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Dear Colleagues ! We have a pleasure to present you the 3rd issue of the MedECC newsletter. The MedECC network keeps growing and counts more than 600 members now. The work on the 1st MedECC Assessment Report (MAR1) has much progressed recently, mainly thanks to the MedECC Lead Author meeting which has held in March 2019 in Milan (Italy). MedECC Coordinators: Wolfgang Cramer and Joel Guiot
MedECC Science Officer: Kasia Marini |
The 1st MedECC Assessment Report (MAR1) Lead Author meeting was held in the CNR Center in Milan (Italy) from 4 to 7 March 2019. The meeting gathered 59 participants from 16 countries: Coordinating Lead Authors (CLAs), Lead Authors (LAs) of MAR1, MedECC Steering Committee Members and MedECC partners. The main objective of this meeting was to work together on Read more. |
Future MedECC events
• Union for the Mediterranean Climate Change Experts Group meeting and Climate week, 9-11 April 2019, Barcelona, Spain
• “European Climate Change Adaptation conference (ECCA2019)”, 28-31 May 2019, Lisbon, Portugal. MedECC will be presented during this event on 29 May 2019. The Mediterranean Climate change Adaptation Awards 2018-2019 will be given out during the conference. This contest is organised by French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) in partnership with Union for the Mediterranean, Plan Bleu, Agency for Sustainable Mediterranean Cities and Territories (AViTeM), in association with the Association of Mediterranean Agencies for energy management (MEDENER) and Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE).
Soon you will find more information on these events on the MedECC website. |
Rojas M, Lambert F, Ramirez-Villegas J, Challinor A (2019) Emergence of robust precipitation changes across crop production areas in the 21st century. PNAS, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811463116 Read more. |
Using Altmetric (an organisation that scores and ranks papers according to the attention they receive) data for 2018, Carbon Brief has compiled its annual list of the 25 most talked-about climate change-related papers of the year. The infographic below shows which ones made it into the Top 10. Read more. |
Vilà-Cabrera A, Coll L, Martínez-Vilalta J, Retana J (2018) Forest management for adaptation to climate change in the Mediterranean basin: A synthesis of evidence, Forest Ecology and Management, 407, 16-22, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.10.021 Read more. |
Caroselli E, Gizzi F, Prada F, Marchini C, Airi V, Kaandorp J, Falini G, Dubinsky Z, Goffredo S (2018) Low and variable pH decreases recruitment efficiency in populations of a temperate coral naturally present at a CO2 vent. Limnology and oceanography, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11097 Read more. |
Rolo V, Moreno G (2019) Shrub encroachment and climate change increase the exposure to drought of Mediterranean wood-pastures. Science of The Total Environment, 660, 550-558 Read more. |
Carranza-Gallego G, Guzmán GI, García-Ruíz R, González de Molina M, Aguilera E (2018) Contribution of old wheat varieties to climate change mitigation under contrasting managements and rainfed Mediterranean conditions. Journal of Clearer Production, 195, 111-121 Read more. |
Jones E, Qadir M, van Vliet MTH, Smakhtin V, Kang SM (2019) The state of desalination and brine production: A global outlook. Science of The Total Environment, 657, 1343-1356 Read more. |
REPORTS AND OTHER RESOURCES
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has core focus on food security and nutrition. Eradicating hunger and malnutrition has been recognized as a complex phenomenon, with different manifestations depending on regional, country and local contexts. The identification of emerging issues at all levels, and collecting evidence about them, are key factors to promote food security and nutrition in the political …Read more. |
Editors: Clayton Campanhola Shivaji Pandey Description Sustainable Food and Agriculture: An Integrated Approach is the first book to look at the imminent threats to sustainable food security through a cross-sectoral lens. As the world faces food supply challenges posed by the declining growth rate of agricultural productivity, accelerated deterioration of quantity and quality of natural resources that underpin agricultural production, …Read more. |
"Human and Environmental Security in the Era of Global Risks- Perspectives from Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands" Behnassi M., Gupta H., Pollmann O. (Eds.) © Springer 2019 "Climate Change, Food Security and Natural Resource Management - Regional Case Studies from Three Continents" Behnassi M., Pollman O., Gupta H. (Eds.) © Springer 2019 "Environmental Change and Human Security in Africa and the Middle East" Behnassi M., McGlade K. (Eds) © Springer 2017 Read more. |
“Each degree matters, each year matters, and each decision matters: not acting today is adding to the burden of the next generations . Limiting global warming to 1.5°C is not impossible but requires strong and immediate policies.” Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Co-Chair of Working Group I of the IPCC (8th of october 2018 – french Senate intervention) Summary for teachers based on the IPCC …Read more. |
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