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Fighting Climate Change in Germany

The Climate Change Mascot (1/15)

Polar bear Knut has never seen the arctic habitat of its species. Still, the cub has become something of a symbol for global warming in Germany with newspapers running shocking stories about melting ice caps and drowing polar bears. But beyond the headlines, there is a climate change reality that more and more Germans begin to feel in their everyday life. Our picture gallery presents some impressions from this changing world and how Germans react to it. (Photo: Reuters)

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Living with the Water (2/15)

Eighty-two-year-old resident Georg Drysch sits on a truck after his evacuation from the flood-stricken town of Bitterfeld, north of Dresden, in August 2002. The worst flooding in history swamped large parts of eastern Germany, leaving 19 people dead and causing around 9 billion Euros in damages. (Photo: Reuters)

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Flood (3/15)

A boy walks in front of a dam built with sandbags during the April 2006 flood in Dresden, Germany. Hundreds worked around the clock checking dikes, erecting sandbag barriers and pumping water. The flood was the second so-called "flood of the century" to strike eastern Germany in just four years. (Photo: Reuters)

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Drought (4/15)

Bushes grow on the partially dried-up riverbed of the Elbe River in the eastern German town of Dresden in May 2007. A warm and dry winter and a long period of high spring temperatures caused one of the lowest water levels on the Elbe ever recorded in spring. (Photo: Reuters)

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Heat Wave (5/15)

A zookeeper sprays water on an elephant during a heat wave at Munich Zoo in August 2003. Germany experienced extreme weather conditions, as temperatures consistenly rose above 40 degrees Celsius. Around 7,000 people died in Germany that summer from heat-related complications.(Photo: Reuters)

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Melting Glaciers (6/15)

Workers try to cover a glacier on Germany's highest mountain, Zugspitze. The giant anti-glare shields should reduce the melting on what is left of Germany's last remaining glacier. The shield on the 2,962-meter peak in the northern Alps will expand this year to 9,000 square metres to preserve 30,000 cubic metres of snow from melting due to global warming. Despite efforts to stop the melting of the Zugspitze glacier - which was 80 meters thick in 1910 - experts say it could melt completely in the next 20 years. (Photo: Reuters)

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Coal Power Plant (7/15)

Steam clouds pour out of the cooling towers of a lignite powered energy plant in Cologne. Coal power plants – considered the most climate-unfriendly of all forms of energy production – supplied around half of all electricity produced in Germany in 2004. There are about 77 billion tons of lignite or brown coal reserves left in Germany. At the current rate of mining, this would allow for another 225 years of coal production in Germany. (Photo: Reuters)

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Hydrogen or Hybrid (8/15)

A BMW is docked at the world's first filling station for liquid and gaseous hydrogen with on-site hydrogen gas production at Munich International Airport in 1999. German car manufacturers like BMW had initially focused on developing hydrogen-powered cars, and are now trying to catch up with non-German competitors in the fast growing market for hybrid cars. (Photo: Reuters)

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Speed Limit (9/15)

Members of the Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) hold traffic signs and a banner during a demonstration in front of the Federal Chancellery in Berlin. The club demanded a general speed limit of 120 kilometers per hour (74.5 miles per hour) on all German motorways. The banner reads: "Slow down climate change - Speed limit now!" Germany is among the few countries in the world without a general speed limit on highways. (Photo: Reuters)

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Automobile Industry (10/15)

Ferdinand Piech (left), former Volkswagen CEO and his successor, Bernd Pischetsrieder, present the prototype of a so-called 'one-liter Volkswagen' car. Built out of carbon fiber, the car uses a mere 0.999 litres of diesel per 100 kilometers. In general, however, German car manufacturers face serious problems meeting EU emission guidelines for carbon dioxide.(Photo: Reuters)

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Chancellor for the Environment? (11/15)

Environmentalists pin great hopes on Germany's conservative chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). The trained physicist and former minister for the environment is using her position as president both of the G8 and the European Union to lobby for ambitious climate policies. (Photo: Reuters)

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Environmentalist (12/15)

Petra Kelly, one of the founders of the Green Party in Germany. Different than in most countries, Germany's Green Party is among the nation's most important political forces. After the party's foundation in 1980, the Greens' popularity gradually rose in Germany, eventually landing them in a coalition government with the social democrats from 1998 to 2005. Kelly, who died in 1992, had studied in the United States. She was an admirer of Martin Luther King, Jr. and campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 U.S. elections. (Photo: Public Domain)

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Nuclear Energy (13/15)

A nuclear plant in the southern German town of Obrigheim. The 18-year plant, the oldest of 18 working reactors in Germany, was closed in 2005 under the national nuclear withdrawal program. According to the phase-out program, no nuclear power plant is allowed to operate for more than 32 years. The recent debate on global warming and carbon dioxide emissions, however, strengthened nuclear energy supporters. Some conservative members of the government are now demanding a phase-out of the phase-out. (Photo: Reuters)

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Wind Power (14/15)

Cranes lift up the rotor of a giant wind generator in Brunsbuettel, Germany. The REpower wind generator has a rotor of 126 meters in diameter, a hub height of 120 meters. Wind turbines supply around 30 percent of the energy needs in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. (Photo: Reuters)

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Solar Power (15/15)

The sky is reflected in solar panels of the world's biggest roof-based solar system in the southern German town of Buerstadt. The 40,000-square-meter installation can produce up to 4.5 Megawatts of electricity. Two hundred kilometers of cables were necessary to wire the facility. (Photo: Reuters)

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