Postscript: Germany's contribution to the solution of the climate-change problem - What can be achieved?

Supplementing the contributions published in ifo Schnelldienst 7/2007 on climate change, Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Flachsland and Thomas Bruckner of the Potsdam Institute for Research on Climate Change discuss the contribution that Germany should make to the solution of the climate-change problem. They believe that Europe and Germany can provide the decisive impulses for the creation of a sustainable, climate-compatible and also low-cost energy supply.