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New analysis indicates European cities and countries with highest expected losses from future flooding
23 Jun 2023This study provides useful quantification of future flood risk in Europe by integrating climate, socio-economic and private precaution scenarios, offering a detailed overview of risk drivers, trends and hotspots. This large-scale assessment is valuable for multi-scale risk-based flood adaptation planning by policymakers and states within Europe.
Call for collaborative research actions on climate and cultural heritage
23 Jun 2023The Belmont Forum is an initiative of the global scientific community including European scientific organisations to support international transdisciplinary research for understanding, mitigating, and adapting to global environmental change. A new call aims to support transdisciplinary and convergent research approaches on cultural heritage and climate change, to foster collaboration among the research community across several regions, and to contribute to knowledge advances and policy change at the global level. One of the call themes is cultural heritage as a resource for climate mitigation and adaptation.
Policy brief: Stronger together for a climate resilient north – Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change at the local level in the Nordic Countries
20 Jun 2023The policy brief presents the results of the 6th Nordic Conference of Climate Change Adaptation (NOCCA23): the conference explored the current state of adaptation and the challenges, opportunities, and learnings from the implementation process of adaptation in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Finally, the role of the Nordic Council in accelerating adaptation measures within the Nordic region and beyond is discussed.
Taming wildfires in the context of climate change
19 Jun 2023This 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.
What could the summer bring? Is extreme weather the new normal?
14 Jun 2023The new EEA product ‘Extreme summer weather in a changing climate: is Europe prepared’ looks at the main summer weather extremes that have increasingly impacted the European population, economy and nature. Users can explore interactive maps and charts information on heatwaves, floods, droughts and wildfires, and the rise of climate-sensitive diseases like dengue fever.
Monitoring report on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals in an European context
06 Jun 2023The analysis in this publication builds on the EU Sustainable Development Goals indicator set, developed in cooperation with a large number of stakeholders. The report also covers progress on climate action, including on adaptation to climate change. Among others, this 2023 edition also analyses the impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic during 2022 and the beginning of 2023 that are visible in Eurostat’s official statistics.
The EU 2022 wildfire season was the second worst on record
06 Jun 2023Last year, wildfires in 45 observed countries burnt an area about the size of Montenegro, hitting Natura 2000 protected sites hard. This year, France has already surpassed its annual average of fire-ravaged area.
ETC CA paper ‘Just resilience for Europe: Towards measuring just resilience in climate change adaptation
31 May 2023This technical paper of the European Topic Centre on Climate Change Adaptation and LULUCF (ETC/CA), supporting the work of the EEA on just resilience, explores options for a systematic and transparent framework to capture the progress on just resilience policies in the EU. It also offers a structured overview of justice-related impacts, risks, and interventions based on current science and policies.
European State of the Climate report published
25 May 2023The 2022 release of the European State of the Climate (ESOTC) report, compiled by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) on behalf of the European Commission, was published. It provides a detailed analysis of the past calendar year, with descriptions of climate conditions and events, and explores the associated variations in key climate variables from across all parts of the Earth system. The ESOTC also gives updates on the long-term trends of key climate indicators.
Overview on good practice of for rainwater harvesting and reuse of grey water in the water management sector
24 May 2023Based on the ‘Adaptation to Climate Change of Water Resources project’ project, the General Directorate of Water Management of Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has published a brochure with an overview on good practice of for rainwater harvesting and reuse of grey water in the water management sector.