Climate Adaptation Public Feedback started on 22 June!

The online Public Feedback of the Climate Adaptation Partnership kicked-off today on 22 June 2018 and will last until 17 August 2018. This is the unique opportunity for the public to contribute to the draft actions from the Draft Action Plan.

The Partnership formalised 11 actions, namely:

BETTER REGULATION

R1 Revision of urban development and planning regulation tools with focus on national, regional and local climate adaptation action and stressing case studies and good practice examples
R2 Further engagement of national municipality associations as key facilitators and relevant Covenant of Mayors Supporters to best support local authorities in their adaptation process

BETTER FUNDING

F1 Guidelines and toolkit for the economic analysis of adaptation projects
F2 Recommendations for the OPs of the ERDF in order to improve its accessibility for municipalities
F3 A new LIFE for urban adaptation projects
F4 Further support for the drafting of local adaptation plans – e.g. through the integration of specific provisions for smaller municipalities in existing calls

BETTER KNOWLEDGE

K1 Improving data accessibility for EU Municipalities in the framework of COPERNICUS
K2 Enhancing the urban content of Climate-ADAPT
K3 Political training academy on climate adaptation
K4 Enhancing citizen and stakeholder involvement at regional and local levels for climate adaptation urban agenda
K5 Promote open access of insurance data for climate risk management

Moreover, the Partnership produced the Public Feedback Summary with all 7 actions and it is available in 6 European languages: English, German, French, Dutch, Italian and Bulgarian.