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ThinkNature

The ThinkNature platform is an integrated multi-stakeholder web solution designed to stir dialogue and interaction on NBS through discussion forums and debates in order to identify regulatory, economic and technical barriers and to communicate and promote successful NBS. The publicly available section of the Platform include the NBS Knowledge hub that stores: NBS projects – a one place stop linking to NBS project sites and platforms Case studies – a hub where one can explore exemplary NBS case studies worldwide and Resources – a knowledge repository for online resources The private section of the platform is used to foster the dialogue on issues related to NBS, promoting stakeholder networking

Panorama

PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet is a partnership initiative to document and promote examples of inspiring, replicable solutions across a range of conservation and sustainable development topics, enabling cross-sectoral learning and inspiration. PANORAMA allows practitioners to share and reflect on their experiences, increase recognition for successful work, and to learn with their peers how similar challenges have been addressed around the globe

Nature Based Solutions – Technical Handbook

The technical handbook of nature based solutions is a catalogue of nature based solutions for urban adaptation to climate change, produced in the Urban Nature Labs (UNaLab) project. Currently a draft version of the handbook has been published and will be updated throughout the project, until the publication of the final version

reSilienT fARminG by Adaptive microclimaTe managEment

The STARGATE project is focused on integrating data on sustainable productivity and microclimate features to provide a better model for policymakers. Its comparative analysis will draw in national and European data and create visual analysis to provide more efficient and modern management in farming, by adding to the understanding of a local ecology and its features, including meteorological data

CAScading Climate risks: towards ADaptive and resilient European Societies

CASCADES seeks to understand the conditions under which climate risks propagate beyond their geographical, sectoral, and temporal location in ways that may affect European stability and cohesion. Its main aim is to identify the policy leverage points that can help the EU to adapt and respond to such cascading climate risks

MOnitoring Outbreak events for Disease surveillance in a data science context

In a changing environment due to climate change, animal and human mobility, population growth and urbanization, there is an increased risk of emergence of new and exotic pathogens. Public health officials tasked with safeguarding citizens against infectious disease outbreaks typically rely on official reports about specific diseases from healthcare providers (indicator-based surveillance or IBS)

Nature-based Solutions Evidence Platform

The overall aim of the platform is to consolidate and facilitate access to the large dispersed evidence-base on the effectiveness of NbS for addressing climatic impacts on people and economic sectors, and thereby support global efforts to design and implement robust targets for nature in climate change and development policy. The Nature-based Solutions Evidence Platform is an interactive map linking nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation outcomes based on a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature

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

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