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Innsbruck — home to two Winter Olympics — is hosting a conference on how to cope with the warm winters and lackluster snowfall caused by global warming. Discussions will focus on eight core themes related to mountains, including ecology, natural hazards, health and spatial planning and development. A much-anticipated session Tuesday focuses on the impact of climate change on tourism.
Last season's unseasonably warm weather and lackluster snowfall caused concern not only among hotel owners and ski resort managers but also politicians. An annual tourism report recently revised by Austria's parliament contained a special section devoted to climate change. "That there's a change in the climate — that's a fact, we don't need a question mark there |
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