Ability of politicians to act : climate protection in the era of the polycrisis : foresight for the climate protection : Klimascan project : results of an analysis of key trends and the opportunities and risks they present for climate policy / publisher: German Environment Agency (UBA) ; authors: Simone Kimpeler, Lorenz Erdmann (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI) ; with the collaboration of Katja Hünecke (Öko-Institut), Rebecca Keilhauer, Petra Sandker (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI), Frauke Röser (New Climate Institute) ; on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, BMWK, Berlin ; editors: Section I 1.1 Fundamental aspects, Sustainability strategies and scenarios, Sustainable resource use - Sylvia Veenhoff

Abstract

Whether geopolitical polycrisis, progressive social fragmentation, changes in public communication and debates, increasing criticism of transformational governance, but also positive glimmers of hope such as the emergence of new governance approaches that are becoming increasingly digital, polycentric and transformative: the trend study analyses these five trends that could complicate or improve political action and shows how climate protection policy could position itself in the midst of overlapping crisis dynamics.