News 2021
Town of Grimma in June 2013 (Photo: André Künzelmann/UFZ)
Floods
How communities can prepare themeselves
July 2021
Due to climate change, in the future sudden floods produced by heavy rainfall could occur more frequently in Germany. For example, the town of Grimma, Saxony was hit by flooding twice in the span of eleven years. In response, flood protectionmeasures are now being massively expanded in Saxony - with the support of risk analyses and social scientific studies prepared by experts from the REKLIM network. Read more here...
Gateway to the Arctic – VIII and evening event „Arctic Change“
Under the title "Perceiving Arctic Change - Climate, Society and Sustainability", the 8th workshop "Gateway to the Arctic" will take place in Potsdam from October 4 to 7, 2021. The workshop is closely related to the inauguration of the graduate school of the same name, which is organized as a joint thematic initiative of the University of Paris-Saclay and REKLIM/AWI in cooperation with the AWI graduate school POLMAR. During this year's Gateway Workshop, the official launch of PACCSS will take place in a prestigious evening event in Berlin with international guests. Read more here...
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July heavy rains and floods in western Germany: Evolution of a tragedy!
22 July 2021
The last few days and weeks have shown how severely and unprepared extreme weather events can affect our society and how difficult it is to get the information from the early warning forecast systems to the proper authorities in order to protect the population. Even if the individual event can be classified as a weather event, the multitude of extreme events worldwide is an effect of the climate system changing due to climate change. Climate protection and adaptation to climate change will be crucial in the future in order to better adapt to these changes as a society and to mitigate the impact as much as possible. Reade more here ...
klimafit Wins the Association of Friends and Sponsors of the AWI’s Transfer Prize 2020
10 March 2021
34 community colleges in 2020 – 73 community colleges in 2021, 61% learning success in the area of climate protection and adaptation, and 50% learning success in the area of regional effects, as well as 1,000 multipliers trained to date – those are results to be proud of. Read more here ...
Climate Research: reflecting on the past and planning for the future
– An online event to celebrate 10 years of ECRA –
on 10 March 2020, 14:30-17:00 CET, online
The European Climate Research Alliance (ECRA) will celebrate its 10 years anniversary with this high-level event. The event is open to all. More information available at the event website:
ecra-climate.eu/activities-events/ecra-general-assemblies/215-ecra-10y
DriftStories from the Central Arctic – one year, one floe – sea-ice research to the extreme!
20 January 2021
Never before have experts had the chance to investigate the Arctic sea ice as comprehensively as on the international expedition MOSAiC, on board the research icebreaker Polarstern. For an entire year, the ship drifted with the ice through the Central Arctic; for an entire year, the men and women of MOSAiC used cutting-edge technologies to study every facet of the ice around them. They share the challenges they had to overcome, and what they learned at the polar hotspot of climate change, in the following ten DriftStories, which have now also been collected in the booklet “DriftStories from the Central Arctic”.
You can order the DriftStories free of charge by sending an email to info@REKLIM.de and providing your contact details and address, or you can download the digital PDF version.