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  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2024

    WW-R-1: Water use index

    The picture shows a hand on the handle of a tap, with a weak water jet pouring into a wash-hand basin.

    … decrease over the past 30 years. 2007 was the first year in which water usage undercut the water use index of 20 %, perceived to be a critical threshold value. … mean of the period 1961–1990 is concerned, roughly 188 billion cubic metres of groundwater and surface water were considered potentially available water resources; by … available – cause regional utilisation conflicts regarding surface water and groundwater abstraction (for instance for the purpose of irrigation in agriculture and …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

    TOU-I-3: Market shares held by wider tourism areas

    The illustration ’Wider tourism areas in Germany’ contains a map of the travel areas in Germany showing five individual wider tourism areas in aggregated form.. Alps with alpine foothills, coasts and urban areas are regions characterised by very specific properties. The uplands and other areas are heterogeneous and extensive.

    … in the wider tourism areas are – apart from landscape features – very closely bound up with certain climatic conditions such as bathing tourism on the coasts or … climate change impacts – can in turn affect market shares. Against this background, the indicator for wider tourism areas entitled ‘Alps with alpine foothills’, … Covid-19 pandemic. These restrictions entailed that Germany’s population overall undertook distinctly less holiday travel and if they travelled at all, they only …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    GE-I-7: Health hazards from vibrios – case study

    The picture shows an outstretched foot on a sandy beach. There are two abrasions visible above the ankle.

    … are favoured by high water temperatures and can be transmitted via open wounds. Source: LoloStock / stock.adobe.com 2023 Monitoring Report on the German … vibrios can pose health risks: Given certain conditions, some of more than a hundred vibrio species can cause infections in humans. As far as the Baltic Sea is … Vibrio alginolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus 29 . It is mostly through open wounds that vibrios enter the human body. They are less frequently absorbed through …

  • 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.

    … to 1.0 metre. Nevertheless, these values reflect only those processes that are well understood and thus can be modelled. For example, the processes of ice melting in … known as the Halligen. They too increase in size owing to sediment input from inundation. However, if the sea levels rises faster in future, the Halligen islands … rise by 1863. Nature communications, 13(1), 966. 80 - WWF Deutschland – World Wide Fund For Nature (Hg.) 2018: Land unter im Wattenmeer – Auswirkungen des …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2024

    GE-I-5: Pathogen vectors – case study

    The picture shows a close-up of the Asian Tiger Mosquito in the process of biting a human being.

    … record in 2007. This finding resulted from examining 105 traps where evidence was found in terms of five Tiger Mosquito eggs in one of more than one thousand samples. … 2017 approximately in 34 % of traps along the A5 and A6 motorways, evidence was found for Aedes albopictus . By the end of 2021, there were already well-established … K, Ulrich RG, Weiss S, Wilking H: Auswirkungen von Klimaveränderungen auf Vektor- und Nagetier-assoziierte Infektionskrankheiten. – J Health Monit 8 (S3): 36-66. doi: …

  • KomPass: Area of action climate impact from 06.01.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2025

    Climate Impacts: Field of Action Tourism

    Beach chairs at the Baltic Sea

    … will benefit from this. Impairments may occur during extended hikes due to heavy thunderstorms. The increase in natural hazards such as avalanches, rockfalls and … areas) are of great importance for tourism and offer special nature experience programmes (e. g. guided tours, nature trails). With regard to climate change, it is …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 17.01.2025

    GE-R-3: Information on pollen

    The picture shows a young women sitting in a birch wood. Her gaze is focused on a smartphone.

    GE-R-3: Information on pollen The daily entries into the internet pollen diary … with the pollen season but which can later become asthma that prevails all-year round. Coming into contact with allergenic pollen in the environment is in many cases … It is therefore absolutely essential to give allergy sufferers a chance to better understand the nature of their condition and of any underlying causes, thus enabling …

  • KomPass: Article from 20.09.2019 | Last changed: 22.10.2019

    GoApply

    … GoApply Source: UBA Wien Project duration: November 2016 – April 2019 Background and overall objectives: The Alpine Space is severely affected by climate change. … by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Alpine Space programme. Total eligible costs: 734.331 EUR ERDF grant: 502.121 EUR Associated …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 20.09.2024

    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.

    … is of elementary importance for Germany’s economy and society. The energy turnaround aims at converting our energy systems and ensuring the permanent supply of … use of fossil and nuclear sources of energy: The withdrawal from the nuclear energy programme was achieved in 2023, and by 2038 the generation of electricity and heat …

  • Publication from 20.03.2015

    Anpassung an den Klimawandel: Bevölkerungsschutz

    Cover von Anpassung an den Klimawandel: Bevölkerungsschutz mit einem Foto von einem mit hoher Geschwindihkeit vorberfahrenden Krankenwagen

    … Wissen zu Risiken des Klimawandels für den Bereich „Bevölkerungsschutz“ zusammen und zeigt mögliche Maßnahmen zur Anpassung auf. Download Number of pages 8 Year of … publication August 2011 Author(s) Achim Dachkeit Language German Publisher Umweltbundesamt File size 866.08 kB Print version not available Tags climate adaptation …

  • Publication from 09.11.2020

    Anpassung an den Klimawandel: Energiewirtschaft

    Cover von "Anpassung an den Klimawandel: Energiewirtschaft" mit einem Foto von Energiefreileitungstrassen

    … das Wissen zu Risiken des Klimawandels für den Bereich „Energiewirtschaft“ zusammen und zeigt mögliche Maßnahmen zur Anpassung auf. Download Number of pages 8 Year of … Dunkelberg, Dr. Bernd Hirschl, Dr. Esther Hoffman Language German Publisher Umweltbundesamt File size 587.62 kB Print version not available Tags climate adaptation …