Towards improved adaptation action in Europe: policy recommendations from the UNCHAIN project

This brief summarizes policy-relevant insights and recommendations for the European Commission and EU member states from UNCHAIN project publications and research. As the impacts of climate change continue to intensify, the EU is transitioning to a more climate-resilient Europe.

This paper recommends the widespread adoption and continued evolution of the Impact Chain– based approach to harmonize existing climate risk assessment strategies across EU member states and levels of governance as well as sectors, and to further strengthen cross-border collaboration and knowledge exchange. This approach can help speed up more effective adaptation in Europe by improving comparability between countries and regions and transferability of knowledge and good practices, reducing terminological and methodological ambiguity, and enabling knowledge exchange and joint learning.