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Dear Colleagues ! We have a pleasure to present you 4th issue of the MedECC newsletter. During the recent trimester the 1st draft of the 1st MedECC Assessment Report (MAR1) has been produced and the internal review has been conducted. At the moment the call to become the external reviewer is open (see here below). MedECC Coordinators: Wolfgang Cramer and Joel Guiot
MedECC Science Officer: Kasia Marini |
We are pleased to invite you to become a reviewer of the 1st MedECC Assessment Report (MAR1) on current state and risks of climate and environmental change in the Mediterranean. Presently, MedECC prepares its 1st assessment report which will be published at the beginning of 2020 (download the outline of the report). We invite the researchers representing the full range …Read more. |
The MedECC science officer, Katarzyna Marini, participated to the 4th European Climate Change Adaptation conference (ECCA2019) in Lisbon from 28 to 31 May. During the session "Transnational cooperation in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Europe: challenges, gaps and lesson learned" held on Wednesday 29 May, she presented the overview of risks linked to climate and environmental changes in …Read more. |
The 22 Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention appoint Focal Points to review every two years the progress of work and ensure the implementation of recommendations at the national level. The National Focal Points of Plan Bleu - Regional Activity Centre were gathered from 27 to 29 May 2019 in Marseille (France) in order to examine the implementation of Plan Bleu’s …Read more. |
Photo: CMI Marseille On 22 and 23 May 2019 MedECC participated in the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Regional Dialogue on "Shared views on key issues in the Mediterranean" in Barcelona (Spain). At this occasion, the UfM and its partners, the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) and the …Read more. |
MedECC participated in the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Climate Week held from 9 to 11 April 2019 in Barcelona (Spain). This event was the occasion to gather a wide range of actors (UfM members’ representatives, civil society, IFIs, scientific experts…) around different topics, all related to climate action in the Mediterranean region. MedECC representatives participated to various meetings: 9 … Read more. |
Vousdoukas MI, Mentaschi L, Voukouvalas E, Bianchi A, Dottori F, Feyen L (2018) Climatic and
socioeconomic controls of future coastal flood risk in Europe. Nature Climate Change, 8, 776–780,
doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0260-4 Abstract Rising extreme sea levels (ESLs) and continued socioeconomic development in coastal zones will lead to increasing future flood risk along the European coastline. We present a comprehensive analysis of future …Read more. |
Sumaila UR, Tai TC, Lam VWY, et al. (2019) Benefits of the Paris Agreement to ocean life, economies, and
people, Sci. Adv., 5, 2, eaau3855. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aau3855 Abstract The Paris Agreement aims to mitigate the potential impacts of climate change on ecological and social systems. Using an ensemble of climate-marine ecosystem and economic models, we explore the effects of …Read more. |
Koubi V (2019) Climate change and conflict. Annual Review of Political Science, 22, 343-360, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-050317-070830 Abstract The link between climate change and conflict has been discussed intensively in academic literature during the past decade. This review aims to provide a clearer picture of what the research community currently has to say with regard to this nexus. It finds that the literature has …Read more. |
Morán-Ordóñez A, Roces-Díaz JV, Otsu K, Ameztegui A, Coll L, Lefevre F, Retana J, Brotons L (2019)
The use of scenarios and models to evaluate the future of nature values and ecosystem services in
Mediterranean forests. Reg. Environ. Chang., 19, 415–428. doi:10.1007/s10113-018-1408-5 Abstract Science and society are increasingly interested in predicting the effects of global change and socio-economic development on …Read more. |
Koutroulis AG (2019) Dryland changes under different levels of global warming. Sci. Total Environ., 655,
482–511. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2018.11.215 Highlights Dryland areas are vital ecosystems, highly sensitive to climatic changes. New higher resolution climate projections used to examine future aridity for RCP8.5 The drylands could increase by an additional 7% of the global land surface by 2100. Up to 1.9 billion people …Read more. |
Balzan MV, Pinheiro AM, Mascarenhas A, Morán-Ordóñez A, Ruiz-Frau A, Carvalho-Santos C,
Vogiatzakis I, Arends J, Santana-Garcon J, Roces-Díaz JV, Brotons L, Campagne CS, Roche P, de
Miguel S, Targetti S, Drakou E, Vlami V, Baró F, Geijzendorffer I (2019) Improving ecosystem
assessments in Mediterranean social-ecological systems: a DPSIR analysis.Ecosystems and People, 15, 1, 136-155, DOI: 10.1080/26395916.2019.1598499 Abstract Social-ecological systems …Read more. |
Rilov G, Mazaris AD, Stelzenmüller V, Helmuth B, Wahl M, Guy-Haim T, Mieszkowska N, Ledoux J-B, Katsanevakis S (2019) Adaptive marine conservation planning in the face of climate change: What can we learn from physiological, ecological and genetic studies?, Global Ecology and Conservation, 17, e00566. doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00566. Graphical abstract Abstract Rapid anthropogenic climate change is a major threat to ocean biodiversity, increasing the …Read more. |
Roy H et al. (2019) Developing a list of invasive alien species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in
the European Union. Global Change Biology, 25, 1032-1048. Abstract The European Union (EU) has recently published its first list of invasive alien species (IAS) of EU concern to which current legislation must apply. The list comprises species known to pose great …Read more. |
Santillán D, Iglesias A, La Jeunesse I, Garrote L, Sotes V (2019) Vineyards in transition: A global assessment of the adaptation needs of grape producing regions under climate change, Science of The Total Environment, 657, 839–852. doi: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2018.12.079. Highlights Climate change will transform grapevine production and policy. Thermal suitability of grapevine may be greatly affected in China and the Mediterranean region. …Read more. |
REPORTS AND OTHER RESOURCES
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The Regional Initiative for the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Socio-Economic Vulnerability in the Arab Region (RICCAR) is the outcome of the first Arab Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change (2007), which recognized the potential impacts that climate change may have on development in the Arab region. The Declaration called for a comprehensive assessment of the potential …Read more. |
"Atlas of Ecosystem Services. Drivers, Risks, and Societal Responses" Editors: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (Eds.) This book aims to identify, present and discuss key driving forces and pressures on ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are the contributions that ecosystems provide to human well-being. The scope of this atlas is on identifying solutions and lessons to be …Read more. |
The 2018 Global Nutrition Report shares insights into the current state of global nutrition, highlighting the unacceptably high burden of malnutrition in the world. It identifies areas where progress has been made in recent years but argues that it is too slow and too inconsistent. It puts forward five critical steps that are needed to speed up progress to end …Read more. |
Report from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Download the report Background This report presents the first global assessment of biodiversity for food and agriculture (BFA). It complements other global assessments prepared under the auspices of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (see Box 1), which have focused on the state of genetic resources within particular …Read more. |
Jorge Borrego, Premier Secrétaire Général adjoint de l’Union pour la Méditerranée, chargé de l’énergie et l’action pour le climat, nous livre ici les tenants et les aboutissants d’un développement durable de la zone méditerranéenne, dans le contexte de changements climatiques auxquels la région est particulièrement sensible... lire la suite -le MedECC est mentionné dans cet entretien (la Tribune, 22 février …Read more. |
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