REGILIENCE+ Climate Adaptation resources
REGILIENCE+ shares the latest, most practical adaptation solutions from other Mission projects and delivers hands-on engagement and trainings directly to European communities. The project integrates these tailored, actionable resources and trainings directly into key portals like the Mission Portal, Climate-ADAPT, and ClimateScan.
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. Take a look at your National Adaptation resources!
What can you find in the REGILIENCE+ Resources for Climate Adaptation?
Introductory: Practical Guides, Opinion Articles and Interviews
- Practical Guides: concise, structured materials, designed to be practical and accessible that help breaking down complex challenges into engaging formats.
- Opinion Articles and Interviews: human perspective, lived experience, and personal viewpoints, featuring first-person narratives, expert interviews, and analytical commentary.
Inspirational: 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: Tools and Adaptation Options
- Tools: assists national and subnational authorities to identify, compare and prioritise adaptation options.
- Adaptation Options: strategies and measures ranging from building adaptive capacity or establishing management systems and supportive mechanisms, to implementing adaptation actions on the ground.
Transversal: Trainings and Policy Feedback
- Trainings: a structured capacity-building program designed to equip individuals, organisations, and communities with the practical skills, and technical knowledge
- Policy Feedback: policy recommendations and reports feeding the policy cycle and dialogues to inform decision-making and drive structural change.
Explore Resources
- Practical Guides
There is widespread confusion regarding the distinction between mitigation and adaptation actions when it comes to addressing climate change. This factsheet visually explains the difference and how adaptation and mitigation contribute to combating climate change.
- Adaptation Examples
Sweden, Norway and Finland national parks are improving resilience towards several climate challenges alongside mitigation efforts and piloting climate-smart solution. Project: CLAP – Climate change communication and adaptation of Arctic protected areas
- Practical Guides
As droughts become more frequent and agroclimatic zones shift, this factsheet showcase how resilience will increasingly depend on connecting data, water management, financing and innovation.
- Practical Guides
These factsheet showcase how innovative strategies and projects are being implemented to address the challenges posed by climate change in Portugal. They illustrate the practical benefits and real-world outcomes of the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change.
- Trainings
The session explored different approaches to strengthening the resilience of the agricultural sector, including the use and consideration of climate indicators and risk information, water management solutions, and financing mechanisms.
- Practical Guides
Wildfires are uncontrolled fires that may rapidly spread across vegetation, threatening ecosystems, infrastructures, and human lives. Learn about concrete actions that can be implemented on the ground to tackle wildfires.
- Practical Guides
Storms are typically characterised by rapidly changing atmospheric pressure, temperature, and moisture levels, leading to turbulent conditions. Download this quick guide for concrete solutions on the ground to tackle the impact of storms.
- Practical Guides
Floods are the most common and most costly natural disasters in Europe. Download this quick guide to learn more about the on the ground solutions for tackling river floods.
- Practical Guides
Extreme cases of snowfall and ice refer to severe winter conditions that exceed the expected conditions in the area. Download this quick guide to learn more about the solutions on the ground to cope with snow and ice.
- Practical Guides
A heatwave is an event, which is characterised by high temperatures over a prolonged period. Download this quick guide for on the ground solutions for heatwaves.
- Practical Guides
Floods are the most common and most costly natural disasters in Europe. Download this quick guide to read about the concrete actions that can be implemented on the ground to tackle flash floods.
- Practical Guides
Droughts can occur anywhere in Europe, in both high and low-precipitation areas, and at any time of the year. Download this quick guide to learn more about the concrete solutions being implemented on the ground to tackle droughts.
- Practical Guides
Coastal floods occur when seawater inundates the shore, usually due to sea level rise, storms and cyclones, and are worsened by high tide. Download this quick guide to learn more about the concrete solutions to tackle coastal flooding in your region.
- Tools
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.
- Adaptation Examples
Restoring the Lizandro River’s water courses to promote biodiversity and reduce the risk of flooding. Project: Strategic Plan for the Rehabilitation of Watercourses of Mafra (PERLA Mafra) project
- Adaptation Examples
Best practices and innovative technologies adopted by Puglia’s water operator help preserve water resources. Project: Acquedotto Pugliese
- Adaptation Examples
Navarre is proactively preserving vegetable varieties and showcasing the best-adapted cereals and other crops to each agricultural climate in the region. Project: LIFE-IP NAdapta-CC project
- Adaptation Examples
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. Project: Climate Ambitious Municipalities program
- Adaptation Examples
An online dashboard helping homeowners understand and assess clay shrink-swell risk under climate change. Project: PIISA Piloting Innovative Insurance Solutions for Adaptation
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