Climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) provide a range of complementary approaches for managing climate risks in order to build resilient societies. Enhancing coherence between CCA and DRR policies and practices requires creating awareness, mobilising resources, and action by public and private stakeholders, preferably in partnership.
Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Europe aims to contribute to better informed European Union (EU), national and subnational strategies, plans and multi-stakeholder processes for enhancing the coherence between CCA and DRR. It explores how public policies and risk management practices can foster coherence, and to what extent transfer of knowledge and experience from domain-specific methods and tools can drive mutually beneficial learning and capacity building.
The report explores six examples of enhanced coherence between CCA and DRR in EU: (1) development of a long-term planning vision in the Netherlands; (2) insurance and risk financing based on public–private partnerships in Spain, France and the United Kingdom; (3) local risk governance in Switzerland; (4) national risk assessments serving both CCA and DRR purposes; (5) city networking for improved urban resilience; and (6) financing nature-based solutions for CCA and DRR. It spotlights nature-based solutions (NBSs) as a prime example of means to mitigate natural hazard risks and boost societal resilience that address both CCA and DRR.