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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.
Quinoa handle dry conditions and shifting temperatures
17 Dec 2018The South American crop quinoa is suited to dry conditions and with a new cultivated variety, it can also be grown in Sweden. It is being tested by farmers in the southern part of Sweden, where longer periods of drought and higher temperatures await in a changed climate.
Modern Greenland ice sheet melt unprecedented since age of industrialisation
11 Dec 2018Current melting at the surface of the Greenland ice sheet is unprecedented for at least the last three-and-a-half centuries. That is what a group of climate researchers from the US, Belgium and the Netherlands report in the journal Nature, based on melt records from three ice cores drilled in central west Greenland.
Cooperation is key to improve climate change adaptation across Europe’s border regions
10 Dec 2018Europe’s border regions and shared maritime areas are facing increased negative impacts due to climate change, but countries and regions responsible for these areas are already taking action at transnational scale to adapt to these impacts according to a European Environment Agency briefing.
Climate change adaptation of major infrastructure projects
03 Dec 2018DG REGIO commissioned a stock-taking of available resources to assist the development of climate resilient infrastructure covering the transport, urban development, energy, water and waste sectors, following seven study criteria: data availability, guidance, methodologies, tools, design standards, system and legal framework, and institutional capacity. The study’s final report includes a general and a country-specific part with project examples for each Member State.
Katowice Climate Change Conference: 2-14 December 2018
30 Nov 2018Follow on this conference website the activities, talks, statements and press releases during the COP24 / CMP14 / CMA1.3 meetings, held in Katowice, Poland.