Indicators of climate change impacts and adaptation

2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

Cluster Coastal and marine protection

The picture shows a sectional view of a wild sea with waves crashing over projecting posts. The sky is tinged with orange and covered in dark clouds. Here and there rays of sunshine are breaking through the cloud cover.

2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

last update on 28.11.2023

Cluster Cross-sectional activities carried out at Federal level

The image is directed towards the sky against the sun and shows a circle of ten stretched hands in a circle.

2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

last update on 28.11.2023

Cluster Civic protection

The picture shows two emergency vehicles with blue lights switched on, one of the vehicles is a fire engine and the other one a blue emergency relief (THW) vehicle. Both vehicles are only partly visible.

2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

last update on 28.11.2023

Cluster Spatial, regional and urban development planning

The picture shows an excerpt from a development plan for a residential area with semi-detached and terraced housing. There are two mechanical pencils lying on the plan.

2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

last update on 28.11.2023

Cluster Financial services industry

The picture shows a man sitting at a desk holding a ballpoint pen between his fingers while operating a pocket calculator. There are several documents on the desk; it is just possible to make out the fuzzy image of some charts.

2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

last update on 28.11.2023

Cluster Tourism industry

The picture shows a man from behind. He is wearing a T shirt and short trousers. He is walking through a wood carrying a rucksack. To the right and left of the path, white flowers are blooming beneath the trees.

2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

last update on 28.11.2023

Cluster Trade and industry

The picture shows a sectional view of a wooded landscape. There is an industrial estate visible in the distance, consisting of several buildings and facilities. There is smoke rising from some chimneys. The sky is densely cloud-covered. Above the horizon, the sky is tinged with yellow, with dark, greyish-blue clouds billowing at the margin of the picture. In a few lighter places, rays of the sun are penetrating the band of clouds.

2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

last update on 28.11.2023

Cluster Transport, transport infrastructure

The picture shows a flooded dip in a road. There is a roadblock in the foreground indicating that the road is closed to traffic. A sign reading ‘Hochwasser’ (floodwater) is fixed to the roadblock. There are flooded meadows visible on both sides of the road.

2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

last update on 28.11.2023

Cluster Energy industry

The picture shows numerous high-voltage pylons and power lines against a cloudy, yellowish sky. A few modern wind turbines are visible in the background.

2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

last update on 28.11.2023

Cluster Biological diversity

In the foreground the picture shows a banded demoiselle which has landed on the blossom of a yellow waterbuttercup. The background of this picture is blurred.

2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

last update on 28.11.2023

Cluster Woodland and forestry

The picture shows a coniferous forest. The bark-free trunk of a damaged spruce tree is visible in the foreground. In the light-coloured wood of this tree the distinct frass traces of a bark beetle are clearly visible.

2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

last update on 28.11.2023

Cluster Agriculture

The picture shows a dry-looking arable field with a tractor being driven across it. Owing to drought, the vehicle is stirring up clouds of dust. In the background, it is possible to make out a ridge of hills.

2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

last update on 28.11.2023

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