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. In a so-called policy brief, the twelve recommendations for action of the project "ExTrass - 'Urban Resilience to Extreme Weather Events - Typologies and Transfer of Adaptation Strategies in Small Large and Medium-Sized Cities'" have now been published by a research team from the consulting firm adelphi, the University of Potsdam and the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (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 Act and the Federal Soil Protection Act should therefore be made more specific. In addition, according to the authors, it would make sense to make climate adaptation a mandatory task for municipalities through state laws and to provide the municipalities 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 - have not been implemented, fines should be imposed. The success of the measures should also be checked after some time, for example whether the green roofs actually grow. 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/images/_ExTrass_Policy_Brief_221114_finaleVersion_b.pdf.
Sources: idw-online.de/adelphi.de
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