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This policy brief addresses how climate change is threatening the overall progress made in reducing the global burden of diseases and injuries. Climate change has a serious impact on human lives and health.

This policy brief, from two European research projects analysing the global dimension of climate change impacts on Europe, presents a number of COVID-19 lessons for European climate change research and policy:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting many

The PROCULTHER newsletter is running from January 2019 to December 2020 and aims at contributing to developing the European Union Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) and Participating States capacities to protect cultural heritage assets during

This policy paper is a result of deliberations at the online conference ‘Climate change and the European water dimension – Enhancing resilience’ held on November 4-5, 2020, and provides recommendations for the European Commission and EU Member States on

This technical paper describes the review and selection process for a compact set of 32 climate-related hazard indices for Europe. These activities were carried out by experts from the European Topic Centre on Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and

Divided in five chapters, this booklet showcases good practices, challenges and lessons learned on reducing and managing disaster risks across the region, including from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The

This review focuses on financial support for climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives to Middle East and North Africa’s (MENA) countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, the occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs)

This policy brief from the CASCADES project sets out the challenge the European Union faces in factoring in cross-border and cascading climate impacts as it revises its climate adaptation strategy and manages its external relations.

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