Establishment of an Indicator Concept for the German Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change

On 17th December 2008 the German Federal Cabinet adopted the DAS (German Strategy for the Adaptation to Climate Change), (Bundesregierung 2008). The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has the task to design a comprehensive set of tools to support and advance the DAS. An integral part of this will be the Special Information System ‘Adaptation’ (FISKA) and an Indicator System to aid adaptation. The latter is one of the key tasks identified for the DAS. As far as the Indicator System is concerned, it has been decided to prepare a Report on Indicators for the success of adaptation measures and the challenges facing Germany. The DAS Indicator System and the Adaptation Report will be developed in a multi-stage process on behalf of the BMU. This process will be under the aegis of UBA / KomPass. The Consultation Project entitled ’Indicators for the German Adaptation Strategy’ discussed in this document, was initiated in December 2008 and completed in March 2010. It resulted in an initial set of indicators for adaptation at Federal level and a structure for the Report on Indica-tors.