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This guidance for planners on national, regional and local levels gives advice on how to assess the “climate change fitness” of their spatial planning policies and instruments. It provides a practical step-by-step assessment of the climate change fitness of spatial planning, and it recommends useful tools and resources to implement this assessment

The present report outlines the special challenges and opportunities faced in this century by cities from the perspective of the necessary transformation towards sustainability. One characteristic feature of the debate on the search for solutions is the enormous diversity of instruments and solution pathways

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has summarized some of the investment projects to increase the climate resilience of businesses. Climate change is considered to be an imperative for water-intensive sectors, energy production, agribusiness and manufacturing

A compendium of disaster risk reduction practices in cities of the Western Balkans and Turkey: a review of selected cities participating in UNISDR’s ‘Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready!’ campaign   This report is the result of a compendium undertaken as part of the ‘Building Resilience to Disasters in Western Balkans and Turkey’ project, initiated by United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and supported by the European Commission (DG Enlargement) under the instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA), with an objective to build the resilience of IPA beneficiaries in South Eastern Europe (SEE). The report aims to enhance the knowledge of local government officials and local decision-makers on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and to showcase good practices on urban DRR in cities of the Western Balkans and Turkey

This report describes how the natural cycle of water availability is continuously coming under threat from a variety of different pressures like droughts and water scarcity, pollution, and flood risks which all increase the vulnerability of the freshwater ecosystems and societies. Land use, water abstraction and climate change are human-induced changes that alter the natural flow regimes that exist in water bodies

Food insecurity and climate change are, more than ever, the two major global challenges humanity is facing, and climate change is increasingly perceived as one of the greatest challenges for food security. This report reviews existing assessments and initiatives on the effects of climate change on food security and nutrition, with a focus on the most affected and vulnerable regions and populations and the interface between climate change and agricultural productivity, including the challenges and opportunities of adaptation and mitigation policies and actions for food security and nutrition

This report presents the results obtained from the application the EUClueScanner* land‐use model for the simulation of two policy alternatives relevant to Integrated Coastal Zones Management in Europe. The “Uncontrolled” and the “Sustainable” options have been compared against a third neutral development deduced from the SRES Scenario B1

Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council - Addressing the challenge of water scarcity and droughts in the European Union {SEC(2007) 993} {SEC(2007) 996}. This document presents an initial set of policy options at European, national and regional levels to address and mitigate the challenge posed by water scarcity and drought within the Union

The final recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), released at the G20 summit in the summer of 2017, recommended that metrics on physical climate risks and opportunities should be included in financial disclosures but did not provide concrete guidance on what the appropriate metrics would be. To address this challenge and support the emergence of standards for the disclosure of physical climate risks and opportunities, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Global Centre for Excellence on Climate Adaptation (GCECA) launched a targeted initiative to work with innovative thinkers in the financial and corporate sectors

A clear knowledge gap exists for local authorities (LAs) that prevents them from deploying green infrastructure (GI) on a scale that enables urban landscapes to adapt to the future impacts of climate change and build more sustainable communities. Cities and towns are not investing in GI, and the valuation tools for justifying GI on economic, social, cultural and environmental grounds are simply not being used by LAs, who instead rely on EU and national subsidies or deliver GI projects on a ‘one off’ basis

The benefits that business brings to cities, including jobs, tax revenue and services, are one of the drivers for cities' climate resilience. Similarly, businesses are reliant on public infrastructure and environmental policies to support and guide their operations

This document provides guidance on how to assess the risks to the paper and pulp sector from extreme weather and climate change and how to identify practical actions to make the sector more resilient.  This guidance sets out a four step process for assessing and managing climate risk: 1) Getting started, 2) Assessing risks of extreme weather and climate change, 3) Identifying and implementing measures, and 4) Monitoring and review

The main goal of LIFE URBAN-ADAPT is to demonstrate an innovative, participatory approach as an essential element in creating acceptance and commitment among the public and stakeholders for large-scale implementation of urban adaptation strategies and related measures. The project will test a participatory approach in two different settings

'Land take' dominates in Europe, with artificial areas and agricultural intensification, resulting in land degradation, worsened by high fragmentation on 30% of land area. Conflicting demands on land impact significantly on the land's potential to supply key services

One of the aims in the BalticClimate project was to show, how the Target Areas can respond to climate change in land use planning and various specific sectors related to it. This report presents the conclusions, experiences and results on implementation cases including alternatives for land use and spatial structures

Climate change is expected to have an impact on the electricity sector. Some energy companies are investing to manage climate change risks, most of them located in the developed world

The main objective of this project was to develop knowledge and tools required to seize the opportunities arising from future challenges to manage urban storm water in a way that facilitates robust, synergistic and multi-functional green infra-structures that will address today’s and tomorrow’s climate and other changes in dynamic urban areas. This project has been conducted in an international urban living lab in Kiruna, Sweden, combined with the national urban living labs (so called city-hubs) Zwolle in The Netherlands and Innsbruck in Austria

MAGIC project aims to promote the sustainable development of resource-efficient and economically profitable industrial crops grown on marginal lands. In the long term, this strategy will foster the sustainable development of the EU bio-based economy and will contribute to achieving EU energy and climate targets

The report aims to evaluate the current and future impacts of climate extremes on the current stock of critical infrastructures in Europe, and on regional investments under the Cohesion Policy for the period 2007-2013. The distribution of economic costs in space and amongst sectors provides an indication of the regions and sectors that may face substantial efforts for making present and planned critical infrastructures resilient to future climate

170 Simulations with the LISFLOOD water resources for 30-year periods with various combinations of land use change and climate change have been evaluated for their impact on the water-food-energy-environment nexus in the Sava river basin. For the Sava river basin, we found in this study that more intense irrigated agriculture does have the potential to increase crop yields considerably, but there are not sufficient water resources available to realise this

The report gives an overview of action that can be taken to adapt cities in Europe and the progress made over the last couple of years, and it puts this in relation to the future challenges that the impacts of climate change pose. The report provides food for thought about reviewing and adjusting urban adaptation to climate change

Businesses are expected to suffer from climate change. The report is meant to raise awareness on the impact of climate change on businesses e

Climate adaptation offers competitive advantages to businesses worldwide. This report makes the business case for private sector adaptation to climate change in ways that build the resilience of vulnerable communities in developing countries

In an age where global challenges will significantly influence the life of each city, the Hungarian EU Presidency pays special attention to sustainable development of cities and towns. The Presidency aims to contribute to European urban policy thinking by focusing on climate change, a major challenge that our cities face

The project “Urban Heat Islands – Strategy Plan Vienna” is part of the international CE (Central Europe) project “Urban Heat Islands – Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon” (duration 2011-2014). Within the framework of the international project eight metropolises are examined

This study developed an Integrated Assessment Modelling structure for London, combining sectoral economic analysis with transport demand analysis and environmental assessment for emissions and flood risk. Adaptation and mitigation in cities requires integrated thinking that encompasses a whole range of urban functions, at spatial scales from individual buildings to whole cities

The study looks into green infrastructure of a city and evaluates it as a holistic approach to achieving sustainable design and planning. The paper particularly focuses on the use and multi-use of green spaces in urban environments and how they play major role in achieving sustainability in an urban context

This publication offers an informed understanding and illustration of adaptation as a climate change response, its use in urban systems and some of the roles and strategies that planning may take in developing and implementing urban adaptation. The purpose is to illustrate, consider and demonstrate how urban planning regimes can use some of their professional tools to develop adaptation strategies and interventions in urban systems

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

This paper addresses several broad issues for governments aiming to encourage private sector investment in low-carbon climate resilient (LCR) infrastructure, in both developed and developing world contexts. LCR infrastructure is defined, recognizing the interdependencies between infrastructure systems, and the opportunities to tackle climate change adaptation and mitigation simultaneously in national strategic infrastructure plans