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Climate-Health Cluster joint session at conference on connecting Health & Climate Change

The Climate-Health Cluster, including the BlueAdapt, CATALYSE, CLIMOS, HIGH Horizons, IDAlert and TRIGGER projects, organizes a joint session on “Health Impacts of Climate Change: a way forward with the Climate-Health Cluster" at the ENBEL 2023 conference.

Have your say to build a European Network on Climate Change Adaptation

The EU Mission Adaptation project 'TransformAr', has recently launched a new questionnaire to build a European Network on Climate Change Adaptation. The questionnaire aims at building this network to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange, and discussion on transformative adaptation, starting with organizing webinars on various topics, such as Nature-Based Solutions and Digital & Technological Solutions.

The state of the climate in Europe 2022

This WMO report shows how Europe has been warming twice as much as the global average since the 1980s. It has a special focus on energy and highlights how more extreme weather, including intense heat, heavy precipitation and droughts have growing implications for the supply, demand and infrastructure of Europe’s energy system.

Daring Cities 2023 dialogues for multilevel climate action

During a multi-day event hosted by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, representatives from governments, intergovernmental agencies, research institutions and broader civil society gathered. They actively exchanged on challenges and approaches to responding to the climate emergency in a just and equitable way, amongst others by discussing the Sharm-El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda.

EU proposes new outlook on the climate and security nexus

The European Commission and the High Representative adopted a Joint Communication to the European Parliament and to the Council, laying out how the EU will address the growing impact of climate change and environmental degradation in the fields of peace, security, and defence. One of the four priorities is enhancing the climate adaptation and mitigation measures of Member States' civilian and military operations and infrastructure. Resilience to climate change is a key concept in the Joint Communication.

North Macedonia joins the EU LIFE programme for environment and climate action

North Macedonia is the fourth non-EU country to join the LIFE programme for environment and climate action, after Iceland, Ukraine and Moldova. By joining this programme, North Macedonia will have the opportunity to benefit from LIFE’s support for mobilising public and private resources for climate action, biodiversity protection, circular economy and clean energy transition.

Call for tenders: running the first European citizens’ hackathon championship

The European Citizens’ Hackathon Championship will bring together citizens, innovators and researchers from across Europe. They will compete in teams for the best solutions that respond to the needs of citizens and communities to address the challenges of climate change, including those related to climate change adaptation, through online hackathons.

Shaping the future of the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change

Representatives of the EU institutions, charter signatories, Friends of the Mission, national and regional authorities, financial institutions, and researchers reflected mid-June on how to increase collaboration to deliver on adaptation, improve climate risk management practices and societal preparedness, and to accelerate the uptake of adaptation solutions across the society and different levels of administration.

Climate adaptation progress in Europe

The European Climate Neutrality Observatory (ECNO) tracks Europe’s progress to achieving climate neutrality. Adapting to climate impacts will require a wide range of adaptation responses across sectors and governance levels. To track progress, one of the building blocks assesses the implementation of adaptation actions, specifically nature-based solutions in the urban context, land use sectors, and the aquatic environment.