OUR TARGETS

For KLIMZUG-NORD the main focus involves the development of technologies and methods which enable us to decrease the consequences of climate changes. Another concern is to help the population and the economy to adapt to the higher risks caused by climate changes.
Climate changes will have an increasing impact on the tensions already existing among the metropolitan area of Hamburg and the surrounding rural regions. This also concerns the demands of an evolving economic zone and the needs for environmental protection. To achieve a successful adjustment to climate changes all players concerned in the decision making process for the region have to integrate their efforts and use the same strategies.
The aim of this project is to unite the efforts of scientific, economic and technical know-how. Political, administrative, scientific and economical interest groups meet to identify the climate changes and shape an action plan. Together they are determined to work out realistic priorities and solutions for the metropolitan area within a framework up to the year 2050.

Tasks for subdivisions put forward by the KLIMZUG-NORD network

1. Develop and continue to improve technologies, methods and conceptions to prevent and reduce the impacts of climate changes.


2. Create strategies and concepts allowing these methods to be integrated into the regional processes of planning and development.


3. Show how the cost, the effectiveness and the efficiency of these strategies and concepts concern the population, the environment as well as the economy.


4. Generate a meaningful dialogue with decision makers and the public to promote the use of KLIMZUG-NORD technology and planning methods.


5. Establish a master plan for climate change management in the metropolitan area of Hamburg up to the year 2050.

KLIMZUG-NORD has identified three principal topics which concern particularly sensitive issues in urgent need of finding quick solutions and working out strategies. Because the three topics are in many ways overlapping these five subdivisions have been created.