Update from EEA

1. Update from EEA • Hazard Report, • improving the information base and • forthcoming activities EEA/JRC – flood impact data base

2. EEA/JRC technical report 13/2010http://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/natural-hazards-and-technological-accidents • - content: overview on the various impacts of hazards in EEA321998-2009, including spatial analysis, trends, management options, data gaps and information needs • covering storm, extreme temperature, forest fires, WSD, floods, avalanches, landslides, earthquakes and volcanoes, oil spill, industrial accidents, toxic spills • mainly based on data from EM-DAT (CRED), NatCatSERVICE (MunichRe), EFFIS (JRC) and MARS (JRC).

3. Impacts of natural hazards in Europe 1998-2009 #3 #1 Disasters caused by natural hazards caused nearly100,000 fatalities and about 150 billion € in overall losses Source: EM-DAT

4. Significant flood disasters 2003-2009

5. (Some) key messages from the Hazard report • The number and impacts of disasters have increased due to increased human activity accumulation and economic assests in hazard-prone anreas and better reporting. The share of losses attributable to climate change cannot be determined accurately, but is likely to increase in the future. • Extreme temperature events caused the highest number of human fatalities. Whereas Technological accidents caused the most severe ecosystem impacts. • Flooding and storms were the most costly hazards. The overall losses recorded in the study period added up to about EUR 52 billion for floods and EUR 44 billion for storms. • More effort is needed to implement an Integrated Risk Management (IRM) approach that includes prevention, preparedness, response and recovery for all hazards across Europe. • Despite recent improvements in the information and databases on several types of hazards, establishing more comprehensive information systems would significantly improve the analysis and assessment of the impacts.

6. Data issues: Do we get a comprehensive overview? …yes but no… A combination of several global DB can give a good overview for some hazards, but not for all.

7. Improving the information base on floods

8. Risk management cycle – relevant on different scalesEU to local

9. Common concept for EU flood information History: Past events & disasters Presence: current hazards/risks Future: Forecast & scenarios EU level information

10. Information needs and data gaps related to floods Lack of comprehensive overview on flood events in Europe Needs include: • Further spatial information (vector data, spatial resolution, GIS-data) • Inclusion of more events and impacts (e.g. including impacts on ecosystems/ecosystem services, smaller events) • Improved and standardized definitions and terminology for economic losses and/or damage costs (e.g. including reconstruction costs), affected people, etc. • Making more data publicly accessible • Validation of country specific data by MS and QA/QC in general • Harmonization of methodologies, data and data models. >> goes beyond legal requirements of FD!!

11. Potential users of information on floods • DG ENV (FD) • DG ECHO (e.g. Risk mapping and assessment, P&P) • DG CLIM (e.g. Climate change vulnerability issues) • DG SANCO (e.g. Flooding and health) • DG REGIO (e.g. EUSF) • DG MARKT (e.g. insurance & floods) • DG JRC, RTD (research) • WHO/EUROPE (e.g. indicators in flood exposure) • CRED/EM-DAT (e.g. Microdis report health/flooding) • others (e.g. UNISDR, re/insurance companies, etc.) • and…EEA >> it makes sense to collect the information once and to use it several times (SEISprinciple)

12. 2012 Water Report: flood vulnerability assessment IP ICM: 1.4.3.d • spatial pattern of flooding (incl. frequency, severity, trends) • impacts of flooding – fatalities, displacement, loss, economic aspects, health risk – water quality. • overview types of flooding incl. flash floods, urban flooding, etc.; focus on urban aspect (particularly with respect to management and adaptation) • illustrate using case studies (incl. link to NATECH) • address FRM including policy and measures • capture land-use and management angle (making space for water). • address Sustainable Urban Drainage. • capture adaptation angle (focus upon urban adaptation) • future scenarios (role of CC in changing flood severity, frequency, spatial pattern, impact of implementing measures)

13. 2012 EEA-JRC-WHO CCIVA report • Intended audience: policymakers at European and national level and informed public • Past, present and projected climate change and impacts through indicators (e.g. river flow, floods, fatalities, losses) • Vulnerability and risk analysis (?? Make use of PFRA??) • Summary and awareness raising of/for adaptation actions (EU, national) • Data gaps, uncertainties and future needs • information sharing (ACE)

14. EU Climate Change Adaptation Clearinghouse • Developed with Contractor to DG CLIMA, up to Feb 2012, EEA to maintain and manage afterwards • DG CLIMA + ENV manage, EEA and JRC in management group (other DGs involved like DG SANCO, AGRI, MARE, REGIO, RTD) • Countries, researchers, others in WG on knowledge base • Various prototypes to be tested/evaluated in 2011 by User Forum

15. Ongoing activities JRC >> ECHO & GMES • EFAS: European Flood Alert System • Part of GMES Initial Operations (GIO) “emergency management early warning service” • Outsourced in 2011(open tenders in preparation) • Realtime river flow data collection (GRDC-ETNR) • Realtime and historical meteo data collection • EFAS system running • Dissemination to COM/ECHO and MS hydro services • R&D (JRC) • Products: • Early flood warnings for ECHO/MIC and MS flood forecasting authorities • Overview of ongoing flooding, as reported/measured by MS • Weblinks to all relevant European flood authorities, for national flood alerts & info • Newspaper articles related to floods • GMES “emergency management rapid mapping service” (currently done under SAFER) (incl floods rapid mapping) • Coordinated by JRC; outsourced to industry • Development and testing of pan-African and Global Flood Early Warning and Flood Detection tools

16. Ongoing activities JRC >> ENV & EEA • Evaluating future European water scenarios: • Pan-European Land Use Change modelling • 100m resolution • Linking water demand/use data • Pan-European Hydrological modelling using: • Climate change scenarios • Land use change scenarios & related water demand scenarios • Evaluation of water retention measures • Evaluating effects on: • Hydrological extremes: floods, droughts & water scarcity • Hydropower • River navigation

17. Spatial data (several products from GMES GIO Land and/or ER) EU Flood Impact DB + MS data / validation Impact data (source e.g.: EM-DAT) + CCA (CLIM) MS; FD PRFA reporting P+P (ECHO) EUSF (REGIO) Flood Directive (ENV) SoE Vulnerability & Risk Assessments (EEA) Flood Modelling + Research (JRC, RTD) Health Issues (SANCO) EU Flood Impact DB (JRC/EAA)

18. Steps to establish a flood impact DB • Data extraction per country from EM-DAT database • Reconstruction of flood location/extent • MS to verify/modify/add data / reconstruction • Compilation of database (incl. QC/QA) & link to WISE & EU Floods Portal (EEA/JRC)

19. EU Flood impact DB – State of Play • State of play:--- more cooperative approach with JRC • cooperation with CRED (EM-DAT as basic data) established • first contact with SAFER/GMES ER (spatial extent) done • working paper incl. working plan under development (EEA/JRC) • ETCs SIA (survey on national & scientific data bases)and CCA (support for working paper and meeting) on board • looking for some test cases (pilot phase): volunteers are more than welcome… • Need for: • good coordination with FD reporting (EEA/JRC) • keep additional workload as small as possible for MS • interim evaluation at an expert workshop on flood data (May 2011).

20. Relevant question for flood drafting group • How to take forward past flood data base activity as going beyond the Flood Directive? • Willingness to cooperate in EEA/JRC activity, validating/improve global data base information