Project description
Land use-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation
Land use has consequences for ecosystems and climate change. The EU-funded RethinkAction project will develop a cross-sectoral, user-friendly decision-making platform to foster climate action, focusing on climate mitigation and adaptation solutions related to land use. It will put citizens and decision-makers at the heart of climate change action by informing them about how to overcome barriers through participatory processes. In addition to increasing awareness and the attractiveness of mitigation and adaptation actions, RethinkAction will demonstrate how to create change through practical land use-based solutions. It will roll out six representative case studies in Spain, France, Italy, Hungary, Portugal and Sweden, covering the main regional differences related to climate change.
Objective
RethinkAction puts citizens and decision-makers at the core of the climate change action, by developing a cross-sectoral user-friendly decision-making platform tailored to the needs of different end-users for delivering clear and valuable information on climate change, increasing awareness and attractiveness of mitigation and adaptation solutions centred on land use as a key driver, even critical, to sustain life and to reach objectives in the context of climate change.
RethinkAction moves beyond just informing them about the desirable future and what needs to be changed, but guiding them in the decision-making process by showing how to do it through practical land-use based solutions, while at the same time building awareness and attractiveness of new lifestyles and behavioural change, and how barriers can be overcome. By co-creating of the solutions through participatory processes, RethinkAction will unquestionably promote climate change action and acceptability of the measures.
RethinkAction platform will allow users to assess land use-based adaptation and mitigation solutions, understand climate change impacts over time, linking local, EU and global scales based on 6 representative case studies, covering the main regional differences related to climate change.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
47151 Boecillo
Spain