Overview

• Germany’s meteorological and physical societies issued a joint call to discuss withdrawing from vulnerable North Sea and Baltic Sea areas as part of a ten-point climate appeal representing about 55,000 scientists.
• The appeal warns that a one-meter rise would inundate many low-lying zones and that choices about the future of coastal settlements must be made within the next years.
• Regional modeling from Hamburg HafenCity University indicates that, under certain warming scenarios, large parts of Warnemünde and the inland island Pagenwerder could be submerged.
• Northern states have already spent billions of euros on dikes and barriers, yet experts say technical coastal protection is approaching physical and economic limits.
• New research from Tulane University finds the 1996 IPCC sea-level projection closely matched observed rise, while the German Weather Service urges municipalities to boost resilience through measures like greening and water reuse.