Post on 25-May-2020
EEA update on activities on CC impacts, vulnerability and adaptation
André Jol, EEA Head of Group Climate change adaptation and LULUCF
13th Eionet workshop on climate change impacts, vulnerability and
adaptation, Copenhagen, 12-13 June 2019
Key relevant policy and knowledge developments
HoP CET
(1 March 2019)
Eva Jensen
EEA group CC adaptation and LULUCF
José Ramón Picatoste Ruggeroni
Climate-ADAPT
Blaz Kurnik
Indicators, CCA/DRR, agriculture
André Jol
Head of group
Hans-Martin Füssel
Indicators, CC impacts and
vulnerability, energy
Sergio Castellari
CCA/DRR, transnational adaptation,
EbA
Corine Guma
Assistant – programme support
Aleksandra Kazmierczak
Urban adaptation, social vulnerability
Wouter Vanneuville
National adaptation, reporting, sust
finance
John van Aardenne (CET0)
Climate Change Knowledge
Integration, incl LULUCF
Supported by ETC CCA (in Eionet workshop:)
• Silvia Medri, ETC manager (CMCC)
• Valentina Giannini (CMCC)
• Marc Zebisch (EURAC)Hanna-Maija Kehvola (CET2)
Bluebook trainee
ETC/CCA consortium (from 1 Jan. 2019)
https://cca.eionet.europa.eu/www.cmcc.it/
National CCIV assessments
Climate-ADAPT evaluation
Climate-ADAPT
EEA products and services on CC impacts, vulnerability and adaptation 2018-2019
Adaptation indicators (ETC paper)
Unequal exposure and impacts
Transnational adaptation (briefing)
Losses from extreme events (indicator)
Climate-ADAPT improved and updated
Based on the results of the evaluation of Climate-ADAPT (2018)
Increased structural coherence
Improved layout, usability and providerinterface
Systematic updates of all webpages
Deployment: Jan 2019
MMR reporting (due March 2019), revised country pages
Key relevant policy and knowledge developments
• Global:
– IPCC 1.5 C report (Oct 2018)
– UNFCCC COP24, agreement on Paris agreement rulebook (Dec 2018)
• EEA:
– EEA/Eionet evaluation (European Commission, end 2018)
– New (7) European Topic Centres in place for 3 years (2019-2021)
– EEA/Eionet strategy (2021-2030) development, MB seminar 19 June 2019
• EU:
– Evaluation of the EU adaptation strategy (Nov 2018)
– Sustainable finance expert group (2019)
– EU Energy union and climate action governance (end 2018). Reporting from 2021, MMR reporting in 2019.
– 2019: new EC and EP; Multi Financial Framework 2021-2027 (more funding to CC including research); Brexit
• Assessments
– Climate change adaptation in the agriculture sector (Q3)
– Adaptation challenges and opportunities for the energy system (Q2)
– Draft on Urban adaptation (to be published in 2020)
– Draft on evaluation of national adaptation policies (to be published in 2020)
• Indicators
– Updates of indicators (e.g. temperature, economic losses from extreme events and sea level rise)
– Pilot European adaptation indicators, using Copernicus land service (Q4)
• Scoping papers
– Future assessment on climate change impacts and vulnerability (Q3)
– Nature based solutions for adaptation and disaster risk reduction (Q4)
– Impacts from outside Europe (Q4)
• Updates of Climate-ADAPT (including access to Copernicus CC data (ECMWF)
• EIONET/NRC workshop on climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation (12-13 June 2019)
Key priorities on CC adaptation in 2019-2020
PART 2 Environment and climate trends
12 chapters, addressing:
• 10 thematic assessments
• Environmental pressures and sectors
• Summary assessment of progress to 7th EAP objectives
PART 3 Sustainability prospects
3 chapters, addressing:
• Sustainability through systems lenses
• Understanding sustainability challenges
• Responding to sustainability challenges
PART 1 Setting the scene
2 chapters, addressing:
• Europe’s policy frameworks and long-term sustainability goals
• Assessing the global-European context and trends
PART 4 Conclusions
1 chapter, addressing:
• Overall assessment of outcomes and reflections on implications
SOER 2020 Integrated Assessment – overview
Stakeholder events (Brussels), autumn 2019
Publication and launch, 4-5 Dec 2019
Country presentations and discussions during 2020
Objectives and agenda of the EIONET workshop
• Update of work by EEA (+ ETC/CCA), European Commission, international
organizations and member countries
• Sharing country experiences and activities
• Parallel group discussions (see background papers and guiding questions)
on main EEA products and services for 2019 and tentatively for 2020
• Eionet evaluation survey (at/after the workshop)