El cambio climático es una de las principales causas de que las condiciones meteorológicas extremas sean cada vez más intensas y frecuentes. Mientras que sólo el 5% de los europeos estuvieron expuestos a catástrofes relacionadas con el tiempo cada año durante 1981-2010, esta cifra podría aumentar drásticamente a finales de este siglo debido al cambio climático. Según la Organización Meteorológica Mundial, la década de 2011-2020 fue la más cálida de la que se tiene constancia, siendo el año 2020 uno de los terceros más cálidos registrados a nivel mundial.

The city of Herne makes part of the Ruhr Metropolis (North Rhine-Westphalia), which is the largest urban area in Germany and the third largest in the European Union. It consists of 53 cities and more than 5.1 million residents, and offers, beside others, also huge opportunities for smart city startups to scale with their innovative solutions in the region and Germany as a whole. While the Ruhr Metropolis wants to become Germany’s smartest region, also the city of Herne, with just over 150,000 inhabitants, is not short of ambition when it comes to digital transformation. Under its recently established digitization unit, the city is gearing up for future challenges posed by climate change and extreme weather events. Overseen by the Mayor’s office, the digitization unit is in charge of attracting a worldwide network of premium partners and startups from the digital economy to support the city’s path towards becoming a Smart City, and consequently, part of the Smart Region of “Ruhr”. Specifically, the city of Herne joined forces to see its strategy Herne 2025 being implemented. In order to give the development of the city a clear perspective, the city of Herne has created a vision of the future of Herne that can be summarized in three terms: urban, digital and international.

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https://www.fiware.org/2021/12/21/smart-sensor-monitoring-weather-and-flood-risk-developed-in-herne/

https://www.fiware.org/wp-content/uploads/FF_ImpactStories_StadtHerne.pdf