diff --git a/climada/hazard/storm_europe.py b/climada/hazard/storm_europe.py
index c4b49e7fc..a527b6165 100644
--- a/climada/hazard/storm_europe.py
+++ b/climada/hazard/storm_europe.py
@@ -551,9 +551,15 @@ def from_icon_grib(
                 + run_datetime.strftime("%Y%m%d%H")
             )
 
+        # Starting with eccodes 2.28 the name of the data variable in `stacked` is
+        # [i10fg](https://codes.ecmwf.int/grib/param-db/228029).
+        # Before, it used to be the less precise
+        # [gust](https://codes.ecmwf.int/grib/param-db/260065)
+        [data_variable] = list(stacked)
+
         # Create Hazard
         haz = cls(
-            intensity=sparse.csr_matrix(stacked["gust"].T),
+            intensity=sparse.csr_matrix(stacked[data_variable].T),
             centroids=cls._centroids_from_nc(nc_centroids_file),
             event_id=event_id,
             date=date,
@@ -1069,7 +1075,7 @@ def generate_WS_forecast_hazard(
         if haz_model == "cosmo1e_file":
             haz_model = "C1E"
             full_model_name_temp = "COSMO-1E"
-        if haz_model == "cosmo2e_file":
+        else:  # if haz_model == "cosmo2e_file":
             haz_model = "C2E"
             full_model_name_temp = "COSMO-2E"
         haz_file_name = (
diff --git a/requirements/env_climada.yml b/requirements/env_climada.yml
index c7cf9b823..f2f287090 100644
--- a/requirements/env_climada.yml
+++ b/requirements/env_climada.yml
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ channels:
 dependencies:
   - bottleneck>=1.4
   - cartopy>=0.23
-  - cfgrib>=0.9.9,<0.9.10  # 0.9.10 cannot read the icon_grib files from https://opendata.dwd.de
+  - cfgrib>=0.9.9
   - contextily>=1.6
   - dask>=2024.5
-  - eccodes>=2.27,<2.28  # 2.28 changed some labels, in particular: gust -> i20fg
+  - eccodes>=2.27
   - gdal>=3.6
-  - geopandas>=0.14
+  - geopandas>=0.14,<1.0  # geopandas 1.0 does not depend on fiona anymore, hence fiona would need to be added as dependency
   - h5py>=3.8
   - haversine>=2.8
   - matplotlib-base>=3.9