Center for Coastal & Marine Studies
Coastal adaptation against sea level rise makes economic sense: a new JRC study published in Nature Communication
The coastal zone is an area of high interest. At present, more than 200 million European citizens live within 50 km from the coastline, and current trends indicate that migration toward coastal zones is continuing. Coastal zones are particularly vulnerable to climate change due to the combined effects of sea level rise and potential changes in the frequency and intensity of storms. The continued rise in sea levels along Europe’s coastlines in view of global warming could result in unprecedented coastal flood losses in Europe, in case no additional coastal protection and risk-reduction measures are implemented.
There exists a range of possible adaptation measures to increase the resilience of future coastal societies to flooding, summarized as protect, accommodate, retreat and do nothing. Coastal adaptation, however, could prevent 95% of the projected economic losses.
EGU2020 CCS Coastal Sessions Share Online
The EGU General Assembly 2020 online activities "Sharing Geoscience Online" kick off from Monday, 04 May 2020. Please see https://egu2020.eu/, for a quick overview of what is on during the coming week. Please find Sharing Geoscience Online in a nutshell at:
https://egu2020.eu/sharing_geoscience_online/sharing_geoscience_online.html
and the full programme here:
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/meetingprogramme.
The Commission on Coastal Systems (CCS) of the International Geographical Union (IGU) has sponsored two EGU2020 coastal sessions that will be conducted by EGU sharing live chat, the chat is open Friday 8 May:
POSTPONEMENT OF 34th IGC 2020 ISTANBUL
Following the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and its current trajectory, it has become clear that it will not be possible to hold the 34th International Geographical Congress in İstanbul in August this year as originally planned. The Local Organising Committee and the IGU Executive Committee have taken the decision that the IGU Congress in Istanbul is postponed for one year. The 34th IGC will be held at the same venue between 16-20 August 2021. Due to the postponement, the organisers have also rescheduled the important dates of the conference.
You may find the details below:
Deadline for abstract papers and posters submission – 11 January 2021
Notification of acceptance (new abstracts) – 08 February 2021
Authors’ registration deadline – 05 April 2021
Early bird registration – 05 April 2021
Regular registration – 06 April – 21 June 2021
Late & On-site registration – 22 June – 20 August 2021
Greenland, Antarctica Melting Six Times Faster Than in the 1990s
An aerial view of the icebergs near Kulusuk Island, off the southeastern coastline of Greenland, a region that is exhibiting an accelerated rate of ice loss.
Credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Observations from 11 satellite missions monitoring the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have revealed that the regions are losing ice six times faster than they were in the 1990s. If the current melting trend continues, the regions will be on track to match the "worst-case" scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of an extra 6.7 inches (17 centimeters) of sea level rise by 2100.
