PEER (Partnership for European Environmental Research) Network
PEER network is undertaking a study by six European countries on comparing national adaptation strategies in European countries. The objective of the project is to support the development of adaptation policies as well as to identify research gaps and strengthen national and European research on adaptation. The final report of the project will be available in the end of November 2008.
http://peer-initiative.org/html/obj458.html
Finland’s Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
May 2007
Finland has published its climate change adaptation strategy in January 2005. It was drawn up as a self-standing and comprehensive work and it was based on available research information and expert assessments and judgements. The main issues of the strategy were later included in the National Climate and Energy Strategy in 2006.
The strategy aims at improving Finland’s adaptive capacity in order to reduce negative consequences and to take advantage of opportunities resulting from climate change.
The strategy describes the impact of climate change in the following sectors: agriculture and food production, forestry, fisheries, reindeer husbandry, game management, water resources, biodiversity, industry, energy, traffic, land use and communities, building, health, tourism and recreation, and insurance.
Sector specific and cross-cutting actions to improve the adaptive capacity and to adapt to future climate change are presented. The Adaptation Strategy also includes a proposal for a research programme which has started in 2006.