Climate adaptation in cities and regions: building the European Climate Adaptation Plan
ENVE-VIII/006
Climate adaptation in cities and regions: building the European Climate Adaptation Plan
THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS (CoR)
highlights the need to promote adaptation as a new cultural form of social and economic change, by involving the whole of society, local and regional authorities, and technical bodies;
points out that climate change poses a significant macro-economic, fiscal and financial risk, and stresses that the cost of inaction will be higher than the upfront investment required;
acknowledges that the climate crisis must also be viewed as a health crisis, and that mitigation and adaptation measures generate direct health benefits;
calls for the multi-level governance structures in Article 11 of the Governance Regulation to be made obligatory and for the section on adaptation in the NECPs to be strengthened;
calls on the Member States to set up national coordination structures on multi-level adaptation with clear criteria for organisation, distribution of competences and responsibilities;
calls strongly on the Commission to ensure that adaptation is taken adequately into account in the national and regional partnership plans provided for by the future multiannual financial framework, which need to fully ensure the involvement of local and regional authorities;
calls for the reinforcement of Climate-ADAPT by integrating existing instruments, ensuring that it becomes a single European reference hub for adaptation;
highlights the need for a ‘science to action’ approach and underlines the need to overcome the current fragmentation of data available and ensure availability and accessibility;
stresses the importance of reinforcing local and regional administrative capacity by increasing financing and technical support, and proposes the establishment of a European climate adaptation academy;
stresses that local authorities must combat misinformation and build public trust to ensure effective compliance with instructions during crises;
calls on the Commission and on Member States to reinforce coordination between post-disaster emergency operations and recovery activities supported by EU funds by fostering a rapid European support system and guaranteeing the ‘building back better’ principle;
proposes a biennial forum where different stakeholders from the local, regional, national and European levels could exchange on the state of play of the integrated framework.
highlights the need to promote adaptation as a new cultural form of social and economic change, by involving the whole of society, local and regional authorities, and technical bodies;
points out that climate change poses a significant macro-economic, fiscal and financial risk, and stresses that the cost of inaction will be higher than the upfront investment required;
acknowledges that the climate crisis must also be viewed as a health crisis, and that mitigation and adaptation measures generate direct health benefits;
calls for the multi-level governance structures in Article 11 of the Governance Regulation to be made obligatory and for the section on adaptation in the NECPs to be strengthened;
calls on the Member States to set up national coordination structures on multi-level adaptation with clear criteria for organisation, distribution of competences and responsibilities;
calls strongly on the Commission to ensure that adaptation is taken adequately into account in the national and regional partnership plans provided for by the future multiannual financial framework, which need to fully ensure the involvement of local and regional authorities;
calls for the reinforcement of Climate-ADAPT by integrating existing instruments, ensuring that it becomes a single European reference hub for adaptation;
highlights the need for a ‘science to action’ approach and underlines the need to overcome the current fragmentation of data available and ensure availability and accessibility;
stresses the importance of reinforcing local and regional administrative capacity by increasing financing and technical support, and proposes the establishment of a European climate adaptation academy;
stresses that local authorities must combat misinformation and build public trust to ensure effective compliance with instructions during crises;
calls on the Commission and on Member States to reinforce coordination between post-disaster emergency operations and recovery activities supported by EU funds by fostering a rapid European support system and guaranteeing the ‘building back better’ principle;
proposes a biennial forum where different stakeholders from the local, regional, national and European levels could exchange on the state of play of the integrated framework.
