Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 1,5, University of London, course: Climate change and environmental hazards, language: English, abstract: 196 parties adopted the Paris Agreement in 2015 to curb global warming. Delivering on those commitments will require not just incremental sector-by-sector change, but wide-ranging, largescale, rapid and systemic transformation (UNEP 2022). Germany, as the biggest emitter of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) in the EU, has to play a lead role in this endeavor. This policy brief addresses current obstacles and practical proposals for successful mitigation and adaptation actions.