Annual Report 2022

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Combating heat and flooding

Key area

Sustainability

Man-made climate change brings with it previously unknown risks. Once again, the University of Bern came up with some specific solutions in 2022 by …

… showing what the new normality means in terms of heat, drought and forest fires.
… researching how heat-related deaths and hospital admissions can be reduced.
... developing digital tools with the Mobiliar Lab for preventing and coping with extreme flooding.
… giving politicians a basis for decision-making when it comes to land use, climate and biodiversity.
... developing instruments that will help pave the way to the Paris climate targets.

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Sweltering summer

2022 was a normal 21st-century summer

Heat, drought, the danger of forest fires – the situation we experienced in 2022 will soon become the norm with climate change.

Urban climate

Research for a tolerable urban climate

Due to man-made global warming, adaptation measures are urgently needed, for example to minimize the number of heat-related deaths and hospital admissions.

Heat fatalities

Extreme temperatures come at a high price

A study prepared at the University of Bern shows in detail for the first time how heat in Switzerland has increasingly led to high death rates over the past 50 years.

Extreme flooding

New tool helps in extreme flooding

In Switzerland, too, far greater floods are possible than was previously assumed. A new modeling tool should now help in coping with them.

Land use

Land use as the key to the solution

Climate change, biodiversity loss and other global crises require new ways of thinking. This is the conclusion reached by 50 leading international land use scientists, including the University of Bern.

Climate goal

Reliable planning tool for the emissions path to achieving the Paris temperature goal

Researchers at the University of Bern have developed a new method for the successive calculation of the emission reductions which are necessary for achieving temperature targets, such as the 2°C goal.

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