EU member states report very differently on climate adaptation
Cover of the PEER-report that compared the existing NAPA's from EU member states.
Two new reports examining climate change adaptation and policy making across Europe were launched in Brussels June 23 at the European Commission. The preliminary conclusions of the research were used in the European Commission’s White Paper on climate change, published in April 2009. The first new report from PEER, ‘Europe Adapts to Climate Change: Comparing National Adaptation Strategies’, critically analyzes the current status of national adaptation strategies in EU member states, and identifies a variety of opportunities to strengthen their further development and implementation, including timely and targeted scientific research. The second report, ‘Climate Policy Integration, Coherence and Governance’, concludes that specific measures to tackle climate change, such as emissions trading, will only be successful if they are coherently supported by other government policies addressing economic and social issues. The NAS vary in their emphasis: water availability is stressed in southern European countries, whereas flood risk is a recurrent theme in central and northern Europe where some potential benefits are also highlighted.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, press release (on behalf PEER), June 23 2009:
Related source:
- full PEER-report Europe adapts to climate change: Comparing national adaptation strategies (pdf): http://peer-initiative.org/media
Tags: Climate adaptation
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