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BUFFER+
BUFFER carbon + water in peatlands: landscape-based solutions for climate adaptation
Wet and healthy peatlands have a strong natural potential to save carbon and, due to their water buffering capacity, play an important role in managing periods of excessive rains or droughts. Yet, in NWE regions large areas of peatlands are drained f...
ResiRiver
Creating Resilient River Systems by Mainstreaming and Upscaling NbS
Resilient River or ‘ResiRiver’ for short, is a project focusing on the creation of Resilient River Systems through mainstreaming and upscaling of Nature-based Solutions (NbS). In North-West Europe (NWE), river systems are facing significant challenge...
FlashFloodBreaker
Make North-West Europe resilient against increasing extreme flash flood events
North-West Europe (NWE) faces an increasing number of flash flood disasters due to climate change. Such extreme events - for example July 2021 in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Ireland and Switzerland - are linked with fatalities, huge losses...
Rural_Roadwater_Rescue
A transnational strategy extending the role of roads to support rural water systems
How to use infrastructure to maintain the balance of waterClimate change causes an imbalance between water supply by rivers and rainfall and the urgent demands from various users in periods of drought. In short periods, extreme weather events provide...
MigFoRest
Assisted Migration to increase Forest resilience in NWE
Humanity largely depends on the ecosystem services provided by forests. They need to be protected from the increasing disturbances caused by climate change. Forests represent significant proportion of NWE land (23% in Belgium, 27% in France, 32% in G...
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Climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account ecosystem-based approaches
With SO 2.4 the Programme expects to contribute to making the NWE communities more resilient and able to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change in the long term. Combating climate change effects represents one of the main territorial challenges for the cooperation area. The NWE area has suffered from extreme weather and climate related events, and a considerable number consisted of floods, causing losses of all types. In the future, risks related to climate change, such as flooding, drought, and decreased river navigability, demand better preparation and coordinated disaster response based on effective territorial cooperation. The increase in the frequency of severely dry and wet periods caused by climate change has led to the need for sustainable water consumption and management. The NWE area faces significant challenges both in terms of water quality and availability . The large majority of water bodies in the NWE area are not in good chemical and ecological status, even though the NWE area is relatively rich in annual renewable freshwater resources. However, water management is problematic due to the increase in the frequency of severely dry and wet periods caused by climate change.
The Programme shall contribute to the objective of the European Green Deal (COM (2019) 640 final) to make Europe the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050. It also feeds into the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 on climate action.
Grants are the selected form of support for this SO. The size of planned operations, and the type of cooperation of target groups beyond national borders, allow for very limited use of support other than grants. In addition, planned operations will not generate significant revenue.