Learn more about how cities can adapt to climate change to become future-proof, climate-resilient cities

The Urban Adaptation Support Tool assists cities, towns and local authorities in developing, implementing and monitoring climate change adaptation plans.

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The Urban Adaptation Map Viewer provides an overview of the current and future climate hazards, the vulnerability of the cities to these hazards and their adaptive capacity.

The European Climate Data Explorer provides interactive access to many climate indices from the Copernicus Climate Change Service in support of climate change adaptation.

Case studies

Explore Urban adaptation case studies in terms of geographic location, thematic coverage and link to adaptation options through the map-based Case study explorer.

Adaptation options

Learn more about different adaptation options to the various impacts of climate change in urban areas.

The EU has several policy frameworks in place to increase the resilience of European cities and their inhabitants, including the EU Adaptation Strategy and the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, and has developed several initiatives to improve knowledge and data availability on urban vulnerability and adaptive capacity. It also provides financial and technical support to policy makers and practitioners to make cities more resilient and adaptive.

The Covenant of Mayors Interactive Funding Guide provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on various funding initiatives open to cities and managed by the European Commission, Member States and key financial institutions such as the European Investment Bank. In addition, the guide includes information on support services and innovative financing models.

The EU Covenant of Mayors

The EU Covenant of Mayors brings together over 10,000 local governments voluntarily committed to implementing EU climate and energy objectives. Signatory cities commit to increasing resilience and preparing for the adverse impacts of climate change.

European Climate Pact

The European Climate Pact is an EU-wide initiative inviting people, communities and organisations to participate in climate action and build a greener Europe.

Urban Innovative Actions

Urban Innovative Actions is an Initiative of the European Union that provides urban areas throughout Europe with resources to test new and unproven solutions to address urban challenge

FAO Green Cities

The FAO Green Cities Initiative focuses on improving the urban environment, strengthening urban-rural linkages and the resilience of urban systems, services and populations to external shocks.

OPPLA

Oppla is the EU Repository of Nature-Based Solutions. It provides a knowledge marketplace, where the latest thinking on natural capital, ecosystem services and nature-based solutions is brought together. Its purpose is to simplify how to share, obtain and create knowledge to better manage our environment

EU Missions

Adaptation to Climate Change: The goal of the EU mission - Adaptation to climate change is to foster the development of innovative solutions to adapt to climate change and encourage regions, cities and communities to lead the societal transformation.

MCR 2030

Making Cities Resilient: Making Cities Resilient 2030 is a cross-stakeholder initiative for improving local resilience through advocacy, sharing knowledge and experiences, establishing mutually reinforcing city-to-city learning networks, injecting technical expertise, connecting multiple layers of government and building partnerships.

URBACT

URBACT’s mission is to enable cities to work together and develop integrated solutions to common urban challenges, by networking, learning from one another’s experiences, drawing lessons and identifying good practices to improve urban policies.

Resilient Cities Network

The Resilient Cities Network consists of cities that are committed to building and investing in urban resilience, located in five geographical regions: Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America.