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Nele Bünner
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German Adaptation Strategy (DAS)
National Policy Framework for adaptation to CC
• Adopted by Federal Cabinet in 12/2008
• Sets out aims and principles
• Presents state of knowledge on observed and
projected climate changes and their impacts
• Adaptation options on 15 fields of action
General framework (no timeframe):
• Risks will be progressively identified
• Action needs identified
• Appropriate adaptation objectives developed
• Adaptation measures identified
Review and update end of 2015
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Action Plan for Adaptation (APA)
• Developed by two governmental bodies and
through participatory dialogue with federal
states, academia and CSOs
• Adopted in August 2011
• Measures on national level:
– Providing knowledge, informing and enabling
action
– Set framework for national policy
– Activities implemented under national
responsibility (impact monitoring, early warning)
– International responsibility
• Orientation for other actors
• Overview on initiatives of federal states
• Next step: Progress Report 2014
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Governance structure of German adaptation process
Federal Ministry for
the Environment
Federal
Environment
Agency/KomPass
Working group of all
federal ministries
Conference of the
federal states
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Research
Institutes
DASprocess
EU - CHM:
Adaptation Steering Group
(+ WGs)
Stakeholder
(Business, NGO)
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Implementation and Budgeting
Broad range of actors involved and responsible for implementation
• Governmental and non-governmental actors
• National and federal level
Measures at the national level:
• Implemented and funded by government (ministries)
• Cooperation with other actors
Measures at the federal and local level:
• Implemented by communities, federal states, NGOs, companies,
intercommunal and interregional alliances etc.
• Partly financial support from government (promotion schemes)
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Providing knowledge and enabling action
• Depending on the location and region, effects of CC and
potential opportunities for action, can vary greatly
• Thus, many adaptation measures must be planned and
implemented on the local level
• The different leaders responsible for such measures could
potentially learn a great deal from each other
• → Key component of the German government’s AAP:
Database that presents adaptation measures which were
implemented or are currently underway, esp. projects on local
and regional level
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Database “Tatenbank”
• Implemented adaptation measures
• Set up by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA),
published December 2010
• Main target groups:
– Municipalities, regional administrations
– Companies for public services
– Non-governmental institutions
• Aims:
– Promoting networks between actors
– Learning from realized projects
– Source for identifying good practice
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Making good-practise visible
• Competition “Adaption Pioneers Wanted!” combined with start of
database
• Over 60 submissions → 5 winners chosen
• Assessment criteria:
 Effectiveness and cost-benefit ration
 Co-benefits
 Stakeholder participation und acceptance
 Feasibility and transferability
• No financial reward, but public award ceremony, good publicity,
short PR film
• Aim: establish the database as a comprehensive up-to data
reference for adaptation activities in Germany
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Examples for Good-Practice
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Stuttgart: Climate-friendly urban planning
Initial situation:
• City situated in a basin
→ forced to think about how fresh air
can be ensured even in unfavorable
weather conditions
• Increasingly hot summers have also
led the city to counteract with
increased planning
→ City introduced a package of
measures that are mostly borne by the
city’s own funds
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Stuttgart: Climate-friendly urban planning
• Aim of the measures: Incorporating urban climatic factors
into planning
• Stakeholders: Environmental Agency (initiator), all institutions
involved in urban planning in the region of Stuttgart
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Stuttgart: Climate-friendly urban planning
Achievements:
• Preservation and expansion of green areas and assurance of fresh
air corridors and cold air producing areas
• 300.000 square kilometers of green roofs created, tramlines
planted with grass and flowers
Model for internal development:
• Minimum standards for the provision and design of green areas,
climate-friendly house construction (e.g. heat insulation), limitation
of the degree of soil sealing in city
→ Software tool: record of all gap sites and waste land in
database
→ Existing real estate used to cover demand for building land,
avoiding expansion of sealed area
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Stuttgart: Climate-friendly urban planning
Challenges:
• Difficult to acquire open space: building land is scarce in
the city and the price of land is high
• Intensive negotiations were required to ensure that the
significance of the concerned areas for the urban climate
is taken into account
→ Lessons learnt will help other cities – not least when it
comes to matching ambitious concepts with the daily
troubles and conflicts of urban planning
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Northern Germany: Training module on ACC for
farmers
• Identify starting points where the topic CC
adaptation can be sustainably communicated in the
sector
• Promising approach: integrating the idea of CC in the
educational training of young people who become
farmers
• Issue of CC adaptation had not sufficiently been
taken into account in the apprenticeship
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Northern Germany: Training module on ACC
• Aim: developing an interactive training module that
raises the trainees’ awareness of risks and opportunities
related to climate change and shows them possibilities
for action
• Stakeholders: farmers, instructors in the training schools,
the chamber of agriculture
• Forms of participation: joint workshops of a working
group
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Northern Germany: Training module on ACC
Achievements
• Training module: combination of theoretical knowledge
transfer and project work → knowledge immediately
translated into practice
• Farmers as instructors become contact persons and
propagators for the idea of climate change adaptation
• Developed modules can be used in training of farmers in
all regions in Germany and be adapted where necessary
(e.g. for winegrowing)
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Northern Germany: Training module on ACC
Challenges:
• Training module on ACC no compulsory element in training of
farmers → topic treated as less important
• After the workshops no advanced training to better qualify and
update the farmers as instructors
→ major deficit of the approach: initial awareness raising and
training not sufficient
• During practical application, idea of climate protection much more
emphasized than adaptation
→ increase awareness that climate protection + adaptation to
unavoidable impacts of CC are necessary
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Results of the “Tatenbank”
• Numerous adaptation measures have been
successfully implemented despite challenges
• Database “Tatenbank”: a start in recording
implemented measures in order to learn from
experience
www.tatenbank.anpassung.net
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Conclusion
• Knowledge base is constantly expanding
• DAS is continuously developed and improved to
ensure that this new knowledge is incorporated into
the political framework
• Measures in DAS will be evaluated by the end of
2014 (evaluation process)
– Indicator-based monitoring
– Nation-wide and cross-sectoral vulnerability assessment
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Thank you for your interest!
Contact: Nele Bünner, [email protected] or
Dr Till Below, [email protected]
This presentation is based on material kindly provided by the Federal
Environmental Agency (UBA), Germany.
Contact: Petra Mahrenholz [email protected]
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