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Climate Change: Working Group II: Impacts,Adaption and Vulnerability (IPCC, 2007)Forest, health and climate change: Urban greenspaces, forests for cooler cities and healthier people(EEA, 2011)Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change (IPCC,2007)Guiding principles for adaptation to climate changein Europe ETC/ACC Technical Paper 2010/6 (ETC,2010)Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disastersto Advance Climate Change Adaptation (IPCC, 2012)Mapping the impacts of natural hazards andtechnological accidents in Europe (EEA, 2010)Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change (EEA,2005)White paper - Adapting to climate change: towards aEuropean framework for action (EC, 2009)• IPPC Chapter on impacts of climate change across Europe. Itconsiders key vulnerabilities and possible policy responses.• A leaflet describing the benefits of forests (parks and greenspaces) in urban environment as an adaptation approach toclimate change.• The information regarding global climate change science, splitinto a range of working groups and sectoral reports.• Technical consideration of the higher level principles foradapting to climate change.• Extreme weather and climate events, interacting with exposedand vulnerable human and natural systems, can lead todisasters. This report explores the challenge of understandingand managing the risks of climate extremes to advanceclimate change adaptation.• The report assesses the occurrence and impacts of disastersand the underlying hazards such as storms, extremetemperature events, forest fires, water scarcity and droughts,floods, snow avalanches, landslides, earthquakes, volcanoesand technological accidents in Europe for the period 1998-2009. Useful for scoping potential vulnerability.• The technical report by the EEA that assesses Europeanvulnerability to climate change impacts and adaptationmeasures being undertaken as of 2010.• The white paper setting out the EU’s approach to adapting toclimate change, based on the concept of mainstreaming.• It refers to resilience of biodiversity and natural systems.BiodiversityGeneralAssessing biodiversity in Europe — the 2010 report(EEA, 2010)• This report provides information on the status of Europeanbiodiversity with a focus on designated areas and progresstowards the EU’s biodiversity targets.Biodiversity Baseline Flyer (EEA, 2010) • The report summarising the EEA’s biodiversity assessments aspart of the State of the Environment Report 2010 reports.Biodiversity — SOER 2010 thematic assessment(EEA, 2010)• This report provides comprehensive assessment of the stateand trends of Europe’s biodiversity.Biodiversity — 10 messages for 2010 (EEA, 2010) • This report provides a range of specific assessments based onEurope’s bio-geographic regions and the interrelationshipbetween climate change and biodiversity.EU 2010 Biodiversity Baseline (EEA, 2010) • The detailed report providing an assessment of the status andtrends of Europe’s biodiversity.EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 (EC, COM(2011) 244final)• The new Biodiversity Strategy aims to halt the loss ofbiodiversity and ecosystem services in the EU by 2020. Thereare six main targets, and 20 actions to help Europe reach itsgoal.Landscape fragmentation in Europe (EEA, 2011) • This report provides a foundation for environmentalmonitoring and protective measures for those landscapes thatare not yet fragmented. It also makes it clear thatfragmentation analysis must be integrated into transport andregional planning so that cumulative effects are consideredmore effectively in the future.Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) • This seminal report considers the status and trends of globalbiodiversity and the services it provides.PIANC — Working with Nature (PIANC, revised 2011) • The document that sets out the World Association forWaterborne Transport (PIANC) management plans to integrateecosystem services into its activities. It provides a generalprinciple of integrated planning.52 <strong>Guidance</strong> on integrating climate change and biodiversity into SEA
Resource Paper: No Net Loss and Loss-GainCalculations in Biodiversity Offsets (2012)The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB,2010)The Use of Environmental Limits in RegulatingEnvironmental Systems - How Could the Concept BeApplied in Environmental Agencies? (SNIFFER, 2010)Green infrastructureGreen infrastructure implementation and efficiency(EC study, 2012)Green infrastructure and territorial cohesion (EEA,2011)Green infrastructure — Sustainable investments forthe benefit of both people and nature (SURF-natureproject, 2011)Article 6 of the Habitats Directive guidance documentsCommission Staff Working Document: Integratingbiodiversity and nature protection into portdevelopment (EC, 2011)EC <strong>Guidance</strong>: Non-mineral extraction and Natura2000 (EU, 2011)EC <strong>Guidance</strong>: The implementation of the Birds andHabitats Directives in estuaries and coastal zoneswith particular attention to port developments anddredging (EU, 2011)EC <strong>Guidance</strong>: Wind energy development and Natura2000 (EC, 2010)<strong>Guidance</strong> document on Article 6(4) of the HabitatsDirective 92/43/EEC (EC, 2007/updated in 2012)<strong>Guidance</strong> document on the assessment of plans andprojects significantly affecting Natura 2000 sites (EC,2001)Managing Natura 2000 sites. The provisions ofArticle 6 of the Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC (EC,2000)• This resource paper has been prepared by the Business andBiodiversity Offsets Programme to help auditors, developers,conservation groups, communities, governments and financialinstitutions that wish to consider and develop best practicerelated to biodiversity offsets.• The report on the current provision of ecosystem services andthe economic and decision support tools that can support itsintegration into policy and decision making.• The report considering the concept of environmental limitsand how it may usefully applied within environmentalagencies.• The study assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of policyinitiatives to support green infrastructure across Europe.• It identified the main existing policy measures that can help tosupport Green Infrastructure initiatives and theirimplementation, including, seven in-depth case studies onthematic issues.• The report exploring the concept of green infrastructure, withillustrative examples of green infrastructure initiatives on theground and further analyses of the integration of greeninfrastructure into policy sectors.• The booklet explaining the basics of green infrastructure andpresenting some approaches.• The Commission Staff Working Document includes the policycontext for reconciling environmental requirements with portdevelopment.• These guidelines show how the needs of extractive industrycan be met while avoiding adverse effects on wildlife andnature.• They examine how the potential impacts of extractionactivities on nature and biodiversity can be minimised oravoided altogether.• This guidance document aims to explain the protectionregime, defined under Article 6 of the Habitats Directive thatapplies to Natura 2000 sites in the specific context of estuariesand overlapping with, fairway channels and coastal zones,with particular attention to port-related activities, includingdredging and industry (e.g. shipyards).• The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on howbest to ensure that wind energy developments are compatiblewith the provisions of the Habitats and Birds Directives.• The clarification of the concepts of: alternative solutions,imperative reasons of overriding public interest,compensatory measures, overall coherence, Opinion of theCommission.• The methodological guidance on the provisions of Article 6(3)and (4) of the Habitats Directive.• This document aims at providing guidelines to the MemberStates on the interpretation of certain key concepts used inArticle 6 of the Habitats Directive.<strong>Guidance</strong> on integrating climate change and biodiversity into SEA 53
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