Climate Change Risk Assessment. Cyprus. Contract No. 22/2014 (ΠΕ 162):
The aim of the project was to provide assessment of potential impacts (opportunities and threats) from climate change, focusing on how climate risks are likely to manifest themselves over the 21st century in the absence of action. In the framework of this project the following issues were addressed:
• Assessment of climate risks in the light of methods of assessment and knowledge of climate change impacts;
• Full assessment of how climate interacts with socio-economic factors and how these drivers of risk might change in the future, for example economic growth; population change; land-use change;
• Assessment of how the effects of adaptation actions are likely to alter risk levels;
• Estimation of the magnitude of impact and the urgency of action needed for different threats and opportunities, as well as development of an understanding of the possible net effect of different risks acting together;
• Assessment of the uncertainties, limitations and confidence in the underlying evidence and analysis for different climate change risks.
Prepared for: DE-MANRE, Cyprus