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More action needed to protect Europe’s most vulnerable citizens from environmental hazards
04 Feb 2019Targeted action is needed to better protect the poor, the elderly and children from environmental hazards, such as air and noise pollution and extreme temperatures. The European Environment Agency report ' Unequal exposure and unequal impacts: social vulnerability to air pollution, noise and extreme temperatures in Europe’ warns that the health of Europe’s most vulnerable citizens remains disproportionately affected by these hazards.
Since 2017 dozens of local climate action projects implemented in Turkish cities
25 Jan 2019In Turkey 13 large-scale pilots targeting metropolitan municipalities and 25 small scale projects started in June 2017 to foster local climate action and awareness activities in 27 cities across the country. Most municipalities are working on climate action strategy plans; some are working on implementing pilot schemes such as solar power installations, and others are working on capacity building.
OPCC2 report released on climate change impacts and adaptation in the Pyrenees
15 Jan 2019The average temperature in the Pyrenees has increased by 30% more than the world average in the last 50 years, and half of the glaciers have disappeared in the last 35 years. Facts provided by the report 'Climate change in the Pyrenees: impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation', representing a broad scientific consensus for the Pyrenean territory and which has been coordinated by the Pyrenees Climate Change Observatory (OPCC).
Climate Portal Flanders: compass for a climate-proof and resilient Flanders
11 Jan 2019The Climate Portal Flanders offers policy makers, citizens and other stakeholders an image of climate change and its effects (heat stress, floods, drought) and impacts (people and buildings affected) in a user-friendly format.
French National Adaptation Plan for Climate Change for the period 2018-2022 launched
09 Jan 2019The objective of the second French National Adaptation Plan for Climate Change (PNACC-2) for the period 2018-2022, launched in December 2018, is to better prepare the French society to climate change, involving the main sectors of the economy (agriculture, industry, tourism) and territories. Based on the recommendations of the assessment of PNACC 2011-2015, the development of PNACC-2 was based on a national consultation that mobilized over 300 representatives from civil society, experts and representatives of local authorities and ministries.
Turkey’s İklimIN project ready to start climate change training activities on local level across the country
08 Jan 2019Following an extensive Training Needs Analysis in its first year, the İklimIN project (Increased Public Understanding and Enhanced Stakeholder Capacity on the Required Joint Efforts on Climate Action) is starting to implement training activities on climate change actions and adaptation in 20 Turkish cities to groups of stakeholders, aiming at creating more awareness and a better engagement of climate change in the policy-making process.
European wheat lacks climate resilience
02 Jan 2019Researchers have found that current breeding programs and cultivar selection practices do not provide the needed resilience to climate change.
Mountain adaptation: Vulnerable peaks and people
21 Dec 2018The Mountain Adaptation Synthesis Report published by UNEP and GRID-Arendal was launched at the International Mountain Day, as side event during the UNFCCC COP24 in Katowice in December 2018. The situations in mountain areas worldwide differ vastly, but they share a particularly high vulnerability and common adaptation focus.
Booklet from EU climate change projects on risks and impacts of global warming released
19 Dec 2018Science, research and innovation are key to the EU’s fight against climate change and the implementation of the Paris and other international agreement. This booklet provides information from EU-funded projects on high-end climate change risks, impacts of global warming above 1.5 / 2°C and the costs and benefits of adaptation.
Climate change abroad also affects the national economies
17 Dec 2018The German Environment Agency has completed a first-ever study of the climate risks for international trade relations. The study claims that the risks of climate change occurring abroad affect Germany's economy to at least the same extent as it does foreign economies. Six per cent (55 billion euros) of Germany’s imports and four per cent of its exports are tied to twelve countries or regions which are considered particularly vulnerable to climate change.