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.

Adapting water management

  • Ecologically concerned water management following the requirements of the Water Framework Directive of the EU

  • Operation of reservoirs in such a way as to consider ecological aspects

Adapting waterway/navigation management

  • Promotion of transport on interior waterways will enhance the competitiveness of river transport relative to other modes

  • Reduction of environmental impacts

  • Providing sufficient water depth in times of low water flow

  • Integrated sediment management planning could aim to offset any potential new dredging requirements by identifying measures, such as buffer strips, which aim to prevent additional sediment (and associated nutrients, pesticides, etc.) entering the watercourse

  • Establishment of a sustainable, environmentally sound and transnationally coordinated approach in ship waste management along the Danube by (1) elaborating national ship waste management concepts, (2) implementing pilot actions and (3) developing a financing model for the operating system based on the polluter-pays principle

  • Identification of environmentally sustainable solutions for improved navigability in order to eliminate existing navigation bottlenecks taking into account likely impacts of climate change, the preservation of functioning ecosystems and planning guidelines

  • Definition of navigation fairway conditions according to ecological needs

  • Investment in education in the Danube navigation sector