The European resilience landscape – a REGILIENCE open training session

The European resilience landscape – a REGILIENCE open training session  

The REGLIENCE online training session, organized by FEDARENE, provided a holistic overview of European strategies and initiatives on climate adaptation and gave an insight into initiatives and projects supporting regions. On this occasion, FEDARENE gathered a group of experts on this topic so that the discussion could then be of genuine practical value for the session outcome. To allow all participants to interact, contribute, and exchange with the speakers during the interactive session.

• Johannes Klumpers (DG CLIMA) – explained the EU landscape on resilience including the EU adaptation strategy and the Climate Law including the links to the recently published IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report. He explained the approaches of the EU-wide climate risk assessment and the Adaptation Mission Charter. 
• Jole Lutzu (REGILIENCE) – introduced the first Mission Adaptation project cluster and provided the speakers with an introduction to the developed tools and specific case studies. 
•  Richard Smithers (MIP4ADAPT) – highlighted the opportunities for regions to receive technical support from MIP4ADAPT to build adaptation strategies and the activities of the initiative. 
• Alison De Luise (Covenant of Mayors Europe) – showcased the Policy Support Facility of the Covenant of Mayors and its initial results and ongoing activities on adaptation. She explained how the policy support facility can help local and regional authorities to move from the planning to the implementation of adaptation actions. 
• Matthias Watzak-Helmer (FEDARENE) moderated this session held on March 22^nd 2023.

The speakers provided valuable insights into their work on climate resilience and offered knowledge and inspiration. Benefits and offers for European regions and inspiring good practice solutions completed the contributions and steered fruitful discussions with the participants. The sessions stressed the importance of adaptation to reach climate resilience and underlined the need for timely actions of all actors within their fields of action and due to multi-level governance cooperation. Regions can benefit from plenty of ongoing opportunities to build up knowledge and capacities for adaptation or exchange in communities of practice. 

This event is part of the REGILIENCE open training session which aims for sharing knowledge and inspiration. You can learn more about all upcoming and past sessions and help us tailor future sessions according to your needs on the dedicated REGILIENCE page here.   The next session “Step by Step towards climate resilience” will provide insight on pathway development approaches including user experience reports held on the 21^st of April 2023 from 11 am to 13 pm. Find more info on the particular session or register here prior to the session.