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Water in climate change

A CIPRA background report

Alpine rivers supply more than 170 millions of people with water. Climate change is going to reduce this water availability in the Alps and also in other regions. Water demand will rise as well as the competition between different stakeholder groups. In the 31-page compact CIPRA presents reports showing the effects from climate change to water utility, as well as political instruments and good practice examples.

Download report: Water in climate change

Source: CIPRA International (2011): Water in Climate Change. Schaan. 31 p.

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Compacts CIPRA

Through the project “cc.alps” CIPRA investigates climate measures in the Alps. CIPRA brings together climate protection and climate adaptation activities in the Alps (hereinafter these activities are defined as climate

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