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  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

    RO-R-2: Priority and reserved areas groundwater / drinking water

    The photograph shows a stream running through a meadow. Trees and tree clusters line the edge of the meadow.

    RO-R-2: Priority and reserved areas groundwater / drinking water Spatial planning … and groundwater, thus safeguarding water resources by means of planning processes, moderating between conflicting claims on land use and avoiding or mitigating …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    WW-R-2 + 3: GAK funds for and investments in flood protection

    WW-R-2 + 3: GAK funds for and investments in flood protection 2023 Monitoring Report … Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 WW-R-2: GAK funds for flood protection As part of the GAK, the Länder receive financial support … RO-R-5 ) as well as flood forecasting and warnings (cf. Indicator HUE-2 ). … WW-R-2 + 3: GAK funds for and investments in flood protection

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2024

    WW-I-2: Groundwater level and spring flow – Northern and Southern Region

    WW-I-2: Groundwater level and spring flow – Northern and Southern Region 2023 … Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 WW-I-2a: Groundwater level and spring flow – Northern Region The extreme dry years of 2018 to … supply of drinking water, and for supplying ecosystems with sufficient water. … WW-I-2: Groundwater level and spring flow – Northern and Southern Region

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

    HUE-5: International finance for climate adaptation (from budgetary funds)

    HUE-5: International finance for climate adaptation (from budgetary funds) 2023 … on 28.11.2023 HUE-5: International finance for climate adaptation (from budgetary funds) In recent years, there has been a distinct increase in the endeavour to …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    FW-R-4 + 5: Utilisation of raw timber and timber construction quota

    … FW-R-4: Utilisation of raw timber Source: TI für Internationale Waldwirtschaft und Forstökonomie (Einschlagrückrechnung) FW-R-5: Timber construction quota The … wood fibre production more competitive.   120 - FNR – Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V. 2019: Charta für Holz 2.0 – Kennzahlenbericht 2019 Forst & Holz, 48 … 64. pp. https://www.bmel.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/_Landwirtschaft/Nachwachsende-Rohstoffe/nationale-biooekonomiestrategie-langfassung.html . Associated content …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 05.01.2026

    BO-R-1: Humus contents in soils of arable land and grassland soils

    The picture shows a hand forming a small mound of dark-brown, humus-rich soil.

    … on site-typical circumstances (such as type of soil and the distance from groundwater levels) and therefore they cannot be augmented wholesale by adding organic … ‘Greening’ stipulations contained in the European Direct Payments Regulation, the funding within the framework of the CAP from 2014 to 2022 was made conditional on … 2023: Infografiken – Wie groß ist die Anbaufläche von Zwischenfrüchten und wofür werden sie verwendet? …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 15.12.2025

    BAU-I-4: Heavy rain in residential areas

    The picture shows the rainwater gutter of a brick building. Heavy rain is falling.

    … They occur in lowland areas when rainwater cannot drain or seep into the ground fast enough. In those cases water accumulates on the surface or it dams up owing … are exceeded. Water levels can rise very rapidly then, especially in hollows and underpasses. On sloping terrain this can cause so-called ‘mountain flash floods’. … enabling water to enter the building, for instance through entrance doors at ground level, cellar windows or owing to tailbacks in the sewage system. The ingress of …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

    RO-R-6: Land use for settlements in officially designated flood plains

    The picture shows a building pit where the walls of a cellar have already been built. Steel girders are seen supporting wooden beams which extend across the ceiling of the cellar. The bottom of the building pit is filled with brown muddy water reflecting a tree.

    … specifications for flood plains on the basis of (statistically speaking) once-in-a-hundred-years flood events (HQ100); these specifications have to conform to specific … since 2000 by circa 100 square kilometres which is equivalent to growth by just under 13 %. According to current legislation, any further expansion of building …   225 - ARGE BAU – Bauministerkonferenz – Konferenz der für Städtebau, Bau- und Wohnungswesen zuständigen Ministerinnen und Minister und Senatorinnen und

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 05.01.2026

    BAU-R-2: Green roofs in cities

    The picture shows the metal facade of a modern commercial building almost completely covered with a climbing plant.

    … and ‘sealed’ cities depend on this, and they are in a position to provide targeted funding with the purpose of counteracting the impacts of climate change. BAU-R-2: … greened roofs and façades effectively cool down buildings as well as their surrounding air 145 . On one hand, this is beneficial to users of buildings on hot summer … provide nesting and foraging spaces for birds, wild bees, butterflies and ground beetles thus increasing biodiversity in urban areas. For this indicator, 15 …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    WW-I-10: Water temperature of watercourses

    The picture shows a shallow, slow-flowing watercourse in sunny weather under a cloudless sky. Through the clear, reddish-brown shimmering water, the stony bed of the river is visible; some of the stones in the foreground project beyond the surface of the water. The banks are lined by mixed woodlands.

    … despite reduced infeeds of warm water 64 . Rising water temperatures are also found to be connected with the water volume present in water bodies. At low water … fish died from lack of oxygen. In the case of massive losses of fish in the river Oder from the end of July until August 2022, the suddenly intensified concentration …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 17.12.2024

    VE-I-3: Heavy rain impacting on roads

    The picture shows a gully on a flooded road. The waterspout indicates where the gully is located. There are safety cones beside the gully. A car wheel is visible at the very edge of the picture.

    … Krefeld and Magdeburg owing to violent tempests, either because they were inundated by floodwater or swamped by mudslides so that they had to be cleared before … the months of June to August. Heavy rain events occur often combined with violent thunderstorms; the technical term for this is ‘convective precipitation events’. Such … l/m² are expected to fall in 6 hours. If these warning levels are exceeded in only moderate amounts, the intensity of heavy rain is usually not likely to damage traffic …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    FI-I-3: Occurrence of thermophilic species in inland waters – case study

    The picture shows two men in waterproof working clothes standing in a small boat on Lake Constance. One of them is holding a fishing net. He seems to be pulling it out of the water. In the background, the lakeshore and a settlement are visible.

    … 1980s amounted to more than 80 mg per cubic metre of water is now settling at around 6–8 mg. It is not usually expected that sizeable quantities of carp would exist … in Lake Constance began. Between 1970 and 2003, catch yields for carp oscillated around 800 kg per annum, while in 2007 more than 17,000 kg were caught. Post-2009 catch yields have settled around a distinctly higher level of approximately 4,000 kg annually. By contrast, the …