Improving EU regions’ environmental and socioeconomic resilience to climate change (CLIMATE)

Extreme weather events attributed to climate change are expected to increase in intensity and frequency even under the best-case climate scenario (1.5°C average temperature rise), exacerbating existing territorial stresses and further challenging regional authorities’ preparedness & adaptive capacities to operationally deal with emergencies (heatwaves, floods, coastal erosion) and build climate resilience.

CLIMATE brings together 9 partners from 8 EU countries, with different levels of climate regulatory maturity & operational competency, to put in place an integrated climate governance approach that will address the root causes of territorial vulnerability and promote proactive disaster management planning. Through joint policy learning and exchanges of experiences, partners will improve their territorial policies by strengthening their capacities to:

• Advance regulatory convergence and multi-dimensional climate resilience planning;
• Highlight the role of civil protection as an integral part of climate governance;
• Deal with climate uncertainty and the lack of evidence-based risk/impact assessment;
• Employ a bottom-up, socially inclusive approach to hazards management;
• Mobilise investments for climate-resilient infrastructures.