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  • News from 27.03.2024 | Last changed: 27.03.2024

    Shaping digitalisation in transport sustainably

    A woman rents a scooter via an app

    … a car. Source: Kicking Studio / Adobe Stock Driverless shuttles on the roads, assistance systems in passenger cars and route planning on your phone – these and … sustainable mobility sustainable transport … Driverless shuttles on the roads, assistance systems in passenger cars and route planning on your phone – these and …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

    BS-I-1: Person hours due to weather-related damage events

    The picture shows an inundated landscape. In the centre of the picture a flooded road can be seen, with a lorry passing. There are people visible on the lorry’s load platform. In the picture’s foreground, part of a blue emergency vehicle is visible with blue warning lamps fitted all round the vehicle which is also driving along this flooded road.

    … in civic protection. After all, part of the essential remit is to provide technical assistance whenever extreme weather-related and weather-pattern related events cause … already now that the number of weather-related call-outs for which technical assistance is required is on the increase. There are detailed quantitative and …

  • Press release 30/2021 from 01.07.2021 | Last changed: 08.07.2021

    For digital environmental sustainability worldwide

    Die Erdkugel und Wörter in einer Programmiersprache.

    … level is also essential, for example through an international emergency programme for the digital modernisation of global environmental and sustainability … said Messner. He proposed launching a digital investment and modernisation programme for global environmental and sustainability policy in the next few years …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

    BS-R-4: Active emergency relief responders in civic protection

    The picture shows three emergency vehicles operated by the fire brigade and the THW emergency relief organisation: The vehicles are standing on a National Road, one of them is a fire-fighting group vehicle. A man wearing a high-visibility vest and a pair of THW livery trousers can be seen running along the middle gangway.

    … responders in civic protection Most emergency relief responders provide their assistance voluntarily for civic protection. Source: VRD / stock.adobe.com 2023 … in 2020: the very adversity of the pandemic prompted them to become active in assisting others. Given that the membership numbers of fire brigades are four times …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 08.12.2025

    Cluster Building Sector

    The picture shows an artificial watercourse which runs past a block of flats in a newly developed housing estate. There is a road crossing the watercourse. The watercourse is edged with a narrow strip of vegetation consisting of grass, young trees and flower beds. Benches offer seating.

    … White Paper ‘Weißbuch Stadtgrün’ 132 ). In addition to technical and methodological assistance in terms of research projects, the Federal Government and Federal States also support climate-compatible urban development by means of promotional programmes: In the summer of 2022, the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 08.12.2025

    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.

    … Federal soil information systems and the enhancement of agricultural meteorological advisory services (including the Agricultural Meteorological Advisory Software … for multi-risk insurance policies are mostly very high, there are now grants to assist with insurance policies available to agricultural businesses in several EU …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 08.12.2025

    Cluster Human Health

    The picture shows a woman’s face with beads of perspiration caused by the summer heat. The woman is holding a hand to her forehead. In the left-hand side of the picture is a thermometer indicating 40°C air temperature.

    … for the support of health services. For this purpose, the BMUV launched the funding programme ‘ Climate adaptation in social institutions’ (Klimaanpassung in sozialen … the Centre for Climate Adaptation (ZKA) founded – on behalf of the BMUV – an advisory programme for heat action plans. The Heat Service Portal …

  • Press release 21/2018 from 08.08.2018 | Last changed: 01.11.2018

    Boat hull paints – a problem for our waters

    A sea harbor with many small sail and motor boats.

    … with no biocides. Regional differentiation and the documentation of applications, advisory services for users and official monitoring of copper can help to reduce … with no biocides. Regional differentiation and the documentation of applications, advisory services for users and official monitoring of copper can help to reduce …

  • Press release 35/2022 from 31.08.2022 | Last changed: 04.10.2022

    German Environment Agency assisting Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with research on causes of the Oder River crisis

    The river Elbe in the foreground with trees on the bank and blue sky.

    … German Environment Agency assisting Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with research on causes of … levels of electric conductivity, pH levels and oxygen concentration. The monitoring programme for specific hazardous substances, which the EU Water Framework Directive … and state governments continue to advise against eating fish from the Oder. Local advisory measures, such as bathing bans, must continue to be observed. Commercial …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 20.09.2024

    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.

    … as well as the permanent safeguarding of a near-natural water budget. The Federal programme ‘Blaues Band’ (Blue Belt, 2017) supports renaturation measures in alluvial … of climate change. Climate change is also getting more consideration in landscape programmes and landscape framework plans these days (cf. Indicators BD-R-1 ). More …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 08.12.2025

    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.

    … also supports adaptation efforts in tourism financially by means of various funding programmes. Given the wide range of potential measures and interfaces with other …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    FW-R-1: Financial support for forest transformation

    The picture shows young beech tree trunks enveloped in individual tree guards for protection from frass. A dense coniferous forest is visible in the background.

    … is an objective that has meanwhile been embedded in silvicultural strategies and programmes at Federal and at Länder level. Appropriate funding is being provided at …