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The Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), GermanyAcronym: UBA-D Country: Germany Role in CIRCLE-2: Contributing Partner Webpage 1: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/climate-energy/climate-protection-energy-policy-in-germany Webpage 2: http://www.anpassung.net DescriptionThe Umweltbundesamt (UBA), established in 1974, is a public scientific body acting under the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety. UBA fulfils autonomously administrative tasks in the field of the environment and of the health-related concerns of environmental protection. It has, in particular, the following tasks:
In order to fulfil its functions, the Federal Environment Agency conducts scientific research in the fields specified above and manages the Environmental Research Plan on behalf of the Ministry for Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety, which will be set up every year. Current topics of environmental research plan are:
The Competence Centre on Climate Impacts and Adaptation (KomPass) summarizes the results of climate impact research and makes them readily accessible to public. Furthermore, KomPass collects information on possible adaptation options, evaluates them with respect to their risks and opportunities and makes the results available to relevant actors. KomPass gives technical and conceptual advice to the Federal Environment Ministry in the work on the German adaptation strategy and acts as a central office for coordination and implementation of the strategy. KomPass services to stakeholders: (i) Providing climate impact research in Germany; (ii) Evaluation of information on regional climate change and climate impacts at the national level; (iii) Catalogue on adaptation projects and activities: http://www.anpassung.net/; (iv) Development of easy-to-use tools that point out to users regionally differentiated climate change and impacts; (v) Development of an indicator system to review the effectiveness and success of adaptation action. Key Personnel
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