Short Term Adaptation for Long Term Resilience to Climate Change (STAR2Cs)

With climate change, flooding will likely become more frequent and severe with damages in Europe reaching €23.5bn by 2050. Given that floods are already costly to the 2 Seas area (the coastal regions along the Southern North Sea and the Channel area), there is a clear need to take proactive action to reduce the impacts of future flooding on ecosystems, communities and economies.

STAR2Cs aims to overcome the ‘implementation gap’ currently faced in delivering local action to build adaptation capacity by establishing an innovative, transferable solution that supports stakeholders in implementing adaptation measures, consisting of:

• 1 e-tool (Adaptation Catalyst) to identify and evaluate mechanisms to deliver adaptation tailored to local scenarios;
• 1 knowledge and capacity building service increasing stakeholder ability to participate in ‘future-proofed’ decision making;
• 8 implementation pathways identifying cost-effective incremental and integrated short-term actions to implement adaptation in 8 pilot areas;
• 1 method evaluating the success of STAR2Cs and providing justification and guidance for adopting the STAR2Cs solution.