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The Helsinki metropolitan area adaptation strategy is prepared jointly by the region’s cities, municipal federations and other organisations. It focuses on the urban environment and the built environment

Pivoted largely on findings from a meta-analysis of BASE case study research, the book presents a brief overview of 23 diverse in-depth case studies that span across Europe, administrative levels, geographic scales, multiple sectors and trans-disciplines. Case studies range from traditional analytical studies to participatory action-research

This report is an indicator-based assessment of past and projected climate change and its impacts on ecosystems and society. It also looks at society’s vulnerability to these impacts and at the development of adaptation policies and the underlying knowledge base

This document was based on the general framework set out in the White Paper "Adapting to climate change: Towards a European framework for action" which proposed to increase the resilience of health and social systems to climate change and underlined the need to ensure adequate surveillance and control of the human, animal and plant health impacts of climate change. It introduces the potential evolution of the European Commission action to tackle impacts of climate change on human, animal and plant health

In the UK, the Met Office is providing transport stakeholders with probabilistic projections (Murphy et al., 2009)

This publication presents the results of a seven-country initiative of the WHO Regional Office for Europe aimed to protect health from climate change through addressing adaptation, strengthening health systems and building institutional capacity in Albania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Uzbekistan. This project is part of the International Climate Initiative (ICI)

This European Commission Staff Working Paper aims to provide an overview of the research and data currently available on the inter-linkages between migration, environmental degradation and climate change. The specific focus of this paper is on human mobility due to climate related disasters and environmental degradation, including such caused by climate change (e

In 2009–2011, the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the United Kingdom Health Protection Agency undertook a project to investigate the adverse health effects of floods and to understand how best to protect the health of populations during floods in the WHO European Region. The project had two main components

All economic activity in the UK is dependent on the infrastructure to supply energy and water, handle waste, move raw materials, finished goods and people around the country or internationally, and to provide the communications systems that knit the economy together. Climate change in the UK is predicted to bring increases in average temperatures and further sea-level rise, increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events with potential for droughts, increased flooding, heatwaves and greater pressure on resource availability

The WWDR4 aims to encourage all stakeholders both in and out of the ‘water box’ - water managers, leaders in government, civil society and businesses – to engage early in decision making processes to improve the quality and acceptance of decisions and the probability of successful implementation. It highlights that more responsible action by all water users has enormous potential to lead to better outcomes - but requires political, social, economic and technical responses at all levels of government, businesses and communities, from local to international

This study, Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK 2012, is an extensive update of earlier reports published by the Department of Health. Alongside a more detailed look at the effect of temperature changes on death rates in hot and cold spells, the report also investigated the effects a changing climate will have on pollen production, outdoor and indoor air pollution, floods, ultraviolet radiation, food, water and insect-borne diseases

High summer temperatures provoke the risk for severe heat stress for urban dwellers already under present climate conditions, because the urban heat island effect amplifies impacts of heat waves. The Urban Heat island effect increases day time temperatures and prevents urban areas from cooling down during night time

This report contributes to the growing international discourse on the Arctic region. It examines the increasingly rapid changes that are taking place in the Arctic from a European perspective, with a major focus on direct and indirect climate change impacts on the region, considering the national, regional and global challenges and opportunities that are emerging as a result, and discusses the policy options to respond to these challenges

The Alps are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Increasing temperatures and changing precipitation patterns are expected to impact on the alpine environment, economy and society in various ways

Extreme sea storms events are recognized, by the scientific community, as one of the major factors, together with the anthropic pressures, affecting the coastal changes. Coastal flooding and erosion, impacts on ecosystems, and damages to infrastructures and productive activities can be worsened if combined with the absence of adequate early warning systems, coordinated strategies, or coastal management and planning, with significant related economic costs

The URBAN GreenUP project aims at the development, application and replication of Renaturing Urban Plans in a number of European and non-European partner cities with the aim to mitigate the effects of climate change, improve air quality and water management, as well as to increase the sustainability of our cities through innovative nature-based solutions. Cities involved are three runner cities -Valladolid (Spain), Liverpool (UK) and Izmir (Turkey) - where the URBAN GreenUP methodology will be validated and five follower cities - Mantova (Italy), Ludwigsburg (Germany), Medellin (Colombia), Chengdu (China) and Binh Dinh-Quy Nhon (Vietnam), which will set up their own Renaturing Urban Plans to replicate the URBAN GreenUP strategy and its green economy approach

Vibrio bacteria are found in lowly saline, warm waters and can cause a range of human infections, including gastroenteritis, wound infections or blood poisoning (septicaemia). This indicator assesses the influence of a changing climate on the environmental suitability for the transmission of these infectious diseases

There was no discernible trend in European ozone concentrations between 2003 and 2012, in terms of the annual mean of the daily maximum eight hour average measured at any type of station. It is difficult to attribute observed ozone exceedences, or changes therein, to individual causes such as climate change

Heat exposure in the summer season is associated with an increased risk of heart and lung disease and death. This video shows how this risk is enhanced when people are exposed to high levels of air pollution at the same time, based on research from the EU-funded EXHAUSTION project

Climate change, heat and extreme temperatures, air pollution and more frequent forest fires will increasingly affect the health of people in Europe, in particular in cities and among vulnerable groups, as well as the economy. Researchers from the EU-funded EXHAUSTION project share their research-based messages for policymakers with the aim to make Europe more resilient in the face of climate change

First report on protecting environments and health by building urban resilience

Second report on protecting environments and health by building urban resilience

Third report on protecting environments and health by building urban resilience

This publication by Santé publique France highlights how  urban planning, an under-recognized determinant of population health, plays a crucial role in the quality of life, well-being and overall health of any individual. The report presents a summary of knowledge on health-friendly urban planning practices and counter-actions for degraded urban planning, in France and abroad, featuring real-life experiences

This EEA report informs on the human health impacts of heat and infectious diseases. The report draws on knowledge developed for the European Climate and Health Observatory, which provides a wide range of relevant data, tools, publications and other resources informing about climate change impacts for human health. Based on the evidence and outlook for the future, it calls for a move from planning adaptation to concrete action to become more resilient and save human lives across Europe.

The research proposed in this project is focused on the study of one of the most challenging and potentially-dangerous impacts of climate in European societies: the mortality associated with environmental temperatures in the current context of global warming. The research objectives of the proposal are: (i) the description of the dependency between counts of deaths and climate variables contributing to increased body stress; (ii) the inference of future projections of mortality under scenarios of increased greenhouse gas concentrations; (iii) the study of the effect of adaptation measures on these projections; (iv) the development of an early warning system of mortality risk as a climate service for European societies

CLIMOS aims to assist mitigation of climate- and climate change-induced emergence, transmission and spread of vector-borne and zoonotic pathogens based on Eco-health and One Health approaches. This will be achieved by quantifying climate and environmental-related drivers of sand fly vector populations and the sand fly-borne diseases (SFBDs) across Europe

The Environment, Climate and Health Cooperation Project (ÇİSİP in Turkish) was launched by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), HASUDER (Association of Public Health Professionals-Turkey) and Kocaeli University Department of Public Health in April 2020. Funded by the European Union, CISIP’s aim is to bring together all environmental health actors in Turkey and to support health professionals in the fields of environmental and climate policies

HARMONIA will leverage existing tools, services and novel technologies to deliver an integrated resilience assessment platform working on top of GEOSS, seeing the current lack of a dedicated process of understanding and quantifying Climate Change (CC) effects on urban areas using Satellite and auxiliary data available on GEOSS, DIAS, urban TEP, GEP etc. platforms

Over the past 10 years, arboviral diseases, such as dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever, have (re)emerged with increasing prevalence and severity. Although these arboviral diseases are more prevalent in tropical countries, increasing numbers of autochthonous cases are being reported from European countries, at least partly due to climatic changes