Climate adaptation support for enterprises in the Baltic Sea Region (CASES BSR)

In recent years, climate change has become an increasingly important challenge. Citizens and businesses are increasingly faced with limited resources. An important perspective that is often overlooked is the impact of climate change in trade and industry. Research show that four out of five small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) fear the impact of climate change on their businesses. All regions in Europe are affected by climate change in some sense.

The project CASES BSR addresses the issue on how climate change affects SMEs and the increasing needs to adopt climate adaptation strategies for a long-term sustainability. Raising business awareness is needed because climate change risks to reduce their long-term competitiveness if no action is taken to adapt. The project raises the knowledge on this topic by research on how various types of SMEs handle this problem today.

One of the results is the drafting of a new larger-scale project to attract funding for the implementation of specific solutions to support small and medium-sized enterprises in adapting to climate change.