What can EU countries do to promote coherence between CCA and DRR?
Our final blog explores how European Member States are working to improve coherence between CCA and DRR, and what they can do in addition.
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Why CCA and DRR are crucial for achieving European Green Deal goals
The European Commission Green Deal focuses on the need to take action on the climate crisis, but what does it say about adaptation and resilience? Gabriela Michalek, Oleksandr Sushchenko and Reimund Schwarze take a look.
Climate Change 2019 conference – challenges & solutions
Markus Leitner finds that both adaptation and mitigation are on the agenda at the conference organised by the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Environment Agency in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Boosting public-private sector cooperation in DRR finance
Oleksandr Sushchenko reports from a recent workshop in Brussels, which explored good practice in creating innovative instruments and mechanisms for financial resources.
Extreme wildfire events: addressing governance & management challenges
A session at this year’s ECCA provoked Markus Leitner to consider how we can improve responses to the increase in forest fires across Europe.
Climate finance stream at ECCA 2019, EURF and ICLEI
Representatives from PLACARD have been very actively engaged in a range of activities during May and June: at the European Climate Change Adaptation conference (ECCA 2019) in Lisbon, the European Urban Resilience Forum (EURF) and ICLEI 2019 in Bonn.
Research and policy advisors share thoughts on flood risk at Paris conference
Markus Leitner shares his thoughts on the 2019 European Conference on Risk Perception, Behaviour, Management and Response in Paris.
Summer Academy of the Munich Re Foundation
The 2018 Academy in Bonn focused on global risk and adaptation futures, attended by scientists, UN delegates, government advisors and NGO representatives.
Good practice for online knowledge sharing
weADAPT authors and PLACARD partners Julia Barrott and Sukaina Bharwani share the principles of good practice for knowledge-sharing platforms ahead of their session at Adaptation Futures.
City-level M&E – practitioners’ perspectives
Monitoring and evaluation of adaptation strategies is a relatively new but vital area of work in urban areas. Eleni Karali reports from the 5th Open European Day in Bonn.