climate action the eu strategy on adaptation to climate change dg climate action – adaptation unit
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The EU strategy on adaptation to climate change
DG Climate Action – Adaptation Unit
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Action 6. Climate proofing the Common Agricultural Policy, Cohesion Policy, and the Common Fisheries Policy
Action 7. Making infrastructure more resilient
Action 8. Promote products & services by insurance and finance markets
Priority 3: Key vulnerable sectors
Action 4. Knowledge-gap strategy
Action 5. Climate-ADAPT
Priority 2: Better informed decision-making
Action 1. Encourage MS to adopt Adaptation Strategies and action plans
Action 2. LIFE funding, including adaptation priority areas
Action 3. Promoting adaptation action by cities along the Covenant of Mayors initiative
Priority 1: Promoting action by Member States
The EU Strategy in a Nutshell
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Action 1. Encourage MS to adopt Adaptation Strategies and action plans
• As part of the Adaptation Strategy package the Commission has provided guidelines to help Member States formulate adaptation strategies.
• The Commission is developing an ‘adaptation preparedness scoreboard’, identifying key indicators for measuring Member States’ level of readiness.
• In 2017, the Commission will assess whether action being taken in the Member States is sufficient.
• MMR (reporting by March 2015)• Scoreboard
• Relationship with MS: Climate Change Committee (WG6) & National Contact points
Priority 1: Promoting action by Member States
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Action 2. LIFE funding, including adaptation priority areas
LIFE Regulation brought about a new LIFE sub-programme, LIFE Climate Action.
Amount available (2014-2020) is 864 million euros.
Yearly calls for proposals, launched together with DG ENV LIFE.
LIFE will finance:
1) Action grants (traditional LIFE projects);
- Priority areas: floods, coastal, mountains, islands, urban, drought
2) Operating grants to NGOs
3) capacity building grants.
4) Integrated projects
Priority 1: Promoting action by Member States
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Action 3. Promoting adaptation action by cities along the Covenant of Mayors initiative
Launched March 2014 - Support cities by:• Creating an opportunity to visibly commit to taking adaptation
action from the start• Holding a high-level signatory ceremony to showcase cities’
commitment to the initiative• Hosting a pan-European information event to network signatories• Engaging cities on the issue of climate adaptation through local
outreach events in Member States• Setting up a help desk for questions, information and engagement
with the initiative• Developing content material (guidance, fact sheets, online-platform
etc.) for cities to implement and communicate their commitment
Priority 1: Promoting action by Member States
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Action 4. Knowledge-gap strategy
•Horizon 2020. •Identify and prioritise knowledge gaps. The Commission is working to identify adaptation knowledge gaps and relevant tools and methodologies to address them. The findings will be fed into the programming of Horizon 2020.•EU-wide vulnerability assessments, taking into account, inter alia, the cross-sectoral EU overview of natural and manmade risks published in April 2014.
• JRC: PESETA II study, Gap PESETA (coastal, spillover effects,…), future PESETA III. On the economic impacts of climate change, was published in April 2014.
• Climate extremes, etc.
Priority 2: Better informed decision-making
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Action 5. Climate-ADAPT: •Develop interfaces with other databases and climate services•Inclusion of Copernicus (Ex-GMES) climate services
Priority 2: Better informed decision-making
Action 5. Climate-ADAPT Improving the platform: friendliness, access to information, tools.
Medium term Work Plan (2013-2018)
Regular Maintenance and updating. Quality Check.
A Time series Tool (developed by DG JRC) to visualize observed and projected climate and other data will be implemented
Dissemination and capacity building: Dissemination Contract (2013), Science/policy forums in countries without NAS (2014)
Next:
• EU Adaptation Strategy section,
• Hosting the Urban adaptation initiative
• Regional information
• Interaction with other platforms
• etc
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Action 6. Climate proofing the Common Agricultural Policy, Cohesion Policy, and the Common Fisheries Policy
Priority 3: Key vulnerable sectors
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Action 7 – More resilient infrastructure
- June 2014 - a mandate for European standardisation organisations:
- Map standards in the area of energy, transport and buildings - Identify standards that need to be revised to include adaptation
considerations.- The Adaptation Strategy package provides guidelines to help project
developers working on infrastructure and physical assets to climate-proof vulnerable investments.
- EIA Directive (Adopted April 2014)- Include adaptation considerations into the guidance documents for
CBA (and multi-criteria analysis), for :- cohesion major projects;- TEN-E proj.;(Energy)- TEN-T proj. (Transport)
- Communication on Green Infrastructure (May 2013), work on guidance to ensure mobilisation of ecosystem based approaches to adaptation.
- AA JRC - Resilience of large investments in Europe to climate change (2015)
Priority 3: Key vulnerable sectors
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Action 8. Promote products & services by insurance and finance markets
• Green paper on insurance of natural and man made disasters• Following consultation (75 replies), a summary of topics published (end
2014)• New Commission to take forward with topics
• Stakeholder dialogue with insurance and banking sector• Workshops in 2013 with bith sectors – results to be published.• Initial agreement with Insurance Europe to hold periodic meetings
Insurers- governmental stakeholders-Commission
Priority 3: Key vulnerable sectors
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