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Improvements in efficiency instead of damage to the environment! cc.alps: CIPRA's demands on the subject of water
by zopemaster — published Dec 23, 2011 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:14 AM — filed under:
The rivers of the Alps provide 170 million people with water. Climate change will greatly reduce the availability of water in the Alps and beyond, with less rain, longer dry periods in summer and greatly reduced snowfalls in winter among the predicted consequences. The demands made of this natural resource will increase accordingly, as will competition between the various user groups. Today only about 10% of the rivers and streams of the Alps can be considered ecologically intact, i.e. they are neither polluted nor over-engineered nor compromised in terms of their flow regimes. The ecological quality of waterways and related habitats therefore calls for improvement, not further impairment. We cannot permit the last rivers to become engineered structures or depleted by the excessive abstraction of water.
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The Alps are renewed in Poschiavo
by zopemaster — published Sep 28, 2011 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:16 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
On what sort of resources are the Alps building their future? Can climate change be an opportunity? What ought to be done to ensure that young people have prospects? The Alpine Week being held in the Swiss valley of Val Poschiavo from 5 to 8 September 2012 aims to discuss just how renewable the Alps actually are.
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cc.alps: CIPRA's demands for agriculture
by zopemaster — published Aug 04, 2011 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:14 AM — filed under:
The agricultural sector is directly affected by climate change impacts but it also contributes to the release of greenhouse gases (GHG) and rising concentrations of GHG in the atmosphere. A sustainable climate response strategy in the field of agriculture involves anticipating, planning and long-term thinking from farm level to transnational level. Prominent fields of activity are sustainable land and soil management, sustainable water management, managing manure and soil carbon as well as organic agriculture as an overall strategy. As agriculture is a highly subsidized economic sector, subvention policy can be used as a lever to guide the sector to sustainability and climate neutrality.
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Climate plan for South Tyrol
by zopemaster — published Jul 29, 2011 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:16 AM — filed under:
The Province of Bolzano wants to become more energy efficient by 2050. Every inhabitant of the Province currently produces around five tonnes of carbon dioxide. The aim is to cut that figure to a mere 1.5 tonnes over the next forty years.
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Loss of biodiversity in the mountains particularly severe
by zopemaster — published Apr 13, 2011 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:16 AM — filed under: ,
A study carried out across Europe using new measurement methods has shown that climate change impacting particularly heavily on plants in mountain regions. The vastly different mountain ecosystems are being recorded on a very small and accurate scale using special computer models.
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cc.alps climate project: win-win with science
by zopemaster — published Mar 29, 2011 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:16 AM — filed under:
Swiss economic geographer Bruno Abegg has been working with CIPRA for three years. A scientist and a political organisation – how can that work? “It is a clash between two ways of thinking,” says the 45-year-old, which is precisely what he finds so exciting. As the scientific director of the cc.alps project he examines the way in which regions, communities and businesses in the Alps are responding to climate change. CIPRA campaigns to ensure that climate response measures are sustainable. “My research work has always been application-oriented,” says Abegg, “which is why it’s important to me that my findings flow into practical work for the environment.”
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Alpine Town of the Year Association: “No town can afford to ignore climate change mitigation”
by zopemaster — published Mar 29, 2011 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:16 AM — filed under: ,
Hubert Buhl talks about towns that are pioneering climate change mitigation, environmental role models, and an award capable of changing entire communities.
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Changing forests
by zopemaster — published Mar 09, 2011 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:16 AM — filed under: ,
The seminar titled Forestry and Climate Change - Thinking One Step Ahead! looks at the consequences of global warming on the timber industry, forestry and its functions. What sort of strategies are needed to ensure the sustainable development of the forest within the context of regional development?
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Network of municipalities: new approaches to climate change mitigation
by zopemaster — published Jan 21, 2011 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:16 AM — filed under: ,
Over the next two years twenty climate change mitigation projects are to be co-financed with around EUR 280,000 by the Alliance in the Alps local authority network. The strategies adopted by local authorities to deal with climate change vary greatly.
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Biodiversity in times of climate change: management or wilderness?
by zopemaster — published Dec 01, 2010 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:16 AM — filed under: ,
The concrete impact of climate change on biodiversity is still uncertain. However it is expected to be visible particularly in the behaviour of the flora and fauna in the Alps and also to be different for each species. The habitat of butterflies such as the marbled ringlet (Erebia montana) is set to shrink, alike the grouse's. But in a different way, because the grouse is more severely impacted by land use than by climate change.
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