Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

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1 Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation ERDF working group within the framework of the Monitoring Committee (ERDF-ESF) Berlin coordinated by the Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises and the Investment Bank Berlin (Investitionsbank Berlin, IBB) DG REGIO Room BU1 01/002 Brussels 19 October 2018 Presented by Claus Kondrup, Senior Expert, Adaptation Unit, DG Climate Action, European Commission ec.europa.eu/ clima/ facebook.com/ twitter.com/ pinterest.com/ youtube.com/

2 Mitigation Agreed 2030 energy and climate targets % Greenhouse Gas Emissions 20% Renewable Energy 20 % Energy Efficiency 10 % Interconnection % Greenhouse Gas Emissions 32 % Renewable Energy 32.5% Energy Efficiency 15 % Interconnection Energy Union governance system

3 2050 Low Emission Roadmap 80% domestic reduction in 2050 is feasible: With currently available technologies, With behavioural change only induced through prices If all economic sectors contribute to a varying degree & pace. Efficient pathway and milestones: -25% in % in % in % 100% 80% Power Sector 80% Current policy 60% 40% Residential & Tertiary Industry 60% 40% 20% Transport 20% Non CO 2 Agriculture 0% Non CO 2 Other Sectors 0%

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6 Climate Change All Member States are vulnerable to climate change impacts (EEA 2017) Globally, 330 natural catastrophes in 2017, economic losses of USD 353 billion, 97% weather-related, making 2017 the costliest year on record for weather disasters Severe weather in Europe 2017 e.g. dramatic heatwaves and devastating forest fires in Spain and Portugal; extreme temperature in France, England, Belgium, Netherlands; hurricane Ophelia in Ireland and Britain; torrential rain, large hail and flooding in Germany As regards global warming, ten of the warmest years on record occur since 1998 and the last four years are at the top of the list

7 Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Temperature highlights for September 2018: Most of Europe saw warmer than average temperatures, Overall for Europe it was the warmest September, Regions that were much warmer than average include Portugal and western Spain, Iceland, Ireland and Scotland saw generally cooler than average temperatures, Globally it was close to 0.4C warmer than the average September.

8 EU Adaptation Strategy files/docs/eu_strategy_outline_en.pdf

9 EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy The EU Covenant of Mayors (in the 28 EU Member States) 9,000+ signatory cities, 200 million inhabitants cities committed to new Covenant (more ambitious mitigation and adaptation) = 60 million inhabitants 300+ regions, provinces, grassroots associations, and Local & Regional Energy & Environment Agencies 5,800+ Action Plans developed... average CO 2 -emission reduction of about 27% by 2020

10 Climate Proofing Infrastructure

11 Main findings Evaluation of the EU Adaptation Strategy Evaluation criteria: relevant effective efficient coherent EU added value More work needed to: implement and monitor national strategies bridge newly emerging knowledge gaps address territorial and social differences in vulnerability to climate change Also, new developments since 2013: More extreme events (e.g. heatwaves, droughts, storms, wildfires 2x, floods 4x compared to 1980) likelihood increased by climate change Higher future damage estimates (e.g. 10-fold increase for critical infrastructure by the end of the century) International context: Paris Agreement s provisions on adaptation

12 Main findings Evaluation of the EU Adaptation Strategy Relevant action already foreseen: Integrate adaptation into the implementation of the Energy Union Governance and the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) in the next MFF , channel public and private funding to adaptation making cohesion funding conditional to disaster risk management plans consistent with national adaptation strategies, and to NECPs For future consideration: further mainstreaming: disaster risk reduction, trade, maritime policy, fisheries and public health increase coherence between adaptation and sustainable development, biodiversity and disaster risk reduction increase the use of technical standards, taxonomies and Copernicus Climate services in insurance and in climate-proofing of private investments MS to encourage/require local authorities to adopt adaptation plans

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