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Supporting climate change

programmes and environmental

observation networks

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Priority Actions Programme/Regional
Change (IPCC) Activity Centre (PAP/RAC)

http://www.ipcc.ch http://www.pap-thecoastcentre.org/

The IPCC is the definitive scientific intergovernmental Climate change adaptation in the coastal zone has
body tasked with reviewing and assessing the most re- been incorporated into the “Marrakesh Declaration”
cent scientific, technical, and socio-economic informa- on Adaptation to Climate Change (UNEP (DEPI)/MED
tion produced worldwide relevant to the understanding IG.19/8 Annex I) and the proposed five-year Programme
of climate change. of Work of UNEP/MAP of the Barcelona Convention
(2010-2015). As part of this programme and the work
EU Action against Climate Change conducted by PAP/RAC, the ICZM Protocol provides an
important tool for climate change adaptation through
the adoption of prevention, mitigation and adaptation
http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/eccp/index_en.htm
measures to tackle the effects of climate change.
At European level a comprehensive package of policy
measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has CIRCLE 2
been initiated through the European Climate Change
Programme (ECCP). The goal of the ECCP is to iden- http://www.circle-era.eu/np4/2
tify and develop all the necessary elements of an EU
strategy to implement the Kyoto Protocol. The Commis- EU project (2010-2014) to facilitate cooperation, design
sion adopted an EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate and fund joint initiatives, share knowledge and establish
Change in April 2013 to supports action by promoting a research funding network oriented towards climate
greater coordination and information-sharing between change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation.
Member States, and by ensuring that adaptation con-
siderations are addressed in all relevant EU policies.

http://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/

The EU also addresses knowledge gaps through re-
search and the European climate adaptation platform
(Climate-ADAPT) that supports adaptation policy and
decision making.

Regional Activity Centre for Spe-
cially Protected Areas (RAC/ SPA)

http://www.rac-spa.org/

The institutional framework for the challenges and effects
of climate change on the marine and coastal biodiversity
is the Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) for the Barcelona
Convention with mainly the Regional Activity Centre for
Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA) as the executing
agency. The Strategic Action Programme for the Conser-
vation of Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean region
(SAP BIO) is a strategic action plan for the protection of
biodiversity in the coastal and marine Mediterranean re-
gions. This action plan, adopted by the Contracting Par-
ties to the Barcelona Convention in 2003, considered
the impact of climate change on biodiversity as priority
activities (Almeria Declaration, 2008). G ar Lapsi and Filfla MPA, Malta. Photo: IUCN

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