In two workshops, more than 80 people from 65 German municipalities discussed how cities can make themselves climate-proof and better protect themselves against extreme weather events. The twelve recommendations for action from the project "ExTrass - 'Urban resilience to extreme weather events - typologies and transfer of adaptation strategies in small cities and medium-sized towns'" have now been published in a policy brief by a research team from the consulting firm adelphi, the University of Potsdam and the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS).
One of the points made in the policy brief is that the legal framework needs to be tightened up. Laws such as the Federal Climate Protection Act, the Federal Water Resources Act and the Federal Soil Protection Act should therefore be made more specific. According to the authors, it would also make sense to make climate adaptation a mandatory task for local authorities through state laws and to provide local authorities with appropriate funding for this purpose.
Monitoring should also be used to ensure that defined climate adaptation measures are actually implemented. If the climate adaptation measures - such as green roofs on new buildings - are not implemented, fines should be imposed. The success of the measures should also be checked after some time, for example whether the green roofs are actually growing. Interested parties can find further recommendations for action in the policy brief, which can be downloaded free of charge at adelphi.de/en/system/files/mediathek/bilder/_ExTrass_Policy_Brief_221114_finaleVersion_b.pdf.
Sources: idw-online.de/adelphi.de
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