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Development of tools to prevent and manage geological risks in the coasts linked to climate change

RISKCOAST promotes innovation to face a set of threatens linked to climate change: landslides, field subsidence due to the intense exploitation of aquifers during droughts, erosion and loss of soil after torrents, erosion of sandy coasts and delta regression. The project offers a whole vision of risks, which affect in particular the coasts of the Sudoe territory (Southwest Europe), by taking into account the hydrological basin

Heat and health in the WHO European Region: updated evidence for effective prevention

The WHO Regional Office for Europe published guidance on heat–health action planning in 2008, and intends to update this to include the latest evidence. An in-depth review was initiated, based on recent epidemiological and environmental research and lessons learned from implementation in practice. This publication collates and summarizes the most relevant evidence published since 2008, focusing primarily on EU Member States in the WHO European Region. Findings are organized around the elements the original guidance document identified as “core” to a comprehensive heat–health action plan (HHAP), and these are complemented in each chapter with the results of a WHO survey of heat–health action planning in 2019, where relevant to the topic covered. Despite the existing gaps in knowledge, the evidence presented clearly points to a need to expand the number, coverage and reach of HHAPs in the Region. The updated guidance will be beneficial to support enhanced HHAP implementation.

FUTURE BRIEF: The solution is in nature

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) work with nature to benefit both natural ecosystems and the people that depend on them. By putting nature at the centre, NbS address a range of societal challenges: protecting, sustainably managing or restoring natural or modified ecosystems and supporting their health, function and biodiversity

Diversification through Rotation, Intercropping, Multiple Cropping, Promoted with Actors and value-Chains towards Sustainability

European arable agricultural systems are often characterized by short rotations, or even monocultures, leading to problems such as higher pest pressure, soil erosion, loss of soil fertility and of biodiversity. Temporal and spatial diversification of crops (through rotation, intercropping and multiple cropping) is a key driver for resource-efficient farming systems that could contribute to increasing the productivity and profitability of agricultural systems, to reducing input use and negative environmental impacts, to providing better products to the society, and to cope with climate change pressures

Crop diversification and low-input farming cross Europe: from practitioners' engagement and ecosystems services to increased revenues and value chain organization

The DIVERFARMING project aims to develop and deploy innovative farming and agribusiness strategies, with emphasis on developing new framework systems and business models adapted to the rural context, to increase the long-term resilience, sustainability and economic revenues of agriculture across the EU. The project evaluates benefits and limitations, barriers and drawbacks of diversified cropping systems under low-input agronomic practices tailor-made to fit the unique characteristics of six EU pedoclimatic regions (Mediterranean south and north, Atlantic central, Continental, Pannonian and Boreal), and proposes how the downstream value chain organization can be optimized and adapted

Mosquito Alert

Citizen scientist project app launched to track spread of mosquitoes in Europe

Responding to the health risks of climate change in Europe

This joint publication of the Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change and the European Environment Agency highlights key health impacts from climate change in Europe as well as opportunities to reduce climate-related health risks through adaptation policies aligned with mitigation actions.

The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

The Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of commitments made by governments worldwide under the Paris Agreement. The 2019 report presents an annual update of 41 indicators across five key domains: climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability; adaptation, planning, and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement. The report represents the findings and consensus of 35 leading academic Institutions and UN agencies from every continent. Each year, the methods and data that underpin the Lancet Countdown’s indicators are further developed and improved, with updates described at each stage of this report. The collaboration draws on the world-class expertise of climate scientists; ecologists; mathematicians; engineers; energy, food, and transport experts; economists; social and political scientists; public health professionals; and doctors, to generate the quality and diversity of data required.

ICPDR Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

The ICPDR Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change aims at offering guidance on the integration of climate change adaptation into ICPDR planning processes. It promotes action in a multilateral and transboundary context and serves as reference document influencing national strategies and activities. The ICPDR Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change 2012 was updated and revised in the year 2018 taking into account new scientific results and implementation steps taken in the Danube countries.

Urban green spaces: a brief for action

Due to an increase in urbanisation, a greater number of people will be living in cities, namely around three quarters of the population by 2020. This also reduces the access to nature and increases the exposure to environmental hazards, like noise and air pollution

Terrestrial Biodiversity Climate Change Impacts - Report Cards

The Living With Environmental Change Partnership (LWEC) has gathered together the latest evidence and observations to give a comprehensive overview of what is happening now in the UK’s countryside, the extent to which climate change is contributing to those changes, and what we might expect to happen in the future as the magnitude of climate change increases. The Terrestrial Biodiversity Report Card shows that there is an increasing risk of new pests and diseases - whose caterpillars can also cause respiratory problems in humans – colonising and spreading in the UK

WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 2011

WMO in collaboration with Members issues since 1993 annual statements on the status of the global climate. This publication was issued in collaboration with the Hadley Centre of the UK Meteorological Office, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; the Climate Prediction Center (CPC), the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and the National Weather Service (NWS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America; the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States; the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), United States; the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), United Kingdom; the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC), Germany; and the Dartmouth Flood Observatory, United States

EU Decision on serious cross-border threats to health

Decision No. 1082/2013/EU is based on the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union TFEU which demands a high level of human health protection across Union policies and a complementary role of the Union in supporting national health endeavours

Sustainable Planning and Development. Key Focus on Climate Change.

Within the BalticClimate project, climate change scenarios and impact studies were applied at local and regional level in the BalticClimate Target Areas to support the analyses as well as the development of sustainable land use under conditions of climate change. They key idea was to encourage the municipalities and regions to act proactively and to integrate the information on climate change in their 1) spatial planning process, 2) development of important sectors with focus on transport, energy, housing or agriculture, but also 3) cross sectoral development

Surface water flooding risk to urban communities: Analysis of vulnerability, hazard and exposure

Developing appropriate responses to address and prevent surface water flooding requires an analysis of interactions between elements of a risk framework encompassing hazard, vulnerability and exposure. This paper explores the spatial distribution of surface water flooding, the vulnerability of communities to flooding, and the characteristics of physical environment and land use that affect people’s exposure to flooding, particularly concerning green cover in Greater Manchester, UK

Science for Disaster Risk Management 2017: Knowing better and losing less

This first in a series report presents the state of science in Disaster Risk Management (DRM), and shows practical use of scientific knowledge in DRM actions in Europe. It is the result of the multi-sectorial and multi-disciplinary networking process, and represents the combined effort of more than two hundred, mostly European, experts

Climate Proofing Urban Municipalities

The overall aim of the LIFE UrbanProof project is to increase the resilience of municipalities to climate change equipping them with a powerful tool for supporting better informed decision making on climate change adaptation planning. The project implementation includes the following core actions: simulation of current climate and projection of future changes in climate; climate change impact and adaptation assessment; development of the UrbanProof toolkit for supporting better informed decision making; implementation of selected green, blue and soft adaptation measures at the project municipalities; development of local climate change adaptation strategies for the project municipalities

The Health Effects of Climate Change in the WHO European Region

This literature review concludes that there is evidence about the direct, as well as indirect, effects of climate change, and about the emerging future health risks in the WHO European Region. The science is clearly showcasing that significant changes are occuring, and thus robust policies are required to mitigate for, or adapt to, the climate change threats to human health, and efforts shall be put towards reaching a climate-resilient health system

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