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Ecosistema Incendi: il dossier 2010 di Legambiente

fonte: DPC

E’ calato il numero degli incendi boschivi, ma la superficie percorsa dal fuoco è aumentata. Il fenomeno incendi non sembra quindi attenuarsi, soprattutto nel Sud e nelle isole. Segnali confortanti arrivano dal fronte della prevenzione: quasi nove comuni su dieci, tra quelli colpiti da incendi negli ultimi due anni, hanno realizzato il censimento delle aree percorse dal fuoco. Questo il quadro che emerge da Ecosistema Incendi 2010, l’indagine annuale realizzata da Legambiente e dal Dipartimento della Protezione Civile sul fenomeno roghi e sulle iniziative di mitigazione del rischio messe in campo dai comuni italiani. Dati che dimostrano una crescente sensibilità e attenzione verso la tutela dei boschi e delle aree forestali, che vanno integrati con le attività realizzate dalle singole regioni in attuazione della legge quadro sugli incendi boschivi. L'indagine è realizzata nell'ambito di Non scherzate col fuoco, la campagna nazionale di informazione e prevenzione sul rischio incendi boschivi.

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Climate change and Canada’s forests: from impacts to adaptation

Data pubblicazione: 2009 - Ente: Natural Resources Canada, Canada - gov - ISBN/ISSN: 9781552612057

Williamson, T.B., et al

Based on the work of the forestry authors of the Canadian national assessment, this report summarizes the current state of knowledge of current and future impacts of climate change and its implications for forest management. Innovative research and knowledge exchange are essential for Canada’s forest industry as it adapts to a changing climate.

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Climate change adaptation: enabling people living in poverty to adapt

Pettengell, Catherine

This report draws on case studies from around the world and on Oxfam’s experience working with rural communities. It sets out what is needed to enable people living in poverty to adapt to climate change, and a range of interventions that are available. It brings together experience in the areas of livelihoods, natural resource management, and disaster risk reduction, with robust decision making in order to manage uncertainty and risk and to build adaptive capacity from household to national and global levels. It also identifies the combined need for bottom-up and topdown processes in order to create the enabling conditions needed for people living in poverty to adapt to climate change.

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Environmental emergencies: learning from multilateral response to disasters

This publication, which highlights success stories and lessons learned, intends to raise awareness of the devastation that an environmental emergency can cause, and to promote advocacy and action in response, including the risk reduction perspective. As stated in the foreword by John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, it recalls that actions can be taken to prevent environmental emergencies from causing major loss of life and livelihoods, both in the short and long term. It also aims to highlight the strong need to integrate humanitarian and environmental action.

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Climate change indicators in the United States

Testo a cura di: United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America - gov - Pubblicato nel 2010

This report presents 24 indicators, each describing trends related to the causes and effects of climate change. The report focuses primarily on the United States, but in some cases global trends are presented to provide context or a basis for comparison. It aims to collect data and generate analyses to: (i) monitor the effects/impacts of climate change in the United States; (ii) assist decision–makers on how to best use policymaking and program resources to respond to climate change; (iii) assist in evaluating the success of climate change efforts.

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Climate change: building the resilience of poor rural communities

Testo pubblicato a cura del Fondo Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dell'Agricoltura (IFAD). Anno pubblicazione 2010

This document provides practical examples of IFAD's efforts to help poor rural people dealing with the inevitable impact of climate change by listening to their voices while planning adaptation and mitigation efforts in order to reduce the risks of climate change while accelerating progress towards food security and a world without poverty. It intends to promote action at the policy, operational and regional levels to make climate change mitigation and adaptation a priority. It promotes adaptation at the local level through several case studies in Philippines, Nepal, China, Laos, Vietnam, Peru, Kenya; and advocates for cooperation and a coordinated approach from the international community

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Climate change and health

World Health Organization (WHO)

This fact sheet includes sections on: (i) climate change general facts; (ii) the impact of climate change on health; (iii) extreme heat; (iv) natural disasters and variable rainfall patterns, including sea level rise, extreme weather events, drought, floods, and freshwater supplies contamination; (v) patterns of infection; (vi) measuring health effects; (vii) sectors of the population at risk; and (viii) the WHO response.

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Climate change adaptation strategies for local impact

Key messages for UNFCCC negotiators

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); ProVention Consortium; Red Cross/ Red Crescent Climate Centre

This paper builts on the Copenhagen Agreement to include risk reduction and risk management as key elements in the climate change adaptation debate. It argues that the proof of effective climate change adaptation strategies will be in improved resilience of the hundreds of millions of people living in communities most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

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Advance guard

Climate change impacts, adaptation, mitigation and indigenous peoples, a compendium of case studies

Galloway McLean, Kirsty

This compendium presents a wide-ranging overview of more then 400 projects, case studies and research activities specifically related to climate change and indigenous peoples. It provides a sketch of the climate and environmental changes, local observations and impacts being felt by communities in different regions, and outlines various adaptation and mitigation strategies that are currently being implemented by indigenous peoples - the world's "advance guard" of climate change - as they use their traditional knowledge and survival skills to trial adaptive responses to change.

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The Copenhagen diagnosis: climate science updates

Allison, I.; Bindoff, N.L.; Bindschadler, R.A.; Cox, P.M.; de Noblet, N.; England, M.H.; Francis, J.E.; Gruber, N.; Haywood, A.M.; Karoly, D.J.; Kaser, G.; Le Quéré, C.; Lenton, T.M.; Mann, M.E.; McNeil, B.I.; Pitman, A.J.; Rahmstorf, S.; Rignot, E.; Sche

The purpose of this report is to synthesize the most policy-relevant climate science published since the close-off of material for the last IPCC report. The rationale is two-fold. First, this report serves as an interim evaluation of the evolving science midway through an IPCC cycle - IPCC AR5 is not due for completion until 2013. Second, and most important, the report serves as a handbook of science updates that supplements the IPCC AR4 in time for Copenhagen in December 2009, and any national or international climate change policy negotiations that follow.

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Synthesis report from climate change

global risks, challenges and decisions, Copenhagen 2009, 10-12 March

This synthesis report presents an up-to-date overview of a broad range of research relevant to climate change – including fundamental climate science, the impacts of a changing climate on society and environment, and the many tools and approaches available to deal effectively with the challenge of climate change. The purpose of this report is to provide, for a broad range of audiences, an update of the newest understanding of climate change caused by human activities, the social and environmental implications of this change, and the options available for society to respond to the challenges posed by climate change.

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Status report on disaster risk reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Preliminary version, June 2009

This report contributes to the implementation of the Africa Regional Strategy and Programme of Action for Disaster Risk Reduction, in line with the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA). It is based on HFA reports received from 24 countries, namely Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Comoros, Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo and Zimbabwe, as well as information provided by the African Union Commission, ECCAS, ECOWAS, IGAD, IOC, SADC, UN organizations, international non-governmental organizations and donors.

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Natural solutions to climate change crisis

A cura di : International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); World Bank, the (WB)

Dudley, Nigel; Stolton, Sue; Belokurov, Alexander; Krueger, Linda; Lopoukhine, Nik; MacKinnon, Kathy; Sandwith, Trevor; Sekhran, Nik

This book describes how protected areas contribute significantly to reducing impacts of climate change and what is needed for them to achieve even more. Among the issues addressed it includes a section on climate change adaptation covering the following: the role of protected areas, reducing impacts of natural disasters, safeguarding water and providing clean water, supporting marine and freshwater fisheries, safeguarding crop wild relatives and land races, addressing health issues under climate change and biodiversity conservation and maintaining ecosystem resilience.

FAO profile for climate change

This document outlines FAO's priorities for its current and future work on climate change. It focuses on adaptation and mitigation strategies in the agricultural sectors and advocates for better management of synergies and trade-offs among both. It also points to the areas where adaptation and mitigation activities merge with ongoing development efforts to improve sustainable use of natural resources for increased production, income, food security and rural development.

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Fact sheet

stepping up international action on climate change - the road to Copenhagen

This fact sheet provides a background and introduces the main bodies and topics involved in the Copenhagen international climate change negotiations. It consists of two parts: Part one provides an overview of the mechanics of the UN climate change negotiations and explains what the negotiating process leading up to Copenhagen looks like. Part two zooms in on the main issues in these negotiations: dealing with the impacts of climate change (adaptation), curbing emissions of green house gases (mitigation), finance and technology.