About KLIMZUG

Even with a successful climate protection strategy a short-term reduction of the expected climate change is not possible. There is therefore an urgent demand for society, economy and politics to develop new and improved methods for climate change adaptation. In the future, this will be one of most important tasks dealing with climate change.
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is furthering the development of innovative approaches to climate change adaptation with a funding activity "KLIMZUG". It particularly stresses the regional aspect of climate adaptation.  The implementation of climate adaptation is to be achieved through regional networks between science, companies, administration and public agencies. KLIMZUG wants to pool the strengths of the stakeholders by these cooperative networks and to integrate anticipated changes in processes of regional planning and development. This is to contribute to a timely climate adaptation of long-term sustainability and to strengthening the German economy.