Overview

The following country profile is found in the Meister Consultants Group study: Floating Houses and Mosquito Nets: Emerging Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Around the World.

Summary

In December 2008, the German government passed a national adaptation strategy. This strategy is intended to be a framework for the development of adaptation measures on the national, regional and local level, as well as for adaptation measures from companies, associations and citizens. The strategy will be implemented in a step-by-step process. Important steps include the further improvement of the knowledge base, the start of a broad dialogue and communication process, and the development of a concrete action plan by March 2011. The German strategy describes 13 focus areas where regional and spatial planning and emergency management are defined as cross-cutting issues. Individual German states (Bundesländer) are also starting to prepare for the impacts of climate change, and some have developed their own adaptation strategies and plans (p. 30).

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