Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Programme 2007 - 2013 Baltic Sea Region

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

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Description (EN):

The BSR countries are all threatened and concerned by climate change. It will influence precipitation amounts and patterns, lead to an increase in terrestrial and ocean temperatures and a rise in sea levels. The resulting changes will jeopardize the integrity of the ecosystem and increase risks caused by natural disasters. There are good experiences of adaptation in the region but they are somehow fragmented and do not acknowledge the fact that the Baltic Sea is a specific eco-region. The EU BSR Strategy recognizes this problem by calling for a BSR-wide climate change adaptation strategy, which should provide a framework to strengthen cooperation and information sharing within the region and help to create a coherent set of adaptation policies and actions from the transnational to the local level. Such an overarching framework, which is badly missing, would help to tackle what the Operating Programme of the BSR Strategy has identified as a major weakness: the “lack of transnational co-operation and joint planning in usage of Baltic Sea space and in minimalisation of risks caused by natural disasters”. BALTADAPT seeks to develop such a BSR-wide climate change adaptation strategy. This truly transnational strategy will focus on the sea itself and its coastline. While it is understood that such a strategy cannot be adopted by BALTADAPT, the project can ensure its preparation and clear the ground for its adoption. Complementing this main output, the project seeks to achieve the following results: • Improved knowledge base: A knowledge brokerage process between political decision makers and researchers leading to improved institutional capacity. The “Baltic Window” in the EU Clearinghouse shall be the hub for decision makers from the Baltic Sea Region. • Action plan: Providing the operational basis for implementing the BSR-wide Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and influencing policies, programmes and regulations. Together with the action plan, recommendations on funding mechanisms for financing climate change adaptation initiatives shall be given. In order to achieve this ambitious objective, BALTADAPT brings together just the right partners to create a knowledge brokerage process in this field, develop a strategy and set a framework for its future implementation. The partner consortium under the leadership of the Danish Meteorological Institute brings together a mixture of federal policy institutions tasked with dealing with the topic of climate change, and a group of research institutions at the cutting edge of applied science in the region. The German Federal Environment Ministry and Federal Environment Agency, the Finnish Environment Institute as well as the CBSS Secretariat are paying project partners. The project counts also with the direct support of the Danish Energy Agency, who is in charge of coordinating this priority area in the BSR Strategy, and the responsible Ministries in Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania and Sweden.

Achievements (EN):

Adaptation strategies are needed to cope with the inevitable consequences of climate change. Baltadapt formulated a proposal for a Baltic Sea Region-wide strategy for adaptation to climate change as well as an accompanying Action Plan with recommended actions and proposed guidelines. The overall objective of the Baltadapt Strategy is a connected region with informed actors on all governance levels responding to climate change in a way that ensures prosperity, competitiveness, as well as clean water and rich and healthy wildlife. The strategy’s added value is received through cooperation and information sharing in the region, which will assist in the implementation of local, national, and EU strategies and action plans. By involving a multitude of policy makers and stakeholders in the development of the Baltadapt Strategy and Action Plan, the project has already been able to provide guidance and input to the national adaptation strategies in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. This process can now serve as a role model to other European macro regions developing climate adaptation strategies. The close cooperation with DG CLIMA throughout the project lifetime has been of mutual benefit to Baltadapt and the EC who could use the Baltadapt Policy Fora to get a Baltic Sea Region voice while developing the European strategy on climate change adaptation. As suggested in the Baltadapt Strategy, the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) as Horizontal Acton Leader of the EUSBSR HA “Sustainable Development” has initiated the establishment of a pan-Baltic working group on climate adaptation, which will base its cooperation on the policy recommendations made by Baltadapt. The Baltadapt Strategy and Action Plan build on a sound knowledge base that the project has compiled focusing on the areas of: • Regional Climate Information, • Gap-Fit-Analysis, • Sectoral Impact Assessments, • Vulnerability Assessment, • Stakeholder Dialogue, This knowledge base has been compiled in our series of Baltadapt Climate Info Bulletins and Baltadapt Reports which are accessible at http://publications.baltadapt.eu What is more, Baltadapt has also significantly contributed to an improved knowledge base by developing the concept and providing the contents for a new Baltic Sea Region sub-section of the European climate change adaptation web portal “Climate-ADAPT”. As a one-stop-shop information portal compiling all available information on climate change adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region, it shall be the central hub for decision makers from the region. Providing this regional sub-section, Baltadapt supports European decision makers in adapting to climate change and helps users to easily access and share relevant information. The Baltic Sea Region sub-section is accessible via the address http://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/transnational-regions/baltic-sea.

Website: http://eu.baltic.net/

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Partners (11)

Lead Partner: Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Address: Lyngbyvej 100, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

Legal status: n/a

Latvijas Universitate

Name: Latvijas Universitate

Address: 19 Raina Blvd., LV-1586 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: n/a

The Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States

Name: The Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States

Address: Strömsborg, P.O. Box 2010, SE-103 11 Stockholm, Sweden

Legal status: n/a

Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (IOW)

Name: Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (IOW)

Address: Seestrasse 15, 18119 Rostock-Warnemuende, Germany

Legal status: n/a

Umweltbundesamt

Name: Umweltbundesamt

Address: Wörlitzer Platz 1, 6844 Dessau-Roßlau, Germany

Legal status: n/a

Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit

Name: Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit

Address: Alexanderstr. 3, 10178 Berlin, Germany

Legal status: n/a

Tartu Ülikool, Eesti Mereinstituut

Name: Tartu Ülikool, Eesti Mereinstituut

Address: Mäealuse 14, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia

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Viesoji istaiga “Baltijos Aplinkos Forumas”

Name: Viesoji istaiga “Baltijos Aplinkos Forumas”

Address: Uzupio g. 9/2-17, LT-01202 Vilnius, Lithuania

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Suomen Ympäristökeskus – SYKE

Name: Suomen Ympäristökeskus – SYKE

Address: Mechelininkatu 34a, FI-00251 Helsinki, Finland

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Danmarks Miljøundersøgelser, Aarhus Universitet

Name: Danmarks Miljøundersøgelser, Aarhus Universitet

Address: Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark

Legal status: n/a

Sveriges Meteorologiska och Hydrologiska Institut

Name: Sveriges Meteorologiska och Hydrologiska Institut

Address: Folkborgsvägen 1, S-601 76 Norrköping, Sweden

Legal status: n/a

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Latvijas Universitate

Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

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The Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States

Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

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Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemuende (IOW)

Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

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Umweltbundesamt Deutschland

Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

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Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit

Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

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Tartu Ülikool, Eesti Mereinstituut

Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

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Viesoji istaiga “Baltijos Aplinkos Forumas”

Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

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Suomen Ympäristökeskus – SYKE

Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

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Danmarks Miljøundersøgelser, Aarhus Universitet

Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

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Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

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Sveriges Meteorologiska och Hydrologiska Institut

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Summary

Project name (EN): Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Project acronym: BALTADAPT

Project start date: 2010-06-10

Project end date: 2013-09-09

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 858 926.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 123 817.25

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2007 - 2013 Baltic Sea Region

Latest month of project-partner-call data publication

2015-03

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

92 / 92 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

1 414 / 1 414 (100%)

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