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Aschaffenburg relies on climate adaptation: Greener against extreme weather!
Discover Aschaffenburg's climate adaptation strategy: innovative measures against extreme weather events for sustainable urban development.
Aschaffenburg relies on climate adaptation: Greener against extreme weather!
The federal government's climate adaptation strategy aims to make Germany's cities and communities more resilient to extreme weather events such as heat waves and heavy rain. Aschaffenburg began implementing its own strategy five years ago. The measures include the expansion of shady areas, the creation of water features to cool off and the promotion of green oases such as parks. However, only about 15 percent of municipalities and 26 percent of districts nationwide have such a plan, underscoring the urgency of the new strategy, which aims to ensure that at least 80 percent of municipalities develop a climate-friendly plan by 2030 to better respond to extreme weather events, reports br.de.
Important measures and goals
The new strategy calls for cities to focus more on green spaces in order to reduce land consumption and thus mitigate the consequences of heavy rain. Currently, an average of 52 hectares of land per day in Germany is sealed for traffic and settlement areas. The climate adaptation strategy sets measurable targets to reduce land use to less than 30 hectares per day by 2030. It is also planned to increase the number of users of the NINA warning app by 30 percent by 2030 in order to provide the population with targeted and early information in the event of an emergency. The number of active siren systems should also be increased to ensure the safety of citizens during extreme weather events, as stated by statistic.bayern.de held.
In the context of this initiative, it is important to secure financial and human resources so that the strategy can be implemented effectively on site. Aschaffenburg has already hired a climate adaptation manager to drive implementation. Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke emphasizes the need to systematically collect and analyze the damage caused by weather extremes, which has amounted to around 145 billion euros since 2000, in order to be able to take targeted measures.