… fields of action updated Four central challenges for adapting to climate change in Germany Source: Adelphi the KomPass web pages Climate Impacts Germany and Regional and sectoral adaptation describe how the DAS fields of action … for adaptation. These pages have now beenn updated. last update on 26.01.2023 The German Adaptation Strategy (DAS) identifies 15 central fields of action for climate …

… forests. Source: Robert Kneschke / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 FW-R-6: … forests but also in private forests as the latter comprises roughly 48 % of Germany’s entire forest terrain 122 . In many cases, proprietors of private forests … forestry journals is entitled ‘AFZ Der-Wald’ which contains concise articles in German and is therefore most effective in terms of reaching the German-speaking …

… resilience. Source: SoilPaparazzi / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 FW-R-3: … periods with poor precipitation levels. Between 1992 and 2021 the humus reserves in Germany’s forest soils increased. However, this does not exclude the possibility of … – facilitates the derivation of annual mean values for organic carbon reserves in Germany’s forest soils. The time series shows a significantly rising trend …

… Federal level Source: metamorworks / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 … on Climate Impacts and Adaptation monitoring report … 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change … Cluster Cross-sectional …

… productivity. Source: Andrey Popov / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 IG-I-1: … at the workplace, both indoors and outdoors. More than 40 % of respondents to the environmental awareness study expect that heat will in future either strongly or …

… sunburn. Source: New Africa / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 GE-I-8: … 10.1038/s41467-023-37134-3. 42 - UNEP EEAP – United Nations Environment Programme, Environmental Effects Assessment Panel. 2023: Environmental Effects of Stratospheric …

… Source: Norbert G. Bildwerk / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 RO-R-3: … monitoring report reserved area priority area … 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change … In the period of 2009 to 2021, …

… water shortages. Source: bai / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 WW-R-1: … The droughts prevailing in the years 2018 to 2020 and in 2022 demonstrate that in Germany too, there are challenges from seasonally and regionally decreased water … cf. Indicator LW-R-6 ). This is true, in particular, for central parts of eastern Germany, the north-eastern German lowlands and the south-eastern German basin where …

… operations. Source: Alexander / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 FW-I-5: … of random use resulting from damaged timber in terms of the logging total in German commercial forests has increased significantly over the past 30 years. The … work required in the subsequent year of 1991, and this applied to major parts of Germany. In December 1999 ‘ Lothar’ devastated extensive parts of south-west …

… TOU-I-3: Market shares held by wider tourism areas Wider tourism areas in Germany Source: Data source: Technical data: StBA (Gemeindeverzeichnis) / Geodata: Geobasis-DE/BKG 2021 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 TOU-I-3: … Sea or the Alps with alpine foothills, there are other travel destinations in Germany which have been aggregated to form three other wider tourism areas 207 : the …

… via open wounds. Source: LoloStock / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 GE-I-7: … – health risk to bathers Local residents are not the only people who appreciate the German coast for its high leisure and recreation value: Coastal areas are among the most popular regions for holidays and rehabilitation purposes in Germany. Especially in the summer months when air and water temperatures reach their …

… flooding, or frost. Source: brunok1 / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change last update on 28.11.2023 LW-I-3: … Yield losses caused by extreme weather events As a result of weather extremes, Germany’s plant production has repeatedly suffered some considerable yield losses in the course of recent years. A study carried out by the German Insurance Association (GDV) regarding insurance for agricultural multirisks …