Benthemplein in Rotterdam. A retention basin used for the city’s water management: it fills up in the event of a flood risk, and the water is pumped into the river to be discharged.
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European Climate Resilience and Risk Management Framework
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President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced the European Climate Resilience Framework (formerly known as the European Climate Adaptation Plan (ECAP)) to support the Member States on preparedness and resilience planning in 2024. The European Commission is developing a new integrated framework for European climate resilience and risk management to help Member States prevent and prepare for the growing impacts of climate change. It is based on the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change (2021) and the European Climate Risk Assessment (2024).
The project supports the European Commission (DG CLIMA) in preparing the Impact Assessment for this forthcoming policy package. The framework aims to strengthen Europe’s resilience to growing climate risks and to embed climate adaptation across EU policies and sectors.
The consortium supports the drafting of an impact assessment for the new policy and implements a consultation strategy for the resilience package. The consortium is led by Ramboll and includes Ecologic Institute, IVM-VU, and Climate & Company.
The work in the project follows a structured approach:
- Scoping and problem definition – identifying key climate adaptation challenges and policy gaps across the EU;
- Development of policy objectives and options – defining realistic and measurable options for an effective and coherent framework;
- Assessment of impacts – analysing economic, social, and environmental effects of policy options using qualitative and quantitative methods;
- Stakeholder consultation – engaging with experts, institutions, and Member States to gather evidence and perspectives;
- Synthesis and reporting – integrating findings into the Commission’s Impact Assessment report to support decision-making.
Ecologic Institute's role in the impact assessment
Ecologic Institute leads the work on:
- an assessment and refinement of “common definitions” related to key climate resilience terms, laying the conceptual basis for the upcoming European Climate Resilience and Risk Management Framework;
- a mapping of existing climate resilience and adaptation policy-related objectives and targets in current policies and strategies, as well as provisions for risk assessment, planning, monitoring, reporting and evaluation across sectoral policy instruments; the identification of gaps in the mapped provisions; and the development of policy recommendations.
In addition, Ecologic Institute supports workshop activities related to the creation of a digital hazard viewer.
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