Individual climate action scenarios

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For many citizens, it has been difficult to identify with the targets set by the German government for greenhouse gas savings by 2050 and to identify their own options for action. To make this possible, a tool for creating individual climate protection scenarios was integrated into the existing UBA CO₂ calculator.

In 2007, ifeu, together with KlimAktiv, created the CO₂ calculator, the first nationwide municipal citizen tool for calculating individual CO₂ footprints.

Within the framework of this project, an application for the creation of individual long-term climate protection scenarios was developed. In this, individual fields of action of the citizens on the way to realising the climate protection goals until 2050 are mapped. The aim is to increase acceptance of the German government's climate protection goals and awareness of the social impact of individual climate protection measures.

In addition, the existing CO₂calculator was further developed methodically and in terms of content within the framework of the project. Among other things, sufficiency options for action and the impact on third parties were added.

ifeu supported the project in particular with its scientific expertise in updating the existing CO₂ calculator, developing the scenario tool and coordinating the actors and disseminating the tool.