The preservation of the world climate, with the aim of securing the livelihoods of people all over the world, is perceived today as one of the major social tasks to which large international organisations such as the UN have also committed themselves since the beginning of the 1990s. The goal of the agreed measures is the limitation of the increase in the average global temperature to a maximum of 2 °C in relation to the pre-industrial level. Of central importance for this is the so-called Kyoto Protocol agreed in 1997 for the organisation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The agreement, which came into force on 16 February 2005, specifies for the first time internationally legally binding target values for emissions of greenhouse gases in the industrial nations, which are the main cause of global warming [1,2].
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