VENETO ADAPT: ADAPT: TERRITORIES INVOLVED PROJECT’S PARTNERS COORDINATOR:

Comune di Padova Environment and Territory Department Agenda 21- Informambiente Office

COMUNE di PADOVA Contacts: Daniela Luise - Project manager SETTORE AMBIENTE e TERRITORIO [email protected] www.venetoadapt.it

PARTNERS:

Coordinamento Agende 21 Locali Italiane

Città Metropolitana di Venezia

Università IUAV di Venezia

Sogesca Srl

Comune di Treviso

Unione dei Comuni del Medio Brenta Unione Comuni Medio Brenta Central Veneto Cities netWorking for ADAPTation to Climate Change in a multi-level regional perspective Venezia: Città metropolitana di Venezia Comune di Vicenza Padova: Comune di Padova Treviso: Comune di Treviso LIFE Veneto ADAPT LIFE 16 CCA/IT/000090 Vicenza: Comune di Vicenza Central Veneto Cities netWorking for ADAPTation to Climate Change in a multi-level regional perspective Unione dei Comuni Medio Brenta www.venetoadapt.it With the contribution of the LIFE financial instrument (, Curtarolo, ) [email protected] of the European Community The general objective of Veneto ADAPT VENETO ADAPT: PROJECT’S STEPS VENETO ADAPT: is to produce and test EXPECTED RESULTS knowledge-based tools and policies Mapping Step for a more climate-resilient Europe. • Mapping of the state of the art on climate Develop and validate a common and 1 change adaptation issues. integrated strategy for increasing urban • Mapping of the best practices of adaptation capacity to climate change. The project aims at developing adaptation to climate change in cities Develop a multi-level governance system and testing a coherent approach and metropolitan areas on regional scale. both at horizontal (among different cities in for enhancing the regional capacity • Definition of a common adaptation a conurbation) and at vertical level (among strategy at regional level. to respond to the impact of climate different governance levels and different change, with a specific focus on actors). hydro-geological risk, through a Implementation Support Local Authorities in the transition Step networking initiative developed by • Planning resilient cities: from SEAP from the Sustainable Energy Action Plan municipalities of the central Veneto 2 (Sustainable Energy Action Plan) to (SEAP) to SECAP expanding the Plan to Region area. SECAP (Sustainable Energy and Climate strategies and actions for climate change Action Plan). adaptation. • Definition of Veneto ADAPT A conurbation of 3,5 million inhabitants methodology and tools for adaptation in Promote and facilitate the use of the Veneto in other Cities and is involved among the territories conurbation. ADAPT methodology Regions in and in UE. of Metropolitan City of and • Application of climate change the Municipalities of Padova, Vicenza, adaptation best practices in the pilot areas. Treviso, Cadoneghe, Curtarolo, • Replicability and transferability of results. VENETO ADAPT: NUMBERS Vigodarzere. 5 territorial realities with a total population Project duration Monitoring of the results Step and impacts of 3.5 million inhabitants (Metropolitan From 1 July 2017 - to 31 March 2021 3 • Definition of a set of indicators for risks, City of Venice, Union of Municipalities of Medio vulnerability and resilience assessment Brenta, Municipalities of , Treviso and of Central Veneto area. Vicenza) that share strategies and a multilevel • Definition of a wide set of urban adaptation measures for the elaboration approach to territorial governance for adaptation of SECAPs. to climate change. At least 20 Italian Cities and 5 European Cities Communication and networking signed the Covenant of Mayors for Step • Communication and dissemination of Climate & Energy commitment. 4 results and Veneto ADAPT Guidelines. • Participation in national and international 43 Sustainable Energy and Climate Action events. Plans (SECAPs) approved by Cities thanks • Dissemination through the project’s to the Veneto ADAPT project with a total communication channels. • Networking with other projects and amount of more than 1 million inhabitants experiences at European level. involved.