1. EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON AIR AND CLIMATE CHANGE
ETC/ACC Subgroup Climate Change
Task Team: 2.1b
(CC State and Impact Indicators)
Thomas Voigt (UBA Berlin) EEA Workshop Climate Change State and Impact Indicators
Copenhagen 22/23 Nov. 2001
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2. European Environment Agency (EEA)
European Topic Centre on Water (ETC/WTR)-UK
European Topic Centre on Terr. Env. (ETC/TE)-E
Eur.Topic Cent. on Nat.Prot.+Biodiv. (ETC/NPB)-F
Eur.Topic Cent. on Waste +Mat. Flow (ETC/WMF)-Dk
Eur.Topic Cent. on Air+ Climate Change (ETC/ACC)-NL
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3. ETC/ACC: Vision and Priorities
Consolidate monitoring work
Support Air Pollution and Climate Change Policies
Enhance linkages between air emissions and air quality
Explore cross-benefits between Climate Change and Air Pollution policies
monitoring is becoming more important:
- new role of governance
- role of public and media
- implementing policies
- credibility of assessments

4. ETC Air and Climate Change consortium
Lead organisation: National Institute of Public Health and Environment (RIVM) 12 Partners: UBA- Berlin, Germany IIASA, Austria NILU, Norway UBA- Vienna, Austria AEAT, United Kingdom AUT, Greece CHMI, Czech Republic ICCS-NTUA, Greece DNMI, Norway SHMU, Slovakia TNO-MEP, The Netherlands Öko-Institute, Germany
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5. EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON AIR AND CLIMATE CHANGE
ETC/ACC (RIVM-NL)
Sub-Group Air-Quality (RIVM-Bilthoven
Sub-Group Air-Emission (UBA-Wien)
Sub-Group Climate Change (UBA-Berlin)
Indicator-Team:
(T. Voigt-UBA B; J.v. Minnen-RIVM; M. Erhard-PIK)
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Why Indicators ?
To reflect the trend in Climate Change and its impacts on different sectors
To assist the policy process by highlighting these trends and underlying where adaptation and mitigation measures are required
To show politics effectiveness
To support the process of Integrated Environment Assessment
To raise public awareness to the problems of global change and its impacts
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7. Climate Change State and Impact Indicators
CC State Indicators:
Give a quantitative and qualitative description of the actual changes occuring in the climate (e.g. temperature, precipitation)
CC Impact Indicators:
Describe the impacts of climate change on ecological, social and economic functions
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8. Objectives of the TaskTeam CC Indicators
Identification of a Core Set of Climate Change State and Impact Indicators (Dec.2001)
Feasibility Study for a Report on Climate Change State and Impact Indicators in Europe (Dec.2001)
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9. EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON AIR AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Sources
Reports (e.g. IPCC, ACACIA,
UK CIP, UNEP-Rep.1994)
Expert interviews/visits
Expert survey (questionnaires)
59 replies = 17%; 5 nfp-replies
Contacts to other ETC`s of the EEA
(ETC/NPB; ETC/TE; ETC/WTR)
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Sectors
Climate and Atmosphere
Cryosphere
Soils and Land Resources
Agriculture and Forestry
Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Hydrology and Water Resources
Marine Environment and Coastal Zones
Economy and Infrastructure
Human Health
Jelle Markus Thomas
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11. Criteria for Indicators
Accessible (attractivity to the eye) ?
Correct to interpret ?
Representative (issue, area) ?
Regularely updated ?
Reference values ?
International comparible ?
Scientifically well done ?
Consensus on data validity / methods ?
Additional
Appropriate data sets (length of time series)?
Appropriate level of sensitivity to CC
(Related to policy process)
(Applicable in assessments)
EEA
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Indicator evaluation
A) Core set indicator, available in the short term
B) Core set indicator, suitable on medium term
C) Core set indicator, suitable on long term
D) Potentially suitable core set (additional analysis needed)
E) Unclear/soft indicator (affected by many other factors/
data not sufficient)
F) Not suitable as indicator
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13. EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON AIR AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Next steps
Workshop Report : Dec. 01
Technical Report/Feasibility Study: Febr.02
(Potential) Activities in 2002
Update of the Core Set of Climate Change State and Impact Indicators (to be discussed)
Preparation of a Report about
Climate Change State and Impact Indicators
in Europe
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