To limit global warming, Germany is set to become climate-neutral in 2045. While technologically and economically feasible, political and societal forces threaten to slow the transformation according to Stefan Aykut at the University’s Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS). Aykut has now published his findings in a study.
Sociologist Aykut and his team have now looked at the German climate transformation. They undertook an analysis that included key factors, or "social drivers." "The climate-neutral reconstruction of Germany promotes existing interests, habits, and business models. So it is societal processes that impede the climate transformation while also then driving it," says Aykut. ...
