This landscape represents the impacts of climate change until the year 2050 without ambitious climate action. Relevant megatrends of increasing urbanization and intensified agriculture characterize the scenery. Standard measures are not sufficient to compensate for uncertainty and intensity of precipitation. Glaciers have melted almost completely, groundwater storages are depleting, the sea level keeps rising. Water scarcity and flood events are occurring frequently on a global scale, the loss of ecosystems and species is accelerating.

1. Rapidly melting glaciers reduce natural water storage
2. Intensive farming reduces diversity and increases inputs of fertilisers and pesticides
3. Harmful inputs into watercourses impair usability and biodiversity
4. Dry wetlands are ruining the atmosphere
5. Discharges of wastewater and waste into the oceans must be prevented
6. Climatic conditions in cities quickly become hostile
7. Groundwater storage reduced
8. Without protective coastal ecosystems, floods and sea-level rise will become more threatening

This landscape represents the impacts of climate change until the year 2050 with total political and economic commitment to climate action and a 1.5°C goal.

1. Agroforestry to prevent erosion
2. Flexible water storage
3. Lakes as water reservoirs and places of diversity
4. Running waters as dynamic interface
5. Ecosystem-based approaches
6. Wetlands to reduce emissions
7. River commissions for cooperation and conflict prevention
8. Cities are innovation centers for integrated solutions
9. Sustainable sanitation systems are resistant to greater fluctuations in precipitation and wastewater volumes
10. Robust solutions include barriers to protect against storm surges or to regulate the flow
11. Mangroves as a species-rich ecosystem are an ideal carbon store and grow with the rise in sea level to protect against flooding
12. Healthy freshwater ecosystems prevent harmful inputs into threatened coral reefs as a hotspot of biological diversity