EU Mission: Adaptation to Climate Change - how to become climate resilient by 2030
11.01.2022
We invite you to participate in the webinar "EU Mission: Adaptation to Climate Change - how to become climate resilient by 2030" to be held on Thursday 20 January 2022, 10h00 – 12h15. During the webinar the Mission's principles will be presented and two discussion panels will take place. The background of the meeting is the Implementation Plan developed by the European Commission and the calls announced under the Horizon Europe programme.
The NCBR office in Brussels/BSP and the PolSCA PAN office in Brussels invite you to participate in the webinar "EU mission: Adaptation to Climate Change - how to become climate resilient by 2030", which will be held on January 20, 2022, 10h00 – 12h15.
Climate change is taking place all over the world - including Europe - with increasing intensity. Thus, the vulnerability of the planet and people to the threats associated with them increases. Halting all greenhouse gas emissions would still not prevent the climate impacts that are already occurring. These will continue for decades, even if global and European efforts to cut emissions prove effective.
Therefore, the European Commission adopted a new strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change in 2021: it must be done faster, smarter and in a more systemic way; so we need to prevent the un-adaptable and adapt to the un-preventable.
Adapting to the effects of climate change is a key task for Europe, and the input from R&I is essential, both for risk assessment, the social transformation and the solutions. One of the forms of investing in research and innovation for adaptation to climate change is the activity undertaken as part of the European missions under Horizon Europe programme. The Climate Mission aims to help at least 150 regions and communities become climate resilient by 2030. Support is to be carried out in three phases: a) helping regions to better understand, prepare for and manage climate risk; b) Accelerating the transition to climate resilience - supporting and testing innovative solutions; c) application of large-scale system transformation demonstrators.
The meeting will be attended by: representative of the European Commission - Clara de la Torre, Mission Manager and Deputy Director-General for Climate Action, who will talk about the main goals and strategy of the Mission Adaptation to the Climate Change, prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz, member of the Mission Assembly for Adaptation to Climate Change, and experts representing the areas of science, business, innovation and the social party. During two discussion panels, they will talk about the role of research and innovation in shaping transformative plans for climate change adaptation and how to mobilize citizens and private capital to the active role in achieving climate change adaptation. At the end of the meeting there will be a question and answer session with speakers.
Since 1 September 2019, Clara de la Torre has held the post of Deputy Director General in the Directorate-General for Climate Action in the European Commission. Prior to her current appointment, her professional career focussed on research and innovation policy. She had been Director for Transport in the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation from 2016 to 2019. Previously, starting in 2014, she was responsible for Key Enabling Technologies, following a 3-year appointment as Director in the field of Innovation. In her first post as a Director, from 2008 to 2010, she was in charge of inter-institutional and legal matters related to the Framework Programme at the European Commission. In the late 1990s, she dealt with National Research Policies and Intergovernmental Cooperation. She worked at the EU Joint Research Centre in Brussels and Seville, where she was Advisor to the Director of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies.
Webinar will be held in Polish with an introductory module with Clara de la Torre in English.
Register here: Misja "Adaptacja do zmian klimatycznych" (clickmeeting.com)
We invite everyone interested in the European missions to take part in the event.
Agenda
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10:00 |
Welcome and introduction
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10:10 |
EU Mission: Adaptation to Climate Change - strategy and objectives
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10:25 |
Q&A session |
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10:35 |
Panel discussion 1: The role of research and innovation in shaping transformative plans for climate change adaptation Moderator: prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Member of the Mission Assembly for Adaptation to Climate Change Panelists: dr Iwona Wagner, European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology of the PAS, University of Łódź Ilona Jędrasik, ClientEarth, Warsaw Office Piotr Olkiewicz, Senvi |
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11:15 |
Panel discussion 2: Mobilizing citizens and private capital to the active role in achieving climate change adaptation Moderator: prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz Panelists: prof. Szymon Malinowski, University of Warsaw Wojciech Racięcki, National Centre for Research and Development Laura Gosiewska, Youth for Climate |
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11:55 |
Q&A session |