Climate change impacts in Europe: final report of the PESETA research project
This document reports on the PESETA project which was initiated to contribute to a better understanding of the possible physical and economic impacts induced by climate change in Europe over the 21st century. It summarizes the project methodology and presents the main results, which are relevant for the current debate on prioritizing adaptation policies, both within Europe and around the globe.
The report makes a regionally-focused multi-sectoral integrated assessment of the impacts of climate change in the European economy. It also suggests an innovative modelling framework able to provide useful insights for adaptation policies on a pan-European scale, with the geographical resolution relevant to national stakeholders. Five impact categories have been addressed: agriculture, river floods, coastal systems, tourism, and human health. The approach enables a comparison between the impact categories and therefore provides a notion of the relative severity of the damage inflicted.
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