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Adaptation in Europe Addressing risks and opportunities from climate change in the context of socio-economic developments

AIMED AT: Policy makers PURPOSE: This report draws on the experience of existing adaptation strategies and actions, promotes better informed decision-making in key vulnerable sectors and improved resilience across the EU. It supports the implementation of the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change. GEOGRAPHICAL AREA: Europe TECHNICAL AREA: Adaptations and actions responding to current and future climate change impacts and vulnerabilities BASIC STRUCTURE: At EU‑level, the integration and mainstreaming of climate change in sectoral EU policies is the key policy 'lever' (areas where the EU has tools to act at its disposal) for advancing adaptation and alleviating pressures on human and natural systems. Integrated exercises assessing future consequences of climate change use tools and methods that incorporate assumptions and scenarios for both socio-economic developments and climate change variables (e.g. temperature, precipitation). Although the socio-economic variables are usually clearly differentiated from the climate change variables in terms of data inputs or assumptions, the majority of studies report their combined effect. There is no 'attribution' made to the role played by individual causes.

01 Jan 2016

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