Outlook on climate change adaptation

Biodiversity Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and can therefore continue providing ecosystem services like water provisioning, carbon sequestration and preventing floods. Ecosystem and biodiversity management is hence important

However, only Poland’s National Adaptation Strategy mentions the importance of monitoring the reaction of trees to climate change by observing phenological changes in tree cover, particularly in sensitive mountain areas (Ministry of the Environment Poland, 2013). Another example of adaptation is the installed monitoring and forecasting system for forest fires TRANSGREEN (Integrated transport and green infrastructure planning in the Danube- Carpathian region for the benefit of people and nature) aims to contribute to safer and environmentally-friendly road and rail networks in mountainous regions of the Danube Basin with a special focus on the Carpathian Mountains. It will do so by improving planning frameworks and developing concrete environmentally-friendly and safe road and rail transport solutions taking into account elements of Green Infrastructure, in particular ecological corridors. Innovative pilot actions (in Beskydy (CZ-SK), Miskolc-Kosice-Uzhgorod (HU-SK-UA), Tirgu Mures-Iasi and Arad (Radna)-Deva (RO)) will focus on ecological corridors crossed by EU TEN-T road and rail projects in the Carpathians. An interdisciplinary partnership comprised of planners, economists, engineers, and ecologists will integrate and apply their specific knowledge across the region and cooperate on developing Guidelines on integrated transport infrastructure planning, construction, management and monitoring, taking into account aspects of road safety and biodiversity conservation. TRANSGREEN (January 2017–June 2019)

in Slovakia or annual protection plans elaborated at the level of forest districts (EEA, 2016e; Mateescu et al., 2014). Further, the EU-member states Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic take part in the LIFE+ project FUTMON (Futmon, 2016), which provides data on climate change and the reactions of forest ecosystems.

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