Activities

The ETC/CCA supports the EEA in informing policy development and implementation in the area of climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation (CCIVA) by means of data, information/indicators, and assessments. In particular the Consortium contributes to:

• providing up-to-date information and indicators on CCIVA, including disaster risk reduction, and access to Copernicus climate change information services in the European Climate Adaptation Platform (Climate-ADAPT);
• supporting the implementation and review process of the EU 2013 Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, including the content maintenance and further development of Climate-ADAPT;
• assisting countries with any possible reporting of data in the field of CCIVA to the European Commission and the EEA;
• helping policymakers plan and implement transnational, national, and sub-national (in particular cities) adaptation policies, and also monitoring their implementation;
• supporting the development, monitoring and evaluation of adaptation policies in the EU, including by analysing member country national and sub-national actions and policies;
• following EU activities within UN meetings on climate change and disaster risk reduction (UNFCCC, IPCC, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (ISDR) Europe, World Health Organisation (WHO) Europe, and the Environmental Protection Agencies (EPA) Network), as appropriate and needed;
• supporting an effective flow of information within the Eionet, by participating in the relevant Eionet workshops and by collaborating with the other ETCs through the thematic, spatial, and temporal integration of CCIVA into cross-cutting environmental topics.