WORKING TOGETHER TO PREPARE FOR CHANGE European Climate Change Adaptation Conference 2019 28–31 MAY 2019 | CENTRO CULTURAL DE BELÉM, LISBON First floor CCB Square Entrance Art – student’s exhibition WC PA L L Bjordam Tone – Art exhibition GA Exhibition hall Plenary sessions Access to terrace to Access L L Art – student’s exhibition Art – student’s WC Art – student’s exhibition S4 S2 Avenida da Índia Avenida WC WC Rua Bartolomeu Dias Rua Bartolomeu Poster session & drinks reception Lunch room S1 Access to terrace to Access L L WC S3 Access to garden to Access ATM Registration Lunch tent Lunch Lunch room Data centre WC Main entrance S3 Lunch room Accessibility Presentations If you have reduced mobility, Please bring your presentation to the Data centre S4 Lunch room please use the garage on the at least 4 hours before your session. side of the river, accessed by Av. da Índia. Cloakroom: on Floor zero Helpline: (+351) 213 612 666 ECCA 2019 | CENTRO CULTURAL DE BELÉM (CCB), LISBON Second floor WC S14 WC GA L L Terrace Exhibition hall Exhibition hall Plenary sessions L L WC S13 S15 WC Tool-shed S10 S11 S12 Art room WC WC S9 Poster session & drinks S16 reception WC WC L L S6 S7 WC S5 S8 Information ECCA app S15 Tool-shed @ECCA2019 www.ecca2019.eu S12 Art room Network: ECCA2019 | Password: Time2Adapt! [email protected] | Press officer appdoevento.pt/ecca2019 | Conference app 1 ECCA 2019 | CENTRO CULTURAL DE BELÉM (CCB), LISBON Welcome to ECCA 2019! Mário Pulquério Conference chair Hosted for the first time in southern Europe, the 4th European Climate Change University of Lisbon Adaptation (ECCA) conference brings together researchers, policymakers and practitioners from Europe and beyond to discuss recent advances on climate change adaptation, find solutions and inspire collective action to increase Europe’s resilience. This is the first major conference to focus on harmonisation and collaboration between climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR). Why is this relevant? Both aim to reduce the negative impacts of climate change and disasters on the natural environment, human society and economies by anticipating risks and uncertainties, and addressing vulnerabilities (Mitchell et al. 2010). However, historically each field has developed independently with different actors and institutions, focusing on differing time horizons, research methodologies and different policy frameworks. This can lead to suboptimal strategies and duplicated effort. The past few years have been sobering in demonstrating the urgent need to take action, with this year’s annual World Economic Forum Global Risk Report ranking extreme weather events and failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation as the two most likely risks to society in the next 10 years. Three key international agreements – the Paris Agreement, Sendai Framework for DRR and the Sustainable Development Goals – provide opportunities to increase the coherence and collaboration between these two areas. The need to rapidly further integration of these two communities was reinforced in the Rome Declaration of Stakeholders, an output of the European Forum for DRR (November 2018), and in the evaluation of the European Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change. Achieving the 2030 goals and targets of these international agreements will only be possible through a collaborative effort from all sectors of society across all governance levels, both public and private. ECCA 2019 provides a common space for dialogue between the actors, where collaborations can be forged, solutions found and actions defined for Europe to move steadily towards a resilient path for the short and longer term. Thus, it is with great pleasure that I welcome you to Lisbon to prepare for the next decade. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Annie Spratt by Photo 3 ECCA 2019 | CENTRO CULTURAL DE BELÉM (CCB), LISBON Chair of Executive Diogo de Gusmão-Sørensen Committee When it comes to climate change, we live in a world that is increasingly full of European Commission, difficult messages, and with an increasing number of diverse messengers. Negative Directorate-General for messages, fake news and alternative facts are very likely to have been a leading Research and Innovation cause in turning cognitive dissonance into a lifestyle. It is perhaps not all that surprising that as a result we now have a recognised new form of behavioural disorder caused by climate change – solastalgia – characterised, amongst other things, by chronic distress. Mental health is of course but one chapter in a long list of issues related to climate impacts on human, animal and plant health – many of which we still know little or nothing about. Climate and health is a good example of two communities coming together to address an important challenge that demands the breaking of the silo-mentality that can sometimes be found in research communities. The European Union has long @dgsoerensen promoted a user-driven, cross-sector, multidisciplinary set of actions that continue to drive its research and innovation framework programmes on climate action. These actions have, over the years, been used as mechanisms to deliver ECCAs. Breaking barriers has long been a tradition of ECCA, and this year is no exception – climate change and disaster risk reduction, together at Europe’s largest climate adaptation conference. In 2019, ECCA also sets a new standard by attracting the support of a Member State – Portugal, and its capital city, Lisbon – for which we are very grateful indeed. My generation (X) have thus far made use of individual carbon budgets that are already entirely at odds with the budgets available to Millennials and Generation Z if we are to avoid a 1.5°C or even a 2°C world. Their budgets will be around 1/8th that of ours – and this matters because right now, there just isn’t another way other than reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. Our children seem to know something is wrong, reason why they have begun taking to the streets and protest around the world. In 2015, we invited schoolchildren to come to ECCA – and they did surprise us with their incredible sense of awareness and sharp minds. ECCA will continue to welcome schoolchildren to its conferences, and I ask you to actively engage with them here in Lisbon. We need to ensure that we maintain an active dialogue with the next generations (and this needs to include their school curricula), so that they are not seeking for answers on our streets, but learning about their planet’s climate challenges and solutions in the classroom. A basic understanding of climate change, and how it is likely to affect them during their lifetime, is surely now a fundamental requirement for every schoolchild in Europe and around the world. 4 ECCA 2019 | CENTRO CULTURAL DE BELÉM (CCB), LISBON I started my message by highlighting the perils of poor strategies on how we communicate the climate challenges ahead of us. IPCC have been mastering the art of communicating climate change for decades, and its latest special report on 1.5 °C has given us the starkest messages on impacts yet. This report (and all that preceded it) together with very recent developments in earth system models, place an enormous sense of urgency on us and are the clearest illustration yet that we need to continue to support the underpinning climate science that allows us to advance adaptation science and our understanding of our planet. ECCA is all about creating opportunities to learn, share, network, promote action and enact change, by using the very latest best available knowledge. ECCA 2019 is brought to you by the PLACARD, BINGO and RESCCUE projects funded under Horizon 2020 – the European Union’s latest Research and Innovation Framework Programme. It has been a pleasure to work with these incredibly talented, innovative and engaging teams, and we are deeply grateful for their commitment to ECCA – thank you. Let us all be the agents of change that we are now required to be, and may ECCA 2019 play an important role in helping us with these challenges, enabling us all to offer, seek and drive the knowledge, information and solutions we need. Photo by Vita Marija Murenaite on Unsplash 5 ECCA 2019 | CENTRO CULTURAL DE BELÉM (CCB), LISBON Portugal’s Minister of João Pedro Matos Fernandes the Environment and Energy Transition Welcome to Lisbon! It is with great pleasure that Portugal hosts the 4th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference. We are fully convinced that this edition will be a landmark in European adaptation, providing an enabling field for cooperation and knowledge sharing. That is why the Portuguese Ministry of Environment and Energy Transition joined the initiative of the three organizing projects, since its beginning: PLACARD, BINGO and RESCCUE. We hope you enjoy it! We consider most appropriate to foster these initiatives in order to deal with the challenges induced by climate change in the territories and its respective environmental, social and economic dimensions. IPCC’s Special Report Global Warming of 1.5ºC makes it clear that we are already observing the impacts of climate change aggravated by the fact that there isn’t still a global response to assure the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming well below 2ºC. Adaptation to climate change isn’t a mere environmental topic dealt by a limited community, but a central aspect of our societies with direct influence in all its dimensions. This is particularly true to countries most affected, as it is the case of Portugal and other southern countries within the European context, as it is sustained in most of research work and recent studies. It is therefore crucial to find innovative and effective ways to assure the integration of adaptation issues into our daily routines and into planning on all sectors of society.