EU adaptation strategy 2021: Forging a climate-resilient Europe

The new strategy sets out how the European Union can adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change and become climate resilient by 2050.

The strategy has four principle objectives:

1. Smarter adaptation: Adaptation actions must be informed by robust data and risk assessment tools that are available to all - from families building homes, businesses in coastal regions and farmers planning their crops.
2. Faster adaptation: The effects of climate change are already being felt, and so we must adapt more quickly and comprehensively.
3. More systemic adaptation: Climate change will have impacts at all levels of society and across all sectors of the economy, so adaptation actions must also be systemic.
4. Stepping up international action for climate resilience: The EU will increase support for international climate resilience and preparedness through the provision of resources, by prioritising action and increasing effectiveness, through the scaling up of international finance and through stronger global engagement and exchanges on adaptation.