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The German Environment Agency (UBA) has updated the “Urban Environmental Protection” research agenda from 2018. The aim is to respond to new issues and challenges in urban development and environmental protection. The revised agenda identifies key topics in the field of environmentally oriented urban development and focuses on interdisciplinary cooperation in order to develop solutions […]

The third International Disaster Resilience Leaders Forum was held in Incheon, Republic of Korea, in October 2024. The annual event was organized by the city, the Incheon Institute and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (Northeast Asia Office and Global Education and Training Institute). The forum was supported by the Ministry of Internal […]

The German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) can look back on an eventful 2024. With strong volunteer support and technical expertise, THW mastered several major operations, including heavy rain, flooding and the European Football Championship. THW also provided assistance internationally, for example in Ukraine and the Czech Republic. THW President Sabine Lackner honoured the […]

On Monday, 10 February 2025, the EU CIP team together with Adaptlantis invites you to a free webinar. The event, which will take place from 10:00 to 10:45 (CET), will highlight the use of scientific methods to promote the resilience of critical infrastructure networks to natural disasters. The webinar will be moderated by Roman Schotten […]

The Gesellschaft für Sicherheitspolitik e.V. (GSP) – Bonn Section invites you to a webinar on 18 February 2025 at 7 pm, in which Christina Moritz from the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies and Daniel Hiller from the Fraunhofer Ernst-Mach-Institut will discuss the ‘National Security Council and State Resilience’. The focus will be on the […]

COP 29 in Baku dealt intensively with climate financing, but the solution for financial aid from industrialised countries to developing countries was postponed until the next summit in Brazil. Although 300 billion dollars a year were pledged from 2035, experts consider this to be insufficient. The negotiations were hampered by the absence of senior political […]

Registration for the Sustainability Science Summit 2025 is open until 24 January. The event, organised by the German Committee for Sustainability Research in Future Earth (DKN), will take place from 19 to 21 February 2025 in Berlin and offers a forum for the exchange of current research results in sustainability science. Topics such as equity, […]

In an interview with the Tagesschau news programme, Ulrich Cimolino, head of the forest fire working group at the German Firefighters’ Association, describes the enormous challenges involved in fighting the fire in California, particularly due to the strong Santa Ana winds, which spread the fire quickly. Despite these adverse conditions, the fire brigade did a […]

Revenue from emissions trading in Germany reached another record level of around 18.5 billion euros in 2024. The revenue from European and national emissions trading flows into the Climate and Transformation Fund and supports the achievement of climate targets. While revenue from EU emissions trading fell by 28 per cent, revenue from national trading for […]