GREENPASS enables cities and municipalities to evaluate, optimize and certify development projects with regard to 6 main urban challenges that will ensure resilience to climate change. In addition, it will also evaluate the effectiveness of the considered costs.

GREENPASS is the first comprehensive tool for the development of climate-resilient cities worldwide. Based on expert systems, it analyzes up to 6 basic challenges: climate, water, air, biodiversity, energy and costs. (National Recycling Agency Slovakia, more at We love vibrant cities)

GREENPASS enables cities and municipalities to evaluate, optimize and certify development projects with regard to 6 main urban challenges that will ensure resilience to climate change. In addition, it will also evaluate the effectiveness of the considered costs. GREENPASS is the first comprehensive tool for the development of climate-resilient cities worldwide. Based on expert systems, it analyzes up to 6 basic challenges: climate, water, air, biodiversity, energy and costs. Join us and let's set measurable indicators of the environment we live in together!

An environmental study of the assessment of the impact of buildings on the landscape and inhabitants is a professional assessment of the impact of a planned construction or landscaping project on the surrounding environment and at the same time determining the impact of the immediate surroundings on the actual construction of the project. The goal is to demonstrate measurable outputs of the intended behavior in the country, which will provide a multi-criteria evaluation of the project for the resulting approval process.

The basic parameters of environmental studies are:

• assessment of the formation of a heat island and the effect of radiation on the location (e.g. increase in actual and perceived temperature in the project location and the immediate surroundings),

• loading or consumption of CO2 (with other greenhouse and monitored gases, if these are monitored in the project location),

• green effect on the project location (shading, evapotranspiration, increase in thermal comfort),

• management of rainwater and drainage characteristics of the area,

• wind behavior in the locality (preserving natural ventilation corridors to limit the occurrence of negative impacts due to the dynamic effect of wind),

• important local parameters that are specific or key for the given area, e.g. assessment of airborne dust concentration in industrial areas. ( National Recycling Agency Slovakia, abbreviated NARA-SK)

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Example: GREENPASS® – A living city breathes and survives the one who looks at it, EU Taxonomy and Slovakia Program 2021 – 2027

EURAF welcomes many of the commitments in yesterday's European Commission communication entitled Securing our future: Europe's 2040 climate target and the path to climate neutrality by 2050, building a sustainable, fair and prosperous society. “We regret that the section stating that Europe's combined forestry and agriculture sector could be completely climate neutral by 2035 was deleted at the last minute.

However, we expect that neutrality in the soil sector is still possible for the European Union until 2040, but only if an emergency program of planting trees outside the forest is in place. It should focus on areas where trees will bring the greatest benefit to the environment and carbon sequestration, and where there will be the least reduction in agricultural production," says the EURAF press release. (More on lesmedium.sk)

According to the EU climate service, for the first time global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C for an entire year. Maintaining long-term (more…)

The elections to the European Parliament in 2024 will shape the political (more…)

The first month of 2024 was the warmest January on record, climate scientists from the European Union said on Thursday. (more…)

Forests, which cover a third of the Earth's surface, are key to carbon storage and the water cycle, although the full extent of their impact has yet to be fully understood. In a new study  published in Nature Communications  researchers from Stockholm University and international colleagues are providing new insight into the complex role that forests play in the climate system and water cycle. The research, involving scientists from 11 institutions in five countries, including Sweden, the United Kingdom, Finland, Germany and Brazil, points to a complex relationship between forests, particularly their emissions of organic gases, and the formation of reflective clouds that could affect global temperatures. (Stockholm University, more at phys.org)

An international team of scientists has created a tool that can help raise climate awareness and global climate action by highlighting message themes that have been shown to be effective through experimental research. The web tool and the methods underlying its creation appear in the journal Science Advances .

The tool is based on a study involving nearly 250 researchers that attracted more than 59,000 participants from 63 countries, including Algeria, China, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Peru and the United States.

"We tested the effectiveness of different messages to address climate change and created a tool that both policymakers and practitioners can deploy to support climate policy or encourage action," says Madalina Vlasceanu, assistant professor at New York University. of psychology and the main author of the article. (New York University, more at phys.org)

The new head of the World Meteorological Organization said that it seems to her that the pace  climate change caused by human activity is accelerating and that warming has triggered more arctic cold outbreaks in North America and Europe, two issues that divide climate scientists. In her first sit-down interview since taking office last month, WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo told The Associated Press that while her agency said last year was 1.48 degrees Celsius (2.66 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, the world it must "continue with the ambition of trying not to reach 1.5" degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in the longer term, not just one year. "We have a trend that is really worrying. The trend is very clear." (Seth Borenstein, more at washingtonpost.com )

From deadly floods in California to devastating fires in Chile, scientists say the world is unprepared for climate change (more…)

The announcement by the European Commission outlines proposals for climate targets until 2040, which aim to reduce emissions (more…)

Climate change is the decisive crisis of our time and according to the Organization (more…)

At the 14th Climate-ADAPT Webinar, new and updated Climate-ADAPT knowledge resources were presented, which (more…)

For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to inform the risk of property damage; indicates a hurricane on a scale from Category 1 (wind speeds between 74-95 mph) to Category 5 (wind speeds of 158 mph or greater).

But as rising ocean temperatures contribute to increasingly intense and destructive hurricanes, climatologists Michael Wehner of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and James Kossin of the First Street Foundation questioned whether an open Category 5 is enough to signal a risk of hurricane damage in a warming climate.

So they reviewed and detailed their extensive research in a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ), where they also introduce a hypothetical Category 6 Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale that would include storms with wind speeds of . higher than 192 mph. (by Linda Vu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, more at phys.org)

From Berlin and Paris to Brussels and Bucharest, European farmers have taken to the streets in protest with their tractors in recent weeks. (more…)

Achieving the ambitious goal of a net-zero Europe will require the rapid expansion of many different methods of carbon removal. If done right, tomorrow's publication of the EU's 2040 climate targets and industrial carbon management strategy has the potential to join the decarbonisation certification framework and launch a significant push to remove historical and residual carbon emissions in the EU, making Europe a true leader . global carbon removal policy. However, unnecessary restrictions on the types of carbon removal technologies could hinder success. (Environmental Correspondent, more at euroreporter.co)

With European Parliament elections just months away, the European Commission will set out its next major target on Tuesday to cut global warming emissions across the bloc, with agriculture - which produces 11 percent - a key part of the equation.

Politically, the timing could hardly be worse, with farmers' protests spreading across Europe – tractors were pushed in Brussels last week – and populist politicians riding a wave of discontent.

Environmental restrictions are high on the list of farmers' grievances - both long-standing rules from the bloc's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and new ones from a sweeping environmental green deal that has yet to come into force. (Julien GIRAULT, more at phys.org)

The list of new resources implemented in the second half of 2023 includes a new information panel on adaptation policies available on the EEA portal "Climate and Energy in the EU", an update of Climate-ADAPT country profiles on adaptation measures at national levels and a new information panel for adaptation on the portal of the EU Mission for Adaptation to Climate Change.

The webinar also provided a broad overview of new developments on other topics such as the "European Climate Risk Assessment" and measures to improve the platform in the first half of 2024.

For more information, download the presentation and watch the webinar here. You can also find links to previous webinars on this Climate-ADAPT page. (More at climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu)

In addition to the Earth, humans will also pay for climate change, whose average life expectancy will be reduced by approximately six months. The alarm was raised by a study by the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and the New School for Social Research in the United States, published in the open access journal PLOS Climate.

According to the research, an increase in temperature of just one degree Celsius could deprive people of around five months of life, with women and people in developing countries disproportionately affected. Temperature and precipitation, two indicative signs of climate change, are the cause of important population health conditions, from acute and direct, such as natural disasters such as floods and heat waves, to indirect, but equally devastating, such as , development of respiratory and mental diseases. (Lucrezia Parpaglioni)

Climate risk assessments are essential and support the development of a regional plan and strategy for adapting to climate change. MIP4Adapt has published a DIY Climate Change Risk and Vulnerability Assessment guide to support regions and local authorities in carrying out climate risk assessments.

The do-it-yourself manual describes the essential elements of climate risk assessment, from site preparation to assessing climate outcomes, such as the risks and opportunities a region may experience.

Slow-onset changes and extreme weather-related events can lead to climate-related hazards. These hazards may affect a region or local authority in terms of their:

· People

· Ecosystems and species

· Economic, social and cultural assets a

· Services.

(More on climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu)