Related projectsCluster on Climate Change Resilience for Cities and Critical Infrastructure
The CDB encourages projects to come together, with the aim to decrease climate change impact through coordinated dissemination actions that will bring their solutions where it can have the most impact.
The cluster’s results will be key to achieving its common goal through the improvement of cities’ capability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from climate threats with minimum damage, and the development of a technological and performance standards to test facilities throughout Europe.
These innovations will improve Europe’s resilience to climate change, and reduce its negative social and economic impacts.
The four projects are very complementary, as shown by joint events such as:
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- their joint session in the European Climate Change Adaptation Conference
- and their clustering in the CDB that resulted in a joint session in the final event of the project Resin – Climate Resilient Cities and Infrastructures on the 9th October 2018 in Brussels.
Each project uses a different approach to tackle this challenge. For example, while some focus on cities and urban resilience, others have a broader scope, encompassing all types of critical infrastructures, regardless of the location. This also holds true for the strategies to be adopted by the projects: with some targeting a few, extremely concrete solutions, and the others assessing of a wide range of plausible solutions.
Each project uses a different approach to tackle this challenge. For example, while some focus on cities and urban resilience, others have a broader scope, encompassing all types of critical infrastructures, regardless of the location. This also holds true for the strategies to be adopted by the projects: with some targeting a few, extremely concrete solutions, and the others assessing of a wide range of plausible solutions.
To identify the common needs regarding dissemination, the projects shared the core aspects of their communication and dissemination strategies, indicating also achievements already attained and planned future actions.
Collective challenges addressed:
common challenges block
Frequent natural disasters
Climate change increases the occurrence of natural disasters. Innovative, preventive solutions are needed
Lack of testing standards for facilities
Governments need to understand how resilient their infrastructures are. Modelling systems can help here.
Vulnerability of the current cities and infrastructures
Cities and infrastructures need to be better prepared for natural disasters as siloed efforts have made them more vulnerable.
Inadequate policy
Catalogue of Results
The Cluster on Climate Change Resilience for Cities and Critical Infrastructures has gathered a set of complementary results that they jointly promote in common dissemination activities.
Key beneficiaries: stakeholders block
Climate Change Resilience for Cities and Critical Infrastructures cluster has results that are of value to the following stakeholders.
Critical infrastructure community
The project group provides an effective Climate Risk Management Model and resilience framework that will enable the critical infrastructure community to more effectively tackle extreme events and benefit from a more reliable local impact assessment. The project group can also provide a virtual data set for dissemination to the community.
Policy makers could benefit from a fully-fledged model for climate resilience to more effectively prevent natural disaster risks and calamities, through decision support tools and up-to-date information on the latest innovative solutions in the field, and projections on future climate at a local scale, thus facilitating the evaluation of the climate change impact in urban services.
The general public will have a clearer perception of the critical importance of an innovative climate resilience strategy and framework for a greater protection from extreme events and a strengthened disaster resilience capacity.
More reliable calculation of the risks, impact and vulnerability analysis for infrastructures and built-up areas.
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