2 ClimateADAPT Chairs Kati Mattern EEA Jelena Milos DG CLIMA reporter Silvia Medri QUESTIONS How are the findings of the EEA technical report on Overview of climate change adaptation platforms in Europe relevant for your activities ID: 201485
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15 June, Group
2: Climate-ADAPT (
Chairs:
Kati Mattern, EEA;
Jelena Milos, DG CLIMA; reporter: Silvia Medri)
QUESTIONS
How
are the findings of the EEA technical report on ‘Overview of climate change adaptation platforms in Europe’ relevant for your activities?
What
is the current status and which plans exist for a national adaptation platform in your country or region?
How
can your country or organisation benefit most from cooperation with EEA/DG CLIMA on Climate-ADAPT’s content and use?
PARTICIPANTS
13 people from: EEA (Kati
Mattern
,
Andrè
Jol
,
Blaz
Kurnik
), ETC/CCA (Silvia Medri), DG CLIMA (
Jelena
Milos
), Countries (Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia) and OPCC.Slide2
Q1. How are the findings of the EEA technical report on ‘Overview of climate change adaptation platforms in Europe’ relevant for your activities?
A few countries reported that they have already used this information for their platform.
Most countries stated that the report can be useful to
learn from other platforms and Climate-ADAPT.
No actual proposals for follow-up work.Slide3
Belgium
: creating a Database (DB) on climate change adaptation is one of the actions included in the national adaptation plan (which is under development), but there are no current concrete plans to develop a platform. Because there is a big need at local level for adaptation information, a tender for municipalities to develop a tool similar to Climate-ADAPT will be launched
.
Germany
: will provide a lot of new information in the coming 6 months on their website - updating an existing DB on case studies and a tool (“Klimalotse”; similar to the Climate-ADAPT Urban AST); updating the national adaptation policy pages based on
additional
info after the
NAS/NAP
progress report; establishment of a new
DB
containing metadata on existing vulnerability studies based on the results of the “
vulnerability
network” including items on different methodologies and integrated studies); additional info
on
monitoring and reporting of impacts and responses from (indicator-based) report adopted in the
I
nterministerial Working Group on adaptation.
Q2. What is the current status and which plans exist for a national adaptation platform in your country or region? 1Slide4
Q2. What is the current status and which plans exist for a national adaptation platform in your country or region? 2
Hungary
: work on priority sectors (biodiversity, floods, human health, urban); are considering to further develop the platform in order to activate the users, but keeping the current format of forum; aim to present also case studies
.
Italy
:
no adaptation platform
yet, even if the NAS (which was endorsed by State Regions Unified Committee in Oct. 2014) acknowledges the platform as very important.
Having the CCA information in one place (e.g. on a national platform) would help having a better overview of existing knowledge and actions at national and sub-national level and also preparing the
UNFCCC
National Communication because the information
is currently quite
scattered.
Estonia
: no adaptation platform yet. Development of NAS and NAP in progress; experts are evaluating CCIV in sectors. At the moment assessments of impacts for different sectors are being carried out. They will have specific sectoral plans (e.g. health) as well as case studies
.Slide5
Q2. What is the current status and which plans exist for a national adaptation platform in your country or region?
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Slovenia
: A GIS tool and a specialist tool for adaptation in agriculture have been developed, but the idea of an adaptation
platform
to serve local users needs was pushed aside. Due to the MMR
guideline
the submission for Slovenia does not encompass all the technical details.
Slovakia
:
the
NAS was developed
based
on a vulnerability assessment
and
adopted (2014); the implementation is difficult, but there seem to be new signals on some adaptation actions in some sectors, improving MRE and
possibly creating a platform. OPCC: CCA Action Plan across 8 regions and Website; 86 case studies analysed; they are developing an INTEEREG project on the further development of the platform in Sep./Oct. and are looking for funding.Slide6
Climate-DAPT features considered most useful by all participating countries
Country pages.
Case studies/examples.
Cities/local information, but also how the national level can support city action
Tools: AST.Country specific interests in Climate-DAPT existing featuresPossibility to learn from Climate-ADAPT and other national platforms the methodologies/process to update information on their own platform .Possibility to learn how to better structure the NAS and the Web platform and be complementary to Climate-ADAPT.
Specific
areas
of
interest - sectors
:
urban (including funding for cities),
biodiversity; transnational information: mountains.
Q3. How can your country or
organisation
benefit most from cooperation with EEA/DG CLIMA on Climate-ADAPT’s content and use? 1Slide7
Q3. How can your country or
organisation
benefit most from cooperation with EEA/DG CLIMA on Climate-ADAPT’s content and use? 2
Country specific interest in Climate-DAPT not yet existing features
For countries without a national portal (and resources to develop/maintain one), possibility to put on Climate-DAPT country pages climate change adaptation information collected at national level; it would be also an incentive for the nat. level to continue updating the information.
Information on local level in national languages (forthcoming through the Mayors Adapt city profiles on Climate-DAPT).