ETC/CCA Main activities Jan.-Jun. 2014

Sergio Castellari (INGV/CMCC)ETC/CCA Manager

Eionet WS on CCIVACopenhagen, 24 June 2014

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

ETC/CCA 2014 Tasks

Project 1.4.1 Climate change and hazard indicators

• 1.4.1.1 European climate change indicators

• 1.4.1.2 Urban vulnerability indicators

• 1.4.1.3 Copernicus climate change services

Project 1.4.2 Climate change adaptation and DRR assessments

• 1.4.2.1 Climate change adaptation

• 1.4.2.2 Urban adaptation

• 1.4.2.3 Adaptation in transport

• 1.4.2.4 Assessing Progress in Environmental Integration / TERM report

• 1.4.2.5 Disaster risk reduction

• 1.4.2.6 Workshops

Project 1.4.3 Information systems (Climate-ADAPT)

• 1.4.3.1 Climate-ADAPT

Project 1.4.4 ETC management

• 1.4.4.1 ETC/CCA management and coordination

Climate change and hazard indicators

• Update of European climate change indicators‒ Updated CSI012 temperature data

‒ Updating and improving indicators of climate change impacts and vulnerability (including DRR) in the EEA IMS

• Improvement of urban vulnerability indicators‒ Started improving urban vulnerability indicators fact sheets -

descriptions, maps and filling gaps (in collaboration with ETC/SIA)

‒ Started updating the assessment and descriptive part of the Map Book based on the results from the urban vulnerability indicators

• Linking Copernicus climate change services & the Climate-ADAPT Platform‒ Started developing a proposal on how to provide access to the

Copernicus climate change service through Climate-ADAPT - content, linkages, functions, involved organisations, ways of implementation

Climate change adaptation

Following up 2013 EEA “Adaptation in Europe” report ...

2014 EEA report “National adaptation policy processes across European countries - 2014”

Up-to-date information to support

European policymakers and practitioners

in the development, implementation and

evaluation of national adaptation policies

(NAS, NAP) and measures as response

to climate change

• draft report now (June) under Eionet

consultation

• publication planned for autumn 2014

Urban adaptation

Following up 2012 EEA “Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe” report ...

• 2014 ETC/CCA Scoping Paper for a 2015/16 EEA report on urban adaptation

‒ contents/structure defined ‒ paper (being drafted) to be

finalized in autumn 2014

• supported EEA in organising the European segment of ICLEI 2014 Resilient Cities Conference (Bonn, May)

• improving the Climate-ADAPT section on urban areas (e.g. case studies, cities adaptation strategies).

Adaptation in transport

Following up 2013 ETC/CCA Technical Paper on CCA in the transport sector…

2014 EEA report on “Adapting transport systems to changes in climate. Initial actions in Europe”

Challenges and state of adaptation

in the transport sector across EEA

member countries illustrated by a

selection of in-depth case studies

•prepared draft report

•publication planned for autumn

2014 after Eionet consultation (mid

July, T.B.D.)

Disaster risk reduction

Following up 2013 ETC/CCA Technical Papers on impacts of floods …

2014 Further improved Meta-Guidance on flood impacts

•Drafting Meta-Guidance on flood impacts (with an example) including analysis of data from EM-DAT, Munich Re.

•finalization planned for autumn 2014

Updating and improving Climate-ADAPT

• Supported development of new

version of the Platform

• Regularly updated & QA/QCed

content (through a team of 30

experts covering all sectors)

• Updated News/Events & Newsletter

• Updated Adaptation Support Tool

• Enhanced (new/improved/

harmonized) case studies

• Drafted ETC/CCA Technical Paper

“Overview of climate change

adaptation platforms/services in

Europe”

• Defined outline of ETC/CCA Working Paper on analysis of use and possible improvements

ThanksFor further information, visit

ETC/CCA Website http://etc-cca.eionet.europa.eu/

or contact

ETC/CCA Manager Sergio Castellari Telephone +39 051 3782618 / +39 334 1155037E-mail sergio.castellari@cmcc.it Organization Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

(CMCC), Italy. http://www.cmcc.it/