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LOCALISED Climate Action Strategiser

The CAST Tool is an interactive decision-support tool which provides regional and municipality-level adaptation and emission reduction pathways aligned with EU and national long-term strategies. To ensure fair and inclusive decision-making, it also includes features for assessing the social impact of different measures. It is possible to adjust the recommendations based on local data or political context.

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What you can do with it

Input

  • Select a European municipality or region at LAU or NUTS3 level.
  • Explore pre-populated climate, emissions and socio-economic information.
  • Adjust recommendations using local data or political context where needed.
  • Examine adaptation and emission-reduction pathways.
  • Assess social impacts, energy poverty and cost-benefit information.
  • Use Citizen Engager functions to support co-creation processes.

Output

  • Tailored regional or municipal climate-action pathways.
  • Maps, graphs, datasets and indicators.
  • Emissions inventory, risk and vulnerability assessment and energy-poverty assessment.
  • Recommended mitigation and adaptation actions with social-impact information.
  • Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan data export matching the Covenant of Mayors Excel template.
  • Guidance for strategic planning and stakeholder co-creation.

Use it to

  • Develop integrated mitigation and adaptation pathways for a municipality or region.
  • Assess climate risks, vulnerabilities, emissions and energy poverty.
  • Identify, compare and prioritise climate actions.
  • Examine social impacts and support fair and inclusive decisions.
  • Generate data for a Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan.
  • Integrate climate planning with internal strategy and external co-creation processes.

Why is it relevant to climate adaptation

Provides municipalities and regions with an unusually complete climate-action workflow, combining adaptation, emissions reduction, social impacts and energy poverty in one tool. Pre-populated local data allow users to begin without assembling a full dataset, while recommendations can be adjusted to reflect local evidence and political priorities. Direct export to the Covenant of Mayors SECAP template makes the results practical for formal planning, although users should review and update the underlying data because no further maintenance is planned.

Used in

  • Municipal and regional climate-action planning across Europe at LAU and NUTS3 levels.
  • Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan preparation using the official Covenant of Mayors Excel structure.
  • Integrated adaptation and emission-reduction pathways developed through the Horizon 2020 LOCALISED project.
  • Social-impact and energy-poverty assessment in European local climate planning.
  • Citizen co-creation supported through the LOCALISED Citizen Engager.
  • Use in all European languages with local data adjustable by municipalities and regions.

Metadata

User Group
National authoritiesSubnational authoritiesBusinesses/consultants
Geographic coverage
Europe
Spatial resolution

NUTS3; LAU (local)

Support of Adaptation Policy Cycle
Step 1: Preparing the Ground for Adaptation
Step 2: Assessing Climate Change Risks and Vulnerabilities
Step 3: Identifying Adaptation Options
Step 4: Assessing and Prioritising Adaptation Options
Step 5: Implementation
Step 6: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
Adaptation sectors
AgricultureBuildingsCultural heritage
Climate hazards
Heavy precipitation / extreme rainfallHeatDrought
Type of outputs
Maps and graphsReports and decision supportDatasets and indicators
Temporality of data
PresentForward-looking
Language
All EU languages
Accessibility and usability
High
Data sources
Public datasets from external providersUser-provided input data
Tool validation use
Case-study validationExpert validation / reputable institutionUser testing / pilot testing

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