Outlook on climate change adaptation

Summary of key hazards, vulnerabilities and risks

Vulnerable sectors

Key risks

Hazard

All sectors

• Threat to human health and lives • Damage to buildings and infrastructure • Loss of agricultural production • Sewage overflow • Decrease of water quality • Threats to species and ecosystems • Outbreaks of diseases • Higher flood risk during winter due to reduced snow cover

Flooding

All sectors

• Threat to human lives and property • Losses in biodiversity • Degradation of land and ecosystems • Risks inducing landslides and soil erosion • Drinking water shortages • Decrease of water quality • Less groundwater recharge • Lower productivity of hydropower • Crops have a limited tolerance for heat • Losses in crop production • Stress on animal husbandry • Economic losses

Wildfires

Water

Water scarcity, Droughts

Agriculture

Forestry

• Reduced wood production • Higher susceptibility of the forest for insect attacks, pathogens and fires • Economic losses • Stress for wetland and terrestrial ecosystems • Potential loss of peatlands, small streams, wells and floodplains • Stress for rare, endemic and vulnerable species • Changes in species composition in the mountain grasslands • Economic losses

Biodiversity

Tourism

• Less attractive landscapes

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