How to take measures to adapt the society to climate impacts that are already happening, and to those that we will face in the future?
Prof. Hans Bruyninckx, Executive Director at the European Environment Agency (EEA), addressed this topic at COP21 in Paris.
The key components of the European Adaptation Strategy include promoting action, providing a better informed decision making to close knowledge gaps on climate adaptation, providing a platform for knowledge exchange, such as the Platform Climate ADAPT, identifying key vulnerable sectors.
“A strategy is important, but it is not enough – concluded Prof. Bruyninckx – You also need an action plan, you need to monitor, you need to report, and you need to evaluate the impact of what is happening”.

Watch the video of the speech by Prof. Hans Bruyninckx at COP21 Side Event “Regions and Climate Change: a major challenge for local communities” COP Conference Center, Observer Room 12, Paris – December 10, 2015:

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The COP21 Side Event “Regions and Climate Change: a major challenge for local communities” was organized by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change – CMCC (Lead applicant) in collaboration with the Basque Centre for Climate Change – BC3 (co-applicant) and the Italian Society for Climate Sciences – SISC (co-applicant).
More information are available here.