This final report summarises the results of the actions to support the Mission Board for “Adaptation to Climate Change, including Societal Transformation” with forward-looking evidence.
In accordance with the Request, the proposed services, approaches to be adopted, and the concrete nature and form of the outputs have been shaped and validated through close interaction with the Mission Board (MB) via the Mission Secretariat, run by relevant European Commission (EC) services, throughout the implementation of the action.
As a result of the interactions with the Mission Secretariat, the following actions were taken:
- Preparing a short paper Input to Mission Board on scoping activities & tasks
(Deliverable 1) - Analysing national and regional funding programmes of selected countries for
projects on Climate Change Adaptation, and conducting interviews with selected
Mission Board members in preparation of a foresight workshop. - Preparing an input paper for the foresight workshop Input Document FoD CCA
Workshop, 23 January 2020 (Deliverable 2). - Holding a foresight workshop (23 January 2020) with Mission Board members,
European Commission representatives (Mission Secretariat), and foresight experts,
and summarising the results of the workshop. The workshop served to identify
barriers and solutions, enablers and impacts of climate change adaptation in a variety
of thematic fields, including health, water, food and agriculture. - Developing and implementing a Delphi survey on assessing key aspects of the draft
paper of the Mission Board. The survey addressed climate experts. They assessed
future targets in thematic fields (e.g. financial risks, health, social infrastructure), and
ranked related measures and R&I fields for importance. - Preparing and analysing the results of the Delphi survey: Delphi Survey results,
July/August 2020 (Deliverables 3 and 4).
The report is structured along these deliverables.