Chapter 1: Challenge: Climate change as the starting situation

Abstract

Climate change affects all parts of the world, all continents. Some countries may even benefit from climate change in the coming years in certain areas (e.g. higher agricultural yields in Northern countries). Other areas, however, are developing unfavourably (water shortage, melting glaciers) and the “bottom line” is that the effects, which are noticeable even now, will be distinctly negative (see p. 7 et seq. below). Thus, the effects are not limited to certain parts of the world. It is, in the true sense of the word, a global problem.