Additional information
Reports by the European Environment Agency
- Adaptation challenges and opportunities for the European energy system (2019)
- Climate change adaptation in the agriculture sector in Europe (2019)
- Urban adaptation in Europe: how cities and towns respond to climate change (2020)
Database on disasters worldwide
- The international disaster database EM-DAT
- Information on disaster risk reduction: preventionweb.net
- Global Risk Data Platform PREVIEW: preview.grid.unep.ch
- Dartmouth Flood Observatory
- European Severe Weather Database (ESWD)
- Munich Re NatCatSERVICE natural hazards data base
- Swiss Re: Sigma hazards data base
Guides on disaster preparation and planning
- European Flood Awareness System EFAS
- Service for water indicators in climate change adaptation SWICCA
- Checklists of the American Red Cross
- UK Guide to flood preparation
- Flash flood safety and damage prevention guide
- How to evacuate before a storm or flood
- How to prepare for a flood
- Climate change impacts on businesses and how to prepare
Guide on water conservation
EU funded Research Projects: Horizon 2020
- ANYWHERE: Enhancing emergency management and response to extreme weather and climate events
- BINGO: Bringing innovation to ongoing water management, aimed at providing practical knowledge and tools to end users, water managers, decision and policy makers affected by climate change
- BRIGAID: Bridging the gap for innovations in disaster resilience
- CERES: advances a cause-and-effect understanding of how climate change will influence Europe's most important fish and shellfish resources and the economic activities depending on them; also provides tools and develops adaptive strategies
- COACCH: aims to advance knowledge regarding climate change impacts and policy that can be used directly by stakeholder communities
- DRIVER: Driving innovation in crisis management for European resilience
- H2020_INSURANCE: aims to offer climate services to the insurance industry, operationalising a framework that provides a standardised risk assessment process
- HABITABLE: Interlinkages between climate impacts and migration and displacement patterns
- IMPREX: aims to improve society's ability to anticipate and respond to future hydrological extreme events (floods, droughts, ...) in Europe. It will enhance forecast quality of extreme hydro-meteorologcal conditions and their impacts
- MED-GOLD: Turning climate-related information into added value for traditional Mediterranean grape, olive and durum wheat food systems
- NATURVATION: assessing what nature-based solutions can be achieved in urban areas and how innovation is taking place
- Nunataryuk: on permafrost thaw and the changing coast, science for socioeconomic adaptation
- OPERANDUM: tools for Nature Based Solutions to enhance resilience in Europe with respect to hydro-meteorological risks
- PLACARD: a platform for dialogue, knowledge exchange and collaboration between the climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction communities
- REACHOUT: User-oriented climate services to support the implementation of the Green Deal
- RESCCUE: Resilient cities facing climate change
- SOLACE: helping agriculture adapt to greater rainfall variability as a result of climate change and the reduced use of certain fertilisers for economic and ecological reasons
- S2S4E: Climate services for clean energy
- UNALAB: addresses the challenges that cities around the world face today, focused on climate and water related issues
- VISCA: Vineyards integrated smart climate adaptation
EU funded Research Projects: older relevant projects
Agriculture
- Agriadapt (LIFE programme): Sustainable adaptation of typical EU farming systems to climate change
- ANIMALCHANGE (7th FP): An integration of mitigation and adaptation options for sustainable livestock production under climate change
- EU.WATER (INTERREG): Transnational integrated management of water resources in agriculture for the EUropean WATER emergency control
Biodiversity
Climate change scenarios
- IMPRESSIONS (7th FP): Impacts and risks from high-end scenarios, strategies for innovative solutions
- MONARCH-A (7th FP): Monitoring and assessing regional climate change in high latitudes and the Arctic
Climate change impacts and vulnerabilities
- CLIMSAVE (7th FP): Web-based tool to assess climate change impacts and vulnerabilities for a range of sectors, including agriculture, forests, biodiversity, coasts, water resources and urban development
- EUCLEIA (7th FP): Assessments of the extent to which weather-related risks have changed due to human influences on climate
Coastal areas
- Flood Aware (INTERREG): raising flood risk awareness with citizens and businesses and making them more resilient
- THESEUS (7th FP): Innovative coastal technologies for safer European coasts in a changing climate
- BLAST (INTERREG): Bringing land and sea together
- IMCORE (INTERREG): Innovative management for Europe’s changing coastal resource
- DiPol (INTERREG): Impact of climate change on the quality of urban and coastal waters
- SAVEMEDCOASTS: aimed at prevention from natural disasters in Mediterranean coastal areas undergoing increasing sea level rise and climate change impacts
- INSeaPTION (European Research Area for Climate Services ERA4CS): co-designs and co-develops, together with users, coastal climate services based on state-of-the art sea-level rise, impact, adaptation and transdisciplinary science
Cultural-historical heritage
- Climate for culture (7th FP): Damage risk assessment, economic impact and mitigation strategies for sustainable preservation of cultural heritage in times of climate change
- PROMEDHE: Protecting Mediterranean cultural heritage during disasters
- HERACLES (H2020): Heritage resilience against climate effects on site
- STORM (H2020): Safeguarding cultural heritage through technical and organisational resources management
- ProteCHt2save (INTERREG): Risk assessment and sustainable protection of cultural heritage in changing environment
Droughts and water scarcity
- CLIMB (7th FP): Climate induced changes on the hydrology of mediterranean basins
- DMCSEE (INTERREG): Drought Management Centre for South East Europe
- DROUGHT-R&SPI: improving the interface between science and policy in the drought sector, improving knowledge on drought drivers and vulnerability assessments and directly contributing to the development of drought management plans in Europe
Flash Floods
Floods
- FloodProBE (7th FP): Technologies for the cost-effective flood protection of the built environment
- FLOODsite (6th FP): Integrated flood risk analysis and management methodologies
- ALFA (INTERREG): Adaptive land use for flood alleviation
- FLOOD-WISE (INTERREG): Sustainable flood management strategies for cross border river basins
- STAR-FLOOD (7th FP): STrengthening And Rede-signing European FLOOD risk practices: Towards appropriate and resilient flood risk governance arrangements
Fresh water resources
- ACQWA (7th FP): Assessing climate impacts on the quantity and quality of water
- REFRESH (7th FP): Adaptive strategies to mitigate the impacts of climate change on European freshwater ecosystems
- WATCH (2007-2011, 6th FP): Water and global change
- AMICE (INTERREG): A coordinated strategy for the adaptation of the Meuse to the impacts of climate evolutions on floods and low-flows with the perspective of sustainable development in the Meuse international catchment basin
Health
- ATOPICA (7th FP): Atopic diseases in changing climate change, land use and air quality
- HEAT-SHIELD (Horizon 2020): Adresses the negative impact of increased workplace heat stress on the health and productivity of 5 strategic European industries: manufacturing, construction, transportation, tourism and agriculture
Infrastructure
Mitigation / adaptation
- AMICA: Adaptation and Mitigation: an Integrated Climate Policy Approach at the local and regional level (INTERREG)
- ClimateCost (7th FP): the full costs of climate change
Security and Crisis management
Transport, Infrastructure and Building
- RAIN (7th FP): Risk Analysis of Infrastructure Networks in response to extreme weather
- EWENT (7th FP): Assessment of the impacts and consequences of extreme weather events on EU transport system
- ECCONET (7th FP): Assessment of the effect of climate change on the transport network, taking the inland waterway network as a case-study.
- WEATHER (7th FP): Analyses of the economic costs of climate change on transport systems in Europe and exploration of ways for reducing them in the context of sustainable policy design.
- ToPDad (7th FP): Developing tools to help Europe adapt to and avoid the costly consequences of climate change.
Urban areas
- SUDPLAN (7th FP): Sustainable urban development planner for climate change adaptation
- PREPARED (7th FP): Early warning systems, short- and long-term response strategies for urban areas pertaining to climate change adaptation
- UrbanFlood (7th FP): Sensors within flood embankments to support an online early warning system, real time emergency management and routine asset management
- Raingain (INTERREG): Aimed at improving the prediction of pluvial floods in cities