How Germany is mitigating the impact of extreme weather
2024年10月3日 · Germany’s international development agency GIZ is helping partner countries adapt to extreme weather, water shortages and rising sea levels. In Bangladesh, for example, up to 20m people could lose their homes due to climate change by 2050.
Attribution research | Climate change - deutschland.de
2024年10月4日 · Many weather events, and above all heatwaves, that would have been considered extreme last century - that is to say the probability of their ever occurring at all was perhaps 0.01 percent - are now happening every two years. What we used to call the “worst flooding in a hundred years” is now only the “worst flooding in a decade”.
The Senckenberg Society: a wide range of research into biodiversity
2024年10月24日 · Are there still undiscovered sea creatures? Scientists and researchers from the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum believe so. They are part of an expedition aboard the research ship “Meteor”, which is exploring the Atlantic ocean between North Africa and South America until December 2024.
German language: dialects in Germany - deutschland.de
2024年11月20日 · Dialects of the German language are spoken from the North Sea to the Alps. They shape our regional identities and sound so different that even native speakers of German can find themselves totally flummoxed. So where did all this rich variety come from, and what is happening to German dialects today?
The energy transformation in Germany: status and progress
2023年3月13日 · Germany is aiming to be climate neutral by 2045 – five years earlier than the European Union. In order to meet this ambitious target, the energy supply has to be fundamentally transformed: after all, this is where most greenhouse gas emissions occur.
Germany and its neighbours: facts about the country’s nine …
2024年8月29日 · Germany borders nine countries along a total distance of around 3,750 kilometres. We present the most important facts about the country’s neighbours, all but one of which are in the European Union:
Germany and India | Expanding relations - deutschland.de
2024年10月24日 · India also plays a vital role for Germany because it produces so many well trained skilled workers. While demographic shifts in Germany are leading to a considerable shortage of well qualified experts in medicine, engineering, electrotechnology and IT, as well as in nursing care and the skilled trades, the Indian population is young and well trained - and with …
Franco-German secondary schools - deutschland.de
2024年1月18日 · At this school, pupils and staff alike can be heard switching constantly between the two languages. As Joachim Schmelz, head teacher at the Franco-German secondary school (Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium or DFG for short) in Freiburg im Breisgau explains, it is “quite normal for people at all levels - in the staffroom, in the head teacher’s office, in the …
Smart cities: how digitisation is making cities more sustainable
2024年5月22日 · The large-scale project is one of 73 selected smart cities model projects. With this funding programme, the German government wants to support small and big cities with using digital solutions to evolve – for example with respect to the impacts of climate change or the revival of inner cities.
The German Mittelstand: three examples of successful companies
2024年7月30日 · Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany, known as the”Mittelstand”, enjoy an outstanding reputation worldwide. 55 percent of the more than 45.8 million employees in Germany work in the country’s more than three million SMEs.