… VE-I-5: Impacts on roads due to weather conditions and weather patterns When tempests occur, highway maintenance services close impassible road sections. … hailstones blocked roads and left a lot of dirt and damage behind on roadsides, so that roads had to be closed to traffic. The total extent of damage to roads and … events under the remit of various Länder. In this context it must be borne in mind that in connection with such events in some Länder, only the services rendered …

… for instance at sites close to home, but also indirect impacts, for instance when supply chains or sales channels are affected or entire sales markets are … risk. In respect of Germany, scenario-based analyses have shown via the world trade that climate change impacts arising outside Europe have a greater impact on … trade volume in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. Another point to be borne in mind regarding the interpretation of the indicator is the fact that the indicator …

… holidays and rehabilitation purposes in Germany. Especially in the summer months when air and water temperatures reach their maximum levels, numerous visitors and … Vibrio alginolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus 29 . It is mostly through open wounds that vibrios enter the human body. They are less frequently absorbed through inadvertent swallowing of infested water or the …

… plains In spite of the existing flood water hazards, settlement pressure is so high that building continues even in flood plains, thus counteracting the regulation laid … rivers in terms of flood plains. If the flood protection provided proves inadequate when these settlements or industrial estates are flooded, the damage caused can in … of the extent of terrain used for buildings: The number of municipalities with less than 5 % of settlement and transport areas in flood plains declined …

… recorded on Germany’s coasts in the exceptionally hot summer of 2003. In August of that year, the mean surface temperature measured across the entire North Sea fell … as well as natural climate variation, the oceans’ temperature development indicates less pronounced fluctuations, especially in deeper strata. Between 1960 and 2020 the … the past roughly 30 years, the warming of the ocean proceeded more strongly than when records began. The mean of the heat energy absorbed annually in the period of …

… not just in comparison to the low figures recorded in the pandemic year of 2020. In that year, winter storm Tristan caused massive disruptions to railway traffic due to … 171 171 Heat can affect the railway infrastructure, for instance in cases when it causes the failure of electronic circuit components or actuation and switch … leaf. At the same time, distinctly wintry conditions are on the wane thus becoming less frequently the cause of disruptions, although individual extreme weather events …

… impaired concentration and stress on the cardio-vascular system, making them less productive when temperatures at their workplace are too high (cf. Indicator IG-I-1 ). It is expected that climate change will further intensify urban climate effects (cf. Indicator …

… in the autumn and winter months than in spring and summer. Overall, there are more accidents in those months. However, as road users tend to adjust their speeds … to hazardous conditions, there are fewer accidents causing personal injury during that time than in the warmer months. This situation is furthermore influenced by the … categorised as a side effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. Owing to the introduction of less stringent regulations in the summer months, and compared to pre-pandemic times, …

… water. Since restrictions due to floods are usually of shorter duration, they have less economic significance than low-water events. Restrictions due to low water have lasted more than 100 days in individual years, in the case of floods no more than 14 days. … water levels and flow velocities in the waterways decrease. Even low water can mean that ships can no longer be fully loaded. The reduced river width restricts the …

… In 2021 more than half of respondents to the Environment Awareness Study stated that they were using warning and information services from the Federal or Länder … was distinctly below the statistics recorded for the two previous surveys. Nevertheless: The proportion of those respondents who were not yet making use of these … via the UBA’s internet offerings. Particularly keen attention is paid – at times when water-levels become extremely high – to the flood warning or information …

… exercises adequately, both in terms of time and participants, even in years when extreme events have to be dealt with. The severe flood events of 2013 and 2021 … This is because after training or real-time emergencies it has often emerged that there is room for improvement in civic protection, especially in terms of …

… to be viewed very critically, for reasons such as protection from climate change. Whenever grassland is ploughed up, a considerable part of carbon stored in the soil … on the conversion of grassland terrain by ploughing. It can therefore be argued that up until 2013, the nationwide decline of grassland was almost proportionate to … humus production. However, with a view to biodiversity it has to be borne in mind that newly created grassland is typically more species-poorer than …