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What is the difference between weather and climate and how are they connected? What are the interactions? How does effective risk communication work, and can we as a society still adapt to the consequences of the climate crisis? We addressed all of these questions yesterday, January 11, 2024, as part of the Climate Crisis Meets […]

Yesterday, the DKKV office, represented by Benni Thiebes and Ronja Winkhardt-Enz, visited the Institute for Qualifying Innovation Research and Consulting GmbH (IQIB) in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. The institute is a subsidiary of the DKKV member German Aerospace Center (DLR) and conducts research in the fields of innovation dynamics, technology assessment and systems analysis. It supports clients […]

The continuous rain of the past few days and weeks has caused flooding in large parts of Germany. The Rhine is now also rising sharply and flooding large parts of the banks in Bonn, among other places. The water level rose by 1.67 meters within 24 hours between 9 a.m. on 3 and 4 January. […]

The 28th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) closed with some historic outcomes on disaster risk reduction. In order to stop the creation of new disaster risks, the reduction and eventual transition away from fossil fuels is key and has been recognized during this conference. Additionally reducing the current […]

This survey is being carried out as part of a master’s thesis. It is about the vulnerability to flooding in the Ahr valley. Specifically, the questions to be answered are which people, buildings and landscapes in the Ahr valley are particularly vulnerable, where these are to be found and whether there are spatial hotspots. To […]

How are climate, weather and extreme weather connected? Storms are particularly severe in summer, sometimes with catastrophic consequences. Extreme weather events can now occur anywhere and have very different effects. But what can we do about these risks and how can we adapt to these events? With examples and explanations from meteorologist Özden Terli’s day-to-day […]

Since before Christmas, emergency services have been struggling with the effects of the prolonged rainfall that caused serious flooding in some parts of Germany, particularly in central and northern Germany. With special flood-fighting equipment, the water damage/pumping teams began working with various large pumps in the affected areas at the end of December. On Tuesday, […]

Yesterday, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser and Lower Saxony’s Minister of the Interior Daniela Behrens gained an impression of the work of the emergency services of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) in the flood areas. THW President Sabine Lackner accompanied the two of them in the afternoon to a deployment site […]

Climate-related extreme events, industrial accidents, terrorist attacks and accidents at major events repeatedly highlight the complex interdependencies between people, technology and infrastructure. Research is therefore focussing on the impact and potential of communication before and during crisis situations via various channels, such as warning apps, social media and traditional media. The January edition of the […]