European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA 2019)

The biennial European Climate Change Adaptation conference is convened by projects that have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme. ECCA 2019 – Working together to prepare for change – is the fourth such conference, to be hosted in Lisbon.

In 2010, the first global conference on adaptation was held in Gold Coast, Australia under the umbrella of the UN Environment Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation (PROVIA). This marked the beginning of the biennial Adaptation Futures conferences and inspired a group of European participants to organise Europe-focused events in the alternate years. The European Commission agreed to support the conference series, assigning management of the events to project coordinators of three EU-funded adaptation research projects.

The 4th ECCA builds on past conferences that took place in Hamburg (2013), Copenhagen (2015) and Glasgow (2017), and aims to:

• Provide a space that facilitates dialogue among a diverse range of actors from academia, government, business and community on the multiple aspects of climate change adaptation
• Promote the communication and knowledge exchange between researchers, policymakers and practitioners
• Find integrated solutions and inspire action
• Support ongoing efforts to enhance the coherence and synergy between CCA and DRR research, policy and practice
• Discuss key challenges and solutions in cities
• Provide a stage for presenting European’s excellence on Research & Innovation for CCA
• Inform the next European funding framework for Research & Innovation

VENUE:

28-31 May 2019
Lisbon, Portugal

Original source: ECCA2019 
Published on 23 April 2019