Climate change impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2016

Climate change impacts on environmental systems
The general pattern shows mostly positive impacts
in northern and Alpine Europe (with the notable
exception of biodiversity), predominantly negative
impacts in southern Europe and mixed impacts in
continental Europe. Interestingly, impacts for Atlantic
Europe are assessed as predominantly negative.
A more detailed discussion of this table is beyond
the scope of the report, and the interested reader
is invited to consult the original publication for
detailed information on the underlying methods and
assumptions, as well as an in-depth discussion of the
results.
The results of the IPCC and CLIMSAVE assessments
show similar patterns to those of the indicator‐based
climate impact assessments in this report:
predominantly negative effects are projected for
warmer regions in southern Europe, positive effects
prevail in cooler regions in northern Europe and a
balance of positive and negative effects is expected
in temperate regions in continental and Atlantic
Europe, with some disagreement for the latter region.
Further information on cross-sectoral climate change
assessments in Europe, including the CLIMSAVE
assessment, is available in Section 6.2.
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