Intro -- Preface to the English Edition -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Part I: Hot Season Ahead: What a 3-Degree Warmer World Looks Like -- Climate and Weather at 3 Degrees More -- Extreme Heat -- Extreme Precipitation and Droughts -- Tropical Cyclones -- Sea Level and Ice Sheets -- The Tipping Points of the Climate System -- Self-Amplification of Global Warming -- Conclusion -- References -- Biodiversity at the Tipping Point? -- Shifts in the Distribution Areas: "Move" -- "A General Redistribution of Life on Earth" -- Neobiota -- New Communities -- A Brief Look at the History of the Earth -- Forests -- Bottom Up -- Mass Mortality Events -- Marine Heatwaves -- Shifted Phenologies (Mismatch) -- Extinction and Defaunation -- References -- Agriculture in a Hot World -- Our Recent Past in the Anthropocene -- Agricultural Activity in the Holocene -- Agriculture-Still a Very Sensitive System -- Yield Gaps -- Biodiversity-A Threatened Production Factor -- What Is Efficient Agricultural Production? -- Agriculture Under a Changed Climate -- Available Area and Possible Production Increases -- Growth of Agricultural Crops in a Changing Climate -- Interactions in the Agroecosystem -- The Socio-Ecological System -- Conclusion and Outlook -- References -- Escape from Heat, Drought and Extreme Weather -- Important Aspects of "Climate Migration" -- The Effects of Climate Change on Migration Is Manifold -- Numbers and Life Paths of Climate Migrants -- Forecasts on Future Mobility -- Policy Measures for the Future -- Climate Migration in the Global Political Debate -- Strengthening Global Cooperation and Shared Responsibility -- Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Impacts -- Addressing the Climate-Related Drivers of Migration -- Facilitating Migration -- Management of Domestic Migration -- Strengthening Legal Protections.

Strengthen Monitoring and Evaluation of Existing Policies and Programs -- Harnessing the Positive Dimensions of Climate Migration -- Conclusion: Do People Really Have Nothing Left? -- References -- Economic Impacts -- From Degrees Dollars: How to Measure the Cost of Climate Change? -- Cost-Benefit Arguments Or: What's the Price Tag? -- Integrated Models -- Empirical Models: Learning from the Past to Predict the Future -- Risk and Adaptation -- Climate Change Affects All Sectors of the Economy -- Main Transmission Channels -- Complex Interactions -- A Price Tag for Everything? -- The Cost of Climate Change -- From Micro to Macro -- Climate Change Impacts on Economic Growth -- Level or Growth Effects-How Persistent Are the Economic Impacts of Climate Change? -- Climate Damages More Costly Than Climate Protection -- References -- Part II: Nature-Based Solutions: How Can We Still Prevent a 3-Degree Warmer World -- Stop Rainforest Deforestation -- Forests at the Center of Multiple Crises -- Forest Loss and Degradation in the Tropics -- Forests as Centers of Life -- Biodiversity Protection: Not a Conduct-Relevant Concern -- Timber Use and Forest Loss-A Climate Problem -- Forests as Carbon Reservoir-Urgently Needed -- Using Wood for Energy-Globally Not Climate Neutral -- Forestry-Not Climate Neutral -- What If We Reached a Global Increase by 3 Degrees? -- The Immediate Program for Forests -- References -- Reforestation in the Tropics and Subtropics -- Forest and Atmosphere -- Forest Management -- Forest in the Tropics and Subtropics -- Practical Examples -- Reforestation of Subtropical Forests in Central China -- Reforestation of Desert Areas in Egypt -- Reforestation and Rehabilitation of Degraded Primary Forests in Ethiopia -- Rehabilitation of Degraded Forest Areas in Nigeria -- Reforestation of Tropical Mountain Rainforests in Ecuador -- Conclusions.

References -- Bauhaus Earth -- Ahead of Us the Hothouse Earth? -- The Elephant in the Climate Shop -- The Geological Journey of C -- Bio-Based Architecture -- Forestry's Transition Toward Sustainability -- The Forestry Construction Pump -- The New Bauhaus Movement -- Hi-Tech Meets No-Tech: Entering the Cyborganic Age -- References -- Peatland Must Be Wet -- What Peatlands Are and What Makes Them So Special -- The Condition of Peatlands-Globally, in Europe, and in Germany -- The State of the Peatlands -- Climate Impact of Drained Peatlands -- Other (Societal) Harms from Peatland Drainage -- Solutions and Challenges -- Threats to, and Protection of, the Remaining Natural Peatlands -- Rewetting of Drained Peatlands -- Rewetting of Peatlands in Intensive Use: Paludiculture -- A Future Strategy for Our Peatlands -- Conclusion -- References -- Humus Enrichment of Soils -- Soil and Humus Loss Through Industrial Agriculture -- How Much Carbon Can Soils Absorb? -- Humus Formation in Theory … -- … and Humus Formation in Practice -- Policy Implications -- References -- Strengthen Terrestrial Water Cycles -- Trees Provide Cooling and Generate Water Vapor -- Altered Heat Flows, Altered Atmospheric Patterns -- Back Radiation from Bare Ground -- Biogenic Aerosols for Cloud Formation -- Policy Implications -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Call to Action: On the Power of Informed Citizens in a Democracy -- Germany Under Climate Stress -- Climate Change as a Political Challenge -- Social Cohesion and Climate Change -- Climate Change and Socio-cultural Conflicts Over Recognition -- Generational Conflict -- Conflict Over Migration -- Climate Change and Socio-economic Conflicts Over Distribution -- Gainful Employment -- Mobility -- Housing -- Food -- Health -- Conclusion -- References -- People Must Know What They Are in For!.

Why the Paris Agreement Needs to Be Supplemented -- Efficiency Improvements and Switch to Renewable Energies -- Sufficiency, or Why Less Is More -- Why We Need Nature-Based Solutions -- Rainforest Rescue -- Reservations About Climate-Based Solutions -- How We Can Finance the Measures -- Let the Polluter-Pays Principle Prevail -- How Are These Gigantic Investments to Be Financed? -- Financial Transaction Tax -- Inheritance Tax -- Conclusion -- Why Mobilization of Civil Society Is Needed -- References -- Index.