The European Climate Adaptation Platform Climate-ADAPT - a partnership between the European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA) - aims to help a wide range of users access and share data and information in support of better-informed decision-making on climate change adaptation in Europe.
Its intended target audience includes governmental decision-makers and the organizations supporting them in the development, implementation and evaluation of climate change adaptation strategies, plans and actions at EU, transnational, national and sub-national levels. Experts from EU-funded research projects and various governance levels acting on policy processes provide information to the platform. The main task of the platform is to inform its users about adaptation policy at EU level and provide an entry point to other sources of adaptation information in Europe.
The platform includes a database that contains quality checked information that can be easily searched. It organizes information under the following main entry points:
- EU adaptation policy, adaptation in EU policy sectors (agriculture, biodiversity, coastal areas, forestry, water management, marine and fisheries, ecosystem-based ppproaches, disaster risk reduction, buildings, energy, transport, health, urban)
- Countries, transnational regions, cities
- Knowledge, including topics, data and indicators, research and innovation projects, tools, etc.
- Networks
Climate-ADAPT is maintained by the EEA with the support of the European Topic Centre on Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation (ETC/CCA).