Lake). In the last years, more than one million people have visited the Hamburg Climate Week.

IASS booth:

  • Thursday (15th August) until Saturday (17th August) from 12.00 to 6.30 pm
  • 1st Floor of the Europa Passage, Ballindamm 40

Education programme for schools

  • Thursday (15th August) and Friday (16th August)
  • From 8.30 to 9.30 am and from 9.30 to 10.30 am
  • On the barges, Jungfernstieg Anleger 5+6.
  • Registration: www.klimawoche.de/bildungsprogramm

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