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)