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Objectives

Climate change stands as a double challenge for humanity, calling now for both mitigation and adaptation actions. On the one hand, preventing climate change impacts requires immediate and concrete actions to be taken, so that global emissions are stabilized in the short term and reduced in the medium/long term, with a view to reach the EU’s objective of keeping global average temperature increase below 2oC compared to pre-industrial levels. On the other hand, climate change is already evident and its impacts are inevitable for the next century and beyond, irrespective of the effectiveness of any mitigation measures taken. In this context, the overall objective of the project is:

To assist societies to adapt to the new climate conditions both by minimizing the risk of damage and exploiting the new opportunities arising from a changing climate.

The purpose of the project is to enhance cooperation among selected EU regions towards avoiding risk and reaping the benefits from a changing climate. To achieve this specific objective, the project action will seek to:

  • Emphasize the need to adapt to climate change (awareness raising and understanding of opportunities & threats)
  • Support the broad public debate about adaptation strategies opened by the EC (Green Paper & Launch of Public Debate), guiding action within EU and in relation to Regional and Local Authorities
  • Jointly develop the capacities (in terms of knowledge, skilled staff, policy tools and access to EU wide regional cooperation mechanisms) of the participating regional authorities and institutions to facilitate adaptation to climate change.

Particular attention is given to five main themes / sub-objectives:

  • Identification of optimal resource allocation and efficient resource use when adapting to a changing climate;
  • Building of regional alliances and coordination of regional action towards adaptation to climate change;
  • Reduction of uncertainty and expansion of the knowledge base in adaptation to climate change;
  • Integration of adaptation into existing and forthcoming legislation & policies;
  • Elaboration of climate change adaptation strategies.
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