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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 […]

The National Platform for Natural Hazards (PLANAT) invites you to the PLANAT Future Forum to develop solutions for the increasing risks and damage caused by natural hazards, intensified by climate change. In an increasingly insecure society, new perspectives and strategies are to be developed in order to strengthen the risk culture and promote a resilient […]

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 weather events such as heatwaves, floods and typhoons, the programme aims to strengthen the resilience of prisoners […]