CEDIM Report on the global heat wave 2023

11. Aug 2023 | 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,...

Union Civil Protection Mechanism: Federal Agency for Technical Relief is on its way to Slovenia

7. Aug 2023 | General, international disaster management, Members

Yesterday, the Slovenian government sent a request for assistance to the Emergency Response Coordination Centre of the European Union (ERCC). In response to this and within the framework of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM), the German Federal Agency for...

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...

Forest Fire Statistics for 2022 published

21. Jul 2023 | General, Vegetation Fires

The Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) published the forest fire statistics for the year 2022 on Tuesday, according to which about 3058 hectares of forest area have been destroyed by 2397 fires. According to the BLE, this is roughly equivalent to the area...

2nd anniversary of the flood disaster in the Ahr valley

14. Jul 2023 | Flood 2021, heavy rain

In the night of 14 to 15 July 2021, an extremely heavy rain event occurred in western Germany, in the course of which large parts of the Ahr valley were also destroyed. The flood disaster led to the death of 190 people and caused property damage of about 33 billion...