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Interested in becoming an official partner of Climate 2010? Please contact the organizers.

The conference organizers received more than 130 abstracts from all parts of the world. After successful peer review, all full scientific papers will be accessible online from 1 Nov 2010 on on this platform.

Dr Norbert Roettgen, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the patron of the upcoming online climate conference CLIMATE 2010. Read more about the minister and his ministry's International Climate Initiative on the patronage or read the full press release.

March 22 is World Water Day - organized by CLIMATE 2010's partner UNEP and further supporting organizations. Communicating water quality challenges and opportunities is at the heart of this event. More about the World Water Day at www.worldwaterday2010.info.

All webpages of CLIMATE 2010 are hosted CO₂-neutral by the CLIMATE 2010 partner STRATO.

CO₂ emissions related to the use of participants´ personal computers during the online climate conference from 1-7 November 2010 will be compensated by our conference partner KlimaInvest. To guarantee a climate-neutral conference week, a wind energy park in Turkey is being financed according to the acknowleged WWF Gold Standard.

Patronage

The patron of CLIMATE 2010 / KLIMA 2010 is Federal Environment Minister Dr. Norbert Röttgen (Federal Republic of Germany).

Dr Norbert Röttgen,
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the Federal Republic of Germany

Link to the english website of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety: www.bmu.de
Access the thematic area CLIMATE PROTECTION here.

Statement from the BMU

Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

The International Climate Initiative of the Federal Republic of Germany

The German government’s Climate Initiative, launched in 2008, is a practical example of how to provide financing. Auctioning certified emission reductions to German industry generates new and additional funding that is reinvested in ambitious national and international climate protection projects.

For the Initiative’s international component, up to EUR 120 million is to be deployed in 2009 for additional climate protection measures in newly industrialising and developing countries, as well as in the transition countries. The projects supplement Germany’s existing bilateral development cooperation, which already makes climate protection a priority area with annual funding of approximately EUR 1 billion. The International Climate Initiative supports partner countries in line with their specific needs relating to all aspects of climate change – notably efforts to reduce emissions, improve capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate change, and conserve climate-relevant biodiversity.