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Launch of the 2020 Adaptation Gap Report

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The fifth edition of the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report looks at progress in planning for, financing and implementing adaptation – with a focus on nature-based solutions.  [Originally published 2021-01-14 United Nations Environment Programme: https://www.unep.org/resources/adaptation-gap-report-2020] The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the 5th edition of the Adaptation Gap Report in a high-level online press event. The event … Read more

Map the Climate in the Poznań Agglomeration!

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We invite you to watch the newest promotional video of the Polish team of the TeRRIFICA project from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. The message of our film is that all sectors of society need to get involved in climate action. In the case of the Poznań Agglomeration this is … Read more

Great examples for climate-friendly garden design in the Oldenburger Muensterland identified

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The TeRRIFICA partner University of Vechta runs competition for climate friendly gardens. A sightseeing flight with a bee, a virtual tour via video, detailed hand drawings and almost arty close-ups of insects and flowers – the variety of the submitted contributions for the competition “Climate-friendly gardens in the Oldenburger Muensterland (Germany)” was great. Thus, it … Read more

TeRRIFICA Crowdmapping Tool – Put a mark on the map and participate in the identification of regional needs and priorities!

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This website is built to collect your experiences and opinions where in your local environment climate change comes alive and is tangible. We invite you to put a mark in this interactive map of your region and ask you to explain why you decided to mark this place in terms of climate change. TeRRIFICA is … Read more

Sciences Citoyennes launches a campaign on social media to promote the TeRRIFICA crowdmapping tool in Brittany, Normandy and Pays de la Loire

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The TeRRIFICA partner Sciences Citoyennes launches a week of mobilization on social media on the dates when COP26 was expected to take place. What? Climatoscopy is an online collaborative mapping tool that allows everyone to identify places where the effects of climate change are felt: http://climatoscopie.terrifica.eu The tool also makes it possible to note good … Read more

Countries and cities in Europe urgently need to step up adaptation to climate change impacts

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Despite the increasing awareness of climate change impacts and the need to adapt, many of Europe’s cities and towns are struggling to handle the impacts of heatwaves, severe droughts and destructive floods. Two European Environment Agency (EEA) reports published on the 12th October 2020 stress the urgent need for action to improve adaptation and resilience … Read more

Together for the climate

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The Journal of the Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan features the MapujKlimat climate change mapping tool In the October 2020 edition of the Journal of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, University Life (pol. Życie Uniwersyteckie), Prof. Paweł Churski and Dr. Piotr Lupa talked about the TeRRIFICA project and the MapujKlimat climate change mapping tool (mapujklimat.terrifica.eu). … Read more

New Polish-language movies about TeRRIFICA and climate change

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The Polish team (AMU, Poznan) has prepared three new videos promoting the TeRRIFICA project and the action of mapping the effects of climate change using the crowd-mapping tool “Mapuj Klimat” (mapujklimat.terrifica.eu). Below you find a brief description of them. We encourage you to watch the materials and share them further. We are promoting the tool … Read more

Climate action right at your own front door – Launch of a competition looking for climate friendly gardens

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The TeRRIFICA partner University of Vechta launches a competition for climate friendly gardens. Over the summer months, all garden owners in the Oldenburger Muensterland (Germany) were asked to participate in the competition “Climate-friendly gardens”. The competition is the starting point of a series of actions and is based on the idea of identifying existing good-practice … Read more

Going on the field to co-create on hedgerows from different perspectives

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The co-creation team of the Brittany-Normandy-Pays de la Loire pilot region of TeRRIFICA met for a two-days seminar on the field. The team, composed of researchers in geography, sociology, ecology, but also operational experts, NGOs and professional of agriculture education, gathered around the RESP’HAIES project to co-create knowledge on hedgerows. Through a field trip in … Read more