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Civil protection act (Act no. 82 of 12 June 2008)

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This law requires the Civil Protection and Security Council in the Ministry of Justice to create a civil protection policy once every three years. It also requires the National Commissioner of Police to handle day-to-day civil protection matters, including disaster response.

This sector involves activities to move goods and people, alongside the storage of products.

This sector involves activities that impart knowledge and skills to individuals, including formal schooling, vocational training and educational support.

This sector provides communication services, software development, and IT solutions.

The activities of industries that transforms raw materials into finished goods through industrial processes.

Terrestrial means "of the earth" and relates to the risks to ecological system that includes all living organisms and their interactions within land-based environments, such as forests, grasslands, and deserts.

The cryosphere is the frozen part of the Earth—it includes sea ice, glaciers, snow, and ice sheets. It helps regulate the climate and weather by reflecting sunlight. Rising temperatures are causing melting, leading to sea ice loss, glacier collapse, and glacier landslides and avalanches. This threatens the livelihoods of around 700 million people who rely on the cryosphere for food, water security, and cultural practices.

Geohazards are adverse geological phenomenon's that are capable of causing widespread damage or loss to property, life and the environment, such as earthquakes, volcano eruptions and tsunamis. Climate change can increase the frequency and severity of some geohazards, such as landslides, and soil erosion.

An aim to achieve a quantifiable outcome within a given time-frame, set by an institution such as a national government.

Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

Risk is the potential for adverse consequences resulting from the dynamic interplay between (climate-related) hazards, exposure, and vulnerability of affected human or ecological systems.

Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

Financial actors and resources that are primarily directed towards climate change mitigation, adaptation and compensation.

An enterprise or financial institution that is usually majority-owned, backed or significantly controlled by nation-state governments.

In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, in order to moderate harm, increase resilience or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual climate change and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate change and its effects.

Höfuðborgarsvæði

Suðurnes

Vesturland

Vestfirðir

Norðurland vestra

Norðurland eystra

Austurland

Suðurland

Akraneskaupstaður

Akureyrarbær

Árneshreppur

Ásahreppur

Bláskógabyggð

Borgarbyggð

Bolungarvíkurkaupstaður

Dalabyggð

Dalvíkurbyggð

Eyja- og Miklaholtshreppur

Eyjafjarðarsveit

Fjarðabyggð

Fjallabyggð

Flóahreppur

Fljótsdalshreppur

Garðabær

Grímsnes- og Grafningshreppur

Grindavíkurbær

Grundarfjarðarbær

Grýtubakkahreppur

Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður

Hörgársveit

Hrunamannahreppur

Húnabyggð

Húnaþing vestra

Hvalfjarðarsveit

Hveragerðisbær

Ísafjarðarbær

Kaldrananeshreppur

Kjósarhreppur

Kópavogsbær

Langanesbyggð

Mosfellsbær

Múlaþing

Mýrdalshreppur

Norðurþing

Rangárþing eystra

Rangárþing ytra

Reykhólahreppur

Reykjanesbær

Reykjavíkurborg

Svalbarðsstrandarhreppur

Suðurnesjabær

Súðavíkurhreppur

Seltjarnarnesbær

Sveitarfélagið Árborg

Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður

Skaftárhreppur

Skagabyggð

Skorradalshreppur

Skagafjörður

Snæfellsbær

Skeiða- og Gnúpverjahreppur

Sveitarfélagið Ölfus

Sveitarfélagið Skagaströnd

Strandabyggð

Stykkishólmsbær

Sveitarfélagið Vogar

Tálknafjarðarhreppur

Þingeyjarsveit

Tjörneshreppur

Vestmannaeyjabær

Vesturbyggð

Vopnafjarðarhreppur

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