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This paper looks at the potential of pollen allergy and its impacts on public health considering climate change impacts. Especially the consequences of climate change upon pollen allergy in humans was studied, based on quantitative estimates

Communication measures can raise protective behavior regarding climate change, natural hazards, and other health risks. For being effective in such communication, we designed a five-steps methodology and applied it to health-protective behavior during heat extremes in Austria

Although people will most likely adjust to warmer temperatures, it is still difficult to assess what this adaptation will look like. This scenario-based integrated health impacts assessment explores baseline (1981–2010) and future (2050) population attributable fractions (PAF) of mortality due to heat (PAF heat ) and cold (PAF cold ), by combining observed temperature–mortality relationships with the Dutch KNMI’14 climate scenarios and three adaptation scenarios

The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect describes the phenomenon whereby cities are generally warmer than surrounding rural areas. Traditionally, temperature monitoring sites are placed outside of city centres, which means that point measurements do not always reflect the true air temperature of urban centres, and estimates of health impacts based on such data may under-estimate the impact of heat on public health

The UBDPolicy - Urban Burden of Disease Policy  – project aims to examine in depth and on a large scale the health problems derived from urban life.  Cities are places where people and communities live, work and play, and the quality of the urban environment has a major impact on their health and well-being

Climate change and enhanced sea level rise may seriously impact the structure, functions and characteristic biodiversity of the Wadden Sea ecosystem, as well as the safety of the inhabitants in the region. Addressing these impacts as a cross cutting theme is a major challenge for the Trilateral Cooperation for the protection of the Wadden Sea, joining Netherlands, Germany and Denmark

The impacts of extreme heat are deadly, on the rise globally and preventable. In recent years, heatwaves have broken temperature records and led to the deaths of thousands of people

Opportunities for adaptation to reduce the impacts and for mitigation to capitalise on the benefits of decarbonisation The European Union must accelerate its efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions. This is urgently needed given the pace and scale of climate change, which also has a negative impact on human health.

The impact of the summer 2015 heat wave on mortality in the Czech Republic was analysed in this study. The findings were compared with a previous record-breaking summer 1994 heat wave

Excessive summer heat is a serious environmental health problem in several European cities and is likely to increase under climate change scenarios. This also leads to an increase of heat-related mortality and morbidity, if no adequate prevention measures are taken

This study assessed the risk of weather-related hazards to the European population till 2100. As a first step the annual number of deaths in 30 year intervals relative to the reference period (1981-2010) up to the year 2100 (2011-2040, 2041-2070 and 2071-2100) was assessed by combining disaster records with high resolution hazard and demographic projections in a prognostic modelling framework

The WHO Atlas of Health and Climate does not offer world-wide maps of direct and indirect climate impacts on health but illustrates the phenomena with numerous case studies. Its features a dedicated section on emerging environmental challenges which, i

The Health and Climate Change Country Profile Project forms the foundation of WHO’s monitoring of national and global progress on health and climate change. The Health and Climate Change Country Profiles, developed in collaboration with national health services, are data-driven snapshots of the climate hazards and the expected health impacts of climate change countries are facing

This report presents the results of the Pilot study 3 of the Orientgate (A network for the integration of climate knowledge into policy and planning) project. The pilot study 3 focused on providing tools and guidelines for local and regional authorities to assess vulnerabilities and risks posed by climate change and variability and related extreme events (with a focus on droughts) on domestic water supply, agriculture and coastal areas

This report by the 45 health experts of the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change  is a review of up-to-date information on climate change and health. Analysing 318 original publications on the subject, this compendium describes all relevant aspects, from the physical background over adaptation elements (and barriers), to the complex issue of monetisation of health impacts

This article investigates into the frequent question if (or to what extent) research actually informs policy.  For this purpose, the team screened a corpus of 37 recent papers on one of the most relevant (for Europe) climatic health impacts: extreme heat in urban heat islands

“How far are we in implementing climate change and health action in the WHO European Region?” was the lead question posed to representatives of European WHO member states. The responses of 22 countries are analysed in this article

With all telecommunication facilities and meteorological forecasts available—do current alert systems satisfactorily reduce health impacts of weather extremes reaching vulnerable populations? A recent study addressed this question for selected German warning services. A two-volume report by the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) combines the findings with valuable hints for improvement and planning

The Western Balkans is a mountainous region and a hotspot of climate change. Overall, climatic extremes are projected to become more common, including a significant increase in the number of extreme heat events

The ARC3.2 Report presents downscaled Climate Projections for approximately 100 cities and catalogues urban disasters and risks, along with the effects on human health in cities

Urban areas are pivotal to global adaptation and mitigation efforts. But how do cities actually perform in terms of climate change response? This study sheds light on the state of urban climate change adaptation and mitigation planning across Europe

Regulation (EU) N°1303/2013 lays down common provisions applicable to the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund (ESF), the Cohesion Fund (CF), the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF). These Funds operate under a common framework known as the ‘European Structural and Investment Funds’ or ‘ESIF’

The study analyses the role of national governance in preparing the health sector to climate change. Included are six European countries: Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourgh, Switzerland and the UK

This report describes a methodological framework to assess costs and benefits of cross-sectoral adaptation strategies to reduce the impacts of heat waves in the area of Madrid, characterized by its large size and population and its drought-prone climate, with multiple vulnerabilities to climate change. A participatory process was used to obtain as much information as possible about the complexity of the urban system, responding to the stakeholder’s feedbacks and main drivers

In the UK the main climate related health threats include: summer heatwaves and droughts; flooding and its associated mental health issues; interactions between air pollutants, pollen and higher temperatures; deterioration in food and water quality; and increase in vector borne diseases. Research on the health effects of climate change has focused largely on direct physical health impacts, with very little research existing with regard to the short and long term impacts of climate change on mental health disorders (e

Cornwall (SW England, UK) has a maritime climate and will experience significant changes in weather patterns over the coming decades. It is predicted that by 2050-2080 the local climate will be 2 to 3 °C warmer than now, both in winter and summer, and that there will be longer periods of hot and dry weather in spring and summer

This report is based on the Baltic Assessment of Climate Change II (BACC II) and provides an update to the Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Area: HELCOM Thematic Assessment in 2007. This assessment provides recent information on past and projected future climate change in the Baltic Sea Area and potential impacts of climate change on the Baltic Sea ecosystem

Climate change poses crucial challenges, but may also create new opportunities. It is important that climate change strategies and plans relevant to forests are integrated into a country’s existing forest policy framework, and other sectoral frameworks that influence forests; this can help to ensure that climate change objectives are balanced with other forest sector objectives, and that trade-offs are weighed and synergies captured for the forest sector

This report aims to build the evidence base on children and climate change by focusing on the major climate-related risks; children’s current and future exposure to these risks; and the policies required to protect children from these risks. The report has three sections

The central questions in this MIRA Climate Report 2015 are: 'To what extent is climate change already visible in Flanders and Belgium?’ ‘What are the expectations for the future?’ An analysis of existing environmental indicators, supplemented with new indicators for drought and the urban heat island effect, provides the answer to the first question. Scenario analyses map out the bandwidth of the expectations for the future