Fostering local just resilience with the Policy Support Facility

The EU Policy Support Facility, an European Commission initiative launched to assist local and regional authorities develop and implement adaptation strategies under the Covenant of Mayors – Europe, has now made available three short videos on the webinar series “Fostering local, just resilience” as a tool for cities and regions who want to learn more about how their peers are accelerating adaptation, reducing risk of disaster, and implementing a just climate adaptation.

Athens (Greece), Cascais (Portugal), Malmö (Sweden) and Zagreb (Croatia), as well as speakers from the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Metropolitan Institute of Bratislava and the Riga Energy Agency shared insights on their experiences on a wide variety of related topics such us how to integrate the social dimension in planning and what the local needs to manage disaster risk are.

Watch the videos here:  “Speeding up adaptation to reduce the risk of disasters”, and “Implementing a just climate adaptation” 

The video about the session “Navigating the EU policy and financial landscape” informs about the functioning and main objectives of the new EU Policy Support Facility, a tailored programme to help local authorities move from planning to implementation of adaptation action, and provides an overview of the financing and funding opportunities at the EU level that can help cities and regions to put adaptation plans into action.

To learn more about the EU Policy Support Facility, visit here.