Climate Impacts Germany

Climate change will increase the demand for cooling energy. At the same time, the energy supply is particularly affected by extreme weather events. These can lead to a shortage of cooling water, disrupt supply chains for fossil fuels and cause damage to the power grid.

Civil protection includes measures to protect the population and its livelihoods from disasters and emergencies. Increased extreme weather events lead to a rising number of operations and increase the demands on civil protection organisations.

Heavy rain and river floods can cause considerable damage to buildings. Green spaces have an important cooling effect on the urban climate, but at the same time are themselves affected by increasing heat and drought. Urban heat islands will become larger in the future due to increasing urbanisation, which will increase the heat stress for people in urban agglomerations.