CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE GERMAN ENERGY TRANSITION

1. CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE GERMAN ENERGY TRANSITION

2. Inhalt • 1 Climate Change • The German Energy Transition • a. Nuclear Phase Out • b. Coal Phase Out • c. Build-Up Renewable Capacities • UN Summits 2015 • a. Sustainable Development Goals • b. Implementation Paris Agreement

3. 1| Climate Change • In its most recent Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underlined the threat of climate change. • Emissions-budget to remain under 2°C or even under 1.5°C is almost exhausted.

5. CO2-Budget for 2-Degree-Limit: around 1000 gigatonnes CO2-Budget for 1.5-Degree-Limit: 550 gigatonnes

6. CLIMATE CHANGE WORLDWIDE • “Heat-Island-Effect” of large cities • Hurricanes such as Typhoon Haiyan • Danger of flooding • Expected decreases in crop yields due to drought

7. Climate Change Worldwide

8. Paris Agreement: • Keeping the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°Degree above pre-industrial levels; aim to limit the increase to 1.5°Degree • Climate neutrality in the second half of this century • As conclusion: • Industrial countries should decarbonize until 2050 • Developing countries until 2070 • Governments agreed to come together every 5 years to set more ambitious targets and report to each other how well they are doing to implement their targets. • Industrial countries mobilize USD 100 billion per year by 2020 and extend this until 2025

9. 2| THE GERMAN ENERGY TRANSITIONSTART A NUCLEAR PHASE-OUT!

10. Chernobyl: 1986 • 1. Phase-Out: 2000 • Fukushima: March 2011 • 2. Phase-Out: June 2011

11. Fukushima Changed Germany!

12. NuclEar Waste in Germany • High radioactive waste: 28.100 m3 • Medium and low radioactive waste: • Deployed in Schacht Konrad: 303.000 m3 • Depleted Uranium: 100.000 m3 • Waste from the drowned storage mine „Asse“: 48.000 m3 • Other waste: 5.500 m3 Total: almost ½ million tonnes of waste!

13. NucLEar Waste in Germany • PICTURE FROM NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE IN „ASSE“

14. NuclEar Waste in Germany

15. 2| THE GERMAN ENERGY TRANSITIONCOAL PHASE-OUT!

16. Also in Germany there is still much to be done! Coal-firedgeneration

17. FIGHT FOR COAL – WE WIN! new hard coal plant new lignite plant averted tbc

18. Awayfromfossils • Because they are: • climate damaging • dangerous • harmful to health • raw materials are finite • raw materials are expensive

19. A newmovementtakesthestage: Divestnowfrom fossil fuels!

20. Substantial reform of the European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) CO2-limits for power plants CO2-minimum price Binding Framework: climate protection law Concrete Measures: Climate protection action plan Transformation strategy: Climate protection plan 2050 Start Coal Phase-Out!

21. 2| THE GERMAN ENERGY TRANSITIONBUILD-UP RENEWABLE CAPACITIES!

22. Accessed on June 16, 2016 at www.strom-report.de

23. Prices areStabilizing Accessed on June 16, 2016 at www.energytransition.de

24. Around 100 „Energymunicipalities“ acrossgermany Commit togoing100 % renewable

25. 92% SUPPORT

26. ONLY 12% OWNED BY THE „BIG FOUR“ • The „Energiwende“ belongs to the people!

28. Complete PV system

30. People love Renewables!

32. 3| UN SUMMITS 20151. Sustainable development goals 2. Implementation Paris agreement

33. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

34. Implementation Paris Agreement • Ratification of the agreement • Enter into force prior to the elections in the US • Review Mechanismus • Securing the financing

35. Thereisnoother Planet B

36. THANK YOU Contact: Bärbel Höhn MdB baerbel.hoehn@bundestag.de Twitter: @BaerbelHoehn

37. 3 Possible Cooperation • Exchange of Best-Practise-Examples • Renewable Energies Law (EEG) • Climate Change Legislation • Adapting to Climate Change • Coal phase-out • Implementation of SDGs • Think global, act local.