Indicator Specification

Agriculture and forestry

Indicator Specification

Indicator codes: CLIM 042

Published 08 Sep 2008 Last modified 09 Feb 2021

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Topics: Climate change adaptation

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Projected crop yield changes between the 2080s and the reference period 1961-1990

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This indicator is discontinued because data availability does not fully meet the requirements for EEA indicators.

Updated information on this topic is available in Sections 4.1 and 4.2 of the EEA Report No 12/2012 (http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/climate-impacts-and-vulnerability-2012).

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Indicator definition

Projected crop yield changes between the 2080s and the reference period 1961-1990

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http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2008_4/pp161-192CC2008Ch6_7Adaptation_Consequences.pdf

Policy context and targets

Context description

In April 2009 the European Commission presented a White Paper on the framework for adaptation policies and measures to reduce the European Union's vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. The aim is to increase the resilience to climate change of health, property and the productive functions of land, inter alia by improving the management of water resources and ecosystems. More knowledge is needed on climate impact and vulnerability but a considerable amount of information and research already exists which can be shared better through a proposed Clearing House Mechanism. The White Paper stresses the need to mainstream adaptation into existing and new EU policies. A number of Member States have already taken action and several have prepared national adaptation plans. The EU is also developing actions to enhance and finance adaptation in developing countries as part of a new post-2012 global climate agreement expected in Copenhagen (Dec. 2009). For more information see: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/adaptation/index_en.htm