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Why does Europe need to limit climate change and adapt to its impacts?
Europe’s many regions are expected to face worsening impacts of climate change over the next decades. A compilation of several existing maps published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) today illustrates how drought, heavy rain and flooding, forest fires and sea-level rise could affect some selected regions in Europe, including Central Europe, the Iberian peninsula, Scandinavia, Brittany and Venice.
The increased exposure to climate related hazards will differ from region to region across Europe, according to the EEA story map. The background briefing shows examples of selected risks across Europe. It stresses the important role of limiting climate change to avoid the worst impacts as well as the key role of adaptation and resilience amid new EU plans under the European Green Deal to present for a new, more ambitious EU adaptation strategy.
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First MARSPLAN-BS in Ocean Health: Projects that Innovate
The first MARSPLAN-BS is one of the projects funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund between 2014 and 2019 and included in new DG MARE/EASME publication - Ocean Health: Projects that innovate. MARSPLAN-BS was the first project helping Bulgarian and Romanian national authorities and researchers to work together on the transposition of the EU´s Maritime Spatial Planning Directive.
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EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCES UNION GENERAL ASSEMBLY (EGU 2020) VIENNA, AUSTRIA 3 – 8 May 2020
It is our great pleasure to invite submissions to the following Geomorphology Session at the EGU General Assembly 2020, 3 – 8 May 2020, Vienna, Austria: GM6.4 COASTAL ZONE GEOMORPHOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS: NATURAL VERSUS HUMAN-INDUCED DRIVING FACTORS, information on which please find here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/session/37494
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Recent Report on Europe`s Circular Economy
Circular economy initiatives in Europe are still at an early stage, reveals the European Environment Agency (EEA) recently report. Circular resource use can minimise waste and resource extraction, improve resource efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and contribute to biodiversity conservation. Therefore, the circular economy can benefit from more investments in upscaling promising innovations and in monitoring progress towards circularity.
In its report titled ‘Paving the way for a circular economy: insights on status and potentials’ (published on 1 October 2019) the EEA takes stock of the initiatives for creating a circular economy that reduce the use of natural resources and minimise harmful emissions and waste.