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COST ACTION
European COoperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research
734 CLIVAGRI
Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on European Agriculture
www.cost734.eu
Status of the action
The Action started on November 17, 2006
and will finish on November 16, 2010.
Number of Signatories
23 countries have signed the MoU, one
country /Luxembourg/ has expressed
officially the wish to sign.
Signatories: list of countries and date of signature
•Austria
•Bulgaria
•Croatia
•Cyprus
•Czech Republic
•Denmark
•Finland
•France
•Germany
•Greece
•Hungary
•Ireland
03/11/2006
16/08/2006
13/03/2007
03/10/2006
21/11/2006
11/05/2006
12/07/2006
29/11/2006
18/05/2006
19/12/2006
07/07/2006
11/05/2006
•Luxembourg
•Italy
•Netherlands
•Norway
•Poland
•Romania
•Serbia
•Slovakia
•Slovenia
•Spain
•Switzerland
•United Kingdom
02/05/2007
17/05/2006
23/05/2006
10/05/2006
11/05/2006
25/07/2006
03/11/2006
16/02/2007
28/09/2006
19/09/2006
15/05/2006
11/05/2006
Intention
AIMS
The main objective of the Action is the evaluation of possible
impacts from climate change and variability on agriculture, and
the assessment of critical thresholds for various European
areas.
More specifically, the proposed COST Action will be structured to
achieve the following objectives:
1. The collection and review of existing agroclimatic indices and
simulation models for assessing hazard impacts on various
European agricultural areas
2. Relating hazards to climatic conditions
3. Building climate scenarios for the next few decades
4. The definition of harmonised criteria for evaluating the
impacts of climatic change and variability on agriculture
5. The definition of warning system guidelines
PHASES
Phase A Planning, operational arrangements,
establishment of WGs and inventory (First part of 1st
Year)
Phase B Main scientific work to be conducted by
each WG (End of 1st Year to end of 3rd Year)
Phase C WGs activities to be concluded with
emphasis on disseminations, reports and final
publications (4th Year)
Phase A: Inventory (1st
year, 9 months)
MC
Establish initial WGs and membership and define
initial work
Identification of end-user needs
Definition of European agricultural areas focus of
COST Action activity depending on data
availability, crop diffusion, etc.
WG1
Critical review of agroclimatic indices and simulation
models and assessment of the new needs
WG2
Inventory and collection of current
information from European regions
WG3
Inventory and collection of future climatic scenarios
WG4
Definition of standard criteria for the evaluation of
hazard impacts on agriculture in Europe
All WGs
Report to MC
climatic
COST members
Chairperson
Simone Orlandini
Vice Chairperson
Pavol Nejedlik
DC Rapporteur
Professor Giampiero Maracchi
Science Officer
Paola De Rose
Next: Carine Petit
Administrative Officer
Burcu Dagurkuden
Working Group 1
Working Group 2
Agroclimatic Indices and Models
Group Leader: Josef Eitzinger
Trends in Agroclimatic Indices and Model Outputs
Leader: Vesselin Alexandrov
co-Leader: Elena Mateescu
Remote Sensing Subgroup
Group Leader: Leonidas Toulios
Working Group 3
Climate change scenarios
Group Leader: Lucka Kajfez Bogataj
Working Group 4
Risk Assessment and Foreseen Impacts on Agriculture
Group Leader: Jorgen Edvind Olesen
co-Leader: Miroslav Trnka
External contacts: WMO
Strong scientific cooperation was defined with the
Agricultural Meteorology Division of the World Meteorological
Organization. Joint activities will be planned, as well as the possible
organisation of common meetings and conferences together with the
relevant expert teams of CAgM will be considered.
Collaborations were defined with WMO activities in the frame of
climate change impact and particularly with:
Open Program Area Group (OPAG): ET on impact of
climate risks in vulnerable areas: agrometeorological monitoring and
coping strategies; ET on drought and extreme temperatures:
preparedness and management for sustainable agriculture, rangelands,
forestry, and fisheries
WAMIS “World AgroMeteorological Information Service”
International Society of Agricultural Meteorology (INSAM)
External contacts: Joint Research Centre
The participation of delegates nominated by the
Joint research centre of Ispra, represents very
important point for the establishment of direct
cooperation with European Commission:
Institute for the protection and security of
the citizen - Agricultural and fisheries unit
Delegates:
Fabio Micale
Giampiero Genovese
External contacts: other COST Actions
COST 725
Establishing a European Phenological Data Platform
for
Climatological Applications
Andreja Susnik
COST 726
Long term changes and climatology of UV radiation over
Europe
Tor Sivertsen
COST ES0601
Advances in homogenisation methods of climate series:
an integrated approach
Vesselin Alexandrov
External contacts:
Research projects
ACCRETe
Elena Mateescu
CECILIA
Tomas Halenka
KLIMA2
IPCC
ENSEMBLES
Christian Kersebaum
Lucka Kajfez Bogatai
co-ordinated by Dave Griggs,
(Director of Climate Research at the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research)
CLAVIER
Daniela Jacob
External contacts:
EEA
A collaboration with Climate Change
and Energy Group of European Protection Agency
was also defined
EEA intend to include various indicators on changes
in plant species and growing season, e.g. in natural
ecosystems and agriculture.
External contacts: AEA Energy & Environment
AEA are currently working on the
European Commission project
'Adaptation to Climate Change in the
Agricultural Sector‘, gathering
information on national agricultural
adaptive strategies.
AEA would like to invite COST 734 to
participate in this via the use of an
online questionnaire this June.
This questionnaire is intended to
confirm and expand on the picture of
national adaptation that has emerged
to date. In particular, gathering
additional information on:
* Communication and awareness
raising
* Extension and advisory services
* Insurance and weather derivative
schemes
Web site
The web site of the Action was set up and
is now fully operational.
All participants are encouraged to send a
short CV, EoC and photo to Federica Rossi
/[email protected]/, together with
information to update the site
Publications
The following publications were supported by the
Action:
“Teaching programme of Training
Summer School on
Agrometeorological Simulation”
in collaboration with Prof. Nicolas Dalezios
“Weather,
Climate and
Farmers”
in collaboration
with WMO
Presentations and reports
Advances in homogenization methods of climate
series: An integrated approach -Vesselin AlexandrovClimate Change 2007: The Physical
Science Basis Working Group I Contribution to the
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. SPM accepted
February 1st 2007 in Paris
-Lucka Kajfez BogatajAn Overview of Environmental Hazards
Related to Crops in Greece
-Nicolas DaleziosReport on COST ACTION 734 contribution
to Rio conference
–Simone Orlandini-
Held MCM
20-22/05/2007 Poznan ( PL ) 3rd MC+WGs meeting
21-23/02/2007 Florence ( IT ) 2ndMC+WGs meeting
16-17/11/2006 Brussels ( BE ) 1st MC meeting
21/04/2006 Brussels ( BE ) Kick-off meeting of 734
Other held meetings
16/04/2007 Novi Sad ( RS ) Expert meeting
05/09/2006 Ljubljana ( SI ) Expert meeting at the EMS
Conference
17/07/2006 Helsinki ( FI ) Climate Risk Conference
Planned meetings
•31/05/2007 Brussels ( BE ) Expert meeting
Short term scientific mission
Already done
To be done
MCM2/D6 Valentin Kazandjev, BG to Austria
MCM2/D7 Veska Georgieva, BG to Austria
MCM2/D8 Christos Dominikiotis, GR to
Denmark.
MCM2/D9 Emanuel Tzinos, GR to Italy.
Self evaluation
The participation of members already
involved in previous Actions allowed the
consolidation of group and the acquired
experience represents an important point for the
success of the planned activities.
This, together with the organization of the
kick off meeting
in April 2006, allows a
reasonable start of the activities and the
establishment, after only few months from the
first MC, of a very good working team with well
defined goals and activities.
Future work plan. 1
QUESTIONNAIRES
To evaluate the data collected with the questionnaires:
understanding of the questions, number of received
answers, improvement of structures
To finish the collection of information from all the
countries
To define the method of analysis
To finalize this activity: timetable, preparation
of publication, dissemination of the results at European
level for a deep transfer of the results.
Future work plan. 2
MEETINGS
•Participation to EMS
•Next MCM, WG
WGs Activity
•Definition of case studies according to the list of priority
elaborated at 1MCM in Brussels
•Collection of data and models
•Analysis of data and preparation of written reports
•Personal activity
•The EoC is required before October 2007
Expression of commitment
Typically, an individual EoC should contain a clear, specific and
brief description of the intended contribution (ca. 2 pages),
including at least the following elements:
•Name of proposer(s), institution, contact information, title of
contribution;
•Which objective(s) of the MoU it will address;
•Which parts of the scientific programme of the MoU it is concerned
with;
•What deliverables it will produce within the Action;
•An indicative timetable for performing the proposed tasks;
•How much manpower will be approximately dedicated to the Action;
•Assurance that the necessary resources will be available;
•Foreseen collaboration;
•A short statement on previous experience in the field (incl. up to 5
relevant publications).
A good EoC should address the following criteria:
- Fit the Action's objectives;
- Originality and quality of the proposed research;
- Practical added-value to the Action;