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In the context of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) Common Implementation Strategy, an activity on Climate Change and Water was initiated in 2007 to produce guidance on how Member States should incorporate consideration of climate variability and change into the implementation of EU water policy. In 2008, the Water Directors discussed and agreed key policy messages on Climate Change and Water

The ODEMM Linkage Framework is a conceptual tool to describe the relationships between the ecological, socio-cultural and economic characteristics of the European marine environment and addresses the integrated approach required by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). This linkage framework guidance document presents part of this integrated concept by specifically describing the linkages between the MSFD High Level Objectives, the ecological characteristics of the natural environment, and the ecosystem goods and services provided by these ecological characteristics

Forests are important components in strategies for adapting to climate change. Without direct management interventions, climate change is likely to jeopardize forest ecosystem health, resilience, productivity, biodiversity and carbon storage, and forest degradation and loss will continue to contribute to climate change

This document is a guide to integrating climate change impacts into risk management and other strategic planning activities in Australian public and private sector organisations. The purpose of this Guide is to assist Australian businesses and organisations to adapt to climate change

In 2009, the European Commission adopted a Communication on a Community approach on the prevention of natural and man-made disasters setting out an overall disaster prevention framework and proposing measures to minimize the impacts of disasters. The Communication advocated the development of EU and national policies supporting the disaster management cycle: prevention - preparedness - response - recovery

As ports are operational hubs for the logistics supply chain, it is appropriate for ports to undertake an assessment in partnership with key logistics providers and /or local governments. While climate change may impact ports locally, it is often disruptions to the supply chain and local infrastructure that compound disruptions at the actual port, emphasising the need to work collaboratively on a broader climate risk and adaptation strategy

Climate change can have a direct impact on the performance of our transportation infrastructure. The purpose of the report is to sensitize the road sector to the likely impacts of climate change on road pavements and to provide guidance on how to go about: -Assessing the vulnerability of road pavements to the direct impacts of climate change, and; -Identifying and prioritizing possible adaptation measures for road pavements that could be applied immediately or phased in over time, so as to avert the negative consequences of climate change on the serviceability of road networks

Flood Planner describes the natural component of sustainable flood management: natural flood management (NFM). This unique and practical resource for flood risk managers outlines the background to natural flood management and helps them perform their role in meeting current and future legislation

Responding to the need for increased urban resilience and adaptation planning, the Urban Adaptation Assessment project, funded by the Kresge Foundation and led by the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative ( ND-GAIN ), provides an adaptation measurement solution that can be scaled around the world to identify key climate risks and adaptation options for cities. This work aims to advance the knowledge of adaptation by  exploring the connection between adaptive capacities, social inequities, and the impacts of climate disasters

The National Adaptation Strategy gives a detailed account of the impacts of climate change in different sectors and presents measures to be taken until 2080. The main elements of the strategy are also included into this document, the National Energy and Climate Strategy, where the focus is on measures to be launched in the next 5 to 10 years

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

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 Öresund Region is a unique area where academia institutions, local governments, regional authorities, and clean-tech businesses are actively working towards sustainable urban transformation with the aim to be a regional ”powerhouse” for sustainability, innovation and clean-tech (City of Copenhagen, 2009; City of Malmö, 2009). This encompasses working with adaptation and mitigation, and enhancing resilience, in response to climate change and sustainability challenges

This report provides a documentation of the integrated macroeconomic general equilibrium model GRACE_adapt, and presents results from the macroeconomic analysis of impacts and adaptation in Europe in case of a +2 °C and +4 °C increase in global mean temperature. GRACE_adapt has been developed for the ADAM project to address economic impacts of climate change and resulting adaptation, interpreted as the economic responses to climate impacts

The report describes the causes and impacts of summertime urban heat islands and promotes strategies for lowering temperatures in communities. It provides an overview of heat islands, how they form, and their impacts, and describes key urban heat island reduction strategies in-depth

The report aims to consider the adaptation challenge in the South Eastern Europe (SEE) region. The first three chapters analyse the main adaptation challenges from a physical point of view, and the last two chapters concentrate on the policy perspective, with a presentation of existing management and governance models and a proposal for future adaptation strategies in SEE

Transport adaptation to climate change is an issue that is gaining increasing attention worldwide. So far, however, the issue has barely been considered in Spain, in spite of the fact that the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (PNACC) proposed in 2006 to start assessing the vulnerability and possibilities for adaptation of the transport sector and system

This report provides a general EU-wide outlook about the future vulnerability of transport to climate change with a focus on the road and rail transport and their infrastructures. It also analyses some specific adaptations measures, illustrating key issues to be considered for policy making

This publication is based on the discussion and findings of the Workshop on Transboundary Flood Risk Management organized under the Water Convention in April 2009 in cooperation with the Governments of Germany and the Netherlands as well as WMO. It builds on the practical experience from 10 river basins in the UNECE region

This technical paper has been produced as a part of the 2013 working programme of the European Topic Centre on Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation (ETC/CCA) of the European Environment Agency (EEA). It is a first step in an effort to establish a map of current actions in EEA countries for adapting the transport system to climate change, and to identify opportunities for further action at the European level in the next years

The question of how forests and forest-dependent people will adapt to climate change is a growing area of research and has been at the heart of a number of recent conferences, such as the international conference on Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate with Emphasis on Forest Health: A Review of Science, Policies and Practices (Umeå, Sweden, August 2008). This issue includes a varied sample of papers from the Umeå conference, from general to more technical papers offerings information in upcoming issues of Forest Ecology and Management and Forest Policy and Economics

For the Gdańsk region, the SEAREG project’s sea level rise (SLR) scenarios vary from 0.04 m (low case), 0

The biota in the Baltic Sea has formed under wide variations in environmental conditions induced by climate change since the last glaciation. Areas of the Baltic Sea display marked differences in salinity, oxygen content and temperature of water layers, timing of the peak production cycle, and other basic environmental conditions

The Pontbren Project is an innovative approach to using woodland management and tree planting to improve the efficiency of upland livestock farming, led by a group of neighbouring farmers in mid-Wales. They went on to develop new on-farm uses for woodland products, and when it became clear that tree planting had not just improved farm businesses and wildlife habitats, but had also reduced water run-off during heavy rain, they invited scientists to investigate

Multi-model ensemble simulations for the marine biogeochemistry and food web of the Baltic Sea were performed for the period 1850–2098, and projected changes in the future climate were compared with the past climate environment. For the past period 1850–2006, atmospheric, hydrological and nutrient forcings were reconstructed, based on historical measurements

This report focuses on transportation adaptation practices that can be implemented to yield potential benefits now and in the longer term. The document highlights what climate change adaptation means for the transportation industry

In the CLIMAR project, a framework was set up, where adaptation measures and strategies can be evaluated for the ecological, social and economic aspects of the Belgian coastal waters. In the first phase of the research, the primary impacts of the climate changes were assessed

Chapter on Ecosystem, their properties, goods and services, including biodiversity of IPCC WG2's 4th Assessment Report. In this chapter the focus is on the properties, goods and services of non-intensively managed and unmanaged ecosystems and their components (as grouped by widely accepted functional and structural classifications), and their potential vulnerability to climate change as based on scenarios mainly from IPCC

This report explores how climate change adaptation concerns were integrated into the Swedish forestry discourse in the period 1990–2010. The paper focused on actors’ beliefs and learning to identify how the forestry discourse evolved, the main adaptation advocates and critics, how other dominant discourses, debates and external events influenced the discourse, the effect this had on forestry policy and the lessons that might be learned for future policymaking