ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙ
"Αναπτύσσοντας τις Δυνατότητες για την Αντιμετώπιση των
Επιπτώσεων στην Υγεία από τις Κλιματικές Αλλαγές"

NATIONAL WORKSHOP
"Building Capacities to Cope with Health Impacts of Climate Change"

ΥΛΙΚΟ ΓΙΑ ΠΡΟΕΤΟΙΜΑΣΙΑ ΠΡΙΝ ΤΟ ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙ

PRE-WORKSHOP RESOURCES

The European Environment Agency (EEA) maintains an updated database of national adaptation strategies in Europe, and provides links to the relevant strategies where available:

http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/climate/national-adaptation-strategies

Unfortunately, not all of them are available in English, but here are the ones that are:

Bulgaria: http://www2.moew.government.bg/recent_doc/international/climate/NAPCC_Final_English.doc

Czech Republic: http://www.mzp.cz/AIS/web-pub-en.nsf/$pid/MZPOBFKFL7JL/$FILE/N%C3%A1rodn%C3%AD_program_EN.pdf

Denmark: http://www.kemin.dk/Documents/Klima-%20og%20Energipolitik/klimatilpasningsstrategi_UK_web.pdf

Finland: http://www.mmm.fi/attachments/ymparisto/5h0aZ7Iid/Finlands_national_adaptation_srtrategy_julkaisu.pdf

Germany : http://www.bmu.de/files/english/pdf/application/pdf/das_gesamt_en_bf.pdf

Iceland: http://eng.umhverfisraduneyti.is/media/PDF_skrar/Stefnumorkun_i_loftslagsmalum_enlokagerd.pdf

Ireland: http://www.environ.ie/en/PublicationsDocuments/FileDownLoad,1861,en.pdf

Netherlands: http://www.vrom.nl/get.asp?file=docs/publicaties/7222.pdf&dn=7222&b=vrom

Spain: http://www.mma.es/portal/secciones/cambio_climatico/documentacion_cc/divulgacion/pdf/pnacc_ing.pdf

Sweden: http://www.sweden.gov.se/content/1/c6/09/60/02/56302ee7.pdf

UK: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2008/pdf/ukpga_20080027_en.pdf

(note that some of these are English language summaries of the original document that is only available in the national language.)

The UK impact assessment is also publicly available online:

http://www.decc.gov.uk/Media/viewfile.ashx?FilePath=85_20090310164124_e_@@_climatechangeactia.pdf&filetype=4

Released in April this year, the European Commission White Paper on Adaptation to Climate Change:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2009:0147:FIN:EN:PDF

And the Impact Assessment (see section 10.7 in annex 3 for the health chapter):

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=SEC:2009:0387:FIN:EN:PDF

Notably, this was accompanied by an EC Staff Working Document on the human, animal, and plant health impacts of climate change.  This was written with our (WHO/Europe) input: http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_threats/climate/docs/com_2009-147_en.pdf

There were two additional SWDs on Water, Coasts, and Marine Issues:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=SEC:2009:0386:FIN:EN:PDF

and Agriculture: http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/climate_change/workdoc2009_en.pdf

Another publication which could be very helpful is the PEER “Europe Adapts to Climate Change: Comparing National Adaptation Strategies” and is available online as in PDF: http://peer-initiative.org/media/m256_PEER_Report1.pdf

As part of the EC/WHO-Europe co-funded project EuroHEAT, Guidance on Heat-Health Action Plans were developed, and the resulting publication and Summary for Policy-Makers are available in PDF online:  

Guidance: http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E91347.pdf

Summary for Policy-Makers: http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E92473.pdf