A justified ceiling to Germany’s CO₂ emissions: Questions and answers on its CO₂ budget

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The German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) recommended in its Environmental Report 2020 to align Germany’s climate targets with a CO2 budget that is compatible with the goals of the Paris Agreement (SRU 2020, chap. 2). For this purpose, the SRU proposed a scientifically and ethically justified calculation for a maximum German CO2 budget derived from the global CO2 budgets of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This budget quantifies an upper limit for the total amount of CO2 emissions that Germany should not exceed in order to make what the SRU considers a sufficient, appropriate and fair contribution to meeting the Paris climate goals. In this report, the SRU answers a number of questions that have arisen in public discourse and updates its CO2 budget calculations based on the latest scientific findings.

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