GFCS Implementation in Germany:

- 1st national GFCS implemen- tation workshop on June 26/27 2013 at DWD in Offenbach

- About 50 providers and users of climate services participated

- Main goal: Facilitation of climate-informed decisions in different sectors of climate change adaptation on all decision levels

- Next steps: Proposal for German GFCS governance, annual user workshops, additions to German climate portal

User interface for German climate services:Das Deutsche Klimaportalwww.deutschesklimaportal.de

Climate services for the „Länder“

Sectors

German Climate atlas

Main German GFCS workshop recommendations:

The climate service information needs to…

Feedback from sectorial user-interaction into the research component

Take into account climate vulnerability assessments and cascade effects

Take into account impact on standardization and on legislative processes

Additional points from the discussion:

Further improvement of climate observation data sets and climate model output on all scales is necessary

Spatial planning as cross-cutting issue for water, agriculture, health, and civil protection sector

Extreme Flooding in June 2013 in Eastern and Southern Germany

Source: Federal Environment Agency of Germany