Dismantling ski lifts and moving villages: Alps adapt to climate change

As Austria's temperatures rise, more landslides and forest fires are expected by the Austrian Assessment Report, according to New Strait Times.

“Just imagine, you have a relatively narrow valley and in that small space, you have a street, a railway line, maybe power lines and some houses. If a landslide hits there, there will be serious damage,” Georg Rebernig, managing director of the Austrian Environment Agency, told AFP.

“Preventing this is what we’re trying to do when we talk about a strategy for the Alps,” he said ahead of UN climate talks in Lima on December 1-12 meant to pave the way towards a global climate pact next year.

The article also sheds light to climate change adaptation actions in other alpine countries, such as Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and France, and to the C3-Alps project, which groups ministries and research institutes from this area.