On 18 May 2020 at 12:30 (CEST), CMCC is holding a webinar on 'Exploring Potential Adaptation Options for Policy and Decision-Makers'.
Climate-ADAPT provides a catalogue of potential adaptation options that can be explored by climate impacts and adaptation sectors of interest. The catalogue aims at supporting policy and decision-makers, in particular at the local and regional scale, in their efforts to cope with the effects of climate change. Climate-ADAPT adaptation options are categorized in grey, green, and soft measures. Grey measures refer to technological and engineering solutions to improve adaptation of territory, infrastructure, and people. Green measures are based on the ecosystem-based (or nature-based) approach and make use of the multiple services provided by natural ecosystems to improve resilience and adaptation capacity. Soft options include policy, legal, social, management, and financial measures that can alter human behaviour and styles of governance, contributing to improve adaptation capacity and to increase awareness on climate change issues.
This Webinar aims to improve knowledge dissemination on Climate-ADAPT adaptation options and to promote their use (e.g. for: strategic policy process, awareness raising, planning, development of guidelines). The Webinar also intends to discuss how this collection could be improved and better tailored to the real needs of users.
Agenda
- 12:30 pm – Welcome – Silvia Medri, CMCC – ETC/CCA
- 12.35 – 12:45 pm – Introduction: The European Adaptation Platform Climate-ADAPT – José Ramon Picatoste, EEA
- 12:45 – 13:05 pm – The catalogue of Adaptation Options in Climate-ADAPT – Emiliano Ramieri, Thetis – ETC/CCA
- 1:05 – 1:20 pm – An example of how Climate-ADAPT Adaptation Options are used in Europe – Spyridoula Ntemiri, Project Manager on Climate Change issues at the Green Fund GR/LIFE-IP AdaptInGR project
- 1:20 pm – Q&A moderated by José Ramon Picatoste (EEA)