The global greenhouse gas emissions have again reached a new high – never been as much CO 2 from fossil fuels into the atmosphere as 2010. On the next UN climate conference of 28 November to 9 December 2011 to Durban (South Africa) now be agreed by an effective political effort on future regulations to reduce emissions, because time is short: The Kyoto Protocol, the only international agreement with binding reduction targets, expires at the end in 2012. Leading climate and policy adviser to the federal government expressed at the press conference on 24 November so that was just to get through a legally binding agreement that climate change under control. UBA