Climate Change

An update of the article “Modelling flood damages under climate change conditions – a case study for Germany”

In our first study on possible flood damages under climate change in Germany, we reported that a considerable increase in flood-related losses can be expected in a future warmer climate. However, the general significance of the study was limited by the fact that outcome of only one global climate model (GCM) was used as a large-scale climate driver, while many studies report that GCMs are often the largest source of uncertainty in impact modelling.

Publication Date: 
19/07/2016
Fred Fokko Hattermann, Shaochun Huang, Olaf Burghoff & et al
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
16
1617–1622
Tags:
Climate Change, Floods, Germany, Global Warming, Climate Impacts
Climate Change

UN criticises UK and Germany for betraying Paris climate deal

Ban Ki-moon’s climate change envoy has accused the UK and Germany of backtracking on the spirit of the Paris climate deal by financing the fossil fuel industry through subsidies.

Publication Date: 
19/07/2016
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Climate Change, Germany, COP 21 (Paris), United Kingdom (UK), Fossil Fuels, Green House Gases, Coal, Thermal Power Plants, Subsidies
Energy

Germany Confirms End To Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariffs

Germany’s parliament has approved a plan that will end renewable energy feed-in tariffs in favor of competitive auctions and clear volumes for wind energy development.

Publication Date: 
13/07/2016
Clean Technica
Tags:
Energy, Renewable Energy, Germany, Parliament, Wind Energy, European Union (EU)
Energy

Germany moves away from renewables feed-in tariffs

Parliament approves plan to move towards competitive auctions and caps on deployment of wind energy

Publication Date: 
12/07/2016
Business Green
Tags:
Energy, Germany, Renewable Energy, Legislation, European Union (EU), Wind Energy
Energy

Market opportunities for use of alternative fuels in cement plants across the EU

There is no technical limitation at cement plants to increase the share of alternative fuels from 36% now to 95% EU-wide. In a recent study for Cembureau, Ecofys has investigated how the European cement industry could contribute to Europe’s waste-to-energy capacity.

Publication Date: 
11/07/2016
Ecofys
Tags:
Waste To Energy, Cement Industry, Alternative Fuels, European Union (EU), Landfill, Waste Management, Greece, Poland, Germany, Energy Efficiency, Fossil Fuels
Energy

Legal shake-up threatens Germany’s energy ‘revolution’

In Germany, people’s power has wrought a revolution.

Publication Date: 
11/07/2016
Financial Times (London)
Tags:
Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Germany, European Union (EU), Electricity
Climate Change

Germany and Saudi Arabia pledge to ratify Paris deal in 2016

Germany and Saudi Arabia have announced plans to ratify the Paris Agreement by the end of the year.

Publication Date: 
11/07/2016
Business Green
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Agreements, Climate Mitigation, Germany, Saudi Arabia, COP 21 (Paris), Energy, Renewable Energy
Biodiversity

Insect populations in sharp decline

Every spring since 1989, entomologists have set up tents in the meadows and woodlands of the Orbroicher Bruch nature reserve and 87 other areas in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia

Publication Date: 
08/07/2016
Environment News Network
Tags:
Biodiversity, Insects, Butterflies, Germany
Climate Change

Germany waters down climate protection plan

Germany has abandoned plans to set out a timetable to exit coal-fired power production and scrapped C02 emissions reduction goals for individual sectors, according to the latest draft of an environ

Publication Date: 
30/06/2016
Reuters
Tags:
Climate Change, Germany, Carbon Dioxide, Coal, Thermal Power Plants, Energy, Transport, Agriculture, Eco Tax
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer

Effects of sample size on estimation of rainfall extremes at high temperatures

High precipitation quantiles tend to rise with air temperature, following the so-called Clausius–Clapeyron scaling. This CC-scaling relation breaks down, or even reverts, for very high temperatures. In our study, we verify this reversal using a 60-year period of summer data in Germany. One of the suggested meteorological explanations is limited moisture supply, but our findings indicate that this behavior could also originate from simple undersampling.

Publication Date: 
27/06/2016
Berry Boessenkool, Gerd Bürger, Maik Heistermann
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
1-11
Tags:
Rainfall Pattern, Climate, Germany, Atmosphere

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