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  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 17.12.2024

    VE-I-5: Impacts on roads due to weather conditions and weather patterns

    The picture shows the upper part of the tail end of a vehicle belonging to the highway maintenance service. The vehicle is orange and its rear doors are marked with the word ’Streckenwartung’ (track maintenance) and reflective red-and-white striped stickers. There are warning lights fitted to the vehicle.

    … GmbH des Bundes (AdB) at federal government level. Major restoration work on buildings or embankments is usually entrusted to private companies. Minor repairs … and road maintenance depots. They make sure that the road network is safe and functioning. All measures required to ensure adequate control, servicing and …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    LW-I-2: Yield fluctuations

    The picture shows the soil of a cereal field, with large cracks caused by drought.

    … from factors already mentioned, it is possible that cultivation on less fertile soils, so-called marginal sites, may be one of the causes; another factor may be … Germany’s regions. In particular in eastern Germany – with its light and sandy soils which react especially fast and strongly to extreme precipitation levels – the …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    KM-I-2: Sea levels

    The picture shows a sandy beach on the Baltic Sea coast. There is seawater lapping around a hooded beach chair (Strandkorb). In the background, the sea is visible with powerful waves and dark thunderclouds above.

    … The rising sea level entails impacts on beaches, mudflats, estuaries and coastal lowlands. Source: Dietmar / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German … rising significantly. For coastal regions, in particular estuaries and coastal lowlands, rising sea levels signify an increasing risk of exposure to storm surges …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    BAU-I-1 + 2: Heat stress in urban areas and summer heat island effect

    … island effect is largely dependent on the size of a town or city, its density of buildings, their height, degree of insulation, the proportion of green space and the … characteristics – urban spaces heat up considerably during daytime without cooling down over night to the same extent as it happens in their rural periphery (cf. …

  • KomPass: Article from 11.11.2022 | Last changed: 05.01.2026

    Climate risk analysis and adaptation in companies

    Pipelines on a factory site

    … EU Taxonomy Regulation must ensure that these economic activities also meet several Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) requirements. These DNSH requirements include … EU Taxonomy Regulation must ensure that these economic activities also meet several Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) requirements. These DNSH requirements include …

  • KomPass: Area of action adaptation from 11.01.2022 | Last changed: 08.01.2026

    Adaptation: Field of action industry and commerce

    Pipelines on a factory site

    … subsidies. Regulatory market changes, such as safety standards in the context of building regulations, also create a framework for action for adaptation. … subsidies. Regulatory market changes, such as safety standards in the context of building regulations, also create a framework for action for adaptation. …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    FI-I-2: Herring larvae in the Greifswalder Bodden

    The picture shows herring spawn. It is possible to see six transparent eggs adhering to each other, with larvae inside.

    … water. However, spawn is more exposed to spring storms in these locations and thus destroyed more easily. If the intensity of storm surges were to increase as a result … water. However, spawn is more exposed to spring storms in these locations and thus destroyed more easily. If the intensity of storm surges were to increase as a result …

  • KomPass: Area of action climate impact from 05.01.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2025

    Climate Impacts: Field of Action Fishery

    Fishes under water

    … increasing warming and acidification of the oceans are particularly relevant. For inland water fisheries and fish farming in aquacultures, higher water temperatures and … distribution, as can already be observed in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. As an open marginal sea of the Atlantic, the North Sea generally offers fish species more … groundwater, overflowing sewers, landslides and silting can cause damage to ponds, buildings, machinery, feed and the fish stocks themselves.   Further information …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 08.12.2025

    Cluster Fisheries

    The picture shows a crab trawler in the North Sea. There is a beam trawl hanging down from the ship’s side. In the background, the shoreline and a lighthouse are visible.

    … Cluster Fisheries Fisheries Source: Rico Ködder / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate … coastal regions deep-sea fishing is a major employer. Nevertheless, deep-sea and inland fisheries such as pond farming are considered cultural heritage and, last not … of species will shift northwards. This applies in particular to the North Sea – an open sea on the edge of the Atlantic. To date, indigenous species in Germany’s …

  • KomPass: Article from 30.03.2017 | Last changed: 14.02.2019

    KomPass Projects

    Blackboard with numerous notes.

    … the high vulnerability of infrastructures to climatic extreme events, their central functions for the supply of economy and society as well as their long planning … aims to support the UBA in facilitating the cooperation of state authorities. It builds on the comprehensive vulnerability analysis of 2015 by strategically … (TRAFIS) Project time frame: 2016 – 2019, FKZ 3715 48 102 0 In TRAFIS the functional interdependencies of infrastructures are systematized and in regard to …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 20.09.2024

    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.

    … infrastructure Transport ,transport infrastructure Source: Carola Vahldiek / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate … cover more or less long distances for recreation and for shopping purposes. The functioning of economic systems depends on reliable goods transport; this includes … For a quantitative illustration of the varying extent of such measures it is essential to ensure a differentiated capture of expenditure in terms of hours of …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    LW-I-1: Agrophenological phase shifts

    The picture shows apple blossoms covered in frost.

    … network) Spring crops starting earlier year by year Hardly any other form of land use is as tied to natural seasonal rhythms as agricultural land use. People who work in agriculture always need to adapt the management of … trees and winter rapeseed  flower earlier and earlier. … Hardly any other form of land use is as tied to natural seasonal rhythms as agricultural land use. People who …