21. Jan 2025 | Floods, General, Hochwasser
On 30 January 2025 from 2 p.m., the Deichverband Bislich-Landesgrenze invites you to a ‘Theme Day against Flood Dementia’ at the Bürgerhaus Rees to draw attention to the dangers of flooding and heavy rainfall. 30 years after the last major flood on the Rhine in 1995,...
21. Jan 2025 | Serious Games, Young Professionals
On December 18, 2024, several young professionals (YPs) met at the DKKV office in Bonn for a serious games lab. In the workshop, the participants had the opportunity to try out various serious games on the topics of disaster prevention and risk communication in two...
9. Jan 2025 | Climate Change, General
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched the Prisoners of Climate Change (PoCC) programme to address the growing climate risks in overcrowded prisons in the Philippines. With extreme overcrowding rates and increasing threats from extreme...
8. Jan 2025 | Floods, Flutplattform, General, Hochwasser, Topics
We are pleased to present the new DKKV topic page “Floods”. There you can find out how floods occur, how climate change will affect future flood events, what flood protection measures are available and tips on how to take precautions yourself. You can also find...
2. Dec 2024 | Climate Change, General, Natural Hazards in Germany
On November 19, 2024, the EU Commission published a report stating that in 2023, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa experienced some of the worst forest fires since 2000, with over 500,000 hectares of forest affected. The EU in particular has seen repeated...
25. Oct 2024 | Climate Change, General
We are pleased to introduce the new topic page on our DKKV website, which provides important information on climate change and attribution research. The new topic page provides an overview of the mechanisms and consequences of climate change and the importance of...
