Food security after a blackout – GfKV Newsletter

25. Sep 2023 | Agriculture, Food Security, Heat

In the last issue of its newsletter, the Society for Crisis Preparedness (GfKV) addressed the question of how food supplies can be guaranteed after a blackout. In this context, everyday contexts are highlighted that play an important role in the event of a...

CEDIM Report on the global heat wave 2023

11. Aug 2023 | Forensic Disaster Analysis, General, Heat

The “Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology” of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has published a report on the current global heat wave. The report describes the climatic conditions that are a prerequisite for such a heat wave,...

Report: extreme heat in North America, Europe and China in July 2023 made much more likely by climate change

31. Jul 2023 | Heat

Scientists from the World Weather Attribution initiative published a report last week on extreme heat in North America, Europe and China. As the title of the report says, the extreme heat in July 2023, the hottest month on record worldwide, is also largely enabled by...

UNDRR Special News Bulletin on Heatwaves, Wildfires and Drought

28. Jul 2023 | Heat

Most organisations dealing with Civil Protection have talked about topics like “Tips with more than 30 degrees – Heat wave” (DRK), “July 2023 is set to be the hottest month on record” (WMO) in the past weeks and Deutsche Welle has...

Medical-Meteorological Hazard Indices of the DWD

11. Jul 2023 | General, Heat

The heat warning system of the German Meteorological Service (DWD) is a well-known means of knowing when the heat is posing a danger to health. For today, for example, the Black Forest region is under a warning for extreme heat stress and the entire southwest of...

National Heat Protection Plan

27. Jun 2023 | Heat

On 26 June 2023, the Federal Ministry of Health presented a new project: the National Heat Protection Plan based on the French model is to be drawn up in an interministerial working group. The aim is to create nationwide possibilities for action, which place...