Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean

Wolfgang Cramer; Joël Guiot; Marianela Fader; Joaquim Garrabou; Jean Pierre Gattuso; Ana Iglesias; Manfred A. Lange; Piero Lionello; Maria Carmen Llasat; Shlomit Paz; Josep Peñuelas; Maria Snoussi; Andrea Toreti; Michael N. Tsimplis; Elena Xoplaki

doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0299-2

Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean

Wolfgang Cramer, Joël Guiot, Marianela Fader, Joaquim Garrabou, Jean Pierre Gattuso, Ana Iglesias, Manfred A. Lange, Piero Lionello, Maria Carmen Llasat, Shlomit Paz, Josep Peñuelas, Maria Snoussi, Andrea Toreti, Michael N. Tsimplis, Elena Xoplaki

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Recent accelerated climate change has exacerbated existing environmental problems in the Mediterranean Basin that are caused by the combination of changes in land use, increasing pollution and declining biodiversity. For five broad and interconnected impact domains (water, ecosystems, food, health and security), current change and future scenarios consistently point to significant and increasing risks during the coming decades. Policies for the sustainable development of Mediterranean countries need to mitigate these risks and consider adaptation options, but currently lack adequate information — particularly for the most vulnerable southern Mediterranean societies, where fewer systematic observations schemes and impact models are based. A dedicated effort to synthesize existing scientific knowledge across disciplines is underway and aims to provide a better understanding of the combined risks posed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	972-980
Number of pages	9
Journal	Nature Climate Change
Volume	8
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0299-2
State	Published - 1 Nov 2018

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Funding Information:
This work has benefited from discussions with V. Alary (CIRAD, France), W.W.L. Cheung (Univ. British Columbia, Canada), K. Radunsky (Umweltbundesamt, Austria), J. Le Tellier (Plan Bleu, France), C. Webster (MedPAN, France) and many participants at five MedECC workshops between October 2016 and April 2018. Coordination was supported by the Laboratory of Excellence OT-Med (A*MIdex project no. 11-IDEX-0001-02).

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Cramer, W., Guiot, J., Fader, M., Garrabou, J., Gattuso, J. P., Iglesias, A., Lange, M. A., Lionello, P., Llasat, M. C., Paz, S., Peñuelas, J., Snoussi, M., Toreti, A., Tsimplis, M. N., & Xoplaki, E. (2018). Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean. Nature Climate Change, 8(11), 972-980. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0299-2

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