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Climate Change
Climate change, driven by human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is increasing global temperatures and extreme weather events. Major GHGs like carbon dioxide and methane primarily come from burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and agriculture. Key sectors contributing to emissions include energy, industry, transport, buildings, and land use, making mitigation and adaptation essential for environmental and economic stability.
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GIS-ImmoRisk Natural Hazard (GIS-ImmoRisk Naturgefahren)
GIS-ImmoRisk Naturgefahren is a German web-based GIS tool for assessing natural hazard exposure and property-specific risk from events such as floods, storms, heat and earthquakes. It combines location-based hazard data with building characteristics to inform risk analysis and investment decisions for real estate professionals.
WESR: Mountain
WESR: Mountains on MapX is a geospatial tool that maps environmental and socio-economic indicators across mountain regions. It supports spatial analysis of climate, biodiversity and livelihoods, enabling evidence-based assessment of risks, resilience and sustainable development priorities in mountain ecosystems.
Deutsches Klimaportal
Deutsches Klimaportal’s Bauwesen section offers streamlined access to German climate services and data relevant to the built environment, drawn from national providers. It supports climate adaptation planning and decision-making for the construction sector with factual climate information and tools.
Regional Climate Atlas of Germany (Regionaler Klimaatlas Deutschland)
Regionaler Klimaatlas Deutschland is an interactive web tool presenting over 120 regional climate scenarios for Germany. It summarises research on future climate change, enabling users to view projected changes in climate elements such as temperature, precipitation and wind at national and regional levels.
EM-DAT – The international disaster database
EM-DAT is a global database of over 27 000 major natural and technological disasters since 1900, recording their occurrence and human and economic impacts. Maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), it supports evidence-based disaster risk reduction, preparedness and vulnerability assessment.
German Climate Atlas (Deutscher Klimaatlas)
The Deutscher Klimaatlas by the German Weather Service (DWD) is an interactive online tool that presents maps and time-series of past, current and projected future climate data for Germany (1881–2100), showing spatial and temporal climate patterns and scenarios.
CDC: Climate Data Center
The CDC-Portal is an interactive web interface from the Deutscher Wetterdienst’s Climate Data Center that provides searchable access to climate data sets, enabling graphical and tabular previews and downloads of observational and derived climate data for research and analysis.
MapX
This MapX project is part of an open-source web platform for managing, analysing and visualising geospatial data. It enables interactive mapping of spatial datasets and statistics within themed projects, supporting environmental, resource and risk assessments through layered maps and related tools.
OS-Climate: Transition Analysis
OS-Climate Transition Analysis is an open-source scenario-modelling tool that simulates economic, energy and climate system interactions. It supports assessment of transition risks, technology pathways and investment trade-offs under alternative decarbonisation scenarios for financial and strategic analysis.
IPCC Shared Economic Pathways (SPPs)
An interactive data explorer for the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) used in IPCC climate modelling, allowing comparison of socioeconomic and emissions trajectories under different future scenarios. It presents scenario data on population, economy, energy and related variables to analyse possible climate outcomes.
IEA Global Energy and Climate Model
The Global Energy and Climate Model is an integrated analytical tool developed by the International Energy Agency to assess long-term global energy systems. It supports scenario analysis of energy demand, supply, investment and emissions under different policy and technology pathways.
INGENIAR Risk Intelligence
Ingeniar: Risk Intelligence is a commercial risk management consultancy specialising in disaster risk assessment, climate resilience, and probabilistic risk modelling. It provides technical studies, analytics, and software tools supporting infrastructure planning, adaptation strategies, and financial risk decision-making for public and private sector clients globally.
CIMA Research Foundation
CIMA Research Foundation is a non-profit scientific organisation specialising in environmental monitoring, climate risk and disaster risk reduction. It develops forecasting models, early warning systems and applied research for civil protection, climate adaptation and resilience, working with governments, academia and international programmes across Europe and globally in multiple hazard domains.
German Weather Service (DWD)
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) is Germany’s national meteorological service and a federal authority.It provides weather forecasts, climate monitoring, early warning services, and scientific data.DWD supports climate risk analysis, disaster preparedness, research, and public decision-making.
NGFS Scenarios Portal
The NGFS Scenarios Portal is a publicly available database developed by the Network for Greening the Financial System, providing harmonised climate and macroeconomic scenarios. It supports central banks and supervisors in assessing short- and long-term climate-related financial risks through consistent, transparent scenario analysis.
OS-Climate (Open Source Climate)
OS-Climate is an open-source initiative hosted by the Linux Foundation building climate data and analytics infrastructure to integrate climate risk into financial decision-making at scale. It unites financial institutions, tech leaders and scientists to develop transparent tools for climate risk, portfolio alignment and transition analysis.
