Adaptation to climate change in Switzerland: goals, challenges and fields of action.

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Climatic changes have an impact on Switzerland’s environment, economy and society. Adapting to these impacts is vital already today, and will become even more important in future. To this end, the Federal Council has adopted the first part of its adaptation strategy on 2 March 2012. It was published on 2 April 2012 in the Federal Gazette and is the legally binding version. The report describes the goals, challenges and fields of action in adapting to climate change on Federal level.

Reference information

Websites:

http://www.bafu.admin.ch/publikationen/publikation/01673/index.html?lang=en

Source:

Suisse Federal Office for the Environment

Published in Climate-ADAPT: Jun 7, 2016

Date of publication:

2012

Keywords:

awareness, early detection, knowledge gaps, monitoring, uncertainties

Climate impacts:

Droughts, Flooding, Ice and Snow, Non specific

Adaptation Approaches:

Adaptation Measures and Actions, Vulnerability Assessment

Sectors:

Agriculture, Biodiversity protection, Buildings, Disaster Risk Reduction, Energy, Forestry, Health, Transport, Urban, Water management

Geographic characterisation:

Europe

Biogeographical regions:

Alpine

Countries:

Switzerland

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