Climate change is the greatest global challenge of the 21st century. Although the history of our 4.6-billionyear-old planet has seen repeated climate fluctuations, there is no doubt that mankind is responsible for the largest share of current global warming as a result of carbon dioxide emissions. It is precisely the high speed at which climate change is progressing that poses an enormous problem. Neither flora and fauna nor humans can adapt that quickly to the changed environmental conditions. The destruction of animal and plant species, wars over water and other resources, famines and migratory flows are all areas of conflict which are mainly caused by climate change. Climate change is the topic of this century and thus also the decisive part of the future of today's pupils.

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