Climate Change Adaptation Measures Toolbox

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This page provides a comprehensive and easy to use toolbox of possible adaptation measures. Please select one or more of the group filters below to obtain detailed information on the measures of interest.

Please find more information in the ICPDR Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change.

Increase water retention

  • Legal legitimating the creation of retention areas

  • Increase water retention properties of the landscape, e.g. by restoring bogs/swamps and wetlands

  • Increase of soil-water holding capacity

  • Increase in water retention properties

  • Implementation of integrative flood prevention programs to support flood-preventions measures with retention

Increasing energy efficiency

  • Increase of energy efficiency by 20% by 2020

Increasing protected areas

  • Securing options for the migration of species between sites of natural fauna and flora

  • Strengthening the capacity of personnel in protected natural resources

  • Implementation of the Danube River Network of Protected Areas (DANUBEPARKS)

  • Implementation of the reconstruction of the needed habitats and the continuation of these efforts