Federal Council clears the way for mandatory climate adaptation
According to the draft law, this should create a strategic framework for precautionary climate adaptation at all administrative levels in Germany for the first time. In addition to risk analyses and advisory services, it also provides for mandatory monitoring.
"Climate adaptation must take place everywhere," said Christiane Rohleder (Greens), State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, on Friday in the Bundesrat. This is about questions of justice and the equivalence of living conditions. Rohleder described climate adaptation as an "important issue for improving the quality of life for everyone in Germany".
The Ministry of the Environment had already pointed out that since 2000, extreme weather events - many of which, according to experts, were caused or exacerbated by climate change - have caused damage in Germany amounting to more than 145 billion euros. Since 2018 alone, this has amounted to around 80 billion euros.
According to a study by the Federal Ministry of Economics, extreme weather and climate impacts could also result in economic follow-up costs of up to 900 billion euros by the middle of the century.
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Source: www.stern.de
