JRC Priority Area Climate Change

The JRC FP7 Climate Change Strategy

The JRC, based on its multi-disciplinary expertise, develops reference knowledge to ease the development of a EU climate change policy, as laid out by the European Commission
In doing so it also provides responses to inquiries by Member States, International Organizations and the general public regarding climate change.
The JRC promotes and is an integral part of a European multi-institutional integrated assessment system for climate change and is the interface between that system and the EU policy making process.
The JRC promotes and contributes to integrated monitoring programs for climate change, its drivers and its effects.
The JRC provides knowledge and assessments that is
- fast and qualitative, based on an integration of its expert knowledge, and
- in-depth and quantitative, based on modeling and monitoring.

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Research at JRC in support of EU Climate Change policy making (2nd edition)

2nd Edition of Booklet now available. Developing climate change policies is definitely an area where a joint and integrated approach to the provision of S/T support is required. Since the first edition of this booklet in 2005, EU climate change policy has accelerated and, so far, it culminated with a call, in March 2007, for ambitious integrated Energy and Climate policies by the European Council. This booklet shows how research activities at the JRC have contributed to this process, in particular by giving support to the Directorate-General Environment, which is guiding the development of EU climate change policies.

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Research at JRC in support of EU Climate Change policy making

Activities and results from the 6th framework program 2003-2006;
Building blocks of a strategy for concerted action in the 7th framework program 2007-2013 presented at the first Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 1)
28 Nov - 9 Dec, 2005 Montreal, Canada

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Climate Change and the European Water Dimension

At the 2003 Rome Informal Meeting of the Water Directors - consisting of the Water Directors from the European Members States (EU25-MS), and the associated countries of Iceland,Norway, Switzerland, Romania and Bulgaria -, they requested that the JRC coordinate the preparation of a scientific document on climate change emphasizing Europe and the dimension of the water resource implications of a climate changed world.
The JRC accepted the challenge and sought the collaboration of more than 40 scientists from Europe and within the JRC to draft a scientific synthesis of what we know or think we know about climate change and its impacts on water resources at the European scale.
The Report is a scientific synthsis, not a concensus document, of many but not all dimensions of the climate change phenomena in the water sector.

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