Project description
Improving climate risk assessment and adaptation
The risks associated with climate change have the potential to create significant and far-reaching dangers for EU countries, sectors, households, and businesses. These risks encompass a range of issues, including increased economic inequality, housing crises, health risks, and others. To mitigate this damage, it is essential for policymakers to possess accurate information and be prepared to adapt to changing circumstances. The EU-funded ACCREU project aims to enhance existing models for climate risk assessment, facilitating informed decision-making for future adaptation strategies. It will conduct investigations to collect relevant data and assess potential impacts on economic challenges. Additionally, ACCREU will gather information on adaptation methods and practices from stakeholders, focusing on their impact on vital services like healthcare and transportation.
Objective
ACCREU will contribute to the just transition towards climate resilience in the EU, its Member States, and regions, by co-creating and co-delivering with a wide array of stakeholders, new knowledge and actionable insights that connect the challenges of adaptation and mitigation with the multiple and new challenges our society is facing. At the scientific level, it will provide a comprehensive, integrated, co-created, socio-economic evaluation of future climate risk under different adaptation and mitigation scenarios, across European countries, sectors, households, and business types. Specific attention will be paid to non-market impacts on biodiversity, ecosystems, and health. ACCREU will advance models and methods for climate risk assessment, and integrated adaptation decision-making. Novel investigations will be developed to assess poverty, equity, financial, and fiscal implications of climate risk and the related policies. At the societal/economic level, ACCREU will engage stakeholders involved in different adaptation decision types to design practical solutions to successfully mainstream climate resilience and adaptation into decision-making processes. ACCREU’s case studies will examine adaptation decisions in the following thematic areas: risk assessment, ecosystems and nature-based solutions, land use and food systems, water management, protection and management of critical infrastructures including transport and supply chains, health, and human well-being, and justice. Stakeholders will represent decision makers at the local (e.g. city or municipal authorities, local resource managers), national/regional (e.g. regional and national authorities), and pan European level (e.g. EEA, EIB). Some case studies will be pan-European whereas some other case studies will be carried out in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom. To ensure effective uptake and long-term use of its results, the co-designed applied case studies will involve EU-level stakeholders, such as Directorate-Generals, the JRC, the EEA, the Mission Adaptation, as well as local practitioners, businesses, and authorities.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencessustainability sciences
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringnatural resources managementwater management
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
73100 Lecce
Italy