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Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Dialogue Platform 4th Round Table 29 April 2015

Climate-ADAPT - Options for the

presentation of the

Baltic Sea Region

Kati Mattern (EEA)

Photo: EEA

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Adaptation in Europe – EEA reports

Policy developments

Availability of data and information

Analytical and assessment methods

Policy effectiveness / Transitions pathways (EEA Multi-annual workprogramme 2014 - 2018)

Monitoring, reporting and evaluation at

national level in Europe (2015)

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The national perspective – added value of the report?

Most comprehensive overview of national/sub-national adaptation activities to date: unique collection of information (30 countries returned their self-assessment)

Summary information in easy-to-read 8 Key Topics

‘Naming and honouring’ approach - different objectives than DG CLIMA scoreboard

Complements Climate-ADAPT, provides up-to-date and European-wide information and enhances exchange of information between countries (good practices)

Support countries, both in connection with their own activities and having an European wide perspective

Supports the Commission and the EU Adaptation Strategy implementation

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How is the report organised?

Synopsis of Member countries information based on 44 questions self-assessment

Includes 36 country examples

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Overview of national and sectoral adaptation strategies and plans in Europe

• 21 countries have a national adaptation strategy and 12 a national action plan

• 13 countries report

they are in the implementation or monitoring and evaluation stages

• Providing information and mainstreaming in sectors are the most reported instruments

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Information and knowledge gaps for risk and vulnerability assessments

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Which policy instruments are used for implemention?

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Future directions for national adpatation in Europe

Agenda-setting issues:

Countries have taken similar pathways in addressing climate change adaptation.

Nevertheless, it is essential to further improve understanding of governance approaches and of implementation processes at national, regional and local levels.

A more standardised basis for monitoring, reporting and evaluation schemes and for appraisal methods would facilitate learning across countries, sectors and public and private actors.

Capacity building and advanced communication methods are key elements to foster adaptation policy at all levels.

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Climate-ADAPT framework

Mandate: • It supports governmental decision-

makers developing and implementing adaptation strategies, policies and actions

Users: • Experts working on different

government levels (EU, transnational, national, sub-national)

• Governmental decision makers • Organisations providing them

support • Boundary organisations and

research institutes Maintenance: • Funded and carried out by EEA

with DG CLIMA, supported by ETC/CCA

Further Develepment: • Funded by DG CLIMA

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Key features of Climate-ADAPT

Database search

submissions

Case study search AST

Country profiles

Number of users and pageviews April 2013 to December 2014

Indicators Values

Number of sessions

5800 per month

Number of users

3600 per month

Number of pageviews

23000 per month

Number of pages per session

4

Time 4 min

2013 2014

Users 3400 per month

3900 per month

Returning users

42 % 38 %

Browsers 1 40 % Ch 2 26 % IE 3 24 % FF

1 40 % Ch 2 27 % FF 3 23 % IE

Climate-ADAPT web-statistics (Use numbers)

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Transparency: Climate-ADAPT Work plan (2013-2018)

year Content priorities Functionality/tools priorities

2014 • EU policy /funding • AST update • Dissemination

• Develop cities submission forms and map-based search tool

• Improve spatial climate data

2015 • City information • Reporting under MMR

• Overview on country information • User interactivity

2016 • Content links with Copernicus Climate Services

• Functionality links with Copernicus Climate Services

2017 • Content evaluation and revision related to EU Adaptation Strategy

• Functionality evaluation and revision related to EU Adaptation Strategy

2018 • Develop/Implement new content required from revised EU Adaptation Strategy

• Develop/Implement new functionalities required from revised EU Adaptation Strategy

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Improvement 2015 (Example): Modified country information

Climate-ADAPT country profiles: Inclusion of information

reported by countries under the EU Monitoring Mechanism Regulation (MMR) (art 15 on national adaptation actions)

Expected update: end of June 2015

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Overview on adaptation platforms in Europe (EEA Technical Report, to be pusblished 12 May 2015)

Varying mandates, target audiences, operational models, content, and functionalities define complementarity

14 National platforms

Climate-ADAPT

3 transnatio

nal platforms

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Keep informed about Climate-ADAPT

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Features of the BSR pages

Highlighted database items

Web content

Database search results

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The quality assessed database – item types

Database criteria: relevance for

adaptation Relevance at

European level Understan-

dable for all European users (in English, at least with an English summary

(SOP)

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Who is updating Climate-ADAPT?

Registered users having an EIONET account and interested in climate change adaptation:

EEA and EC (site admin, database and web pages)

European Topic Centres (ETC) (database and web content)

NRC (country representatives) (country pages)

Transnational organisations/conventions/… (DB, transnational pages)

cities administrations (DB, urban pages)

partners in projects (private and public) (DB, project pages)

Research organisations (DB)

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Approximately 75 % of all submissions

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How is the submission of database items organized?

Submission

• Step 1: Offline: list of possible database items

• Step 2: Online: User: ETC CCA

Review/Approval • Power

user: ETC CCA

Approval and Publication

• Reviewer: EEA

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How is the submission of web content organized?

Submission

• Off-line submissions: National authorities (e. g., NRC’s )

Content Review

• Content reviewer: EEA, supported by ETC CCA

Approval and

Publication

• Reviewer: EEA

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Outlook – Improving the user friendliness of the platform

• „Faceted“ search

• Printing of documents and database items

• Visualize the added value of the next navigation step (add contextual information)

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Further exchange on Climate-ADAPT

ECCA 2015 Workshop 13 May 2015

EEA EIONET Workshop 15/16 June 2015 Copenhagen

Webinar on Climate-ADAPT development October 2015

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Thank you

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What are the main barriers to adaptation?

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Improvements to date

2012 • Content: Adaptation policy, adaptation information, countries/regions, tools

• Functionalities: searchable database, information accessible via Map viewer

2013 • Content: improved transnational pages (Baltic Sea region), revised Adaptation

Support Tool (AST)

2014

• Content: EU Adaptation policy, updated country profiles, improved presentation of case studies, Urban AST

• Functionalities: improved Case study search tool, improved data base search

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Progress to date: Example Urban AST

• Launched on 14 October 2014 in Brussels (Mayors Adapt signatory event)

• very detailed guidance, consulted with stakeholders

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Improvement 2015 (Example): Modified country information

Climate-ADAPT country profiles: Inclusion of information

reported by countries under the EU Monitoring Mechanism Regulation (MMR) (art 15 on national adaptation actions)

Expected update: end of June 2015

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Case studies submission

Case studies can be directly submitted to Climate-ADAPT through the on-line function “Share your information” that is accessible on the home-page

However, case study elaboration is not straightforward; ETC-CCA provides its support to case study development:

• An ‘user’ submits the case study either by the on-line form or through the word template (emiliano.ramieri@thetis.it)

• The ETC/CCA coordinator of case studies development and/or other ETC/CCA thematic experts reviews the case study and provides feedbacks to the submitter

• The user finalises the case study

• EEA approves the off-line version of the case study and publish it on Climate-ADAPT

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Climate-ADAPT – more upcoming improvements 2015

• MMR reporting in country pages, new city profiles

• Urban vulnerability maps (Map Book)

• Time Series Tool (developed by JRC)

• improved AST (MRE section)

Content

• Interactive Map viewer for country and transnational information Functionalities

• Improved consistency

• Improved search function and help section

User friendliness

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Overview on user feedback

User groups Summary of feedback

Across all user groups Very valuable content, but not user friendly enough

National level users with

experience in adaptation policy

Climate-ADAPT already supported national/sub-national level

adaptation policy and action

Specific sections very helpful (e. g., country profiles, European level

vulnerability maps)

Information on limits and boundaries of information needed

Climate change, impacts, and vulnerability maps helpful, but high

resolution not necessary

Case studies very helpful, but need for best practice standards

Clarify links to climate services and disaster risk reduction platforms

National level users with less

experience in adaptation policy

Content too complex

Drought/heat related information not sufficiently represented

Information from Eastern and Southern European countries not

sufficiently represented

City/regional level users Information in national languages needed

Scientific community Information not fully up-to-date

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Address potential gaps in the database – The process

Database statistical analysis

- Type of data

- Adaptation sectors

- Climate impacts

- Adaptation elements

- Geographic elements

- Year

Definition of gaps categories

1) Missing scientific/practical evidence

2) Incomplete information gathering

3) Information is not eligible to the database criteria

Recommendations for the structured update of the database

Experts interviews

- Presentation of statistical results

- Identification and categorisation of gaps

- Propoasal of actions to overcome the gaps

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Examples of preliminary results of database analysis

Number of database items per adaptation sector all sectors covered, but not to the same degree

Distribution of database items per adaptation element (1525 in total)all adaptation steps covered

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Web content updating

•Introductory text and highlighted database items

• Internal/external links and references to glossary EU sectoral policies

• Transnational pages based on latest DG REGIO definitions and improved overview of EU regional funds

• country profiles based on CCA reporting under EU MMR

• Update of cities pages based on e.g., Mayors Adapt Initiative

Regions, Country & Cities

• Presentation of most relevant and recent EU CCA research projects including achieved and expected results Research projects

• Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation (MRE) section of the AST, based on EEA 2015 Technical Report on MRE Tools- AST

Analysis and systematic review of content in light of recent policy and research developments, based on criteria set

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Improve the user friendliness of the platform

• „Faceted“ search

• Printing of documents and database items

• Visualize the added value of the next navigation step (add contextual information)

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Areas and priorities of possible enhanced cooperation and links

Cooperation and links

?

City-specific information

?

Periodic comparisons of

content between the platforms

Costs and benefits of

implemented adaptation

actions

Case studies

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Thank you