Transcript Impacts and Adaptation Workgroup Draft Mandate Abigail Howells Climate Change Unit DG Environment, European Commission European Climate Change Program II – Brussels – 24/10/05 European Commission:

Impacts and Adaptation Workgroup
Draft Mandate
Abigail Howells
Climate Change Unit
DG Environment, European Commission
European Climate Change Program II – Brussels – 24/10/05
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European Climate Change Programme
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Set up in June 2000 to identify measures
enabling EU to meet Kyoto targets
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Feb 2005 Communication: Winning the Battle
against Climate Change – reducing Europe’s
vulnerability to the impacts of climate change
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Impacts and Adaptation Workgroup
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The Need for Adaptation
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European heat wave 2003 – around 30,000
deaths
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European Floods 2002 - $16bn direct costs
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Forest Fires in Spain and Portugal 2005:
over 350,000 ha wooded areas destroyed
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ECCP II - Impacts & Adaptation WG
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Identify good practice in development of
Adaptation Policy
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Foster learning
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Define EU role in adaptation policies
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Workgroup Main Objectives
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Improve Europe's resilience to Climate
Change Impacts
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Integration of Climate Change Adaptation
into European Climate Change Policy
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Output
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Status reports for thematic meetings
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Green Paper on Adaptation
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Conference on Adaptation
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Workgroup Work Programme
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10 thematic meetings:
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Building national strategies for adaptation (country reports)
Impacts on water cycle and water resources management
Agriculture and Forestry
Biodiversity
Human health
Regional planning, Industrial and public infrastructure, Structural
funds
Marine resources and coastal zones
Urban planning and construction
Role of insurance industry
Development cooperation
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Research Activities
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Improve modelling and adaptation planning tools
in order to identify effects of climate change and
vulnerabilities at regional and sub-regional scale
Undertake adaptation modelling for larger
European river basins
Identify cost-effective adaptation strategies
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Call for proposals (6th and 7th FP, RTD)
3 two-day workshops (2006)
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How will climate change affect EU citizens? Scenarios of
climate change at regional and sub-regional level in the EU
How to improve the resilience of European society and
economy? From climate modelling to building cost effective
adaptation strategies
Economic assessment of adaptation strategies
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Timetable
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November 2005 – April 2006: 10 individual
sectoral meetings
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May 2006: One wrap-up session to adopt
individual reports
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October 2006 – EC Conference on Adaptation
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November 2006 – Publication of Green Paper on
adaptation
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And to conclude...
...Thank you for your Attention
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