Climate change happens on timescales far exceeding government terms, and therefore requires long-term measures for mitigation. The creation of a separate committee (CCEW) ensures that climate change mitigation is consistent, competent and independent of rapidly changing political developments.<\/p>\n
Similar to the ‘Dutch Water Authorities’, a committee consisting of multiple bodies, responsible for climate change related issues could be developed. In the Netherlands, the water authority areas are determined by the distribution of basins and dykes and those responsible are voted for by the public since the 13th<\/sup> century [Dutch Water Authorities, 2017]. Applying this concept to CCEW, Germany could be divided according to different climate change impacts, such as rising sea levels, droughts, heavy rainfall and flooding from rivers [Helmholtz, 2023]. This division, however, is based on projections which still lack small scale and local effects and therefore adaptation measures can only be implemented to the best of our current knowledge and belief. Even though working at a more regional level and having less financial autonomy than the Dutch Water Authorities, insights into a feasible framework for Germany could also be gained by following the principle used by the ‘Deich\u00e4mter’ providing coastal protection [DHSV, 2025].<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Literature:<\/p>\n Dutch Water Authorities, 2017: The-Dutch-water-authority-model.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n Helmholtz, 2023: Deutschland: M\u00f6gliche mittlere \u00c4nderung der tropischen N\u00e4chte im Jahr bis Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts (2071-2100) im Vergleich zu heute\u00a0(1961-1990): Unklar | Regionaler Klimaatlas Deutschland<\/a><\/p>\n Deich- und Hauptsielverband Dithmarschen, 2025: Start<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Climate change happens on timescales far exceeding government terms, and therefore requires long-term measures for mitigation. The creation of a separate committee (CCEW) ensures that climate change mitigation is consistent, competent and independent of rapidly changing political developments. Similar to the ‘Dutch Water Authorities’, a committee consisting of multiple bodies, responsible for climate change relatedContinue reading “CCEW: A pioneering future committee exclusively dealing with climate change and extreme weather events in Germany”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[241,19],"tags":[246,253],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts-2025","category-homework","tag-climatefutures","tag-climatemitigation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3946,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}