Adapting to the Change in Climate is Constantly Becoming More Important - bifa supports Munich
bifa advices Munich
bifa was now instructed to support the Department of Health and the Environment in this task and to coordinate the collaboration of all city departments and offices affected.
Acitivities in Germany: Change in Climate and Strategy for Adapting
Aside from the Deutsche Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel (DAS) (German Strategy for Adapting to the Climate Change), there is, meanwhile, an increasing number of adapting strategies at the level of the states, the planning regions and the municipalities. More and more cities and communities no longer limit their activities only to the subject of "protecting the climate and reducing emissions of greenhouse gases). In view of the increasing average temperatures and the increasing extreme weather events, they are, instead, also endeavouring to prevent the consequences of a climate change, for example, by flood control or a city greening process.
5 Topics: Health, city development and green spaces, buildings and parks, water and precipitation, land utilisation and the ecosystem
In the project, now commissioned by the state capital of Munich, "Adapting to Climate Change" is now understood to be a cross-sectional task, for which a departmental-overlapping project group was set up to cope with and control the process. bifa, together with its subcontractor, the Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW), and the city project group will develop an inventory of, as far as possible, concrete measures in the five fields of "health"," city development and green spaces", "buildings and parks", "water and precipitation" as well as "land utilisation and the ecosystem". Moreover, its feasibility will also be checked, a monitoring concept for evaluating whether the goal has been reached will be set up, and a plan for public relations will be developed.
The adaptation concept and the final report should be in hand by the end of April, 2016.