REGILIENCE+ Climate Adaptation resources
Challenge
Regional and local authorities (RLAs) are on the frontline of the destructive hazards created by climate change, but they frequently struggle to protect their communities due to a critical shortfall in accessible, practical knowledge. While this information exist, it usually remains trapped in fragmented repositories and complex academic language, leaving RLA officers without the actionable tools needed for effective planning, implementation, and rapid, contextualised decision-making.
Solution
REGILIENCE+ bridges this critical gap by harvesting and sharing the latest, most practical adaptation solutions from other Mission projects and delivering hands-on engagement and training directly to European communities. By integrating these tailored, actionable resources and trainings directly into the communities and key portals like the Mission Portal, Climate-ADAPT, and ClimateScan, REGILIENCE+ ensures that vital knowledge flows directly to the local levels where it is needed most.
What can you find in the REGILIENCE+ Resources for Climate Adaptation?
Inspirational Level: Adaptation examples
- Case Studies: showcase implemented adaptation options and initiatives to create and improve the enabling conditions for adaptation at all governance scales – from local to EU level.
- Adaptation Stories: real-life examples of regional or local actions and good practices regarding the planning, funding, implementing and monitoring of climate adaptation solutions.
Technical Level: Tools and Options
- Tools: assists national and subnational authorities to identify, compare and prioritise adaptation options.
- Options: strategies and measures that are available and appropriate for addressing climate change adaptation. They range from actions that build adaptive capacity or establish management systems and supportive mechanisms, to adaptation actions implemented on the ground.
- Self-assessment tool to spot risks of maladaptation: Its objective is to help users to avoid or reduce maladaptation risks in the planning phase of adaptation actions.
Introductory Level: Practical Guides, Voices and Views
- Practical Guides: Concise, structured materials, designed to be practical and accessible that help breaking down complex challenges into engaging formats.
- Voices and Views: human perspective, lived experience, and personal viewpoints, featuring first-person narratives, expert interviews, and analytical commentary. It includes Interviews and Opinion Articles
Transversal Level: Trainings and Policy
- Trainings: a structured capacity-building program designed to equip individuals, organisations, and communities with the practical skills, and technical knowledge
- Policy: Data-driven insights, research, and practical tools designed to inform decision-making and drive structural change.
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- Adaptation Examples
Increasing Protected Area Resilience in Sweden
Protected area adaptation in Sweden is part of a cross-border project, which also includes Norway and Finland. National parks are improving resilience towards several climate challenges alongside mitigation efforts and piloting climate-smart solution
- Practical Guides
Why does resilient agriculture matter?
- Agriculture is at the heart of Europe’s food systems,rural communities and local economies. It supports millions of livelihoods, helps maintain landscapes and ecosystems, and plays a key role in food security across the continent.
- Audience: Regional and Local authorities who want to discover tools, solutions, and transferable experiences that can support more resilient agricultural systems across Europe.
- Purpose: This presentation is part of REGILIENCE+ Open Training Session The R+ OTS are designed as five interactive webinars delivered under the series title “Contributing to Climate Resilience”. Each session focuses on a specific topic related to climate resilience, highlighting the role of different sectors such as transport, civil protection, health, water, and risk management. The structure of each session includes a presentation segment showcasing practical tools, solutions, or case studies, followed by an interactive section, such as a Q&A or panel discussion, to encourage dialogue, peer learning, and experience exchange. Each webinar is planned to last approximately 1.5 to 2 hours.
- Practical Guides
Country Factsheet: Portugal
- Portugal comprises the European mainland and the Atlantic archipelagos of Azores and Madeira, totaling 92,225 km. with a 2,612 km. coastline. Its climate is defined by a transition between Atlantic and Mediterranean influences, creating significant regional contrasts. This Facstheet highlights 10 real-life examples of regional or local action and good practices.
- Audience: Adaptation Stories showcase real-life examples of regional or local actions and good practices regarding the planning, funding, implementing and monitoring of climate adaptation solutions. They aim to inspire others to take action on climate adaptation.
- Purpose: Mission Success Stories showcase the adaptation actions and solutions that are already making a significant impact in various regions and local authorities across Europe. These stories highlight how innovative strategies and projects are being implemented to address the challenges posed by climate change. By featuring tangible examples of success, they illustrate the practical benefits and real-world outcomes of the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change.
- Trainings
Open Training Session #01 – Agriculture in focus: connecting water, risks, and financing for resilience
- Practical Guides
Dealing with Wildfires
Wildfires are uncontrolled fires that may rapidly spread across vegetation, threatening ecosystems, infrastructures, and human lives. Most wildfire ignitions are caused by human activity, including sparking from power lines or railroads, but also occur naturally under given climatic conditions. Learn about concrete actions that can be implemented on the ground to tackle wildfires.
- Practical Guides
Dealing with Storms
Storms are typically characterised by rapidly changing atmospheric pressure, temperature, and moisture levels, leading to turbulent conditions. Storms range in severity from showers with strong winds to intense, dangerous events like hurricanes, tornadoes, or blizzards, often resulting from the interaction of different air masses or extreme variations in temperature and moisture. Download this quick guide for concrete solutions on the ground to tackle the impact of storms.
- Practical Guides
Dealing with River Floods
Floods are the most common and most costly natural disasters in Europe. A river, or fluvial flood, occurs when the water level in a river or lake rises and overflows onto the neighboring land. The rise in the water level in the river could be due to excessive rain or snowmelt, and depends also on land use. A river flood can cause downstream dams and dikes to break and flood nearby areas. River floods can also overlap with Flash floods – due to intense rainfalls – and/or Coastal floods, caused by storm surges. Download this quick guide to learn more about the on the ground solutions for tackling river floods.
- Practical Guides
Dealing with Ice and Snow
Extreme cases of snowfall and ice refer to severe winter conditions that exceed the expected conditions in the area. These extreme weather events can disrupt daily life, damage infrastructure, and pose serious health risks, especially for the vulnerable groups, among others. They can also negatively impact our ability to travel, commute and transport goods. Download this quick guide to learn more about the solutions on the ground to cope with snow and ice.
- Practical Guides
Dealing with Heatwaves
A heatwave is an event, which is characterised by high temperatures over a prolonged period. In Europe, heatwaves are becoming more frequent, longer and intense (during the day and/or night). Hotter days, higher temperatures at night (tropical nights) and an increasing number of humid heatwaves are affecting human health and well-being across Europe. Download this quick guide for on the ground solutions for heatwaves.
- Practical Guides
Dealing with Flash Floods
Floods are the most common and most costly natural disasters in Europe. They are becoming more frequent and intensive due to climate change and have devastating effects, endangering lives and leading to heavy economic losses. Floods can also release pollutants stored in the ground and spread them even more widely. Download this quick guide to read about the concrete actions that can be implemented on the ground to tackle flash floods.
- Practical Guides
Dealing with Droughts and water scarcity
Droughts can occur anywhere in Europe, in both high and low-precipitation areas, and at any time of the year. When droughts occur in regions with reduced water availability, or when water resources are overexploited, their effects are exacerbated, leading to water scarcity. Download this quick guide to learn more about the concrete solutions being implemented on the ground to tackle droughts.
- Practical Guides
Dealing with Coastal Floods
Coastal floods occur when seawater inundates the shore, usually due to sea level rise, storms and cyclones, and are worsened by high tide. Flood events can damage urban and industrial areas, infrastructure and natural ecosystems through physical destruction, erosion and salinisation. Download this quick guide to learn more about the concrete solutions to tackle coastal flooding in your region.
- Tools
Self-assessment tool to spot risks of maladaptation
Many tools provide support to plan good climate adaptation but neglect the risk of maladaptation (see the definitions box). For this reason, the REGILIENCE self-assessment tool explicitly focuses on spotting potential risk factors for maladaptation as early as possible. Its objective is to help users (staff of the competent regional authority/ies for climate adaptation or of other departments and organisations e.g. consultants for the administrations, CSOs dealing with climate adaptation) to avoid or reduce maladaptation risks in the planning phase of adaptation actions. With this tool, users are guided through a checklist of 17 questions, each one focusing on one risk factor for maladaptation. By simply responding to the question by selecting yes/no/partially for each of the risk factors, the maladaptive potential of the planned adaptation action is checked.
- Adaptation Examples
Nature-based Solutions enhance climate resilience in Mafra, Portugal
Restoring the Lizandro River’s water courses to promote biodiversity and reduce the risk of flooding.
- Adaptation Examples
Digital Transformation in Water Cycle Management boosts climate resilience in the Puglia region, Italy
Best practices and innovative technologies adopted by Puglia’s water operator help preserve water resources.
- Adaptation Examples
Promoting climate resilience in the agricultural sector with native seeds and better-adapted crops in Navarre, Spain
Navarre is proactively preserving vegetable varieties and showcasing the best-adapted cereals and other crops to each agricultural climate in the region.
- Adaptation Examples
Resilience Centres for vulnerable populations in Herzliya, Israel
As part of an ambitious program engaging ten Israeli mayors to advance transformative climate initiatives, the mayor of Herzliya committed to establishing 20 Resilience Centres across the city within four years.
- Adaptation Examples
Supporting homeowners to understand and adapt to soil instability in Lyon, France
An online dashboard helping homeowners understand and assess clay shrink-swell risk under climate change.
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