Climate Change Impacts in the Atlantic Basin and Coordinated Adaptation Responses

ATLANTIC FUTURE scientific paper no. 16

Publication: Report
Citation: Stefes, Christoph; Andrew Reid; Lucy Smith et. al. 2014: Climate Change Impacts in the Atlantic Basin and Coordinated Adaptation Responses. ATLANTIC FUTURE scientific paper no. 16, Berlin.

Stefes, Christoph; Andrew Reid; Lucy Smith et. al. 2014: Climate Change Impacts in the Atlantic Basin and Coordinated Adaptation Responses. ATLANTIC FUTURE scientific paper no. 16, Berlin.

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Climate Change Impacts in the Atlantic Basin and Coordinated Adaptation Responses

Year 2014

Event:Discussion

Climate Change and the Atlantic Basin

24 April 2013
Washington, DC, United States

Project:FP 7

The aim of the ATLANTIC FUTURE FP7 research project is to study the rationales of cooperation in the Atlantic area and identify EU strategies for engaging in a wider transatlantic relationship within the Atlantic space.

Towards an Atlantic Area? Mapping Trends, Perspectives and Interregional Dynamics between Europe, Africa and the Americas (ATLANTIC FUTURE)

Feb 2013 - Dec 2015

Language: English
Authorship: Prof. Christoph H. Stefes, PhD

Andrew Reid

Lucy Olivia Smith

Elizabeth Tedsen JD
Funding: European Commission, Directorate-General Research & Innovation (DG Research & Innovation), International
Year: 2014
Dimension: 56 pp.
Project: Towards an Atlantic Area? Mapping Trends, Perspectives and Interregional Dynamics between Europe, Africa and the Americas (ATLANTIC FUTURE)
Project ID: 2718
Table of contents: Click to show full table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Methodology
4. Impacts of climate change in the Atlantic Basin
4.1. Definition of Atlantic Basin and geophysical description of regions
4.2. Dominant climate change vulnerabilities and sectoral trends across the Atlantic Basin region
4.2.1. Coastal vulnerability from sea level rise and extreme weather events
4.2.2. Agriculture and food security vulnerability
4.2.3. Freshwater quantity and quality
4.2.4. Biodiversity impacts
4.2.4. Health impacts
4.2.5. Forests and forestry
5. Case studies of bilateral and multilateral cooperation on adaptation in the Atlantic Basin
5.1. EUROCLIMA
5.2. RIOCC
5.3. Informal bilateral cooperation between Brazil and African countries
5.4. AMMA
5.5. Atlantic projects in the International Research Initiative on Adaptation to Climate Change (IRIACC)
5.6. WASCAL
5.7. Regional Adaptation Strategies for the German Baltic Sea Coast (RADOST)
6. Findings from case studies
7. Conclusions and recommendations
8. References
Annex: Examples of intra-regional, extra-Basin, and UNFCCC climate change adaptation institutions
Keywords: Adaptation

Climate

climate change, coastal vulnerability, sea level rise, extreme weather events, agriculture, food security, freshwater quantity and quality, biodiversity, health, forests and forestry, bilateral and multilateral cooperation on adaptation, adaptation strategies

Atlantic Basin, Brazil, Africa, German Baltic Sea Coast

case study