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How Germany’s Digital Twin is Transforming Climate and Risk Management | GWF 2025

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Discover how Germany’s national-scale digital twin—built with 10 cm horizontal resolution—is revolutionizing climate response, airspace safety, and insurance risk assessment. In this keynote by Paul Becker, President of the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG), Germany, at the Geospatial World Forum 2025, learn how the digital twin is being used to monitor forest carbon storage, assess storm and fire damage, and manage aerodrome obstacle risks. Despite technical and licensing challenges, the digital twin is emerging as a powerful tool for decision-makers in government, industry, and environmental planning.