Project actions
1. Project management: The overall objective of this action is to provide a successful coordination and management of the individual action and activities in order to accomplish the project's goals and objectives within the budget constraints.
2. Base line scenario and capacity building: during this action all the information on existent model and climate forecasting scenarios and on international experiences in local adaptation plans will reviewed and analyzed.
3. Local impact assessment : This action aims at defining a shared methodology for local impact assessment. Local impact assessments will be developed by each city taking into account economic, social and environmental aspects. At the end of this action a road map for local adaptation strategies will be created to guide local authorities in developing a local adaptation strategy.
4,5,6 Local adaptation strategies: In these actions each municipality will establish its own local adaptation board (including the main stakeholders involved) and will develop the actual local adaptation plan. The three cities involved will officially approve their local adaptation plan.
7. Evaluation of project results: During this action project results will be evaluated through a peer review that aims at developing guidelines that can be implemented by other municipalities willing to develop local adaptation plans.
8. Communication and dissemination of results: This last action aims at disseminate and communicate the methodological guidelines developed within the project to a wide range of public.
Latest news
- 29 April 2013
The European Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change
Read - 09 October 2012
Launch of the European campaign “The world that you like. With the climate that you like”
Read - 03 October 2012
Sudplan: designing the transformation of European cities towards the climate change
Read - 25 September 2012
Climate Change: Consultation on the Adaptation Strategy
Read - 08 August 2012
“Step Up” on 13 October for the International Day for Disaster Reduction
Read - 08 June 2012
Climate change: the CDP snapshot of the situation
Read - 07 June 2012
The "picture" of the MIT urban planning against global warming
Read - 05 June 2012
Towards an increasingly hot Europe: the EEA’s projections
Read - 21 May 2012
Climate change: the real battle will be in the city. And here's how to tell
Read - 14 May 2012
Cities 'going in it alone' on climate change adaptation
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European Commission Environment
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ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
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Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici CMCC
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ICLEI Europe - Local governement for Sustainability
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London
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The Amsterdam City District of Nieuw-West Netherlands
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White paper - Adapting to climate change : towards a European framework for action
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ICLEI Canada - Guide and Workbook for Municipal Climate Adaptation
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Plan Bleu - Evaluation of the economic impacts of extreme events in Mediterranean countries
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