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Taming wildfires in the context of climate change: the case of Portugal
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) launched a report that provides an overview of Portugal’s wildfire policies and practices. It also assesses the extent to which wildfire management in the country is evolving to adapt to growing wildfire risk under climate change. It complements the previous OECD report “Taming Wildfires in the Context of Climate Change” which provides a global assessment and outlook on wildfire risk in the context of climate change.
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Climate change, public health and the right to health
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This webinar focusses on building understanding, competence, and capacity on human right-based approaches, which are part of good public health policies and practice, including action to address climate change. The webinar is the first in a series offered by the UK Faculty of Public Health, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Global Network for Academic Public Health (GNAPH), Groningen Centre for Health Law (GCHL), European Public Health Association (EUPHA) and other partners.
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ENBEL factsheet: Early-warning systems for climate and health
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This factsheet highlights how early warning systems addressing health and climate change have been developed to alert communities about climate-related events that may impact their health and well-being so that they can take necessary actions or precautions.
The ENBEL research factsheet series provides accessible summaries of research findings from the projects in the ENBEL network on a wide range of climate change and health topics
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Launch of the Europe Sustainable Development Report (5th edition)
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The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will host a high-level hybrid event on Europe’s future and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). This event will aim to provide relevant contributions on how the EU can strengthen its SDG leadership and will notably feature the launch of the fifth edition of the Europe Sustainable Development Report (ESDR).
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Synthesis Report on Sustainable Financing of the Establishment of Ponds and Pondscapes
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Ponds and pondscapes (a complex of multiple ponds) can serve as Nature-based Solutions (NbS) that address numerous societal challenges, including the need for climate adaptation, biodiversity enhancement, and water management. Financing has been identified as a key barrier that limits the upscaling of nature-based solutions, including pondscapes
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CLEVER Cities Guidance
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CLEVER Cities Guidance: a platform to explore insights, tools, indicators and lessons learned about nature-based solutions (NbS) for sustainable urban regeneration. The document provide evidence-based approaches, innovative case studies and lessons learned on:
NbS mainstreaming in policy and planning;
social impact generation and measurement;
co-creation and stakeholder empowerment
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Taming wildfires in the context of climate change
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This OECD report provides a global assessment and outlook on wildfire risk in the context of climate change. It underlines the urgent need for governments to scale up climate change adaptation efforts to limit future wildfire costs.
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Just Resilience for Europe: Towards measuring justice in climate change adaptation
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ETC CA Report 1/23
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Fighting forest fires using electronic and communication technologies
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LIFETEC aims at improving forest fire fighting using Electronic and Communications Technologies by reducing the detection time of forest fires and improving the efficiency of the fighting forces ensuring communications and geolocation. This will be achieved by:
Ensuring communications between fighting forces
Forest fires often take place in remote areas without coverage of commercial mobile communication networks
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Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into urban planning by demonstrating public & private stormwater infrastructure
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LIFE in RUNOFF’s main objective is to support urban climate change adaptation by enabling synergies between public stormwater investment/maintenance and stimulating private stormwater blue-green infrastructure (mainly ecosystem-based) to efficiently reduce the impact of stormwater runoff on fragile urban infrastructure (e.g
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