Regions4Climate (Regions4Climate)

The Regions4Climate project aims to collaboratively develop and demonstrate a socially-just transition to climate resilience. Based on cross-sectoral roadmaps developed together with regional stakeholders, the project will create and implement innovations combining sociocultural, technological, digital, business, governance, and environmental solutions to reduce the vulnerability of European regions to the impacts of climate change.

The project plans and implement real climate resilient innovations created by and for people in response to the EU mission Adaptation to climate change. Due to climate change, our livelihoods, well-being and environment are threatened. A transition towards resilience has become urgent and mandatory. This need requires that we simultaneously address social inequalities and implement cross-sectoral innovations to build social, economic and environmental resilience to extreme events.

The main objectives of the project include:

• the development of a comprehensive operational framework to guide and support a wide range of local and regional stakeholders to co-create, test, optimise and replicate scalable, cost-effective, locally-attuned, multi-sectoral and cross-border solutions for enhanced regional resilience to the impacts of climate change;
• the scale up and deploy of innovative socio-technological climate resilience solutions through collaboration and “twinning” between front-runner and less experienced regions vulnerable to similar climate risks and impacts;

• the generation and validation of suitable solutions for just societal transformation and building climate resilience at the regional and local level through tailor-made measures matching local needs.