climaterelated risks are expected to increase in the next decades the main reasons for this the observed trends of warming and rainfall deficit are expected to persist over the coming decades as well the indicatorbased document assesses the risk of climatechangerelated natural disasters for the period until according to the document the main dangerous phenomena and processes related to climate change which can generate different levels of risk for socioeconomic and natural systems are extremely high temperatures heat waves drought floods forest fires rising sea levels rising temperature of surface waters invasive species etc