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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 ([email protected])
• 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