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International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management

The International Guidelines are a set of real-world guidelines resulting from a ten years of work of building, learning, and documenting the best practices for constructing Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF). The NNBF Guidelines is intended to inform the efforts of practitioners, organizations, and communities seeking to increase the performance of Floods Risk Management (FRM) systems and achieve long‑term risk mitigation, increase water infrastructure resilience and sustainability, reduce infrastructure maintenance and repair costs, and, ultimately, increase the value produced by FRM infrastructure investments

Survey on the impact of the German Adaptation Strategy (DAS) on the municipalities

How far are municipalities with the ⁠Adaptation to Climate Change⁠? To what extent does the German Climate Adaptation Strategy (⁠DAS⁠) support ⁠climate change adaptation⁠ in the cities and towns? The present study provides answers to these and other questions that were collected through a nationwide online survey. The results were deepened on the basis of a focus group discussion and supplementary expert interviews and prepared in recommendations from the municipalities for the further development of the DAS

Testing and evaluation of communication formats to strengthen private heavy rain precautions - The Rain // Secure project

Both the German Adaptation Strategy (Deutsche Anpassungsstrategie, DAS) and the DAS Progress Report formulate the promotion of private precautions as one of the aims of the participation processes for the further development and implementation of DAS by the German Federal Government. Specifically, DAS formulates the aim "mobilise individual initiative" and, the Progress Report, the "promotion of the initiative and voluntary commitment of stakeholders"

Precision Agriculture

Precision agriculture is an umbrella term for using modern data-driven technologies for growing crops. Compared to traditional techniques, precision agriculture has many advantages

NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

This guide aims to give practical, how-to-do information on setting up and implementing Nature-based Solutions (NbS), especially for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), but also for climate change adaptation (CCA). The Guide is designed to help implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, assisting countries in advancing their national disaster risk reduction and climate strategies with ample evidence and practical examples of Nature-based Solutions that are already benefiting billions of people

Baltic Sea Climate Change Fact Sheet 2021

Jointly developed by Baltic Earth and HELCOM, this publication provides a summary for policy makers of the latest scientific knowledge on how climate change is currently affecting the Baltic Sea and how it is expected to develop in the foreseeable future. The fact sheet is meant to help policy makers to include climate change considerations in their work and decisions

Joint HELCOM/Baltic Earth Expert Network on Climate Change

EN-CLIME, a joint expert network by HELCOM and Baltic Earth, functions as a coordinating framework and a platform to harness the expertise of leading scientists on both direct and indirect effects of climate change on the Baltic Sea environment, and to make this expertise available to, and open up for closer dialogue with, policy makers. The EN CLIME consists of representatives of HELCOM and Baltic Earth in the form of topic experts

CLImate INTelligence: Extreme events detection, attribution and adaptation design using machine learning

Weather and climate extremes pose challenges for adaptation and mitigation policies as well as disaster risk management, emphasizing the value of Climate Services in supporting strategic decision-making. Today Climate Services can benefit from an unprecedented availability of data, in particular from the Copernicus Climate Change Service, and from recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to exploit the full potential of these data

Towards climate resilient forests and forest management

The demand for forest ecosystem services and products is projected to increase in the future, driven by market demand and by EU and national policies on energy and climate. However, the condition of forests in Europe is moderate to poor

Fighting forest fires using electronic and communication technologies

LIFETEC aims at improving forest fire fighting using Electronic and Communications Technologies by reducing the detection time of forest fires and improving the efficiency of the fighting forces ensuring communications and geolocation. This will be achieved by: Ensuring communications between fighting forces Forest fires often take place in remote areas without coverage of commercial mobile communication networks

CLEVER Cities Guidance

CLEVER Cities Guidance: a platform to explore insights, tools, indicators and lessons learned about nature-based solutions (NbS) for sustainable urban regeneration. The document provide evidence-based approaches, innovative case studies and lessons learned on: NbS mainstreaming in policy and planning; social impact generation and measurement; co-creation and stakeholder empowerment

OPtimal strategies to retAIN and re-use water and nutrients in small agricultural catchments across different soil-climatic regions in Europe

OPTAIN (EU-funded research and innovation project, 2020-2025) proposes a social and scientific journey towards the increase and better understanding of the multiple benefits of  Natural/Small Water Retention Measures (NSWRMs) . OPTAIN aims to increase the knowledge and understanding of multiple benefits that spatially targeted combinations of NSWRM have on the management of small agriculture catchments across continental, Pannonian and boreal biogeographical regions of Europe, and on the conditions under which they perform most effectively

The Green Central Banking Scorecard: 2022 Edition

The 2022 Green Central Banking Scorecard updates Positive Money's ranking of G20 central banks and prudential regulators based on their environmental credentials to show which countries are leading the way, and which are falling behind. The report showcases the complex environment in which central banks are operating, having to manage multiple crisis at the same time

Adaptation Gap Report 2021

Even as the world looks to step up efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the need to adapt to the impacts of climate change already locked in are just as important. The sixth edition of the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report: The Gathering Storm looks at how the world is doing in adapting to these intensifying impacts

Climate Impact and Risk Assessment 2021 for Germany - Summary

The German "Climate Impact and Risk Assessment for Germany" (KWRA) was undertaken by 25 federal authorities under the lead of the Federal Environment Agency and on behalf of the Federal German Government. 102 climate impacts and 13 fields of action were investigated and assessed

Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970-2019)

This publication focuses on the impacts that weather-, climate- and water-related hazards have on society, highlighting areas of disparity where more work is needed to support implementation of the Sendai Framework. It also calls attention to the significant benefits that can be achieved in strengthening disaster accounting processes through more systematic attribution of losses to the underlying hazard

Guide for Local Climate Change Adaptation Planning in the Baltic Sea Region

The climate is changing and planning and implementing adaptation is a continual learning and improvement process that requires sustained attention and action. These guidelines will help local governments and communities in taking initial action to create a safe, socially, and economically secure and sustainable society that is resilient to current and future impacts of climate change

The German Climate Preparedness Portal - KLiVO

The KLiVO Portal collects data and information concerning climate change as well as services for a target-oriented adaption to the effects of climate change. Regardless of whether guidelines, web tools, maps or upskilling qualification and advice – all of the Climate Preparedness Services aim to support you with your self provision in face of the inevitable effects of climate change.

Overview and recommendations for sustainable finance taxonomies

This paper provides an international overview of both official and market-based taxonomies of which there are an increasing number with multiple initiatives arising in line with the mainstreaming of sustainable finance. It summarises the various approaches that have been taken as well as the different objectives that are being pursued

Climate talks

CLIMATE TALKS is a five-part documentary that aims at better understanding what it takes to adapt to climate change. The talks help in discovering the experience developed by nature conservation professionals in and around Nature Protected Areas across Europe

Climate-ADAPT Adaptation Support Tool

One element of Climate-ADAPT is the  Adaptation   Support   Tool  (AST) . The AST has been developed in the context of the EU  adaptation  strategy to  support  and assist users in developing climate change  adaptation  strategies and plans by providing guidance

Strategic development of flood management

STREAM is a transnational project funded by the Italy-Croatia Interreg Cooperation Programme that aims to reduce human and socio-economic losses in case of flood hazards, by developing innovative risk monitoring tools, early warning procedures and shared plans and data . Sixteen partners from Croatian and Italian regions cooperate to e nhance knowledge on the management of coastal and urban flooding on both sides of the Adriatic Sea

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