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Adaptation Futures Session „Climate Adaptation Platforms“ 12 May 2016

Sharing adaptation knowledge across Europe – Climate-ADAPT

Kati Mattern (EEA), Emiliano Ramieri (Thetis), Clare Downing (UKCIP)

Sharing Adaptation knowledge across Europe – Climate-ADAPT The 2013 EU Adaptation Strategy

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

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Climate-ADAPT framework (URL: http://climateadapt.eea.europa.eu)

Mandate:

• Launched 2012,
• supports developing

and implementing adaptation strategies, policies and actions Intended Users:

• Experts and decision

makers on EU, transnational, national, sub-national levels

• research institutes

Maintenance:

• Funded and carried
• ut by EEA with DG

CLIMA, supported by ETC/CCA

• Transparency via work

plan

• Eionet meeting
• Webinar with users on

case studies

• Webinar with research

community

• New webinar autumn

2016

• Bimonthly newsletter

Interaction with users and information providers

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Dissemination of Climate-ADAPT news

Select the knowledge according to our mandate

Climate-ADAPT Main EU funded research projects Transnational platforms: projects relevant from transregional perspective National platforms: National adaptation research databases

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Presenting the knowledge: New features 2016

Improved overview and access to country and regions information

Mayors Adapt city profiles Content Update 2015/2016 Improved/new features

Improved MRE guidance (06/2016) Updated and harmonized European countries policy overview (11/2015) Uupdated European Sector Policies Information (06/2016) More systematic and transparent database update (12/2015) Improved visualization of spatial climate data and Time Series Tool (11/2015) Interactive urban vulnerability maps (06/2015)

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Share experiences with partners

Challenges and lessons learned

Funding platforms Understanding, engaging with users Identifying maintaining relevant information Presenting relevant information Design, technical elements of platforms Linking across sectors, scales and platforms Monitoring, evaluating improving platforms

Evaluate: Regular database content analysis (February 2015)

Number of items per adaptation element

Distribution of DB items per adaptation element (1525 in total in Febr. 2015)

Distribution per publication year of ‘Case-studies’, ‘Guidance’, ‘Information portals’, ‘Publications and reports’ and ‘Tools’ types of items in the Climate-ADAPT DB (in February 2015).

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Outlook 2017

• New EU sector policy factsheets
• Update of impacts and vulnerabilities sections
• Update of DRR related features
• Climate-ADAPT evaluation
• Follow-up Adaptation platforms report?

Unique features

Large searchable database

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Climate-ADAPT key principles

• relevant information
• quality ensured information

content

• straightforward
• timely

access

• responsive to users needs
• but keep basic structure

development

eea.europa.eu

Adaptation in Europe – EEA reports

Policy developments Availability of data and information Analytical and assessment methods

Policy effectiveness / Transitions pathways (EEA Multi-annual workprogramme 2014 - 2018) Monitoring, reporting and evaluation at national level in Europe (2015)

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15 Year Content priorities Functionality/tools priorities 2014

• EU policy policy/funding
• AST update
• cities submission forms (Mayors

Adapt) and map-based search tool

• Improve spatial climate data

2015

• City information
• Include reporting under

MMR

• Overview on country information
• User interactivity

2016

• Content links with

Copernicus Climate Services

• Improve all functionalities by

migrating to a more suitable conteent management system 2017

• Content evaluation and

revision related to EU Adaptation Strategy

• Functionality evaluation and

revision related to EU Adapatation Strategy 2018

• new content required from

revised EU Adaptation Strategy

• new functionalities required from

revised EU Adaptation Strategy