Making Berlin compliant with the Paris resolutions Update of the feasibility study "Climate-neutral Berlin 2050" with a view to the requirements of the UN Paris Agreement
What can Berlin's contribution to implementing the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement look like? The Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) has prepared a study on this question on behalf of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection.
The study sets out in various scenarios how Berlin can become climate-neutral before 2050 in order to meet the target path of the Paris Agreement. It thus updates the feasibility study "Climate-neutral Berlin 2050" from 2014, which formed an important basis for Berlin's climate protection policy.
The study concludes that Berlin's climate neutrality – pragmatically defined as a 95% reduction in Berlin's CO2 emissions compared to 1990 – is already achievable in the course of the 2040s. However, this requires not only major additional climate protection efforts on the part of the state, but also a significantly more ambitious climate protection policy at federal level.
In order to achieve the climate protection targets, the study formulates around 50 proposed measures for the state of Berlin, which supplement the Berlin Energy and Climate Protection Program (BEK 2030) and are intended to support the path to climate neutrality in all fields of action.
The study was conducted with the assistance of Elisa Dunkelberg, Janis Bergmann, Annika Bode, Isabel Kühn, Christoph Lange, Gregor Weyer, Kathrin Wagner, Carolin Daam, Daniel Busch, Norman Pieniak, Martina Richwien, Sebastian Gütte.
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