Traditional agriculture is facing increasing scarcity of water due to climate change. A farm on Scotland's West Coast is using the Atlantic Ocean to grow vegetables instead. They are using saltwater instead of fresh to grow food.
This consultation aims to collect views on current opportunities and challenges in rural areas, aspirations for rural areas in 2040 and the actions needed to achieve these aspirations.
This dataset comprises estimates of forest above-ground biomass for the year 2017. The data has been produced as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme by the Biomass CCI team.
Biotech Crops Continue to Help Meet the Challenges of Increased Population and Climate Change
Crop and livestock production is projected to decrease and may even have to be abandoned in parts of Europe’s southern and Mediterranean regions due to the increased negative impacts of climate change, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report published on 04 Sep 2019.
On 23 July 2019, the European Commission adopted an EU communication on stepping up EU action to protect and restore the world’s forests. The communication has the objective of protecting and improving the health of existing forests, especially primary forests, and significantly increasing sustainable, biodiverse forest coverage worldwide.
In order to estimate how much European forests contribute to our EU 2030 climate targets by removing CO2 from the atmosphere, the LULUCF Regulation required Member States to submit National Forestry Accounting Plans.
The Commission has published its assessment of Member States' draft plans to implement the EU's Energy Union objectives, and in particular the agreed EU 2030 energy and climate targets.
The KC for Territorial Policies organises a Workshop on Territorial Indicators on 13th – 14th March 2019, in Ispra, Italy.
