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  • KomPass: Article from 30.03.2017 | Last changed: 14.02.2019

    KomPass Projects

    Blackboard with numerous notes.

    … One of the main tasks of KomPass is to supervise the implementation and further development of the German Adaptation Strategy and to identify ways towards a resilient society. With projects – some of which are … last update on 30.03.2017 (New) definition of policy objectives Changes in social and environmental conditions (guidelines) for adaptation policy and adaptive …

  • Newsletter from 05.02.2025 | Last changed: 10.02.2025

    Newsletter "UBA aktuell" - No.: 01/2025

    … Health Chemicals Transport Economy / Consumption Waste / Resources Water Soil / Land Digitalisation UBA news As recounted Welcome to the new issue of “UBA aktuell”, … umwelt.info, a new internet portal where the public can easily access information and data on the environment and nature conservation. In future, all publicly available information and data …

  • News from 16.12.2024 | Last changed: 16.12.2024

    UBA & IIASA cooperate on modelling climate action scenarios

    12 participants of the workshop stand together with IIASA Director General John Schellnhuber in a baroque furnished room at IIASA.

    … Source: IIASA As part of an in-house research project, UBA is working on the use and further development of an integrated assessment model (IAM) developed by the independent research institute IIASA. IAMs combine economic, social and ecological aspects for the development of climate action scenarios and are central to the IPCC process. The cooperation between UBA and IIASA is now …

  • Cover from 12.12.2025

    NiCE - Location

    … reference ‘UBA260311 / UBA-NiCE’. Rooms can be booked as single or double rooms. Standard single room EUR 89.00 per room/night Standard double room EUR 112.00 per room/night The price quoted includes breakfast at … list: Hotels & guesthouses in Dessau-Roßlau Further Information about Dessau-Roßlau and the Surrounding Area Dessau-Roßlau has a lot to offer, and you may wish to …

  • News from 04.10.2024 | Last changed: 16.10.2024

    Achieving a socially just transport transition

    two children with satchels look between parked cars to see if they can cross the road safely

    … Achieving a socially just transport transition Children and non-drivers benefit most from the transport transition Source: Sabine Hürdler / Fotolia.com Transport policy is an extremely controversial and emotional issue; many think the transport transition makes sense and is necessary, while others feel it's unrealistic or overwhelming. A study by the …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Effects chain – Example presentation from ‘civic protection’ action field

    … to the action field   State: Extreme events State: Extreme events Source: Yury and Tanya / stock.adobe.com In Germany heavy rain is one of the extreme weather … phenomena which have a particularly strong potential of putting people’s lives and infrastructures at risk. Spatial and temporal variability of heavy rain, and the fact that such events are associated …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Effects chain – Example presentation from the ‘financial' action field

    … changed meteorological conditions – this will entail an intensification of cloud- and precipitation-forming processes. Extreme events such as heavy rainfall and persistent rain might therefore increase. Given that such events occur seldom and with high variability, trends have so far not been statistically relevant. …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Effects chain – Example presentation from the ‘transport' action field

    … update on 28.11.2023 Climate changes relevant to the action field   State: Heat and Drought State: Heat and Drought Source: shokokoart / stock.adobe.com Germany is experiencing an increase in the frequency of hot and dry years. When high temperatures occur in tandem with negligible precipitation …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Effects chain – Example presentation from the ‘building sector’ field

    … three days per annum to a current mean of approximately ten hot days. Notwithstanding great variability of this index from year to year, this increase is backed up … in urban areas – case study Source: rh2010 / stock.adobe.com Owing to the heat island effect of large, contiguous built-up urban areas, the heat stress experienced by … significant in years with extraordinarily warm summers such as 2015, 2018 and 2019. For example, in 2018 the nationwide average was 20.4 hot days, whilst …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Effects chain – Example presentation from the ‘agriculture’ action field

    … 28.11.2023 Climate changes relevant to the action field   State: Air temperatures and fluctuations in weather patterns State: Air temperature and fluctuations in weather patterns Source: Volodymyr / stock.adobe.com The annual air temperature as an aggregated mean for Germany between 1881 and 2022 was determined statistically to have risen by 1.7 °C. Furthermore, in the …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Effects chain – Example presentation from the ‘soil’ action field

    … on 28.11.2023 Climate changes relevant to the action field   State: Precipitation and drought periods State: Precipitation and drought periods Source: maxbelchenko / stock.adobe.com Although the mean … of dry phases in summer. As far as heavy-rain events are concerned, high spatial and temporal variability make statistically backed trend statements difficult. …