Transcript European Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation

Climate change impacts, vulnerability and
adaptation –
Overview of 2008 and planned 2009
EEA activities
2nd EIONET workshop on Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and
Adaptation
EEA, 9-10 October 2008
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Follow-up on 2007 EIONET workshop main
recommendations for 2008 and 2009-2013
• Enhance information sharing and communication: facilitator
on collecting and disseminating data and information (e.g.
Clearing House)
• Support to national impacts / vulnerability assessments &
adaptation plans
• Indicators on impacts & vulnerability and adaptation (initial
development)
• More country-level and trans-national information on
adaptation actions, good practices and country comparisons.
Analysis of effectiveness of adaptation actions
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Cont.
• EEA Integrated assessments and including socio-economic
dimensions and outlooks. Also addressing opportunities and
benefits
• Cost of adaptation at national and sector levels
• Stronger networking linking to existing thematic and
regional networks and organisations
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Overview of 2008 activities
Clusters of activities
• Climate change impact indicators
• Climate change vulnerability and adaptation
• Costs of inaction to climate change
• Climate change outlooks and scenarios
Key projects
• Impacts of Europe’s changing climate – 2008 indicatorbased assessment (EEA-JRC-WHO report)
• Vulnerability and adaptation to water scarcity in the
Alps
• Developing adaptation indicators (Scoping phase)
• Support to the development of a European
Clearinghouse on climate change impacts, vulnerability
and adaptation in Europe
• Support to the White Paper impacts assessment
• Impacts and adaptation costs and outlooks
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2009 plans
• Developing a updated proposal for a “European Clearinghouse on
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation”
• Updating some key indicators on climate change impacts,
observed and projected, link to GMES
• Developing models and data in partnership with ECMWF for
hindcasting Europe’s climate
• Finalising and publishing the assessment of climate change
vulnerability and adaptation actions in the Alps
• Integrated mitigation and adaptation outlooks, linking socioeconomic developments, emissions, impacts and co-benefits as
building block for SOER2010
• Specific assessments of climate change vulnerability and
adaptation options in thematic areas, sectors and/or regions,
which still are to be selected.
• Scope EEA work on disaster prevention and management
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2009-2013 strategy and SEIS (Shared
Environmental Information System)
 Improve
 Modernise
 Streamline
the present
information
systems
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Principles
Data and information should be
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managed as close as possible to its source;
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collected once and shared with others for many
purposes;
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readily available to public authorities and enable
them to easily fulfil reporting obligations;
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accesible to enable end-users to make comparisons
at the appropriate geographic scale and to
participate meaningfully in the development and
implementation of environmental policy;
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available to the general public after due consideration
of the appropriate level of aggregation, given
possible confidentiality constraints, and at national
level in the national language(s).
How ?
 better integration and sharing
 online information services
 distributed information management
 Local, national, European, global
 serving policy makers and public
 e-reporting
 using existing e-infrastructure
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European Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability
and Adaptation Clearinghouse
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Climate change observations, impacts, vulnerabilities,
actions, costs
Provides networking to existing and future thematic
and regional networks and organisations (droughts,
marine, forest fires, coastal zones, disasters)
Contributes to the implementation of the upcoming
Commission White Paper on Adaptation
Supports the coordination of future EU contributions to
the UNFCCC Nairobi Work Programme
Includes the results of relevant research projects (e.g.
EU RTD or JRC projects)
Goes beyond EU borders (e.g. transboundary impacts)
Challenge: links between systems and networks
Data and information services, research programmes:
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Kopernikus (formerly GMES)
ESA
EU RTD Framework programmes
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European Commission (DG ENV), EEA, JRC:
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EEA Data centres
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Biodiversity Clearinghouse Mechanism
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WISE (Water Information System for Europe)
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JRC forest and soil centres
WHO: Climate, Environment and Health Information System (CEHAIS)
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SEIS (Shared Environmental Information System)
INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community)
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Environment (EEA EIONET)
Meteorological/climate change (EMS; EUMETNET; ECMWF)
Other stakeholders (national governments, agencies; businesses; NGOs)
Existing systems:
New systems? (Drought Observatory; Disaster Prevention/management)
New EU approaches:
Networks:
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Thank you for your attention!
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