Supporting the EU mission
“Climate change is happening today, so we have to build a more resilient tomorrow” (European Commission, 2021).
The impacts of climate change are increasingly frequent: these result in economic losses, environmental degradation and affect the health and well-being of people all around Europe – and globally-, underlying the need to find adaptation strategies on top of mitigation strategies.
In 2021, the European Commission adopted a new strategy on adaptation to climate change, turned into one of the EU Missions, providing direction and calling for cooperation and concrete solutions to make Europe climate resilient by 2050. Communities and regions are key catalysers where this change can be driven, but guidance is needed for them to accompany and assist citizens and economies in adapting to climate change.
REGILIENCE is aligned with the Horizon Europe proposed Mission “Prepare Europe for climate disruptions and accelerate the transformation to a climate-resilient and just Europe by 2030” which aims to “Accelerate the transformation to a climate-resilient future, supporting 200 European communities and regions in co-creating a vision, innovation pathways, and developing solutions for transformative adaptation within safe planetary boundaries”.
This provides an outlook for the direction and ambition which shall be considered in REGILIENCE, and therefore we have included an added-value replication focus to 10 vulnerable regions in our activities.
It is guided by the European Green Deal and builds on a combination of Innovation Packages for transformational adaptation of European regions and communities (Innovation Actions, subtopic 1) and a Coordination and Support Action (CSA, subtopic 2).