GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Climate change is having far-reaching effects ranging from unprecedented forest fires, heatwaves, droughts or other extreme events to slow-onset processes likedesertification, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification or sea level rise.

Projects under this call should support the strategy’s objective to:

• make adaptation smarter (improving knowledge, managing uncertainty, and informing adaptation actions by robust data and risk assessment tools that are available to all);
• make adaptation more systemic (incorporating climate resilience considerations in all relevant policy fields, because climate change has impacts at all levels of society and across all sectors of the economy);
• make adaptation faster (developing and rolling out adaptation solutions that allow us to adapt more quickly and comprehensively).

Furthermore, projects should take care to avoid maladaptation, i.e. adaptation actions or practices aimed at a group of people and that actually make them more vulnerable to climate change.

In order to contribute to these objectives, projects should demonstrate a clear and convincing intervention logic which details:

• the specific climate risks and vulnerabilities to be addressed;
•  the suitability of the proposed adaptation options and methods to minimise the identified risks and vulnerabilities;
• the implementation of these options and methods during the duration of the project and
• the approach for monitoring and evaluating the results, including after the duration of the project

Areas of intervention