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NEW European Clearinghouse on Adaptation to climate change CLIMATE-ADAPT is born
CLIMATE-ADAPT is a partnership between the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, and is designed to support policy makers at EU, national, regional and local levels and "practitioners" - engineers, planners and administrators - who can learn from the experience of others facing similar challenges in order to develop climate change adaptation measures.
The Clearinghouse has been very recently launched (last Friday) for users requiring to access and share information on expected climate change in Europe, current and future vulnerability of regions and sectors, information on national, regional and transnational adaptation activities and strategies, case studies of adaptation and potential future adaptation options, online tools that support adaptation planning, adaptation-related research projects, guideline documents, reports information sources.
Latest news
- 29 April 2013
The European Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change
Read - 09 October 2012
Launch of the European campaign “The world that you like. With the climate that you like”
Read - 03 October 2012
Sudplan: designing the transformation of European cities towards the climate change
Read - 25 September 2012
Climate Change: Consultation on the Adaptation Strategy
Read - 08 August 2012
“Step Up” on 13 October for the International Day for Disaster Reduction
Read - 08 June 2012
Climate change: the CDP snapshot of the situation
Read - 07 June 2012
The "picture" of the MIT urban planning against global warming
Read - 05 June 2012
Towards an increasingly hot Europe: the EEA’s projections
Read - 21 May 2012
Climate change: the real battle will be in the city. And here's how to tell
Read - 14 May 2012
Cities 'going in it alone' on climate change adaptation
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Links
- Public and research institutions
European Commission Environment
Open link - Public and research institutions
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Open link - Public and research institutions
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
Open link - Public and research institutions
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici CMCC
Open link - Public and research institutions
ICLEI Europe - Local governement for Sustainability
Open link - Key studies
New York
Open link - Key studies
London
Open link - Key studies
The Amsterdam City District of Nieuw-West Netherlands
Open link - Documents
White paper - Adapting to climate change : towards a European framework for action
Open link - Documents
ICLEI Canada - Guide and Workbook for Municipal Climate Adaptation
Open link - Documents
Plan Bleu - Evaluation of the economic impacts of extreme events in Mediterranean countries
Open link