Climate change effects
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Framework for Climate Change and Coasts and Marine Areas - under construction
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Scientific reports and research
Global and circum-arctic
- Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (2007)
- Convention of Biological Diversity reports and research
- Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (2001 to 2005)
- Convention of Migratory Species reports and research
- Ramsar Convention on Wetlands reports and research
- Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Scientific Report (2004)
- CBMP Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program
- International Polar Year (2007 to 2008)
- International non-governmental efforts
European reports and research
- European Climate Change Programme II (2005 onwards)
- Impacts and Adaptation Working Group and Reports (2006)
- Variety of EU and national climate projects
Gaps in scientific knowledge
- Acidification of the oceans
- Carbon sequestration and emissions
- Anoxic waters
- Biodiversity and conservation
- Ecosystem and species shifts and extinctions
- Regional and local modelling
- Multifunction and valuation
- Mitigative and adaptive measures
- Application of precautionary approach
Policy framework and responses
Coastal and Oceans Conventions
Global Trade Agreements
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Kyoto Protocol
- World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements
Multilateral Environmental Agreements
European regulatory framework
- European Climate Change Program II
- Proposed EU Green Paper on Adaptation to Climate Change
- Marine Strategy Framework Directive
- Integrated Maritime Policy for the European Union
- Water Framework Directive
- Nutrients Directive
- Common Agricultural Policy
- EU_Common_Fisheries_Policy_(CFP)
- Birds Directive, Habitats Directive, NATURA 2000
- Energy directives and policies
National regulatory framework
Specific Issues
Climate change and anoxic waters
- Eutrophication
- Changing air and water circulation
- Estuaries as net emitters of CO2
- Modelling including watershed to estuary
- Geo-engineering approaches to carbon sequestration
- Policy and management responses to climate change and eutrophication
Climate change and ecosystem and species shifts
- Multiple human uses and impacts
- Anoxic waters and ecosystem shifts
- Biodiversity and conservation, and role of marine protected areas
- Species shifts, range expansion and retractions, and extinctions
- Migratory indicator species for climate change
- Acidification and ecosystem and species implications
- Policy and management responses to biodiversity shifts
- Threats to cold water coral reefs, sand banks and seagrass habitats in the North Sea by climate change effects: sea level rise, temperature rise and storm surges
Climate change and other human uses and impacts: assessment and management responses
- Other human uses, including agriculture, energy, fisheries, tourism and urbanization
- Contaminants and pollutants
- Multifunction and valuation
- Ecosystem-based management
- Adaptive management and governance
- Integrated coastal zone management
- Risk assessment
Coastal and beach management and sustainable tourism
- Introduction
- Global change and regional and local implications
- Acidification of the oceans
- Biodiversity, conservation and fisheries
- Water uses, and alternations in water quality and quantity
- Drought, desertification and flooding
- Vulnerability of coastal cities: examples of London and Venice
- Sustainable tourism and climate change
- Coast and beach management recommendations for climate change
