EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu EEA Eionet meeting (15 June 2015) Climate-ADAPT - Addressing user feedback – progress and outlook Kati Mattern (EEA) Photo: EEA

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Overview on user feedback ( ) User groupsSummary of feedback Across all user groupsVery 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 usersInformation in national languages needed Scientific communityInformation not fully up-to-date

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Addressing user feedback: Overview on adaptation platforms in Europe Challenges and lessons learned Funding platforms Understanding, engaging with users Identifying maintaining relevant information Presenting relevant information Design, technical elements of platforms Linking across sectors, scales and platforms Monitoring, evaluating improving platforms

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Addressing feedback: Climate-ADAPT progress DG CLIMA Urban AST launched Time Series tool for climate data (developed by JRC) Tools and Software functionalities Results of DG CLIMA funded projects (e.g. Adaptation at regional levels) Content Improvement Conferences (e. G. CIRCLE2 Adaptation frontiers) Workshops (e. g. ECRAN) Dissemination

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Addressing feedback: Climate-ADAPT progress EEA, supported by ETC/CCA Revision of and improvement of coverage of case studies, sucessful support for external case study submissions Improvement of adaptation options Content update Database updated according to criteria Retrospective adjustment of db to new sector „urban“ Continously improved QA/QS process Database Urban vulnerability maps New Map viewer Enhanced tools

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Addressing feedback: Climate-ADAPT progress EEA, supported by ETC/CCA Conferences and workshops (ECCA 2015) Bimonthly newsletter: first issue January 2015 dissemination Standard Operational Procedures (SOP) updated according to lessons learned Efficiency of platform management Collection and synopsis of user feedback Translation of user feedback into new/improved features development Intensified exchange with users and contributors (webinar series started) User feedback

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Progress to date: Example Urban AST Launched on 14 October 2014 in Brussels (Mayors Adapt signatory event) very detailed guidance, consulted with stakeholders

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu New tool : Urban vulnerability maps Launch: 09 June 2015 (Resilient cities conference, Bonn) Interactive maps based on European data urban specific climatic threats: heat waves, floods, water scarcity and droughts, forest fires maps on exposure, sensitivity, response indices

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu New tool : Time series tool – queury by point

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Improved tools: New map viewer Improvement of existing map viewer:  Better navigation  Easy access to the data sources  Better visualisation of the data

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Improved content: case studies Habitat restoration in the Ebro Delta - Spain Danube Green Corridor Currently Climate-ADAPT includes 64 case studies and 10 additional case studies are under development Among the 74, 40 cases can be categorized as “new” These have been recently developed ( ); the great majority (if not all) of the fields of the metadata sheets of these case studies have been properly completed

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu case studies coverage and gaps High number of Coastal Areas case studies The distribution of “new” case studies is more balanced Major gaps: Health, Marine and Fisheries and Financial sectors Flooding and Sea Level Rise are the most frequent impacts Minor gap: Water Scarcity Major gaps: Ice and Snow related impacts Minor gaps: Baltic Sea and Atlantic Coast (new case studies) Major gaps: Black Sea and Alpine Space 25 countries (over 41) are represented by at least a case study Depoldering the Hedwige and Prosper polders Belgium and Netherlands

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Addressing user feedback: Improvement of content Adaptation options more user friendly:  Range of adaptation options adapted to advanded state of adaptation knowledge and experience  language adapted to capabilities of users less experienced in adaptation  Improved content (e. g. marine options) based on results of a large EU project

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Be informed about Climate-ADAPT

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Practical use of Climate-ADAPT UNFCCCNairobi Work Programme COP 21 AST Urban climate research

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Outlook: Climate-ADAPT Work plan ( ) yearContent prioritiesFunctionality/tools priorities 2014 EU policy 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 Strategy Functionality Evaluation and revision related to EU Strategy 2018 Develop/Implement new content required from revised EU Strategy

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Enhancing City information (2015) New features: Searchable city profiles City technical guidance („Urban“ AST) Improve/added case studies for cities

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Addressing user feedback: Improving the user friendliness of the platform DG CLIMA funded:  Match web content and database search  Improve relevance of database search results EEA funded:  Extensive improvement of functionalities by migration to another CMS (printing options, contextual information)

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Next steps: More improvements in preparation Database: Identification of possible gaps and structured updating Web pages: Updating and improvement of pages Cities: Adaptation information section Updated uncertainty guidance in preparation Data base More case studies in preparation (8), in revision (2), growing supporting external case studies (7)

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Click to edit Master title style eea.europa.eu New tool : spatial and temporal specification of climate data  Previously static sets of climate data from ENSEMBLES, ClimWatAdapt and ESPON projects together with a subset of JRC products are presented through the Climate-ADAPT Map viewer portal  Now time series of observations and projections of selected climate indicators and datasets presented through the time-series tool developed by JRC  accessible from other Climate- ADAPT sections

Click to edit Master title style eea.europa.eu 'Mayors Adapt': Supporting European Cities New EU initiative, launched on 19 March 2014 – Follows the model of the Covenant of Mayors (for mitigation) Approach: – Political commitment to develop/implement local adaptation strategies – Direct support for cities (help-desk) – Link to LIFE funding – 2014 call focussed on urban adaptation, including the development of urban adaptation strategies – Better access to urban knowledge (via Climate-Adapt) – – Signatory event in September 2014

Click to edit Master title style eea.europa.eu Time series tool – metadata available Presenation of metadata for the selected datasets title, date, date type, presenation form, abstract purpose, Status of the data, Contact info maintenance and update frequency, key words, spatial representation type, data use policy

Click to edit Master title style eea.europa.eu Addressing Country feedback: Overview on adaptation platforms in Europe EEA Technical report, published 12 May 2015:  Overview on the mandates, target audiences,  operational models, content, and functionalities  Understand complementarity 14 National platforms Climate- ADAPT 3 transnatio nal platforms

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Click to edit Master title style eea.europa.eu Key features of Climate-ADAPT Database search submissions Case study searchAST Country profiles

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Complementarity between Climate-ADAPT and other platforms Climate-ADAPT Main EU funded research projects Transnational platforms: projects relevant from transregional perspective National platforms: National adaptation research databases

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Climate-ADAPT key principles relevant information quality assessed information content straightforward timely access responsive to users needs keep basic structure development

EEA Workshop on climate change adaptation platforms (23 June 2014) eea.europa.eu Framework for Climate-ADAPT development Work plan: Transparency Available information and knowledge Decision Makers needs Resources for Maintenance and Development