About Climate-ADAPT
The European Climate Adaptation Platform Climate-ADAPT is a partnership between the European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA). Climate-ADAPT is maintained by the EEA with the support of the European Topic Centre on Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation (ETC/CCA).
Climate-ADAPT aims to support Europe in adapting to climate change helping users to access and share data and information on:
- Expected climate change in Europe
- Current and future vulnerability of regions and sectors
- EU, national and transnational adaptation strategies and actions
- Adaptation case studies and potential adaptation options
- Tools that support adaptation planning
Climate-ADAPT organizes information under the following main entry points:
- EU Policy: EU Adaptation Policy, Adaptation in EU Policy Sectors (Agriculture, Biodiversity, Coastal areas, Forestry, Water management, Marine and fisheries, Ecosystem-based Approaches, Disaster Risk Reduction, Buildings, Energy, Transport, Health, Urban), EU Regional Policy
- Countries, Transnational regions, Cities
- Knowledge: Topics, Data and indicators, Research and innovation projects, Tools, Practice,
- European Climate and Health Observatory (accessible through "Knowledge")
- Networks
The platform includes a database that contains quality checked information that can be easily searched.
Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union:
Content provided by the United Kingdom before 31 January 2020 remains accessible on this website. From the entry into force of the UK Withdrawal Agreement on 1 February 2020, content from the United Kingdom will no longer be updated on this website.
> EC Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) | |
> European Environment Agency (EEA) | |
> European Topic Centre on Climate Change Adaptation and LULUCF (ETC CA) |
Climate-ADAPT Strategy 2022-2024: the planning instrument with the objectives, governance and priority lines of activities. Regulary updated reporting on the platform use and key performance indicators can be found in the Climate-ADAPT factsheets. The evaluation carried out on Climate-ADAPT in 2017 is described in the EEA report Sharing information across Europe and in the ETC/CCA Technical paper Sharing adaptation knowledge across Europe: Evidence for the evaluation of Climate-ADAPT |