Speaker: Sara Venturini, CMCC Bologna
The seminar will provide an overview of the main elements of the climate change adaptation policy of the EU at the European and international scale.
Political action on adaptation at the European level has developed only over the last 5 years. With the 2009 White Paper on “Adapting to climate change: Towards a European Framework for action” the European Commission put forward a comprehensive adaptation strategy to reduce EU’s vulnerability and improve its resilience. The underlying concept is that given the different climate change impacts expected across regions in Europe, national, regional or local administrations will be primarily responsible for taking adaptation actions. The adaptive capacity of populations, economic sectors and regions within Europe is also unevenly distributed. The added value of an overarching EU adaptation strategy lies in the possibility for Member States to receive support to their adaptation initiatives through greater coordination, information sharing and integration of adaptation considerations into EU policy sectors.
With regard to international adaptation action, through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process, EU is committed to support developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts and have limited capacities to cope with them.
CMCC office in Bologna - CMCC office in Bologna -
18 Jul 2012
Division Organized by
- CMCC - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
- INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia