Saturday morning Elke Groh, who works for the Chair of Empirical Economic Research at the University of Kassel, incorporated a scientific perspective into the discussion. After introducing the basic concepts of climate change and international climate agreements, the BMBF-funded research project NostaClimate was used to illustrate research on potential climate protection activities of different non-state actors.

The workshop attendees were very creative in developing possible climate protection activities for non-state actors. During the very engaged and lively discussion afterwards, they also scrutinized the missing motivation of individual players on climate protection goals – also referring to themselves.