Concretely, what can cities and towns do to adapt to climate change?

Our two-year Policy Support Facility, designed to help local governments go from planning to implementation of climate adaptation actions, has given us an array of examples of what cities can do to adapt to the changing climate.

8 March 2024
City Stories

Grand Finale : Lessons learned from the Policy Support Facility

Tune into our final episode of our Podcast series on Adaptation to know more about the Policy Support Facility programme and how it aimed to support Europe’s journey from planning to action in climate adaptation.

16 February 2024
City Stories

Mining for inspiration: Cox facing climate hazards

Tune into Episode 8 of our Podcast series on Adaptation to discover actions taken in Cox, Spain and how they engaged through the Covenant’s Policy Support Facility to help make flooding and drought cancel each other out.

6 December 2023
City Stories

Adapting to climate change: Barrelling forward in Debrecen

Tune into Episode 7 of our Podcast series on Adaptation to discover actions taken in Debrecen and how they engaged through the Covenant’s Policy Support Facility to come up with a simple idea to tackle flooding.

12 October 2023
City Stories

Teaming up to adapt: Pau and Braga's journey to adapt to climate change

Tune into Episode 6 of our Podcast series on Adaptation to discover the exchange between two cities, Pau Bearn Pyrénées and Braga, and learn about their visits to each other's cities to pick up some great ideas on adaptation.

21 September 2023
City Stories

Making change a reality in the Slovenian city of Celje

Une into our fifth podcast episode of our series on Adaptation to discover how the Slovenian city of Celje is counting on its natural assets and the support of European cohesion funds to become more resilient in the face of increasing heatwaves and floods.

1 August 2023

Becoming a resilient city: what can we learn from the Greek city Thessaloniki?

Tune into Episode 4 of our Podcast series on Adaptation to discover the actions, big and small, behind Thessaloniki’s path to climate resiliency.

5 July 2023

Knowledge exchange to build resilience: what cities can learn from one another as they adapt to climate change

Throughout the PSF’s twinning programme, eight municipalities from Spain, Italy, Greece, France and Germany were paired together to offer opportunity to exchange on best practices, lessons learnt, and to evaluate what could be applied in their city.

19 May 2023

What do cities need to successfully implement adaptation measures?

Identifying the needs of local authorities in implementing adaptation measures through our 2-year pilot programme on Adaptation, the Policy Support Facility.

12 March 2023

How to assess the impact of climate measures? Episode 3 of our adaptation podcast series gives us some insights.

In the third episode of our podcast series on adaptation, we brought in a technical expert, environmental engineering Ion Sola Torralba, to help us tackle the complex question of assessing adaptation.