Interviews by Franz Baumann
Ich halte es für Zeitverschwendung, Klimawandel-Leugnern zu antworten
NRWZ, 2020
Menschengemachter Klimawandel. Wie mit Leugnern umgehen? Demokratien haben einen kurzen Zeithor... more Menschengemachter Klimawandel. Wie mit Leugnern umgehen? Demokratien haben einen kurzen Zeithorizont, begünstigen graduelle Anpassungen sowie schmerzlose Scheinlösungen und brauchen Wirtschaftswachstum. Zukünftige Generationen, Menschen im globalen Süden und die Flora sowie Fauna – die alle nichts zur Erderhitzung beigetragen haben, aber mit den Folgen werden leben müssen – haben keine Stimme.
IDN-InDepthNews UN Insider, 2016
Vereinte Nationen, 2016
United Nations Management Reform
Papers by Franz Baumann
Angesichts der sich beschleunigenden Klimakrise wird die Bedeutung der Kernkraft, die derzeit ca.... more Angesichts der sich beschleunigenden Klimakrise wird die Bedeutung der Kernkraft, die derzeit ca. 10 % der weltweiten Stromproduktion ausmacht, für den zukünftigen Energieträgermix diskutiert. Einige Länder, internationale Organisationen, private Unternehmen sowie Forscher:innen messen der Kernenergie auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität und zum Ende fossiler Energien eine gewisse Bedeutung bei. Dies geht auch aus Energie-und Klimaszenarien des IPCC hervor. Dagegen legen die Erfahrungen mit der kommerziellen Nutzung der Kernkraft der letzten sieben Jahrzehnte nahe, dass ein solcher Pfad mit erheblichen technischen, ökonomischen und gesellschaftlichen Risiken verbunden ist. Der vorliegende Diskussionsbeitrag erörtert Ar-1 Rolle der Autor:innen: Wealer (korrespondierender Autor,
COP26: How Full Is the Glass?
Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
American Journal of Health Promotion
T he coronavirus pandemic provides us with an opportunity to reassess and reboot our relationship... more T he coronavirus pandemic provides us with an opportunity to reassess and reboot our relationship with nature. Reducing the pressures on our planet's life-giving ecosystems will help solve converging environmental crises as well as benefit public health and well-being. Rather than piecemeal solutions to the rising probability and magnitude of zoonotic disease outbreaks, runaway climate disruption, and mass biodiversity loss, we suggest systemic change in the way humanity functions and interacts with nature. The staggering loss of human life and disruptions to everyday life from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have caused immeasurable pain across the world as well as enormous financial losses. If and when the time comes that it is deemed safe to resume all our typical activities, the world will still be a markedly different place. To reduce the likelihood and impact of the next pandemic and other natural disasters, we need to address human, animal, and planetary health together. Immediate action is critical to solving these co-linked crises.
Guy Pe’er1,2,* Sebastian Lakner3, Ralf Seppelt4, Peter Bezák5, Aletta Bonn1,2,6, Elena D. Concepc... more Guy Pe’er1,2,* Sebastian Lakner3, Ralf Seppelt4, Peter Bezák5, Aletta Bonn1,2,6, Elena D. Concepción7,8, Felix Creutzig9,10, Claus-Heinrich Daub11, Mario Díaz7, Petra Dieker12, Nico Eisenhauer1,13, Gregor Hagedorn14, Bernd Hansjürgens1,15, Gabriele Harrer-Puchner16, Irina Herzon17, Thomas Hickler18, Jens Jetzkowitz19,20, Yanka Kazakova21, Pavel Kindlmann22, Mathias Kirchner23, Alexandra-Maria Klein24, Sven Linow25, Ângela Lomba26, José Vicente López-Bao27, Matteo Metta28, Manuel B. Morales29, Francisco Moreira30, Anne-Christine Mupepele24, Alberto Navarro27, Rainer Oppermann31, Ilona Rac32, Norbert Röder33, Martina Schäfer34, Clelia Sirami35, Charlotte Streck36, Tanja Šumrada32, Katja Tielbörger37, Emil Underberg38, Georg Wagener-Lohse39, and Franz Baumann40.
International Politics Reviews
Global heating is happening. The opportunity to prevent it has been missed. Originating in the In... more Global heating is happening. The opportunity to prevent it has been missed. Originating in the Industrial Revolution, the ever greater use of fossil fuels impacts the entire world -especially future generations, who contribute nothing to the problem and who have no say today. The nearuniversal consensus is that the accumulation in the atmosphere of greenhouse gases heats the Earth's climate, that an increase above 2 °C imperils the basis of human life, and that one beyond 3 °C threatens its destruction. Global heating is the flipside of the phenomenal economic and demographic development of the past half century. Ever more people are enjoying, or pursuing, ever more comfortable and mobile lifestyles, the cumulative effect is to push the Earth beyond its carrying capacity. Recognizing these dangers, the 2015 Paris Agreement was a major achievement -but not good enough, because chances are slim that it will be realized and, even if it were, it would not suffice. Global heating is beyond individual or national remedial action. Organizing decarbonization at the proper scale and speed is the formidable global public policy challenge on which the survival of the human species depends. Can governments deliver? And what, if they can't?
Sounding the climate alarm—scientists and politics
Conservation Science and Advocacy for a Planet in Peril
United Nations Management —An Oxymoron?
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
Public Health Depends on a Healthy Planet
The New Republic, 2020
Zoonotic diseases like Covid-19 are classic examples of where ecosystems and human health intersect
Klimareporter, 2019
Democracy as collateral damage of global heating
Climate Home News, 2019
The Green New Deal is the best opportunity in the U.S. for a safe climate, equitable society, and... more The Green New Deal is the best opportunity in the U.S. for a safe climate, equitable society, and thriving planet.
International Politics Reviews, 2018
| Global heating is happening. The opportunity to prevent it has been missed. Originating in the ... more | Global heating is happening. The opportunity to prevent it has been missed. Originating in the Industrial Revolution, the ever greater use of fossil fuels impacts the entire world – especially future generations, who contribute nothing to the problem and who have no say today. The near-universal consensus is that the accumulation in the atmosphere of greenhouse gases heats the Earth's climate, that an increase above 2 °C imperils the basis of human life, and that one beyond 3 °C threatens its destruction. Global heating is the flipside of the phenomenal economic and demographic development of the past half century. Ever more people are enjoying, or pursuing, ever more comfortable and mobile lifestyles, the cumulative effect is to push the Earth beyond its carrying capacity. Recognizing these dangers, the 2015 Paris Agreement was a major achievement – but not good enough, because chances are slim that it will be realized and, even if it were, it would not suffice. Global heating is beyond individual or national remedial action. Organizing decarbonization at the proper scale and speed is the formidable global public policy challenge on which the survival of the human species depends. Can governments deliver? And what, if they can't? International Politics Reviews (2018). https://doi.
Der (europäische) Föderalist, 2016
IDN In Depth News UN Insider, 2018
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