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Climate change and health in Europe: knowledge development and sharing efforts, an EU side event at COP 26 in Glasgow
EEA is organizing a session at the EU Pavilion at COP 26 with focus on climate change and health. Tackling climate change impacts on health requires solid knowledge and evidence-based and equity-oriented solutions in both adaptation and mitigation. The session will showcase findings of key recent research projects on heat impacts on health; present the EU knowledge-sharing platform - the European Climate and Health Observatory; and discuss sharing knowledge with EU’s neighbours and across policy fields.
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COP26 side event: Act now! Policies and tools for health-centric climate action
Side event organized by WHO Europe during the COP26 with the aim to explore why urgent climate action is a prerequisite for sustaining global health, and how health-promoting environments and behaviours can be good for the climate.
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Water stress is a major and growing concern in Europe
The European Environment Agency's report: ‘Water resources across Europe - confronting water stress: an updated assessment’, presents the current state of water stress in Europe with the aim to put focus on managing water availability risks under the impacts of a changing climate. Climate change is expected to make problems worse, as droughts are increasing in frequency, magnitude and impact. Europe needs to strengthen the resilience of its ecosystems and use water more efficiently.
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Climate Risks Atlas for the G20 countries released
The 'G20 Climate Risks Atlas - Impacts, policy, economics', contains a series of Country Factsheets featuring maps and infographics which summarizes scientific projections of how climate impacts will play out in the top 20 world’s largest countries over the coming decades.
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Outcome of online engagement with citizens from Spain
On 28 July 2020, 50 participants from Spain took part in a digital citizen engagement event on the European Union Mission on “Adaptation to climate change” Participants were selected randomly from different gender, age and employment situation groups to ensure a variety of views.
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Publication and Report Climate Impact and Risk Assessment 2021 for Germany - Summary
The German "Climate Impact and Risk Assessment for Germany" (KWRA) was undertaken by 25 federal authorities under the lead of the Federal Environment Agency and on behalf of the Federal German Government. 102 climate impacts and 13 fields of action were investigated and assessed
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Climate Impact and Risk Assessment 2021 for Germany
The German "Climate Impact and Risk Assessment for Germany" (KWRA) was undertaken by 25 federal authorities under the lead of the Federal Environment Agency and on behalf of the Federal German Government. 102 Climate impacts and 13 fields of action were investigated and assessed. This summary report presents the contents of the six sub-reports for all fields of action, next to the main contents of the integrated assessment; an overall consideration of climate risks without and with adaptation; the spatial patterns and the urgent needs for action, as well as the need for further research.
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Ultraviolet (UV) radiation’s effects on human health under the changing climate
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Ultraviolet (UV) radiation’s effects on human health under the changing climate
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UV-index forecast (CAMS)
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