The ETC CA assists the European Environment Agency (EEA) in supporting the implementation and developments of EU legislation and policy by monitoring and assessing climate change impacts, hazards and adaptation and LULUCF, contributing to the harmonisation, quality assessment and sharing of data and/or information, the main supported policy process being the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change, in the framework of the EU Green Deal.

CMCC role
CMCC is the project coordinator and it is the task managers of the following tasks:

• Climate change in Europe’s seas – challenges and solutions
• Carbon sequestration options in the EU Member States
• Supporting developments of the European Climate Data Explorer
• Contribution to European Climate and Health Observatory
• Improvement of soils greenhouse gas emissions in LULUCF and agriculture sectors
• Improvement of biomass burning emissions reported in LULUCF inventories and support to the implementation of the natural disturbance provision
• Monitoring and evaluation of national adaptation policies and actions
• Climate-ADAPT
• Economic losses from weather and climate-related extremes
• Nexus of climate resilient food security and socio-economic outcomes

Activities
The ETC CA main activities are:

• Produce knowledge base and indicators across sectors and regions.
• Elaborate integrated and systemic assessments of climate change vulnerabilities and natural hazard risks to society and ecosystems.
• Carry out monitoring, reporting and evaluation of climate change adaptation strategies, plans, options and measures.
• Update, evaluate and improve the European Climate Adaptation Platform (Climate-ADAPT), thus contributing to better informed decision-making.

Expected results
The ETC/CA supports the EEA’ work on climate change impacts and adaptation by:

• updating EEA indicators (CSI012, CSI046, CSI047, CSI053, CLM045, CLI013, CLIM012);
• gaining deep understanding, extracting relevant information from Member States’ GHG inventories on the methodologies used to estimate soil emissions under the LULUCF and Agriculture sectors, including where relevant CO2, CH4 and N2O, from rewetting, crops residues and change in soil organic carbon;
• reporting of emissions from biomass burning by Member States that have implemented changes in their 2025 GHG inventory submissions. It will update the table developed in 2025, which summarizes methods, approaches, and parameters, as well as the corresponding final report submitted that year;
• developing EEA assessment reports on lessons learned from the 2021, 2023 and 2025 reporting of national climate change adaptation actions (under the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action Regulation), and preparing for the next reporting cycles in 2025 and in 2027;
• analysing the upscaling potential of selected cases of nature-based solutions relevant to achieving overarching ecosystem restoration targets, including the socio-economic factors, drivers and barriers;
• preparing indicators and assessments related to climate change and health, feeding into to the EEA-Lancet Countdown report and updating the European Climate and Health Observatory
• updating and further improving the European Climate Adaptation Platform (Climate-ADAPT);
• undertaking methodological work on economic losses from weather and climate-related extreme events, and updating the relevant EEA indicator (CLIM039);
• draft the 2024 EEA urban adaptation assessment report and contribute to the organisation of the European Urban Resilience Forum.
• identify causal relationships between climate extremes and food insecurity, as experienced by people and communities, linking climate, agricultural, and socioeconomic datasets, to move beyond production metrics;
• support in the organization of the annual Eionet Workshop and webinars on climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation (CCIVA) and support in ad hoc request by the networks;
• implementation of the EIONET/EEA strategy in particular providing timely inputs to the solutions on climate change adaptation.

Partners
CMCC Foundation (2022-2026)
The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) (2022-2026)
Climate-KIC (CKIC) (2022-2026)
Climate Alliance (2022-2026)
CRISP Insight (2026)
The Danish Centre for Environment and Energy- Aarhus University (DCE-AU) (2022-2023)
The Environment Agency Austria (EAA) (2022-2026)
The European Academy of Bozen (EURAC Research) (2022, 2024-2025)
Fresh Thoughts Consulting GmbH (Fresh Thoughts) (2022-2026)
The National Institute of Health (ISS) (2022-2026)
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) (2022-2026)
Plan Bleu for the environment and the development in the Mediterranean (Plan Bleu) (2022-2023)
PREDICTIA Intelligent Data Solutions (Predictia) (2022)
Stiftelsen The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) (2022-2025)
The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) (2022-2026)
Thetis SpA (2022-2026)
Flemish institute for technological research (VITO) (2022-2026)
Wageningen Environmental Research (WeNR) (2022-2026)
Wageningen University (WU) (2022, 2024-2025)